Page 24 of Vegas Baby!

We need to get her some nesting supplies for the apartment. Do you want to be in charge of that?

Micah:

Hell yes

Jesse:

Have you talked to Kai and Callie yet?

Micah:

No, but I should do that

I’ll call them soon

While Luke was tangled up in his own thoughts, I dialed our new bosses. Luke and I used to work the live heat showsand wrapped up our last contracted performance the previous month. Kai and his pack were all involved with them too and started their own company. I knew they intended to do live performances eventually, but for now they were starting off with live streams and recordings. It made for a more consistent income, which was nice, even if I had always liked seeing the lump sum deposits from doing the shows.

Callie answered on the second ring. “Hey, Micah! What’s up?”

“Hey there, boss lady. I have news.”

“Good or bad?”

“Good overall, but definitely going to fuck with some plans.”

“Well, don’t keep me in suspense.”

“We scent matched an omega.”

Callie’s squeak of delight was at a pitch only dogs could hear. “Oh my god, that’s amazing! Tell me everything. Wait, no, let me get the others and put you on speaker.” I could hear her footsteps as she went off in search of her pack, presumably finding them a moment later when she announced, “Okay, go! I’ve got Kai and Amir.”

I told them everything I knew. “There’s some chaos with bondmates not living near each other, so I’m not really sure where we’ll end up, and I’m going to guess she won’t be comfortable with us doing too much work for your studio.”

“You do what you have to do for your omega,” Kai assured me. “The work is there if you want it later.”

“If she wants to stay in Vegas and needs a friend, hit me up,” said Callie. “We’re almost the same amount of pregnant so we’ll have babies close together.”

“I will definitely bring that up to her. I’m hoping she’ll want to stick around here, but who knows. Bryce seems pretty attached to New York.”

“He could change his mind,” said Callie. “You should show him around the city, make sure he knows he can count on the pack that’s already here.”

I barked out a laugh. “Easier said than done with Luke being moody. I’m working on it. If it had just been Jesse, he’d be fine, but for whatever reason he has a stick up his ass about Bryce.”

“Do you want me to talk to him?” Amir offered. “I have a bit of expertise on pulling heads out of asses about things like this.”

“I’m not going to say no, but I’ll leave it to him to arrange any of that. I’ll keep you guys updated on everything, but I’m guessing we’re not going to get as lucky with Ava in terms of how chill Callie was with sex work.”

Callie’s laugh was bright. “You never know.”

“True. The universe does like to throw some curveballs.”

“Good luck,” said Kai.

“Thanks. We’re going to need it.”

I was glad Callie and her pack were so chill. Management for the live shows had been a bucket of assholes to them when they tried to get out of their contract, and they had built their new business around being flexible and actually giving a shit about the people who worked for them.

Maybe I could switch to cam work. Then I wouldn’t be in anyone else’s bed while Ava was getting settled.

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