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“One day, pretty girl, we’re both going to fuck your sweet cunt,” Carver says.

They tease and tantalize my body until I’m so satiated, I can’t even muster enough energy to be stressed about my doctor’s appointment.

Chapter Twenty-Seven

Oliver

“How do you feel about your carbon footprint?” I ask as we wait for the others to arrive. The doctor’s office is pretty dead, but they fit us in as their first appointment of the day as a favor to Farrah.

“What?” Mel asks. Her wide blueish-gray eyes blink, but it’s the warm, happy feeling that fills my chest that does my head in.

We’re fucking bonded.

No one can take her from me now. And the icing on the cake? She’shappyto be stuck with me for life.

I can feel it in the bond. It blows my goddamn mind, but I do know I’m going to keep her so fucking well cared for that she never regrets her decision.

“Oliver?” Mel asks, giving me a goofy smile.

“I scheduled a flight for us to Virginia on a private plane. That way we don’t have to fly commercial, and it’ll be easier if you’re sick. It’s never really mattered to me one way or another, but I’m thinking it might make our lives easier. Leaving Virginia...” I frown trying to find a nice way to put this. “People tend to recognize Nik, and they will ask for his autograph and end up holding us up.”

“Wow, I never considered that type of thing when he mentioned that he’s famous.” She bumps her shoulder against mine. “What about you? Do I need to keep my guard up around anyone with a ballpoint pen?”

I laugh, shaking my head.

“They all make fun of me for that.” I pull her closer to my side with an arm around her shoulder. “But I promise to always tryto protect you.”

“My ex once pushed me in front of an angry goose,” she says, giggling. “Gilbert, who is actually a girl by the way, was quite angry that we had the audacity to walk into his grandma’s front yard.”

“Wait, what?” I ask, snorting a laugh. Then reality catches up and that pisses me off. An alpha shoved his omega into danger to protect himself? God, what a loser.

“Yeah, apparently Gil has good tastes because she loathes Ben. She’d fly around me to try to get to him.” She smiles up at me and my heart skips a beat.

I can’t help myself. I wrap my hand around her head and pull her mouth to mine for a soft kiss.

“So you’re okay with flying private to get to Virginia?”

“Yeah, that was very thoughtful, but won’t it cost a lot?” She squints at me.

“It’ll be worth it for this flight, especially since we have so much extra crap to bring back.” Including all her courting gifts, some she hasn’t opened yet.

There’s some commotion at the door, and Miller stomps inside the waiting room. He makes a beeline for Mel, but it’s the look on Nik’s face that says I’m in for it.

Lovely.

Carver follows them in, grinning dangerously.

I can only imagine how gleeful he was to rat me out. That asshole. He should remember, payback is hell.

The door to the back of the office opens, and a younger nurse smiles. “Melody? Are you ready to come on back?”

My heart gallops in my chest, but I shove myself out of my chair without asking if I’m welcome. This is my bonded omega. No one can legally keep me from her unless Melody asks them to. Which she doesn’t. She wraps her small hand in mine and gives me a terrified smile.

“Let’s do it.” I nuzzle my cheek to the top of her head, pouring comfort into the bond. Her fingers shake against mine, but I do everything I can to settle her nerves.

The nurse asks Melody a bunch of questions and does a few preliminary things.

Everything is fine until she asks Mel to step on the scale. I’m not expecting the overwhelming wave of panic that floods the bond.