I would have been doing the walk of shame into the shelter if I didn’t have a huge smile on my face after the night I spent with Cody.  It had been one of the most incredible nights of my life and every bit of it was still playing in my mind.  Cody’s scent was present on me and it was almost intoxicating.  I watched until his Uber carried him out of sight and prepared to face the other omegas.  They had seen me go on dates before, but Cody was much different since he was someone we saw on a regular basis.  I pushed my key into the front door and opened it carefully, expecting to find everyone still asleep.  Instead, I found every single one of them awake and making noise in the common room.  When they heard the door close, the noise stopped and Ricky was the first to appear at the door with a grin on his face.

“So, how did it go?”  He bounced on his toes and Sam walked up behind him.

“I made breakfast.”  He pointed towards the kitchen.  “Are you hungry?”

“Yeah, I’m famished.”  I nodded quickly.

“Do you smell that, Sam?”  Ricky looked towards the ginger-haired omega.  “Someone got laid.”

“I smelled it before he even got in the door.”  Sam grinned.

“I can smell it all the way in here!”  I heard Charlie’s voice call out from the common room.

“Stop it!”  I glared at them but then my face spread into a smile again.  “Okay, it was amazing.”

“Tell us everything!”  Ricky’s eyes opened wide and he bounced on his toes again.

I didn’t share the intimate details of our encounter, and thankfully, they didn’t push for any raunchy details.  Cody’s scent was enough to tell that story.  I told them about the date, how awesome Cody was, and how happy I was that he finally asked me out.  They gathered around me at the table to soak up every relevant detail I was willing to share. 

After I finished eating, we fell back into our normal routine.  Ricky was taking online classes and they devoured most of his day.  Sam was working on a memoir about his time on the street that he hoped would become a bestseller.  Charlie actually had a job, so he took off to the diner where he waited tables.  I had tons of paperwork to get through.  The shelter survived on donations and a few grants—both of which required regular updates about the residents.  Lance’s departure would help balance the budget a little bit, but I knew it would only be a matter of time before someone else showed up at our door in need of assistance.

“Hey William?”  I heard Sam’s voice and he appeared at the door of my office.

“Yeah?”  I looked up from my laptop.

“Manny’s here. He needs to talk to you about Cody.”  Sam’s face looked a little worried, which caused me to quickly stand to my feet.

“Is everything okay?”  I walked towards the front lobby with concern on my face.

“No.”  Manny shook his head and sighed.  “We had a rough call today.  It was a pregnant omega and I don’t think Cody is taking it well.  Has he talked with you much about Trevor?”

“No.”  I shook my head back and forth.  “He’s mentioned him, but I didn’t push for any details.”

“I know you care about Cody.”  Manny sighed again.  “He’s in a dark place right now.  You should probably go see him.”

“Is he at his apartment?”  I walked over and grabbed my things from the counter.

“Probably.”  Manny nodded.  “I’ve got the ambulance outside if you want a ride.”

Manny’s solemn tone and worried face scared me.  We climbed into the ambulance and he told me about the call they had went on and everything that transpired with the pregnant omega.  Hearing that he had lost his baby made my heart ache for him.  I couldn’t imagine being mistreated or abused by someone I loved, although I had known a number of omegas that experienced it.  Manny dropped me off at Cody’s apartment building and I quickly made my way up to his floor.  I wasn’t sure what condition I would find Cody in, but I hoped I would be able to help.  I also hoped he wouldn’t be upset that I had showed up uninvited, but Manny seemed to believe I was the one person that he needed to see after what he had gone through during the day.  I lightly knocked on his door once I arrived.

“Cody?”  I leaned against the door and called out his name.  “Are you in there?  It’s William.”

“William?”  I heard the door being unlocked and then he pulled it open.  “What are you doing here?”

“Manny came to see me.  Are you okay?”  I stepped into his apartment and closed the door.

“I’m fine...”  Cody walked over to a chair in his living room.  He took a seat and picked up a bottle of whiskey that was sitting on the table next to him.

“We don’t have to talk about it.”  I sat down on the couch across from him.  “I just want to be here for you.”

“Some days I just want to leave New Chicago and go live out in the country where none of this shit happens.”  He lifted the bottle to his lips and took a drink.  “They should have just left this city in ruins after the Omega Riots.”

“New Chicago is a better place because of alphas like you.  It’s a testament to the moment when real alphas stood up to the establishment and demanded equality for omegas.  I’m sure the situation you encountered today was terrible, but there was a time when it wasn’t even illegal for an alpha to kill an omega, much less hurt them.”  I leaned forward.  “Just think how bad things would have been if you weren’t there today and the police just walked away.”

“Equality for everyone...”  Cody sighed.  “Omegas are free to do as they choose—and what they choose to do is get hooked on Ice or mate with an asshole alpha that treats them like shit.”

“Would it be better if they were mated to whatever alpha paid their family the most money, or worse—sold to a brothel so they could sterilized and forced into sex slavery?”  I shook my head back and forth.  “Freedom might not be perfect, but it is certainly better than the way things were before the Omega Riots.  Have you watched some of the old news footage?  It’s horrific.”

“I know.”  Cody sighed again.  “Maybe in another hundred years our society will be better, but right now—it just sucks.”

Cody and I continued to talk as he drank the rest of his whiskey.  I was glad I had come, even if he was in a fairly dark place.  I knew there had to be more to his sorrow than simply meeting an omega that was abused, but I didn’t push him to talk about anything other than what was on his mind.  When the whiskey was gone, I walked over and crawled into his lap. He held me tight in his powerful arms and I rested against his chest.  The alpha I cared about was still there, and I wanted to help him get over the events of the day. 

After he had held me for nearly thirty minutes without saying anything, I reached down and started to stroke his cock through his pants.  He was resistant at first, but as I continued to drag my hand along his length, I felt it getting hard.  I pulled away from his embrace and sank down between his thighs.  One hand continued to stroke him as the other unfastened his belt.  He leaned back and let me pull his pants down to his ankles, which allowed his cock to become engorged with his lust.  I stroked it several times and then leaned forward, moving my tongue along the bottom of it.

“Just relax and let me take care of you.”  I moved my tongue along the bottom again.

“That feels really good...”  He moaned and his eyes closed.

I had pleasured an alpha with my mouth before, but never one as well-endowed as Cody.  I started licking along the bottom of his shaft and moving in a circle around the glans when I got to the top.  I stretched my jaw and licked a little harder, trying to pull him into my mouth.  It wasn’t an easy endeavor and my jaw started to hurt when I got the head past my lips.  I sucked on it for a moment before moving back down his shaft with my tongue and rolling it around his balls.  That seemed to bring a moan of pleasure from him, so I continued to focus on them.  I moved my tongue in a circle around the right one and then moved to the left.  After kissing them a few times, I started tracing out an infinity sign, going around each one and crisscrossing in the middle.  He moaned a little louder so I repeated the motion several more times before taking the right ball between my lips and sucking on it.  Once it was saturated with my saliva, I moved to the left one and gave it the same treatment.

“You’re going to make me cum without even sucking my cock.”  He put a hand on my head and a loud gasp escaped from his throat.

“Not a chance.”  I lifted up, dragging my tongue along the bottom.  “I’m going to swallow every inch of your cock.”

“Oh god...”  His dick throbbed as I circled the head.

I had made a promise that was going to be difficult to fulfill, but my cock was so hard in my pants that I was overcome with lust.  I coated the head of his cock with my saliva and started pulling it between my lips again.  My jaw stretched wider and I was finally able to get a couple of inches into my mouth so I could massage it with my tongue.  His abdominal muscles tightened and he rolled forward for a moment before relaxing as when I started to pull more of his length into my mouth.  I felt the head of his cock pulsating against my tongue as I bobbed on the part I had inside my mouth.  More of my saliva saturated his shaft as I continued to go further down it with my lips stretched around his girth.  I got a few more inches in and felt him entering my throat.  I had to work to control my breathing so I could keep the motion going while I let him slide into my throat.  I still hadn’t managed to get all of his cock into my mouth, but I had made a lot of progress and he definitely seemed to be enjoying it.

“Don’t stop,” he moaned.  “You’re going to make me cum.”

I moved my lips a little faster as I moved up and down his shaft, taking more of his cock into my throat and swallowing to get it past the barrier preventing me from taking it all.  After a half dozen tries, I finally felt it start to go deeper and then my lips were pressed against his abdomen.  I let it rest there for a few seconds so my throat could adjust before I started moving along his length again.  I pulled him deep into my throat each time I descended down his shaft, feeling every inch of his cock throb with pleasure.  I pressed my hands to his thighs and built up speed when I felt his hips start to jerk with an involuntary motion.  He was so close that I could taste the beginning of his orgasm as pre-cum covered my tongue.  I kept pulling him deep into my throat and swallowing to massage his cock until I felt cum rushing up the shaft.  He let out a load moan followed by a growl as his body began to shake.  The powerful eruption filled my throat and as soon as I started to swallow, I felt another explosion of cum.  He continued ejaculating and I swallowed the result of his pleasure until he was spent.  I pulled his cock along my tongue and sucked the last remnants from the tip before leaning back.

“That was incredible.”  He looked at me and smiled.

“Let me stay with you tonight.”  I crawled into his lap and wrapped my arms around his neck.  “I don’t think you should be alone.”

“I was going to ask you to stay anyway.”  He tightened his grip around me.

We stayed locked in our embrace for nearly an hour and I could see the alcohol was starting to make him tired.  I stood walked into the kitchen, hoping to find something that would help soak up some of the alcohol.  I dug around in the fridge and the cupboards until I found some bread and lunch meat.  A ham sandwich wasn’t much, but it would have to do. 

I fixed two and brought them back to the living room along with a glass of water for each of us.  He ate slowly and sipped his water between each bite but I practically devoured mine.  After we had a little food in us, we went to the bedroom and Cody was asleep as soon as his head hit the pillow.  I snuggled alongside his body and pulled his arm across my waist before finally settling in for the night.  I was glad Manny had called me.  Darkness like Cody was experiencing after what he had witnessed was dangerous.