Chapter Forty-Six #2
“Hi, are you Fiona? I’m Molly, your advocate. I’m so sorry for the delay.” An advocate in a Center polo shirt there. She was an omega with auburn hair.
We grabbed a coffee in the cafe and got to know each other, then we went into one of the meeting rooms. It looks like a living room with a sofa and a coffee table.
“Okay, you wanted me to look over some mating agreements?” Molly asked.
“Please. They look fine to me. But I haven’t gotten a lawyer of my own yet.” I gave her both of them.
“They look fine. Though…” She suggested a few tiny things.
“Perfect. Now… Here's the contract from my dads.” I grimaced and I told her the story.
Her eyebrows rose. “They want to what?”
“I know, right?” I rolled my eyes.
“You know they can’t actually legally do that without your consent, right?”
“I know.” Though there would be ramifications if we fought against it and I’d rather just avoid that by succeeding.
“I’ll go over this. You can make an appointment online with the legal clinic. I also have a list of lawyers,” she offered.
“I’ll do that, thanks,” I agreed.
“Once you get settled, we can do our first site visit. That’s something that we usually do when an omega moves in, just to make sure that everything is safe and comfortable,” she added.
“Oh, I can’t wait for you to see it,” I replied. She assigned me a bunch of videos to watch and then we made a follow up appointment.
I spent a little time wandering around the facilities. There weren't any special make-and-take crafts today. But they did have some beads, yarn, coloring sheets, and other things in the rec room.
Satisfied I’d accomplished what I needed to, I went to the parking garage and got into my car.
Oh shit. I didn’t look to see if the pharmacy had anything for Saoirse. Sure, she said she didn’t want anything, but she was such a baby sometimes when it came to taking medicine.
I found the pharmacy that actually had a place to park and went to see if I could find anything for her.
As I looked for the over-the-counter stuff for colds and flu, my spine prickled as if I was being watched. But I was an omega alone in public. Creeps did exist everywhere. Also, we had gone viral, people might recognize me.
Hurrying up, I checked out and went to my car with my keys between my fingers. Yeah, this was why Saoirse didn’t like me doing things alone, and why my fathers had expensive security following me around for my time in the academy.
As I was driving, my father called.
“Hi, Princess. How did everything go today?” he asked on speaker.
“Great. We had a good meeting. The bonds are registered. My new advocate looked over my mating agreements. Everything’s fine,” I replied.
“I’m happy to hear that.”
“We even were working on house rules last night, talking about things like chores and stuff. Like we’re a shoes off house and it’s okay to put feet on the coffee table as long as they’re bare and it’s the downstairs one.
” I really wasn’t sure about either of those.
I was all for eating on the downstairs couch.
He chuckled. “Your mom was very much ‘forks go tines up in the dishwasher’ while I just wanted them washed. Sometimes it’s the silly things that can really test your pack, but that doesn’t mean that you still shouldn’t deal with them.”
“That makes sense. Like Carlos and Dusty seem to think the trash needs to be taken out every night after dinner and that dishes shouldn’t be left in the sink overnight. I mean, does it matter as long as it gets done?” I sighed.
Not sure I liked the chore chart, either. I never really had to do chores. Couldn’t we just get a full-time housekeeper?
“I can see how everyone will have opinions on that. Thank you for stopping using the cards. I will say, that was a very impressive amount of spending in a very short time,” he said tentatively.
“You know that I’m really good at shopping. Like I said, I’m just trying to get the household set up. You want me to be nice and cozy and adjusted in my new house, right?” I added, turning on the only-daughter charm.
I was really looking forward to everything I ordered from the CoCoCozy to arrive so I could get my nests all set up. There would be two to start–one in the pack bedroom and one in the alcove in my room.
“You know that I absolutely don’t want to interfere with your coziness and adjustment. What have you been up to?”
“Working on my app. Do I still have investors?” Maybe I should add that to the contract?
“As long as you continue to meet the benchmarks, by the set deadlines, I think your investors will be fine with everything,” he added.
He and my brother Adam were my investors. I had to submit a business plan with specific goals and dates. It was good for me. Otherwise, I would probably procrastinate.
“I just wanted to check in and make sure that you were doing alright. It’s okay if you’re not. This was a big step,” he added.
Checking in? He was prying.
“We had a busy couple of days, but it’s fine,” I assured. “I chose this, so let me deal with it.”
“All we really want is for you to be happy. But we have mixed feelings about Pack Himbo.”
I laughed. “That’s not going to actually be our pack name, but our T-shirts were really cute.”
“I see. Why don’t you take a look at your pack’s schedule and see when we can all get together for dinner. I’d like to try to get to know them and we’re happy to come to you. There are plenty of nice restaurants in New York,” he suggested.
“Sounds great. I’ll check.” I turned down the street for our place. “Well, I’m almost home. I love you and I’ll talk to you later.” I ended the call and pulled into our little garage.
I’d missed a couple of messages from the people delivering our things from our Boston apartment. But it looked like Saoirse replied. It would be really nice to have all my things.
The downstairs living room area was packed full of boxes and furniture.
Saoirse was lying on the couch, watching TV. “Mo Stóirín, did everything go okay?”
“Everything’s fine, Love. No bad effects or anything from the early heat or bonding. I’m just fine. I stopped at the pharmacy and got you some things.” I held up the bag.
She sat up. “Thank you. This isn’t from the omega pharmacy.”
“I stopped at a pharmacy on the way back, ‘cause I forgot. But I don’t think I’ll do that again. Creepy people were watching me. I don’t know who was watching. Just, you know.” I wiggled my shoulders in discomfort.
“I think it’s for the better for you to be with someone until all this dies down. When I went for my run this morning, I felt like someone was watching me,” she added as she looked at everything I bought.
I frowned as I sat down on the couch with her. “Do you think someone’s watching us?”
“There has been a lot of interest, but my brother doesn’t think it’s anything to be concerned about. Everything with the job we did has died down. We’ve just suddenly become notable.” She opened one of the packets and took the pills dry.
“That makes a lot of sense. I just worry sometimes–especially when we do high profile things like the one we did here in New York.” I leaned into her.
She put an arm around me. “We should take a little break.”
“I’m fine with that. Fixing up this place will take time. And I do have benchmarks to meet for my app,” I replied.
“Good. I will need to look for cover employment.” She sighed.
“What if you work at the Omega Center? Or maybe one of the academies? It won’t give you a cover to travel to far off locations, but no one’s going to blink at a delta working at one of those places.”
“True.”
I glanced at the TV. “I’ll order takeout and we can watch a movie, since the guys are moving furniture?”
Saoirse nodded. “That sounds perfect.”