He presses a kiss to my forehead. “No, love. You gave me that privilege. I’m paying your father to leave us the fuck alone. I’m not buying you. I’m buying us time. Your father, for all his faults, is a smart man, but he’s driven by greed. He’ll see the value in my offer, and that’s all we need. I wire him some money, and you’re free. We’re free.”
“I’ll belong to you.”
“You belongwithme. I’ll do anything I must to keep you safe and by my side. By our sides.”
Simon brushes his lips against the shell of my ear. “Forget what the law says. In our pack, we make our own rules. You make the rules, Junes. Always.”
“What about Rad?” I whisper.
Simon pulls me closer, and Cassian follows. They wrap me in the safety of their arms and my alpha nuzzles the place where he marked me, where he bonded us together forever.
“Ian, Graeme, and one of my dads are at the pack house adding more warding and security. We’ll keep you safe from him, I promise. If he so much as threatens to harm a single hair on your head, I’ll lay him out, physically and legally. Juniper, I canfightfor you now. And I will. I’ll fight until you’re safe. As your alpha, I’ll be well within my rights to put that bastard in the fucking ground if he tries to harm you.”
Fierce pride and possessiveness flares in the bond between us.
“Feel that?” Simon asks me again. “Get used to it. Our alpha is going to be impossible for the next few weeks.” He sends Cass a teasing wink, and I feel the warm brush of my alpha’s amusement through our bond.
My pack. My perfect men.
I finally ease back enough to look up into Cassian’s dark eyes, to press a kiss to his lips, only to realize he’scoveredin flour.
Simon snickers when he realizes I’ve just noticed that our alpha has flour in his dark hair. “Pancakes?”
“Mom and I made a full breakfast this morning, but I didn’t have the heart to wake you.”
“I missed pancakes?”
“Nah, I saved you both a plate of the good ones. Only the best for my mates.”
My mates.
Oh, how I love the sound of that.
“I need a shower first,” I grumble. Though I love being covered in my alphas’ scents after my heats, right now I’m sticky from sweat and... other things.
Cass stands and lifts me up in his arms, then throws me over his shoulder. I shriek in surprise, but I’m laughing the moment he bands an arm around my thighs to keep me from squirming. “That can be arranged, my love.”
He carries me into a huge, gorgeous bathroom and turns on the spray in a waterfall shower built for a pack, and together, he and Simon undress me.
And then they undress each other.
My perfume floods the air, and I duck away, hoping they think the splash of red across my cheeks is from the steam.
Simon chuckles and tilts my chin up with a single finger. “Watch, kit-kat. I know you want to.”
Saints, my men are so beautiful.
Where Cassian is sculpted, pure cords of muscle wrapped around his arms and chest, Simon is lean in the way betas often are. I scarcely know where to look until Simon grabs the waistband of Cassian’s boxers and tugs.
My mouth goes dry.
Cassian Leclerc ismagnificentin all his naked glory, a golden god with a sultry smile curving his full lips. I saw him naked during my heat, but I wasn’t present of mind enough to truly appreciate his physique, the hard, thick length of him curving up toward his abs. My head is clear now, though desire crashes through me, just as strong as it was during my heat.
I reach out hesitantly. Saints, we’re as close as an alpha and omega can be, bonded for life, and yet I find myself suddenly shy.
Cassian’s desire for me courses down our bond and it’s all the encouragement I need. I close the distance between us, pressing up onto my tiptoes so I can claim his mouth in a kiss, just as he claimed me with his bite.
He hisses into our kiss when I gently touch the head of his cock, and it only emboldens me. I shoot my alpha a crooked smile and then glance over at Simon. “Show me how our mate likes it?”
