Sheila looks as surprised as me for a few seconds before getting up to follow her brother-in-law, closing both doors of the dinning room behind her so I don’t have to hear whatever rude things Alpha Robert is saying about me right now. I drop the spoon onto the plate and cover my face with my hands for a few seconds. God, everything was going so well."What happened?" Beau asks next to me, confused and his chin completely dirty from the soup. I grab a napkin to wipe it off as I take a deep breath."I don't know, Buba," I admit, considering going back to our room and calling Theodore to tell him what just happened and ask if I should leave the house or something, but before I can, Sheila returns. On her own, "Is he okay?""He is," she returns to her seat and sighs, "Please, excuse him. It's... it's hard for him, seeing his wife's ring on someone else."I swallow with embarrassment and look down at my hand. I should have taken this damn ring off days ago. It doesn't belong to me in th
While Nukea and the boys walk around the apartment to make sure everything we bought yesterday was correctly delivered, Rahul, Hellen and I sit down on the new couch to sign the necessary papers and make the payment. "Nukea, come here," I call her a few seconds later. When she approaches us, I hand her a pen and show her the papers, "You have to sign this. The apartment is in your name. You're going to keep all the paperwork.""Okay, I-I understand," she replies looking somewhat stunned, but she sits next to me and signs her name on the contract anyway. Rahul tells her a couple of things about the building and when it's all over, we walk to the door to register the Winters’ fingerprints on the front lock."Theo, you too," Nukea tells me once they finish. Everyone turns to look at me, waiting for me to respond or do something. I start to sweat under their stares, "Register your finger."I don't want to. I don't want to know I have such easy access to this place and I don't like the
"You know your dad's a piece of shit, don't you?" Liam says anyway, ignoring my warning. Nukea scoffs. She looks a little weirded out, but mostly unfazed. "Well, duh," she replies, rolling her eyes. Liam lets out a real laugh, "But I'm emancipated now. That man is no longer my father.""That's great... anyway, are you girls here on your own?" Liam asks, looking from Nukea to her friend and then back to our table, "You should join us. We're all single, good looking men. We would love some company.”I'm about to say something to stop this idiot and avoid the possibility of Nu saying yes, but I don't have to. "Actually, we're waiting for someone, so we have to go, but thank you," Nukea’s friend says with an extremely fake smile before squeezing Nukea's arm again to pull her, "Mister Theodore, thank you for helping my friend. That's all we wanted to say.""Yeah... enjoy your meal, Mister Next Alpha," Nu murmurs without meeting my eyes and gives me a small sarcastic bow that makes Liam l
I shouldn't go. Violet is going to be mad at me if Indo something so lame after Theo was so mean for no damn reason... but my body doesn’t care, it moves without my permission."I'm going to the bathroom, I'll be right back," I tell them in the most casual voice I can muster, they ignore me because they're still going on about something, "If the waitress comes before me, just order me the most expensive thing you can find in the menu.""Hell yeah," Vi replies with a chuckle and then I head to the bathroom, not turning to look at Theo's table again. I don't know if he's actually coming or not, I don’t even know if that head movement was actually a signal, but I couldn't just ignore it. I reach the hallway that leads to the bathrooms and I wait for a few seconds, not knowing what to do. I'm about to going back to the table when someone approaches. "Hey," Theo says with a shy smile. He turns his head to make sure no one is looking before opening the door to one of the personal restroo
When we get home, my two boys are sitting in the living room watching a movie, the plates I left them with dinner are on the coffee table completely empty, so I know they ate and everything is fine.We sit with them for a while so we’re forced to stop talking about what happened at the restaurant, but once the kids go to sleep we spend most of the night talking about how mean Theo was to me and how crazy Liam is, while eating ice cream. The next morning, though, my paranoid thoughts continue as soon as Nate and Violet leave, taking my brothers with them, and I'm left all alone. To get rid of the anxiety, I start cleaning the apartment, only stopping when my phone starts ringing. It's an unknown number, but I'm pretty sure I know who it is. "Yes?" I answer, my hands starting to sweat. "Hi, Nuke," I was right, it's Liam, "Are you busy?""Uhm, yeah, why?" "I want to see you right now. I know you don't have a real job, so send me your location and I'll come see you in like an hour,"
I think Liam is a little surprised by my sudden interest in kissing him because he lets out an obfuscated sound and moves back until he’s lying down on the couch, but I just follow him. Now I'm the one completely on top of him, actively kissing him. Liam's lips are firm and manly and he tastes like peppermint. His kiss feels completely confused, though, he only kisses me back to keep snapping pictures, but he doesn't try to stick his tongue inside of my mouth or anything and once he's done, he pushes me away from him and gives me a surprised look."What the hell, Omega? I should charge YOU for that. You went way too far," he complains, looking like he seriously didn't expect that, which makes me laugh a little. Why does he look so offended after acting so confident? "Anyway, that's all I wanted from you. I'll pick you up Friday at eight to go to the party. Wear something nice and don't do your make up like a whore.""Shut the fuck up, Liam," I shake my head, getting up to open the
{ Nukea }Liam is crushing the fuck out of my hand as we walk into Isabella's backyard after passing by her stupidly huge house, almost as big as Theo's. There are a lot of people here, but not enough people for us to go unnoticed. As soon as we arrive I can feel eyes on me. On us. "We have to say hello to...""What are you doing here?" Isabella demands looking straight at me, interrupting whatever Liam was going to say and walking towards us with a prominent scowl on her face, but looking beautiful in her light blue dress.I seriously hate her. She has no right to be so beautiful when she's so evil for no damn reason.Well… I guess there’s a reason, but she doesn’t even know that involved with Theo."Liam, what the fuck are you doing?" I hear from the other side and see Theo walking towards us as well. Holy shit. Both Isabella and Theo look like they personally want to kick me out of their event. I want to let go of Liam's hand, but he just squeezes it even tighter. "Ouch," I c
{ Theodore }Before I face Liam, I have to take a moment to myself to get my emotions under control and make sure I don't do anything stupid here. I know this is silly nonsense anyway. I know Nukea and Liam aren't really a couple and that he just wants to annoy me... but it's working. He finally found the exact way to get on my nerves effectively. And I hate it. "Hey, come here," Rahul says and grabs me, "Guys, wait a minute. Don't let him go."Rahul pulls me until we’re alone."I want to fucking kill him," I blurt out, Rahul just nods, "Not because I think he touched her, I know he didn't... but I'm so fucking sick of him. If it wasn't for his family, I'd actually consider banishment.”"Theo, come on, stop. It’s just jealousy,” Rahul grabs my arm until I stop pacing back and forth, "You and I both know Liam isn't that bad…”"No, you haven't been here lately. He's unbearable and he has something against me specifically, worse than ever. I'm starting to suspect he's fucking doing dr