Page 84 of His Bonded Omega Mate
I shuffled up the bed so I was straddling his head. He took the tip of my cock into his mouth, just savoring the taste. His hands massaged my knot as he licked and sucked. Soon I was spilling down his throat, my knot deflating.
Hiro laughed as I collapsed onto the bed dramatically. I couldn’t help my grin. I loved seeing him so carefree and light. We had needed this badly. I’d let Tate have a night alone with Hiro. Maybe I could bunk with Larken so they wouldn’t have to worry about me overhearing them.
“So glad we brought this up here,” Hiro said as he sat up and picked up the plate of food from the nightstand. He selected a couple of tiny things, popping them into his mouth and chewing with a contented look on his sweet face.
I got up and grabbed a damp cloth from our bathroom. I wiped him up a bit before returning to the bathroom and cleaning myself up.
Pulling back the covers, I got into bed and took the plate from him. “Come on, let’s get you warmed up.” The house was warm, but I was feeling a chill now that the day’s events caught up with me. I just wanted to snack and then sleep wrapped around my mate.
We shared the rest of the food until the plate was empty and discarded on the floor. Something to deal with in the morning.
Hiro cuddled close. “Thank you for giving me that experience.”
“Thanks for being open to it. I know it’s weird for an alpha to want that.”
“It isn’t!”
“It is, but that’s okay. I just want...”
“Want what?” Hiroshi urged me to let it out.
“I don’t want us to be like it was in my pack. My old pack.”
“What do you mean?”
“With the strict gender or designation roles. Just because you are an omega, it doesn’t mean you should have to do the bulk of the childcare and the cleaning. To always be the bottom.”
“But what if I want to?”
“Then I’ll support whatever you choose. But Hiro, your career is important. The healing gift you have is so vital to a healthy shifter community. I can drop my hours, I can take the kids with me to work. Cryabell can look after them. Or we can get a nanny and both cut back. We have options.”
He started to cry. Big, heaving sobs into my shoulder. “Hey, what’s wrong?”
“Why are you so perfect?” he wailed.
I smiled into his hair and held him as he cried. When he calmed, I kissed him gently and wrapped myself around him so he felt safe and warm enough to fall asleep.
Discovery
Tate
“Here,putyourhandhere. Can you feel them?” I placed Asher’s hand on my expanding stomach so that he could feel the fluttering movement of our baby doing somersaults inside me.
His eyes lit up as a foot or a hand nudged his palm. “Oh! Wow! That’s amazing. Our baby. They know I’m here.”
“They do. Aldrin says that they can hear us. We might even find out the sex of the baby at the scan soon. Do you want to know?” My heart swelled at the gentle way Asher was cradling my stomach and looking at our baby’s movements.
“It doesn’t matter, but it makes things like names and shopping easier.” His full attention was still on my bump. I didn’t mind that. Things were still awkward between us occasionally. With my bond being more stable with Hiroshi, I could be away from him for longer and I’d been taking full advantage of that by having a lot of overnight stays with Asher in Abrocaelum.
Spending more time with Asher was helping repair the fracture in our fragile bond. I felt closer to him than ever before while also feeling like we were being pulled apart. Each week that went by brought more fear that he’d never heal. Never get over his issues with alphas and Roan.
With preparations underway for breaking bonds and re-establishing them, under careful supervision, we needed Asher at home as proof that the new alphas weren’t unstable.
Each time that the testing nearly started, someone brought up Asher, and things were delayed again. Then each time, I got to see my cousin’s heartbreak that bit more. I didn’t want to cause that anymore.
“We should head to the clinic. It’s almost time for our appointment,” I reminded Asher, taking his offered hand and getting to my feet. This part of the factory was quiet, away from all the chaos of the machinery.
I didn’t know how Asher coped inside the factory. The space was much too enclosed for me. My raven hated the noise and all the moving parts. They hated all the bustling about, the scents and people. They longed for the clear skies, the natural cover of the trees as they sprouted leaves now spring was truly here.
