Kellan’s pupils dilated. “Fuck, Shortcake. I’m going to come.”
The poor fucker was panting, and I knew exactly how he felt. Praise wasn’t one of my kinks, but in this moment, withthis omega,it had my balls tightening as tingles raced up and down my cock. “Don’t come yet,” Emme pantingly ordered. “I want to keep feeling this. Both of you inside of me is paradise.”
Desperate to give her everything she wanted, we continued to fuck her, and I prayed I could hold out. Emme was so wet that her slick heat covered our lower halves, and I was right there with her in not wanting this pleasure to ever end.
“Yes,” Emme cried. “Yes.Ohmygoddess. I love you both so much.”
Her babbling heightened the sensation, and when my jaw ached with the need to bite her, I just latched on to her shoulder. Without shifting, it wouldn’t last like a mating bond, but it sated my beast.
She cried out as her entire lower half tightened. It was the most perfect pleasure-pain I’d ever felt, sending me roaring into a release. Kellan was right behind us, and the three of us panted and moaned through the aftershocks, as close as three separate shifters could ever get.
For many long minutes after, we stayed together under the spray of water.
If it wasn’t for the fact that an entire hockey team would be here soon, I’d have requested we stayed like this for the rest of the day.
My perfect peace.
CHAPTER 31
EMME
After the most intense locker room sex that left me breathless and ready to collapse in a puddle on the floor, there was no time for post-coital cuddling. The boys re-dressed me in jeans, my jersey, and sneakers before handing me off to Hunter. Right around the time the first members of the Wolves entered the room to get ready for the game.
Hopefully they all enjoyed a sweet treat before they played, since our sugary scents were not going anywhere anytime soon. No doubt my possessive alphas were in there growling and demanding their teammates stop breathing.
“I missed you, little mate,” Hunter said on a soft sigh. “If this wasn’t life and death, I would never have left you.”
His plane had landed only thirty minutes earlier, and after a quick stop home to change, he’d come straight to the rink. I was so relieved that he’d finally returned, I hugged him for at least ten minutes straight, out in the hallway of the locker room.
“As long as you’re safely back here,” I murmured, voice thick. “Did you find anything useful at the old house?”
When I pulled away, I could see exhaustion in his normally unruffled features. He’d worked hard to tear Fletcher’s house apart, oftentimes literally. A frustrated huff left him. “Nothing that’s immediately useful, but there might be a few items we can work with. I left everything with Constantine and Slade. If anyone can figure it out, it’ll be those two.”
When we reached the main floor of the stadium, it was only sparsely populated, the game still a good hour away. We ended up in our usual seats with a dozen empty spaces around us, since no one else from our pack was joining today.
It was nice to have some one-on-one time with Hunter; there’d been too little with him lately.
Despite our early entry, food was already available, and Hunter managed to find a shifter to deliver us nachos, two cartons of fries, and a funnel cake. He always knew when I was starving.
In my defense, there had been a lot ofstrenuousexercise today.
“Slade wanted to catch the game with us tonight,” he said, looking satisfied when I started to wolf the food down. Pun intended. “But it’s more important that he keeps researching Fletcher’s notes and helps Constantine with a plan to track Jewels. Or any witch. Talon has fully taken over enforcer training too.”
We were all working on the assumption thatallthe magical community was holed up together somewhere. Most likely with Jewels. Find one and we’d find them all.
“I dropped more baked goods off for Cora and Warrick this morning,” I said softly around a bite of corn chip that didn’t taste quite as good now. “They still wouldn’t even let me near the house. I had to leave the basket with the guard stationed at the end of their road.”
After what they’d gone through, I wasn’t surprised by the extra security, but it hurt all the same to be left out like a stranger. Cora hadn’t responded to any of my messages, or returned the missed calls. I knew their time to grieve wasn’t about me, but I wished they’d at least let me know they were alive.
“You’re doing everything right, Emme,” Hunter told me as his hand ran soothingly over my arm. “Just keep showing up. Grief is a weird thing. There’s no timeframe on it, but one day they’ll remember how you showed up for them.”
I nodded, my eyes burning as I blinked rapidly. “It kills me to think that Cora blames me, you know? Her pack wouldn’t have been attacked if not for me.”
It was my greatest fear, but at the same time there was nothing I could do if they hated me. Iwasindirectly to blame, and I couldn’t fault them for having strong feelings about being around me. “No one blames you,” Hunter assured me. “They just need time.”
And I’d love to give it to them, but time was the one thing we were all running out of. Every second we couldn’t find that fucking witch was a second closer to losing our beasts.
The stadium filled eventually, and as the noise level rose around us, my melancholy faded. I let myself enjoy the excitement of being at one of their games.
