Page 36 of His Captor

You could never count on that in an office environment, though. This was definitely the sort of thing that would spread through the place like wildfire.

“Shit,” Hayden blurted again, rocking back a little. “I hope no one heard. This is so weird. This is very, very weird. What are we going to do? How are we supposed to work together under these circumstances. Shit! I need this job. I can’t lose my job when I’m about to have a baby.”

“Slow down, slow down, slow down,” I said, moving to stand in front of him. I even grabbed his arms to physically steady him.

It was probably the wrong thing to do. The second we touched, it felt like electricity skittered across my skin, all of it centering in my balls.

I let go just as fast as I’d grabbed him and took a step back. “Sorry,” I said. “That was inappropriate.”

“For a boss, yeah,” Hayden said, a wide-eyed expression of utter disbelief stretching his face. “Holy fuck,you’re my boss.”

The situation had spun badly out of control. I should have stopped that from happening.

“Okay,” I said, drawing in a deep breath through my nose. “Let’s just be calm and sort out what happened here.”

“What happened here is that we had two and a half days of kinky-ass sex, I went into heat unexpectedly, we had a hell of a breeding orgasm, and you put a baby in me, that’s what happened,” Hayden said, still too loud and too stunned for my liking.

I told myself not to ask it, not to think it, not to question it.

I blurted out, “Are you sure it’s mine?” anyhow.

Hayden’s reaction was everything I deserved.

“What the hell do you mean,is it yours?” he shouted, probably definitely loud enough to be heard in the rest of the office. I hoped the door and walls were sound-proof. “I don’t know if you remember this, but you were the only alpha who fucked me when I was in heat,” Hayden went on, his sarcasm thick. “Did you think I snuck out while you were sleeping to have some rando on the street bang me through a wave?”

“No, no, I’m sorry, I shouldn’t have asked,” I said, wincing and raising my hands, almost pleadingly. “That was stupid and callous.”

“You’re damned right it was,” Hayden said.

Of all things, that made me grin. Hayden was definitely Billy. He was as big as a house and his chest had filled out and softened, his face had a roundness to it as well, but he was still the same snappy, fizzy, irreverent omega he’d been when he’d been bound to my play bed, dripping slick and begging to be fucked.

I cleared my throat, since that image wasn’t helping me to concentrate on what was an incredibly serious situation.

“So,” I said. I hesitated. The next stupid question that came to my mind was “Why didn’t you tell me?” I didn’t ask it, though.I didn’t really have a right to ask it, for one, because Hayden had no obligation to tell me anything.

My inner alpha rejected that notion so hard I nearly grunted out a breath.Mine. My omega. My baby.

Shut up,I growled back silently.Now is not the time.

“So, you’re not going to lose your job,” I continued, hoping I would figure out what the fuck I was doing as I went along.

“Thank God,” Hayden said, sagging a little.

I realized then that he was a very pregnant omega who had been on his feet for who knew how long.

“Do you want to sit down?” I asked, twisting a little to point at the chairs in front of my desk.

“I thought you’d never ask,” Hayden said, then practically spilled himself into one of the chairs.

I sat in the other chair on that side of my desk instead of putting the barrier of my desk between us and sitting on my throne.

That sparked another thought.

“You ordered all this furniture, didn’t you?” I asked.

“Yep,” Hayden said, squirming to get comfortable. “Mr. Canton—fuck, that’s you. Anyhow, you gave me a huge budget, so I kind of went to town a little.”

“You certainly did.”

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