Chapter Two
ALEX FROZE AS Gideon dragged him closer, those sharp fangs sinking into his neck and staying there.
With one rip, he’d tear Alex’s throat wide open, then gulp down the blood and flesh he’d earned through right of combat.
Yeah, in the months since they’d learned to adapt to being Circ—to hiding their weird eyes with contact lenses, dealing with a communal need for sex and for battle, and living in a group dynamic—Alex had realized he really was as much animal as man.
The beast that lived inside him accepted Gideon as his alpha, his leader. It wanted to know it belonged.
Alex vacillated between wanting to be a part of something bigger and wanting to go away, to never deal with life again. He missed Katie so much sometimes. It was like he had a constant heart ache, one that even Bailey with all her empathic skills couldn’t fix.
For that reason he’d been keeping his distance. At first he’d been surprised Gideon and Bailey had let him. But Gideon understood what it was to lose someone close.
Apparently he’d gotten over his losses, though, because he sure the fuck wasn’t respecting Alex’s need for space right now.
Those huge fangs of his dug deeper, and Alex forced himself to breathe shallowly and make no sudden movements. And to ignore the sudden surge of his libido at being so close to his alpha.
Not alpha. Friend. Fellow Circ.
Alex did his best to clear his beast’s thoughts, but the damn thing wanted to roll over and purr, having Gideon’s attention all to himself.
Gideon’s fangs retracted, and he licked the already healing marks of blood. His green eyes looked catlike, the pupils slit and long, intense. “Ah, there we go.” He latched onto Alex’s neck, this time with a kiss.
Alex hissed, his already hyper-aroused body going from aggressive to submissive from one heartbeat to the next. “I hate this.”
“Liar.” Gideon chuckled and sucked his way to Alex’s ear. “You need this, Alex. As much as the rest of us do. Maybe more.” Gideon snaked a hand down the front of Alex’s body, cupping the massive erection straining Alex’s pants. “You know you need to relieve the mating heats. I’ll get Bailey to lay off if you’ll at least fuck the others.” Gideon’s voice softened, and he nipped Alex’s earlobe. “It’s okay, man. You can feel as much grief as you need to.”
The sexual spark shot all the way from Alex’s ear to his cock, and he couldn’t help his moan, or his thrust into Gideon’s touch.
“But all this challenging bullshit stops here.” Gideon growled, then turned Alex around to face the wall.
He tried to ignore his excitement. But the thought of getting reamed, hard and deep, had him aching.
“Put your hands up against the wall and keep them there.” Gideon panted, his large frame and solid build a definite threat…and a measure of safety. Because when with Gideon, nothing would get to Alex that Gideon didn’t allow. “You hard of hearing?Do it.”
Alex slapped his hands on the wall and kept them there, aware of Gideon’s claws raking his belly, his hips, and his groin as he deftly slid Alex’s trousers and underwear down, exposing bare flesh. Gideon yanked his hips back, positioning Alex for penetration.
Then there was no more waiting.
Alex sucked in a breath as a huge, slick cock thrust inside him with ease. A side effect of the Circ serum was that Circs experienced sexual hunger which could only be appeased by another Circ. Sure, Alex could have sex with anyone he chose, but that intense craving to come would only go away if he fucked a fellow Circ. To ease the Circ need to procreate, males had a natural lubrication.
When erect and aroused, Alex’s cock produced a natural oil. No need to stop to lube up, not when he was already slick and ready to go.
Even as Gideon sawed in and out of him, his own dick was lubed and full, his balls heavy with the need to release.
Gideon must have been angry, because he didn’t give Alex a reach-around or wait for him to catch up. He fucked Alex at a ruthless pace. “You bastard, you obey. You hear me? You’re mine.” He yanked Alex’s hair back, exposing Alex’s throat, and continued to piston, his balls slapping Alex’s ass with each pummeling shove.
“Yes,yes,” Alex hissed, Gideon’s shaft filling him and giving him that connection he’d been lacking. His beast purred, and the constant loneliness receded as he remembered his place.
“You don’t get to come yet, Palmer. Not yet,” Gideon bit off as he swore and emptied into Alex’s ass. But Circs had stamina, and even after coming, Gideon remained hard.
“There we go. That helped, didn’t it?” Gideon eased his hand from Alex’s hair to circle the front of his neck, holding onto the vulnerable part of Alex’s throat. “But you’re not there yet, are you?”
Alex panted, hard but not close to coming. “No.”
“Because you need me to let you. You want to please me, don’t you?”
Alex groaned. He didn’t exactly like this part of it. Sure, he liked being on the bottom with his male lovers, but that didn’t mean he wanted to submit and obey all the time. He felt a need to dominate as well.
