“I’ve got two bonded,” I replied. “Unless I have another one of those weird heat flushes, the other two won’t be bonded until my next heat at the earliest.”
“Two is still good,” Callie insisted. “Even if the others aren’t bonded, they’re still scent matches. All of it helps.”
“I guess that’s true.” Alice let out a frankly monstrous burp for how tiny she was. “My goodness, that was impressive.” I carefully adjusted her to rest on my bump and balled up the burp cloth to set it beside me. “Your house is amazing.”
“Thank you. We actually just paid it off with the last set of videos we did.”
“Videos like what Luke and Micah do?”
“The very same. You would notbelievehow much people are willing to pay for pregnant omega content.”
Warmth flushed through me. “Is that so? People really like it?”
Callie tipped her head to examine me. “Honestly, it’s almost concerning how popular it is. There’s not that many performers to fill that niche so the people who like it are usually fairly starved for content.”
“Really? And it’s not…weird?”
“Weird how?”
“Being pregnant and being recorded?” I shrugged, adjusting Alice. “I mean, I guess the whole thing could be weird even outside of the pregnancy.”
Callie laughed. “I got over everything really fucking fast. I met my pack doing a live heat in front of an audience and thenwe started our company. You’d be surprised how quickly the awkwardness disappears.”
“I saw one of Micah’s videos…”
“He used to do the heats too before joining our company. Luke as well.”
“And you still perform even though you don’t have to since you own everything?”
“It’s a lot of fun with my pack. Plus it’s not like I would let them do it with anyone else.” Callie ran her fingers over Daniela’s downy hair. “Is that blush on your cheeks because you’re curious about doing it? I’ll tell you we one hundred percent have the market for what you could offer right now if you wanted to give it a go.”
“I like the concept but I don’t know about everyone being able to see me.”
“You could always record for fun,” Callie suggested, trading babies with me before setting Alice in the bassinet and adjusting her top to cover herself.
“I can ask Micah about it.”
“You definitely should,” Callie agreed. “If you want to get fancy with it, I’m sure I’ll be getting cabin fever in a couple weeks and you could use the studio. Decide from there if you want to keep it or sell it.”
It was still absolutely wild to me that anyone would pay to see me.
I burped Daniela and admired her chubby little cheeks. Callie was right that the practice was good for me. I hadn’t held an actual baby in so long it was nice to let myself get comfortable with it before I had my own to contend with.
“You’re a natural.” Callie beamed.
The two of us chilled together in the nest with the babies for a couple of hours until it was time for another feeding and Callielooked more than ready for a nap. I messaged Luke to come get me.
“Thank you so much for having me over. I feel a lot better.”
“I’m really glad you came. Stop by anytime. We can plan some playdates when your little nugget is on the outside.”
“I would love that.”
The entire pack came to pick me up, blessedly leaving Nathan to his own devices, and I mused in the front seat. “Do you think we could record something sometime?”
“If you tell us what you mean bysomething,” said Luke.
“Callie was telling me all about the videos she and her pack do.” Embarrassment crept up my chest and throat, my cheeks hot. “Apparently pregnant omegas are really popular.”