Page 31 of Romancing the Omega

“Aren’t you a little old for that group?”

Yeo gasped, hand to his chest. “Are you calling me old? I’m young and an adult.” He hopped down. “I’m going to work on the books.” He glared at her over his shoulder, ignoring her laughter.

A few hours later and the paperwork that went with owning a business was caught up. Yeo watched the register for Amy for an hour, then grabbed the mail and headed upstairs. Caden and Linc were already back from Grey’s.

“Where did that giant stuffed bunny come from?” Yeo laughed as Linc dragged the purple bunny around by its arm. It was bigger than he was. Huckleberry and Sassy followed his son around, sniffing the stuffed toy.

“Harper saw it online and had to get it for Linc,” Caden said, rolling his shoulders. The alpha sat on the couch, laptop in his lap. Magnolia kept him company on the couch. The large cat stretched out along the top of the sofa. “I’ve just been writing an hour, but it’s going well.”

Yeo bent over the couch and kissed his alpha. “That’s good to hear. I’ll make us lunch, then you can get back to work.” Yeo tossed the mail on the table, then started digging in the fridge. Caden set his laptop down at the table.

“Yeo?” Caden picked up two envelopes. “This doesn’t look good.”

“What?” He stood up straight, looking back over his shoulder.

Caden opened the first one and started reading. “Not good.” He opened the second and his frown grew worse.

“What’s wrong? What is it?”

“It looks like your ex didn’t back down. She didn’t retract the custody suit.”

“Surely to god, she isn’t that big an idiot,” Yeo said in disbelief.

“She may be feeling confident because your grandfather is suing for custody of Summer,” Caden said, voice grim.

Yeo sank into a chair at the table. “They’re really going to do this?”

“The court dates are close together,” Caden said. “We wouldn’t have to be gone long.” He held Yeo’s hand. “Angel, I’ll take care of this. They won’t get our kids.”

Yeo sniffed, then looked around. Caden’s words warmed him. For once in his life, he had someone in his corner. Linc sat on the floor, his rabbit propped up in front of him. He talked to it quietly, his baby words sounding like gibberish. “I won’t let them do this. We gave her a chance to back out and she didn’t.” He looked up at Caden. “Will you read something for me? I have an idea.” His grandfather loved that damn company, but he didn’t have control of it anymore.

“Of course,” Caden said.

Yeo went to their room and dug around until he found his contract for his position at Cook Enterprises and the Severance agreement he had signed. He handed both to Caden. “I didn’t sign any non-solicit or non-compete agreements when they hired or fired me. I think that’s why grandpa is so worried about me setting up in a similar business.”

Caden read through them slowly, making notes. Yeo made lunch and the three of them ate their egg salad sandwiches and grapes. Caden read while he ate, finally finishing to find that Linc had eaten all his grapes. Caden gasped, looking outraged. “Thief!” Linc just giggled and climbed off Yeo’s lap to go back to his rabbit.

“It looks like you didn’t sign anything even resembling a non-solicit or non-compete agreement. I’m surprised your father approved of these documents.”

“He never reads anything,” Yeo said. “I drew them up and he signed them. It would never occur to him that I would do anything to hurt the company.”

“What do you want to do?” Caden pulled him into his arms, holding him close. Yeo leaned his head against Caden’s chest and listened to his steady heartbeat.

“I don’t want to go to court if we can help it. I don’t want to upset the kids,” Yeo said. “My dad can stop this. He just needs a little motivation to get involved.”

“I take it you have a way to motivate him?” Caden stroked his back.

“Let’s make a call,” Yeo said. They sat at the couch and Yeo called his dad, setting his iPhone to record and putting it on speaker.

“Yeo? What do you want?” His father sounded tired and old. The new guy must really not be working out.

“Grandpa is suing for custody of Summer, and my lovely ex-wife is suing for custody of Linc,” Yeo said. “We have a problem.”

“It’s not my problem,” Michael said, grumbling. “Dad mentioned something about camps to fix Summer. I don’t care.”

“You had best start caring,” Yeo said. “You didn’t read my severance agreement, did you?”

“What are you talking about?”

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