Page 75 of His Bonded Omega Mate
Kade slumped into the seat next to me. “She’s a miracle worker. First day and she’s nailing it.” He looked at his mate. “We’re keeping her.”
“Sure. Whatever you want, my mate,” he assured Kade with a kiss on the top of his head before he left the room for his own office next door. “Use the bond if you need me. My silencing wards will be up.”
“Okay.”
The meeting was tedious. They insisted on going over the same things weekly. No, we didn’t know why Tate and Asher had changed. No, there were no others that had changed. We weren’t any closer to figuring out things, and until we had a breakthrough, we had nothing new to report. All they had was conjecture and repetition of the facts. It felt like the meeting could have been an email.
It seemed like they were getting ready to wrap things up when I got a text from Hiroshi.
Hiro: Could you come to the new house please? I don’t feel comfortable.
It was quickly followed by one from Larken. I’d left him in charge of things, hoping that he could use that time to bond with Hiroshi a bit.
Lark: You need to come home. Now. These alphas and even some betas are saying some stuff. Hiroshi looks like he wants to hide. Tate looks scared.
Fuck.
Instead of interrupting the ongoing meeting, I whispered to Kade, “I’ve gotta go. Hiro needs me.”
Go, he mouthed.
I shuffled away from view and got up as silently as possible. Giving Cryabell a wave as she sat knitting in her bubble with a serene smile, I headed to Blake’s office.
“Hey,” I said, knocking on the door. “I’m sorry, but Hiro wants me to head to the new house. Larken says he looks scared.”
“Deke,” he nodded to the head enforcer, “could you go with him?”
“Sure. Why don’t we go in fur? It’ll be quicker.”
We headed outside, stripped quickly, stuffing our clothes into bags and shifted into our alters. Deke’s wolf was slightly bigger than mine, darker too. Side by side, he and Blake looked like twins rather than the cousins they were.
I raced alongside him down the new path to the former Sweetwater sleuth houses, where the bears had lived before some had moved on when they had rejoined the pack. We sped by Dakota’s house and deeper into the woods to my new home.
Just short of the house, we stopped and shifted. We dressed quickly, walking barefoot up the path to the open front door. I heard them before I saw them.
“You can’t seriously be happy living like this?” Trevor, an alpha and enforcer, was saying to Hiroshi. “Roan is a pariah in the pack. Look what he’s done to you!” He gestured at Hiroshi up and down. “Are those babies even his?” Someone gasped. Likely Tate. “He’s not strong enough to be your alpha.” He was pacing back and forth, ignoring Hiroshi’s flinch when he got too close. “You should break the bond. There are plenty of alphas here in the pack that would accept you. Maybe not if those are his, though.” He directed his sneer at Hiroshi’s rounded stomach.
“Hey!” Larken yelled as he pulled Hiro behind him. “What’s your problem Trevor? You’re supposed to be helping, not hassling the omegas.”
Deke sighed next to me, the late January wind whipping his hair into his face. He grabbed an elastic out of his jean pockets and tied his shoulder length hair back. “I’ll sort this out. You get the omegas into a room and help them calm down. Tate looks faint.”
I glanced at the other omega and saw him swaying on his feet. Darting forward into the house, I caught him before he could hit the floor. “Move!” I roared at the cluster of alphas and betas that had been watching this unfold.
“Is he okay?” Hiroshi asked, worried and scared. He slipped a hand up the back of my shirt, his heart rate calming at the skin to skin contact.
“He’ll be fine. The stress was too much for him. Just in case, I’ll call Aldrin and see what he says once I lay him down.”
“We made the bed already. Larken helped.” Hiroshi sent a smile to my best friend who was shadowing us, protecting my back.
“Me and Tate made it,” Larken teased. “Hiro just oversaw the process.”
The pair shared grins, and I took my first full breath since getting those texts. They were okay. I’d gotten there in time to prevent anything from happening. Sure, they were scared and Tate had passed out, but they’d recover. The main thing was that Hiroshi had felt able to call for me when he needed me. He had trusted me to be there for him.
Larken scrambled to get into the room first and pull down the covers so I could get Tate comfortable. I barely looked at the room, more concerned about the pregnant omega in my arms. “I’m just going to go call Aldrin. Hiro, will you stay here with him? Lark, could you watch the door?”
They both nodded and I wandered into one of the spare rooms, a potential nursery, to dial Aldrin’s number.
As usual, James answered. “Hey Roan, everything okay?”
