Page 54 of His Temporary Alpha Mate
“Goddess, no!” Chase laid his hands on Dalton’s shoulders and rubbed them. “I was kidding, sorta. He could have checked the plan better.” Dalton growled. “But he didn’t know that route was a regular one. He didn’t have all the information.”
“Right. Not his fault.” Damn my mate was hot when he was protective of me.
“Anyway,” Chase continued. “We’ve been given the job of making it easier and safer for the pack to get what we need. This problem with the aviary isn’t going away. With law enforcement breathing down our necks because of this, we need a solution.”
My mate deflated. “Oh.” I saw the panic hit as the monumental task registered.
“Yeah,” Chase winced in sympathy. “Lark, heal up. No more leaving the compound, by order of Blake. Ineed my assistant sane, thanks.” He turned to leave and tossed over his shoulder.
“Glad you’re okay.”
“Thanks.”
“Can we come in now?” Aldrin’s deep voice said from the corridor. “I’d like to get Larken into the care of his mate, at home, where he belongs.”
Omega Instincts
Dalton
While Aldrin took Larken through the last of the healing, James led me to a room and proceeded to take all the samples I never wanted taken.
“We just need to check your hormone levels so we can compare them to what they were pre and post mating bite,” James explained. Not that I’d asked.
My mood was low.
Hearing that Lark had been injured out on a supply run had scared years from my life. I was pretty sure I was going to have a heart attack the way the damn thing was hammering in my chest. If I looked and found gray hairs on my head, I was going to blame Lark for scaring the bejesus out of me.
All I wanted to do was take him home, get him washed up and settled into our bed, then not let him leave my sight until I calmed down, which could take weeks. I was so terrified hewould die!
Yet this feeling was apparently normal. Just an omega’s instinct to care for and defend their mate. Never in my life had I felt so out of control!
I hated it while also loving the validation. My omega instincts were kicking in! The mating bite had worked! Any day now, I would have my first heat. Then hopefully a baby would come and make me and Larken a family.
He made me so mad doing something so risky. I couldn’t fault his commitment to the pack. It just came at such a high price personally.
Cleared to leave, they made Lark shift to further boost the healing. His giant Komodo Dragon walked placidly alongside me as we crossed the compound. My raccoon wanted to walk alongside their mate, but I stopped them, not him, no, he was changing inside. They understood, though they pouted about it.
We didn’t talk. I was too busy thinking through my plans for how I was going to get the pack out of this mess.
The house was cold and dark when we arrived home. Spice and Priscilla, who were used to Lark’s alter form, came to greet us, though Spice probably just wanted to be fed.
“Could you wait to shower until I feed them?”
Watching a huge lizard nod was a trip. I nearly cracked a smile until I saw bruises littering his grayand green leathery skin. Nothing about this was funny. He could have died.
I made quick work of feeding the animals and even locked the door, something I rarely did, before I urged Lark to shift and follow me to the bathroom.
The shower was a little too small for two people, especially one being an alpha as big as him. I’d ripped out the original one to put in a larger bath. It suited me when I only had myself to think about.
“Do you think we should ask for one of the new homes or even one in the omega compound for now? For when we have a baby?” Babies came with a lot of stuff. They grew so fast. My little house wouldn’t be nearly big enough.
Larken’s eyes lit up. “That’s a fantastic idea. Not that I don’t love this place, it’s just a little…”
“Small. It’s small.” I shrugged, unbothered. “For the two of us it might be okay.”
“But not for a baby.”
“No. Okay, I’ll ask Dakota to put us on the list tomorrow.” He tried to take the cloth from me. “I’m washing you, then we are going to bed to actually sleep, okay? You need to finish healing so you can make it up to me.”
