I place her head in the crook of my neck and I wrap my arms around her, giving her just the right amount of pressure. It only takes a second for her body to soften, her scent getting sweeter.
“This is something I knew I wanted for myself. I don’t judge anyone else for their choices, and I mean, it’s not like I’m a virgin saint. I just knew I wanted to wait until I was ready for an Omega.”
“That makes sense. What was it like having parents that loved each other?” she whispers into my neck.
I stroke her back, staring out into the dark, starry night as I think back on my childhood.
“It was everything I could have ever asked for. I have my mom, who’s an Omega, two Alpha dads, and a Beta father.”
She snorts. “So you had a blueprint.”
I smile and rest my chin on her head. “A pretty damn good blueprint. I know I’m lucky. There are a lot of people who don’t have what I had, but that’s why finding the right pack was so important to me.”
“How did you meet Hayes and Nate?” she asks, her head rubbing against the underside of my chin; she’s scent marking me without even knowing it. I want to hold her tighter, but I might squeeze her to death. Is this what cuteness aggression is?
“Nate, I knew from the fire station. We had been friends for a while and I saw him disappearing before my eyes when he was with Erin. I helped him get out of that relationship and during the process kinda fell for him. He’s kind of impossible not to love.”
“And Hayes?”
“Hayes bought me a drink across the bar, told me I was hot and that he had a firefighter fantasy. I took him home that night and he never left after that. Like I said, I’m no blushing virgin.”
She pulls her head back from my chest as she sits in my lap and looks at me.
“If this is going too fast for you, we can slow this all down,” I tell her.
Her throat bobs, and she shakes her head. “For some reason this doesn’t feel fast. I’m not going to lie, I’ve been through a heat before, I’ve been on a lot of dates.” She grimaces and shakes her head. “None of this is coming out right.”
I can’t help it as I shift, feeling uncomfortable with the idea of her being with other Alphas. I’m not sure how I’m going to handle her profession, but I know there’s nothing I can ask of her in that regard until things are official. Until then, I’ll just have to keep my jealousy to myself.
“To clarify, while I’ve been on a lot of dates, none of them went past the first date. There was always something that bothered me about the Alphas I went out with. Either they were too pretentious or they weren’t generous. There was always something about them that reminded me of my mom’s Alphas and I never asked for a second date. As for my heat, well, it wasn’t memorable. But tonight? This date? It’s something I’ll never forget; I’ve never been drawn to Alphas the way I am to you and Nate. I’ve never felt this way before.”
I bring my wet, warm hands up to her arms, soothing the goosebumps on her skin.
“And how do you feel?”
“I feel special. I feel seen,” she says, her gray eyes filling with tears as I tenderly grab her jaw.
“I’m going to kiss you now, okay?”
She nods enthusiastically as I move her face toward mine, bringing our lips together. I keep it chaste, but Hailey is the onewho makes the kiss deeper. She starts by kissing my bottom lip, her tongue swiping out to part my lips. I meet her fervor with my own, tangling my fingers into the messy bun resting on the back of her head while still holding her jaw.
My cock is hard, and I’m fully ignoring it, but it’s nearly impossible to when Hailey grinds her weight down on me.
“Sorry,” she whispers against my mouth.
“You don’t need to be sorry. Far from it,” I say back and she kisses me again.
Her hips grind against my crotch as my hand slides away from her face, gliding down her body, and finding a place on her lower back. Hailey starts kissing my jaw and my neck.
“I just don’t want to move faster than you want to.”
“We can take things slow,” I say with a groan as her hips pause.
“But this is okay?” she says, rocking back and forth on my cock.
I can’t help but to let my hand slide further down south, gripping one of her soft, full ass cheeks.
“Okay? More than okay for me. What about for you?”
