Orcus may be right about our kind avoiding this realm, but all it will take is a single pleasurable moment, and the Alphas will descend upon this world and ravage it in their quest to hunt Serapina down.
She’s an unmated Omega.
One who is about to go into heat.
Thanks to Maliki’s skilled tongue.
Fuck, I can picture him between her thighs. It’s a distraction I don’t need right now, yet I let it fuel my movements as I head down the beach along the rocky cliffs.
“Handle the sea wards,” I tell my brother over my shoulder. It’s not a request but a demand. He went into Alpha mode, thus calling out his wings. Saves me from having to do the same.
He ignores me, his focus on Reaper again as the Death Fae asks, “Pepperoni and sausage?”
“You can’t be serious,” my brother mutters.
“So that’s a yes, then?”
Orcus’s resulting sigh reaches me even though I’m more than twenty feet away from them now. “Just don’t take too long.”
“Well, I’ll try. But I want to get our pet a few different options for our visit.”
“This isn’t a vacation, Reaper. And you know she prefers veggies on the pizza.”
“I’m very aware of what our mate likes,” Reaper says back to him, a hint of offense in his tone as I begin calling magic to my fingertips.
It would be so easy to redirect the deadly enchantment to hit him in the ass, causing him to spiral down into my lethal playground. But I sort of need him alive right now, in case we need to fight.
“I meant that I’m going to get her a few varieties totry,” he goes on. “Proper Italian, New York style, Chicago deep dish, you know. So I’ll be back… soonish.”
“Hold on, Reaper. You can’t?—”
I glance back and watch as the Death Fae vanishes.
Orcus blinks at the space Reaper just occupied, then growls. “Fucking lunatic.”
“Indeed,” I agree. “Now will you focus on the water wards?”
The look he gives me says he would prefer punching me again instead.
“I gave you two free hits,” I remind him. “Three, if you count Reaper stabbing me in the literal back. Do not expect me to be any more understanding or accommodating than I’ve already been,little brother.”
He was right to be angry with me over endangering his mate and child, but I didn’t realize an orgasm would set off Serapina’s mating call.
In hindsight, I suppose it makes sense that pleasure would be the key to awakening her inner Omega. However, I wasn’t anticipating my mate broadcasting herself asunclaimedto the whole of Mythos Fae kind.
The fact that she could even emit such a signal confirms that she’s not my Persephone.
Oh, she possesses my mate’s soul… But Serapina is very much her own person.
Which leads me to wonder what will happen during her estrus.
Will she join with Persephone? Or is she merely a reincarnation of my mate?
Everything about this situation is unprecedented, leaving me conflicted about how to proceed.
I could claim her; she’s technically already mine. However, I… I don’t know if Serapina will accept me as hers.
And I need her consent to proceed.
