“Want me to drive you?” I asked. Not that I didn’t trust my mate to drive, but he was running around in a hurry, and I didn’t want his rush to make him crash.
“Would you?” He stopped in his tracks. “That would help, actually.”
We ran to the SUV and made it to the birthing center in eight minutes. The couple was already there, and Tyrus was getting out of his car.
They talked a bit outside. Apparently, there were two omegas in labor at the same time.
A good day. Zac said any time a baby came into this world, it was a good day.
I went home and cleaned up after dinner and straightened up around the house. Laundry was next. I found myself missing him, but it wasn’t the same as before. This time, I knew he was coming home. There wouldn’t be another night where I slept alone.
Okay, maybe that wasn’t true. There might be nights where he was at the birthing center, but the others were ours.
Going to bed alone didn’t appeal, so I lay down on the couch and read until I dozed.
Then my phone rang.
“Would you mind coming to pick me up?” Zac asked.
“Yeah, I mind. You can just spend the night there.”
He snickered. “Stop it. I’m ready when you are.”
“I’m always ready for you to be home.”
Turned out, both omegas gave birth within the same hour and somehow, without knowing each other, gave their sons the same first name. Zac chattered on about it until a yawn interrupted him.
I loved to hear him talk about his job. His passion was contagious.
“You didn’t realize you’d become my chauffeur when you moved in, did you?”
We lay facing each other in the darkness after he’d showered and climbed into bed.
“I don’t mind. Not one bit.”
He snuggled in closer. “It’s your first official night here in our home,” he whispered. “We didn’t really celebrate.”
I knew that tone. My mate needed me before going to sleep. Nothing new, but I loved hearing him get flirty.
I pulled him flush with my body. My lips found his in the darkness. “Aren’t you tired, omega?”
“I’m never too tired for you. Not yet. I probably will be after our baby is born, but, until then, I want you all the time.”
Chapter Sixteen
Zac
My mate hadn’t officially started his new job yet, and I was enjoying this time with him before he did. I still couldn’t wrap my head around the fact that he went frommove to the city with meto showing up here, giving up the entire life he built for himself there to be by my side. Although, the better I got to know him and the more we built our lives together, the more I realized that it had never been about the city life being better to him. It was about the city life feeling like the easiest path to travel.
I rolled over. Edris was still sound asleep, snoring, and I snuggled in close. The comforting sound he made when he slept let me know that he was not only there, but he was okay.
Unlike most jobs, mine was far from a nine-to-five. Today, I had an appointment I needed to see early afternoon. That was the only thing on the books, anyway. That could change with one phone call. I had two omegas pretty close to their due dates, which meant at any point in time, I could be called away.
That was something my mate and I were going to have to figure out in the not-so-distant future. Once the baby was here, we couldn’t just tell him, “Nope, sorry. Gotta go deliver a different baby. You just wait here until your dad gets home.” But we’d figure it out…together.
Not all of my mate’s things were here yet. He still needed to make a trip back to the city to put his condo up for sale and take care of some paperwork. But this house was his as much as it was mine. You could sense it when you walked in. We rearranged some furniture to help make it feel less “mine,” but it wasn’t the stuff or the building that made it a home. It was the two of us building our lives together.
“How long you been awake?” My mate’s raspy sleep-filled voice surprised me. I hadn’t realized he’d woken up, being so lost in my thoughts.
