22. Daxton

Chapter 22

Daxton

"I want to hang out with your beasts today." Oscar dangled his car keys in his fingers.

My car was back and fixed, but he still preferred his. He said it was easier to climb in and out now that he had a huge belly.

I loved that belly. I could barely keep my hands off of it. Oscar was funny like that. He didn't want anyone near it but me, and I loved it.

"Sounds good." For about a month he wanted to meet every one of my beasts one by one. It had been fun but exhausting. I was much better at it now than I was even two weeks ago, but I was nowhere near as good as Willy.

Even though Willy had told me repeatedly not to worry about the list and focus on my mate, he was shit at following his own recommendations. Under his lead, there had been some work done uncovering the identities of some of the names on the list. His pack had a kickass tech guy who was compiling quite a file for us. I'd actively worked hard not to see it. I was trying to honor Willy's wishes—once the baby was born, we could go back and try to figure all that out. But for now, it would have to do.

"Where do you want to go?" I was up for anything.

He rolled his eyes. "Where do you think?"

"Fine." I took the keys from him and drove him to River's Edge. There was a plot of land along the river that was for sale, and he didn't know it yet, but I was looking at buying it for us—a place where my beasts could just come back when they wanted to, and where he could be by the river that he'd grown to love.

"Who do you want to see first?" I was already shucking my clothing as soon as we parked.

"Your tiger." He rolled his eyes as if I should have had some sort of clue about that. I didn't. Pregnancy was interesting, that was for sure.

But I took my tiger form, and he patted the ground.

I laid down, and he curled up at my side and took a nap. It was one of the highlights of my life—there was something so trusting about having your pregnant omega curl up with your beast, knowing that they were 1,000% safe, all because we loved them so much and would refuse to let anything happen to them.

He slept better during that nap than I'd seen him sleep in our bed for weeks, waking only as the sun was hidden by some cloud cover and the air chilled.

He kissed the tiger and asked me to take my skin so we could talk. "It's too cold for your panda, isn't it?"

"Not too cold." I called him forth.

And that was how the afternoon went. One after another, he would snuggle with one of my beasts and they would love it as much as I did.

But as with all good things, we had to go. Oscar was hungry, and we hadn't really planned well enough to be gone this long, his lone water bottle already drained.

"Thank you for the amazing day."

"Thank you, omega mine, for the amazing life."

Keeping up with my omega was exhausting. His sex drive had been strong from the beginning, but with every passing day, it just ratcheted up exponentially. We did it twice before I got out of bed every morning, sometimes at lunch if we could both get away for a quickie, and two or three times at night.

If I didn't know better, I'd think he was in permanent heat. And maybe that was what pregnancy was. Either way, it was awesome…but I was starting to struggle to keep up with him.

"Are you coming?" Oscar was in the shower, waiting for me to meet him there.

"On my way, cutie." I stripped out of my clothes and quickly joined him under the water. "You ready for my knot? It's been hours."

He laughed and pushed his ass out as he rested his chest against the tile. "As a matter of fact, I am. Hours feel like years these days. So get in there, tiger."

My tiger almost took that as an invitation to come out and play, but I'd gotten much better about managing my beasts. Having Oscar so close to me at all times seemed to be the motivation I needed to learn how to control who came out and when. Especially for the predators. They were as careful about our omega's safety as I was. It takes a village, and my village was fully focused on Oscar's health and well-being at all times.

"Are you comfortable like this?" I ran my hands down his side then slid forward, holding the weight of his belly in one hand as I my other slid down to his hard cock. "Because you smell so good, I'm gonna go hard."

"Yes, alpha. Take me good and hard. I want to feel you deep inside me."

I continued stroking his cock as I pushed all the way into his channel. No matter how many times we did this, his ass was always warm and tight like the very first time. His slick mixed with the steam from the shower and filled my nostrils with the most delicious scent. All my beasts were content when I was buried balls deep in our omega. Claiming him like we were meant to. "Brace yourself, cutie."

I thrust hard the way he liked it, railing him for several minutes before easing off just before he shot warm come past my fingers. It mixed with the swirling water at our feet as I came too. As much as I loved giving him my knot, I knew he'd be too tired to stand while we were connected, so I pulled out and came across his ass and back, painting his smooth skin with my cream.

After a few minutes, I cleaned us both off and carried my omega to bed. And then we made love again, this time slowly where he fell asleep in my arms with my knot in his ass and his head resting on my arm.

Exactly the way we preferred to sleep through the night.