Just avoiding the subject was useless.
Instead, they needed to prepare for the worst-case scenario and, based on that, figure out what to do if it actually happened.
This was Nathan Lockwood's answer.
A mix of honesty and lies.
It should have been absurd—all the Alphas on a single team falling for one Omega.
Yet, because that Omega was her, it became the most reasonable thing in the world.
Nathan Lockwood only had to briefly browse StarNet to see that Zoe Pierce's personal fan sites already had hundreds of thousands of posts.
Her fans included not only Alphas, but many Omegas as well.
She had long since become a role model in the eyes of others.
So, everything began to make perfect sense—both their feelings for her, and the fact that she hadn't decided who she wanted to be with.
"Zoe can say we're just teammates."
The key was to frame it as *they* were the ones causing her trouble.
