Link
He stared at me for a moment, all cute and confused. I let him process. It wasn’t normal or natural for an alpha to just randomly start lactating, but it wasn’t like it was some fatal disease festering in his pecs.
At least, I didn’t think so.
He shook his head beneath me. “How the hell would you know? And also, wouldn’t you like to know what’s going on with your body ifyouwere suddenly producing milk?”
I shrugged, dragging his arms by his wrists until they were up over his head, leaning down until our noses were nearly touching. “It looks like milk. Smells like milk. Tastes like milk. It has to be milk. You’ve smelled a lactating omega before, haven’t you?”
He inhaled a shaky breath, his eyes flicking between mine. “Is that what you meant by me smelling different?”
“Oh, no, Elias. You don’t smell like a lactating omega. You are covered in the purest, filthiest, sexiest scent of…” I pressed my nose against the crook of his neck, sniffing. “An omega at the height of their heat. But it’s different, see? Fuck, you smell so good here.” I stuck my tongue out, licking a streak up the side of his neck, humming in time with his soft moan. “You still smell like you. You still smell like an alpha. Like an alpha during their rut, mixed with an omega during their heat, sending their pheromones out to me without even noticing. And then, beneath it all, is the sweet smell of milk. Now that I’ve been this close and I’ve gotten a taste of it, I just can’t get enough.”
Gasping, Elias pushed against my hands with his wrists. “Jesus fucking Christ, Link. Do you have any shame?” He was breathless. “I can’t do this with you right now. If I smell like that—if I really am lactating, and I smell like an omega in heat, I seriously need a doctor. Like, right now.”
I stared down at him, gripping his wrists tighter. “Or I could just suck it all out of you when you feel too full. We have options.”
“No.”
“Why not?”
“What if it’s full of, I don’t know, poison?”
I furrowed my brows. “Poison? Elias, why would your chest milk be full of poison?”
“I don’t know!” He huffed, turning his head in the other direction. “I’m not supposed to have any, so what if it’s bad?”
Sighing, I rolled off him, plopping onto the bed. “Okay, fine. Call your doctor. But if they say it’s all good, I’m drinking that shit straight from the source, and there’s nothing you can do about it.”
“Uh, actually, I can. It’s my chest, my body, and my milk.”
I put my hands up defensively, backtracking my statement. “Yeah, I know. I’m going towantto drink it straight from the source, and there’s nothing you cando about it. I will politely ask for it. That, you can do something about. Like say no, even if I beg.”
He sat up, tilting his head to the side, his blond hair sticking out in every direction. “You’d beg?”
Elias’s eyes had always fascinated me. Right in the center, there was a distinct ring of brown and then a gorgeous ring of green surrounding it. They meshed together in a few spots, but they were mostly on their own. Central heterochromia, they called it, but I called it beautiful, though I’d never say it to his face. His eyes always told such a story—if I paid enough attention, I could almost read his mind.
Smirking, I picked up his phone, handing it to him. “I’d beg on my knees if I had to, Elias. With my mouth open and my hands behind my back, impatiently waiting for that first drop.”
“Fucking hell,” he whispered, just before dialing the number again.
I watched as he made the appointment, his face going red when he mentioned his symptoms to the lady on the phone. I really hoped he didn’t make me beg, but I was one hundred percent willing to. Did it make much sense? No. But Elias was driving me fucking insane, and the alpha inside of me didn’t know how to back off once he’d claimed something as his.
Chapter 5
HERE, TAKE THESE PILLS
Elias
Whatever Link had done to me seemed to have opened the floodgates. I couldn’t even leave the house for more than a couple of hours without leaking through my shirt. It was embarrassing.
I’d called in to work all week long. It was becoming a problem. Fuck, who was I kidding? It alreadywasa problem. I was going to get fired. Then I wouldn’t be able to pay my share of the rent, and Link was gonna kick my ass out onto the streets.
The doctor’s visit was quick, if not slightly uneventful. He told me this sometimes happened, although rarely, when an alpha’s hormones were out of whack, wrote me a prescription to get everything back under control, and told me that within a month, my hormones should be back to normal.
He also told me that it wouldn’t harm me eitherway. I’d asked. I hadn’t planned to, but the words came rolling off my tongue without a single thought from my brain.
I hadn’t taken a single pill.
