Page 14 of Unforgettable Omega

“You scored, that’s wonderful baby.”

His son’s face puckered in a frown, “I’s not a baby, papa.”

Shay couldn’t help smiling at his son’s words. Apparently, he was getting too cool to be called a baby in public.

Shay knew that the grown version of those eyes was still on him. He could feel them, piercing, scorching and not in a sexy way.

Shay said a prayer to whatever gods would listen that Drew wouldn’t put two and two together… or even if he did, he got seven and not four. All Shay could do was pray that the resemblance he saw between Drew and Andy was only in his head.

Shay made sure not to look up to where Drew was standing. But even without meeting Drew’s eyes, the fact was, right now, the only people that existed in Shay’s world were himself, his son, and his son’s other father.

Who didn’t know hewasa father.

And here and now wasn’t the time or place to find that out. Shay wondered what would happen if he backed away now, holding Andy to his chest. Maybe he could keep that secret to himself a little longer.

“You were wonderful,” Shay praised his son, even though he hadn’t seen Andy with the ball, his eyes had been firmly on his child’s father.

“Andy, Andy,” Jai’s twins Nix and Cam called, running up to Shay’s son, dragging him back to where they were playing.

Fuck! Andy, Andrew, Drew, he hoped that Drew didn’t see the significance. Shay could feel the panic like a low buzz under his skin.

Shay looked up to find Jai watching him. He glanced over at Drew and Jai followed his gaze, then Shay glanced over at his son, and Jai followed that too.

It didn’t take long for the other omega to gasp and look him in the eye, his eyes wide, mouth rounded in an O!

Fuck if Jai saw it, then Drew would too. Jai looked from him to Drew to Andy and back a couple of times. His gaze kept bouncing between the three of them like his brain was trying to connect the threads. Or maybe make sense of it. Shay could see all the questions flitting through his new friend’s mind, his expressive eyes not hiding a thing. Thankfully Jai didn’t ask him any of them.

Shay wasn’t sure he could have answered at that moment. Instead, his friend who’d been standing by his side all this time stood in front of Shay. Unfortunately, Jai was shorter than he was, so if he was trying to block Shay from Drew’s view, it wasn’t exactly working.

“What do you need?” Jai asked, his voice low, so only Shay could hear him.

“I don’t know,” Shay whispered.

“Unless I’m mistaken, he’s who I think he is, isn’t he?” Jai asked the look in his eyes not quite pity, a little bit of curiosity, but mostly, Jai looked like his main concern was helping Shay out.

But Shay knew that there was no way out of this. Whatever he did now, Drew had seen him, seen Andy. There was no way the man wouldn’t realize what Shay had done.

The one thing Shay and his parents had never seen eye to eye on, was the fact that Shay staunchly refused to inform Andy’s father of his existence. He’d gone as far as never even telling them Drew’s full name—which he knew, because even though he’d told them he wasn’t going to track Drew down, he really had. But Shay did his best not to think about it. Or talk about it. Hell he pretended it had never happened.

Shay had never revealed the information to a soul. It was his secret, his and his alone.

Until now.

Drew looked over at their son, his brow furrowed, Shay could almost feel the alpha’s brain racing a mile a minute. What would Shay say when Drew asked about Andy… his age, where his other dad was. Could he lie?

Could he lie to Drew to his face?

It was one thing when he hadn’t come across the man, or even seen him in years. Shay could put off the guilt of not informing Drew he had a child. Even though he’d tried to do so… Although none of that mattered now, in a situation Shay had honestly never foreseen… he didn’t think he could lie about something so huge, so serious. He couldn’t lie straight to Drew’s face, no matter how much of a two-timing bastard he thought the alpha was. He couldn’t lie to the alpha’s face and look himself in the mirror, or even worse, look his son in the eye.

Andy had asked about his daddy a couple of times, more so now that he was old enough to see that some kids had two parents. Shay had told him, yes, he had another daddy, and that he would tell him about him someday.

That was all he could come up with, and he had planned not to tell Andy about Drew until he was old enough to understand.

Because even though not giving any information to Andy apart from a daddy did exist, had satisfied his son in the past, Andy was getting older, and Shay knew that wouldn’t work forever. Would Andy forgive him if he found out that he had a chance to meet his father and Shay had lied to him? Or worse, kept him away.

Shay realized his time was up as he watched Drew approach him.

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