Come home with me for Christmas

Meeting mother pt2

You want to date me?" Lena skeptically questioned and struggled back into her shirt and panties without reacting to that. She zipped up her skirt as someone knocked at the door and sprayed the room in deodorizer as she decided to answer it.

"I'm just checking to see if Kara needs anything," Lillian called through the oak and stepped back at the shifting of the lock.

"Kara and I were just having a private conversation before the party." Lena blinked at her mother, talented in concealing any trace of guilt from her face.

Lillian dropped her voice to a quieter decibel and gripped Lena by the wrist. "Sam told me you two were arguing. I swear on Santa and all of his reindeer that if you ruin your chances with this alpha—"

Kara coughed to make it plain she could hear them and walked over to put a hand on Lena's tight shoulder.

"We sometimes get heated when talking theoretical physics," Kara fibbed.

The lie worked wonders, and Lillian relaxed as she took her hand back to preen like she hoped the alpha would accompany her downstairs. "Some of our guests are arriving early and I was hoping to introduce you to my husband and son first. Do you mind if I steal you away for an hour?"

"An hour?" Lena parroted in distress, not necessarily because she wanted to keep Kara glued to her side, but because it was mortifying to think of facing her friends alone after they had walked in on her getting railed.

"You know your father will want to get a real feel for Kara, and Lex will likely talk her ears off," Lillian intoned with a fondness that said she found the behavior endearing and not at all old-fashioned and sexist.

"Lead the way," Kara amicably insisted, and offered her arm to Lillian with a real level of enthusiasm that left Lena gawking at her.

"This is worse than any of the nightmares I've had," Lena insisted under her breath, sure that Kara heard her given the sudden and short cough the alpha gave to cover the sound of her laugh.

On one hand, she hated that Kara was so eager to meet the rest of her family, and on the other it gave Lena a chance to uncloud her mind now that the alpha's pheromones weren't circulating in the air she was breathing.

She made her way downstairs at a delay just to observe how charmed her mother was with whatever Kara was saying, and then headed in the opposite direction of their home office to grab a drink. Her plan was to sneak off before anyone saw her, but as her fingers grazed a crystal glass with a finger of Scotch in it, Sam bounded over with everyone else.

"Lena I'm so sorry," Sam rambled in embarrassment. "I didn't know you were bringing anyone home. The last time we spoke, you said you weren't dating–-"

"I'm not dating anyone, she's just a friend," Lena insisted with the hope of putting an end to the discussion before it started.

"Friends don't let friends inside them," Andrea commented with a jealous lilt that forced her chin to jut out and her shoulders to square.

The posturing surprised Lena, and for a split second, her confused omega almost reacted until she noticed Kara animatedly discussing something with Lex next to the massive tree that was already up and decorated.

"And you'd know all about that, wouldn't you?" Lena drawled, refusing to be sucked into the blackhole of misery that would surely follow if she so much as reminisced about their time together.

"And on that note, drinks?" Nia interjected, sensing the bickering that could take over their friendly little circle if given half the chance.

"Oh yeah," Sam encouraged and lifted two drinks off a passing tray to casually walk Lena away from Andrea and let the tension between them settle. "So, who is your friend and how long have you not been dating?"