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“Yes, but that’s beside the point.”
She glared even harder. “What. Happened?”
I threw up my hands and started pacing back and forth in the small area behind the cash register. “That’s just it. I don’t know. One minute we were having coffee and getting ready to eat breakfast and-and cuddling, and the next I was yelling at him about how I wasn’t pregnant!”
“Whoa. Back up. What do you mean, how you’re not pregnant?”
“The first time Dominic and I had sex, we didn’t use any condoms,” I said sheepishly. “And then we had another slip-up at his lodge.”
“Okay. Stupid because of STDs but we’ll come back to that. You’re on the pill, right? So no chance of getting pregnant. Right?”
“Not exactly. It’s still possible for us because we’re probably true mates. I actually went out on my break to buy a test, because I-I think I may be.”
Except that wasn’t what I said exactly. I got to the last two words and sort of slurred and mumbled, turning my head away, so she grabbed my arm and made me turn around.
“You’re what?”
I sighed and caved. “I said I may be. I probably am. We’re true mates, Hailey. Dominic proved it this weekend when he spoke to me in my head. See, true mates can read each other’s thoughts. What that means for true mates is that all bets are off. No form of pregnancy prevention will really work well for us. Nothing but condomsevery timeand of course, abstinence.”
“Which you obviously didn’t do.”
“No. We’ve made love. A few—well, several times.”
“And that’s a bad thing?”
“It is, considering I don’t want to have a baby yet. One day, but not now.”
She smacked my arm again. “Then what the hell, Jordan?”
“I know. I just got carried away. He mostly wears a condom, but we did get carried away once. Pregnancies still happen sometimes.”
She just stared at me for a while and then said, “So explain to me again why you got mad at Dominic when he just pointed out the facts to you?”
“I don’t know.”
“Uh huh. Which brings me to my original question.Are you crazy?”
“Apparently I am, but I don’t know how to stop!”
“You just stop, Jax. Stop deliberately sabotaging yourself and your relationship. If this relationship is important to you then you have to fight for it.”
“He is important to me. But I made myself a promise a long time ago that I wasn’t going to be a typical omega. That I’d make something of myself to spite my father and my brothers who thought of me as a big nothing. My father is planning on selling me like I’m some kind of thing instead of a person! And I need to be independent for myself, you know? For my own self-esteem and self-worth. If I’m nothing to my family, then I have to be something for myself.” I stopped pacing and looked at her. “But I can’t do that if I keep Dominic. He’ll want to marry me and start a family and all my hopes and dreams will be gone.”
“You said you could abstain from sex.”
“I could never ask him to do that. He’s an Alpha. He’s strong and virile and his Dragon? I think his Dragon would probably come out and kill us both. No, I’d have to let him go have sex with other people. And I think that would kill me too.”
Hailey wrinkled her nose. “Sex? Sex is nothing—it’s nothing. An itch! Anybody can scratch it. But love—true love? Oh Jax, love is everything. Love is an itch that only one hand in the world can satisfy. You found thatone, Jax, and it’s so precious. Don’t turn it loose because you’re afraid. This is something you and Dominic can work out between you. If,that is, you’ll stop fighting with him long enough.” She shook me a little. “Now get in that bathroom and pee on that stick.”
My eyes widened, but I knew she wouldn’t stop pestering me until I did. I sucked it up, marched into the bathroom like Hailey said, and I peed on the stick.
When I came out of the bathroom, Hailey was right there. “Well?”
“It’s positive. I’m going to have a baby.”
Hailey squealed so loud she almost burst my eardrums and then she grabbed me by the shoulders and started dancing around. I had to laugh, and it was hard not to get excited at her enthusiasm. And wonder of wonders, now that I knew—I wasn’t nearly as upset as I thought I’d be.
A baby…some sweet child of mine and Dominic’s who’d have his father’s good looks—and hopefully his personality. Or maybe some little girl who would be blond and look a bit like me.
