Aiden wasn’t fucking around.
Excitement grew deep in my chest. Maybe this wouldn’t be as strange or as awkward as I feared. Maybe it would work. And though I’d consciously avoided too many thoughts around it, I did hope it worked. I didn’t like the idea of Aiden being alone because we didn’t align. He was my scent match too, right? So why wouldn’t it work?
Stop getting ahead of yourself.
I touched up my makeup and made it more appropriate for the evening. Curled my hair and put it up before redressing and lacing up the shoes. The ties were long enough that I had to criss-cross them around my legs several times. I looked like a present to be unwrapped.
The outfit worked flawlessly.
This wasn’t what I thought Aiden meant when he said everythingwould be taken care of, but I didn’t hate it. I was never going to be someone who wanted her clothes chosen for her every day. But every once in a while? Yes. Absolutely.
What would the five of them do if they chose something together? Would they even be able to agree? I laughed at the thought of the five of them arguing over dresses.
The mental image unfolded so easily. The way we could fit together and live. A future. I swallowed and shut down the hopeful thoughts. We weren’t there yet, and I wasn’t willing to risk the hurt. Fuck, I wanted it. But things had a way of falling apart for me.
“Trinity?” Logan knocked on the door.
“Come in.”
“Aiden is here.” He froze in his tracks when he saw me. “Holy shit.”
I smoothed down the velvet a little. “He did a good job.”
“Yes, he did. You look beautiful.”
“Thank you.”
We stared at each other for a breathless second.
“The way I want to kidnap you and everyone else to a cabin in the middle of the mountains for a month so we can do nothing else but memorize everything about you.” He scrubbed a hand over his face and the other in his pocket. It was balled up like he could barely stop from reaching for me. “I know we can’t, but I also don’t promise not to.”
I swished my hips a little more as I walked to him. “Didn’t I hear that you have a competition soon? Disappearing into the mountains won’t be great for surfing.”
“I’d get over it.”
He offered me his arm, and I took it. The heels were a bit higher than I was used to. We better not be going anywhere I needed to stand for long periods of time, because these were ‘fuck me’ shoes, they weren’t ‘stand in me’ shoes.
I saw Aiden first. A suit that was black on black. No tie. But the handkerchief in this pocket was the same two-tone colors as my dress.
This wasn’t real. It couldn’t be real that all five of these men belonged to me.Wantedme. Things like this didn’t happen to me. But they stood there, real, and that was a pretty good argument against my hallucinating the whole thing.
Unless I was in a coma. In which case, I had bigger problems.
Aiden looked over as we entered the room. It felt like a spotlight had been put on me, because I was all he saw. His gaze traveled down my body slowly, taking in every piece of the outfit he’d chosen, from the shoes to the dress to the jewelry.
Logan lifted my hand and kissed the back before stepping away. “Have fun tonight.”
“Thank you.”
Aiden crossed the distance between us in seconds, towering over me. “You look incredible.”
“Thank you. For the compliment and for making it happen.”
“The real thing blows what I’d imagined out of the water.”
My cheeks heated, and every Alpha in the room reacted to my perfume. The apartment was practically soaked in it now, but they still reacted every time it happened. Which, if they had their way, would be all the time.
“Ready?” Aiden asked. “We have a reservation.”