Turning The Page

Forty Three

"Collin?" We had given each other a nod of acknowledgment earlier when he had joined the rest of us in the room, but as well as he knows me he deemed it better to give me some space instead of crowding me right now, though I know he must be crawling up his own ass with how badly he'll want the details of what exactly is going on and if my sweet Addy-Baby is okay... Something I had appreciated greatly... That is until he decided to bang on the bathroom door long enough to make my eyes twitch,  my balls ready to fall off with how full they currently feel. 

"Hey- I know! I know! Not a good time to interrupt... I just thought..." my best friend has the strangest look in his eyes... One that puts me even more on edge than I already am, and I find him pushing his way into the bathroom with us and taking a moment to lock the door before sighing and running his palms over his face, "I just thought the two of you would like to know that you had a... an audience? of sorts..."

"What?", His bizarre statement has me looking around the room trying to spot whatever hidden camera he's talking about, the idea that Kelvin might be more of a pervert than any of us thought springing to the forefront of mind paired with a long list of explicit phrases I'd like to fill his office with before reporting him to the council... That is until Collin chuckles and decides to further explain himself. 

"There's a group of Alphas that spilled out into the hall, and the conference room door is open... I... We could hear what you two were starting, the walls are wafer-thin... I don't think any of them are there specifically to listen in or whether or not they were just trying to escape the...the smell... It was getting a little concentrated in there, even for me. "

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Adrian

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If any more blood rushes to my face, as ultra-heated as it already is, I'm going to find myself fainting... And while I've wanted to faint in order to escape my embarrassment before, it's something I know better than to wish for at the moment with Silas already on edge... With myself already on edge. 

I didn't think we were being that loud... I know that there might have been a moan or two that I hadn't been able to choke off... But I hadn't imagined that there would be people in the hallway who would be able to actually hear them... And now that I know that its happened I feel like I want to melt into a puddle in the sink and slide down the drain so I wouldn't ever have to face any of the other Alphas again...

I know that we've been playing in the bathrooms at every stop along the way... But that was with the knowledge that if anyone heard us or if we got caught we would never actually have to see them again, and it would be as easy as just not stopping at the same stops on the way home... Unfortunately here, though, we're stuck for the week and will have to see them all again this time next year. It's enough to make a Princess hyperventilate!

All I wanted to do was work out a little of the lava currently circulating through my body that seems more than content to try and make itself at home... I wanted to get Silas to think about something other than having to protect me from everyone else when he's already so strung out with his wolf trying to convince him to run from here as fast as he can and never look back. 

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Silas

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"Well, where the hell are we supposed to do it then? We were told the bathroom was fine!" All of this makes me want to rip every single thirty-four-inch strand of hair from my scalp so we can just walk out of this torturous hotel and never have to attend one of these damn conferences ever again... 

I'm at a loss at how I'm going to be able to take care of Adrian when it seems like every single little thing that should be easy suddenly decides to become so much harder... All I'm trying to do is keep my sweet Baby from being so uncomfortable... I know he doesn't feel good right now... And I know that this is not how either one of us thought his heat would play itself out... I want to give him the entire world because he is my world and so far I've presented him with a pebble, and not even a shiny one like a penguin would pick out... It's covered in dirt and shaped like a mash-up of Alic and Kelvin's faces... Definitely not something my sweet Mama would want to keep... 

It makes me feel about three inches tall, and all I want to do is curl up around my beautiful mate and keep him safe... I want us to go home...  I want the familiar sights and sounds of our house and territory... And I don't want to have to wait an entire week to get back to it... My stunning Princess deserves to have his heat happen in an environment he feels safe in, surrounded by his books and the things that make us both happy... 

"It should be fine... Just not when everyone is in the hall where we can all hear it... Look, maybe the two of you don't actually have an issue with it if you two get down that way, no shame, everyone gets off on different stuff... Just I know that Adrian's a bit shy and I didn't want the pair of you to flip out when you came back out. I'm sure that there's another spot that wouldn't be so... Revealing..." It makes sense, and I'm actually glad this time that he's intervened, especially when I check on my Baby's inner monologue and find it filled with an unspoken anxious meltdown, his body trembling in a way that doesn't stop when I manage to tug him into my arms and hold him close. 

"Can you help us find it, and fast?" At this point not even just to take care of Adrian's heat-wave... It's so that he can let the tears out that he's holding back of built-up frustration and embarrassment that I wish more than anything I could wipe away.