Page 26 of The Pregnant Wolf Omega Next Door

Well, the adults did. Abbie gave a little wriggle and lunged for the fire.

Emre panicked and held her back, only for the fireball to gutter out and disappear.

“What the hell was that?” he yelped, staring at the unblemished table. Not even a scorch mark. “You saw that, right? I’m not hallucinating?”

When he looked up, Zenith’s eyes were wide.

“You—” Zenith squeaked, before clearing his throat. In a lower voice, “You have a fire-breathing baby?”

“Apparently! How did that even happen?!”

Zenith pulled up a chair and sat down slowly, his gaze flicking between Emre and Abbie. “The alpha you spent your heat with, to conceive Abbie. Do you remember what they were like?”

“Not really.” Emre scrunched up his face. “I was in heat, at a bar looking to get laid. There were tons of people around, too many scents. Some people were smoking, so by the time I found an alpha who was interested, I couldn’t smell him. The scents stuck to our clothes and followed us back to his place. I remember—he didn’t have a knot. I was so disappointed. We had sex twice and my heat went away.”

“Hmm,” Zenith said thoughtfully.

“I didn’t think anything of it,” Emre continued. “All I knew was that I wasn’t shaking out of my skin anymore. I left without telling him and completely forgot about the whole thing, until I discovered I was pregnant.Thatwas a surprise.” He sighed. “Then I realized that I hadn’t even thought about using contraceptives during my heat.”

Zenith glanced at Abbie. “Do you regret—?”

Emre shook his head firmly. “I would’ve said skipping a condom was stupid, except I’m glad I have her.”

Zenith nodded solemnly. “She seems entirely worth it.”

“She really is.” Emre grinned.

For a while, they watched as Abbie gnawed on Zenith’s shirtsleeve.

“Do you remember anything else about that alpha?” Zenith asked after some time. “Physical traits, something you can identify him with?”

Emre wracked his brain. “He was roughly your size, kinda huge, but lots of alphas are like that. He was... I guess he was warm to the touch. But I was also burning up, so I couldn’t tell exactly how hot he was.”

It was unnerving to think that the alpha he’d slept with had been capable of breathing fire everywhere.

“What’s wrong?” Zenith asked.

“I had no idea he could sneeze fireballs,” Emre said. “He was on top of me, and he could’ve burned me into a crisp.”

Zenith narrowed his eyes. “If he did, I would hunt him down and end him.”

That subvocal growl gave Emre all the shivers.

“Look, Emre.” Zenith reached over, placing his huge, warm hand on Emre’s forearm. “Maybe he had a reason to conceal his species, maybe he didn’t. But it seems to me that the alpha had no intention of hurting you.”

Emre went over his vague memories of that heat, carefully inspecting his interactions with that alpha. “I guess he didn’t. I didn’t feel threatened.”

“Good.” Zenith relaxed, the tension going out of his shoulders.

Maybe Emre shouldn’t worry about that first alpha?

He released Abbie onto the kitchen table, only for her to wander back to Zenith, nosing at his sleeve again. Then she bit into Zenith’s sleeve with her tiny wolf teeth.

Zenith’s eyebrows rose. “Abbie?”

She planted all four paws against the table, and tried to rip Zenith’s sleeve off his shirt.

“Abbie!” Emre squawked.