Embers & Effigies: Fairytales with a Twist by Mila Sin

Author:Mila Sin [Sin, Mila]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2023-09-07T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE

Hana

Last night, after Hailey got Julie settled down again, they waited up for me to come back, and then I spilled all the details of our conversation, including the fact that I was a scent match to all three of them. Ezra, Ace, and Christos. Three Alphas. My Alphas—if I wanted—who were willing to take it slow, get to know me, and help trigger my heat.

My mind is incapable of thinking past that aspect, and as I lay awake most of the night next to Hailey on the air mattress with Julie snoring in the front seat, I tried to imagine my life with them and came up blank.

My parents would throw a fit over their religious hang-ups, that was for sure. Would they let me see Lana? Would she still be living with them? Or would she be at college? Could I find a way to pay her tuition so her education didn’t hinge on my marrying Beau? Round and round, my mind went, until the sky started to lighten a few hours later, and I was finally exhausted enough to sleep for a bit.

“Hana?” Hailey whispers from next to me.

“Mmm?”

“You awake?”

I wave at my prone body and lack of movement. “Clearly.”

“Julie needs to pee. Will you come with us?”

For the second time in two days, I crack open my eyes and find faces staring down at me. “I’m up, let’s go.”

“You’re not up,” Julie counters. “But you’re making a valiant effort.”

I still haven’t moved. I stick my tongue out at Julie, earning a chuckle from her. Tossing the blankets off, I groan and fake getting up, only to flop back down when a shadow crosses in front of the curtained windows. My heart seizes, and I point at the figure outside.

“It’s Boss. He showed up about half an hour ago,” Julie whispers reverently.

I narrow my eyes. “Do you even need to pee, or do you just want to talk to him some more?”

Since I told Julie about the guys being my scent matches, she’s been apologetic but not at all ashamed of her earlier comments about his disco stick. “I really need to pee.”

“Fine.”

Before I can fully untuck myself, Hailey wrenches open the door, and I’m looking at Christos’s handsome face.

“Good morning, Omega,” he rumbles in his deep voice, somehow raspier in the morning than it was last night. Christ almighty, I could listen to him read the Spotify terms and conditions with rapt attention and on bated breath.

“Morning,” I squeak out. “Why are you here?”

“We said we would talk in the morning,” he says like it’s obvious. I look down at my phone and realize it’s six thirty. I look up at Christos, who’s wincing. “I, uh, also figured you might want some backup if you all needed the facilities. You looked on edge last night as we walked through here.”

He’s right. Since the campsite adventure in Denver, we all jump at the slightest noise. Super inconvenient at a crowded and bustling site.

“Thanks.”

We climb out of the van, and I look up at Christos as he towers above me.

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