Turning The Page

Forty Nine

"...And that concludes the last subsection before lunch... Please meet back here in an hour and we'll continue... Moving on with the sections on pack behavior and what is and is not expected of our packs as a whole and in what ways we should be enriching the communities that surround our territories. More on that when we get back folks..." Alic claps his hands one more time as though he's ending a football huddle instead of dismissing us all to go eat before crawling back to this godforsaken room. 

I can't seem to get us up out of the chair fast enough, our room feeling entirely too far away for how badly we both need each other... For how badly I need to here my beautiful Princess moan out in satisfaction when I slip back inside of him... 

But before we can be the first ones to make a speedy exit in order to turn our hotel suite sound like the ancient bathhouse featured in the audiobook Adrian had picked out specifically for the car ride here and back... I find us being stopped by the three men I had thought understood how uncomfortable our current predicament is, Lukas and Harper joined by Collin as the three of them stop us and let the other Alphas filter out around us before Collin speaks, "You two need to try and eat something before sneaking off..."

And it's not that I don't know that he's right... That if we want to avoid my sweet Bean fainting again he needs to be properly looked after, and not just by means of cooling him down fast enough when we're soothing his stunning body... Just like at home I need to make sure he's fed and hydrated, and that he continues to take his vitamins in the hopes that we'll be able to keep his body from being too stressed out to conceive... Because it would be devastating to both of us to know that our first chance at a baby was lost because of the stress of being here at the conference instead of at home... So... Yes... Food... But I don't have to be happy about it. 

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Adrian

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"Eating... Yeah... Food..." Silas sounds just as awkward as I feel, the way his arms adjust themselves around me urging me to lean into him before turning and letting him pick me up, my legs folding around his hard waist to help keep myself up as his hands find themselves supporting my bottom... 

Daddy doesn't complain over needing to carry me, but he never does and I know it because I know he likes carrying me around just as much as I like being carried, and at the moment we both need the added closeness... And while I'm not necessarily upset over the thought of actually eating something during our lunch break I would much rather do it naked and in bed with Daddy's knot buried deep inside me... Something like chocolate that we could lick off of each other would be good... I should raid the snacks we have set aside for the trip home and get a bar or two out... We could melt it between us with body heat and... 

A pinch to my bottom brings me out of my hazy thoughts only to realize that I've been transported to the same room that we've been having breakfast in, though there's no food in sight, just Alphas and Lunas reuniting after a long morning that wasn't necessarily boring per se... Just tedious in how the treaty documents are written and how Alic seems to draw his words out because he very clearly is not familiar with public speaking. 

"There's a restaurant connected to the hotel... But I'm not sure if it's actually open for lunch..." The voice I hear sounds like it belongs to Aurie, and when I peek out from my hiding place in Daddy's shoulder I see that I'm right, and my newest friends have joined us from their own side of the conference, the way that they've both chosen to give their mates affection in the form of standing cuddles bringing a smile to my face, and maybe a tear or two to my eyes in my currently slightly overly-emotional state.

"We could go out as a group? I noticed a tiny little diner not too far from here, and it looked discreet enough for us not to draw too much attention." It's BabyBug who speaks next, his cuddle with Harper a nice thing to see since it's the first real PDA that he's indulged in in front of the rest of us... And then for the first time I notice that right next to the two Oliveras are Becky and Collin, Noah sandwiched between the two of them smiling and hanging on to Becky's necklace as his parents greet each other with a tight hug and gentle kiss... A smile floating our way when they notice me staring. 

I manage a wave and get a nod in response, the two of them stepping back out the door likely with plans of their own to make the most of their lunch with a little family time... Only to come back to the conversation happening between my friends and my mate as they all stare expectantly at me as if I'm the one who will make the decision for us as a unit... Only I never actually heard the question, "What?"

"What are you most comfortable with, Baby? Do you want to go out to eat, or do you want them to bring something back for us?" I'm stunned at the question, but I do my best not to show it... Daddy has never once suggested that we actually dine in at any of the diners and cafes that we order from at home, the stops along the way on our trip here hardly counting with how quickly we managed to get in and out of them all in order to not stretch out our time on the road any more than we had too... And I know it's normally because he's not fond of having to fake a smile and force himself to be nice to whatever pack remember decides to stop us and chat wherever we end up going for any longer than he has to... But here the only people who would even know who we are would be sitting at the table with us, and they seem to understand that neither one of us is truly comfortable here around all of the other Alphas and Lunas... Not that we didn't want to be... Just that we're a bit too antisocial both as a couple and as individuals to really take pleasure in being included in the conference in the first place...

It takes me maybe longer than it should to reach a decision... But if worst comes to worst and the heat beginning to collect in the pit of my belly again gets any hotter we can find ourselves locked in the bathroom to get some relief, or if the diner is close enough to the hotel, we could always just make a break for it and get our food to go, "You said it was close?"