Resistant Omegas 5: Dewey by Joyee Flynn (book club suggestions TXT) 📕

“What Dewey is saying, Percy,” Tag said, his voice louder than mine had been. I sighed. His sense of smell was way better than mine. I had assumed Percy had left the master bedroom but it seemed he was right there. “Is that starting a relationship is tricky especially with four people so if we don’t start off right, laying a solid foundation, then there will be lingering questions or issues which none of us want.”

“It just feels like you guys keep picking on everything I’m saying when I am trying not to stick my foot in my mouth,” Percy replied, his voice muffled slightly since he wasn’t in the doorway. “I can’t help that I’m blunt. We all have a past and previous lovers. Why is my being honest about it so bad?”

“Because you basically acted as if Dewey was strange because he was worried about being in a ménage,” Tag countered. I heard feet thunk to the floor and loud footsteps come back towards us.

“That’s not fair,” Percy growled as he stomped back into the bathroom. “I said I was sorry for making him uncomfortable. He asked me if I was freaked out about it and I explained why I wasn’t. I didn’t say he was being a baby for having concerns. I have some too. It’s natural to have them when you’ve never been in this kind of situation before.”

“Okay, I concede your point.” Tag nodded and sank down in the water. “Can we just all agree to ease up a bit and not jump all over each other if things come out wrong? This has all been really stressful and I think we’re all on edge.” He glanced at Percy. “I shouldn’t have been a bitch. I just didn’t like feeling as if you didn’t care either way if we became lovers because you had other options in the pack.”

“Oh, I didn’t mean it to sound like that,” Percy mumbled as he stepped back into the tub. He was quiet a moment before nodding.

“Yeah, I can see how it might have come off like that. It wasn’t meant to be.” He glanced over to Azyle as if looking for help.

“What Percy means is that we love each other and we have a good relationship but something’s always kind of been missing,” Azyle explained as he stared at me. “We think it’s been you. We’re both Betas, not always all that tender and unsure of how to handle emotional things. So we never moved onto that level like you and Taggart have. It’s more like we’re best friends who love each other and share a bed. We don’t know what comes next.”

“Yeah, like we need a small blond who’s our glue,” Percy added with a smile before eyeing over Tag. “And a strong Alpha to keep us in line when we both throw our hands up in the air and have sex as if that fixes everything.”

“That’s what you think we do?”

“Well, yeah,” Percy answered with a shrug. “Even when we were debating coming here we argued, had sex, and then packed. I just caved because it was what you wanted instead of being able to voice how I was feeling.”

“Why didn’t you want to come?” I asked curiously, no judgment or offense, but needing to know because I thought it might be important.

“Our last Alpha was a whack job,” Percy explained as he glanced down at his lap. “We didn’t have the full detail on Taggart when we left. All we knew is he might be Alpha material but had escaped from his old pack with their Omega. Not exactly reassuring stuff. Plus, if he was Alpha material, I didn’t understand why he didn’t just beat out the old Alpha.”

“I thought you were just scared to get a new Alpha and be back in the same position,” Azyle said, shock written in his expression.

“No, I wanted to wait until we got more information from Carson. That’s all.”

“Oh.” Azyle leaned over and wrapped an arm around Percy, leaning his head on the man’s shoulder. “See, we don’t work as just the two of us because we miss each other a lot. I could never have gotten Percy back into the tub. I think we’re too alike sometimes to ever see things from another perspective.”

“And you think adding us to the relationship will help?” I kind of understood but it was some roundabout logic that I wanted clarified.

“We love each other. You guys love each other.” Azyle nodded. “So it’s not that none of us are incapable of love or closed off. We like you guys and so far I think Dewey likes us. It really does take a full, functioning inner circle to give an Omega what he needs. I think we would all fit.”

“I agree.” Tag smiled at me. “So what do we do next? Tristan said we needed to sign contracts and we all have to claim Dewey before we move to Wichita.”

“Sounds good to us as long as Dewey’s ready,” Percy said gently. I took a deep breath and met his eyes as I nodded. “Then we have a plan.”

Fuck, this was scary.

* * * *

Half an hour later I was looking over a bunch of legal mumbo jumbo that made my head hurt. Finally I just flipped to the last page and signed my name where it was left blank for the Omega.

“You’re not going to finish reading it?” Tristan asked quietly, worry lacing his tone.

“You’ve read it, right?”

“Yes, of course.”

“It makes sense to you?”

“Yes, but—”

“These terms are good to you?” I asked, interrupting him. He nodded and rolled his eyes at the way I was acting. “Then I’m in. I trust you, Tristan.”

“Us too,” Azyle agreed and took the pen from my hand, signing in his spot. Percy did the same but Tag started from the beginning and read the whole thing. That was my detail-oriented man.

“So if Dewey comes to you and