Page 6 of A Baby for the Beast
"The omega is leaving," she says, rolling her eyes when she looks between the two of us.
I let her walk past me, staring Kyle down to make sure he doesn't follow her out. I don't know why she was here, but I plan on figuring it out, especially if he has anything to do with the baby she's carrying.
"Seriously, you want that?" Kyle asks, his lips pressing into an unimpressed line as he darts a look at the back of our omega. The door hasn't closed behind her, so I'm sure she heard his remark, which has Remus chomping at the bit to put him in his place. "I'm just saying you could do better than a bitch I've already fucked good enough to put a kid in."
Leave now.
Remus is smart. He's powerful and enjoys fighting, but he's also intelligent. Kyle wants a reaction from us. He wants us to do something stupid that might disqualify us from the title match.Remus was being serious when he said he doesn't care about it, though. So I'm not too sure how much he cares about behaving now.
I want him to lose the title now. Want him to lose everything. That means no fighting just yet.
See, my beast is a pretty smart guy. We leave the locker room without incident, but Kyle isn't done. He follows us out, yelling at our back as we head down the hall to where Jace is talking to our omega, keeping her calm, probably better with his purr than we are.
I'll fucking learn.
I smile inside our head until Kyle's words fill the air in the hallway, loud enough for Jace and our omega to hear.
"That kid is half mine, Remus. You try to fuck with my title, I will make her life a living hell!"
Remus stops walking, his hands balled into fists. I'm telling him not to react, he's telling himself not to react, but it's all too much. Calling our omega a bitch, saying he'll use the fact that he's the father of her child to get back at me through her, it's all too much. Remus squeezes our eyes shut as he tries to calm himself down and stop himself from wanting to tear Kyle apart limb from limb for threatening what's ours.
"He's not worth it," a soft, feminine voice has Remus's spiraling snap into focus. She's standing in front of us, close enough that her citrus scent is strong and wrapping around us. "Will you walk me to the bus? I have to catch the next one or I'll be stranded here until morning."
"The bus?" Remus responds like she just slapped him. Our omega came here on a bus, without anyone else to watch over her and her young? That won't do.
Kyle is still behind us, but his trainer is talking to him. Remus can feel his stare on our back as we urge our omega down the corridor toward the other side, where Phil is probably pacing thelocker-lined hall of the second locker room, waiting for Jace to return with me.
Our anger and urge to fight are gone as soon as our omega gets her hands on us. Sure, it's a single touch of her fingertips to our forearm, but it's enough that Remus never wants her to let us go. He reaches out for her hand when it drops to her side, bringing her fingers back to our arm and clasping her fingers closed around it.
"Name, omega?" he asks, his voice like gravel.
It earns us a rueful look from the sweet little thing beside us and a snort of laughter from Jace, who bears witness to what happens when an alpha is run by his urge to fight more than his urge to procreate. We haven't had experience flirting or even interacting with omegas because we didn't want any of them to get the wrong idea. Now we aren't sure how to make our omega think the right idea.
"Hayley," our omega says, shaking her head as she smiles. "And you, alpha?"
Remus puffs his chest out a little at being called alpha. I have to internally roll my eyes, and don't even blame Jace for making a gagging sound on our other side.
"Remus and you'll meet Lucas some other time," Remus tells her. I'm surprised he even thought of bringing me up with how focused he is on wanting her all to himself.
She has to like us both. They both do.
As he talks to me, his eyes wander down to the swell of her abdomen, his ugly-sounding purr starting up again as if to tell her how much he likes seeing her pregnant. It's something we won't be able to do to her, but Remus has a breeding kink apparently. A newfound breeding kink that's only for the little omega we've finally found.
We're sterilized, and have been since a year after Remus showed up in my mind. I love him to death, and he's a greatbeast, but there are plenty of beasts who suck. Example number one is the alpha still growling up a storm behind us.
It's not like Remus or I ever thought we'd have a family outside of our brother and his mate and the whole family she brings with her, one that has accepted us as one of them easily. But now we've found our omega, and she's carrying young, and we can't help but feel as though this is what we've always wanted.
"Tell me about the bus," Remus says, ignoring me and my pondering about how much Hayley could be good for us because, as far as he's concerned, it's already a done deal that she'll accept us, move in with us, and be our omega from now until the end of time.
"There is no bus, but I was trying to think of something that would get your mind off wanting to kill Kyle because as much as I'd love to see that douche get what's coming to him, I figured it was probably better if you did it on live television so I can record it and watch it any time I get sad about having to wake up in the middle of the night on my own because Tessie needs to be fed."
Remus jumps from the fact that our omega lied to us about a bus of all things to the fact that she was looking out for us, to her thinking she's going to be raising her child on her own, to her having a daughter, trying to figure out which thing he wants to broach the topic of first. And, of course, because he's a beast, even though he's smart for one, it doesn't keep him from being good with words.
"I'll be there to help feed her," he says as casually as telling her his favorite color. When she gives him an incredulous look, he attempts to purr louder.
"I appreciate your interest in me, but my track record, as you can see, hasn't been the best with beasts," Hayley says, rubbing her hand over her abdomen in soft circles. "I'm not saying no to going out or…" she lets her voice trail off and flicks a look over to Jace, who's purposefully pretending to be interested in thefire evacuation map on the wall to give us the illusion of privacy. "What I mean to say is I can't do anything serious right now. I have my daughter to think about, and starting a brand new relationship right now isn't a good idea."
Remus listens to what she says, nods when appropriate, and when she finishes, he asks, "You didn't scent match me?"
