Page 10 of Omega's Pretend Mate
Once more he looked disappointed, but I wasn’t going to dwell on it. He hadn’t made sense since I’d sat down.
Gabe finished the water, and I helped him to his feet.
“Did he drive?” I asked as I dropped the money to cover our drinks at the bar.
Beau shrugged. “I don’t know, but his car should be ok overnight if he did. Mitchell doesn’t tow until it’s been two full nights.”
“Good to know.”
“Are you ok to drive?”
I chuckled and looked down at the omega who’d mostly slumped against me. “I left my beer unattended near him, and he finished it. I only had a few swallows of it. I’m fine.”
Beau sighed. “I don’t know what got to him, but hopefully you can snap him out of it.”
“The first step is a good night’s sleep. Luckily I have a guest room with a comfy bed.”
He nodded, and I tightened my hold around Gabe’s waist.
“Ok Gabe,” I said, making sure he hadn’t passed out against me. “Time to walk to the car, ok?”
“Car? What car?”
“My car. We’re going to go for a little ride, then it’s sleep time for you.”
“But they’re gonna take away my house.”
I glanced at Beau, who shrugged.
“We’re going to my apartment, where you’re going to take some aspirin and sleep.”
“Ok…” he agreed, pressing his face to my chest.
If he hadn’t been three sheets to the wind I’d have been incredibly turned on by the way he sniffed me. But my protective side was in full control, and I just wanted to get him home so I could take care of him.
I steered Gabe out of Mitchell’s and to my car, holding him up the couple times that he stumbled. Then we took the short drive to the apartment building, and a few minutes later I was guiding him into my apartment, glad I was on the ground floor since I didn’t think he was capable of navigating stairs.
“Where’re we?” Gabe slurred, half-asleep as I opened the door and got him to sit on the couch.
I knelt before him and looked him in the eye, glad to see that he at least recognized me. “We’re in my apartment. I’m going to put fresh linens on the guest bed, then you’re going to sleep. Ok Gabe?”
“They’re gonna take my house away…” he said, bottom lip quivering.
“You said that,” I tried, hoping to soothe him. “We’ll talk about it tomorrow, ok?”
He nodded.
“Stay here. I’m going to get you some water and aspirin.”
“Kay.”
I hurried to the kitchen and grabbed him a bottle of water, then a couple pills from the medicine cabinet. At the last minute I snagged a small wastebasket and liner, just in case.
I helped him take the pills, then left him alone so I could put sheets and a comforter on the bed. While I would have preferred to have had it ready, I’d had to wash everything earlier after having had guests over for the past week.
Finally I declared the bed good enough and headed back out to the living room, where I found Gabe passed out on my couch.
I sighed. This was not how I’d wanted the handsome omega to see my place for the first time, granted, that had only been in my dreams anyway. No matter how attracted to him I was, he deserved a mate his own age.
