Page 64 of Knot Your Basic B*tch

“They already offered me that.” I shook my head. If the solution was that simple, I wouldn’t be sitting on my bed, bawling my eyes out.

I probably wouldn’t have been so quick to tell Kain that Ineeded space.

In all honesty, if things were just a little different, I probably would have agreed to move in with them, like I wanted to.

“Besides the Fanny twins there’s one other alpha I’m scent matched to. His name is…” I wiped the rest of the tears away. I just had to say it. “His name is Brutus Back. I’m not going to ask them to change their name just to become… the Back Pack.”

I didn’t even know that there was a pack name that was worse than the Fanny pack. Couldn’t even have imagined it until I heard Brutus’ last name.

How the fuck did I end up with an alternative name that was even worse, when I’d started with the Fanny pack?

“Chloe, I’m not going to lie… neither of those choices are ideal.” Mother took my hand in hers, squeezing it in reassurance. “But I also know this. I didn’t raise my daughter to be a quitter. You told me that you love them. Do you really want to give up your alphas because they have silly last names?”

I squeezed Mother’s hand back.

Mother was right.

Did I want to be known as Chloe, former member of the Stryker pack, former omega Valedictorian… now a part of the Fanny pack? Or even worse, the Back pack?

Obviously not.

But did I want to leave them over it?

No.

I couldn’t. Even now. I missed them.

If I was being completely honest with myself, all I really wanted to do was to reach out to them. Find them. Apologize to them until I’d fixed what I’d broken between us.

As soon as she asked me the question, I knew in my heart what I had to do.

If they even wanted to see my sorry ass after I’d gone and broken their hearts just last week.

CHAPTER 35

CHLOE

Okay,two things were clear.

I’d been an idiot and needed to apologize to my alphas immediately.

And I had no idea how to go about doing it.

What the fuck was I going to say to them? Were they even going to want to talk to me after the confusing bullshit I’d pulled?

Ughh.

I fell face first on my bed, refusing to let my thoughts spiral into doom anymore. If I did that, I would start crying again, and I had only just gotten my face back to normal.

Plus, my eyes would be stinging… again.

No. I wasn’t going to sit there and obsess over the best way of reaching out to them, or draft out the perfect text message to send to them. I’d just see if they wanted to meet me in person.

Me: Hey

Immediately, three bubbles popped up… and went away. After a moment, the three bubbles popped up again. Only to vanish into the communication text void once more.

When the anticipation was really threatening to kill me, I decided, fuck it. I wasn’t about to wait to see the carefully articulated message Kain was constructing.