Page 33 of A Bunny for the Bear
She giggled but stopped when Clynt waddled in with a carton of ice cream in his hand. "Hey, that was mine for later!" she cried.
He snorted. "You snooze; you lose. Or better yet, you pick on the new friend, and I steal your ice cream."
Judy tried to wiggle forward as if she was going to go after him, but she had sunk deep into the couch. When she huffed and rolled back, we all broke into laughter. It felt good to be surrounded by other Omegas. And it felt great knowing that they knew my past and didn't think any less of me.
In fact, most of them were angry on my behalf. It took everything to get them all to understand that going after my old pack would do no good. They were history in my mind. I found a new family. They were treating me just fine.
“Is there anything else you have questions about?” Kris asked as he dropped onto the couch beside Judy.
She scowled at her mate. "How could you let him eat my ice cream?"
He raised a hand. "Hey, I'm not going up against a pregnant Omega. Tried that, got a punch to the gut for it.”
“I only hit you because you scared me," Clynt whined, then took a haughty sniff.
I shook my head. "No, I am all out of questions, I think. We've got most of the supplies we need. Thanks to you all loaning us some hand-me-down clothes, I think our babies will be good until their first birthday."
Barrett hummed. “You would think so, but it's amazing how quickly they can go through things. That's part of the reason we've built this community system. We keep everything sorted by gender and don't get anything with the child's name on it. The easier it is to identify them purely by outfit, the better. Plus when they outgrow it, it just goes back in the container for the next person.”
“Way to make the most of a baby boom,” I muttered.
Of course with everyone having shifter hearing, they heard my hushed tone.
Nolan smiled the biggest. “And to think it all started with us. My little human.”
Barrett smiled back at his mate and tilted his chin up for a kiss. As their lips pressed together, I felt a pang of longing.
My mate wasn't here. He had gone to supervise more work on the house. They had already laid a foundation and soon they would be getting started on building. While the space wouldn't be ready when the babies came home, it wouldn't be long before we were upgrading our lives and starting over in our forever place.
It excited me to know that we would have plenty of space to grow and that my mate wanted that with me. He wanted a future where we were together. Where our family could bloom.
"You look all mushy eyed over there." Clynt teased around a spoonful of ice cream in his mouth. "You're thinking about your Alpha aren't you?"
Large, rough hands landed on his shoulders. He startled, dropping the container of ice cream in the spoon.
"What in the—?" he tilted his head back only to find his mate watching him.
"Were you about to make fun of that Omega, mate?" The older Alpha asked.
Clynt swallowed the bite in his mouth, then slowly nodded. "I was only teasing him. I missed my mate too."
Even from the angle he was at, I could see the way his lip stuck out in a pout.
Maklihn leaned down, giving him a quick kiss. "Don't be a pain in the ass today. Everyone is supposed to be relaxing and having a good time."
"When am I ever a pain in the ass?" Clynt asked, tone serious.
The room went quiet before everyone started to speak at once.
“All the time.”
“Practically every day.”
“When the sun is shining and even when it's not.”
That last one had me breaking into a fit of giggles. Unfortunately, it startled the baby in my arms. He let out a blood-curdling scream.
With wide eyes I faced Nolan. “Please come take your child from me. I'm terrified now."
