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“Right? Feels like I’m not old enough to be a mom.”

Realistically, I probably could’ve used a few more years under my belt before undertaking this life path, but I certainly wasn’t an anomaly to have a baby in my early twenties. I was going to have a whole tiny human completely dependent on me for everything. How weird was that?

“It’s a huge learning curve no matter how old you are,” said Jesse. “You can prepare all you want, but you’re never totallyready for the reality. Luckily there’s five of us so we should be able to wrangle actual sleep.”

“You guys don’t have to do anything.”

They all looked at me like I’d grown a second head—besides the one in my belly.

“Aves, there’s no way in hell you’re lifting a finger once that baby’s out. You have four willing alphas and we’re gonna be put to work.”

“I can dosomethings.”

“Your priority after the birth is to heal,” insisted Jesse.

“Oh, right,” said Micah, “I meant to ask if you would be interested in my sister being your new obstetrician. You don’t have one in the city, or a regular doctor, either, and she said you should be having check-ins at least twice a month.”

“Can I meet her first?”

“Absolutely. She’ll be at the baby shower. She has lots of connections so even if you don’t want to go with her, she can help you find someone else.”

“That’s sweet.” And a relief. I had mostly been planning on using walk-in clinics and then whoever was at the hospital at the time I went into labor. My pregnancy has been totally unremarkable thus far, but I really did need to find someone to continue my prenatal appointments with. “Please tell her thank you for me, and that I look forward to actually meeting her.”

“Will do.” Micah smiled and tapped his phone, presumably sending a message to said sister.

“I guess we should find you a whole host of professionals,” said Jesse. “Bryce too. There’s a whole ton of stuff that I’ll need to get updated. Better to do that sooner rather than later.”

“I’ll message Kai,” Micah said. “They had to get everything new for Callie. I’ll see if they have a list so we don’t forget anything.”

“That’s your bosses’ mate, right?”

“More accurate to sayshe’sour boss.” Luke laughed. “She runs the company and her alphas do anything she wants.”

“Do I get to meet her? I don’t have any omega friends here.”

Micah nodded. “We can definitely arrange that. She’s been wanting to meet you too but we were letting you get more settled in.”

Hope kindled in my chest. While having my alphas was wonderful, and that was going a long way to helping Las Vegas feel like home, having an omega friend would be amazing. As lovely as my men were, they couldn’t understand everything.

“Are they invited to the baby shower?”

“They’re on the list, yes,” Micah replied.

“Callie’s shower was a few weeks ago.”

“She’s pregnant too?”

“Yep,” Luke said. “About the same amount as you, I think.”

I was practically buzzing with excitement. Not only a new omega friend, but apregnantone. Maybe she and I would hit it off and our babies would be best friends. That might be getting ahead of myself, but the thought was too cute to ignore. If she was new to Vegas as well, at the very least we could lean on each other through these shared experiences.

Hopefully the universe was going to be nice. The absolute last thing I needed was to wind up hating my alpha’s boss and my first real chance at a friend here.

Fingers crossed this would be what we both needed.

“You okay?” Bryce poked his head into the bathroom, where I was trying to wrestle my hair into submission with my blow-dryer brush combo.

“Just nervous. A lot of people to meet.”

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