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All color faded from my roommate's face. “Because you still don't want anyone to know that you're an omega.”
“I can't be found out, Adam! I would lose everything!” At this point, I was nearly pleading with him to see my point of view in this. “Everything I've worked for, none of it would mean anything!”
“So you're just going to have an abortion?” Adam raised his voice, which I wish he didn't, because the walls weren't exactly super thick. “How are you even going to do that when no one can know about your omega status?”
“My parents are looking into it. We'll find a way.”
Adam stared at me. “You don't even care how I feel about this, do you?”
“I'm sorry. I can't. There's too much at stake.” I hadn't kept this secret all my life just to change course now. Just because I'd been a little stupid.
“Things you care more about than us, you mean.”
“You're not being fair.”
“So?” Adam demanded. “Neither are you!”
He had a point there. Staring at him, I opened my mouth to come up with a retort anyway, but I couldn't think of one—or anything else I wanted to say. He was right; none of this was fair, not to either of us. It just wasn't meant to be—but I'd known that before I'd even started this conversation, hadn't I? It had been silly of me to hope for another outcome when I knew there couldn't be one. The world wasn't suddenly going to change just because my heart was breaking.
I had no one to blame but myself anyway. I should never have slept with Adam. If I didn't want to live my life as an omega, that meant not behaving like one.
The sooner I realized that, the better.
I couldn't change my ways as long as I was around Adam, though. In spite of everything, he still had a near magnetic pull on me. Even now, I couldn't look at him without wanting to jump into his arms and forgetting myself and my heartache in the process.
I could suppress my heats and my scent, but there were no pills I could take to counter the effects Adam had on me.
Tearing my eyes away from the alpha in the room, I pulled my suitcase out from under my bed.
“What are you doing?” he asked.
“Packing a bag,” I said, simply. “I'm crashing in Conner's room tonight.” Considering the circumstances, I hoped my friend wouldn't mind. Us omegas had to stick together, right? That's what he liked to say, anyway.
“You don't have to leave.”
“No, I do.” And then in the morning, I could head home to my parents and get this problem taken care of. At this point, I honestly didn't care about missing a few days of school.
There were worse things in life, and my heart felt as if I was going through all of them at once.
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W hen Lucas didn’t return to our room, I worried. I’d figured that he would come back after classes the day after our fight. He couldn't stay at his friend's place indefinitely, could he? But now the sun was starting to set, and there was no sign of my roommate returning home. Was he that upset with me?
Well, that was okay, because I was upset with him too! Stubbornly, I crossed my arms in front of my chest, even though there wasn't anyone around who could see me. I was all alone in our room, sitting at my desk, trying not to stare at the door.
I couldn't believe that he was pregnant.
How could he be pregnant?
It just didn't compute. Less than twenty-four hours ago I'd believed that my roommate was a beta, and now he was an omega—and I'd somehow knocked him up that first time I'd slept with him, because he'd been inheat.How hadn't I noticed that?
I'd known there wassomethingspecial about him, but damn. How could he have been hiding such a big secret? How wasn't the weight of it dragging him down?
Or was it?
I couldn't help but think back to that night after the game. I'd been ecstatic that he came to watch me.
