Page 68 of Pack Plus Three

“Thank you! Gimme!” she moaned, greedily taking the tray of fried deliciousness off me.

She hadn't asked for extra, but I'd seen the several jars of pickles she had eaten over the last three days. Pickles were amazing, though, so it could have just been a regular food craving instead of pregnancy craving, because I would have also eaten three jars of pickles in a day if left to my own devices.

“You are a god amongst men,” she said excitedly, making a grabby hand gesture for the burger. Handing it to her without delay, I watched her take an almost inhumanly large bite, moaning in pleasure.

Don’t get a boner over the pregnant omega enjoying food.

“Is it just us here today?” Daisy asked after she had polished off most of the burger.

“Yeah, it’s just the two of us. Why do you ask?”

“Doesn't Nate usually come to these things?” she asked, biting her lip. I needed to find some sort of motivation to stop her from biting her lip. If she kept going at it this way, there was going to be no bottom lip left, and I happened to be quite attracted to that lip.

“He comes sometimes, but he's working today. He's seen hundreds of Jeremy’s games, so it’s no big loss for him.”

“Okay...” Daisy nodded absentmindedly, her eyes going back to the ice.

Scooting closer to her, I grabbed her hand and gently pulled her to look at me. “Talk to me, flower. What’s going through your mind? You seem a bit out of sorts.”

“It's nothing, really.”

“If it's nothing, then you can talk about it.”

Daisy started fiddling with her food, moving the fries around on her plate. “What’s Nate’s deal?” she finally asked.

“His deal?”

“He's made it clear he doesn’t want me around. No one’s really talked about his situation before, and the other day, when I was on my own with him, he seemed... ”

“What happened?” I asked, my chest tightening. Had he been mean to her? If that fucker had made her feel unwelcome, I was going to kick his ass five ways to Sunday.

“I was walking past his office the other day when you had that construction emergency and Jeremy was at practice. I heard something fall and what sounded like a groan, so I investigated. Nate was on the floor, and he looked sick.”

My heart hammered in my chest. We had been skating around the Jilly issue. I know that Jeremy hadn't told her anything yet, so she was completely in the dark, because Nate wasn't exactly forthcoming about his situation.

I wanted to share my life with this omega. I could see a real clear future with her. And the last thing I wanted to do was skirt around an issue or lie to her. Jeremy would potentially be pissed at me for telling her without him, but if Nate had another attack, then this was getting serious.

“Nate has severing sickness,” I admitted.

“Jeremy mentioned that a while ago, but I didn't realize it was this severe. He was on the floor, barely able to see straight. I wanted to mention it sooner, but given everything with the potential custody battle, I became distracted.”

“He tends to hide it from us a lot. I will talk to him soon, see if we can go to the doctors with him for another checkup.”

“I try to stay away from him. I know he doesn't like having me around. I can't exactly blame him, given his past. I get the impression that Jilly wasn't a pack omega?”

I shook my head. “No, she wasn't. Jilly was a friend of ours growing up, and she and Nate weren’t even that close. He helped her through a heat, and they accidently bonded. They had been bonded for a mere few hours when the car crash happened. Jeremy and I never dated her. That's why dating is so easy for us. For Nate...I don't know when he's going to be ready, or if he is ever going to be ready. Even though he wasn't emotionally that close with her, the severing sickness really did a number on him.”

“Are you sure he's okay with what we are doing? Me dating both you and Jeremy? If he's still fighting the sickness, surely this could be difficult for him?”

I hummed, nodding. Daisy was a compassionate person, almost to a fault. While she was getting attached to both me and Jeremy, I knew for a fact that, if she thought it was hurting Nate, she would walk away and never look back.

“We had a few discussions. Nate doesn't want to stop us from living our lives, but it is difficult for him.”

“I'm guessing it really didn't help that Jeremy just moved me into the pack house with no notice.”

“It was certainly a shock for him, but once Jeremy explained the situation, he wasn’t going to say no. Nate is a good guy, and he would never let an omega be on her own in this situation. Believe it or not, before he got sick, he was the biggest softie out of all of us.”

Daisy snorted. “I would have loved to see that.”

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