I wasn’t sure if that would happen with a selkie Omega, though, and even if it did, he was in terrible pain. I couldn’t leave him alone.
Shit.I’d sworn off Alphas almost ten years ago, and saying no to dick had become second nature. I hadn’t been stupid enough to say no to orgasms, of course.
And I hadn’t sworn off Omegas. Technically, I’d only said no to knots.
Hmm.I loved a loophole more than most. Maybe I could administer a little effective pain relief while I thought about how to safely run this experiment.
My mouth watered. I could find out what the honeyed pre-cum dripping onto the ice floor tasted like, while I was at it. It could be research. For all I knew, that stuff was medicinal.
“Rada, what are you doing?” His voice was low, and I realized I’d been staring at his naked skin while he arranged my cloak and his pelt into a small oval. He lay on his side and groanedagain, facing me. His dark eyes were hazy. “Why does it hurt like this?”
“How does it feel?” I asked, moving close, but not sitting on the nest itself, though the ice floor was freezing my ass, literally. “Where does it hurt?”
“In my balls,” he admitted. “Like someone is kicking me in the balls over and over. My cock aches too, like it’s going to explode. Everything from my ass up—fuck!” He squeezed his eyes shut and started mumbling again, though I couldn’t make out his words. The next time he opened his eyes and looked at me, they were glazed with pain and lust, and waves of something like regret and shame rolled through me. His emotions. “Please leave. I can’t bear it.”
I knew what he meant. The presence of a mate made it almost impossible to stop the heat from taking over.
To be fair, I felt more than a few cramps trying to make themselves felt in my own womb, but I had a feeling the cold there was keeping them from becoming a heat. Or maybe I was just feeling good old, normal, Beta-style lust.
“I’m not leaving you,” I assured him. I’d buried more than one Omega over the years who’d died from suffering though a heat alone. I wouldn’t do it to one of the only selkies alive in the world, especially not to one who was probably a Goddess-ordained mate. Even if I hadn’t wanted to keep him, I’d bitten him and claimed him out loud three times and landed us both in this mess. The heat was probably my fault. I remembered my promise to Goran and my vow to myself when I’d parted ways with the Goddess.
I’d sworn in my wedding vows not to make love to anyone who wasn’t my mate. Kellin would have been a contender if he wasn’t an Alpha, but it would have taken twenty-eight nights before he was my mate for real anyway.
Like it or not, Lachlan was already mine, and I was so damned ready to find out what it might mean for two Omegas to explore each other. To discover how much pleasure we could bring each other. No knots needed.
No vows broken.
“Listen, Omega,” I crooned. “I want to come into that pretty, soft nest with you now. I want to suck on that aching cock of yours and see what it tastes like. Maybe I can stop some of the pain.”
“Some?”
“I’ll do my best. It’s been a long time. May I enter your nest, Omega?”
He slid over, making a space for me, and reached for me with one hand. “Yes.”
His hands were on me in an instant, moving over my breasts, toying with my pendant for a moment, then tangling in my hair to pull my face close to his. Our first kiss was fire and ice, my cold lips and cheeks meeting his overheated ones. Small wisps of steam rose from us as our bodies met, legs entwining and hands moving like we might vanish before we’d managed to touch all of the places we’d longed for.
I tried to keep it simple. I started off planning to give him enough relief to let this wave of the cycle pass, thinking maybe it would abate enough for Skadi to return, give me back my tonics, and for some of those herbs to take effect.
But Lachlan turned from a shivering lump of distressed Omega to a ferocious lover the first time I pulled away from his kiss, slid down his body, and reached for his cock. I almost had it in my mouth when he made an odd, barking sound. Not like a seal, but more like an Alpha. I froze in place like that, anyway.
“Ah-ah! Little thief, you stole my twenty-eight nights from me. I’m going to steal one of them back now.” While I gaped, he slid a leg around mine and flipped me over so my back wasburied in his pelt. In a few quick moves, he was holding my upper thighs in both hands, my legs wide, and had his tongue buried in my opening. His hair fell over my thighs in a curtain of black and gold, and the beads on his braids slid over my skin like a promise. My back arched, and I squealed as he fucked me with his tongue, then lapped higher.
Kellin had touched me with intensity and focus. Lachlan took the opposite approach, devouring me with a wildness I didn’t know I’d love so much, his fingers tight on me, holding me in place, his head completely filling the space between my thighs.
“This juicy morsel,” he growled. “It tastes like the sea, the mountains, honeyed mint, and rain. Fire and ice and life itself. You taste likeparadise,little thief. Where did you steal all these scents?”
Stealing scents? He was insane, I decided. I didn’t care. As long as he was insane enough to keep licking, I’d let him say nonsense until the moon rose.
“Mine,” he growled as he pressed a finger into me, feeling the place where I was closed.
I gasped as my body relaxed, allowing his finger to probe deeper. He slid it in and pulled it out, licking it clean.
“Fucking hells, I’ll never eat anything else again,” he whispered, then added another finger, thrusting them in and curving them up to rub against the bottom of the same place he was licking on the outside.
I came hard, screaming his name. He didn’t stop, licking me and thrusting faster until another climax fell on me like a wave, and then another. I’d never been able to come this quickly before. It was almost as if…
“You’re so hot, little thief. Look at you, pink as a plum, and all mine to eat.”
