Leaving them to get dressed again, I loved how settled I felt. How easy and right it had been to play games with them. I was ready. Not just for the chase, for everything.

And deep down, I felt like I’d been ready my entire life for this.

Chapter 30

CHAPTER THIRTY

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LUKE

I watched Esme’s perfect ass walk out of my door and adjusted myself in my pants.

“You owe me one,” I said.

“You’re right, I do. Will you be my backup?”

Looking over at him, I gauged what he was asking for. “If you’re worried about something, don’t do it.”

He shook his head. “I’m not worried about that part. It’s just a safeguard in case something happens I haven’t thought of.”

“Sure.” I could sketch in the car as easily as I could sitting here. “Have you ever done this before?”

“Not like this. And I’m glad. I want the first time with her. It feels… it feels right.”

“Everything with her feels right,” I said. “If she doesn’t—”

I couldn’t bring myself to say the words. She was ours, and we were hers. There was no questioning it, and I was sure by now she knew it, too. But the world had been cruel to our Omega, and chipping away at fears took time. But I already knew if she walked away, it wasn’t something I’d recover from.

“I know.” Kade stood and grabbed the dart guns. All three of them now on the couch. “Hey, did Ben talk to you about the producer thing?”

“Yeah. Sounds like we have to wait until Eva gets back into town.”

“All right. Sounds like it could be cool.”

I agreed. It would be cool. When we were at Esme’s house picking her up for the heat, Eva had shot out an idea. She wanted a piece from Ben and was practically salivating to change her image from the wholesome one she had into something edgier. She pitched the idea of a show following celebrities getting tattoos from us. Or just a show about the studio in general.

It wasn’t a fully formed idea, but it was something they wanted to talk about.

Nautilus was already well known, but having something like that connected to the studio would only benefit us. I had only one hesitation. “If it makes things harder for Esme, I don’t want to do it.”

“Yeah,” Kade nodded, looking more than a little ridiculous with the pile of nerf guns in his arms. “She knows, right?”

“Ben said Eva told her, and she walked into the kitchen when they were talking about it, but I’ll make sure.”

He took the guns and went downstairs. To put them in the game room where they belonged, no doubt.