For the past year, I’d been pushing everyone away. It said more about them than it did about me that they hadn’t kicked me to the curb yet. Before I got the news that shocked my entire nervous system, I’d been all about having fun, being the best beta to Jaime’s Alpha there was. Now I couldn’t even remember what that felt like, and I doubted the online server made up of trans gamers I’d stumbled upon would have the answers, but it was the closest I’d had to a lifeline in a long time.
Rox, Viola, and Dixie all had their own issues, their own demons to battle, and reasons for all the rules that came with joining their pack. I had never been one for online or long distance relationships, or for those many rules, but… They wanted me, and I hadn’t allowed myself to feel wanted in too long to turn my back on them.
On the possibilities—one of which, I was aware, meant that I was self-sabotaging once more.
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New Pack Codeincludes a T4T4T4T online relationship with (pretend) omegaverse rules and dynamics, gaming, characters with more trauma than the author had initially anticipated, lots of puppy play and, of course, found family galore. Oh, and a probably unconventional HEA.