Clover plastered every inch of bare skin she could to me, dragging one of my arms beneath her neck and holding it like a teddy bear down her chest. Her purr rumbled, giving me a crystal clear indication of how comfortable she was. I slid my free hand over the curve of her hip and settled on her barely there bump.
“I can’t change anything that’s happened,” I said softly, “but I’m here. Whatever you want that to mean from now until I die, I’ll make it happen.”
A squeeze of regret shot down the bond. “I don’t know what I want it to mean. I guess that’s a lie—Idoknow, but I don’t feel like we’re in a place where I can have it.”
“You’re going to have to give me a little bit more context.”
“I want literally everything. Doesn’t mean I’m not scared to try for it. I flat out told Parker I don’t need your pack’s money, and he decided I was a liar. Makes me nervous to attempt a life with anyone connected to that mentality.”
“If it makes you feel any better, he definitely thought the same thing about me.”
“Sounds like Parker needs to be pushed into a cactus patch.”
I laughed, curling even tighter around her. “Might do him some good. It takes him a while to approach things from a people angle versus a business one. I’m not defending his actions, I’m explaining this is how his brain works with unknown people. I don’t agree with the contract, but you already knew that. If he’d talked to us at all beforehand, it wouldn’t exist.”
Clover growled. “He’s such a butthole. I don’twantto be weird about any of this. I want my chance at the life Meadow has, and he’s ruining it.”
“If I knew how to fix it, I would.” If I had the ability to steamroll every fucking obstacle in our way, they’d be damn pancakes already.
“This is helping,” she assured me, melting deeper into my arms. “I’m not mad atyoufor it.”
“Maybe if you give in to the needs of a scent match, you’ll feel better.”
“Are we that?”
“Sure would make sense if we were.”
Clover nodded slowly. “I can agree there. I’m not going to let Parker off the hook, but I should at least be able to approach the situation with a healthy human level of patience.”
I got my purr rumbling. Nothing was better to settle an omega, and the more comfortable she was, the longer I could hold her.
Nuzzling her had her body tensing, and a gush of slick soaking my underwear where she was pressed against me. Her soft moan followed.
“I know you saidyouwould behave, but I definitely didn’t promise that.” Her nails dug into my arm, and I held my breath, waiting to see what she might ask for. “Would it be dumb if I tried to claim this didn’t mean anything either?”
“Yes,” I grumbled in her ear. “You don’t have to pretend with me. I’ll give you anything you want.”
Clover whimpered. “Why, though?”
“Because you’remine. What kind of alpha would I be if I didn’t give my pregnant omega everything she craved? You can tell yourself it doesn’t mean anything if you want to. I’m taking care of you, anyway. Besides, I did make a very particular promise to you about what would happen the next time you were in my bed.”
“To be fair, we’re inmybed, not yours.”
“Same difference.” I kissed the curve of her shoulder, and she tipped her head to give me access to her throat. That first hint of surrender shot down my spine like lightning. “You want me to fuck you, mama?”
Another perfect whimper slipped out of her. “Yes.”
One arm was still trapped, so I wasn’t graceful by any stretch of the imagination as I worked off my underwear. She settled quickly against me, and the adjustment let me hook her knee over my arm to spread her open far enough I could reach her throat too. Her scent exploded. My fingers descended between her thighs and her grip on my arm tightened, her panting breaths coming sharply as I teased my way through her slick.
“That’s my good girl. Already dripping for me.” I sucked in a deep breath of her sugar-dipped peony, something between a growl and a purr rumbling in my chest as I lifted my fingertips to my lips. “Fucking delicious.”
I rolled my hips, letting my cock glide against her. It was too light to give her any real satisfaction, but I still didn’t want to stop. The inferno of her cunt was exactly what I craved right now.
Clover rocked impatiently, trying to shift herself around for the right angle.
“You want me that bad, omega?”
“Yes,” she growled. “Hurryup.”
