Page 138 of Omega's Secret Guardian

This wasn’t where Storm had foreseen himself, back when he had first discovered Linus. But time changed things, along with the choices they had both made. Now, he couldn’t envision his future with anything less than Linus and their baby.

“I love you both,” Storm said thickly.

Linus beamed. “Same here.”

“You should’ve replied with a movie quote.”

That made Linus laugh. Storm dropped a kiss on his forehead and settled back on the bed with his omega, adjusting to this huge change in their lives. They were dads now. And things couldn’t be better.

EPILOGUE

“Tamsen! Ran! Ellis!”Linus hurried after the children, one hand on his phone in case he needed to call for help. “Don’t climb the fence!”

“But Dad!” nine-year-old Tamsen pouted.

Ellis, now seven, pouted along with his brother.

“Baby cows!” five-year-old Ran squeaked. “Baby everything!”

“Yes, they are babies, but we shouldn’t scare them by running up to them.” Linus glanced around, breathing a sigh of relief when he saw Storm heading over from the parking lot. “They’ll think you’re trying to hurt them, and runawayfrom you.”

“But we’re not gonna hurt ‘em!” Ran protested.

“They’re not humans, hon. They’re animals, and they’re babies. They’ll be scared.”

“Oh,” Ran said, her shoulders slumping. “Okay, I won’t run.”

“You can run during playtime at school,” Linus said gently. “Now, let’s all take a picture.”

This was a tradition they had started ever since Tamsen was barely a year old. Every year, on Linus’ birthday, their family would go to the petting zoo, where they would take selfies with all the baby animals. The photos would end up on their Christmas cards, and more often than not, something odd would happen on these visits.

Last year, glitter had exploded on all of them. The year before, a pen of baby goats had broken loose and tried to climb everything. The yearbeforethat, a family of banana-wielding squirrels had burst out of someone’s picnic basket.

Storm stopped next to Linus, wrapping an arm around his waist. “How’s everyone?”

“Almost climbed the fence,” Linus said in an undertone. “I barely stopped them.”

“I’ll herd them,” Storm said easily. “You should be enjoying yourself.”

“A little hard to, when we never know what they’ll think of next,” Linus said dryly.

“Keeps us on our toes.”

“Well,yourtoes are still young. Mine are not.”

“I’ll suck them better.”

Linus elbowed his husband gently. “Shh!”

Storm leered. “Okay, I’ll suck on something else.”

“Suck on what?” Tamsen asked.

“I’ll let your daddy decide,” Storm said, his fingers trailing slow circles against Linus’ wrist. “An ice lolly, maybe? It’s his birthday, after all.”

“You make that sound so questionable,” Linus hissed.

Storm grinned.

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