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After I sent the money to the company, right on time I might add, a phone call came in from my dad.
He’d never liked Clint.
Not one bit.
“Hey, Dad,” I said. I walked out to the porch to sit outside and relax. Since all of this with the cart payment, my body needed a break from the constant stress.
“Hello, Son. I had a feeling you might want to talk about something with me.”
My dad Otto had what he called feelings about things. He could always tell when I or my other dad Adam had something on their mind. Even from afar.
He knew his mate was sick even before the doctors did. The morning my dad died, he came to get me from my room before dawn to say my goodbyes.
Sighing, I decided to tell him. “Clint took the last of the money from our shared account. Money that was mine for the last payment on the cart.”
“Ah, West. How in the world did he still have access to your money?”
“I forgot he was on the account. It had been years.”
A growl ripped through him. He was a protective papa bear if there ever was. My other dad was a deer, and they thought for sure I would be one too. Then I shifted for the first time, proving them wrong. I was a polar bear, just like Otto. “Son, that was…well, it’s in the past now. You have money? What are you going to do?”
If I asked, he would’ve sent me money right away, but I didn’t like to take handouts. Taking money from Antoine before I’d posed already seemed like stealing.
“I got a job, locally. It pays well and all up front.”
“Doing what? What kind of job pays up front?”
I told him all about the job with Antoine. My parents weren’t prudes, and they had seen every one of my modeling gigs because I’d shared them.
“So you’ve made the last payment on the cart?” he asked.
“Yeah. I took care of it right before you called.”
Dad sighed. “Well, then, you go in there and model for him. Make it worth his while. Show him what you’ve got.”
I chuckled. “Dad, there’s…something else. What if I disappoint? What if I don’t do well and earn the money? I mean, he didn’t even ask to see me naked at the job interview.”
“I see,” my dad said. “So you like him. He’s an omega?”
“Yes.”
My dad laughed. “Bear?”
“Smelled like a fox to me.”
We finished up the conversation after my dad gave me the best pep talk ever but even when we hung up, I was plagued by doubts.
What if I froze? What if I got there, in front of that beautiful omega and lost every bit of self-confidence I had left? What if he didn’t like the way I looked now? I had gained some weight, not a lot with my tight budget but some.
Couldn’t even remember the last time I’d worked out beyond a few push-ups and a run most mornings.
Even more, I didn’t want this omega to be disappointed when he saw me naked.
His approval mattered to me. I thought back to Antoine. I smelled no one else in the house other than him.
He didn’t mention a mate.
This would be so hard to keep professional. Splayed out, naked before him.
