Chapter 253: If we don’t make plans, we have not ground rules
"Are you going to be okay getting that koala home?" May joked, everyone gathered around the entrance of the restaurant that they had just exited. Andrew was still clinging to Maxwell, had been after they had finished dinner and everyone had remained at the restaurant to chat.
Andrew felt like he was in control, but he knew he was slipping. Everything kind of came to a head when Andrew growled when Maxwell pulled away to go to the bathroom, and Kim and May had laughed and declared it was time to send the ’beastie boy’ back to his home.
There were two reasons that didn’t set off Andrew. One, it was May saying it. He knew it was from a place of warmth inherently. May wasn’t saying it to hurt him, but maybe to get a rise out of him. Two, it was true. He felt like a beast around Maxwell.
He wanted to do something similar as to what they had done in the morning at night, but he also knew better. He wasn’t going to handle it well, and without the threat of others going to arrive at any moment, he might not be able to stop himself.
He also knew he couldn’t really rely on Maxwell to put his foot down.
Andrew hated to admit it, but he was kind of testing him. Not maliciously. Never maliciously. And Maxwell had failed spectacularly.
Maxwell had no resistance to Andrew. Not a single bit. It squeezed at Andrew’s heartstrings that the man trusted him so much, but at the same time, he really wanted the other man to have his guard up. Andrew was a danger to him. He knew he was a danger to him.
Maxwell knew that if Andrew went off the deep end, not only would Maxwell end up probably bedridden for days, and Andrew would feel terribly guilty, but that he could end up pregnant, and worse, marked.
Andrew hadn’t gone through a full rut yet. He had no idea what kind of person he was going to be in it. Maxwell had tried to comfort him and told him that he had a rough idea of what Andrew might be like, but that wasn’t a true comfort to Andrew. Just because Maxwell had dealt with him for a day didn’t mean that they knew what was going on.
During dinner, Kim had sent Andrew a few articles about the length of true alpha ruts, along with preparations an omega could take to protect themselves. It was an article written from the omega perspective, but Andrew had appreciated it. He wondered how Kim knew that Andrew was so worried about it, but then again, she was also a true alpha, and Andrew wasn’t exactly the best at hiding his emotions right now.
"Well, same time as tomorrow?" Luis asked warmly, smiling at Andrew and Maxwell who remained tucked against each other. Andrew had to fight against the scarf, hat and gloves that Maxwell was wearing, but he was doing a good job. He was wrapped around Maxwell from behind as everyone spoke. Rose and Jordan were a shadow of them, just on a slightly smaller scale. Jordan was also bundled up, and when Andrew perked up, he realised that Jenny and Luis were also well dressed. Huh.