So This is Easter

Description: Passover/Easter continuation of So This is Christmas and So This is Love.

Happy days if you celebrate, and even if you don't!

Part 1: https://www.patreon.com/posts/so-this-is-60116532
Part 2: https://www.patreon.com/posts/so-this-is-love-62528539


Word count: 6,082



Lena celebrated her first ever seder at Kara’s home in the company of all her family. She dreaded making a fool of herself, but Jeremiah kept plying her with wine as part of their traditions. It did wonders to calm her down, and she was woozy by the time she joined Kara on the couch after their bread-free meal.

“Finally, a holiday for me,” Lena slurred, her eyelids low from inebriation as she placed an arm around Kara and seated herself partially on the alpha’s knee. “No carbs, and it’s a definite plus that Passover involves wine. I really should have been Jewish.”

“You still could be,” Kara whispered and slipped a hand up Lena’s back to prevent her from falling onto the couch.

Lena was a little too drunk to process the fact that Kara casually mentioned converting her, or that would have only happened when couples planned to marry. She kissed Kara and pushed the alpha’s hands onto her hips.

“Hey you two, keep it PG in here,” Alex scolded from the door and entered the living room with a heaping plate of food and beer.

Kara eyed the grub and leaned over to steal from her sister’s plate. “Wait, I thought as the firstborn you were going to fast and observe our traditions a little more closely this year.”

Alex drew her a moody look and stuck her fork into a leftover hard-boiled egg that she valiantly stuffed whole into her mouth. “Yeah, about that, I changed my mind, but if anyone comes to our door tonight, I will sacrifice myself for you.”

Lena chuckled at their ridiculous sibling banter and nursed her large glass of wine until she was warm in the face and ready for bed.

Kara led her up the stairs and made no pretenses about setting her up in a different room. They never did have an outright discussion about their relationship status, but they both arranged their busy schedules to continue spending time together — and on occasion they even slept beside one another instead of having sex.

That night, Lena fell asleep on Kara’s shoulder right after taking her top off, and woke up feeling snuggly and confused the next morning.

Kara was awake and reading the news on her phone while holding Lena and attempting to conceal a hard-on.

Lena blinked and looked up from where she was resting against Kara’s chest. “Did I get drunk on the seder wine and fall asleep?”

Kara put her phone on the nightstand and chuckled, “You did, but it was probably for the best since my whole family spent the night. Plus, we have a long day of travel ahead of us.”

Lena’s mother had invited Kara’s entire family to the spend the rest of Passover and Easter at the Luthor home — and that meant hopping on a flight and then surviving whatever possible machinations Lillian had planned.

They would be late for boarding if Lena seduced Kara, but she was still topless. She could feel Kara’s eyes on her chest and her nipples stood out with interest as tingles of want started in her core. Before giving it proper reflection, she moved the bedspread and peered down at Kara’s beautifully erect cock. She brought her lips within inches of it and rubbed them together in temptation.

“I guess we shouldn’t mess around this morning, huh?” Lena scrunched her brows, flirty and ridiculous as thick drips of arousal started to slide down Kara’s tip.

“Only if you want us to miss the flight, and my parents will probably miss theirs if they wait for us.”

Kara’s words couldn’t be taken as warning as her cock jerked in clear longing for Lena’s attention. She looked almost ready to suggest they make it quick, and Lena wasn’t sure if it was her own bad influence, or Kara’s alpha that swayed her.

Lena beat her to it by whispering hotly against the wide glans, “Well, I don’t want that, but I do want a taste of what I missed out on last night.”

Kara’s stifled groan sounded a lot like approval as Lena tongued the small crevasse, pressing inside to taste her mate. She must have looked sultry with her sleep-mussed hair and wine-stained lips, which she wrapped over Kara’s cock.

“If I haven’t said it already, I’m so happy you chose to spend Passover with me.” The raspy timber of Kara’s voice shook with her pleasure, and she gathered Lena’s hair out of her face to see the way she grinned, in spite of her full mouth.

Intimacy wasn’t simply in the act of giving oral, but in the caress of Kara’s hand on her cheek when their eyes locked.

Their shared little groans expressed their lust candidly, and Lena sloppily rubbed Kara’s helmet into her silken cheeks. She took the shaft straight into the back of her throat, not once breaching beyond it, and then bobbed her head as she puckered wetly.

Kara palmed at her tits and flicked at her nipples, and Lena knew how close she was getting from the increased pressure she used. Those little tells were exhilarating to find.

Lena moaned and fluttered her tongue all along the underside of Kara’s cock and released her erection with a suctioning pop seconds before she would have orgasmed.

The indignant way Kara’s cock bounced and jerked would have awakened some pity in Lena if she hadn’t planned to torment the alpha for the whole flight.

“That satisfied my craving, and we still have enough time to get ourselves ready before your family wonders what’s been keeping us.”

Kara sat in bed, caught somewhere between stunned and appreciative. She watched Lena slip off her panties to put on a new pair and groaned when she showed off the slick material.

“You’re not the only one leaving here frustrated this morning,” Lena admitted in the softest lilt, and that was enough to get Kara out of bed and dressing.

They kissed in between pulling on clothes, and the wet smack of their lips compelled their hands to wander until they parted with laughter and coy glances.

Lena grabbed a shirt dress from her suitcase with a pearled button collar and a belt.

It had been a gift from her mother, and she planned never to wear it, since the whole outfit gave her country club vibes. She changed her mind not because she was feeling generous towards Lillian, but because Kara would be able to get her hand up it much more easily.

Lena spent most of the flight squirming, and for once it wasn’t from the stress of another holiday.


With their lap trays down and the lights dimmed, Kara’s fingers pushed inside of her and rubbed directly into the spot that would make her orgasm. She endured hours of hot edging before the plane started its descent. By then, Lena’s thighs and legs shook from pleasurable tension, and Kara had to guide her down the aisle to disembark.

She put her libido in check for the drive to her parents’ home, which wasn’t as hard as she would have expected when Jeremiah and Eliza were sitting right next to her.

Esmé clutched a stuffed rabbit that Lena had bought for her and lectured Kara for the last ten minutes of their journey. “You have to trust me. It’s important to impress Lena’s family. I know they already like you, but you need them to love you.”

Kara didn’t bat an eye at the precociousness of her niece and hunched forward to ask seriously, “Do you have any suggestions on how I can achieve that?”

Lena wasn’t truly aware of the sappy smile on her face until she noticed Eliza and Jerimiah sharing a meaningful look with one another. They turned to face her just as Lena realized her cheeks ached from smiling. She pulled out her phone to try and hide behind the small screen and sent off a quick text.

Your niece adores you. You’re cute together.


Kara furtively grabbed for her own phone and fired back a response:

I’m pretty great with kids, in case you ever wondered.

It wasn’t common for alphas to brag about that sort of thing, and Lena worried what it meant when her omega released a subtle pining scent. She tucked her phone away before she said anything stupid and cracked a window before her stupid pheromones filled the vehicle.

Lena knew something was up when their car rolled to a stop in the Luthor's driveway. Colorful decorations brightened the steps up to the mansion and the guest parking lot was practically full.


“Oh god, what the hell has she done,” Lena muttered under her breath. "I told her to keep it low key this year."

Esmé let out an ear-splitting shriek of excitement as they stepped out of the car and caught sight of the decorative pieces that led them up to the front door. “Does the Easter Bunny live here?”

“He only visits, but maybe you’ll find him in the garden later,” Lillian stated, appearing at the top of the stairs to greet everyone.

On every holiday, Lillian was a master at planning and executing the most extravagant of parties—and she did it all without ever falling to pieces or expressing the least bit of anxiety.

That was why Lena found it peculiar when she detected the concern in her mother’s eyes and her frantic energy as she ushered them all inside.

“Wow, look at all of this,” Jeremiah gushed in wonder and turned around to take in the full effect of the pastel decorations. “I’ve never seen anything like it.”

Giant Easter eggs sat on top of a centerpiece table, bedecked in sugar sprinkles and sweets. Chocolate rabbits snuggled in a bed of candy grass.

The gardens at the back of the Luthor home were also decorated with tasteful tents, and in each one was an activity or spectacle for the children.

“The egg hunt will begin in about twenty minutes,” Lillian confided to Esmè as she presented the little girl with a large white basket. “Do you have a good eye for finding things?”

“It’s my job at home!” Esmé declared proudly and grabbed for the basket’s handle with a glance back at Kelly. “I find my Mama’s keys all of the time.”

Alex peered around at the elegant fabergé eggs and flutes of champagne mimosas arranged on a table for adults. She threw a look at Kara and placed a hand on Esmé’s back with a smile. “I’ll just help you with the egg hunt. Your home is lovely, Mrs. Luthor, and this is an incredible surprise.”

Everyone dispersed to enjoy the treats and events happening outdoors, but Lillian grabbed the back of Lena’s dress to prevent her from taking part.

“Lena, darling, I see you wore the dress I sent you. I expected to find it in your closet in May when I move you out of your apartment—”

Lena glowered at her mother and watched Kara walk off to taste the appetizers that a beta in a long-tail tuxedo was serving to all of the guests.

“What is it you want, mother?” Lena asked, suppressing the smile that threatened to appear from inhaling the obnoxious reek of Lillian’s approval.

“How would you feel about changing into a costume and giving out candy to the dozens of children who will be absolutely scarred and ruined for life if the Easter bunny chooses not to appear today?”

“I’d feel like leaving and never returning.” Lena deadpanned, amused by the twitch that formed in Lillian’s left eyelid.

She scanned the room for Lex or her father in the hopes of persuading her mother to target them instead, but she only ended up staring longingly at Kara.

“What kind of omega doesn’t derive joy from plying children with candy?” Lillian huffed, her shrewd expression darkening as Lena laughed.

“It’s a good thing you don’t have a van, or you’d be on the top of the FBI’s wanted list,” Lena remarked, grabbing a flute of champagne off a passing tray.

“So you’re fine giving Kara the impression that you hate children??” Lillian mused, her casual barb designed entirely to manipulate Lena into the fur suit.

“I don’t hate children. I just don’t want to be stuffed inside a rabbit costume and chased all over the garden!” Lena complained, her irritation calling Kara to her side, despite the distance between them.

“Mrs. Luthor, you’ve outdone yourself,” Kara complimented the moment she came over. She rested her hand on Lena’s lower back to soothe her frayed nerves and glanced between them as she sensed the tension.

“Thank you, Kara, but I’m afraid I’ve let everyone down,” Lillian intoned dramatically.

“Mother–”

“You see, the children are expecting the Easter Bunny to arrive, but he’s driven into a ditch,” Lillian continued, expertly shoving Lena aside to sidle up to Kara. “I’ll have to break their little hearts by telling them he won’t be here this year. It’s such a shame, and Esmé was so excited to meet him.”

Lena rolled her eyes at how thickly Lillian laid it on, and she was surprised by how quickly Kara fell for her pathetic act.

“What if I did it?” Kara asked, stepping right into the trap Lillian had cleverly created.

Lena realized asking her had all been a ruse to lure Kara over, and she gasped at the smug grin her mother flashed her. “Oh, I couldn’t ask that of you, Kara. You’re my guest.”

“I would be happy to help out,” Kara stressed and even handed over her small appetizer plate to Lena to prove that she meant it. “I wouldn’t want to let any of the kids down. Besides, it will be good practice—”

Lena actually flinched at the expectant and hopeful look on Lillian’s face, and how her mother dropped in next to her to whisper, “Two birds, one stone. I bet you’ll have a ring on your finger by the time you walk in graduation.”

Lena was too aghast to react with words as Lillian led Kara around a table with a three-tiered cake and patted the alpha on the muscular bicep. “The costume is waiting for you upstairs in Lena’s room, dear. Do you remember the way, or should I have her escort you?”

Lena could have shoved her mother into the cake table had there not been so many witnesses and had Lillian not provided her with the perfect excuse to get ten minutes alone with Kara.

“I’ll escort her,” Lena offered and reached for Kara’s arm before the alpha could say she remembered the way.

She ushered her alpha up the steps before Lillian could do something else that was crazy, like tell Kara all of her preferred names for grandchildren.

“You know you just fell right into her trap,” Lena chided softly and opened the door to her room to find it set up like a five-star hotel for their stay.

Gone was her smaller mattress, and in its place was a full king size bed.

“I guess we both did,” Kara whispered, taking in the change to Lena’s room with wide, disbelieving eyes.

The only saving grace was that Lillian hadn’t flung rose petals around or hung up a sign demanding them to procreate like bunnies. It would have been funny if Lena had discovered it herself, but to have Kara beside her was a tad humiliating.

“I’ll kill her,” Lena promised, tugging Kara through the door just to slam it shut like that would temper her embarrassment.

“I mean, it’s kind of sweet that she thinks of us,” Kara smiled, completely unaware of her mother’s schemes to have grandchildren before Lena even earned her PhD.

“It’s deranged and I’m ready to have my father sanction her if necessary,” Lena informed her mate, even though her omega pleaded for her to make good use of their time and the new bed together.

Kara laughed as Lena locked the door and as she began plucking the buttons of her shirt open.

Lena had Kara’s jeans halfway down her thighs as the alpha rumbled in confusion, “I don’t think I’m supposed to be naked to get into the suit.”

“Good thing you’ll be inside me first then,” Lena coquettishly explained, working her hand over Kara’s semi-erect shaft to encourage it to grow.

The thick base hardened in her palm and Lena smirked at the eager way Kara backed her onto the bed.

Lena slipped her dress off over her head to prevent it from creasing and draped it on the chair. Kara scooted her onto the mattress and removed her panties to glimpse the soft blushing colors of Lena’s cunt.

At the place where her pussy lips came together, Kara caressed with her thumb and exposed her clit for a gentle massage. Lena suspected she would be more sensitive after having Kara’s fingers inside of her all morning, but her knees jumped in reflex and she moaned from very little stimulation.

Two months had gone by since her last heat, which Lena survived with the use of suppressors. She had told Kara about it, but because she was helping out a former professor with a research project, she didn’t have the luxury of getting on a plane to visit. Kara suffered through it more than she did, lamenting the fact that her work schedule was too hectic to get away that week, and Lena made it all the worse by flaunting herself on FaceTime as much as possible.

Kara inhaled the ambrosial scent of Lena’s pheromones, and they looked at each other without acknowledging her oncoming heat out loud.

Lena knew Kara picked up on it when she stepped back and grabbed a condom from her bag. She tore it open before Lena could place her hand over Kara’s wrist.

“I appreciate you for taking the extra precaution to pack those, but you know we don’t need them.”

Kara dropped the condom on top of her luggage, abandoning it without being asked twice. She cupped Lena’s face tenderly and kissed her, expressing gratitude with the swipe of her tongue as she licked into Lena’s mouth.

They shared breath as Kara positioned herself between her thighs. The circumference of her glans slid between Lena’s labia to find the hot crest of her entrance.

“I can’t believe I finally get to experience you in heat,” Kara whispered, pressing into the flutter of Lena’s chasm like she planned to savor the moment.

“What better way to celebrate spring than breeding me?” Lena hadn’t meant it to sound so lascivious, though the sudden charge of Kara’s hips spoke to how much it pleased her alpha.

Lena groaned at the fullness of her cunt being stretched, her slick walls contracting around Kara as she undulated to keep her base deep.

“If we had been alone in the car, I would have spent the whole ride here with you on my lap,” Kara whispered, pressing her lips to Lena’s throat where her pulse raced. She nipped at the skin as she rocked forward, submerging herself completely with every deep stroke.

“I would have ruined your pants with how wet you make me.” Lena knew it was true given how frequently she ruined her own panties with just the thought of Kara.

There was something appealing about soaking Kara’s lap in arousal. So often alphas tried to scent-mark their mates, and the idea of reciprocating the gesture lifted her pelvis.

Lena penetrated herself on the wide tip of Kara’s erection, pushing it into her slippery opening and sliding it back out. The thick rim around the head was massaging her internally, and Kara groaned at how her little cunt rubbed it in return. Her bare heat and silky lubrication was spreading on Kara’s cock, and she took it to the hilt with open legs.

“Please, Kara, fuck my cunt good and hard,” Lena begged and curled her hands around fistfuls of the blankets to accept faster thrusts.

Kara grabbed her tits and manipulated her nipples between two fingers. Lena’s slick poured from her thanks to the incredible triple friction, both inside and out.

She huffed out praises as the sex robbed her of coherence, and repeated Fuck and yes at intervals that would have embarrassed her before she was heat stricken.

Going into spontaneous heat would have been a disaster without Kara, and maybe falling asleep topless the night prior had been a blessing in disguise. The short period of denial amped up Kara’s alpha, and Lena was all too willing to give up her cunt for a raw and sensual rutting.

The solid frame of the bed never budged despite the power behind Kara’s thrusts, and the wet sound of her pussy taking cock seemed all the louder for it. Their bodies slid together, fluid and unrelenting, and Lena dug her nails into Kara’s shoulders as the alpha sucked on her nipple.

She was so close to climaxing that Kara’s increased tempo was enough to shove her straight into bliss. Lena’s clit throbbed and her back bowed, yet Kara kept on going, forcing her way through the constricting spasm of Lena’s cunt until it opened for rougher plunges.

“If we didn’t have to leave this room, I’d take my time and leave you writhing,” Kara insisted, as if she hadn’t just put her whole back into making Lena come. She scraped her teeth over Lena’s unmarked claim spot and slipped her fingers into the slippery partition of Lena’s cunt to finger her clit. “I’ll settle for giving you as many orgasms as I possibly can before we head back.”

Lena panted, her breaths hot and heavier as her cunt released its tight hold on Kara’s cock so it could begin stuffing her again. She scratched down Kara’s back, leaving long streaks of red and instigating rougher thrusts.

“It makes me come harder when my pussy is full of your seed,” Lena husked and rested her hand behind Kara’s head as the alpha kissed her breasts.

Kara grunted against her skin and locked on with her lips to bruise a secret place on Lena’s chest. She lurched forward with a loud groan and pounded into Lena as pleasure shot from her tip.

The affirmation of needing Kara’s seed gave them both an excuse to keep going, and Kara spilled her essence over Lena’s sex-swollen mound. She pulled out to admire the contracting gape of Lena’s entrance and commanded her onto her knees with little more than a lustful growl.

Being conscious of their dwindling time brought an urgency to their fucking, and Lena’s heat made it worse.

Lena hadn’t thought much about breeding beyond how adamant she was not to fulfill her mother’s wishes, and yet here she was on her knees, dripping Kara’s pearlescent cream while she whined for more. She could have blamed her biology for craving Kara without protection, but it wouldn’t have been true.

Lena needed that connection and the intimacy of sharing herself because of her strong feelings for Kara. Their relationship was still unconfirmed, and they hadn’t discussed what they meant to one another, but whenever they slept together, Lena was convinced she could feel love between them.

“Keep your knees together. I want you to feel where I’ve been,” Kara rasped, positioning Lena into a pose for mating where she could feel the alpha’s weight on top of her and the exertion behind every rutting thrust.

The musk of Kara’s pheromones was demanding and assertive as she lined herself up to crown the tip of her cock with Lena’s heated entrance.

With her thighs squeezed shut, the slow intrusion rubbed Lena thoroughly and Kara groaned at the tight inner restriction.

Lena stretched her arms out in front of her and bowed lower for Kara’s hands to find purchase on her hips. Her approaching pleasure rippled around Kara’s shaft, and she gasped at the onslaught of strokes that rocked her into the bed. If they had been in her apartment, she would have announced her gratification loudly. Instead Lena’s mouth hung open in silent ecstasy while her backside tensed and her core muscles locked in preparation for euphoria.

“There’s my good girl, you’re gripping me so tight. I want to feel you come hard around my cock again.” Kara’s praise seemed particularly filthy if only because her alpha was enchanted by Lena’s heat. She used her chest to pin Lena securely and tongued at her pale neck. She puckered her lips over the claim spot with enough force to brighten the skin and laced her fingers through Lena’s as she bucked.

Lena was powerless to the pleasure she received, her omega just as susceptible to Kara’s prowess as her body. She strained under her mate, taut and gasping as her toes curled and her legs trembled on the cusp of something beautiful. She could picture a life like this, with Kara laying claim to her cunt while children laughed and played outside. Either her heat was affecting her mind or Kara was succeeding in fucking her senseless. Lena didn’t care which as long as it never ended, and her keening moans made sure of that.

The heavy tension in her limbs kept her rooted in place and Kara saw fit to reach around her hip and cup her pussy. The perpetual motion slid her fingers over Lena’s clit and all it took was three consecutive brushes to set off a glorious chain reaction. Lena convulsed so strongly that she quaked from her release, and Kara grunted at being sheathed in such a velvety grip.

There was no way Kara could have thrusted even if she tried, and her ragged exhalations gave way to a drawn out moan as her cock throbbed. Thick spurts of seed emptied into Lena’s channel and Kara kissed at her cheek and shoulder.

Lena ached to receive Kara’s knot, but they would surely be discovered in that compromising position together if they delayed in the bedroom any longer. She slid up from under Kara and they kissed for a while instead as the alpha placed a hand on her overflowing cunt to keep it full.

“I should help you get dressed now before someone checks on us,” Lena sighed and moved off the mattress before her heat insisted they go for a second round.

She pulled her bra back on, snapping the straps over her shoulders and tugging her panties up her thighs. Once she was clothed, she snatched up the white bunny suit and held it up to compare it to Kara’s proportions.

Kara stepped into it, and Lena fixed the polka dotted blue bowtie on the front and fluffed up the long pair of ears.

“I don’t mean to be patronizing, but you do look adorable.” Lena pouted and caressed the fuzz on her mate’s chest with a chuckle. She passed over a gigantic stuffed carrot and the extra-large basket that contained Easter surprises for the children.

Kara posed with her hands on her hips and tried out a few tricks that involved tossing the carrot and waving. “I know kids can be a tough audience, so wish me luck.”

For the next two hours, Lena expected to be a bored observer on the side lines while Kara paraded around offering chocolate and stuffed toys to every child in town. She had never been so involved in her mother’s Easter celebrations, except as a child herself, and it shocked her to discover that it warmed her heart to watch Kara doing a good deed and entertaining the little ones.

Kara sang, danced, and hopped across the lawn with tons of small worshippers running around her. Esmé giggled and mimicked her aunt’s hops, delighting in the chance to impress the actual, real Easter bunny.

“He’s over here!” Esmé squealed and led the charge of excited kids that wanted to meet him. “Hello, Mr. Easter bunny. You have a very fluffy face.”

Kara tipped her head to give the impression that she was listening and then booped her niece on the nose with a finger. “You’re very good at finding eggs, but can you find me if we play hide and seek?”

Esmé and the rest of the children accepted the challenge with gleeful laughter, and Kara convinced them all to sit down and cover their eyes while she ran off to hide behind a tent. It was ridiculously funny to watch a giant rabbit run across the lawn with a carrot wedged under its arm and its tail bouncing.

Lena couldn’t help but thwart her mate’s innocent fun with some of their own and waved her over when the next game began. “You’ll need more eggs to hand out as prizes for whoever finds you first.”

It was a pretty convincing reason to lead Kara into the house, and neither Lillian or Eliza seemed the wiser to her naughty little plot. She passed them with a smile as she ushered Kara into the kitchen and then straight into the walk-in pantry where she grabbed for the waistband of her fuzzy pants.

She caught the alpha trying to remove the cartoonishly large head and slapped her hands away with a hiss. “We don’t have enough time for you to get out of this and I need you now.”

“Pull up your dress,” Kara directed and spun Lena around to bend her over a shelf that held rolled oats and fruit. Lena could only imagine how she looked, naked from the waist down with Kara rutting her in full costume, but she certainly didn’t regret it and bit into a pear to quiet her hedonistic cries.

She emerged three minutes later with a sticky chin and glazed thighs, and almost walked straight into Alex.

“Hey, have you seen Kara?” Alex asked, her eyes wandering around the rest of the kitchen. “The kids can’t find her anywhere.”

“Oh, no,” Lena lied and grabbed the handle of the pantry door so that Kara couldn’t emerge.
“Maybe she took a bathroom break?”

Alex frowned, bringing deep furrows to her forehead as she peered over Lena’s shoulder. “Well, if you see her, please tell her that she has about five minutes to get her tail back outside before we all have anarchy on our hands. Those children have been eating nothing but sugar since they woke up this morning.”

Lena waited until the kitchen was empty before she freed Kara from captivity, but of course one horrible little boy spotted her doing it.

“You trapped the Easter bunny!” the child accused, pointing his finger and raising his voice so that others would hear.

“No, no! I was just offering him a snack because he’s had a long day,” Lena argued and grabbed for the first item that her hand touched on the pantry shelf.

It was a bag of dry pasta, and to her credit, Kara stuffed some of it in her mouth to crunch just to appease the grumpy little kindergartener.

They ushered him back outside to his parents, and Kara gave the kid some extra treats to keep him busy before gathering an audience by performing juggling tricks.

“It’s time for the Easter bunny to visit some other children,” Lillian called out twenty minutes later, finally freeing Kara from her self-imposed obligation. Several children wailed while other’s flung themselves at Kara, and Lena softened at how patient she was with each of them.

“This isn’t becoming a new tradition.” Lena grumbled when she caught her mother’s approving look. “Next year Kara can enjoy herself with the rest of us and you can hire a backup to run around out there.”

“So you are serious about her! That’s wonderful news. She’ll be an excellent sire. All of the children loved her,” Lillian crowed, delighted by the prospect of grandchildren.

Not just the kids, Lena thought as she caught her lip between her teeth. She embraced the warmth that tingled throughout her frame and seized all of her courage to finally confront Kara about their dating status.

She stalked across the garden in hot pursuit of the alpha and led her back upstairs and into the bedroom.

“Kara, we need to talk about our relationship,” Lena blurted, her cheeks puffed and arms crossed to hide her vulnerability.

“Oh.” Kara wheezed, her voice subdued as she pulled the head off her suit and blinked owlishly at Lena. “What’s wrong? Did the costume awaken something for you?”

Kara’s teasing grin brought a dopey smile to Lena’s face and shook herself out of her feelings to slap her on the arm. “Shut up, I’m being serious–”

“So am I,” Kara lilted, raising her brows like she had asked a valid question.

“No, it’s—” Lena flung up her hands in frustration and exclaimed, “we’ve never discussed what we are, and I need to know how you feel, because I — don't laugh at me!”

“Lena, what are you talking about?” Kara choked out, her joy fading as she caught the distressed scent of Lena’s omega. “We’ve been dating since Christmas. I’ve told everyone you’re my girlfriend. Did you think I was just hooking up with you this whole time?”

Lena clenched her teeth and began to shake her head to distract from the fact that she was hormonal, lovesick and about to cry from happiness. “No — I mean, yes, that is exactly what I thought. I seduced you so I wouldn’t have to put up with my mother’s lectures over the holidays, and I wasn’t sure if you were just sticking around because you liked the physical side of the relationship—”

Kara reached out to take her hands and ran her thumb over Lena’s palm in soothing little circles. “I guess I should be blunt when it comes to expressing my feelings to avoid any more confusion between us. I’m head over heels in love with you, Lena, and it would have been really awkward if we hadn’t cleared this up right now, because I was planning to ask you to move in with me at the end of May.”

The thought of moving in with Kara didn’t quite set off Lena’s phobia of doing anything her mother would enthusiastically support.

“We would see each other every day,” Lena considered, too practical to pour all of her hope into a hypothetical just yet.

She wondered how that possibility would go in hand with her life goals, and whether she would continue her work as a scientist, or if her famous alpha would just parade her around to parties. At one point in time, Lena scoffed at omegas who strived to become trophy wives, but she could see a future for herself on Kara’s arm and she didn’t hate it.

“I thought maybe you could fly with me to Amsterdam for a tech conference in June. I’ll be presenting the products I’ve been working on for two years and it would mean a lot to me.” Kara smiled and her eyes shined with a secretive gleam of happiness that Lena attributed to all of the many gadgets she was planning to reveal.

“I would love that, but please don’t utter a word to my mother,” Lena begged, oblivious to the fact that Lillian herself was standing in the doorway and overheard their plans.

“A little late for that,” Lillian intoned strictly, her lips taut with a smile and her arms folded over her chest as she leaned into the doorway. “I came to call you both down for dinner.”

Lena eyed her mother, who crossed the room to take Kara’s hand and personally escorted her to the stairs.

“Kara, I think it’s wonderful you’ve invited Lena to accompany you,” Lillian praised, leaving her daughter to trail behind them and dropping her voice to a conspiratorial whisper. “I also couldn’t help but catch your discussion about moving in together. I’ll start sending you boxes of her things.”

Lena forced her chin out as far as it would go and pictured her mother meticulously packing up all of her possessions to marry her off.

“Calm down, mother,” Lena hissed and rescued Kara before their conversation turned to more serious topics, or Lillian rushed her girlfriend into proposing.

They were dating, and Lena was more than content with that for now. She looked forward to a long spring of mating and getting to know Kara on a deeper level with the security of love and commitment between them.