Page 105 of His Gentle Omega
“It’s a wonderful surprise,” I told Asher warmly. “Truly.”
“Are you staying?” Lucas pleaded, “Can you live with us like before?”
Maria touched his cheek, “Not like before, no. You have a new life now, and you don’t need us like before.”
Lucas looked so sad my heart ached for him, but I didn’t know how to make it better. That’s when Wade interjected, “Here’s the deal, B. You and your baby daddy need to live together. Permanently. This going back and forth between yards is convenient and all, but it ain’t gonna cut it when that baby is screaming at two a.m. So, you’re going to move in here, and I,” he placed a hand over the glittery unicorn on his shirt, “have kindly offered the Santos’ your house–my rental house–to them, if they want it. They’ll be close, they can enjoy their retirement while still seeing ‘their boys’,” he used finger quotes around those two words, “and everybody wins. I don’t have to bother trying to find a new tenant.”
Sniffing, I blinked my watery eyes, “You guys…I don’t know what to say.”
Shay nodded in agreement, wrapping his arms around me from behind and pulling me into him. “Move in with me, Bennett?”
“Please, Bennett?” Lucas gave me puppy dog eyes and a wide grin. Pulling him to me, I hugged him close.
Nodding yes, I swallowed the emotion clogging my throat, “My boys. How could I say no?”
“I love you,” Shay whispered in my ear, “Thank you for saving me that night in the hospital. Thank you for believing in me and waiting for me.”
Turning my head to give him an awkward, backwards kiss, I whispered, “You were worth the wait.”
Chapter Thirty-Five
Bennett
Me:Seth!
Me:Seth!
Unanswered call.
Me:Seth, answer your mother fucking phone right now!
Me:Seth, I swear to the Goddess I will make Wade my new best friend!
Seth:B…it’s like way too early
Me:Your nephew doesn’t care. I’min labor!
My phone rang in my hand, halting the text I had been furiously typing.
“Seth, I need you!”
“B, what the fuck!” Seth hissed, and I heard the soft click of a door. “You said this wouldn’t happen! You said I could go out of town and enjoy New Year’s Eve.”
“Well, my water broke, so the party’s over.” I sniped, gritting my teeth as my stomach tightened in preparation for another contraction. They had been steady for the last hour. When it eased off, I sighed in relief, then shook my head when Shay offered me another ice chip. I swore the man was just trying to make me numb from the inside out with all the ice chips he was pushing at me.
Our baby, who Lily had assured me at our last appointment was still snug as a bug, and making no effort to make an early appearance, had decided to throw up his middle finger with a gigantic FU. My labor had started early this morning, New Year’s Day. Of course, I had assured Seth he could go out of town, to ring in the New Year at a fancy hotel in Hollow Ridge, that was having a New Year’s Eve special package.
“Dammit!” Seth whined, and I heard a rustling sound, then what sounded like him hopping, before the phone clattered against a hard surface and did what sounded like a few bounces. “Fuck! Shit! Damn!”
“Seth,” pinching the bridge of my nose, I tried to stay calm. “I need you!”
“B, I’m coming, but you know I am hours away,” he growled, having retrieved his phone from where he had dropped it, “where’s your boo thang?”
Pursing my lips together tightly, I ordered, “Please refrain from referring to Shay as my ‘boo thang’ ever again.”
Shay’s brows rose all the way to his hairline, and he scowled down into the cup of ice he was holding.
“The baby isn’t due for almost three weeks, he said,” Seth muttered into the phone, “Go to Hollow Ridge and celebrate New Year’s Eve, he said. I’m not having this baby anytime soon, he said.”
