An Unknown Omega by Coyote Starr

Author:Coyote Starr [Starr, Coyote]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: sample
Publisher: BGE Publishing
Published: 2019-10-24T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 7

“Wait here,” Tucker said as they walked into the bunkhouse.

Lloyd raised one eyebrow, but he perched on the arm of the sofa.

When his de facto roommate walked back into the living room, he sported a blanket over one shoulder. Then he marched into the kitchen, opened the refrigerator, and pulled out a bottle of white wine and an opener.

“Where did that come from?” Lloyd asked, certain it hadn’t been there that afternoon when he had made lunch.

“Where are you going?” he asked.

Tucker waved at his to follow him out the front door.

At the edge of the porch, he paused, gesturing at the crutches leaning against wall beside the door. “I’m not sure I can follow you in the dark. Would it be easier if I used those again?”

“Wait here,” he said.

Lloyd leaned against the banister as Tucker disappeared into the darkness. After a few minutes, he lowered himself to sit on the steps, breathing in the peace of the cool night air. The sound of crickets in the dark soothed him here. At home in Denver, a single cricket chirping would have driven him insane. On the Stuart Ranch, their voices combined with the slight breeze to create a kind of music. Even the howls of coyotes in the distance didn’t worry him.

By the time Tucker returned, sans blanket or wine, he had relaxed into a kind of calm that had become unusual for his in recent years.

“Ready?” Tucker asked.

“I guess.” he reached for the crutches, but before he touched them, Tucker slid one arm under his knees and the other around his back. Without any apparent effort, he lifted Lloyd into his arms and strode off into the night. With a gasp of surprise—and if he were to admit it, some delight—Lloyd threw his arms around the alpha’s neck.

“Where are we going?” Lloyd asked.

“To the blanket.” Even in the dark, he could see the twinkle in Tucker’s eyes as he offered his overly literal response.

Lloyd laughed aloud. “You’re doing that on purpose, aren’t you?”

Tucker shrugged, but the dimple creasing his unscarred cheek was close enough to his face that it was all Lloyd could do to keep from dropping a kiss onto it.

What is wrong with me? It’s like I can barely keep from throwing myself at this alpha.

Tucker had spread the quilt out on the down-slope side of a slight hill, facing away from the house so that what little light leaked from the windows was blocked from view.

When Tucker set him gently down on the blanket, Lloyd gasped. He couldn’t remember having seen so many stars stretching across the night sky, free from light pollution or distraction.

“It looks like a painting,” he whispered. “Or some kind of time-release photograph.”

Tucker’s chuckle came from deep in his chest, the most relaxed sound he’d heard from him since they’d met, like something within him had loosened. “City omega,” he teased. When he wasn’t fighting against it, his voice was deep, almost bass.

“Never denied it,” Lloyd laughed.

Tucker popped the cork out of the bottle and poured a glass of wine out for Tucker.

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