Chapter 17

Seventeen

CALEB

S he looked so fucking delicious sitting there like that.

The omega looked helpless and annoyed as Dravin held her prisoner on her lap. Her exposed legs were juicy, and her little pink slit was open for me to see. I felt all the blood rush towards my cock, as it hardened.

I was shocked that Dravin managed to have her in this position with his three fingers in her mouth, her pussy dripping all over the floor. Maybe she did like to be submissive sometimes, even though she acted like she didn't need an alpha to handle her. She let out a muffled yell upon seeing me. She squirmed in his grip, her face red.

"Dravin, release her," I ordered, fed up with his games.

I was horny as fuck looking at her, but we needed to keep our hands off this omega.

"But she's so pretty," he grumbled, removing his fingers from her mouth, and she took in a big gasp of air.

She hopped off his lap and hastily covered her legs with her skirt, ruffled and visibly annoyed. She looked insanely adorable and I wanted to do nothing related to business. Every inch of my body was screaming to take this omega. She clearly enjoyed my pack.

A little too much.

"Sorry," she said in a high-pitched squeak.

"What's going on? Are you seducing my pack?" I asked. I enjoyed seeing her squirm, but I had to establish boundaries now, or else she wouldn't concentrate on her task, and it would be harder fighting the need to mate her.

"It was all his fault," she said, her eyes darting to Dravin. She blushed as she angrily crossed her arms.

My lips twitched, but I didn't smile. She needed to know how serious this was.

"We want to keep this arrangement professional," I said sternly. "Dravin, please leave. You're no longer allowed to be here alone with Jade."

"Yeah, yeah," he said, winking at Jade as he got off the chair.

Jade and I watched him leave out the door as he blew a kiss towards her. I observed Jade biting her lip, trying not to smile as he walked away. Fuck, she's forming connections to my alpha pack. He looked just as infatuated with her, judging from his smoldering last looks at her.

It would be tough to keep them separated.

"Alright, what ideas do you have for this living room?" I asked, walking around the empty space, trying to hide my erection. She made her way toward the living room, hurriedly taking pictures of the room with her phone.

"I'm sorry, I didn't get a head start on it yet, but I would like to go shopping to see what's there first," she said.

I was mildly disappointed that she was distracted by Dravin, but at least he fed her. I wanted to bang my head against the counter for forgetting her breakfast. It was a last-minute arrangement, so it slipped my brain. I would stock up this place with food so that she wouldn't starve.

"Let's go look around then," I said. "I have free time today."

"I have to warn you that I might take forever," she said, looking unsure of me accompanying her.

When we walked outside, she gasped upon seeing her car again in the driveway. I smiled, seeing her reaction.

"I took it to the wash," I said, looking at her little beat-up car, but it was shinier now. I wanted to badly get her a new car, but she would get offended. And it was the last thing I wanted to do.

She ran to it and put her hand on the hood in adoration.

"I missed my baby so much!" she said. "Thank you Caleb."

"You're welcome," I said, happy to see her so excited as she hopped into the driver's seat. I went around her car and sat beside her on the passenger side. Her eyes were closed as she leaned in towards the steering wheel, rubbing her nose on it.

"Sorry," she said, opening her eyes. "It just feels nice to have something of my own again. Getting evicted like that was hard on me. I felt like I was floating with nothing to support me. At least I can sleep in my car if I want to."

"I can understand," I said. "I built my own empire and started with nothing at first. I believe in you, Jade."

Startled, she looked at me. "You do?"

"You had the drive to become a nurse and lived on your own for so long, so I believe you could do whatever you set your mind to," I said as she started backing the car out of the driveway. "You'll become an amazing interior designer. I'm sure of it. What do your think about your dreams?"

I wondered why she was so reluctant to go back to them. I would do anything to have my father back.

"My parents provided a comfortable life for me. I feel bad for most omegas who had it bad, but I had a good foundation."

"Interesting," I said.

Jade rarely talked about herself, and I enjoyed listening to little tidbits of her life.

"I never drove an alpha in my car before," she said, looking at me sheepishly as she tried looking for the nearest furniture store around here.

"And I never had an omega drive me either," I said, surprised I didn't immediately get into the driver's seat and take over.

"Because you're too big and strong?" she teased and I laughed.

"I'd rather be the one to take care of my omega," I said.

"But I'm not your omega."

"Yeah, I got that," I said abruptly. The conversation always seemed to steer to this, and I didn't have an answer to give her. Maybe I was the one who was crazy. She liked my pack, and her gaze suggested she wouldn't mind if I rutted her senseless.

"What does the tattoo on your back mean?" she asked suddenly, and I was taken aback by her question. I was suddenly reminded of our hot night together on the roof of the party.

"My father passed away from an illness when I was a kid," I said. "He loved nature, and it represented that. It has his name in the middle."

"Oh, I'm sorry," she said. "At least you have your mom still."

"My mom…seems to be losing her mind," I explained. "I don't know what's happening to her. She says there's something following her. Like a ghost, and I don't believe in that stuff."

"That's so sad," she said, parking outside of a small furniture store. "Why don't you believe her?"

"Do you believe in ghosts?"

"Kind of," she said. "I wouldn't just disregard her completely. Pay more attention to her."

I thought about that. She could be right.

If my mother was telling the truth, she could be in great danger. But this was something that I wasn't ready to face yet.

Jade

It sucked that I needed to be with Caleb for my first shopping trip on this big project. But he was adamant about accompanying me. I guess he was just as excited as I was for this project I was undertaking and wanted to be part of it.

As we looked around at the couches, Caleb didn't interfere when I looked at certain styles. But he couldn't resist giving his input on a few things. At times I imagined if this was how life would be if we were a mated pack.

"How about this couch?" he asked, sinking into a large black sectional sofa.

"It'll make the house too dark," I said, sitting on the other end.

"But it's comfortable."

It was indeed comfortable, but I needed to stick to my guns and not be pushed around. I was the designer, and I had a certain vision for the house.

"Yeah, I don't like it," I said. It didn't match my overall vision. A couple of beta females walked by us, staring at Caleb and giggling. My face heated, and I wasn't ready for the turmoil I faced inside me. I didn't like it, but I tried my best not to show that I was jealous. I didn't have a claim on Caleb in any way.

"Okay, how about that one?" he said, pointing to a beige couch. I immediately got up and walked over to it.

"It looks perfect," I breathed as I stared at the sectional. It was a nice sleek design that wasn't overwhelming and looked just as cozy as the first couch we saw.

"Good, looks like we're done here," he said, smiling at me. I realized we were standing too close to each other, so I pulled away, pretending to look at the couch some more. "I have to ask you something."

"Yes?"

"Have you been taking your heat suppressants? You seem more skittish around me lately," he observed as I moved far away from him.

"No," I said.

"Why not?"

"I lost them. The landlady must have taken them," I said, and it was way too expensive for me to get more. If I ever went into heat, I would probably just go to a heat center for omegas where alphas were waiting on demand to help me through a heat. An omega needed multiple mates to knot inside her to stave away the pain. If an omega went too long without mating while in heat, she could put herself at risk.

"We need to get you the suppressants right away," he said worriedly. "If you went into heat suddenly, it would activate my need to rut you. You don't want that do you?"

"No," I said slowly, even though my body was screaming that it would be nice to have him deep inside me. I craved to be near him always and for him to be there with me. But it wasn't meant to be.

"You could be in preheat, and we don't even know it," he said, studying my face.

"I'm not," I said. I would probably know it right away, even though I've never actually been in heat. I was terrified of going into heat as an omega. All I heard was that omegas would be intensely horny during heat, wanting nothing but huge dicks inside her. And the only relief was when it knotted inside her. "I would know if I'm in heat."

He was quiet about it after that, and we went to the cashier to help us out with the purchase of the beautiful beige couch. They would deliver it the next day, and I was pretty excited about the first purchase.

But once we were back at the house, Caleb wasn't so sure about my heat.

He had a thermometer in his hand as I sat on my bed eating the pizza that he bought on our way back from our little shopping spree.

"Relax and take a slice," I told him, scooting the box of pizza towards him, which was sitting on the center of the bed. He glanced at it and licked his lips, but he was distracted by the thought of me being in possible preheat. "Listen, I'm not in pre-heat or anything. I promise."

"I can't take the chance of my pack impregnating you during your heat," he said. "After you're done with that slice of pizza- I need you to bend over for me."