He followed after me. “You know why I did. The full moon is tonight, and it makes me off my game. My wolf already wants to lead. With her in heat, if he takes over, he could be too…aggressive. She’s still human and doesn’t know wolf ways. I have to ease her into that and explain things. It sucks that the full moon is at the same time as her heat, though.”
I nodded, sympathizing with him. “Why don’t you explain that to her?”
“Because I hate feeling like I’m someone for her to worry about. If I keep telling her I’m afraid of my wolf, then she will be afraid of him.”
“It’s not your wolf, it’s the timing.”
Lance wiped a hand over his face as we waited at the elevator. “I’m nervous she won’t understand that. I need everything to go right. I don’t want to ruin this for us. This has to happen, Dan. I wasn’t sure before, but I know now. She’s it.”
She was it for me, too. No one was perfect, but she was very close to perfection for us. I adored our last omega, and we lived in bliss with her. I would never forget it. However, Billie was almost tailor-made for us. Just her presence soothed us all, and the fact that we each had so much in common with her was amazing. She would be a best friend and lover to each of us. How could we let that go? If I could find such happiness with our last omega, who we did not have as many commonalities with but were still very much happy, I could barely comprehend what having Billie in our lives would be like. Lance was right, this had to work. And I was going to make sure no demon or other would take that away.
* * *
BILLIE
Iwas in a haze full of emotions. Okay, I was in a fog of horniness. I had sex, I ate, I slept, I showered. Rinse and repeat. I was once afraid of this very thing, but honestly, it wasn’t so bad. Actually, it was kind of awesome. I felt like a lustful goddess, and there was no fear at all. I felt absolute comfort with Kai.
However, although Kai was an incubus, even he had his limits. Honestly, I wasn’t sure why I hadn’t reached my own limits. This heat thing was no joke, but it was amazing. Well, until Kai had announced that Lance had rejected me. He didn’t say it like that, but a girl could read between the lines. I responded by eating my feelings. I ate every delicious bite of Daniel’s breakfast and then fell asleep on a full stomach, no longer hungry but still unsatisfied.
When I woke up, Daniel was lying on the couch, reading a book.
I sat up in my bed. I had on a silk negligee, and that was mostly because it felt weird to eat naked. Let me rewind that. I was no one’s exhibitionist. Normally, it would feel weird to be naked this much but heat head, as I called it, kind of took away the shyness.
“Hi,” I said with a wave.
He smiled at me, closing his book. Darn that million-dollar smile of his had me melting. Hell, at this stage, he could pick his nose, and I’d probably think it was erotic. Well, maybe not that far, but the point was, I was getting weak.
He pointed to my bedside table with a sorrowful look. “I had to get you a new e-reader. I was clumsy and broke it.”
I lifted a suspicious brow. “You, clumsy? I doubt it.”
He chuckled. “Once on a rare occasion, when the moon is right, I can be off my game.”
I slid back down my bed, too distracted by my overheating body to question him further. I wasn’t exactly hating this lustful haze I was currently in. It was fun, actually. Being so free without any of my normal hesitancy about my body or if my partner would look at me differently if we had sex too early into dating was wonderful. I knew these men really cared about me, and they all seemed very much into me. Except for one.
I cringed, thinking about Lance’s rejection again. Maybe we didn’t have as good a time together as I thought. Maybe our intimate moment wasn’t that good to him.
I heard Daniel sigh, breaking my thoughts. I glanced over at him, and he was already standing. “Get out of your head, princess. He likes you. He just has some issues. Give him time.”
“I get it. I thought we made some headway, but I’m beginning to see it’s an up and down battle with him.”
I crossed my legs, and that was a mistake. I was already wet, and the pressure of my thighs together sent a tingle through me.
Daniel walked over to me and tilted his head to the bed. “May I?”
He was such a gentleman. I nodded, knowing that if he sat down, he wouldn’t be getting up anytime soon, which was the plan.
“I know you didn’t ask for me, but can I help you?” he asked in a tender voice. His dark irises seemed to enlarge, nostrils flaring as he scented me.
I clasped his hand, trying to steady myself as his heady cool mint scent washed over me. I didn’t want him to feel I didn’t want him. I knew what that was like. “Lance only came to my mind second because I felt we were still building a connection, and I thought it would help. I want you just as much as I want the others.”
He gave me his playboy wink, looking less uncertain now, and kissed me tenderly on the lips. “Good,” he whispered, the warmth of his mouth tickling my lips. “Because I really want you. You’re something special, Billie. You’re good for us.”
His blue fae eyes bled through with yearning as if he worshipped me. That devotion intimidated me, even in my haze-filled state. I was just an omega. I wouldn’t be able to make them something they were not. I didn’t want him to believe he wasn’t whole already. “You’re already good, Daniel. You don’t need me.”
He pulled back slightly, searching my eyes. “Does it scare you that I do? Is it wrong?”
No, it wasn’t. I understood that he was an alpha and I was an omega, and we were meant to be together. I just wanted us to organically bond, and now I was in heat, and it didn’t matter anymore.
