Page 76 of The Omega's Secret Baby
A grin stole its way onto my face. “How could I forget?”
“Well, I understand if you’re going to hate me for this, but those condoms we used? Two years past their expiry date.”
For a second there, my heart stopped beating. If the condoms were old, that meant they might not have worked. And if they didn’t work then… We’d had unprotected sex. “Are you saying what I think you’re saying?”
“I just took the test a minute ago. I’m pregnant.”
My mouth went dry. I didn’t know what to say. What tofeel.“That’s… Wow. We’re going to have another child?” A myriad of emotions washed over me like a tsunami. Joy and fear and worry and excitement and love and… so many others that I couldn’t even name.
“Yeah,” Eli said, voice soft. “We’re going to have another child.”
“Holy shit.”
I heard the smile in Eli’s voice as he replied. “That sums it up well.”
I laughed. And then I opened the drawer and lit myself a cigar.
Holy shit,I couldn’t help but repeat in my head.
35
Elias
Mattand I agreed to meet in person the next day. We got Griff to watch Jake while Matt finally took me to that fancy restaurant he’d been talking about. Even in my best clothes, I felt way under-dressed as the waiter showed us to our table while classical music played in the background. I didn’t have a tailored suit like everyone else here seemed to.Mattlooked stunning in his, of course. Not that he didn’t always look stunning. There was a reason I’d been captivated by this alpha from the moment I’d laid eyes on him—and it wasn’t only his smell and the fact that he’d had a puppy in his lap. Looking at him, I could almost forget what had brought us here tonight. Hell, I almost wanted to jump his bones and see if we couldn’t makeanotherbaby.
Better not, though.
Be cool, Eli, you’re in an upscale restaurant.
“You look really nice tonight,” I told Matt as I sat at our table.
“Thanks. So do you.” He gave me a smile as he took the seat opposite me.
The waiter handed us our menus and left. I couldn’t find any prices listed in mine. “How do you know what anything costs at this place?”
“Don’t worry about that,” he said. “I’ve been wanting to take you out like this forever. I don’t want you to think about money tonight.”
I looked around the restaurant with all its glitz and glamour. The only way it could have screamedmoneyany louder would have been if the floors and the plates had been made of gold. “Kind of hard not to think about money in a place like this,” I admitted.
Matt reached out over the table and stroked his thumb over the back of my hand. “I’ll think of ways to distract you, then.” The grin on his face was almost devilish.
It wassoweird to be out with him like this, in public. Weird, but also kind of nice.
“I don’t want us to hide anymore,” he said, as if he could read my thoughts.
“No, this is… This is nice. I could just never picture us together in a place like this. I still have to wrap my head around everything that’s happened.”
“Well, I didn’t expect to be the father of two children so soon.” Matt squeezed my hand.
“How do you feel about that?” I asked, because I hadn’t gotten too much out of him over the phone.
“Honestly? I’m kind of looking forward to it.”
His words made me smile in relief. “Yeah?” At least that was good.
“Yeah, the pregnancy, getting to meet this little guy or girl, seeing them grow up. All of it.”
“You’re looking forward to the pregnancy?” I raised an eyebrow at him.
