I watch my fingernails gradually curve into claws that dig into her soft hips and then I'm sinking inside her, losing myself to the feel of her drenched, inviting warmth.
“Yessss,” she hisses, pressing her forehead against the blankets underneath us. “Don't stop. I need more, Alpha. Give it to me.”
Fire races a sizzling path throughout my body and mind. Alpha. She called meAlpha. This is dangerous. I cannot be her alpha. Cross isouralpha. I can't let this go on. Except I can't bring myself to stop. I can't pull away from her. And apparently Iaman alpha. A late blooming one, but still. And she is, in fact, my Luna.
My responsibility.
My duty.
Our honor,my wolf adds.
“Please,” she whines, pushing against me, trying to impale herself on my pulsing length.
Looking down, I can see my knot growing thicker. I canfeelit. It is utterly surreal. And sensitive. Goddess, fuck, it's so sensitive. Every single time she brushes against it or it nudges against her, it almost takes my breath.
“Give it to me now,” she growls. “I want to feel it swell inside me.” Her words die on a needy groan that ends in a whine. “Please,” she pants. “I need it. I need you.”
Do it,my wolf snarls, shoving into the forefront of our shared consciousness.
I won't give him full control of this. He has to share this moment, even if I'm looking through his eyes now. My hands grip her harshly, claws pressing dangerously into her skin as I ready myself to force the knot that already seems too thick tofit inside her. My spine tenses, bowed and ready to give her the final thrust she needs, and I freeze as the door swings open and bangs against the wall.
Cross explodes into the room, nostrils flared, pupils dilated. His lip lifts into a snarl, but I can't stop now. I don't even want to. My wolf wouldn't allow it, anyway.
I meet Cross's heated gaze without blinking, holding his eyes captive as I slam my cock into his mate. An involuntary grunt escapes my lips when my knot slides past her stretched entrance, and I groan when it notches into place.
Chapter Forty-four
Cross
Sky blue.
Not regular blue.
The blue that hides behind and between the brightest clouds.
Parker's bright eyes blink at me once before they close in pleasure, his clawed fingertips digging into the soft flesh of Genie's hips. My gaze slowly travels down the taut muscles straining beneath his skin, pausing on the familiar shallow thrusting of his hips. Then Genie gasps my name and my eyesrush to meet hers where her head is resting against the pale green blanket I chose for her nest.
“Drew.” She sighs, her eyes rolling closed for the briefest moment. “Alpha.”
She reaches her hand toward me, beckoning, an invitation, and my feet carry me to her as our bond wraps itself tightly around me. I drop to my hands and knees when my toes brush against the first blanket and I crawl.
“Alpha,” she whispers again, eyes closed now.
“I'm here,” I say, pushing the words into our bond.
Her finger lifts to touch my jaw when I'm close enough for her to touch, but she's blissed out. She's aware of me right now, obviously, but she's floating on the surface of the relief Parker has given her in the midst of her heat. It's going to get worse for her. I can feel it. This is her first heat with her alpha and it will be the most intense one she's ever experienced. My vision is already beginning to fade around the edges as the haze of this heat closes in around me.
Still…
There is Parker.
With his wolf in his eyes and his cock deep inside my mate.
My mate, my wolf growls lowly.
I slowly rise to my knees. I will not risk her safety or ruin her first nest with me by fighting. He will give her to me. He has to. I'm his Alpha as much as hers. He will release her.
His too-blue eyes shine at me when I face him. He's beautiful right now, with waves of possession rolling off of him. Possession he has no right to.
