You’re being ridiculous,I scolded myself.He’s been with you almost nonstop since you woke up. He’s probably just taking a little time for himself. When did you get so damn needy?
Before I worked out an answer to that, there was a knock on the door. Assuming it was Dex, I called out for him to enter. My smile slipped when the door opened and Taylor walked in.
“What areyoudoing here?” he huffed, crossing his arms across his chest and narrowing his eyes at me.
“What am I doing in my hospital room?” I quirked a brow. “Waiting for my discharge orders. What areyoudoing in my hospital room? Aren’t you supposed to be in your own hospital room recovering from a gunshot wound?”
“Please.” Taylor rolled his eyes. “As soon as they leached the residual silver from my blood, I was fine. It took like six hours. As for why I’m here, I’m looking for Dex, obviously.”
“Obviously,” I agreed with a tilt of my head. “Because?”
Taylor snorted. “Because I’m his best friend and I’m worried about him. I stopped by the apartment and found out it might be condemned.”
“You don’t need to worry about him,” I huffed back. “He’s going to be staying with me and I’ll take care of him.”
That earned me a glare.
“Right because you’ve been doing a knock-up job so far,” he snapped.
“What the fuck is that supposed to mean?”
“I think you know exactly what it means.”
The hostility in the Omega’s eyes bored into me and my anger dissipated. Dropping down into the chair by the bed, I shook my head. “Taylor, I’ve got some memory loss still. I know I’ve been a dick about how I’ve treated him since I’ve been back but I’m trying to make up for it.”
Weirdly, that seemed to annoy Dex’s friend even more and an honest-to-god growl escaped him. “How exactly do you make up for him being fucked in the dirt the first time and sent home before the cum was even dry?”
“I know it wasn’t ideal..” I started to respond and then Taylor’s words caught up with me. “Wait. You’re not..you don’t mean that was hisfirstfirst time?”
“Am I saying he saved himself for you for fucking years and you took his virginity by fucking him in the dirt and then telling him you regretted it? Yep. Sure am.”
All of the oxygen was suddenly sucked out of the room as I gaped at Taylor. “Oh, fuck no.” I gulped for air in the vacuum. “That was the night he conceived?”
Taylor nodded, the anger on his face dissolving. “You didn’t know?”
I shook my head. “No, Taylor, I didn’t know but that’s no excuse. And it probably explains why he wasn’t exactly overjoyed when I told him I want to claim him.”
Taylor’s jaw dropped. “You do?”
“Yeah.” I scrubbed my hand over my face. “But he, um, said he needs time.”
Taylor walked over to pat my shoulder. “Time is good. That means you have a chance at forgiveness.”
I sighed. “Yeah, I guess.”
“And as for his current whereabouts?”
“His dads packed some of his stuff since the apartment manager couldn’t get ahold of him and then they took him to my house a couple hours ago to settle in.”
“Is he coming back?”
“He looked pretty tired so he might be napping. I figured if I didn’t hear from him before I got my release papers, I’d catch an Uber home instead of risking waking him up.”
Taylor nodded and walked over to sit on the end of the bed, pulling his phone out of his pocket.
“You’re, um, staying?”
Taylor nodded, his eyes still on his phone screen. “If you’re going to try and make my bestie happy, the least I can do is give your ass a ride home from the hospital.”
