Page 133 of Choosing Their Omega

I’m furious, but that anger isn’t going to help Lily until we find the guy who did this. Right now, it’s possibly just going to feed into her own upset. She needs to be calm and happy. She deserves to be calm and happy.

I walk back over to her and sit on her other side. “You’re excited for the baby, right?”

She seemed really excited, but I want to make sure. I know it’s a bit sooner than we might’ve expected. We only just bonded.

Lily nods. “I am. I’m not happy that I didn’t know and that we found out like this, but I am really happy.” She pauses. “And scared.”

“Why is that? If it’s medical, you know we have—”

She shakes her head. “No, it’s not that. It’s just… you know what happened with my family. My father was never there in the first place and my mom abandoned me.”

“You aren’t going to be anything like them. You’re going to be an amazing mother.” I grin over her head at Knox. “Just look at how you are with Ben.”

Knox lights up and cuddles Lily closer. “He adores you. You’re great with him. I know that we don’t say it but you basically are his mother.”

Lily looks like she might cry again, but in a positive way this time. She wipes at her eyes. “It’s going to be a challenge, I know that, but… I know that it’ll be a good one, with all of you.”

I pull her into my arms and hold her tightly. “I know that this will be amazing. Look, I’m gonna be honest, our whole lives were about hockey. And that’s just how it is when we’re in the pros, when it’s this intense. But since you came into our lives you’ve reminded us of everything there is outside of our careers and you’ve made our lives so much fuller.”

“You have such faith in me.”

“We have good reason to. You’ve brought so much love into our lives, Lily. I know that you’ll love our baby just as much, and that’s what being a parent is. It’s loving that kid with everything in you. And you just do that naturally.”

Lily smiles at me. Knox smiles at me too, and nods, probably because I’ve said what he’s thinking. Knox isn’t always great with words, but I know that everything I’ve just said, he agrees with.

“He’s right,” Cruz says from the doorway, still on the phone with the lawyer. “And Miles would say the same if he was in the room. You’ve made all of our lives better. You’ve given us so much love we didn’t think was possible.”

“I can’t wait to watch you be a mother.” Knox kisses the top of Lily’s head.

Peaceful silence falls for a moment.

The police officer comes in with Miles and takes Lily’s statement, then promises her that his force will be on it as soon as they can, and leaves.

I roll my eyes once the guy is gone. Yeah, it’ll take them forever.

Cruz straightens up. “Yeah. Yes. Of course. Yes, put him on. Hold on, let me put him on speaker.”

He comes over to us and puts the phone on speaker. “The P.I. got the traffic cam footage and got the car and license plate, he’s gotten the guy.”

My body lights up like I’m a live wire, and I’m up on my feet. “Give me names.”

There’s no question of waiting to tell the police. We’re going to get answers and we’re going to get them now. I have no idea why anyone would want to run Lily off the road, but we’re going to fucking find out.

The private investigator gives us the name and address, and I’m already halfway out the door. I can hear Knox behind me and then Cruz says, “Whoa, absolutely not.”

I turn, ready to snap at him, but I see that Cruz is holding Knox back. “If you two bruisers both go in the guy might not make it out alive and we need to make sure we don’t go too far.”

Cruz nods at Miles, who gets up and joins me. Cruz lightly pushes Knox back. “We’ll stay with Lily.”

Knox doesn’t look entirely happy he’s not getting a chance to join me in beating the shit out of this guy who nearly killed our Omega, but I can see that he also wants to stay by Lily’s side, scared to leave her. He settles back next to Lily.

Miles nods at me. “Let’s go.”

I couldn’t agree more.

We kiss Lily goodbye and then head out to the address that the private investigator gave us, and I step on the gas.

I kind of feel bad for our car at this point.

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