“Around the humans.”
I took a step back. “I need to breathe.” And get naked because everywhere fabric touched, my skin stung.
“Omega, I’m assuming this is your first heat?”
“Don’t even joke about that.” I grabbed for my water. “This can’t be what a heat feels like. If it was, nobody would have one.”
“Nobody chooses to have one, but I can smell well enough to know that this is indeed your heat and if you don’t want me to do something to help you with it, you need to go into your room and close the door. I won’t be able to scent you from there. At least not much.”
“You can help make this go away?”
“That’s how it’s supposed to work.” His hands flexed at his sides, but he didn’t reach for me. “Please, Millie, either go to your room or let me make love to you because I’m suffering here.”
“So am I.” I rubbed my eyes. “Worse than anything I’ve ever felt. And if I let you umm…if we do that, I’ll feel better?”
“It should help, but it’s my first experience with an omega in heat, too. Also, I have been wanting you for so long, but I don’t want you to just say yes if you don’t want me in bed with you.”
“Don’t say that, Felix. I do want you in bed with me. And not just because of whatever this is. Maybe we shouldn’t because if we do, you’re going to feel used.”
“Omega…that is not going to happen. Use me. Please. Any way you like.”
He smelled good, too. I closed the distance between us and sniffed his neck. “Have you always smelled like this?”
“Like what?”
“Clean mountain air and wood smoke.”
“It’s not an aftershave I use or anything.”
I reached between us and opened his shirt, wanting more of his scent, more of his warm skin under my lips, more of everything. “Oh, Felix.” Dropping to my knees, I closed my fist around his cock and pointed it toward my mouth. “Mmm.”
I had him deep in my throat when he pulled me off and lifted me up, setting me on the edge of the counter. “What are you doing?”
“This.” He lifted my legs over his shoulders and fitted the head of his cock to my entrance. “And this.”
“Oh, both of those things are very good.” Every inch of him moving into me eased the aches a little, but the fever was still climbing. And it continued up while he pounded into me, my bottom slapping against the counter. I climbed with the fever, orgasm chasing it into the depths of my body and dropping me into an unending circle of pleasure and heat.
Felix rocked his hips, filling me over and over again until he came with a roar and then, to my surprise, kept going. Must have been a heat thing. Gave him the ability to continue. He pulled out and flipped me over then drove inside again. When the others came home, they found us still knotted together, somehow having managed to mark one another at some point I vaguely remembered.
And then we all went into my room where they took turns making love to me until the heat was also faded in my mind, lost in hours of intense pleasure that left us all wrung out and lying side by side panting.
“I’m too tired to ever move again,” I moaned, a sentiment echoed by the others. But apparently, heat came in waves, and it was a couple of exhausting days before it completely disappeared.
And then they were all holding me, and I was whole for the first time in my life. Mated, marked, and fully alive.
We all slept the clock around after that, waking hungry, thirsty, and refreshed.
“Want to go again?” Felix asked, and we all pounded him with pillows. Then we went again. This time without the frenzy of mating. Slower, more loving, and complete bliss.
Chapter Twenty-Six
Tyrone
Millie came out of her nest last. She had been resting a bit more lately. In the meantime, I was losing sleep over the dream about her father coming to steal her away.
“Good morning,” I said and chuckled when she made a beeline for the coffeepot, grumbling something incoherent on the way. “Bad morning? It didn’t sound like it at all from here.”
I lifted my coffee cup to my lips, steeling myself for the feisty omega. She had come out of her shell of late and more so since her heat. “Oh my goddess.” She slapped my biceps playfully. “You did not hear that.”
