Lola & the Millionaires: Part One (Sweet Omegaverse #2)(51)

I frowned and studied my own plate, and Carolyn nodded.

“It’s all right, I don’t need to know details. I understand. I guess I got…” Carolyn let out a soft laugh. “I got jealous.”

“Did you think I was fooling around with them?” I asked, brow furrowing.

Carolyn visibly swallowed, green eyes going wide. “Maybe…maybe a bit.”

“I’ve told you, my relationship with Rake is—”

“I know, I know,” Carolyn said, nodding. “I suppose, if she were a link between the two of you.”

A link between? Something feminine for me to enjoy with Rake, like a toy?

“It’s just that you insist on your life with your pack—”

“Because they are my pack, Carolyn.” I held my hand up, the alpha in me stretching. “Stop. This is disrespectful to all of us. Lola and Rake, as well as you and I. The link between Rake and I is our friendship, our… It’s a different kind of bond, I know, but it is a bond. We’ve never needed someone else to complete it, and that’s never what I’ve looked for in a partner.”

“Yes, you’re right. I’m sorry, Matt,” Carolyn murmured. Her hackles were up, nerves grated after being chastised.

I relaxed and pulled a stool around to sit and enjoy my breakfast, trying not to let the guilt of knowing Carolyn was at least right in suspecting my interest affect my appetite.





Seventeen





Lola





“Where did you put my clothes, by the way? I need to get going soon.”

Leo and Rake exchanged one quick look, and then Leo answered, “No.”

“No?”

“It’s almost dark, you should just stay the night,” Rake reasoned.

“I have to work tomorrow,” I said, eyebrows raising.

Rake made a dismissive sound, but Leo said, “We can get you to work.”

It had been easy to indulge the day away with Leo and Rake, first on the lush green ‘garden nest’ that faced out over the park, and then in Leo’s rooms snacking and watching movies together, talking aimlessly.

I checked my phone. It was almost eight, and I was starting to get hungry. If I stayed to eat with the guys, I’d be getting home even later. It was hard enough to think of facing my apartment after two days in this palace of a house, it would be better to rip the band-aid off. I made to sit up, but Rake’s head was in my lap and Leo’s arm around my shoulders circled close.

I snorted and shook my head. “Come on. I’m not going to work in your boxers and sweater. It’s a look, but not the one I aim for in the beauty department. I need to get home and shower and sleep and…”

“If you had something to wear for tomorrow would you stay the night?” Rake asked.

“You’re not buying me an outfit,” I said, catching the gleam in his eye. Was that even possible this late on a Sunday? Probably, if you were Rake.

“We could easily get you home in the morning. With a driver to the Stanmore, you’d save time,” Leo bargained.

I twisted to look up at him and regretted it immediately. Leo had a pleading gaze down pat.

“I have to go back,” I said. Maybe not tonight but…eventually. Soon.

“Then Leo and I will come with you,” Rake said.

“No! Fine. Just tonight,” I said in a rush, heat rushing up my cheeks at the thought of Rake walking into my apartment. It was bad enough now, knowing Leo had been there. And I was definitely going to unpack my fucking boxes before he came over again.

Leo grinned in triumph, and I was certain I’d just offered a future tool for him to use in this kind of argument.

“Just tonight,” I repeated. “And I need to be up and on my way home at like five-thirty tomorrow.”

“No way. Seven-thirty.”

“I cannot go into Designate with this face,” I said, waving my hand over my bare face.

“I like this face,” Leo murmured, bending down and nipping at the tip of my nose and then traveling down to my lips for soft, persistent pecks.

This had been my day. Endless cuddles. Constant kisses. All very PG too, which was somehow even more indulgent? Naked in Rake’s arms in the bath yesterday, his intentions had been chaste, even while we were hip to hip and his erection had pressed between us.

I hummed and arched into the kiss, aware of Rake rolling against my side to watch, his chin resting between my ribs. Leo was facing upside-down to me and I liked the new angle, sucking on his bottom lip and humming as he did the same. His hands were cupped over my shoulders, fingers brushing softly against the collar of his t-shirt. A moment later, I gasped into the kiss as Rake pushed the shirt’s hem up, scooting down to kiss over the sensitive skin of my stomach before dipping his tongue into my belly button.

I moaned at the unexpectedly erotic touch, and Leo’s mouth traveled to a sensitive spot on my jaw that he’d discovered. I squirmed between the two men, body shivering under Rake’s playful exploration, tongue flicking out to taste me as he moved toward my hip bone. He hooked the waistband of the boxers I was wearing with one finger and tugged it down, mouth latching on the skin there and sucking hard.

My eyes squeezed shut as the feeling pulled at my center. Leo’s hands slid beneath the v-neck collar of the shirt, covering my breasts and then gripping gently as Rake hummed, teeth scratching against my skin and tongue soothing.