Twenty-Three
Isputtered as water was given to me mouth-to-mouth by one of my alphas.
Opening my eyes, I pushed Dante’s face away from mine and glared dazedly up at him.
‘Why did you do that?’I asked, my inner-voice filled with irritation as I pulled at the sweatshirt they had dressed me in this morning. It felt too heavy and stuffy, almost as if it was trying to strangle me.
‘You need to drink, baby,’Dante answered patiently, this time tipping the mouth of a plastic water bottle against my lips.
I turned my face and the water spilled all over my fevered skin, cooling it for only a moment before the blazing inferno seemed to return.
‘Luscinia,’Dante scolded me like I was a child.‘You need to drink and take these fever meds or else you won’t feel any better.’
He was pissing me off. They were all pissing me off today—not that I had been awake for most of it.
After Dante and I had sex on the boat I just felt so damned tired. I barely registered the passage of time, waking up only when they forced me to in order to eat or drink.
They apparently couldn’t understand that I was sick and just wanted to rest. I would eat and drink when I felt hungry or thirsty, but this was making me want to bite them.
‘If you drink we can cuddle,’Nico chimed in unhelpfully from behind Dante’s hulking frame.
These days they all seemed to talk in my head with an ease. Hells, they had taken to treating our connection like a damn group chat.
‘I don’t want your cuddles,’I growled, dodging yet another attempt by Dante to get me to drink.‘I want your cock.’
Nico’s brows rose in surprise before a slow smile spread on his lips.‘I take it you’ve finally tipped into a full estrus finally?’
I hadn’t tipped into anything. They kept saying heat this, and estrus that, but what I was feeling was so different from how heats were described in the textbooks that I was half-convinced that my brain had finally decided that two different kinds of designation hormones were too much and it was time to self-implode.
‘Keep talking pretty boy and I’ll bite it off,’I snapped before realizing just how harsh my words were.‘Sorry. I didn’t mean that.’
All of this was so damnedweird.
On one hand, I wanted them to cuddle me and fill me up so completely that I wouldn’t know where I stopped and they began… but on the other hand I refused to be coddled like this.
It went against my instincts or, well, part of them anyways.
Conflicting emotions were battling it out inside of my head making me not want to do anything but sleep in order to avoid it.
Dante put the water up to my lips again and I guiltily took a little sip.
‘I know you didn’t mean it,’Nico said, his warm hand grasping my ankle.‘Besides, if I didn’t need it for certain activities, then I’d let you bite it off if you really wanted to.’
Dante’s lips twisted with disgust as he shot the other alpha a look.‘When did you become such a masochist, Nic?’
Nico said nothing but shot him a cheesy grin.
I took the water bottle from Dante’s hands and took a larger drink. The satisfaction from the two alphas in the room was almost instantaneous and I was, as always, shocked by how easy to please they were.
Besides, the waterdidmake me feel a little bit better. Not that I would ever admit it out loud.
I was halfway through it before the heat in my body was temporarily quelled and an entirely new issue began.
A sharp, twisting sensation rippled through the lower part of my stomach as if someone had reached inside and yanked on my organs.
It was a bit like the periods I used to have as a beta… just ten times more painful.
It was so painful, in fact, that it made me double over in the bed, clutching my middle.
