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Theo shifts closer to me, one arm a solid anchor around my shoulders. His scent is sweet and grounding, but I’m still swimming in it, inallof them.
I can feel their scents mixing around me like a drug I didn’t mean to take.
“You okay?” Theo murmurs to me, brushing a thumb along my jaw.
“I…” I blink. My throat’s dry. My thoughts are sticky, like syrup sliding sideways. “I didn’t ask for this.”
“I know, sweetheart,” he says gently. “You didn’t do anything wrong.”
“You didn’t ask,” Kai says, leaning forward between the seats, “but you reached.”
The car goes quiet again.
Ash’s voice is a growl. “What the fuck does that mean?”
Kai shrugs, unbothered. “Means I felt it. You felt it, too. Surely. Don’t lie.”
“I...”
“Exactly,” Kai says, all smug. “She’s trying to bond.”
“Bonds don’t work like that,” Lucian snaps from the front. “Not to four alphas.”
“No,” Ash agrees grimly. “They don’t.”
“Okay, well tell that to the vibrating string ofmine-mine-mineinside my chest,” Kai replies. “I’m pretty suresomethinghas snapped.”
Theo glances at him, brow raised. “You’ve had something snapped for years.”
“You wound me,” Kai says, mock-offended. “Is this how you treat a fellow baby daddy?”
Lucian exhales so hard through his nose I swear I hear it scrape bone. “You’re fuckingdisgusting.”
“And yet this pretty omega is still trying to bond to me,” Kai says, smirking like it’s a badge of honor. “Tragic, really.”
“She’s reaching out toallof us,” Theo says quietly, his voice full of weight. “I felt it, too.”
I squeeze my eyes shut as Lucian argues further, pressing my face into Theo’s shoulder.
I didn’t do any of this intentionally. Maybe I did reach out to them, but it wasn’t on purpose.
And now?
Mine. Mine. Mine. Mine.
It’s so difficult to process the way that each one is almost pulling at a different part of me, like four large hands wrapped around my ribs. One tugging at my pulse. One curling behind my belly button. One wrapped around my throat. One sliding low between my thighs.
“I can feel you,” I whisper. “All of you.”
Kai exhales like he’s relieved. “Well, that’s not terrifying at all.”
“This isn’t possible,” Lucian mutters.
“Itshouldn’tbe possible,” Ash notes.
“Oh great,” I mutter. “Let me guess. I’m the omega glitch in the system.”
Kai flashes a grin. “You’re the software update we didn’t know we needed.”
