Page 24 of Enticing Little Omega
She didn't look convinced.
I wasn't altogether surprised.
"Have they—" she began to ask, but I shook my head to stop her from completing the sentence.
"I'll just take this to table four," I offered quickly, taking the plate from her hands before she could do me in with any more of her concern.
I needed distance.
I waved through the booths, smiling and nodding at familiar and new faces.
This was normal.
Routine.
I could do this.
Then the bell rang again, and as was my habit, I looked up at the door to greet the new guests.
The very four guests that had Earl and Mason gossiping like a bunch of biddies with nothing better to do.
The pack.
My pack.
Fuck.
I dropped the plate on table four without a word to the startled trucker sitting there and stormed to the door that led to the kitchen.
It didn't take long for Honey to follow me. "Do you want me to chase them away?"
Goddess, I loved my friend. She was tiny, smaller than most Omegas. Naïve as a newborn doe. And protective like a mama lion with her cubs.
I shook my head in response to her question before taking a deep breath. Jo, our Beta boss, and the owner of the diner loomed over me with a fierce scowl on his face.
"What the fuck now? Things werejustsettling down after Honey and her drama." His voice was filled with concern.
"Uh..." I looked at him, biting my lip in uncharacteristic fashion. I wasn't this nervous mess. Dammit, I needed to get hold of myself. "So. You know how I'm an Omega right? Running from my... stepmother?"
He squinted at me, but nodded for me to continue.
"Well, I guess I never told you how I met my pack on the same night I ran away, huh?"
Jo swore up a storm before storming into the walk-in freezer. When he came back out, he was holding his favored shotgun and was heading toward the front.
"No!" I cried out in alarm. "You don't need to chase them, Jo. They did nothing wrong."
The old man looked at me, his face clearly transmitting that I needed to convince him—and soon—before he was gonna pepper some men with buckshot.
I rushed to explain my situation and by the time I was done, Jo was sitting down on the stool we all used to take our breaks.
"You two girls are both gonna leave me, aren't ya?"
Oh boy. Honey's eyes instantly filled with tears, and before I knew it, I was in the middle of a damn cuddle pile with our Beta boss and my best friend.
I didn't know how long we stood like that, before we jumped apart when someone cleared their throat at the pass-through window to get our attention.
Back to the real world we go, I guess.
