“No,” I mumbled.
“Then, come on,” Adriel said stiffly.
The walk back to the cottage seemed to last forever. Every step forward was like walking in quicksand. The blood pounded in my ears and sweat beaded down my brow. I clenched my fists so hard my nails dug into my skin.
It’s so close.
All I needed to do was get inside and in my room. Fast. I would be safe from my intense primal urges if I could just get some distance between Adriel and I.
Does he feel the same? There’s no way he can’t smell my heat. But he’s not acting on it. Maybe he knows how to ignore it.
Was that truly possible, though? Could an alpha -anyalpha, regardless of whether they were human or vampire - ignore the call of an omega in heat? An omega that was right next to them?
The front door creaked closed behind us. Adriel didn’t say a word. The entire house was silent.
“I’m gonna go to my room,” I said.
Adriel nodded and didn’t say anything else.
I made it halfway up the stairs at a normal pace before I broke out into a panicked run.
This wasn’t supposed to happen,I thought desperately.My heat wasn’t supposed to come so early. And why the hell haven’t the suppressants kicked in!?
I groaned and slumped behind the closed door. I wiped the sweat trickling down my brow, but it was spreading to the rest of me as my entire body temperature rose. A low, dull throb spread throughout my groin area. It wouldn’t be long before uncontrollable lust took hold of me.
I couldn’t spend my whole heat this way, cooped up in a room with only my hands to deal with it. Not only that, but my boss was going to be pissed if I missed work because of my own stupidity.
Why am I so dumb? Why couldn’t I have just remembered to bring my pills in the first place?
A knock on the door made me leap out of my skin.
“Hello?” I yelped.
“Caleb,” Adriel’s strained voice replied. “It’s me.” He paused. “I know this must be a difficult time for you, so let me know if there’s anything I can do to help.”
I wanted to bark out a bitter laugh. There was nothing he could do, except one thing. And we couldn’t dothat.
...Right?
“Thanks, but you and I both know the answer to that, and it’s not happening,” I said.
When he didn’t reply right away, I imagined the tight line of his mouth.
“I’ll be fine for now,” I continued. “I’ll probably need a glass for water later today, and food, but that’s about it. If it’s too much for you to handle, you can ask Benji to do it.”
“It’s not,” Adriel said firmly, sounding a little offended. “Look, I’m not going to… initiate anything just because you’re an omega in heat. I have a little more dignity than that.”
Of course he does,I thought. He must have been in this situation countless times, knowing how old he was. Obviously he could control himself.
But there was a tiny voice in the back of my head that shoutedI don’t want him to!
I bit my lip. My heat was getting stronger by the second. An uncontrollable desire wormed its way through me like poison.
There was only one true way to stop a heat - to become pregnant. That was clearly out of the question, but one way to slow it down, or at least make it easier to bear, was sex. More specifically, sex with an alpha’s knot.
The image of Adriel’s cock flashed into my mind and I groaned out loud. I shut my eyes tight and shook my head, furiously trying to get rid of it. But the damage was done. My cock was already getting hard.
Shit, goddamnit, fuck!
