Through our bond, Ifeltthe command. Oh, this was going to make our dynamic so much sharper. Feeling their confidence and dominance like a physical thing was heady, and it was only one of them so far.
That was the beauty of it, too. I could feel that his command came from a place of love, trust, and respect, and nothing else.
Aiden raised an eyebrow, his amusement clear in my chest. “Go.”
I bit my lip. “Okay.”
He strode for his bedroom, and I sprinted for the nest with Alpha laughter chasing close behind. I stripped my clothes off at the edge and paused. It wasbeautiful.
The little leaf-shaped lights trailed over the ceiling like vines. Everything was velvety shades of green and violet. Like a lush little clearing in the middle of a twilight jungle.
After everything today, and all the fear, stepping into the nest was pure relief. Every bad thing I had to face was still out there, but it could stay outside for the moment. In here, in this bubble, we were protected.
A burst of need-laced pain cracked through me. Right. I dropped into the center of the nest and presented. Hands out in front of me, ass in the air, making myself an offering to whoever got here first.
Sugar and cinnamon wrapped around me. Logan gripped my hips and rolled me over. They were all naked, anddamnI was lucky. “Where should I bite you?” Logan asked the question, but it didn’t feel like it was directed at me. Even if it was, I didn’t want to choose. I wanted them to choose.
“Mm,” he rolled me back over briefly. “I think I’ll bite your ass. It was the first part of you I got to touch.”
The sharpness of the pain drew a cry from me, and then I was on my back again, staring up at my Alpha that I couldfeel. He loved me. Loved me beneath him, submitting to him, and when I was sassily talking back. Treasured.
Heat flowed over me, sweat breaking out on my skin. My mind went fuzzy. I wanted all of them to bite me, but I also needed a knot the same way I needed food, water, and air. It was necessary for life.
Logan gripped my ankles and pushed them up, bending me in half. “You want a knot, wildfire? You’ll have one.” A half smile. “I love knowing you don’t want me to hold back.”
I couldn’t speak as he drove home. Logan was thick, and even already soaking with slick it was hard to take him. That delicious edge of pain Aiden was teaching me to love turned the world to glitter and glass.
Three strokes and I was coming. Breaking open andflying. “Good thing you’re with me because I’m not lasting long. This time at least.” He slammed into me, the slaps of our bodies loud and raw. Erotic.
And now I had tools to put them at my mercy too. In the bond between us, I focused on how good he felt sliding in and out of me. How much I loved the thickness and the strength with which he held me. How fuckinghothe was.
Logan cursed and came. His cock was buried inside me and he still thrust deeper, never letting his hips leave mine. His knot locked us together, and everything went blissfully quiet in my brain.
Not for long. If anything, this knot felt like lighting the fuse on a trail of gunpowder leading to dynamite. “Naughty Omega.” He lowered my legs. “Teasing me like that.”
“It’s only fair.”
“Is that so?” Through our bond, I felt him focus on how goodIfelt. How perfect, hot, and snug he felt inside my body. The lightning of his orgasm.
My back arched off the cushions in sheer, reckless need. “Logan.”
“It’s only fair.” He chuckled and kissed me. “I love you.”
I felt how true the words were, and he felt mine back.
Pain and need rocked through me again. “So fast. Why is it so fast?”
Already my heat was gaining an intensity I’d never felt. I figured it would be with them, but this was more than I’d thought. In response to my needs, Logan’s knot released me. Alpha and Omega.
“Because your Omega is protecting itself the only way it knows how,” Theo said.
The craving for a knot felt like the fiercest hunger I’d ever experienced. Like I’d forgotten to eat all day and suddenly my body needed itnow.
“Please,” I begged, the whine slipping out of me. It hurt, and I was desperate. I didn’t care that begging was one of my hard limits. I needed— “Please.”
“Shh,” Brooks hushed me gently as he placed his body over mine. “Don’t beg, baby. You’ve had to beg for so much your entire life, and you don’t have to anymore. You never have to beg. Understand me? We’re going to take care of you.”
He pushed into me with one smooth motion, filling up the void that was screaming andburninginside me.Yes. That was what I needed. Him. Them. Over and over again.
