The little girl inside me is being extra active, probably because she notices how calm I am. It’s almost like she wants to make my life more exciting again by being active.
I thought that things were supposed to be easier now I’m in my third trimester, but apart from my back aching from carrying that belly around all the time, I’m also constantly dealing with stomach acid. Which is very frustrating. It manages to act up even when I’m doing everything right.
It’s nearing the end of December, so between our pregnancies and the upcoming holidays, things are not going that well. And my job gets extra busy around the holidays too.
Lots of people realise that they really don’t want to send a Christmas card to the bastard that stole a client earlier this year, or parents finding out that their precious child —usually an Omega— is bringing a lover —usually an Alpha— back home for Christmas break. The love interest is usually perfectly respectable, but the parents hate them on principle. In those cases, we offer a ‘scare’ service.
Some parents can get terrifying when their precious child starts dating, especially when it’s their first time, and the parents’ first instinct is to get rid of whoever it is. No matter how good, kind or respected the other party might be.
Usually, offering to ‘scare’ the other party before resorting to more ‘drastic’ actions eases the parents’ fears. When the other party won’t be scared off and shows that they are serious about the relationship, the parents will begrudgingly allow them to date. If the other party gets spooked and runs away, that confirms the parents’ doubts, even if it breaks their child’s heart.
And, while we generally have no problem offing people, killing teens and people in their early twenties for the ‘high crime’ of having the misfortune of falling in love with someone with such scary parents, that goes too far, even for us.
I rub my belly. “Let’s hope we don’t turn into parents like that. I hope that we wouldn’t, but dreaming of what you’ll be like as parents and what you’ll actually be like are usually very different.”
She has no idea what I say, I’m just talking to her so she can hear the cadence of my voice, but I laugh as she seems to focus her movements on where I’ve got my hand.
The thought of being a parent fills me with joy and also with fear. I’d love to have our kids walking around, their happy voices, their silly antics. I’m looking forward to all of that.
But the kids will also be an easier way to target us, target me and my organisation, and I’m not looking forward to that side of things. It will be a careful balance between protecting them as much as possible and not restricting them all the time.
Derrick’s kids have it a little easier, as he’s the head of my security team, so there’s not as much focus on him when we’re out and about. So, their kids are at a lot less risk. But I’m the face of the organisation and people will be a lot more interested in our kids because of that.
It’s already common knowledge who are in the pack, and gossip websites are regularly posting pics of Vera and me when we’re out and about, following our pregnancies.
I guess that’s one disadvantage of having always presented myself as a very eligible bachelor when I went to events and occasions, before I met Vera and Caleb. I never expected to find my pack, to start a family, so I chose early on to become the ‘forever bachelor Alpha’ to the outside world. It gave me plenty of opportunities to influence and make connections with people, which them helped with getting more jobs.
But it also means people are actually interested in my life, even more after getting a pack.
It seems like the reveal that I’m actually an Omega did make things die down for a little, but when Vera and I started having more of a baby bump and we got photographed together more often, people were suddenly even more interested.
Pics of us with Caleb would get comments about how, next to Caleb, I did look more like an Omega —seriously, people, you’re going with that type of sexism?— and how the size difference between all of us is so ‘interesting’.
When we’re with Jorge, people actually comment how much I don’t look like an Omega, apart from my growing belly. The most common image of the three of us that people seem to like is one where Vera is standing between us and we’re both looking at her as we’re waiting for something. It’s a pretty ‘boring’ picture, but people seem to love it.
Pictures with Riley get very... Ehhh... Very horny comments. That’s the only way I can describe them. People love to see the three of us together. Especially when Vera has braided our hair and she’s the only one with her hair bouncing all around her face. Apparently, it makes us look ‘fierce’ and Vera ‘adorable’, and people like the contrast.
The comments I’m the most uncomfortable about are the ones we get on pictures of Vera and me with Luca. People have very strange ideas about those pictures. They’re often sexual, conjecture about who would take what position while we’re having sex, but not in the same way as with Riley.
With Riley, the comments are mainly ‘oh, this is all so hot’, no matter who takes what role. With Luca, people in the comments have a weird thing about me bottoming for him. There seem to be two ‘camps’, and they like to threaten each other with the worst things when they encounter each other. One ‘camp’ are people who think it’s hot if Luca would top me, the other ‘camp’ are repulsed by the idea.
Oh, and there’s a third camp, which only seems to show up for pics of us with Luca, the ‘camp’ that’s insistent that since Vera and I are both Omegas, we wouldn’t be having sex with each other. The most curious about that group is that they only seem to show up on pics with Luca, not often on others.
I never really considered much how people would react to different relationships. But seeing it happen with my pack... Sometimes I really have to stop myself, so I won’t reply to them, telling people to fuck off and mind their own business.
Actually, there’s one more group of people that confuses me, with how intensely interested they are in our sex lives. The people insisting that Jorge and Riley or Jorge and Caleb are also fucking each other. Somehow never Riley and Caleb, but either of them with Jorge.
Part of it might be because Jorge was always happy to be photographed with me —in sometimes pretty compromising positions— just to watch what happened when those pictures end up online. It was usually pretty amusing, especially because we knew the truth about our designations, that the others didn’t know.
Again, me being the ‘forever bachelor Alpha’ was a persona I was happy to play up, someone who sleeps around a lot, who’s not picky about their partners, and Jorge never had any problems going along with it. I guess that, because I portrayed an Alpha at the time, people think that Jorge also has an interest in Alphas, not that his interest was simply in me.
As far as I know, Jorge has no sexual interest in alphas, but people getting the wrong idea because of our past antics explains why some of them find the idea of him with Riley or Caleb interesting.
Luckily, the three of them laugh it off and don’t seem to have any problems with it.
Which is more than I can say for myself sometimes. I really need to take a couple of deep breaths and walk around for a couple of minutes when people online make some of the most ridiculous claims or accusations against my mates.
Timothy knocks on my office door and steps inside, raising an eye as he finds me pacing back and forth behind my desk. “The call should start soon. Do you need me here?”
