Page 9 of The Accidental Dragon Baby

With mounting unease, Ace pulled off the condom—with a gaping tear at its tip—and headed to the next cubicle, where the mystery omega had been.

The step stool was askew in there, his clothes a mess on the floor. A few whitish droplets clung to the stool.

Ace’s heart pounded. When he picked up the clothes, he found more smears on the tiled floor. Large smears. And the omega’s clothes weredrenched.

He brought them to his nose and sniffed carefully. The horror in his stomach blew wide open.

Yeah, that was the smell of cum. Whether it was his own or the omega’s, he couldn’t say. But there was a lot of it.

Some of it was probably his.

“Fuck!” Ace swallowed his panic. He wiped the cum off the stool with the omega’s clothes, striding to the trash can to throw away the condom. He washed his hands—only to realize that he’d left the omega’s slick on the restroom door handle in his rush to leave earlier.

Gods, this was a mess.

He wiped down all the door handles and door locks with the abandoned clothes, trying to remove their bodily fluids. Then he stalked out of the restroom and pulled out his phone.

Uriel declined his call.Fuck.

He tried a text message.

Ace

Hey, I need to speak with that omega urgently. Was he really in heat?

Uriel didn’t answer immediately, and the worry in Ace’s stomach swelled.

He made his way back to his friends, only to have four pairs of eyes snap onto him.

“Ugh!” Crush said immediately, wrinkling his nose. He was the only one with an acute sense of smell; wolf shifters had that advantage. “I don’t mind if you guys fuck, but seriously? That reeks of—”

“He left,” Ace said. “I need to find him. I fucked up.”

Raptor, his twin, raised an eyebrow. “On a scale of ‘I stole his cookie’ to ‘I killed his entire family,’ how badly did you actually fuck up?”

“The condom broke.”

Everyone swore. Duke glanced at Ace with ten thousand tons of judgment. Of course he would—he single-handedly solved all of Cartfall’s problems. Buildings on fire? Pets stuck in trees? Shareholders to please? Duke fixed it all. “You need to find him immediately.”

“Well, yeah.” Ace sighed. “I called Uriel. He’s not replying. They left together.”

“So you brought me his clothes to track him down.” Crush gave the bundle a look of distaste.

Ace winced. “Yeah. This is kind of important. Sorry. I wouldn’t ask you to sniff past my jizz otherwise.”

“I feel like this needs a commemorative song,” Raptor said. “A jizz-sniffing theme song.”

Ace loved his twin, but— “Don’t you dare.”

“We need a song to replace the Date Night one,” Raptor added mournfully. “Since Date Night panned out for exactly none of us.”

“What Date Night?” Bruiser asked. He was an alpha like the rest of them, tall with strong shoulders. He’d been away on another mission when the rescue happened.

Ace groaned. “Don’t remind me.”

“We went on a rescue mission last week,” Crush said. “Ace, Raptor, Duke, me, Mav, and Telos.”

“Obviously, Mav and Telos were the only success story from there,” Raptor muttered. “But everyone sawthemcoming from a hundred years ago.”

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