She’s so damn slick. My tongue teases before plunging into her, tasting her for the first time since this started. She rocks her hips on my face, clearly wanting more. Moving up, I swirl my tongue around her clit before sucking on it like it’s the air I need to breathe. Her body is shaking. I pull away and feel some tension release in her body but not fully. She needs that orgasm. I also need a moment to collect myself and hold off my own orgasm, but her tongue is teasing the head of my cock, driving me crazy.
“Thea, stop teasing me,” I say breathlessly.
I can’t see her face but she stops and just lazily strokes me with her hand before saying, “You mean like you’re teasing me?”
I let out a chuckle. Touché. Well, if I’m going to tease her…I run my fingers along her inner thigh. She shivers at the contact. “I’m going to mark you right here,” I say then kiss and suck on the spot. “What do you think of that?”
I feel her head bow and rest against my leg, her hand on my cock stopping. I return to kissing and sucking my intended marking spot. She shakes almost as much as when I sucked her clit. I swear my chest would puff up in pride that I can have this effect on my mate.
“Ben, please mark me,” she begs.
I release the spot with a pop, not answering her. Instead, I return to eating her out. Her resulting moans are music to my ears. She doesn’t even return to sucking my cock because of how much she’s trembling. I don’t care in the slightest. I want her to come and then I’m going to mark her. When I lightly bite down on her clit, she screams through her orgasm. Just before she falls limp on top of me, I move and quickly bite her inner thigh, tasting her again on my lips. It’s almost as if another orgasm hit her.
She doesn’t mark me in return. Instead, she’s got my cock in her mouth, moving so fast and sucking so hard I’m coming before I can even think of trying to hold off. Then the little brat does the same trick I did and as I’m finishing, marking my inner thigh. I’d laugh if I wasn’t in pure ecstasy. I thought something missing in me clicked when I scented her the first time. That was nothing compared to this. It feels like my soul is lighting up as it twines with hers. Both of our humor and the teasing that we just did filters in as well as her love. She hasn’t said it to me yet, but I feel it and I’m grateful she doesn’t see the tears it brings to my eyes.
She tends to my mark and I do the same to hers before she rolls off of me. She has the most contented expression. Her eyes are half lidded, the corners of her mouth slightly turned up as she looks at me. Turning myself back around so I’m lying side by side with her, I kiss her tenderly this time. I want to say the words but it’s enough to feel it from her right now.Before sleepclaims me, I belated remember to check her temp. It’s way down like what happened when Jake bonded her. Good. Crisis averted.
16
ELI
Iam exhausted, I can’t imagine how Thea must feel. Four days in and it doesn’t seem like her heat will let up any time soon. According to Liam, the average length of heats is five days but they can go for seven. I doubt this will be over in another three days, assuming it goes a full seven days. Thankfully, she hasn’t had another spike since being with Ben, but that doesn’t mean things have been slow.
As much as I hate to admit it, Micah not being involved has helped. He’s been able to prioritize Thea and the rest of us eating and drinking. Thea seems to loathe having to stop or wake up to do that. I wish Micah felt okay enough to be involved, since he’s her mate too. Even as kids, he always kept himself at a distance. If not for my sparkling personality, we probably never would have become friends. I basically never left him alone until he accepted I was his friend.
He’s been in the nest nearly the entire time, only leaving to make food for us when he thinks the protein bars Liam packed aren’t enough. I woke up one time to find him hand feeding Thea a forkful of scrambled eggs when she was half awake. That’s been the only time we’ve been able to convince her to eat. Iquickly pretended to be asleep after seeing that. Can’t risk him knowing I know. Gods forbid we all see his soft side he keeps buried deep.
I’m currently curled around Thea as she sleeps. She’s like a furnace, her skin constantly hot. She appears to sleep easier when one of us is next to her, more specifically wrapped around her. How any of us can sleep when she’s so hot, physically, must be out of pure exhaustion.
She turns around so she’s facing me, nuzzling her face into my chest, taking in deep breaths of my scent. Over her shoulder I see Parker coming over with a thermometer in hand. We’ve all been pretty good about checking her temp every hour or so. Someone is always up to do it. He quickly takes it and shakes his head, turning it so I can see the reading—105.5. Shit. Another heat spike. Me and Liam are the only ones left—besides Micah—she hasn’t bonded to. It’s my turn then.
Giddy excitement runs through me as a flash of memory pops in my head of the first time we met and scenting her. That feels like forever ago now.
“Sunshine?” I lean down and whisper in her ear. I get just a light groan of acknowledgment. She’s more lucid than she’s letting on.Throughout this heat she’s been more lucid during lulls than any of us expected. I’m sure Liam is going to look into why later.
Shuffling down a bit so we’re face to face, I start peppering kisses on her cheek and down her neck. When I get to her bond mark from Keelan, she moans. Her eyes open, the brown-green mix so fucking beautiful like the rest of her. My hand teases her nipple. We’ve all learned how much she loves her nipples played with, the rougher the better it seems. She swings her leg on the outside over mine, opening herself up for me. I don’t take the bait, continue kissing and sucking on her neck and pinching her nipple just so.
“Eli, please.” Her hand moves towards my cock. I grab it quickly.
“Tsk-tsk, Sunshine. This is all about you, I thought you enjoyed this?” I say, pinching her nipple harder. She lets out a gasp.
“Fuck. I-I do, but I need more,” she stutters out with a bit of omega whine, eyes pleading for my knot. Before I give her what she wants, I take her big tit and lean down, sucking it into my mouth and biting but not breaking skin yet on her nipple. She throws her head back in pleasure, making me smile around her. My hand grips her thick thigh draped over me, before releasing her with a pop and angling my cock with her slick pussy. I rub against her a couple times, teasing her clit. She’s writhing in pleasure for me, but I won’t draw it out longer. She needs a knot.
I finally enter her. It may not be our first time together four days into the heat but as cliche as it is, it feels that way every time we’re together. I feel every inch of her pressed against me as I start fucking her. I tilt her head up to look at me, since we’re still on our sides. Our eyes don’t move from each other’s, even after I go faster, my knot starts to inflate, teasing her entrance. I see every movement and reaction in her eyes and this is before we’re bonded. She already feels so entrenched in my soul I can’t imagine what the bonding will feel like. My hand grabs onto the side of her belly, fingers digging into her soft flesh, enabling me to go faster until my knot enters her and fully locks us together. Our orgasms are loud and take everything out of me. But not so much I forget what’s most important.
Leaning down and grabbing her remaining unmarked tit, I suck it into my mouth, swirling my tongue around her nipple. I take more of her into my mouth before I bite down, marking her, my mate. Her body is trembling against me. She then buries her teeth into my neck, completing the bond. Sunshine. That’s what it feels like spreading through my soul. A deep warmth untilit’s the purest emotion I’ve ever felt coming from her—love. She loves me. I don’t know why I’m surprised because she’s told me before this. Feeling it is such a different experience. I can only return it to her, pushing all my love down the bond so she knows how much she means to me. I almost wish the bond lets us read each other’s mind so I could tell her how I feel in a better way compared to my mouth.
We don’t move from our positions, except to rest against one another after tending our marks. My knot won’t go down for a while. Parker comes into view to take her temp again. He nods his head and shows me the screen. It’s normal again. Phew. Good. Liam is the only one left. Hopefully she won’t have more than one heat spike for the rest of the heat.
My arms tighten around her. My Sunshine, my mate, my universe.
17
LIAM
It’s day six of Thea’s heat and it’s still going strong. I can’t see this ending for at least a couple more days. I’m worried about it going longer than is typical. How will her heart handle a longer heat? She seems to be having more lulls today, which is good. I’m trying to get a bath ready for her. We all desperately need one but she needs it more than us. She refuses to leave the nest so wet wipes have been our saving grace.
I managed to convince her to have a bath if I’m with her. I don’t know if she thought I wouldn’t do that. Other than the length of her heat, it’s been going well. I’m surprised the heat spikes have been so spaced out. My working theory is possibly because in between the spikes, there’s been a few rounds of group sex where she’s actively involved with two or three of us at once. It’s been clear since her nesting how important having our scents around her is. So maybe it’s the same during her heat. If she ends up having more heat spikes than we can handle, I might recommend us doing that but having us all participate instead of two or three. What that looks like, I have no idea.
