Page 57 of The Omega's Secret Baby
She grimaced, but not out of disdain for omegas, but out of sympathy for me. “That must have been difficult. And you love him the way you never loved me?”
“With all my heart. It feels like he’s a piece of me that I’m missing when he’s not around.” I couldn’t think of a better way to describe that hollow feeling I got when we separated. “And what’s more, we have a child together.”
“A child?” Both of Danielle’s eyebrows shot up now, and there was nothing elegant about her expression. I actually felt a little sorry for her, because we’d both wanted children, but it had somehow never happened for us.
“I’m sorry,” I said, giving her a look of sympathy. “I’m sure you’ll have that with your next boyfriend too.” My lips curled up. “I’m sure you’ll be an amazing mother.” I might have divorced her, but that didn’t mean I didn’t want all the best for her.
She smiled back at me. “I’m sure you’ll make an amazing father too.”
“Yeah, I don’t know about that.” I stroked some hair back from my face. “It’s not easy to suddenly be the father of a seven-year old.”
“Oh, he’s that old already?” She thought for a moment. “Why, he must have been conceived just before our wedding.”
“Pretty much. Hey, would you like some coffee? I could use one.” I got up to go into the kitchen just one room over. She followed me.
“I wouldn’t mind some coffee. So tell me about this son of yours. You didn’t know about him while we were married?”
“I had no idea, honestly.” I got two mugs out of the cupboards and poured coffee into them. Thankfully, I’d still had some left over from earlier. “His name is Jake. He’s an alpha as well.”
“Have you told your family about him yet? I’m sure they would appreciate having another alpha to continue the family line.”
If only it were that simple… I turned to her, handing her one of the mugs. “He might be an alpha, but he’s also an illegitimate child. You know how my mother feels about that.”
She accepted the mug from me, and then she shrugged. “So? Legitimize him. You’re saying that you love his omega father, so marry him. Make the two of them Lowells.”
“It’s not that—”
“Not that easy?” She smiled at me. “Darling, you’ve always had difficulty seeing the simplest solutions. I’ve heard the news of your father’s passing, and while I’m sorry for your loss, it does mean you’re going to be the new head of the Lowell family, no?” She laid a hand on my arm. “I know you always wanted that position. It’s why you married me. Shh.” She held a finger in front of my mouth. “I know it is. And you must know what you could do as head of family.”
I could… “I could marry whomever I wanted.”
She gave me a grin, letting go of my arm. “Exactly. And you know what else you can do?”
I raised an eyebrow at her. It had been a long two days and I wasn’t as quick as I usually was. The fog my father’s death had created in my brain hadn’t completely dissipated yet. “What else do you think I could do?” Aside from finally being my very own boss.
“C’mon now. You could choose your own heir. And I’m sure if you think about it, you already have someone in mind.”
She was right. I could make Jake my heir. With everything else that was going on, the thought hadn’t come to me before, but I was sure that with the proper training, he could do a much better job than my bratty nephew.
Oh, my sister was going tolovethis.FinallyI was going to be one step ahead of her in something.
25
Elias
With the sheltercharity show only two weeks away, I was busy crocheting little hats for our shelter cats in my living room with both Fiona and Jake helping me. Fiona by resting her head on my lap and Jake by draping threads of yarn around her in order to ‘inspire’ me. At first he’d claimed that he wanted to learn how to crochet, but he’d quickly become bored of that. He still insisted that he was helping, though.
Hedidget a chuckle out of me, which was nice, although Fiona looked at me as if silently asking me to reign in my offspring,please.
Well, okay then. This old dog had suffered enough.
“Jake,” I said. “Why don’t you make me some drawings of what you think these hats should look like? Could you do that for me? I really don’t know what to do.”
“I can do that!” He beamed at me, and then he ran to get pens and paper. I heard him smash into something in the hallway, followed by an, “Ooops,” and, “I got it!”
“Did you break anything?” I called.
“Nooo!”
