My winter treasure

Chapter 20.

"Nick?"

It wasn't even me who recognized it, one of those omegas around the fire looked at me and stood up, running in my direction to hug me.

"Otto?" I asked a little shyly.

"Oh Nick... My precious little brother..."

I could not recognize my brother.

Seeing us enter the room everyone looks the same way as everyone else, quizzical, surprised... The alpha at the center of the couch rushes to his feet and approaches my alpha, shaking his hand and looking very condescending.

"Mr. Gold, what a pleasure to welcome you to my home, I hope you can stay for Christmas dinner, it's a real joy to see you in this part of town..." Says Damian Walker, shaking Theo's hand again and again.

"Thank you for the welcome, Mr. Walker" Says Theo with his typical speech: "But I will have to decline your invitation, we won't stay here for long."

Theo crosses glances with me and I know what he means, he's giving me time so I can talk to Otto.

"But I'll take a cup of coffee while we chat for a moment" Says Theo, entering the room with confidence.

"Of course, we'll bring you coffee right away" Says Damian, approaching one of the many omegas around him, saying something in a whisper.

The whole house moves at high speed, the omegas move away from the couch, and quickly look for food and coffee to offer my alpha, acting as if they were some kind of "servants", attentive to any request from Damian Walker's bastard.

"Are you eating well? You look very thin, I think it's quite fashionable nowadays, but you should watch your diet for my cute nephew... Do you already know what his sex will be?" Otto asks, completely ignoring everything that is going on in the living room.

"Not yet, next month" I answer in a whisper.

"Well I guess it doesn't matter if it's a boy or a girl, as long as it's an alpha" Otto says, pulling away from me to look at my belly: "He has to be alpha Nick, that's very important."

"I know..."

I don't even know why I'm acting so self-conscious, before I thought I would cry from excitement when I met Otto again, but now that we are together again... There is nothing, I feel nothing, just discomfort. I don't understand why a person I consider a stranger is giving me an opinion about my pregnancy and is pressuring me to have an alpha child, especially someone like Otto, who preferred not to visit me in the hospital to stay here with an alpha like Damian Walker.

"I heard on the news that you will marry your alpha very soon, I want all the details..." My brother tells me, taking my hands.

"Otto, can we talk for a moment?" I ask him tiredly, cutting off his stupid speech of banalities.

It was only the omegas near us who heard my request, and I could see a grimace of displeasure and nervousness on their faces when they heard me. I don't know what kind of things they are imagining, but if I'm sure they don't like at all that I came here to see my brother, their competition for that repulsive alpha...

"Of course, come with me, let's see the snow..." My brother asks me, hugging me around the waist a little tightly.

I don't complain, and under the watchful eye of Theo, still watching me out of the corner of his eye and sitting next to that nasty alpha, I walk beside my brother to a door at the back of the house, out onto the back porch, where we could admire the snow.

I didn't even know how I was going to start talking, I didn't even know well why I was so angry, when I was in the car I thought I just wanted to solve my doubts, to convince myself that my older brother loved me and that he was also a victim of the situation like me. But now... I don't know what I feel or want from Otto.