Always Running: A Reverse Harem Omegaverse Tale : Pack Simmons (The San Francisco Omegas Book 2) by Calliope Stewart

Author:Calliope Stewart [Stewart, Calliope]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Calliope Stewart
Published: 2022-04-10T18:30:00+00:00

CHAPTER 20

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My palms were sweaty with nerves as we all sat down around the table for dinner. Cobb and Matteo had helped me set the table earlier, and I had just put the soup tureen on the table when Theo and Aria came downstairs, Theo looking fresher and happier now. It had scared me earlier when I brought sandwiches upstairs for Theo and Cobb to eat and the alpha had answered the door looking like Casper the Friendly Ghost.

I had always been able to easily pick up on other people’s emotions. Part of it was because I was an omega and, as a whole, we tended to be overly empathetic to others. The other part was because I had spent my childhood tiptoeing around a man who was unpredictable at the best of times. I learned quickly how to read the slightest change in Hezekiah Jordan’s expressions and make myself scarce when I needed to.

When Theo had opened the door earlier, the number one emotion that I could see on his face, clear as day, was desperation. I had wanted to reach out and stroke his face and ask what was wrong, but it was like there was still some kind of an invisible wall between the two of us. I had the feeling that he would have definitely brushed me off if I had tried. So, instead, I handed him the plate of sandwiches and told him I’d come back for the plate in an hour...thankfully, the plate had been empty when I returned.

Everything about Theo confused me. He had firmly put us into the protector/protected category in his head. It was a boundary that I know I should respect, but why did he keep looking at me like he wanted to devour me? I had caught him more than once staring at me with hot eyes that were liable to burn me alive if I wasn’t careful. Not only that, there had been multiple times when he reached out for me, like he was going to touch me, before he pulled his hand back like he had done something wrong. Because of all of the above, I was constantly stuck between pushing Theo, and letting him take his time to work through his own emotions.

It also didn’t help that I wanted to climb Theo Nilsson like Yggdrasil, the Norse god-tree (get it... cause he’s Nordic? I crack myself up). Even looking like a rumpled ghost, like he had earlier, my inner omega was telling me to throw caution to the wind and jump him.

I swear, if my plan didn’t work tonight, then I was going to lose my damn mind. Matteo and Aria completely pumping the brakes was driving me completely batty. You shouldn’t give a horse a sugar cube, and then go back to only giving them hay. It isn’t fair. If you weren’t sure, I’m the horse in this metaphor.

“Can you pass the bread?” Cobb’s question cut through my slightly unhinged inner monologue, and I jumped to grab the breadbasket.

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