Page 16 of Alpha's Two Omegas

“Ummm,” I said, drawing it out. Shit, did he already know? Was he calling me out on it?

“Hey, you don’t need to tell me,” he said. He wrapped an arm around my shoulder and hugged me as we walked, which jostled me but also felt… incredible. My skin warmed under his touch and I was sure my face was getting hot. I hated that I always reacted so viscerally to things. It was the first thing I’d change about myself, if I could.

“Um,” I said again.

Alder let go of me and I floundered. I hadn’t realised I’d been leaning into him as much as that.

“I’m just nosey, ignore me. No, don’t ignore me, that would be awful. But you don’t need to tell me all your dirty little secrets. Not that your sexuality is dirty or anything. Whatever your dick gets hard for is ok, as long as it’s consensual, you know?”

“Um.” I really was going to have to come up with something else to say. This was getting embarrassing.

“I just wanted to know what your preference was, if you have one.”

“I don’t.”

“Don’t have a preference?”

I shook my head, my face flaming. I was hoping that the night was concealing it as we walked towards the car park.

“No preference for presentation?”

“No.”

“Or gender?”

“No.”

“So youmightthink Jared is a cute snack, then,” he teased and cackled to himself when he looked round to see my face. Clearly, the darkness wasnotdoing its job here.

“I- I just think a lot of bodies are beautiful, that’s all.”

“And that’s ok! Lots of people are great. Ok, not formethey’re not because most people are really annoying and I can’t imagine getting hard for any of them, butsomepeople are fine.”

“You don’t like many people that way?” I asked. Normally, I’d never have asked such a personal question but he’d started it and if there was one person I was confident would be ok with telling me they didn’t want to answer, it was Alder.

“No, I don’t. I’m just really picky about who I like, that’s all.”

“Oh.”

I let that out on a sigh and, even to my own ears, I sounded disappointed. Alder wouldn’t be into me if he was picky about his partners.

Alder misunderstood my sigh and rounded on me. “Hey, just because I’ve got a preference, doesn’t mean you should have one! And being pansexual or whatever doesn’t mean you want to sleep with everyone you see – it just means you’re open to it, that’s all. Has anyone pressured you into being with them?”

He sounded angry as he said it and I shook my head.

“Are you sure?”

I nodded. In fact, the trouble was exactly the opposite of that.

Alder narrowed his eyes at me. He was thinking. And, sure enough, once he started thinking about it, he started working it out.

“That’s not it, is it? Why don’t you tell me what happened,” he said.

It was probably the most diplomatic thing I’d ever heard Alder say. Normally, he just demanded answers. He was giving me the option of saying ‘no’ but I actually wanted to tell him, just so I could find out what he thought. Alder would know.

“I had a girlfriend but she didn’t like the fact that I was attracted to so many body types. She kept saying I should only like her. But I would never have done anything with anyone else, I just thought they were attractive, that’s all.”

“She thoughtyouwere a horny flirt?”

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