Page 18 of Such a Tempting Omega (His Alpha Desires #7)

Hirsch

A knock on my door scared the life out of me. I jumped at least a foot high and let out a not-so-wolfy scream. My hands covered my belly as I wondered if all my dramatics had scared my baby as well.

My first thought was that Kyle had come back. That he was back and was somehow going to try and talk me into letting him back into my life.

While I calmed down from the jump scare, I formulated a quick plan to get him out and make him go away. Part of that would include calling Liam immediately.

I looked through the peephole but saw nothing. As I opened the door, I scanned the hallway left and right. No one was there, and my heart was relieved.

But there was a note taped to my door.

I closed myself in my apartment and tried to breathe as I took in the bad news. I didn’t have another month of my lease. I had forty-eight hours. With shaking hands, I picked up my phone and called the number on the bottom.

Kyle had paid the fee to have the lease terminated early.

Because Kyle.

I had forty-eight hours to leave the only place I had to live. I was officially in trouble.

Instead of calling Liam right away, I calmed myself, but my phone rang only seconds later. My sweet Liam. Our bond was so strong now. Of course he would know something was up.

“Hello?” I said, not able to camouflage the concern in my voice.

“Is something wrong?” he asked. “I…my wolf panicked.”

“I just received some bad news, but I’m okay.”

He sighed. “You don’t sound okay, Hirsch. I’m not in the thick of anything right now. I could come over. Let’s talk about it. Whatever it is, it will be okay.”

No matter how long we had been together, he still asked if he could come over. He let me be autonomous and I appreciated it.

“Please do. I have some things to figure out.”

Liam was at my apartment, or at Kyle’s apartment, in less than twenty minutes with a slice of cherry cheesecake he’d picked up at the bakery around the corner. “What?” he asked as I let him in. “Cheesecake makes everything better.”

“What are you, a Golden Girl?” I laughed but took the slice. Oh yeah, it made everything better.

“Tell me what the problem is,” he said, sitting at my bar.

“I have two days to move out. I don’t have any money and I’m pretty much screwed.”

He read the letter I slid across the counter and then sighed. “I have a suggestion.”

“I’m not taking money from you, Liam.”

He smiled but not out of happiness. “First of all, I’m your alpha and your mate.

I take great honor and pride in caring for you.

Giving you money would mean the world to me.

Second, no, that’s not my idea. You’re my mate, and we’re having a baby.

I was planning on asking you to move in with me anyway. ”

The cheesecake didn’t sit well anymore. “You are doing this because of this letter.”

Liam looked genuinely hurt. “I’m doing this because I’m in love with you and I feel awful when you’re not around. When I have to wake up in my bed alone. Missing you in the night. Reaching for you even though I know you’re not there.”

“You love me?” I asked. The tears rolled down my face. I hadn’t even realized I was crying.

“I do. I love you both.”

“I love you too.”

“Good. Now, will you move in with me, Hirsch? Make me stop missing you?”

He made it seem like I was doing him a favor. “Well, when you put it that way. Yes, Liam. I will move in with you and while we’re on the subject…I know sometimes I put up a fuss, but I really appreciate the ways you take care of me.”

He beamed. Brighter than the sun. “Let’s go get your things packed. I’m so excited.”

Getting up, he headed for my bedroom and brought out two suitcases. Kyle had gifted them to me, and the few friends I had left during that time thought it meant something deeper. It probably did but I was too blind to see it.

Didn’t matter anymore. Now they would be used to pack up and make this new life real. A life with someone who loved me.

“What about the desk and the chair?” Liam asked. “I can get someone to come pick it up for me in one of my trucks.”

“Leave it,” I said. “It was his. It can go to the dump for all I care.”

“Ready to go, then?”

I looked around, and in my head, I chanted a few prayers. I would leave the bad memories here, where they had occurred. All the mean words. The control. The manipulation. The lies. They would stay right here and die before someone else occupied the space.

Here, I would bury my ties to Kyle once and for all.

“I’m ready. Let’s go.”

“I have something else to talk to you about on the way home.”

Home. Our home. “What is it?”

Liam took my hand as we walked to his car. “We need to pick a color for the nursery.”