This was our wolves connecting on a spiritual level.
His fingers bit into my thighs as Kellan yanked me around to straddle him on the chair. He slouched to give us more room, and I barely stifled my moan as I rocked against him.
I’d had sex half a dozen times in my life. With humans. It was always completely forgettable, and eventually I decided my cheap ass vibrator was far superior, and stopped even bothering.
The feeling of Kellan between my thighs, though, told me in no uncertain terms that what I’d experienced in the human world had nothing on being with a shifter. With an alpha.My alpha.
Unfortunately, today I was not only bleeding quite profusely, we were also ina car with the rest of our pack.Two facts that doused my arousal fast as I gasped and tried to lurch away.
Kellan slid one hand up my spine and into my hair, tightening his grip at the base of my skull. The tugging sensation against my scalp was mimicked by another one much,muchlower. “It’s natural, pretty girl,” he murmured against my lips, and for a brief,insanesecond, I thought he was referring to fucking in front of the pack. “None of us are turned off by blood.”
Goddess of a shifter,andI was right back to almost combusting.
When the whimper spilled from between my lips, I pulled away to catch my breath, and for no reason at all, my gaze met Finley’s, who sat right behind Kellan’s chair.
The bear shifter looked stiff and uncomfortable, but for a change the whiskey of his eyes was light and bright, those thick lashes framing their beauty as he stared me down.
At first glance I’d have said disgust lined his expression, but as I caught the slight flare of his nostrils and noted the deepening cherry-vanilla of his scent, I had to reassess.
He almost looked like he was in pain.
Our gazes remained locked, until he growled all bearlike: “Get us to the fucking airport. I don’t need to see this shit right in front of me.”
Kellan buried his face against my chest and laughed lightly. “Leave the shade of green for Slade, Fin. It’s not a good look on you.”
Slade grunted from the front, and while he didn’t turn around for me to see any other reaction, it felt like the interior grew hotter with each passing second.
Was it suddenly hard to breathe in here?Did Hunter switch the air off?
I hit the button to lower the window, desperate for waft of cool fall air, and a slight escape from the intensity pulsing like it had its own heartbeat.
Silence descended once more, and Kellan didn’t appear to be worried, as he absentmindedly stroked my side, the calming rhythm lowering my pulse. This shifter had been telling me from the start that he wasall inwith me, and somewhere along the lines… I’d started to feel the exact same way about him. Like I couldn’t exist without him in my life.
It was terrifying to know my happiness and future were tied up in these four alphas, especially with bonding the inevitable ending for us. I needed to tell them the truth, so we could all fight it together. It was exhausting fighting fate on my own.
I’d almost spilled it back at the clearing, and maybe this was the topic we needed right now, to fill the awkward silence. With their help, I might even be able to go through the omega books from Chelsea. She was the only other omega in Golden Claw, and her reference texts remained stacked in the corner of my room, untouched.
“I want to tell you all what happened to my mom.” I blurted out before I could second-guess myself. Even as fear thrummed through my veins like injected poison. “Explain what her pack did to her and why I’ve been running from the cities.”
Hunter’s eyes left the road again, and Slade turned as much as he could in the seat, his shoulders too wide to maneuver more than thirty degrees.
“You don’t have to if you’re not ready,” Kellan assured me, siting straighter and bringing me closer to his face. “We can be patient for as long as you need. There’s no pressure. For anything.”
Gah, perfect Golden. I was fairly sure I was in love with this alpha, and for that alone I’d take the risk. “I want you all to understand why I ran from you. Why I’ve had to fight against this pull between us. Because I promise, I feel it too. I’ve just had no choice but to take a different path. It’s been a really fucking lonely, sad, pathetic existence. Fate dealt me a bit of a run of shitty luck.”
Hunter’s tone was soft and gruff at the same time, which perfectly summed up this alpha: “There’s nothing you could tell us that would change the way we feel, little omega. Nothing. We want to be part of the solution to your problems. Let us be the solution.”
Of course, our resident genius inventor believed there was no problem he couldn’t fix. I hoped this time he was right.
“It’s not as simple as letting you all fix it, because this might be beyond…” I choked up, my cheeks heating even as the cool air from the now open window slapped against my skin. Kellan ran his hands up and down my back, soothing me once more. “This is a secret that omegas do not want others to know. Hence why it’s not common knowledge, or at least I don’t believe it is.”
“Can you fucking spit it out already, Icy,” Finley growled, and I was simplythrilledthat he had a shortened version of my name that was somehow even meaner. “It clearly affects us as much as you, and the fact that you’ve been keeping it from us and rejecting us?—”
He didn’t get to finish tearing strips off me as Hunter cursed and slammed on the brakes, jerking us to the right. A wash of pungent sulfur flowed in through the window as magic wrapped around the vehicle.
I screamed as we were flipped into a deadly tumble across Silver City streets. It was only Kellan’s hold on me that kept me from being flung into the ceiling, even though I still managed to hit the edge of the door and the hard lines of his body armor multiple times.
When the momentum finally came to a halt, we were the right way up at least, but before we even caught our breaths, Kellan’s door was ripped off, and we copped the full force of the witch’s magical blast. I was slower to react, as instinct had me lifting my hands to call on my wolf, who was slightly more resistant to magic. Kellan, though, was already two steps ahead of me.
