Camp Lake Omega by Penelope Peters

Author:Penelope Peters [Peters, Penelope]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2017-07-17T22:00:00+00:00

I wasn’t sure what to say to Justine the next morning. Luckily, I didn’t have to start the conversation.

“Thanks for not saying anything about Reba,” she said quietly over breakfast.

I slumped, not even realizing how tense I’d been until she acknowledged Reba’s presence the night before. “Oh, thank God, I didn’t think – I mean, I knew you saw her the night before, you’ve never seen her two nights in a row, I wasn’t sure – and she said—”

Justine gave me a quizzical look. “What did she say?”

“Just… I don’t know, something stupid,” I said, embarrassed now. I’d gone a bit too close to Reba’s proposition. “Anyway, I’m glad you had a good time last night.”

“Okay,” said Justine slowly. “I didn’t meet Reba last night.”

I stared at her.

“Well, I did, but only on my way to the bathrooms. She met with Nathan and Jerome.”

I kept staring.

“Oh my God,” breathed Justine, and she leaned in close. “Oh, honey. You didn’t think I thought we were exclusive, did you?”

I shook my head, so barely I’m surprised she even noticed it. Then I nodded, because I had.

“Oh, sweetie,” said Justine, sympathetically. She reached out to pat my hand. “You must have been a wreck all night. It’s okay. I told you, it’s just fun between us. It doesn’t mean anything.”

“But…”

Justine sighed. “Look, Jim. I’m a beta. Sex is… it’s not the same thing as it is for omegas and alphas. For you guys, sex is bonding and commitment and happily forever after. For betas, though? Well, I guess it can mean that, but it doesn’t have to. Sometimes, it just means having fun together. Reba gets that. Hell, I think Reba’s more beta than she realizes. She doesn’t want commitment any more than we do. She’s the one who proposed this setup in the first place. I’m not forcing her into anything.”

I tried to wrap my head around it – because really, Justine was right. What Zachary and I had been sharing was highly irregular, as far as relationships between omegas and alphas went. We just didn’t do flings. Justine’s light-hearted attitude about her relationship with Reba fit most preconceptions of betas that I knew – but even knowing my own situation with Zachary, I had a hard time getting that Reba was the same.

“She liked you, you know,” Justine added. “And I know you said you didn’t know much about female alphas… it’d be totally okay with me if you wanted to maybe talk to her… or, you know—”

My stomach twisted at the thought. “No. No. I mean… no!”

“Okay,” said Justine, backing away. “Just a thought. No pressure though. Reba would never ask you to do anything you weren’t completely on board for doing.”

“Good,” I said shakily, but it was a while before I could look Justine in the eye again.

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