Page 62 of A Baby for the Beast
"I'm happy to see you, too," Hayley laughs as Remus pulls her away from the car. "Your daughter needs to put her shoes on, though."
"No," Remus says, nipping at Hayley's neck once before swatting her backside and taking her place, leaning into the car.
"How was your nana's?" Remus asks as he starts buckling Tess back into the booster seat.
"Fun, but Momma said she missed you all the time."
Remus grins at the admission. Not that we weren't just as heartsick as our sweet omega was, but it's always nice to have confirmation that you're not the only one who feels completely lost without the other half of their soul.
"Well, I missed both of you, too," Remus says, picking up the shoe Hayley was in the process of putting on Tess when we interrupted them. "Can you hold onto this until we get home?"
"I thought we were getting food?" Tess says, her blonde brows pinching together as her blue eyes narrow on us.
She can be quite ferocious when she wants to be, and Remus is rooting for her to have a beast when she reaches maturity. I don't want that for her because it comes with its own host of problems, but she'll at least have us to help her through it if she does.
She'd be so strong, though. Already fierce, more fierce, just like me.
"How about we stop and pick up food on our way home?" Remus says. "I need my girls at home tonight, is that okay?"
Tess closes her eyes like she's thinking really hard about his proposition. "Momma said I could play with Evie and Jas."
"I'll set up a playdate tomorrow," Remus says, ready to bargain with our daughter until they both end up happy. "Princess party?"
Tess's eyes open, sparkling wildly like she's gotten exactly what she wanted. "Fine. But only if there's a princess party."
"You got it," Remus says, kissing the top of her head, making her giggle as he closes the door. Hayley wraps her arms around us, pressing her body into ours, and reminding us that we don't like going even a day without our omega in some way.
"Sorry, we weren't here," Hayley says, tilting her neck to the side and submitting to Remus. She's doing it purely voluntarily because he hasn't let up on the purring since he saw them. Remus dips his mouth to his bite and kisses it.
"You should always be with me," he murmurs, keeping his hands in respectful places because even though he wants to rut Hayley out here in the open, our daughter has a perfect view of our chest and down from the window.
"Let's get home, and we can watch a movie," Hayley says.
She knows full well that Remus loves movie nights because he gets to be squished between his two favorite people while they both snuggle into him. If he's lucky, they both fall asleep too, and then he gets to watch over them all night. Those nights also end with our body being exhausted the next day because even though I might sleep, Remus will stay awake to watch over them.
A second car pulls up to the curb behind us, and Remus immediately gets his hackles all raised.
Ignore him.
No.
It always ends the same. You two just need to kiss and make up at this point.
Fuck you. You want to kiss him so bad, you take over and do it.
I laugh at Remus in our mind as he moves to stand between our girls and the alpha that just got out of the car behind us. Neither of us says anything to the other, but he lets his beast out just to fuck with Remus, and it does what he intended.
Our purr ceases as Remus growls loud enough that I'm sure everyone at the dinner table knows Hazel's here now. The beta hops out of the car, ignoring the warning growl from the alpha she came with. His golden eyes turn back to their natural shade as he sighs and jogs around the car to catch up with Hazel. He doesn't say anything to us, and Remus sure as hell isn't going to say anything to him.
"You two need to get over it," Hayley laughs, tugging on our forearm and pulling our attention back to her. "You stalked me, or did you forget about that?"
"That was different," Remus says, snapping his teeth and preening a little when Hayley tilts her neck for him again.
"Sure it was, Remus," Hayley says, laughing and patting his chest. "Now, can you please take us home so I can make up for all the alone time we missed out on this weekend?"
Remus goes still for a second, our body responding to our sweet omega in an instant.
"Devious girl," Remus tells her, opening the passenger door for her and buckling her in faster than he has before.
We purr as we head home, the sound still just as terrible as the first time we used it, but it comforts the two people we need it to comfort, and so we'll keep using it forever. It's the same purr Hayley fell in love with, the one I've only ever used for her and now our daughter, and it's the one that makes them bothfeel safe. I'm no longer embarrassed by it, because it soothes the ones I care about most.
We smile as we look in the rearview mirror, our daughter staring out the window, chattering on about what they did this weekend. Our omega squeezes our fingers together, her scent filling the air. Being with both my girls, we're reminded once again that we have everything we never knew we needed.
