Page 51 of His Surrogate Omega

“I should’ve spoken up before you left,” Wilder said on the other end of the line. “Hearing that it’s apparently a done deal was a bit of a shock.”

“I was there signing the papers, and it’s still a shock to me,” Rohan admitted as he stared up at the ceiling, wondering how they’d gotten where they were.

“It took a moment for my brain to catch up. I’m sorry. Let Jamie know I gave papa a piece of my mind after you both left. What he said was uncalled for. Any baby you two have will be a part of this family.”

Rohan winced. “I don’t even know that I want to be a part of your family.”

Wilder sighed. “Papa can be a handful. I know. But once there is a baby—I think his tune will change.”

“I hope you’re right. For Jamie’s sake.”

Silence fell on the other end for a moment. “I know Jamie’s excited… but what about you? Your family?”

“My papa is excited,” Rohan said. “On whatever tropical island he’s currently sailing around with my step-father.” The rich, powerful oil tycoon, Marcullis Oberton, had swept into his widowed papa’s life and quickly sent Rohan off to boarding school. College and marriage had soon come after, and he’d built a life of his own between the moments his papa strolled in for a day or two here and there for a visit.

Now, his family was Jamie.

“And you?” Wilder asked. “How are you feeling?”

“My feelings don’t really matter. I just want to keep your brother happy.”Any way possible.

My gods… what am I doing?

He closed his eyes and pinched the bridge of his nose. How could he be unfaithful to the one great thing he had in his life? Even if it was what Jamie had demanded…

Wilder was silent again. “You shouldn’t be doing it for just him. It should be for you both.”

“It is… it is,” Rohan answered, not completely sure anymore.

“Okay,” Wilder said. “If you guys need anything, just ask. I’ll be there. Just give me a second to recover after you drop some news next time.”

“Will do,” Rohan said before he ended the call. He rose and climbed the winding foyer stairs toward the bedroom he shared with his omega.

After lowering his cell to the nightstand and disrobing, he slid in between the sheets. Rohan drew his sleeping mate closer and inhaled the man’s scent. Need slammed into him, but he shoved it aside and simply lay, holding his mate.

Until Jamie pushed him away in sleep.

Rohan lay there for hours, lost and alone.

Loved yet unwanted.

Chapter Fifteen

Gray’s heat…

The contracts were agreed upon, signed, and submitted. The government had approved the surrogacy request, and now Gray sat in the back of a very expensive car being taken via chauffeur to Jamie and Rohan’s home in the Family Quarter. He rested back against the soft, leather seat, watching the scenery pass.

It had been years since he’d been outside the Omega Quadrant. Long, long ago, he’d lived in the FQ with Silver and his parents. Immediately after his first heat, he’d been sequestered—imprisoned, really—because of a simple classification at birth.

Omega.

A womb with legs.

He’d found a way to deal with it. He’d immersed himself in art and books and everything hecoulddo while stuck inside his part of the city. Over the years, he’d lost friends. They’d been claimed and mated—forgetting about him still stuck in the prison they’d escaped from.

He leaned his forehead on the warm glass, the need spiraling. As suggested by Tensen, he’d not taken aHeat Represspill that morning. He felt his body flooding with heat, his ass slick and ready to be taken.

It wasn’t much different than it was with the pills now. By the time the car pulled up before their home, he feared he’d be a puddle of need, begging and crying for Rohan before he could make it through the door.

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