Page 78 of The Omega's Secret Baby
Will you marry me?
“Oh my God.” My heart stopped still. I looked back at Matt—who’d gone down on one knee beside me, holding a small jewelry box in his hands. “What are you doing?” I asked. Iknewof course. I just couldn’t believe it. “Matt—”
He gave me a smile and put a finger on my lips. “I’m doing exactly what I should have been doing years ago. Just listen for a moment, okay?”
I nodded. Too astonished to do anything else.
He took a deep breath, and then he spoke. “I know I’ve already said that I love you, but I feel it can’t be said enough. The years I’ve spent without you have been miserable. I never want to leave you again. I want to raise our children together. I want to wake up next to you every morning. I want you to be mine in every way that you can be mine, and I want to be yours. Elias Stevens, will you do me the honor of marrying me?”
I stared at Matt, heart beating a mile a minute. Did he really just ask me to marry him? In the stars and on his knee? “Of course I’ll marry you!”
He let out a breath. “Oh thank God, I was getting really nervous for a second there.”
I laughed, and then I leaned down and kissed him. He ran his hand into my hair and kissed me back, and I was sure that I was the happiest omega in all of Oceanport.
36
Elias
The next fewweeks were the best of my life. Matt was busy with his new job, yes, but he still spent as much time as he could over at my place. He told me this was a) because he wanted Jake to get used to his presence, and b) because he just couldn’t get enough of me. He underlined the last point by kissing me every chance he got. Something else, he said, that people needed to get used to.
I did stop him from undressing me in our living room, though. Way too public as long as I was still living with my brother. But we were already talking about moving to a different place—together. We’d be staying in town, but we wanted a house that was ours. A place we could do whatever we liked… as long as the kids weren’t around, anyway. But we also agreed that we couldn’t start looking at places before we’d talked to Jake about everything.
Which we decided to do about a month after Matt proposed to me. I was almost at the end of my first trimester and we figured it was best to talk to him before he started asking why Daddy was getting so fat.
Together, we fetched him from school one day and took him out to a park where he could run around with Fiona and tire himself out a bit before we had our conversation. That had been Matt’s idea, but it wasn’t a bad one. He really understood energetic little alphas, and I loved seeing the two of them together. Especially when Jake asked Matt to race him and Fiona, and Matt just couldn’t say no.
Both of them returned to me all red in the face after a few minutes. I laughed, and decided my kid had probably run enough.
I handed both of my boys a cookie when they sat on the bench with me while sneaking Fiona a treat. Funny enough, the old dog was the only one not breathing hard. “Good girl,” I said, petting her. Then I turned to Jake, who’d hopped on the bench next to me, letting his feet dangle in the air. “Matt and I need to talk to you about something.”
“Yeah?” He eyed Matt and me suspiciously while nibbling on his cookie. “Am I in trouble?”
I ruffled his hair. “You’re not in trouble.”
“Then what?” Fiona rested her head on Jake’s knees and he put a piece of his cookie in her mouth, even though he knew he wasn’t supposed to do that. But this once, I let it slide.
“You know how Matt and I are a couple?”
He tilted his head, as if wondering why I was asking such a stupid question. “Yeah.”
“Well, we were thinking about making it official.” Matt grabbed my hand as I said this, while Jake continued to look at me curiously.
“But you already told everyone. You even kissed in front of my school.” He made a face. I wasn’t going to apologize, though. As his daddy, embarrassing him every now and then was part of my job.
Matt took over. “What your daddy is trying to say is that we’d like to get married.”
“Oh.” Jake’s eyes widened. “Does that mean you’ll get a huge cake like Tommy’s mom did last year?”
“Yeah,” I said. “There’ll be cake.”
“But will it be huge?”
I glanced at Matt. “I’m sure we can arrange that.”
“Yay! When are you getting married?” Jake asked like he couldn’t wait.
I licked my lips. “We haven’t settled on a date yet, but we thought doing it in the summer might be nice.” On top of giving us a little time because spring had only just started.
