Amidst handshakes and catching up on life with everyone after we sat down for dinner, I felt as if I’d been standing in front of the bakery ovens. My margarita wasn’t helping, but it did distract me from the sweat dripping down my back, and the unbearable itching all over my skin.
Jade stayed nearby,hovering, as she always did. As if I wasn’t allowed to talk to people with her in the room. She might be pretending to chat and trade stories, but I could feel her eyes on me no matter where I went. After an hour of talking and making light conversation, I left for my hotel room.
A nice, cold shower should help. I hoped that would be true, but as soon as I got into my hotel room, I knew it wouldn’t save me from this. I was going into heat. The horrible timing was almost worse than figuring out how to handle it. I had to be at the pre-convention parties tomorrow, heat or no heat. Preferably no heat. I wouldn’t be allowed in public if security noticed my pheromone levels. It wasn’t safe to be out like this. An Alpha could find me and…
An Alpha!The phone app! I’d almost forgotten about it, but Alpha Net was made exactly for this, to match me with an Alpha for my heat. Having sex with a total stranger wasn’t ideal, but I still had the hope of finding a real connection. And if this one didn’t work, maybe my next heat would be different.
Standing right in front of the air conditioner, I pulled up Alpha Net on my phone, and was pleasantly surprised to see my profile had been approved. My matches were ready. There had to be more than a few female Alphas here this weekend. As long as it wasn’tJulia.
The app beeped cheerfully, and my matches popped up on the screen. Or,match, I should say. One match. Only one Alpha who fit my criteria. It was worse than Julia.
It was fucking Jade Rost.
Chapter Four
This wasn’t happening. My shitty luck couldn’t be this bad. But no matter how many times I closed the app, cleared the app cache, and restarted my phone, Alpha Net’s results stayed the same. Jade was the only match, the only Alpha who could help me.
God damn it. Fuck me.
Biting my lip, I clicked on her picture, a photo of her with her long hair down, those perfect bangs over her perfect eyes.Damn it. My pheromones were growing inside me, a raging fire about to be released. I’d bolted the door and put a sign on the outside handle, just to be sure that any passing Alphas would know to stay away, but there was still a chance I wouldn’t be safe once my heat was in full swing. If I wasn’t this close to the edge, I would’ve called Alpha Net and asked them to find me someone else, but… there wasn’t enough time for that.
Panting, I reached under my skirt to remove my panties. They were soaking wet, and most of it wasn’t sweat. A deep ache had grown inside me, and slick arousal dripped down my thighs. I lifted my skirt and let the air conditioner blast my fupa, just to calm me down a little so I could get this over with.
The chat to my Alpha match popped up, and I grunted in despair as I typed out my first message. What should I say?Hey, Jade. Ugh, that was so lame. Whatever I said, she was going to let me have it when she got here.
I’m in heat.
There. That’s all that needed to be said. Short and to the point. No messy emotions involved, and she wouldn’t be able to tease me about it.
I know.
Why do you think I was watching you all night?
Just shut up and get to my room. It’s room 306.
Didn’t like the other options on this app?
Or did you just miss me?
There she was, rubbing it in. She was going to hold this night over me for the rest of my life. Remember that time when you begged me to fuck your heat out of you? Silly Daphne. You didn’t need an app to get me to fuck you.
Heat surged over my body, and I dropped my phone as my legs wobbled. My pheromones burst out of my neck, uncontrolled, untamable, and hungry for sex. Slick poured down my thighs, dripping onto my shoes. I kicked them off, losing my balance in the process. I slumped onto the hotel carpet, the heat overtaking me, licking across my skin like a fire.
So hot. So horny. I needed sex. I needed to be fucked.
Someone banged on the hotel door, fighting to get it open. It was locked. Even if they had the key, there were chains and that little bar near the top. The keypad beeped, and then a loud metal pop made me jump, like chains breaking in half.
“Motherfucker,” Jade shouted from across the room. Did she break the door to get to me? Pheromones rushed over me, the only scent I wanted right now.Jade’s scent.Her cold hand touched my cheek, and she picked me up off the floor, carrying me to the bed. I could barely move. There was only heat, only need. “Damn it, Daphne.” She brushed my hair back, laying me on the soft, cold comforter.
“The…” I swallowed, moaning when her cold fingers touched my forehead. “The door was locked.”
“As if that can keep me out.”
Reaching underneath me, she unzipped my skirt, feeling my heated skin underneath. A soft groan escaped my lips, full of frustration and need.
“Jade,please.”
“I’ve got you, baby. Don’t worry.” She parted my thighs, reaching between them for the wet heat that lay beneath. I was almost too sensitive, and I flinched away from her fingers before melting into her touch. “You’re so wound up. You needed me hours ago.” It only took a few strokes of her finger against my clit before I exploded, dripping slick all over the bed as I came. Her lips touched my ear, and I trembled beneath her, our bodies brushing together with every shudder. “Good girl, Daph.”
