I managed another squeak, and for the first time in existence, I think I saw a true, genuine smile from Slade Riverson. Bastard looked positively pleased with himself. “I’m glad you understand,” he murmured, and just like that I was released as he returned to his computer. “I’ll see you in a few hours.”
My head was a screaming wall of static as I stumbled from the room, moving on autopilot until I ended up in my own bed,bypassing Kellan’s room completely. I expected to lie awake for hours, consumed by what had happened with Slade, but instead I drifted off so fast it was almost as if his stalker wall really didn’t bother me.
Not like I wasn’t already aware that these alphas kept a close eye on me. If anything, it was reassuring to know Slade was in the background playing dragon-Batman.Dragonman?
I’d circle around on that one when I’d slept and had a stronger mental capacity.
When I woke hours later, I was surrounded by alphas. Hunter and Kellan had both found their way into my bed, and while my first instinct should have been panic—waking with an alpha on either side of me was not my normal—all I felt was contentment.
Sprawled between them, my body was more than comfortable. My right leg thrown over Hunter’s, his hand possessively gripping my thigh. His hold slipped very close to the low throb in my core, and with Kellan wrapped around my left side, his hand on my ass, I couldn’t help but shift against them.
“Mhmmm,” Hunter mumbled as he rolled closer and all but crushed me under his bulk. “You need something from us, baby?” He pressed his lips to my throat, and a needy groan spilled from my parted lips.
The delicious rasp of his voice did not ease that incessant throbbing drumbeat between my thighs. Surrounded as I was, the bite on my throat pulsed to remind me our quintet wasn’t complete. I needed three more marks to appease fate and our goddess, and I had no idea how I would resist them.
“Nope,” I choked out in response, unsurprised when he laughed.
Ugh, his laugh was one of my favorite sounds, second only to that deep groan he released whenever he was eating me like I was his favorite meal.
No, Emme.Why oh fucking why did I add that to my horny thoughts.
“What do you think, annoying pup?” Hunter asked, lifting his head from where he’d been scenting my skin. “Is our little omega lying to us, or herself?”
Kellan yawned and chuckled, tucking his head into the side of my neck, his lips grazing over the bite, which had my core clenching violently. “She smells needy,” he murmured, voice deep. “That sweetness invaded my dreams last night, and I’m so damn happy to wake up to this.” He pressed kisses to my burning skin between each word.
Hunter slid his lips over my cheek and down my neck. The scrape of his beard against my sensitive skin created a delicious friction that had me clawing at the sheets, needing to ground myself. “Wait, no,” I gasped, choking on my own damn arousal. “We can’t. I can’t bond with Hunter too… fuck.”
Hunter’s response was to grip Slade’s shirt and pull it tighter until my hard nipples were visible. His eyes were stormier as he leaned down and lapped at one’s peak, sucking it into his mouth through the material. It felt so good that I clutched my right hand into his hair to hold him there. “Baby girl,” he rasped, “You’re giving off mixed signals. Do you want me to make you come or not?”
“Yes!” I burst out. “But… no sex.” I would beg for his claim during sex. I would beg and cave.
Hunter’s rumble emerged from deep within his beast, and when he lifted his head, his swirling gaze was all wolf as he observed Kellan kissing down my throat. “You know the deal, Emme. You will beg me for the final claiming, and until then, this is as far as it goes.”
That statement had Kellan lifting his head and blinking at Hunter. “Are you angry that I claimed her first? I didn’t even fucking think about the fact that it was your right as the entitledalpha.” Kellan paused and shook his head. “I’m not going to apologize for it, though. I will never apologize for anything shared between Shortcake and me.”
Hunter snorted, running a hand through his glorious hair, letting it fall over his forehead. “You’re still alive, aren’t you, pup. You’re part of my pack and it’s my job to keep you all safe. Bonding saved your life, so I’ll never be mad about how it happened. Emmeline and I will have our time.”
“Still right here,” I mumbled, feeling overheated, horny, and a hundred percent done with this conversation.
“Yes, you are,” Kellan joked as he leaned down and kissed my lips. “Why did you leave my bed last night, though? That’s the real question.”
Hunter distracted me when he lifted my shirt to press his lips to my stomach. “Because Slade hijacked her from your room in the night,” he said between kisses.
I jerked, and almost headbutted Kellan. “How the hell do you know that? Do you have a stalker wall too?”
Hunter’s laughter trailed over my skin, and it felt so damn good that I forgot everything else in the world but the feeling of his breath and tongue as it darted out to taste me.
“Of course he does,” Kellan said, amused. “He’s a control freak with a god complex. How could he be everywhere at once without a stalker wall?”
These alphas were too much, butdamnI liked them.
I liked them more than was safe for me or my sanity.
Further conversation was cut off as Hunter slid between my thighs and lowered his head to run his nose along my sex, breathing me in. His chest rumbled my favorite sound, and he buried his face to place a wet, open-mouth kiss on my clit, before he swiped his tongue down to my ass and then back up.
Kellan caught my cry on his lips, and I opened both my mouth and thighs, needing more. The fact that I was in the midstof my first threesome, with alphas I swore I’d never bond with, should have been a concern. But it felt too damn good to do anything except hold on and enjoy the ride.
Hunter swirled his tongue around my clit, and I unashamedly rode his face, the pleasure instant and strong. When he pulled away, I cried out, only to calm when he slid one, and then a second finger inside me, curling them to thrust hard and fast. It sent me reeling into an orgasm so quickly that I briefly lost my grasp on reality as I cried out and clutched Kellan.
