Page 73 of Briar
“Briar?” And there’s Atlas.
“We’ve been caught,” Jude laughs, making me giggle. Pausing the movie, we both get to our knees and crawl over to one of the windows and open it.
“There you two are,” Atlas laughs.
“Wait, I thought that was your nest,” Willow says, brows furrowed.
“It is,” Jude says proudly. “I’ve been upgraded to the sweet life. Sorry, no alphas allowed.”
Willow looks at Atlas and smiles. “We sure do have our hands full with the two of them, don’t we?”
“You bet we do. And I love it,” Atlas chuckles.
“Why does it smell like someone baked fudge brownies and threw them all over the deck?” Willow asks.
“That would be because we fucked on the deck before we came up here and fucked again,” Jude says, sounding smug.
“Fuck,” Atlas groans. “And we missed it?”
“Don’t worry,” I giggle. “You can watch it on the security feed later.”
Jude turns to me, brows raised. “Holy shit, do we have our first sex tape together?”
That has me bursting into laughter.
Yeah. I love this man. Can’t even fight it.
“Ugh, you're so cute it’s sick.” Silva fake gags as I make my way over to the bar.
“What?” I laugh, placing the tray on the bartop.
“You, those two insanely attractive alphas of yours, and that omega who has Lexi jealous of his dancing skills.”
“She’s not wrong,” Lexi says, smiling as she joins her twin behind the bar. She looks good. Happy and glowing. Motherhood suits her.
“I never thought I’d see the day you’d be all packed up,” Lexi says. “I’m happy for you.”
“Thanks,” I smile, unable to keep it off my face. I look over my shoulder to where my pack sits. Atlas shoots me a playful wink while Willow gives me heated eyes. Jude is curled up in Atlas’ lap, feet in Willow’s and the smile on his face has my heart skipping a beat.
“Go play your set and then get out of here,” Silva laughs, playfully hitting me with a rag, getting my attention.
“What? I still have two hours left.”
“And watch you all give each other goo-goo eyes the whole time?” Silva laughs. “Go. Enjoy your night. Plus it’s not busy tonight.”
It’s a long weekend, so most people are out camping. I don’t blame them, that's where I’d love to be right about now.
Maybe I should see if they’d wanna make plans to go camping soon. It could be fun.
“Fine,” I sigh, handing over my apron.
“Go get ‘em, tiger,” Lexi winks.
I shake my head, rolling my eyes as I head towards the stage. “Hey everyone!” Mic in hand I address the room. “I’m Briar and every Friday I love to get up here and sing for all of you. I hope you don’t mind me singing something a little different tonight. A little slower, softer and well, a declaration of love to my two alphas,” I grin, as I watch Atlas’ and Willow’s eyes widen in shock.
Jude is practically bouncing with giddiness as the music starts to play.
Like I said, I’m bad with words, at least with talking about my feelings, but singing? Yeah, that I can do.
