Page 14 of The Beta: Part Two
“You're not going to like this conversation, but it has to happen,” he says in the most comforting voice Devon can produce, and Talia places her spoon in her bowl and pushes it away from her. We're all staring at her and I know it can't be comfortable. “She gave me a tentative guess for when you might go into your first heat,” he says, and Kaleb pins him with a glare.
“At the dinner table, Devon? Really?” Kaleb is not using a soothing tone, Kaleb sounds exactly like he could punch Devon in the mouth for pulling this.
“Yes, now, because she's actually sitting with us and this will affect everyone here. I'm sorry, Talia. I really don't mean for you to feel uncomfortable, and I know it's a hard thing to talk about, but it's going to happen and it would be a lot better for all of us if we were prepared. Have you given any thought to what you'd like to have happen?”
She looks at the table but doesn't answer.
“It's alright if you don't know yet, but I need you to at least start thinking about it. The doctor said it might be two weeks. That's not a lot of time. I know you want Jasper, and that's alright, too. Of course, it is. But, and I don't say this to upset you, Jasper isn't going to be enough for you during that time. You're going to need an alpha to help you, too.”
Devon's explanation is painful to hear and it looked even more painful to say.
Talia isn't blushing, she's doing the opposite. Her already pale skin is almost ash gray.
Jasper answers, “she'll let Nathan help her.”
Then the ball drops.
Talia whips her head around to look at Jasper and scoffs, “will she, now?”
Jasper does blush. A very pretty pink. “I just thought, since, earlier,” he stammers but she holds up a hand.
“You thought since I sucked his dick earlier that I'd want him to fuck me across the floor when my stupid, bullshit body forces me to literally lose my mind, right?”
He, like an intelligent man, doesn't say anything in the hope of not saying something even more stupid.
“No offense to Nathan, but I'm not climbing aboard any of them if I can keep from it,” then she stands up and starts to walk out of the room.
“Wait! Fucking wait,” Jasper shouts.
She stops and turns sharply back around to face him.
“You don't have to be afraid of them. They won't hurt you,” he tells her.
Then she really gets going.
“Is that what you think?” she yells, “that I'm afraid of them?”
She laughs when he shrugs as if to say of course that's what he thinks.
“I'm not afraid of them, Jasper. None of them. I'm not afraid of them touching me or fucking me. I'm afraid of what will happen after they do. I absolutely will not come between you and your alphas. I refuse to be the reason you're hurt for any reason.Anyreason. Furthermore, regardless of Nathan's dick in my mouth, they don't want me like that. They will do it for your sake, and I genuinely appreciate that, also for your sake; but I would feel like an even bigger burden than I already do. Besides, I already have an idea for how to deal with this shit. So it will be fine, nobody will have tohelp me through itand then we can carry on with life.”
Jasper glares at her, his green eyes blazing with his anger, his voice is too calm. I feel like I'm sitting in a war zone, “what's your plan, Talia?”
She throws her hands on her hips in an impressive display of sass, “I'm going to go back to that doctor and have her sedate me until it's over. That will eliminate the risk to you and keep anyone from having to deal with anything they don't want to deal with. It'll be fine.”
And that is apparently all Jasper can stomach. He shoves away from the table and basically teleports to stand in front of her, “no you fucking won't.”
Then he grabs her arm and proceeds to haul her through the kitchen and down the hallway to his room and slams the door behind them, leaving us to sit around the table looking at each other.
I try to break the tension with a joke, “are we sure we want to have two omegas?”
It falls flat. Nobody laughs.
Then we hear more muffled shouting coming from Jasper's room and Nathan asks if one of us should put a stop to it.
“No,” Devon says firmly, “no, he can make her understand; and he's angry enough to force it right now. Let them go at it. They'll fight for a while and then they'll fuck, then we'll all have to go jerk off because when they kiss and make up it's going to take over the whole house.”
Kaleb clears his throat, “Jasper is very...firm with her. He behaves less like an omega when dealing with her.”
