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Gone is the little beta miss from earlier tonight. In her place is the most delicious bundle of omega I’ve ever come across; a captivating mix of crushed summer grass, wildflowers and soft places waiting for me. For us. My mind blanks out. The damn girl went and revealed on me.
For once, my wolf and I are one. Get our precious bundle to safety. Then shred these assholes apart for daring to touch what’s ours.
Sick of my leash, my wolf takes Isiah’s up on his half-finished challenge. He tears free and takes over, shoving me out of control. I snap at any part of Isaiah that he’s too slow to get out of my way. The scent of wildflowers clings to his hands and body, ramping up my fury. He touched her! I howl, and call to my pack. Work together. Destroy the threat. Save our mate.
Only my scent should separate us. I snarl into the base of her throat. These dirty rags are in my way. All of her needs to be bared to me. Always.
a wad of cloth soaked in an earthy soft sweetness from the softness between her legs. I need her slick on me. I rub the wet bundle over my lips. Jack it over my cock until my knot starts to swell. She’s in my nose. She’s in my head. There’s nowhere you can run from me now, little one.
She arches up and rubs her chest against mine. My wolf. My heart. What a treasure I’ve found tonight. I cage her in and push her back into the dirt with my weight settled on top of her and my thigh wedged between her legs. Winding a hand through her hair, I tug her head back until her throat is bared to me. Her body is mine, and I’ll control it however I see fit.
With the back of my arm, I lean away and wipe more blood from my face so I can mark her cheeks, her lips, anywhere I can reach, with the blood of her enemies. It’s the only way I’ll allow them to touch her.
She leans up and sinks her teeth into the thin skin of my bottom lip, not stopping until my blood pools in our mouths. Freeing her teeth, she drops her head back. I catch it before it can hit the ground. A blissful smile graces her face. “Mine.” This act. That word. Whatever ground my wolf had ceded back to me is snatched back.
Spreading my thighs wide I slap my cock down onto her belly; the desire to smear my pre-come and mark her precious skin overtakes me, lighting a near-manic urge to squeeze myself inside that sweet cunt and pin her to the ground with my cock in her belly and my hand at her throat. I wipe my hand up my shaft and command: “Lick.” The words are barely out before I’m pushing my thumb into her mouth. Th...
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without something to fight, fuck, or fix, Aiden is on the prowl to start some shit, and I want no part of that.
Fuck if my fathers weren’t joking about how goddamn consuming the mate claim is even when its half-formed and felt secondhand through your packmate’s bond.
So they want her now because she claimed Hayes? Would she have had that effect on any of them? Is it just her heat that triggered it for Hayes?
The brief time we had her in our arms as we transported her confirmed what I suspected when I scented her earlier tonight. She is the one. She is meant to be ours.
Well that answers that
Normally, this process would be over in a day or so since an omega’s body prepares for this moment for years. In Ava’s case, it looks like her body was in stasis until tonight, and she’s going through all the stages of development at once.”
so I purr for her. Chest to chest, the effect is instant, and goddamn if it doesn’t settle me just as much as it settles her. Ava is where she should be, under me, safe and content.
A displeased growl shudders through Tree Trunk’s chest into mine before filling the air. I tense in his hold. The angry noise abruptly stops, replaced by the soothing warmth of a hand patting my back, each stroke timed with the gentle sway of Tree Truck’s hips as he rocks the worry back out of me.
Left on my own. Abandonment cuts through me. My mood pinwheels. I am never worth sticking around for. Never enough. Mom left. The man who made sunshine promises that I’m part of his people is gone. I should be glad I was right that this is no place to stick around and take this chance to run. Instead I heave hacking sobs into my pillow.
I don’t like this voice. It’s always mad.
the scent of the deep forest rolls over the bed.
I issue a low growl and fight against his hold, trying to snatch my hands back. Dropping his head, the angry alpha pushes his face into mine and growls rough and deep and mean right into my mouth. The wild part of me, the part that’s feral and restless, stills, as the low groaning warning rattles the bed frame and cramps my belly. His wild telling mine to go belly up and submit.
the shadow’s keeper, Gabriel, is here, sounding as if he wishes he wasn’t.
The ache between my legs is still there and growing worse. I lunge up and nip at his neck. So close to what I need, what we need, and he won’t give it to us. Can’t he feel this too? “Uh-uh, sweetheart. I bite back. I don’t care how rough things have been for you. I’m running this show, not you.”
“You heal up, round this tight little body out with some softness and get it ready to take a real ride, then you and I can have some fun. But tonight? Tonight, Gabriel is going to get you through this little flare up.”
“Don’t worry, Birdie. My puppy likes it rough, don’t you?”
“Fuck you.” Aiden grins. “Keep it up. Your ass is writing checks I'll be all too happy to cash once Mal and Hayes get back.” “Promises, promises.”
he notches me just below, the cool metal of Gabe’s zipper presses against my lips. Aiden straddles Gabe’s legs and settles behind me, his hips cradling mine.
“This is what you want isn’t it, Pup? This sweet untouched darling, cradling you in her little hands, jacking you off like it’s your first time? Your poor cock was tired from playing rough with me because it was starving for something soft like her, wasn’t it? That’s why you’re weeping all over our hands.” Aiden tsks. “Such a lucky puppy, that I’m giving you what you need.”
“When we walked in you seemed very friendly with your pussy, Birdie, but have you ever played with this little button?” Aiden purrs, reaching between my legs. Oh shit, oh shit.
My world narrows to nothing but Aiden’s dirty mouth and his blunt fingertip circling my new favorite part of me.
I couldn’t stop now if I wanted to, after riding this edge all night, I need to know. I have to know what I can make my body give me.
“Avaaa.” Fierce delight at hearing my name on his lips sends my nails sinking into his chest. Wanna mark him up.
On hearing my name croaked out by Gabriel, Aiden’s warmth leaves my back. Throwing himself alongside the writhing beta, he uses Gabriel’s dark locks as a leash to yank his head around so he can claim Gabriel’s mouth.
Briefly breaking from his domination, Aiden croons into Gabriel’s ear. “You look at her like you’d leave everything behind. Leave everyone.” A sharp twist of Gabriel’s nipple has him coming off the bed with a cry. “Just for a chance to be her white knight.”
Aiden replaces me with his hand and jacks Gabriel’s cock with a mastery that tells me how well he knows Gabriel’s body. How they’ve done this so many many times before. Soon Gabriel’s hips are pumping the air, pleading with Aiden’s fist to give him the happy end Aiden just gave me. “Aiden, ALPHA, fuck, end it! Please!” Broken babbling pours out of Gabriel, a tear welling up in the corner of his eye. I lick it away. Curious to see what frustration tastes like on someone else.
His release painting a dripping splatter across his stomach. Spent, Gabriel collapses back down and nestles into my side. We are matching puddles of exhaustion. “What a pretty mess you two make.” Aiden swipes two fingers down Gabriel’s stomach before swirling them around my over-sensitized nub and licking his wet fingers clean. “I think I’m going to keep both of you.”
“What is your problem? It’s Gabe. I thought you were fine with him joining us.” “I was fine with it if you blooded him and made him pack. But you didn’t, and he’s not, so get your fucking boyfriend away from my omega
“I mean I’m not a fucking omega. You don’t get to snap your fingers and tell me that you’re going to claim me, and expect me to serve up my neck just because you think my dick is interested in someone else. I gave you five years. FIVE fucking years of ‘let’s not talk about it’ to figure out what you wanted and nothing. But now? Now you want to hide behind me and make me her fucking consolation prize cause you can’t sort yourself the fuck out? No thanks. I’m worth more, and you’re worth more, and so the fuck is she. Figure it out, or don’t. I’m not sticking around to do the labor for you.”
his campfire smell.
Hayes
“But it’s my fault they’re fighting, and I need to find Shay, we’ve got to—” “You’ve got to rest. Shay is fine. This fight was coming for them regardless of you showing up. It’s theirs to deal with, not yours. Now, sleep, Ava.”
I just need a minute. One minute where I sit and open the box buried deep inside of me and poke at all the bloody raw feelings I keep piling in there.
Discussions about one’s nature don’t count when the person talking to you is naked. That’s got to be a rule, right?
The question is barely formed in my head before gentle pulses of reassurance bloom in my chest. My alphas are close.
How simply being out in the world for two days could change everything, right down to the shape of my body, is difficult to fathom.
Nothing is cramped exactly — all the rooms could fit several alphas — but the impression everywhere I look is coziness. Partially hidden nooks full of soft pillows and thick blankets. Windows with perches just wide enough for a daydreamer. Like I could have time to dream up whole adventures for the girl, the old lady, and the huntsman and not just half finished thoughts shoved into stolen moments between endless chores.
Aiden stops moving. “Not another word, otherwise I will give your mouth something else to do.”
“But not before I take my hand to your ass and give you back tenfold every one of these love taps you’ve given me. And I swear to the Goddess, Birdie, I will enjoy every moment of it.”
“Hey, Wildcat. Eyes up.” Reluctantly, I look at him. “You and me? We’re solid. Aiden’s just being a dick.”
“Now how are you holding up? Do you need me to fake a fire? Or guard a closet while you hide inside and process everything?”
“Sheriff’s jurisdiction ends wherever my free will starts so you’re not revoking shit.” Aiden sneers and flicks Gabriel’s forehead.
“You know what? I take it back. You get hungry, you find me. If I’m not here. Find Hayes. One of us will make you two something to eat. Under no circumstances let Mal touch anything in the kitchen. Your stomach may never recover. Just wait until I’m free.”
What the hell was that? Did he just make fire out of thin air?! “Never touch the stove!” He barks when he notices me staring at the goddamn miracle he just performed.
