"Yes— please— alpha—" I tilted my head, exposing the back of my neck where the primary bonding gland sat — the most sensitive point, the most important bond. The one that would connect me not just to Jae-won, but to all of them.
"Going to make you come on my knot." He growled against my ear, his hand snaking under my body to find my clit, his voice dark with promise. "Going to bite you while you're coming. Bond you while you're screaming my name."
The knot caught harder with each thrust, stretching me impossibly wide, the pressure building to a breaking point. His fingers worked my clit with ruthless precision, pushing me toward another peak even as the knot demanded entrance.
"Now." Jae-won snarled, his voice cracking with strain. "Come for me NOW." The knot locked inside me as the orgasm crashed through — the two sensations hitting at the exact same moment, overwhelming, devastating, transcendent. I screamed his name into the pillows, my body convulsing beneath his weight, my inner walls clenching around the massive knot in rhythmic waves.
Then his teeth sank into the back of my neck. The pain was blinding — sharper than the other bites, deeper, more intense. But the pleasure that followed was beyond anything I'd ever experienced. It crashed through me like a tidal wave, like lightning striking twice, like being reborn.
The bond didn't just snap into place — it EXPLODED.
A deep thread joined the others, but it didn't stop there. I could feel ALL of them suddenly — not just Jae-won, but Hwan and Jin-ho and Tae-min and Min-jun too. All five bonds, all five emotions, all five connections thrumming through my chest in perfect harmony.
Pack,my omega sang, tears streaming down my face. Pack. Ours. Complete.
"Now you." Jae-won's voice was wrecked, broken, as he tilted his head to expose his neck. His whole body was trembling against mine, his knot still pulsing inside me. "Claim me, Keira. Complete the pack."
I turned my head as much as I could in this position, my teeth finding the back of his neck I bit down hard, tasting copper, feeling the bond double and triple and become something unbreakable. Jae-won roared — the sound shaking the walls of the nest room — his knot pulsing violently inside me, another orgasm crashing through us both as the pack bond sealed completely.
When I released him, breathing hard, I could feel everything.
Five bonds. Five threads. Five hearts beating in perfect synchrony with mine. The pack was complete.
"It's done." Jae-won breathed against my shoulder, his weight still pressing me into the mattress, his knot still locked inside me. His voice was rough with emotion, cracking on the words, his breath ragged against my skin. "The pack bond. I can feel all of them through you. Through us."
"So can I." I whispered, overwhelmed by the sensation — five distinct emotional signatures, all connected, all flowing through me like rivers joining an ocean. Hwan's sunshine joy. Jin-ho's deep devotion. Tae-min's fierce love. Min-jun's tender protection. And Jae-won's — overwhelming, possessive, all-consuming love that wrapped around all the others like a protective shield.
"You're the heart of us now." Jae-won pressed a kiss to the bite mark on the back of my neck, gentle despite everything that had just happened, his lips soft and reverent against the tender skin. "The center that holds us all together."
We lay there as the knot slowly released, Jae-won's body still covering mine, his lips pressing soft kisses to my shoulders, my spine, the back of my neck. When he finally pulled out and rolled us onto our sides, pulling me back against his chest, I could feel the others moving closer.
Hwan settled at my front, his golden thread pulsing warm in my chest as he pressed a kiss to my forehead, his warm brown eyes shining with tears. Jin-ho curled against my back beside Jae-won, his violet thread humming with contentment, his hand finding my hip. Tae-min squeezed in somewhere at my feet, his crimson thread bright with joy, pressing a kiss to my ankle. Min-jun's hand found mine, his rose-pink thread soft and comforting, his fingers lacing through mine and squeezing gently.
Five alphas. Five bonds. One omega.
One pack. Complete.
Chapter Forty-Two
KEIRA
Three days. The heat had consumed three days of my life in a blur of fire and need and pleasure so intense it bordered on pain. Three days of wave after wave crashing through me, each one pulling me under until I couldn't remember my own name. Three days of five alphas taking turns — sometimes one at a time, sometimes in pairs, always there when I reached for them, always ready to give me what I needed.
I remembered fragments. Hwan's sunshine scent wrapping around me as he whispered praise against my skin. Jin-ho's amber eyes holding mine as he moved inside me, intense and unwavering. Tae-min's eager energy, his desperate need to prove himself worthy. Min-jun's gentle hands and softer voice, coaxing orgasm after orgasm from my exhausted body. Jae-won — always Jae-won — his commanding presence anchoring me when the heat threatened to sweep me away entirely.
They'd taken care of me between waves too. I had hazy memories of cool cloths pressed to my forehead, of water held to my lips, of strong arms carrying me to a bath and gentlehands washing the sweat from my skin. Of being fed bites of fruit and protein bars, of soft voices murmuring reassurances when I whimpered in my sleep.
Three days of being completely, utterly claimed.
Now it was over.
I woke slowly, consciousness returning in gentle waves rather than the crashing urgency I'd grown accustomed to. My body ached in ways I'd never experienced — a deep, pleasant soreness that spoke of being thoroughly used. But the fire was gone. The desperate need that had clawed at my insides for three days had finally, blessedly, burned itself out.
In its place was something else entirely.
Peace,my omega sighed, the voice in my head soft and content in a way I'd never heard it.Ours. All ours. Safe.
I kept my eyes closed for a long moment, just breathing, taking stock. I was surrounded by warmth — bodies pressed against me from every direction, heartbeats thrumming against my skin. The scents of five alphas mingled in the air around me, creating a tapestry of cedar and citrus and vanilla and ocean and woodsmoke that smelled like home.
