Zeke and Brooks had left pretty quickly after she’d started crying to prepare for the next swell of her heat and to find Dallaswho had disappeared from the room entirely after being the one to cause her to cry in the first place.
I didn’t know what was going on with him, but he needed to figure out what he wanted and quickly because I was pretty sure there weren’t going to be any more lulls in Lennon’s heats soon and I was going to kick his ass myself soon.
“Yes,” Lennon answered pitifully as she lifted her face and rested her chin on my chest. “Sorry for crying like that. I don’t know what came over me.”
“You’re in the middle of your heat and your grandparents designed a house just for you?” I pointed out with a grin like it was obvious. “If someone did that for me I might’ve cried just a little bit too.”
“Seriously?” she asked, her cheeks dimpling as she smiled back at me. “A big tough alpha like you?”
“I’ll have you know, alphas cry too, Lennon,” I fake-sniffed before leaning down and pressing a kiss to the tip of her nose. “Now, what do you say we christen this nest of yours?”
Lennon’s expression flashed hungrily as she nodded. “I say yes, but we have to do it the right way.”
“The right way?”
She nodded. “Uh-huh, we’ve never had a nest to do it in before.”
Lennon gave my chest a little shove. “You have to get out of my nest, alpha, and get undressed.”
I complied easily, my inner alpha pressing on the inside of my brain like it was imperative that I listened, clambering to take control of all rational thought as Lennon’s scent filled my lungs.
“And give me your clothes when you’re done,” she called as she stripped out of the sweatpants and t-shirt we’d put her in after her dalliance in the bathroom with Zeke.
The last thing I saw before she pressed a couple of buttons on the panel on the headboard was the moon of her bare ass before the curtains zipped shut.
“Was that really necessary, omega?” I growled, disappointed that I couldn’t see her naked body while I stripped.
“Yes,” she called in a sing-songy voice as her hand slipped in between the curtains to snatch the basket of nesting materials that had been left next to the bed and pulled it inside.
I stopped undressing for a moment to feel her contentment through the bond.
If someone had told me six months ago that I would be standing in the middle of my omega’s room in Cape Cod getting ready to help her through our first heat together, then I would have told them that they were nuts.
Especially since I’d never planned on having an omega in the first place.
Not because I had anything against it.
I just liked working abroad with the state department so much and no one I’d met had ever made me consider a life other than that before. I was a work-a-holic through and through with no desire to have any kind of life outside of that…
Then a bratty blonde omega had walked into the Oval Office and everything had changed.
I wasn’t sure when I’d gone from just being the head of her security team to being… more. I think I might have liked her from the moment she’d made that seal team six joke that I couldn’t laugh at.
Or maybe it was when she walked all four of us like a pack of dogs down the street in that small town in Missouri so she could have pancakes and we were helpless to stop her.
“Your jacket, Maverick?” Lennon asked, her hand poking through the curtain expectantly.
I dutifully handed her my rumpled suit jacket and she pulled it quickly inside.
The sound of her deep inhalation, telling me she was probably pressing it to her face, went straight to my cock and I let out a growl. “Can I come in yet?”
“Nope,” she sang cheerfully. “Now get your pants off and hurry, alpha.”
Scrambling out of my slacks and boxers, I dutifully handed them off to her and had to wait as she tortured me with her humming.
“I thought omegas in heat were supposed to be uncontrollably ravenous,” I grumbled, mostly to myself.
“We are, I’m just a perfectionist,” she replied, clearly also having the hearing of a bat during her heat. “I also can’t wait to lose control and feel you deep inside of me, Maverick, but my nest has to be justright.”
