When they touch me (Shelagh Milano) novel Chapter 37

Chapter 37
Artemisia

“Oh, no, Missy, please!”

I stop scrubbing the bottom of the dried-up fountain as Alberta makes me stop to look at her. Pushing my hair back, I see her running towards me completely shocked.

“What are you doing here? Weren’t you arranging the flowers?” She asks, making the omegas working on cleaning the fountain around me hold their breaths.

“Yeah,” I answer with a smile. “But we were done with it, and I figured my help was needed here.”

I also needed to get some aggression out of my system and I figured that scrubbing would be a nice exercise to achieve that.

Naturally, as I woke up, I smelled Fynn’s scent again. And since his disparaging words were constantly resounding in my head, it couldn’t possibly be, so I must have been hallucinating.

Stupid me.

And stupid mate bond.

Also, my two other mates were walking around me on eggshells this morning, driving me crazy as this was absolutely the last thing I needed right now.

On top of that, as I arrived at the town square with Cayden to help them redecorate the square and help with some tasks, everyone was absolutely lovely. And I felt like a royal who was there on a visit to shoot pictures for a magazine while acting like I was helping instead of being of any real help.

So, let me scrub, Alberta. I need that!

She takes a deep breath and grabs my arm gently to help me up to my feet. “Oh, I can’t possibly have you scrubbing dirty floors. What would Alpha Blackwood think?”

“Don’t worry, Alberta. I will gladly take it up with him if he has something to object to in this matter. We are nearly done. Let me finish here, and then you can give me some task that is supposed to be nicer.”

Gasping for air, she tries to find the right words and even looks at her staff lost. “But… your head… the Alpha…”

“It’s alright. I will let you know if I’m feeling sick or dizzy. Our Susan here is keeping an eye on me and will tell you right away if I were to collapse due to the hard work,” I say, making Susan jump behind me.

“Yes, ma’am. I’ll observe her strictly,” Susan shouts, making me giggle.

Alberta nods slowly, and I squeeze her arm. “I’ll talk to Cayden. He can’t resist my puppy dog eyes anyway.”

A round of ‘aaws’ resounds around us, and I laugh.

Those people are out of their minds.

And I love it!

***

I slowly begin to understand all those people living happily in those happy-farming cults as I feel delighted at arranging pots along the stone walls of the alleys.

Susan is humming as she is plucking at the flowers next to me. The rhythm of her song mixes with the chattering voices and the happy screams of the playing children and calms my soul better than any meditation technique.

Suddenly, the atmosphere seems to change as the voices get louder, and the chatting gets more intense.

Turning around, I see Matthew walking towards me with a big smile, as he manages not to fall over the pups running around his legs.

I giggle as he reaches me and gives me a kiss. Susan bows respectfully with blushed cheeks as she greets him before scurrying away.

“Looks like you are popular,” I say jokingly, making him laugh.