But it never arrives.
Kev presses a kiss to my shoulder. Sera rests her forehead against mine. Neither of them asks for anything else. They just hold me while my heartbeat slowly learns a gentler rhythm again.
The fear is still there. That’s the part I can’t stop staring at. It didn’t disappear. I’m not suddenly healed because someone touched me softly instead of cruelly. The damage still lives inside me.
But it no longer fills every corner of me.
Chapter Forty-Five
Lex
Espie has her hands in my hair and her mouth on mine and her gardenia is so thick in the air I taste it. Everything else has stopped mattering except this, now. Except the slide of my cock inside Espie as I gently thrust inside her.
Kev and Sera have Aubrey between them. The sight of it constricts my throat and puts heat behind my eyes. They look undone and beautiful with Aubrey locked between them.
Ezra traces her sides with a gentle touch. She makes a sound against my mouth when he massages both of her breasts. She moves her hips against mine, finding what she needs. She makes a low urgent sound and digs her fingers into my shoulder.
“Ezra,” she gasps. “Behind me. Please. I want you both inside me.”
Ezra lets out a low, growl against her shoulder blade. He kisses the back of her neck, then bites the curve of it hard enough to make her jerk.
“Yeah?” he rasps, already moving. “You want me stretching your pretty back hole?”
Espie nods frantically, still trying to kiss me even as she answers. “Please. Fill me up.”
Ezra drags her thigh over my hip so she’s spread wide between us. I feel the shift in her body the moment his cock drags through her cheeks. She breaks our kiss with a whimper, forehead dropping hard to my shoulder.
“Ezra—”
“I’ve got you,” he mutters. “Breathe, baby.”
I feel the shaky inhale against my collarbone. Then Ezra pushes in slow. Espie’s mouth falls open against my skin. A long, broken sound spills out of her as her walls stretch around him. I feel how full she is. Feel the way her ass clenches.
“Fuck,” Ezra groans when he finally bottoms out. “So fucking tight.”
Espie’s breath shudders against my neck. Her nails dig into my shoulder, sharp and desperate. I smooth a hand down her back, feeling every tremor run through her.
“That’s it,” I murmur, low against her ear. “Take him. Let him feel how soaked you are.”
I growl low in my chest, breathing them in, as I grip her hips and work my knot into her pussy. Every slow, deliberate roll of his hips shoves her deeper onto my cock and forward into my chest. I feel the drag of him inside her, the way her cunt ripples and squeezes around me with every stroke. Slick spills out around my knot, running down my balls and soaking the nest.
“More,” she babbles, voice cracking. “Ezra—harder—”
His hips snap forward, driving her down onto my knot with every thrust. I grip her hips and thrust up into her pussy, meeting him, fucking her between us. The sound of both of us moving inside her fills the nest. I soak up her broken little gasps every time we bottom out.
Espie sobs into my shoulder, the sound muffled and desperate. Her pussy clamps down hard around my knot, pulsing, fluttering, trying to lock me in. I feel her come apart, feel the rush of fresh slick flooding around me as she shakes and cries out.
I growl low in my chest, breathing in the thick, honeyed scent of her orgasm. I work my knot deeper with short, grinding thrusts, forcing it past the tight ring of muscle until it pops inside and swells, locking us together.
“Taking both of us so good, Omega. Gonna fill this pussy up while he’s deep in your ass,” I rasp.
Ezra groans behind her, hips stuttering. I feel him throb through the thin wall between us, and Espie whines like she can feel it too—stuffed full, dripping, shaking between her alphas.
Espie’s body is still trembling between us, her cunt locked tight around my swollen knot and fluttering with aftershocks while Ezra stays buried deep in her ass. I feel every tiny pulse of her around me, hot and soaked, slick and my cum leaking out around the thick base of my knot. Her forehead is pressed to my shoulder, breath stuttering against my skin.
Then she lifts her head, glassy eyes finding mine, and the words come out raw and broken.
“Please,” she whispers, voice hoarse. “Lex… bond me. Both of you. I need it. I need to feel you inside me forever. Please, bite me—claim me.”
