Page 20 of His Pretty Omega
Shrugging, I gave him one of my well-rehearsed I don’t care either way looks. “I didn’t think about it one way or another.”
“Liar,” he crossed his arms over his chest, and I couldn’t help but notice how his light blue dress shirt stretched over his chest muscles. And dammit! He had the cuffs rolled back, exposing a couple of inches of his forearms, sprinkled with dark hair, and why the ever-loving fuck was that sooo hot?
Shifting slightly on the bed, I hoped the trickle of slick I felt dribble from my hole was wiped away on the paper under me. Because how fucking embarrassing to have a slick hole if I was about to get poked on by my doctor.
Alex stood up, coming to stand in front of me, and tilted my chin up with one gentle finger. “Seth, I will always show up for you. And our pup.”
“Why?” the word was whispered, because I could barely get it past my tight throat, staring up into his dark brown eyes.
“Seth, we’re fated,” he said gently, and I jerked out of his grasp. “You don’t remember.” The sentence was more statement than question, and he shook his head ruefully. “I was afraid of that. You had a lot to drink that night. More than I realized, I think.”
“I…I remembered enough,” I whispered, breathing the scent of him in. Immediately, I felt less tense, calmer. “I…I never really believed in all the fated mates nonsense. Not until Bennett. And a bunch of our friends, I guess. I just wasn’t sure that’s what we are.”
I fought the urge to start swinging my legs once more out of nerves, afraid I would kick Alex by mistake. Instead, I let him tilt my chin up with his finger, not fighting him this time or jerking from his touch. My skin tingled under his finger, warmth engulfing me.
“I think we have a lot to talk about,” he stared deep into my eyes and I was lost in the brown depths. “I brought you something. It’s in my car. Can we talk then?”
“I need to get back to work,” I shook my head and he frowned. “I’m not trying to put this off, even though I keep making the work excuse. I’m really not. But we’re short staffed right now and I really do need to go back to work when this appointment is over.”
“I don’t even know where you work,” he told me, smiling wryly.
“Oh!” I exclaimed, “I work for Asher Pierce, the pediatrician. I’m his nurse. We’re in the process of hiring another nurse, but we haven’t found anyone yet. Our office manager quit too, so it’s a bit of a mess. Bennett is interviewing for the position, and I’m hoping Asher hires him. Bennett’s leaving the hospital, did you know? With the new baby he needs steadier hours and weekends off. Of course, you know. Because you help him, right? Take on cases he would send you. And you were Shay’s lawyer for a bit, I guess? Until his ex…well, you know what happened there. So yeah, anyway, it’s just me for now. The docs are running the show while I’m here, and I can’t even imagine how that’s going. Not that they can’t take vitals, they so can, not that that’s all I do. It’s not. I do tons of things, but…I’m rambling.” I cut myself off. “Sorry. I can be a lot sometimes. You should know that up front. I’m a lot. It’s okay if I’m too much, fated mates or not. I’ll understand, trust me. I know I’m a lot.”
Alex’s brows came together, the skin of his forehead wrinkling adorably, as he deciphered all my rushed, rambling sentences. After a minute, he gave me a pointed look. “I can handle it.”
He leaned in closer, crowding me a little, and I looked up into his dark eyes, mine wide with anticipation. He was so close I could feel the heat of him, and desire swooped low in my stomach.
He bent his head, the warm air of his words ghosting my lips. “I can handle you.”
His lips captured mine in the sweetest caress of my life, that still managed to curl my toes inside my fuzzy pink socks. No one had ever kissed me with such tenderness as this man was doing at that moment. The kiss left me foggy, dazed and confused, yet every cell in my body felt alive.
The door opened, and we sprang apart like two teenagers caught by their parents, as Dr. Finn Sinclair entered the room, my chart in his hands. The man’shandsome, serious face didn't change as he looked both of us over, but his lips quirked knowingly.
Alex ran a hand through his hair, then moved back to the chair he had been occupying earlier.
“Congratulations, Seth,” Finn told me, sitting on the little rolling stool and placing my file on the small desk in the room. “Your urine test confirmed your at home test. We’ll still take some blood today though, so we can check your HGC levels.”
“His what?” Alex asked, leaning forward in his chair.
“Human Chorionic Gonadotropin,” Finn explained, and I added, “It’s a hormone that tells them I’m pregnant. As the baby grows, the HCG numbers grow.”
Alex nodded his head, and I wondered if he was going to pull out a notebook and start taking notes. The image almost made me giggle.
“We’ll do an exam today, since you’re overdue,” Finn told me, still engrossed in my chart. “You missed your last appointment for birth control.”
“No, I didn’t,” I assured him, positive I hadn’t.
Finn turned to me, his face in it’s usual don’t give me attitude mask. Really, the man was quite lovely, but he had the worst case of resting bitch face around. “Yes, you did. It says we called you to reschedule because I was out of town that week and you never did.”
Suddenly, I remembered the text message I had received stating just what he had said, and also that I had neverrescheduled. For some reason, I assumed I had and just had gone about my life. I kept meaning to, but then I would get home and I would just…forget.
Turning to Alex, I saw him looking at me strangely, probably remembering exactly what I had just remembered. I had told him I was on birth control that night in the hotel when he had wanted to stop and get a condom. This was my fault.
“Alex, I’m so sorry,” I whispered, my voice shaky, “I really didn’t remember that I missed my appointment. I wasn’t trying to…” my hands fluttered in the air, “trying to trap you. I wasn’t!”
He grabbed one of my jerking hands in his, halting their wild movement. “Seth, I didn’t think you did. Besides, from what I know of fated mates, birth control–even if we had used it–probably wasn’t going to work anyway.”
Finn nodded his head in agreement, but I still felt terrible about my mistake.
