Page 90 of The Omega's Fake Mate

About a weekafter Zander took me back to Oceanport with him, he and I went to get an ultrasound of the baby. I'd already heard the little one's heartbeat at an earlier appointment, and I could feel him or her kick every now and then, but getting toseeour kid was something different altogether.

Even if I did need the doctor, a man in his fifties with balding hair and kind eyes, to point out where my baby's head was for me. Zander and I held hands as we looked at the screen. “There's a tiny human growing inside of me,” I blurted out. I'dknownof course, but still.

“Yeah, there is.” At least Zander looked just as amazed as me. “We're going to be parents, you and me. Who would have thought?”

I smiled at him. The idea of becoming a parent still terrified me a little bit. It hadn't been in my plans, but when I squeezed Zander's hand, he squeezed back, and that reassured me. I wasn't doing this alone. My child was going to have an amazing dad. I could think of so many reasons why I shouldn't be a parent, but the idea of parenting together with Zander made all of them seem surmountable. Irrelevant.

A question from the doctor whose name I couldn't remember pulled me out of my thoughts. “Would you like to know the sex?” he asked.

“Yes!” I said emphatically before Zander even had a chance to react.

My mate raised his eyebrows at me.

“I need to know this,” I explained. “If you thought I was patient enough to wait until birth, you don't know me at all.”

Beside me, the doctor chuckled while Zander only nodded. “I guess you're right.”

“You both agree then?” The doctor asked.

“Yeah,” we said in unison, still holding hands.

“All right.” The doctor pointed at something on the screen. “Do you see that there? That's your baby's penis.”

“We're having a boy?” I asked, excitement bubbling up in me. I was going to have a son! I turned to Zander. “Did you hear that? We're having a boy!”

“Yeah.” Zander seemed kind of dazed, staring at the screen. For a second, he almost looked like he was going to faint.

“We need to tell everyone. I need to call Rhys!” I'd brought my brother back to Oceanport with me, but he was staying at Dean's now, because Dean had more space.

“Easy,” Zander said. “We can tell everyone when we're home.”

“You're right,” I said, but my thoughts were still racing. “I wonder what Griff's having. They're waiting, aren't they?” I couldn't imagine doing that, personally.

“Won't be long now until we find out,” Zander mused.

As it turned out, he was quite right about that too.

* * *

It waslate April when my phone rang in the middle of the night, waking me.

“What's that sound?” Zander muttered, his hand roaming the sheets as if he could find the source of it that way.

“Sorry,” I mumbled, reaching for my phone. “Some asshole is calling me.”

“Make it stop.”

“On it,” I said before answering the call. “Hello?” I asked in the most sleepy-tone I could muster to make the bastard on the other end feel guilty.

“Nick? It's Dean. Your newest nephew was just born.”

“Griff had the baby?” I sat up in bed, suddenly wide awake. “It's a boy?”

“Yup, it's a healthy baby boy. We called him Aiden. You can drop by in the morning, if you'd like. I just wanted to let you know and I have a couple more people to call.”

“Sure, we'll be there! Congratulations!”

“Who was that?” Zander asked when I hung up. “Dean? Did the baby come?”