All Chapters of The Contract Omega( MXM Romance): Chapter 111 - Chapter 120

130 Chapters

Chapter 111 — Full Speed

Caelen POVIt started with Sebastian.It always started with Sebastian.He appeared in the kitchen on a Thursday morning with that look. The one he wore when he'd already decided something and was simply waiting for everyone else to catch up. He set ginger tea in front of me without being asked, the way he always did, and said, "The Monaco circuit is holding an invitation-only exhibition race next month. Mr. Fenmore has been asked to drive."I looked up from my brief. Across the kitchen, Aldric stood at the counter with his back to me. Pouring coffee very carefully. Too carefully."How long have you known about this?" I asked him."A week." He turned around. His expression was the careful kind, the kind he wore when he wanted something and wasn't sure he was allowed to want it. "I turned it down initially.""Why?""Given everything."I looked at him for a moment. He looked back.Given everything. He'd been saying that for two years. Given the pregnancy. Given the kidnapping. Given the

Chapter 112- The Victory

Caelen POVI was already moving when the flag dropped.I didn't decide to move. My body decided for me, the same way it had in the warehouse when I threw my weight sideways and tipped the chair because the alternative was unacceptable. Some things bypassed thought entirely.Sebastian was at my elbow before I reached the corridor. Of course he was. He always knew where the corridor was."Well done," he said.I didn't answer. I was already walking.The paddock was loud and crowded and specific in the way paddocks were after a race, everyone moving with purpose, everyone knowing exactly where they were going. I moved through it like I knew where I was going too, because I did.He was climbing out of the car when I came onto the pit lane.He pulled the helmet off. His hair was damp and his face was the face of someone who had just done something that required everything and had come through it whole. I had seen that face before. I had been in love with that face for two years.He looked a

Chapter 113 — Discussing More Children

Aldric POVAdrian was at the climbing structure.Navigating it with the particular confidence of a two-year-old who had no concept of his own physical limitations. Other children swarmed around him, siblings and playmates, the same faces from the toddler groups Eleanor took him to every week. He knew all of them by now. He had opinions about all of them."Look, Daddy!" He was hanging upside down from a bar, his face going red, entirely unbothered. "I flying!""I see you." I moved closer anyway, hands positioned without thinking. "Very impressive. Please don't fall and crack your head open."He was already righting himself. Moving on to the next challenge. That was Adrian, fearless in the specific way of a child who had never been given a reason not to be. He did not remember the NICU. He did not carry any of what had happened before he was ready for the world. He had just arrived into it and started climbing things.I sat back down beside Caelen on the bench."He'd be a great big brot

Chapter 114- Pregnant Again

Caelen POV The discussion continued in pieces over the following two weeks.Late-night conversations after Adrian was asleep. Whispered debates over morning coffee. Pros and cons that never fully resolved into a list because the things that mattered most were not the kind that fit neatly into columns."I want to try," I said finally one night. The words felt both terrifying and right. "I'm scared. I'm so scared. But I want to give Adrian a sibling. I want to prove to myself that pregnancy doesn't have to end in trauma.""You're sure?" Aldric's hand found mine in the dark. "Really sure.""I'm not sure. I don't think I'll ever be completely sure." I turned toward him. "But I want to try anyway. We're better prepared now. Stronger support system, better medical knowledge, no Dion lurking to kidnap me at a vulnerable moment.""That last one is definitely an improvement." His attempt at humor came out slightly flat. I appreciated it anyway."What about work?" he asked. "You've just become

Chapter 115 — Surprise Twins

Caelen POVThe eight-week ultrasound was supposed to be routine.A dating scan. Confirmation that the pregnancy was progressing the way it should. A heartbeat on the screen. The small reassurance of numbers meant everything was where it ought to be.I lay on the examination table and tried to breathe normally. Aldric was beside me, close enough that our arms touched. We had been here before, in this position, in this room, except the last time I had been thirty-two weeks pregnant and terrified for different reasons. The room was the same. The plant in the corner was the same. Even the particular quality of the light from the overhead fluorescent was the same.Everything had changed and the room had not noticed.The technician applied the cold gel and pressed the wand against my stomach. The screen came to life, the grainy black and white landscape of early pregnancy that never looked like anything comprehensible until someone pointed at the right blur and told you what you were seeing

Chapter 116-Two Heartbeats, Already Ours

Aldric POV That Evening, we gathered the people who needed to know.Eleanor, Mira, and Sebastian. The core of everything that had kept us functional through Adrian's first years and every difficult thing before and after. They were in the living room with drinks, and Adrian was in the corner dismantling a block tower he had spent twenty minutes building, which was a metaphor I chose not to examine."We have an announcement," I said."You're pregnant," Eleanor said it immediately, with the certainty of someone who had been watching Caelen for weeks and drawing conclusions. "I knew it. You've had that look.""Yes," Caelen confirmed. "But that's not the whole announcement.""Triplets?" Mira guessed, which was not funny and also was."Twins." The word still felt foreign. "We're having twins."Three seconds of silence.Then Mira's shriek."TWINS! Oh my god! This is incredible!" She was already pulling Caelen into a hug with the complete disregard for personal space that was entirely char

Chapter 117 — High-Risk Twin Pregnancy

Caelen POV In Week twelve, the morning sickness hit at exactly six in the morning.Every morning. Precisely six. As if my body had set an alarm for it and considered this a reasonable way to begin the day.It gave me just enough warning to stumble to the bathroom before emptying my stomach violently. This had become routine over the past four weeks. Wake up. Make it to the bathroom. Vomit. Try to keep crackers down. Vomit again. Eventually function somewhere around noon, when the worst of it had passed, and my body agreed to be inhabited again."It's worse than with Adrian," I told Dr. Rose at the twelve-week checkup. My voice was hoarse from weeks of it. "Significantly worse.""Twin pregnancies often are." She reviewed my weight chart without any attempt to soften what she was seeing. "Double the hormones means double the symptoms. You've lost six pounds instead of gaining. We need stronger anti-nausea medication.""I'm already taking medication.""Different medication. And if that

Chapter 118-The Survivable Version

Caelen POVFull bed rest arrived at twenty-eight weeks when my blood pressure spiked through the medication's ceiling.Dr. Rose's orders were exact. Bed except for the bathroom and weekly appointments. No negotiation, no exceptions, no appeals."Six weeks minimum," she said. "Possibly longer if we can hold on until thirty-six. I know what this costs. But we are in the home stretch."Home stretch. Six to eight weeks of being entirely dependent on other people for everything. Of watching the household continue around me instead of participating in it. I had spent eight months building to function in my sustained absence.Eleanor, already in the guest house, shifted fully into Adrian's care. She had been doing daily visits since the directorship months, the arrangement that had grown naturally from proximity and love and Adrian's absolute conviction that his grandmother's garden contained the most important things in the world. Now she was there completely, morning through evening, manag

Chapter 119 — Planned Twin Delivery Part 1

Aldric POVThe scheduled C-section was at nine in the morning on a Thursday.Thirty-six weeks exactly. The ideal delivery time for twins, according to every piece of research and every conversation with Dr Rose across the past months. Unlike Adrian's birth, which had been a series of catastrophes accelerating toward each other in an abandoned warehouse and an ambulance and an operating room where nothing had gone as planned, this arrival had been mapped out in advance. Surgical team scheduled. Neonatal specialists on standby. Dr. Rashid briefed on Caelen's full history. Blood typed and crossed and ready.Calm. Controlled. Everything about Adrian's birth had not been.We woke at five.Both of us quieter than might have been expected, given what the day was. Caelen showered carefully, mindful of the size his stomach had reached over thirty-six weeks of carrying two people. I helped him dress in the hospital gown Dr. Rose had arranged. Checked the hospital bag that had been sitting by th

Chapter 120- Planned Twin Delivery Part 2

Aldric POVI stood between the two warming tables.The neonatal team worked with efficient quiet on both sides of me. I did not get in the way. I simply stood there, looking at my sons, trying to understand that both of them existed outside of Caelen's body and both of them were all right."Both babies are cleared," the lead neonatologist said, stepping back from James's table. "No NICU admission needed. They can go directly to recovery with the parents."No NICU.I heard the words and did not immediately process them."You're certain," I said."Completely. Thirty-six weeks with good weights and no respiratory issues. They're ready for standard nursery care." He said it with the mild certainty of someone delivering straightforward information, entirely unaware that the three words no NICU had just rearranged something in my chest that had been braced for the alternative since the moment the twins were confirmed at eight weeks. "Congratulations, Mr. Fenmore. Your boys are healthy."Adr

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