Page 138 of Zoinks! Nice Pack, Bro

I had driven myself insane making sure that I got the reservation for him. I think it was a pity deal to get me to stop calling but hey, we were here.

It’s only ten tables served at a time, which is why it’s so hard to get a reservation. A veranda style porch wrapping around a big tree that we have to climb stairs up to get too. There are blankets that you can sit on or you can get a higher top and look out. But we scored this cute little blanket setup with a small table that is decorated in a lantern and some mossy flower setup that feels perfect for us.

It reminds me of something that you would see in a fairytale and I’m instantly buying into whatever hype this restaurant has because the ambiance is next level.

Ant drops beside me, wrapping an arm around me as we look out over the lake in front of us, twinkly fairy lights reflecting off the service as the sunsets in front of us and a feeling of excitement overwhelms me.

This moment. This is the perfect moment. I am ready to tell him-

“Sadie, I love you.” My head snaps up and I frown at him, Anthony throwing his head back and laughing at my pissed off expression, “Cam said you were going to be mad that I said it first. They all were so jealous that you were setting this all up for me and you know I love seeing them jealous.” He cups my face, thumb running over my pout as he tries to smooth out the sourpuss expression that has taken over my face.

I had done so much planning for this..

I feel annoyed that he beat me to it.

“I love you and I’m sorry that I ruined you telling me first,” His honesty is sweet and I know I can’t really stay mad at him when he is looking at me like that and telling me that he loves me. How could I even start to stay mad at him?, “Tonight, the car. This place. You. Baby, it’s everything to me. It’s the nicest thing anyone has ever done for me.But even if there was nothing. Just you and me. Yeah, I would still love you, baby bro.”

Leaning in, I kiss him, a deep kiss on his lips that is just chaste enough for the public but lets him know that there is so much more coming.

“Get used to it, Anthony. I’m going to spoil that shit out of you.” He throws his head back, laughing at my words before leaning in and stealing another kiss, “I love you too. But you already knew that, I guess.” He smirks at my sass.

“Yeah, but hell, I love hearing you say it anyway.” I like saying it. I like him knowing and being able to verbalize it to him. “Now let’s take a picture so we can make those fuckers jealous and so that I can have a picture of the moment my future wife told me she loved me.” He knows exactly what he said to me because his eyes sparkle.

But I believe him.

I know that I’m going to be theirs forever. And even that doesn’t seem like it’s going to be enough with how much I love them. Nothing will ever be enough for the size of our feelings.

But I have the rest of my life to try.

TWO YEARS LATER

Paxton

Sadie has the cutest little belly. Rounded with our baby that is growing inside of her. Cam can’t stop touching her stomach, nuzzling against her as he scent marks her constantly. It drives Ant crazy and he starts carrying around a spray bottle that he uses on the other alpha saying he’s being an omega hog.

Which he is.

He’s currently half on top of her as she lays down, reading outside in the sunshine.

If he was obsessed with her before now that she is pregnant it has gotten even worse.

Ant has chased him away more than once to get time with our omega but Cam finds his way back to her, laying against her and stroking her belly like it’s his comfort object. Whispering to our baby that she is growing.

She groans softly, pushing up from where she was laying in the backyard, leaving Cam asleep with a pillow now propped under his head.

It’s cute that she made her escape.

Her body waddles closer to me and I smile, opening my arms as she lets herself be folded into my embrace.

“Hey daddy,” her sleepy voice makes me smirk. “I’m ready to see the nursery now.”

She said that we could design her nursery. Not that she made it any easier for us because she didn’t want to find out what the gender of the baby is. Sadie said it would be a surprise. Just like we had all decided not to find out who fathered the baby. We all just planned to love our child and raise them like a pack.

Our pack had enough love that we would feel that way with eight babies. Something that Cam had been trying to convince her to go along with.

Sadie hadn’t been sure about wanting to have kids but with how well her pregnancy went I’m sure Cam and Ant have convinced her to have half a dozen babies. Even Jace had gotten more clingy with our omega during our pregnancy.

I was the only one keeping my head. Maybe because I was so worried about her all the time. It wasn’t easy growing a new life and she was doing it with some much grace and joy. Even though she had to go over her usual medicine, something that had made us all nervous. She went to therapy more and talked about her feelings to ease our worries.

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