Page 39 of His Surrogate Omega

Jamie slowly turned to face him. “I’m asking too much.”

Rohan was silent a moment, trying to will his rage down. “If you know that, then why did you bother?”

But it was more than rage…

He felt as if Jamie was pushing him away. And he’d feared losing his mate for so many months only to still fear it now.

“I can’t be the omega you need me to be. I did this for you.”

“Did it for me? Are you insane?” Rohan could hear the bite of anger in his cry. He paused, drawing in some air to his burning lungs. “I don’t want anyone else but you.”

“You have needs, like any other alpha. Your biology drives you to mate. Drives you to reproduce. I know the long months without me to care for your needs has taken a toll.”

Rohan took a step closer, only to watch as Jamie tensed. “I’ve never placed demands on you. I take care of my own needs just fine. I don’t need some other omega to try to take your place.”

“Why not? He’s taking my place in another way. We’re using his womb.”

“That’s different! Idon’thave to lie with him to get him pregnant. This isn’t necessary.”

“Oh, but I think it is. We could go years without a child, waiting for artificial insemination to work. I don’t want to wait. I don’t want to face disappointment after disappointment. Do you remember when we were trying to get pregnant? Facing another heat, knowing the last one failed? I can’t keep going through that over and over again.”

“And what if I can’t get him pregnant? What if I keep at it over and over again, touching another omega when I’ve vowed to only be with you?” Rohan saw the ache in Jamie’s expression, and hoped he was getting his point across. “You’re asking me to break my vows. You’re asking me to give in to my basest needs to give you a child—a child I’ve told you we don’t need.”

The hurt in Jamie’s eyes was almost too much for Rohan to bear. He looked away, gasping for air in his lungs. How could the man who claimed to love him try to force his hand this way?

“I’m doing this for you… for me… and for Gray.”

“For Gray?” Rohan asked, his head whipping up.

“You’re not an omega. You don’t understand the needs we have. He’s never had an alpha. Never had a man. Years of heats have taken a toll on him. TheHeat Repressis barely working anymore.”

“Did he ask you for this?” Rohan roared.

“No!” Jamie shook his head. “He had no idea I’d demand this, but I could see the longing in his eyes when I talked to him in that conference room.” Jamie tilted his head slightly. “And I saw how hard you had to work to hold back.”

Rohan looked away, shame filling him. “Instinct. Nothing more.”

“You wanted him. It was clear as day. And he wanted you.”

“Instinct.”

“Regardless of what it was, it was there. Fire. Need. You connected.”

“Any alpha would connect with an omega in heat.”

Jamie paused. “In heat?”

Rohan sighed, closing his eyes.Me and my big fucking mouth.

“He went into heat?”Jamie demanded.

“It was a contact heat. If what you’re saying about his long-suffered abstinence is true, it was likely brought on simply by being in the room with me.” Rohan lifted a hand to stop whatever was about to come from Jamie’s mouth. “Notme… an alpha. Any alpha probably would’ve sent him into that.”

“But the fact he did with you is a good sign. There was a connection. I sensed it.”

“Oh?” Rohan had felt it, too, but the hell if he was going to admit that to his omega. He had room in his heart for one man. One man only. An attraction to an omega in heat was simple biology. There was no connection other than he had a dick that could fill a womb.

“You need the intimacy I can’t give you right now. He needs someone to break the cycle ofHeat Repress. And I need this baby. We all get what we need. I don’t see why you both can’t see how perfect this is,” Jamie said.

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