I bucked my hips against the bed sheets, seeking out friction.
His fingers left my hair, and they trailed down my bare back. His nails dug into the skin, leaving marks that would fade in a few hours, but right now, they felt divine.
"Coming, omega. I'm coming!"
My mouth filled with his hot cum, and I drank it down. The sweetest nectar. A starving man finally given the elixir of life he so desperately craved.
I kept his softening cock in my mouth for a long time, gently suckling the head while he trailed his fingers over my skin. He found a few ticklish spots and chuckled as I twitched.
Finally, Dom pulled off and climbed onto the bed with me. It was a sticky mess thanks to me, so we kicked the top sheet onto the floor.
"We need to shower, love," he said.
That was only the start of our to-do list. We needed a shower, I needed to report back to my uncle about my task today, and we needed to determine how we were ever gonna make this work. There was a future for us. We just need to fight like hell for it.
For now, all of that could wait. I had my mate in my arms, and all the other bullshit would have to work itself out.
13
DOMINIC
“You’ve been awfully efficient this past week, Dom.” Andro leaned back in his leather chair and steepled his fingers in front of him. His gaze trained on me. He wore his signature suit, pressed perfectly. Not a wrinkle.
I nodded. “Yes. It seems that two can do the job faster than one," I said. Which made sense, even though the past week the job had just been researching, planning, and then taking out whatever threat I had been tasked with disposing of. Still working this closely with my mate for the past week for those tasks had been amazing. Invigorating. We had only just scratched the surface of the ways in which we challenged and learned from one another.
Working with a partner was not something that had appealed to me in the past. But when that partner was Carmine. Competent, sexy, deadly Carmine? I’d work with him forever.
"I expected you to enjoy more of a honeymoon phase after meeting your mate,” Cord chimed in from where he sat to Andro’s left.
I opened my mouth to say something, though I didn’t know what. We had skirted around this topic for a while. We were shit at hiding who we were to one another. Of course the bosses knew.
Andro held up a hand. “You can't deny what Carmine is to you, and I would be insulted if you even tried."
I was in the conference room attached to Andro’s office with Felik, Cord, and Andro. Each of them stared at me, awaiting my response. The set-up with them across the table from me made sense now. This was an interrogation. Or the start of one. Would it end in the basement with me tied up by my thumbs?
Carmine and the other omegas were in the family room playing with the kids. I had been surprised when Carmine had wanted to come with me to Andro’s today. I had been expecting him to fly home. The two of us were no closer to coming up with a solution for this conundrum, and neither of our families had mentioned anything. This was the first time I had been in Andro's presence for longer than a few minutes.
Still, work kept coming my way, and so Carmine and I handled it. There were a few things he had been tasked with doing for his family as well, but nothing that required him to return home.
That wouldn't last long. Eventually he would be given a task worthy of the assassin that he was, and we would have to part ways. Not that I hadn’t been brainstorming a way in which I could justify a trip to the west coast. So far, no luck.
I took a deep breath. "I won't insult you by lying, nor would I ever dream of lying to you, boss.”
“Not telling me is a lie by omission." Andro’s eyes narrowed, and his head tilted as he studied me. It was enough to makesweat bead at the base of my spine. I’d seen Andro and Cord interrogate some of the toughest men. They’d broken them in ways I hadn’t thought possible. Now I sat on the opposite side of that interrogation, and I didn’t like it.
I straightened. "I am sorry for that."
"Did the two of you think you weren’t obvious in your affection for one another? Anyone with eyes can see what you two are," Cord said.
I swallowed thickly. Was this where it all came to a head? Was I about to be taken to the basement and disposed of the way I usually did the disposing?
I opened my mouth to say something when an alarm pinged through our phones. We all bolted to our feet. The only time an alarm sounded on the phone like that was when there was a threat to the family itself. We all had our guns drawn, bolting out the door without even a word.
We knew this routine well. It was something the security team had trained us for and come up with contingency plans for if there was ever a threat to the household. We secured the omegas and children first. Andro's and Cord's bodyguards were on them. As heads of the families, they needed to be protected at all costs. Meanwhile, Felik and I made our way to the family room. There was shouting from inside.
Nil, one of the guards assigned to Joey, gave me the sign to go in. I stepped in carefully and assessed the situation. Connor was behind the couch, his youngest in his arms, while the older children were huddled behind him. Joey and Jeremiah had their guns drawn. Carmine had a bodyguard pinned to the floor. His hands were zip-tied, and Carmine held a knife to his throat.
I didn’t recognize the man, and he struggled against Carmine’s hold. Carmine didn’t relent
