Santa's Omega Stepbrother: An MPreg novella (Santas of Alpha Ridge Book 1) by Anna Wineheart

Author:Anna Wineheart [Wineheart, Anna]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
Published: 2022-11-06T16:00:00+00:00

10

Awkward Times

Nico: I haven’t heard from you lately, are you ok?

Brodie: I’m fine. Actually... I’m pregnant.

The call came so quickly that Brodie wasn’t really surprised. He answered it, flopping heavily onto his bed. “Hey.”

“You’re pregnant?” his best friend squeaked. In the background somewhere, Brodie heard River ask, “Are you talking to my dad? Wait. He’s pregnant?”

“Maybe we should do a video call instead,” Brodie said dryly. “I’d rather not have this conversation twice.”

They hung up; Nico’s bespectacled face appeared on his screen soon after, joined by River squeezing himself into the frame.

“Who knocked you up, Dad?” River frowned deeply. “Do I need to fly back and punch him?”

Brodie rolled his eyes and propped his phone against the pillow so he didn’t have to hold it upright. “I’m fine. He’s fine. Remember I mentioned I had a stepbrother?”

Nico and River looked at each other. Brodie was glad to see they were both doing well. Despite his goggle-thick glasses and short arm, Nico was much happier these days. Probably because River was there to get all growly and alpha around him—that had really helped fend off the alpha professor who’d been bullying Nico at Meadowfall College.

River looked a lot like Brodie, with his dark hair and walnut eyes. Brodie studied him... and wondered if his next child would look anything like himself. Or if the baby would resemble Noel more.

“You briefly mentioned a stepbrother,” Nico said slowly. “But I don’t know anything about him.”

“He left when I was eighteen. Way before either of you came along. Then he completely dropped off the face of the Earth, because he went and became Santa Claus.”

River’s eyes bugged out of his head. “You—Wait. Santa? My step-uncle’s Santa? Isn’t Santa super old, like, in his eighties? Nineties? Can he even get it u—Uh. How’d he manage to knock you up?”

“I take offense to that,” someone said behind Brodie.

Brodie jumped and looked over his shoulder, only to find Noel grinning. “How’d you get in here? I didn’t give you a key.”

“Chimney?” Noel shrugged and came to sit next to Brodie on the bed. “You didn’t answer when I knocked. I figured you were in the bathroom.”

“He looks legitimate,” Nico said faintly. “He’s wearing a red shirt.”

“You can’t be Santa,” River said dubiously. “Shouldn’t you have a long white beard and a big belly and small round glasses?” His eyebrows drew low. “Are you sure it’s not a scam, Dad?”

Noel snorted. “For someone who believes in Santa, you sure are doubting me a lot.”

“You look so young,” River retorted, still frowning.

“I’m forty-three. Same age as your dad.”

“Too young,” River repeated.

“You got a model train last year for Christmas,” Noel said. “Red with silver stripes down the side. And the year before that, it was a small cow plush with silver bells.”

River’s mouth fell open. “How...”

Brodie turned to stare. “Even I don’t remember that.”

“I wrapped them myself.” Noel shrugged. “You used to get the bright plaid wrapping papers, but when you got older, I swapped them out for the damask foils.

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