Impossible: A Contemporary Reverse Harem Omegaverse Romance (Midasverse Book 1) by Lyra Cole

Author:Lyra Cole [Cole, Lyra]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Lyra Cole
Published: 2023-11-20T16:00:00+00:00

17

Mossy

Joshua

Real clothes feel weird. Mine are kind of musty after sitting in my closet untouched for six weeks, but I pull them on anyway. Dark-wash jeans, black sweater, leather boots. The sweater used to be tight over my muscles. It hangs loose now.

I stare at myself in the mirror. A stranger stares back. He has fine features. Chapped lips that he can’t stop chewing. Hollow cheeks and purple circles and a strange glint of hope in his pale blue eyes. His hair is wet and long and in need of a proper curl treatment.

Leon used to do that for me. Risk never had the patience and Hollis never had the time, but Leon would sit on a bench in the shower while I sat on the tiles at his feet. He’d run the mousse through my wet hair curl by curl, using his fingers to craft each one. I wonder if he can do that now, with only one hand. I strain, trying to remember his method, whether he used both hands or not. I can’t.

I scent Risk before he opens the door—he doesn’t believe in knocking. He’s dressed for work, black sleeves and grey cargo pants and laced up boots. His hair is back in a ponytail and he’s traded the gauze taped to his forehead for bandaids. They’re nearly the same color as his skin. He’s amber and rust. I am paper and pewter. His nose ring matches the chain on my neck. Our earrings match too. That’s always been us.

He stands next to me and I smell the drugs. I don’t know what he’s taken, but his pupils are dime-sized and his pulse is sluggish when I take his wrist. He looks at us in the mirror and I can tell he’s just as bewildered. Who are these men staring back?

Risk is concave. Like the bond has been pulled out of him and he’s collapsing in on the space it once filled. Coldness seeps into me. I don’t have enough to reach him. Not without the bond. I can only be so much.

We are in no shape to meet our omega.

I tug his ponytail loose and reshape it, brushing out the bumps with my fingers. When I’m done, I rest my forehead against his neck, hiding behind him. I don’t want to look in the mirror anymore.

“While I pondered, weak and weary,” Risk mumbles. Poe. He feels my smile against his skin.

Hollis is downstairs, which surprises me. I figured he’d stay late at work to avoid driving with us. We haven’t spoken since yesterday’s fight. For the first time since we all got back from the hospital, he didn’t bring me breakfast this morning. I realize now how much our little ritual meant to me. How hard he tried to care for me, even when I refused to be cared for. I shove the thought away, too angry to give him any credit.

Leon brought me food instead this morning, telling me about the mixer. How Hollis and him were going to go, and Risk and I should too.

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