Page 69 of His Surrogate Omega

“Knock-knock.”

Rohan looked up from the brief and saw Wilder leaning inside his door. “Hey.”

“You’re here late.”

Rohan swept a hand over his desk. “Your father handed me more contracts to review. Seems he’s gotten aggressive in his expansion plans.”

“I’m the one at fault for that,” Wilder said, smiling. “But youcouldbe working on this at home. Like you normally do.”

Was he really that transparent? “I can focus a little better here.”

“Home a bit busy nowadays? I’m sure with the baby on the way, my brother is driving you nuts with plans for a nursery and the gods know what else,” Wilder said with a grin.

Rohan lifted his stare and forced a smile to his face. “That’s pretty much the gist of it.”

Wilder’s smile faded. “What’s wrong?”

“Nothing.”

Wilder frowned. “Bullshit. We’ve known each other long enough for me to know your poker face isgods awful.”

Rohan leaned back in his chair and scrubbed at his face a moment. When he moved his hands away, Wilder was already settling himself in the chair across the desk. “It’s nothing, really. Don’t worry about it.”

“It have anything to do with Jamie?”

Rohan lifted his stare. “No.”

Wilder grinned. “Yes, it does. Spit it out.”

“I can’t involve you in my marriage. It’s not fair to you or my omega.”

“I love my brother… and you’re my best friend. If not me, who?”

Rohan stared at Wilder, knowing he couldn’t share what was truly happening behind closed doors… or the wayward thoughts he was having.

“This has something to do with the baby, doesn’t it?”

It hadeverythingto do with the baby. Or rather—how it was made. They’d found out about the pregnancy a month before and still Jamie refused to touch him or be touched. His omega was pulling away from him more and more each day.

And spending all his days with Gray.

Rohan was becoming consumed with his surrogate omega. Wild dreams, sexual exploits, fevered memories of their four days in bed. The further Jamie pushed him away, the more Gray slipped into his mind.

Part of that was the bond. He knew the chemical reaction that locked them together was partially to blame for his errant thoughts. But he loved Jamie.

And he fought those tormenting images with everything that he had.

Maybe that was the problem.

The more he fought, the harder it became.

“I thought you had agreed to all this? I mean, I know you had some doubts, but I assumed you’d finally decided this was the right thing for you both.” Wilder said. “At least, that’s how it seemed.”

“I couldn’t say no to my omega,” Rohan finally said. “He wants this baby with everything in him… but it’sallhe wants.”

“All he wants… meaning?”

Rohan shook his head. “I don’t know if I’m on the list of his wants anymore.”

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