Hearing her say those words out loud, the ones I’d seen in her eyes for years, made me feel fuzzy. “Y-you think it’s the same for me? You don’t know how I feel.”
“Don’t I?”
She’s so smug. She always thinks she’s right. Putting words in my mouth, thoughts in my head.How was I going to survive for three months?
“Do I have to spell it out for you?” Jade was so close, the obsession in her eyes making it hard to breathe. “I’m crazy for you. I have been since the day we met. Everything I’ve done, everything I am, is all for you.” Stop it.Stop. I can’t take it. You’re saying the words out loud, the ones we never say to each other. “I opened a bakery to stay close to you. So I could be at every convention, every event. I order your cakes for my sister as an excuse to see you.” My cheeks burned with tears. Why was I crying?I shouldn’t be crying.“Do you know why I hold myself back? Why I play this game with you year after year? Because I want you to want me back. I know you do. It burns you inside when you feel something for me, but I know you want me too. Why do you insist on pushing me away, Daphne?”
Why did I hate her? I was struggling to remember. What reason did I still have, after all this time, to keep saying no to her? Was it how humiliating it would feel to give in, not just whenever I’m vulnerable and lonely, but because I wanted to?
I spat out an answer, because I couldn’t think of a better excuse. “You’re a Rost.”
“If our families are an excuse, then I have just as much of a reason to dislike you. But I don’t. I don’t care who you are. I don’t care who I am. All I know is how much I need you.”
How did we end up here?The weekend began with a baking convention, testing out a heat sex app, and now… now I was standing in a kitchen on Valentine’s day, trying to come up with a reason to not take what was being offered to me.
With her eyes locked onto mine, she lifted my fork and brought a small bite of chocolate cake to my lips. As it burst on my tongue, she dropped the fork and devoured my lips in a kiss. The sweet, rich taste of chocolate mixed with her tongue was a mouthwatering blend of sugar and pheromones.Delicious. Had her kisses always been this sweet? The taste lingered long after I swallowed the chocolate. I wanted more.More of her.
“I…” I gulped, the heat from her kiss pooling right at my center. Her hands, her lips, they awakened something inside me, something I tried so hard to suppress. I thought it was something I could ignore, push away so far down inside me that it would be forgotten, but it had already taken root inside me.Scent matches.It made so much sense, even if I had never considered it before. The longing. The desire. The insatiable lust. It was all because of her. If it wasn’t true, what then?What did I have to lose besides her?
I kissed her back, savoring the taste of her tongue. Our pheromones burst around us, a torrent of pure desire. My moan blended in with our kiss as she took my neck in both hands and held me still, kissing my breath away. Her pheromones soaked into me, filling me with pure need. “I need you,” I whispered to her, finallyfinallyletting it all out. It didn’t feel bad, or shameful. It feltright. “I’ve always needed you.”
Her kiss was desperate, full of longing we both felt. “Well it’s about damn time.”
“Don’t be smug,” I gasped as she kissed down my neck, nibbling and sucking on my sensitive skin.
“Mmm, but you like it when I’m smug.” I did. I liked it so much. “Is that why you kept denying yourself, Daph? Because you thought I would tease you?”
Gasping, I grasped her arms, holding myself upright when she cupped my breasts in both hands. The slow, sensualkneading made it hard to speak. “That was part of it. You've always rubbed me the wrong way.”
“Maybe it's time I start rubbing you the right way.” Her hand slipped from one breast, trailing down my belly, and sliding right into my pants. She cupped my mound, swirling her fingertips in the slick arousal that spilled out of me before slipping one fingertip between my lips and pressing it against my clit. She stroked it up and down, as if she were plucking the strings of a violin. I bucked against her, moaning in pleasure with every flick of her finger. She played my body like an instrument, knowing exactly how to make me sing. Every stroke brought me closer to the edge, hurtling me towards climax, and I whined as I felt ready to explode.
I pressed my hand against her arm, trying to push her away. “S-stop.”
Her finger darted back, and I had to catch my breath as shudders of pleasure died down inside me. “Stop? Why stop? You’re about to cum.”
“I know,” I whispered, forcing my eyes open so I could stare up at her. The heat in her eyes made me moan. “I want to cum when you’re inside me.”
She purred with delight, pulling her hand out of my pants. With our eyes locked together, she slipped her wet fingers into her mouth and licked my arousal off of them. Her pheromones pulsed, growing in strength, as if they were getting off on my taste just like she was.
Our clothes flew off our bodies, unbuttoned, unzipped, and thrown behind us as we inched towards the bedroom. It was an echo of what we did last night, the night we decided to finally end this game of cat and mouse and be together for real. I thought I would hate the thought of belonging to Jade, but I had been hers all this time. I just didn’t know it yet.
She picked me up and carried me the rest of the way, her hard cock nestled between my legs. Every step rubbed against my clit, making it harder to stop myself from going over the edge. “You’re lubing up my cock before I even get a chance to fuck you.”
It had been too long since we had sex I could fully remember, that wasn’t heat or alcohol related. The small bits of memories from last night weren’t enough for me. I remembered being against the wall, my legs wrapped around her waist. She called my name as she fucked me, the sound of her growls vibrating my neck with every thrust. I didn’t just want to remember that. I wanted her to do it again.
“Jade,” I said, tightening my arms around her neck as we entered her bedroom. “Would you have come to me if I asked you, even without the app?”
“Of course I would’ve. I only signed up for Alpha Net because Cassie blabbed about you testing it out for her. As if I’d ever let anyone else in your bed.” I was suddenly dropped onto her bed, and she thrust her cock deep inside me, fucking me with a frenzy that took my breath away. “I knew every time you fucked someone else. I’ve never had anyone but you when I wasn’t rutting.” Jealousy spiked through me, making me reach out to grab her. She took my hands and held them on my stomach as she ravished me, making me whine and moan as my mind went blank. “I hate that other Alphas have seen you make that face. Do you know how insane I feel knowing you've been touched by another Alpha?”
Gasping, I whimpered with every thrust, feeling a wave of pleasure about to take me under. “They weren’t you.” As the layers of denial unraveled around me, her cock bringing me to the brink of ecstasy, I knew the truth now. I’d been searching for someone else, anyone else, that could make me feel the way she did. But no one could. “Jade, I’m cumming.” I exploded aroundher, climaxing harder than I ever had before, and she pounded me through every wave, drinking in my gasps with her tongue. She lapped at my mouth as if she could eat my moans for dinner.
“Fuck, you feel so fucking good when you cum, Daph. My pretty omega,” she purred, licking all the way up my cheek. Was she licking my tears? That’s where I was at, reduced to a cumming, sobbing mess by her fabulous cock. She ravaged me harder, and I clung to her as another climax overtook me, my legs trembling around her waist. “That’s my girl. It’s so easy to make you cum. Exactly like you did the first time. Do you remember that day? When you went into heat just before graduation? I fucked you in the empty gymnasium, on one of those mats they use for practice. Your moans echoed so loudly. I can still hear them when I’m lying awake at night. The way you screamed when you came on my cock for the first time.”
“It wasn’t my first…fuck me… orgasm. I had plenty before you.” I dug my nails into her arms, scratching her skin as she fucked another orgasm out of me. My body went limp with desperate shudders as I gave into the pleasure. God, she knew exactly how to fuck me. It was never this easy to cum without her, but now I was climaxing over and over, almost seamlessly between them, already peaking again before I could catch my breath.
“I know that. But I was the first to make you cum from being fucked. The first to be inside you. Your first taste of real pleasure. Anyone who came after me had to compete with me in your mind. Right, Daph?” She pulled my leg up over her shoulder, turning me onto my side to fuck me at a different angle, one that made her go even deeper inside me. It only took a few thrusts before I came for her again, dripping cum all down my leg.
“They…they weren’t you.”
