Page 31 of Knot Our Omega

He shut the door, his laugh seeping into the car from the outside while my skin felt like fire was creeping up every inch of it from embarrassment. When Alfie got in the driver’s seat, he rolled down the window before starting the car. He waited until he was pulled out of the business complex before he braved a look at me.

"Something wrong, Sydney?"

Other than my desire to have the world open up and suck me in? Something wrong in addition to how completely embarrassed I was that they knew I was wanting? Did all omegas face this or was this just the unknowing, unprepared ones like myself? Imagine if I was an omega capable of going into heat, just how intense my feelings would be.

"I'm just..." I sighed, because I might as well just tell him.Tell him you're lusty and hot for the beta,my omega urged.Tell him you want his mouth and his cock covered in your slick. I winced at her demands before I admitted, "I'm embarrassed."

A warm hand encased my thigh before he squeezed. The action was innocent enough, but my body reacted all the same. "It's natural to want your unit, omega. We all want you. We all think of you. We all nearly died last night sleeping next to those luscious naked curves."

I knew he was trying to help, but he absolutely was not helping when he reminded me I slept next to the three chiseled, perfect men, without a stitch of clothes on. Even worse, I was so slick this morning from their nearness that I left my nest with a wet spot I tried to cover with blankets.

"It's just new," I confessed as Alfie reached forward and turned on the music. "Everything is still so new."

"We've had a lot of time to adjust to the idea of bringing an omega into our home and into our lives, even before we knew that omega would be you. I think, maybe, that has made the adjustment easier. We've known mostly what to expect. You haven't though. You hadn't realized you were going to go home with us until the demand to pack your bags was made. I'm sorry that you weren't prepared. I understand we are a lot to get used to. We're three very different men."

"I like y'all just the same." And it was true. They may be vastly different, but each one was attractive to me. Hell, I hadn't had much chance to meet men in my life, but of the ones I had met, none compared to the ones I could call mine. "I'm?—"

Pain like I'd never felt hit my stomach, and I doubled over for a moment, breathing deep while a large hand rubbed my back. "Omega? You okay?"

I swallowed hard, fighting to breathe through my nose as the pain eased up. "I’m fine. I just... I'm probably just tired."

He watched me for a minute more until I'd straightened up. "If you're sure."

"I'm positive." I plastered on a fake smile, one I didn't feel. One I knew didn't reach my eyes, but Alfie was too polite to call me out on it.

"Well then, omega, let's get you home to sleep." Alfie's face looked tight as he hit the gas, driving as fast as he was allowed, all because he thought I needed a nap. If only he knew a napprobably wouldn't solve whatever was happening inside of me. But damn, I sure as hell would try.

CHAPTER EIGHTEEN

ALFIE

"We're out of time," I said into the phone as I talked to Luka. I was standing in the driveway, leaning against my car after I helped Sydney into the house. Her skin was clammy and pale, while her cheeks were flushed, and the way she doubled over on the drive home only confirmed what we already knew was going to happen.

Her heat was here. Or well, close enough to being here.

"I thought as much," Luka grunted, and in the background, his chair squeaked.

"What do we do?" I sounded like an inexperienced virgin asking such a simple question because clearly, there was only one thing wecoulddo. But I had fucked many women in my life, and none of it had come close to how I felt loving my omega and helping her through her cycle.

"Nothing." He blew out a breath, and I knew doing nothing was absolutely the worst thing for him right now. He was biologically trained to go to his omega and ease her pain. "At themoment, at least, she hasn't fully entered her heat stage. I don't want to scare her."

"So you're staying at work then?" I crossed my legs at the ankle as I got comfortable against the metal at my back.

"For now. If things change drastically, then let me know."

"Will do." I hung up, not needing further instructions.

I didn't want to go inside. As far as I knew, she was sleeping in her nest where I had laid her, so instead, I reached into my glove box and pulled out the book I'd been reading. Getting myself comfortable, I lost myself in the lure of the story, not realizing a few hours had passed until I felt a tightening in my stomach. My hand jolted, finding the spot in my stomach that had grown uncomfortable.

What the hell?

The buzz of my phone tore my attention away from the discomfort as I picked up the phone to answer Luka's call. "I'm on my way. Keep her comfortable until I get there."

He hung up before I could respond, but it didn't matter. With a panic, or maybe it was desperation, in his voice like that, it could only mean one thing: our omega's heat had come, and it was up to me to help her until her alpha arrived.

How had this happened? How could we feel her heat come on when we'd never even bitten her? I wasn't sure, but I didn't let myself ponder on the thought too long because, in our minds, she was our omega, and that was all that mattered. And now, our omega needed help, and I was positive I was the only one at this moment who could help her.

I slipped into the house, the scent of her so strong my knees almost buckled. Fuck, if it was this hard for me to control my body, how hard would it be for our alpha to handle the scent of his omega's heat?

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