Page 30 of Finding the Forward: Part Two
“Hey, it’s okay, Jellybean. She’ll be fine with it. Also, she, um, she sort of knows.” Grif ran his fingers through my hair.
“You told her before us?” Jonas frowned and rubbed his bare chin.
Grif shook his head, letting go of me and plopping down on the couch. “She guessed. At that point,Ididn’t know I was a gamma. I have no idea how she knew.”
“Well, she was with you when you reacted the way you did.” I joined him on the couch and put my head on his shoulder.
“Sheisfucking smart. Isn’t her sister a gamma? Has anyone given any thought to how fucked we’re going to be when there are little genius baby omega Veritys running around?” Jonas sandwiched me between him and Grif.
Be still my heart. If only I could be so lucky one day.
I looked over to AJ. “We should be afraid of the super alphas she and AJ could make.”
AJ’s eyebrows rose. “We’re making babies now?”
“She’s attracted to you. Or did your dick down her throat not tell you that?” Grif smirked at AJ.
“She sucked your dick? It was the night Grif gave her his jersey, right? I knew it.” I grinned at AJ.
AJ shrugged as he sat on the arm of the sectional and put an arm around Grif. “I don’t kiss and tell.”
Those twowouldhave super alphas. She and Jonas would make adorable troublemakers. We were vastly underestimating the kids Verity and Grif would have. The verytallkids. All our kids would be amazingly athletic, too.
“While I can’t wait to bond with AJ, I want Verity, too. I want to add her to the pack. Bond with her. Raise kids with her. And Iwon’tbe able to wait until June,” Grif told us earnestly. “How can we make that work given she’s raising Mercy? Do we move them both in? Though we only have one guest bedroom. While I’m sure Verity won’t sleep much in her bed, she should have her own space. Do we keep two households and I alternate where I sleep until Mercy turns eighteen?”
I tried to smooth away the worry in his face with my hand.
“We could give Verity the upstairs guest room and turn the upstairs office into a room for Mercy, even though it doesn’t have a bathroom,” Jonas offered.
“That would work,” Grif added, rubbing his red beard. “Though we’ll need some house rules to accommodate a teenager.”
Jonas nodded. “Like aclothes in publicspaces rule.”
Ugh. Not that. But if we were housing a teenager, there needed to be boundaries.
“I… I could give up my office for Verity, given it’s next to Grif’s room, and has a bathroom,” AJ said slowly, squeezing Grif’s hand.
Oh. That would work.
“You’d give up your office?” Grif gave him a kiss.
“I never use it. I’d rather work out here.” AJ shrugged. “I’m okay with her moving in sooner rather than later. Though she doesnotget to redecorate the common spaces in pastels and twinkle lights.”
We should do that next time he went on a business trip. We could get lots of throw pillows in cute shapes, whimsical blankets, and a variegated fuzzy rug.
Oooh, and cutesy tea towels and kitchen decor. Maybe a fancy teapot?
The possibilities were endless. Like a pretty stand for her cupcakes and cake pops.
“She needs an enormous bathtub,” I added, remembering her lamenting not having a bathtub at her place to drink wine and read books.
“With grips or bars so she can get in and out easily,” AJ added.
“What about making her pack?” Jonas eyed AJ.
I raised my hand. “Fuck, yeah.”
“Sure. I want Grif to be happy. Also, she’s not terrible. I’d have a kid and spend a lifetime with her.” AJ shrugged again.
