Page 40 of His Reward (Omegas After Dark: Omega Auction #2)

“Wonderful! Congratulations,” the mayor paused slightly, then said, “Not to stick my foot in or take advantage of your connection or anything, but I wanted to get your opinion on extending the partnership you created for your Fire and Ice ball to create a campaign to bring awareness of fire safety to the public, in Barrington and beyond.”

“Really?” I asked, glancing at Lucien and the others again. “What sort of campaign?”

“Commercials, short videos, and maybe another Fire and Ice ball or event like that to bring in more donors,” Mayor Vincent said. “If you ask me, it’s the perfect match of high-profile celebrities and important firefighting work.”

“It is a perfect match,” I agreed, grinning at Lucien. “But I’ll have to ask Lucien about it before I say yes to anything.”

“Of course, of course,” Mayor Vincent said. “I just wanted to float the idea to you. And to let you know that I’ll make certain your engine and all the others in Barrington get the funding they need going forward.”

“Thank you, sir.”

We exchanged a few more pleasantries before Mayor Vincent ended the call so we could all go back to work.

“What was that all about?” Lucien asked once I lowered my phone and stared at him with excited amazement.

“Mayor Vincent wants to extend the idea of the skating world and the firefighting world working together in the future,” I said, not wanting to explain too much and ruin what was supposed to be Lucien’s moment.

“And he’s come up with the funding for both Engine Fifty-Five and the rest of Barrington’s fire department. ”

“That’s fantastic,” Lucien said, beaming. “It feels like our fun idea has actually done a lot of good in the world.”

“It has,” I said. I shook my head and held up a hand to him. “But we’ll deal with that another day. This is your moment. You looked so beautiful out there.”

Lucien blushed, and I could feel his excitement through our bond. “It feels so good to be back on the ice again. I don’t know if you’ll ever get me off now.”

I nearly snorted at his unintentional double entendre. “Oh, I’m sure I will,” I said, winking.

Etienne shook his head. “Enough of that. You’ve got a lot of work to do to get back into form,” he told Lucien in a coach voice. “I want to see you skate a few rounds, and then we’ll work on edges.”

I moved to sit on one of the benches by the side of the rink and watched Lucien as he tackled his first training session of this new phase of his life.

He was so brave and incredibly powerful to throw himself into something that a lot of people thought he’d never do again.

I could tell he had a long way to go, and I wondered if part of his caution as he attempted a few jumps was because he didn’t want to risk falling and hurting the baby, but for a first time back, he did amazingly well.

As he worked, I made a few calls, setting things up for a little surprise I had planned for the two of us. By the time Lucien’s training session was over, everything was ready.

“Wait, aren’t we going home?” he asked once we were in my car, driving out toward his condo instead of the firehouse.

“Yep,” I said with a smile. “We’re going home.”

“The condo?” he asked, confusion rippling from him.

I nodded. “Your mom moved out yesterday. She got that new place farther down the beach with the money she took out of your parents’ joint account. She’s only renting, at least until the divorce is finalized and she gets her share of your parents’ estate, but she’s really happy about it.”

Lucien knew most of that, but he was still confused as we drove out to the condo, parked, and went inside.

Bea was fantastic. She hadn’t just cleaned the place up when she left, she’d redecorated, making the condo look like it should be in a magazine or something. More than that, she’d converted the unused second bedroom into an adorable nursery.

“Mom did all this?” Lucien asked, looking around the nursery with wide eyes and a racing heart, hand pressed over the slight bump of his belly.

“She loved doing all this,” I said. “She said decorating the nursery was her reward for everything she had to go through with your father.”

“She’s done an amazing job,” Lucien said. His gaze traveled around the room once more before landing on me. “This is some reward.”

“You’re my reward,” I told him, pulling him into an embrace and cupping the side of his face. “You’re my reward for waiting all this time for the perfect omega to come along and for trusting my gut and staying by your side.”

“I guess you could say I’m your gold medal,” Lucien said, grinning cheekily up at me.

I laughed. “You’re so much more than that.”

I slanted my mouth over his, kissing him with my whole heart. He’d become so much a part of me that I could have gone on kissing him forever.

“I want you,” Lucien whispered when we finally stopped for breath. “I want to feel you inside me and all around me. Right now.”

I couldn’t help myself. “Um, not right here in the baby’s room, though.”

He laughed. “Of course not.”

He grabbed my hand and pulled me out of the room, then around the corner into his bedroom. Bea had left the place spotless. There was even a faint hint of lavender in the air. But it wasn’t nearly as tempting as Lucien’s strawberry ice cream scent.

“Take me, alpha,” Lucien ordered as we both tried to strip out of our clothes while still touching and kissing each other as much as we could. “Take me and make me yours.”

“You’re awfully bossy for a sub,” I laughed, though it was clear we weren’t playing some scene. We were just loving each other.

“I belong to you and you belong to me,” he said, pulling his shirt off over his head then helping me tug mine off as well. “That means I can tell you what to do, and right now, I want you to fuck me silly.”

“I’ve got a better idea,” I said, undoing my jeans and getting rid of them as fast as I could as Lucien stepped out of his training pants.

“Oh yeah?” Lucien asked, standing straight and showing off his entire, gorgeous body to me, his cock standing proud.

I laughed deep in my throat and kicked my jeans aside before all but tackling him onto the bed. “Yeah,” I said.

We had to squirm around a little to pull back the bedcovers and end up the right way around in the bed.

As soon as we did, I spread Lucien on his back under me and started kissing my way from his lips, down his neck, and across his shoulders and chest on both the good side and the bad side indiscriminately.

“I love the way your body is already changing,” I said between kisses, then closed my mouth around one of his enlarged nipples to suck.

Lucien made a sound that had blood rushing straight to my cock and arched his body against mine. “Boston,” he panted, like he was already so worked up with lust that he couldn’t speak.

I loved him that way. I loved my omega every way, but there was something special about him when he was horny and unfettered. His libido could be off the charts, which was perfect, since mine usually was, too.

“So beautiful,” I said as I continued to kiss every part of him, paying special attention to the slight swell of his stomach.

I couldn’t wait to see him get bigger and rounder as our baby grew in him.

I hoped my omega would be just as eager for my cock when he was about to burst as he was now.

Flashes of what it would be like to fuck him when he was on his hands and knees, his belly extended under him and his chest full of milk kicked my arousal up another notch.

I’d heard somewhere that sexual stimulation could cause mammary glands to shoot milk during sex.

I was definitely looking forward to that.

“I need to be in you,” I panted as I reached the base of his belly.

“God, yes!” Lucien groaned, spreading his legs wider and gripping the pillow on either side of his head.

My cock was already leaking and my balls felt like they would explode any second, but I took a moment to suck Lucien’s cock into my mouth to pleasure him that way first. Lucien cried out, and I had to stop before we both came and cut the moment short.

This wasn’t heat, after all. We couldn’t keep going and going indefinitely.

We only had the moment, and I was determined to make it a perfect one.

Shaking with the need to spill everything in him, I pushed up and repositioned myself between his legs.

I hooked my hands under his knees and folded him up so his wet hole gaped at me, then I leaned into him, positioning myself and then sinking deep into him.

“Lucien,” I moaned as his tight hole sucked me in, the friction amazing.

It wasn’t like fucking him through heat, but making love to Lucien on an ordinary afternoon simply because we loved each other so hard and wanted each other was its own kind of special.

I thrust carefully, over and over, until I bottomed out in him, then stretched my body over his and leaned down to kiss him.

“I love this,” Lucien panted, embracing me with his whole body. “I love you.”

“I love you so much,” I echoed him, then started moving.

It didn’t take long for either of us, we were already so worked up, but I didn’t mind.

As my orgasm crashed into me, I felt Lucien’s take him, too, through our bond.

The bond heightened everything for both of us, and as I poured my entire soul into my mate, I felt like everything in the universe would be beautiful for both of us, for all of us, for the rest of our lives.