Page 27 of Lawyer's Secret Omega

Chapter 14

Ryan

I shed my clothes in Marcus's bedroom. I was so embarrassed by my freak- out in the hallway. If I didn't stop this, Marcus was going to get sick of me and ditch me, leaving me all alone to be pregnant without an alpha. That was my biggest fear. I had only known I was pregnant for a few days, and already my hormones were getting the best of me. I had to get my head screwed on straight or I was going to drive everybody crazy.

I walked into the big bathroom again, admiring the beautiful granite. This was a bathroom I would love to be in every single day. Maybe moving in with Marcus wouldn't be such a bad thing, as long as my parents didn't find out. I shivered just thinking about it. I especially didn't want my dad finding out that I was pregnant.

I walked toward the tub were Marcus was leaning over, feeling the water temperature. I ran my hand up his side and then laid my head on his back. I stood up as Marcus stood back up, and then I climbed in, standing in the water and letting it soothe my poor legs.

"Oh God, this feels so good." I slid all the way down in the tub, leaning my head back. The water was up to my chin. I could just lay in here for hours. Oh yeah, I needed to move in with Marcus. Suddenly, my chest tightened as I thought of Lance all alone in the apartment.

He could probably afford the rent by himself, but I didn't want to make him have to do that. Besides, we had been roommates for seven years. My God, how the time flew. I definitely didn't want to leave Lance alone. We had movie and ice cream nights. We knew everything about each other. But, I also wanted to move in with Marcus, too, and not just for this hot tub. I had drooled over Marcus for three years. He was perfect. His talk about his relationship issues did give me pause, though. There was no way I wanted to be abandoned with a kid, even if we were married.

Water splashed and I opened my eyes. Marcus sat down at the other end of the tub and leaned back. Maybe I could get reacquainted with the body part of his that made me pregnant in the first place. There was nothing like seeing Marcus's body up close. He was absolutely beautiful, not to mention, he was more than well-endowed for his height.

"What are you smiling about?"

I hadn't realized I had been smiling.

"You're going to die laughing, but I was actually thinking about your body and how big of a cock you had." I knew I was blushing but I continued to watch Marcus as his eyes heated with lust.

"You keep talking like that and you're not going to be relaxing very much."

I couldn't believe this was real and not a fantasy.

"I wouldn't mind that. I began to wonder if you didn't want to have sex with me anymore."

Marcus rose an eyebrow.

"I just didn't know how you felt today. I didn't want to make you feel like youhadto have sex with me."

"We're just the absolute worst at communicating, aren't we? We're going to get in a shit load of trouble if we don't fix that."

Marcus gave me a sheepish smile.

"You're right, you're absolutely right. I've lived on my own for so long, and gotten used to making all my decisions for so long without needing to think about anybody else. This is going to be an adjustment for me."

I nodded my head

"It's going to be an adjustment for me, too. The only person I've ever talked to about my decisions was Lance, and basically he was just a sounding board."

"I think that's what a partner is supposed to be, isn't it? You still make decisions, but your partner can be a sounding board. I'm not saying that you need to cut Lance of your life. You need to keep Lance in your life, he's a good friend and you've known him for a long time. I'm just saying that I think we both need to start including each other in any decision that could affect either one of us. We've got to start talking to each other and learning about each other. If you're going to keep living in your apartment for a while, then we really need to make dates, every day if we can."

I let out a sigh, releasing tension that had built up with this talk. The second he mentioned me staying in the apartment and keeping Lance as a friend, though, I relaxed. He wasn't going to force me to move in, he wasn't going to force me to cut off Lance - I didn't need to worry. That was a big relief."We come from two different backgrounds and yet we're in the exact same place regarding relationships. Isn't that funny?"

He smirked and splashed water at me.

"Yeah, except I think you've done a lot better with relationships than I have. You've actually tried to have relationships with alphas, right?"

"Yeah, it's just that they didn't ever think of me as someone who could make decisions or they tried to control everything about me. It was so damn frustrating."

"I have the exact problem. Any omegas I dated eitherwantedme to tell them what to do, or they didn't want to leave my side for a second and were constantly whining for things. That's a big reason why I quit trying to have relationships and focused on telling them right from the start that I wasn't into relationships." He shrugged. "It was probably an easy cop-out. You have to bill so many hours a week at work to make partner at the firm. I never really had the energy for an omega."

I frowned, not liking the sounds of that. "You have to bill so many hours tostaya partner, too?"

"Well yes, otherwise someone could make partner and then decide to work twenty hours a week and golf the rest. I need to bill so many hours a week. I'm not in a contest to bill the most hours, but I need to actually be there working. I can bring work home, too, though. I don't have to be at the office all the time."

I chewed my bottom lip. Despite all of his talk that he didn't want to end up like his dad, he sure sounded like quite a workaholic. I was a little worried.

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