“I’m afraid something will happen to our pup... I’m in love with the pup, so much, and this is all so new… I mean, I’m the only Alpha/Omega hybrid and what if something goes wrong? I can’t lose that pup because when I heard the heartbeat, I fell in love… I am a mess…” Jackson rambled on.
Steel lovingly held his mate and rubbed Jackson’s back soothingly. He let Jackson get it all out, the worries and the fears, and he just listened. Steel knew these feelings were real to his mate and even though he felt everything would be fine, that didn’t lessen the importance of Jackson’s concerns. After a while, Jackson fell silent, exhaling loudly.
“I guess you think I’m weak for having these feelings, huh?” Jackson finally said, voicing his biggest fear.
“Babe, I think you’re amazingly strong and I couldn’t be prouder to have you as my mate and to follow you as my Alpha. Never think otherwise. If I were in your shoes, I don’t know if I could handle a complete upheaval of my life and my understanding of who I thought I was as well as you have,” replied Steel.
“Really?” asked Jackson, and then hated the way it made him sound so needy.
“Really, babe. You know, I think the pregnancy hormones running rampant through your body right now are responsible for at least part of your worries. Why don’t you ask Colton what you can expect?” offered Steel.
“I’ll do that,” said Jackson, now calmer. Then, “Have I told you lately how much I love you?”
Steel gave Jackson a kiss, “No, not since this morning when you were screaming my name as I fucked you.”
Jackson, grinning at the memory, sassed, “Well, that was far too long ago.” Reaching for his mate’s lips, he lickedat them until they parted. Then he thrust his tongue in, seeking his mate’s in a dance of love.
Breathless from the heat of the kiss, Jackson pulled back and said, “I… Love… You...” punctuating each word with a kiss.
Hugging his mate tightly, Steel inhaled Jackson’s special scent. “I love you, too, babe, you’re my everything,” seizing Jackson’s lips in a devil-take-all kiss.
“Wow,” Jackson said breathlessly after the kiss ended
Steel chuckled, “Yeah, I agree. So, mate-of-mine, is there anything else you want to talk to me about?”
Loving his mate, who could bring him to the edge of insanity with just a kiss, he paused to get his rioting emotions under control. Then he remembered what Logan wanted, and turning to pick up the baby clothes list from his desk, he handed it to Steel.
“What’s this?”
“That, my father-to-be, is what Logan thinks our pup needs in the way of clothes.”
“All of this? Really? He’s kidding, right?”
Jackson huffed out a short laugh. “Yup, that was pretty much my reaction, but Logan said if I didn’t believe him, I should check it out with Mystia or your mother.”
“Okaaay. Shit. What Logan is really telling us is we’re fucked as far as thinking he over exaggerated what’s needed. Why does a baby need so many clothes?”
“Oh,” teased Jackson, “Logan also said to check with your mother as to how fast a Dire pup will grow because he might need bigger sizes.”
Shaking his head in disbelief, “Now I understand how you feel. This just got very real to me,” Steel murmured.
“Oh babe…” Jackson said, in a sing-songy voice, “there’s more.”
“More?” asked Steel.
“Logan told me we needed to do the nursery and wondered if we’d done anything about it.”
“Nursery?” Steel asked faintly. “Oh shit.”
“Yup, that’s how I felt too. I’msoglad we aresoin tune with each other,” sniggered Jackson. “However, Logan came up with a solution. He offered to design the nursery for us if we just tell him which bedroom we want it to be in.”
Finally, Steel thought, a solution for at least one thing concerning the pup. He asked Jackson, “Ahhh, how doyoufeel about Logan doing that? Is it okay with you?”
“I was going to tease you about this,” laughed Jackson, “but after seeing the look on your face, I think not.”
“What do you mean ‘the look on my face?’” asked Steel indignantly.
“We-l-l-l-l-l, you have a look of sheer panic on your face,” snorted Jackson.
