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I scooped him up in my arms and swung him around. “I think you’re smart and handsome and going to make the best daddy ever.”

“I’ll do my best. You’re sure you’re happy?”

Carrying him to the bedroom, I flipped off a couple of lights on the way just to avoid being blinded. “I never thought I could be happier than I was since meeting and mating you. But you just proved me wrong. I love you so much, omega, and this baby is the icing on the cake. Who shall we tell first? I want all our friends to share this job because it’s too much to contain.”

“Maybe we can just know ourselves for tonight?”

“If that’s what you want to do, I’ll try hard, but tomorrow, all our friends are going to know how brilliant my omega is.”

His laughter was life to me. “It’s not like I came up with the concept, Liam. I love you so much.”

I peppered his face with kisses then added a few to his flat belly. “Love you, omega, and you, too, tiny baby. I can’t wait to meet you in person.”

Chapter Eighteen

Hirsch

A knock on my door scared the life out of me. I jumped at least a foot high and let out a not-so-wolfy scream. My hands covered my belly as I wondered if all my dramatics had scared my baby as well.

My first thought was that Kyle had come back. That he was back and was somehow going to try and talk me into letting him back into my life.

While I calmed down from the jump scare, I formulated a quick plan to get him out and make him go away. Part of that would include calling Liam immediately.

I looked through the peephole but saw nothing. As I opened the door, I scanned the hallway left and right. No one was there, and my heart was relieved.

But there was a note taped to my door.

I closed myself in my apartment and tried to breathe as I took in the bad news. I didn’t have another month of my lease. I had forty-eight hours. With shaking hands, I picked up my phone and called the number on the bottom.

Kyle had paid the fee to have the lease terminated early.

Because Kyle.

I had forty-eight hours to leave the only place I had to live. I was officially in trouble.

Instead of calling Liam right away, I calmed myself, but my phone rang only seconds later. My sweet Liam. Our bond was so strong now. Of course he would know something was up.

“Hello?” I said, not able to camouflage the concern in my voice.

“Is something wrong?” he asked. “I…my wolf panicked.”

“I just received some bad news, but I’m okay.”

He sighed. “You don’t sound okay, Hirsch. I’m not in the thick of anything right now. I could come over. Let’s talk about it. Whatever it is, it will be okay.”

No matter how long we had been together, he still asked if he could come over. He let me be autonomous and I appreciated it.

“Please do. I have some things to figure out.”

Liam was at my apartment, or at Kyle’s apartment, in less than twenty minutes with a slice of cherry cheesecake he’d picked up at the bakery around the corner. “What?” he asked as I let him in. “Cheesecake makes everything better.”

“What are you, a Golden Girl?” I laughed but took the slice. Oh yeah, it made everything better.

“Tell me what the problem is,” he said, sitting at my bar.

“I have two days to move out. I don’t have any money and I’m pretty much screwed.”

He read the letter I slid across the counter and then sighed. “I have a suggestion.”

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