Page 22 of Omega Haunting

Marsin waited patiently in the bedroom doorway with a bottle of water. He handed it off silently and flashed me a sheepish grin.

“Even if we’re not done talking about what happened yesterday, you’re allowed to be happy that I’m maybe-pregnant,” I said, sinking onto the edge of the bed. “I’d be rather cross if you weren’t excited about it.”

“Are you excited about it?” Marsin asked.

“I am but that’s all the more reason you have to get it through your head that I won’t stop you from following me but I won’t be some house omega. I won’t be someone who sits back and sucks on his tail while you run into danger. That’s not how we work here. I doubt it’s how you work in outer space either. I can’t imagine someone trying to boss around an omega dragon. I don’t even think Clarence Moonscale has succeeded at that one and probably never will.”

“I’m sorry,” Marsin said, dropping to his knees in front of me. Even with me on the edge of the bed that put us almost eye-to-eye. “I wasn’t thinking. Well, that’s a lie. I was just thinking about someone hurting you. I never want to live in a world without you.”

I rolled my eyes. Here we go. He was about to be an apologist for every cave-alpha in the universe.

“But I also don’t want to live in a world where you’re not happy,” he said.

That I was not expecting.

“I don’t want to live in a world where you feel trapped or under anyone’s thumb. I’m not saying it won’t ever happen again. I’m not saying that I don’t have the urge to build a nest, put you in it, and keep you there, but I am saying I won’t let my dragon do that. I’m sorry Dern has so many issues, but something is off about that wolf. I can’t put my talon on what it is but promise me you’ll be careful around him.”

“Around Dern?” I arched a brow and took another sip of water.

“Around Dern,” Marsin nodded.

“You know without Dern we wouldn’t be sitting here maybe-pregnant, right?” I asked him.

“Correct but he says it himself. He only does magic he benefits from. Maybe I’m overprotective. Maybe I’m misreadingEarthside sarcasm but if I am then we have nothing to lose, right? You can be careful around him and it’ll be easy, because he’s just an old wolf with some quirks, right?”

“I don’t like how you say that,” I said, setting down the bottle of water so I could cross my arms.

“You don’t have to. I’m not asking you to stay away from him or to figure out what’s up with him. Just to be careful.”

“I’m always careful, Marsin,” I sighed.

“Babe,” he said, drawing the word out and uncrossing my arms so he could hold my hands. “Please be careful. Please. Maybe my dragon is just a territorial asshole but Dern’s an omega. He doesn’t want in your pants or under your tail. So I don’t think it’s that. Can you promise me you’ll be careful?”

“I promise but only because you look so grovelly on your knees. I like it.”

“Is this a ‘while you’re down there’ situation?” Marsin smirked and wiggled his eyebrows at me.

“No,” I shook my head. “It’s a ‘did you forget the gummies situation’?”

Marsin pulled out the bottle from his pocket and dumped two into my hand. I ate them slowly, savoring the orange jelly flavor dissolving on my tongue. Marsin rubbed slow circles on my thighs and I let my eyes drift closed. Maybe that wasn’t our first fight. It didn’t feel like much of a fight at all.

“We don’t have to fight over things. We’re going to be together for a long time. If we get under each other’s skin or hurt each other’s feelings by accident we need to be able to talk about it.”

“I was ready for every excuse in the book,” I admitted.

“I have them but at the end of the day I was an asshat for putting my discomfort before your autonomy. Next time I’ll just charge ahead or follow you in,” he grinned.

“Don’t forget I can’t imagine a world without you either,” I said and leaned my forehead against his. “And if I felt better I’d kiss you so hard that I glued you to this universe so you could never leave me.”

“I think you need more science than magic for that one,” he teased.

“Well, good thing I have you, huh?”

Chapter Twelve

Marsin

Two hours later, I waited outside of the bathroom door for Astral to pee on a stick. It was sort of cute how shy he was about the whole situation. It wasn’t like I hadn’t seen it all before. I tapped my fingers against my thighs wishing I had thought to ask Elio to bring a sonic when he brought over the computer parts.

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