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Chapter Twenty-Six: Val

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“The Dean doesn’t believe you’ll get him the money,” Zach said. “I have a bellydancing event planned for tomorrow night.”

“What the fuck?” Val growled. “I told him I’ll get him his fucking money.”

The Dean still had Zach dancing? Val was going to put his fist through all the walls of Lotus academy, and then through the Dean’s ugly face.

Zach shrugged, the movement slight against Val’s chest. Val could feel the babies move inside his omega’s big belly. “No biggie. As long as I can still dance, I don’t mind.”

“I won’t allow them to touch you. Not even approach enough to smell you,” Val said, clutching his omega a little too hard against him, until Zach squirmed.

“I don’t think the Dean is that stupid,” Zach panted, pushing at Val’s chest until Val relaxed his hold. “He only wants to keep them interested and thinking they stand a chance.”

“Well, they fucking don’t. Told you, I’m getting the money, and then I’m Claiming you.” He paused, hating the doubts crowding his mind. “You want that, right? You want me to Claim you?”

“You...” Zach shook his head and bit his lip, laughing quietly. “You big alpha idiot.”

“Hey, watch it,” Val said with a smile.

“If you don’t believe yet that I love you... after waiting for you all these months with a growing belly and still hoping you’d come through, holy crap...”

Val rolled his omega on his back, loving how he flailed, the mount of his belly wobbling a little. “Just making sure.” He kissed the top of Zach’s belly, then kissed a path down to a dark nipple.

“What happened to just wanting to hold me?” Zach moaned and panted.

“We’ll get to that. This talk about the Dean got me angry, and seeing you like this got me hard, so...” He kissed the nipple, then sucked on it, making Zach moan louder. “I need to let off some steam, and I need to make you come.”

“That won’t take long,” Zach panted when Val sucked harder. “Ooh...”

“I don’t want you dancing for any alpha but me.” Val licked at the peak of the nipple, then slipped his hand between his omega’s trembling legs and under his briefs, finding his small cock fully hard. “And...”

“What?” Zach asked breathlessly.

“And I wanna taste you right now.” He yanked the briefs down and scooted to kneel between Zach’s legs. He lifted them over his shoulders, making his omega groan, that big belly jutting up and making him heavier than ever, and took that slender cock into his mouth.

Zach made some incoherent moaning/pleading sound, his cock twitching in Val’s mouth, then jerking, releasing sweetness and saltiness on his tongue as his omega came.

The need to fuck him was unbearable, burning him from the inside out. Giving that delicious cock one last suck, he pulled back. He couldn’t see his lover’s face, hidden behind that enormous belly, so full of their babies, and it only made Val harder.

“Babe?”

“Ugh. Mfff.”

Val licked him lower, over his small balls and then over his wet hole, making him mewl and whine and rock. “I want you,” he breathed, giving that sweetness another long lick, and Zach groaned.

“Ugh, put it in me...” He tried to rock his hips again, his thighs tensing over Val’s shoulders. “Want you inside me...”

With a curse, hard to the point of bursting, Val managed to free his own cock and then grab and lower his lover’s legs so he could push into him. It was certainly not the best position with Zach’s advanced pregnancy, but neither of them would have the patience to shift around and change positions now.

Zach wailed Val’s name as he was penetrated, his hands grabbing fistfuls of the covers, his belly bumping into Val’s stomach. Damn, he was sexy.

And fuck, he felt damn good around Val’s cock. Always. Hot and tight, and above all, his. His omega, that connection between them so strong it twanged like a chord. Zach’s scent, his shape, his moans, the subtle scent of the babies in his belly, all locking into Val’s instincts and feelings and reeling him in.

“God, babe...” He was gasping for breath, the pressure in his groin rising and rising, his balls tightening, his cock so swollen he could barely thrust.

Before he knew it, he was coming hard, groaning Zach’s name and grunting in rhythm to the spasms of pleasure going through him, barely aware of Zach coming again, shooting between their bodies, his hole strangling Val’s cock.

He found himself bowed over Zach’s round belly, his hands under Zach’s ass, his nose filled with his omega’s scents—his pregnancy honey, his natural, intoxicating sweet omega aroma, and the muskier layer of his release.

“Holy fuck,” he managed, struggling to catch his breath. Gently he pulled out and lowered his omega’s legs down to the mattress. “Are you okay? I didn’t hurt you or the babies?”

“We’re okay. More than okay,” Zach wheezed. His cheeks were flushed crimson. “Woo.”

It made Val laugh.

“Only wanted to hold me, huh?” Zach rolled on his side, rubbing at his belly. “Just lie in bed with me? I shouldn’t have believed you.”

“Guilty,” Val panted. “Should I apologize?”

“Don’t you dare.” Zach gave him a lazy smirk.

Val liked that. He liked this confident, relaxed Zach—the Zach he’d met before he’d gotten him pregnant and left him alone to lose his trust in Val and the future.

Never again.

“What’s on your mind?” Zach whispered. He looked so pretty, prettier than ever, sated, his skin dewy with sweat and glowing, the curve of his belly so perfect and sexy.

“You,” Val said truthfully. “Only you, always.”

Zach’s gaze softened. “We love you, Val.”

We.

Zach and the babies.

Unexpectedly Val’s eyes grew hot. “Fuck, babe. And babies. What are they telling you, huh?” He knelt beside Zach and carefully laid his head on that full belly, ear pressed to the taut skin, listening. “Do you love me, babies?”

A light kick was his answer, somewhere in the vicinity of his cheek, and he grinned.

“You’re not loved if you’re not kicked,” Zach said philosophically. “I think at this point they’re like cats.”

“Cats?”

“Yeah. They kick things to see what happens. But they won’t really move from their warm, cozy spot in my belly unless they have to.”

“Not yet, though, huh?”

Zach snickered. “A few more weeks, though I’d like it to be sooner. Your babies are quite heavy.”

“Good.” Val sat up. “Because I want to Claim you before the babies come, so that they come into the world with a home to call their own.”

Zach blinked. “Val...”

“The money from the will won’t be released for another two weeks, but we can start planning this thing, don’t you think? The where and how, the music and the guests.”

Zach’s lower lip trembled. “Really?”

His omega hadn’t believed it would happen, not until now, that much was obvious. Of course he hadn’t. Seeing that belief bloom again was everything.

“I told you, babe. It’s you I want and nobody else.” Val swiped his thumb over that lush lip. “I love you more than I can ever explain. It’s time.”