Page 44 of Hot for Teacher
But of course he wasn’t. It had barely been a week.
Spencer groaned in approval as Chase worked his feet over, bringing Chase’s attention back to the present. “Probably has something to do with why Noah ran off and disappeared for a week, though, right?” Spencer guessed. “Like, why he missed all his midterms? You think his omega went into heat?”
“I think he’ll tell us that if he wants to.”
Spencer patted Chase’s baseball hat. “Sweet, considerate Chasey.”
Just for that, Chase stopped his massage.
Spencer’s whine of complaint was interrupted by Noah rushing into the apartment. His pheromones were off the charts, bright and bursting with happiness, and he smelled kind of like a margarita, his salty ocean scent now saturated with lime.
He looked happy, too, that wide grin of his stretching from ear to ear.
He stopped in front of the couch, not bothering to greet them. “I have an announcement!”
“You’re pregnant!” Spencer yelled, lifting his feet from Chase’s lap and setting them on the floor. “And it’s twins!”
Noah’s smile didn’t even falter. “So the omega I’ve been seeing …”
“You’re letting us meet him?” Spencer asked, his excitement genuine this time.
Noah rubbed a hand on the back of his neck, his grin taking on a sheepish edge. “Actually, yeah. And, um, his name is Eli Miller. He’s a professor. My professor.”
“Holy shit!” Spencer’s mouth dropped open. “Holy— You sneaky— Holy shit!”
He jumped up, slapping his hands on Noah’s shoulders and shaking him like Noah really had just announced he was pregnant with twins. Then he was demanding Noah’s whole story, and Noah spilled it all, by all accounts relieved and grateful to finally share everything about the man he was so smitten with.
“It still has to be on the down-low,” he ended with. “Until next year at the earliest, but we’re letting in our closest people.”
“That’s us!” Spencer crowed, kicking at Chase’s leg in his excitement.
Chase grinned back at him absently. Or he thought he did. He was pretty sure his face was doing the things it was supposed to do. It was just … everything felt strangely far away, like he was watching through a window.
Noah and his omega were going public? Or semipublic, at least. Chase hadn’t expected it for some reason. Or maybe just not so soon. And he and Spencer were going to meet him, apparently. Because Noah and Eli were in it for the long haul. Together. Really together.
Why did Chase feel so strange?
“Next up is Chase revealing his secret hookup,” Chase heard Spencer say, and he looked up from his feet to see both his roommates were watching him.
“Oh. Yeah.” Chase cleared his throat, which was suddenly way too dry. “That’s a different thing though. We’re not, like, in love. It’s just sex.”
Spencer’s brow furrowed. “Yeah, but—”
“Hey,” Noah broke in, wrapping an arm around Spencer’s shoulder. “Go easy on him. He’s got dinner with his folks tonight.”
“Oh. Right.” Spencer winced apologetically at Chase. “You sure you don’t want us to go with you?”
Chase’s parents had called the day before to let him know they were flying into Phoenix for a business meeting and expected to see him for dinner tonight. And while it was sweet of Spencer to offer, Chase already knew his roommates weren’t included in the invitation. His parents had made it clear they didn’t find it necessary to know his friends.
“Yeah, I’m good. They’re easy.”
Spencer and Noah exchanged looks but didn’t press.
Until suddenly Spencer whirled to face Chase, pointing an accusing finger. “Wait! Why aren’t you more surprised by this?”
“Oh.” Chase exchanged a look with a wide-eyed, panicky Noah. “I didn’t know for sure, but I sort of guessed. I’m in the same class, and Noah is … not subtle around Miller.”
“Betrayal!” Spencer shouted, lobbing throw pillows at both of them. “Betrayal on all sides!”
