Chapter 13
CHAPTER THIRTEEN
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TYLER
“Call us when you’re finished,” I murmured into Eva’s neck where I held her. Cameras clicked in the background because the cat was out of the bag, but I didn’t care when her perfect scent seeped into my senses. “Or earlier, if you want a rescue.”
“That’s not out of the question,” she said. “But it will be fine.”
Jack stole her away from me and kissed her against the side of the car we were using. “Anything we shouldn’t poke around in?”
Eva’s cheeks turned pink. “Well, I’m sure you’ll find my toy collection. But other than that, I don’t have anything too crazy.”
We were moving everything. Or rather, the movers we hired were doing the work, and we were supervising while she had lunch with her mom and sister.
Last night, between food and more fucking, we’d talked about the house. What color she wanted her room painted. What she wanted in the nest. What we wanted for our rooms and our recording studio.
And Eva showed us the power of being Eva May Williams, recruiting her manager to help arrange things. Which was why Wes was at the apartment while people painted the rooms. It was absurdly fast, and I couldn’t seem to stop smiling.
“I should go inside now,” she said.
Dylan and Liam had already kissed her goodbye. Who the hell knew how long it would feel like this, but I hoped it was forever.
“Yeah,” a new voice, teasing, said. “You should come inside now.”
A copy of Eva stood on the sidewalk. She wore a dark blue dress and a polite smile. This was her twin. Esme.
“Hi,” Eva said. “I got distracted.”
Esme snorted. “I bet you did.”
Taking a step forward, I held out a hand, and she shook it. “It’s nice to meet you, Esme. I’m Tyler.”
“You too.” She glanced over the rest of us, and the others introduced themselves. Then she smirked. “I was going to wait until Eva wasn’t with us, but she might as well hear. If you hurt my sister, you won’t see me coming. And I know people who can help make it look like an accident.”
We all froze for a second before she grinned. I burst out laughing along with the others. Eva’s mouth fell open. “May-may.”
Her twin shrugged. “What? They should know the truth.”
Dylan placed his hand over his heart like he’d been shot. “I promise if I hurt her, I’ll be the first to volunteer for destruction.”
“Good.”
“All right,” Eva said. “Get out of here. And don’t let them break anything.”
“We’ll do our best,” Jack said.
She winked at us before linking her arm with Esme and entering the restaurant. The photographers were still taking pictures of us. Let them. If they wanted to post pictures of me looking at my Omega like she was the only thing in the world, that was fine by me.
Eva’s dress was a blue paler than Esme’s—a result of the image frustrations she had—and just short enough that it drew my eyes to her legs as she disappeared inside.
Liam clapped me on the arm, and we piled back into the car. But I kept looking at the restaurant and wishing we were inside with her.
“It feels wrong to leave her,” Jack muttered as he started the car.
“Tell me about it.” I settled back against the seat and looked at the roof. “How fast do you guys think we can move now?”
“On what?”
I laughed once. “Bonding Eva. She said that night that she doesn’t have filming for three months. Which I assume means she does have some after that. And I know I’m not the only one of us who can’t let her just walk away without being able to feel her.”
They didn’t need to respond. I felt the truth, and I was right.
“Let’s get the move out of the way,” Liam said. “Get everything unpacked. Settle into life a little. But I agree. We can’t let it wait very long.”
Jack nodded and sighed. “We need to talk to the label. And Jeremiah. We’ll have different schedule concerns now.”
“Not much we can do about the next tour,” I said. “They’re not going to reschedule it just because we found our Omega. We’ll have to make it work.”
We’d broken our tour into different branches for different parts of the world. It allowed us to have a bit of a break in between. Which had been great, but now, traveling without her…
It wasn’t a problem for today.
A text pinged on all our phones at once. It was our new group chat with the five of us.
Eva
Is it weird to miss you already?
Tyler
Miss you too, baby.
We all do.
Eva
See you soon.
All of us smiled for the rest of the drive.