Heated Manipulations by Aiden Bates

Author:Aiden Bates [Bates, Aiden]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-10-21T16:00:00+00:00

17

Harper

The next morning, I lowered my binoculars with a heavy sigh.

Adrian Wells’ house obviously wasn’t going to up and move anywhere anytime soon—and if the rest of my morning was any indicator, neither was anyone who might’ve been inside it. But no matter how hard I tried to focus on any other work I needed to do towards casing the place, my mind always wandered back to the same place in the end.

Nick. The way his body had felt beneath mine last night, the scent of the dinner he’d made disappearing into the lemon of his dish soap. The taste of his lips on my tongue, all spicy pepper, warm ginger, sweet coconut milk. I’d taken quite the liking to Nick since I first showed up on his doorstep—and if I was being honest with myself, it was more than a liking at this point.

Going to the OB with him had been an experience. One that I hadn’t expected a man like me to ever be a part of. Couldn’t have been—I was a man who stood by condom usage as a part of my creed. Long-term relationships for me meant a few months at most—if that. If Nick hadn’t already been knocked up himself, I would’ve insisted. If the Alpha who’d put him in that situation had ever showed up to take his part in it, I would’ve left Nick to his exciting new life. Instead, I’d been given a little glimpse into the life only fatherhood would’ve ever left me privy to.

To my amazement, I’d kind of even liked it. Kind of might’ve even been an understatement at this point. Having a pregnant Omega like Nick on my arm and every nurse, doctor, patient and otherwise looking at me like I was the bastard lucky enough to have made him that way… It’d stirred something in me. I knew it as much as Nick must have already realized. Christ—I’d damn near asked him to come back to Miami with me. Nearly asked him to pull up his entire life and that of his child as well just so I could keep being a part of it.

Was I falling for him? Couldn’t exactly rule it out now. Talk about bad timing, though. Murderer on the loose, Nick’s baby on the way, and my dumb ass was already trying to figure out how to weasel my way into the life of a family man. The kind of life I’d never even thought about before Nick came around.

That was the kicker, though. Nick—did he feel the same? I was good at reading people. Bad at reading lovers. On one hand, he wasn’t exactly offering to drive me to the airport and pushing me onto a plane, but on the other…

Hell. We both knew what was at stake here. Was it even fair to Nick, trying to wedge myself into the position that his Alpha should have held when these botched pills had already turned his life upside down? And with Josh’s

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