Until tears crest those ice-blue eyes of his.
“I’d love nothing more, my Lia,” he whispers.
Tears fill my own eyes. “Yeah?”
He brings my hand to his lips to kiss. “Yeah.”
“Then come here and how me where you want your Omega to mark you.”
When he leans his chiseled arm toward me, pointing at his bicep, heat pools in my gut. Flashes of me nuzzling my face against his bulging arms during my heat flicker through my mind. Images of Eli taking me from behind while I moan and groan into Knox’s muscles.
Guess my Omega side enjoys his bulky build more than I realized.
I smile as I kiss along his bicep. I watch a couple of veins kick and twitch beneath his skin. I lap at the warm crest of his muscle, where his bicep peaks. My teeth, pulsing with a need that rushes through me like wildfire.
“Mine forever,” I whisper before my blunted teeth sink against his skin.
He doesn’t flinch. He doesn’t pull back. He doesn’t even hiss. He sits there beside me, still as stone, while the metallic taste of his blood mixes with my saliva. I remove my teeth and replace it with my tongue, hoping the ministrations soothe the sting.
The connection that slams into place with all of us marked overwhelms me.
“Oh, Sunshine,” he murmurs, “you’re gonna ruin me.”
I draw in a broken breath. “Good, because you guys have ruined me, too.”
Knox scoops me into his arms, holding me tightly as he scoots down into the bed. I feel the mattress dipping on all sides before I’m surrounded by my Alphas. By my pack. By my home. They’ve ruined me for any future beyond them, because as far as I’m concerned, no one will treat me the way they do.
They’ve ruined me for anything less than the perfection they all bring to the table.
I’m so screwed in the best of ways.
I’m not sure how long we lay there. At some point, Walker comes in with a plate of cheesy eggs and feeds them to me, forkful by forkful. I slip off to sleep against Knox’s hairy chest, nuzzling into his softness until the darkness drags me under.
With my belly full and my Alphas surrounding me, I’m helpless to the exhaustion still rushing through the marrow of my bones.
That is, until a sharp knocking jerks me awake.
KNOCK KNOCK KNOCK!
“Yoo hoooo!” a sing-songy female voice sounds behind Eli’s front door. “A tired Omega needs her electrolytes!”
My eyes bounce open, trying to piece reality back together again.
“We have a fruit plate for the recovering Omega!” a male voice calls out.
Walker stirs. “Fucking hell, that’s Mom and Dad.”
Eli shifts from the foot of the bed. “I’ll go let them in.”
“Fruit?” I croak out.
Knox chuckles, bouncing my head up and down softly. “I’ll get you propped up.”
“I’ll come with you, Eli,” Walker says as he grunts while getting out of bed. “Mom has a penchant for asking way too many personal details about things she’s shouldn’t know.”
Eli chuckles. “Can’t be that bad if they’re bringing food. Takes a meal off your shoulders.”
“Come on,” Knox says as he props me up against some pillows again, “it’s good for you to be awake for a little bit.”
