I did, pushing forward and feeling him stretch around me, his breathing responding to my slow thrusts.With the angle, I wasn’t going to be able to get as deep as I might have liked, but that didn’t matter.
Careful not to nudge Marcus awake, I wrapped an arm around Linc as I moved in and out of him languidly.I held him tight as he worked hard to control his reactions to what we were doing.
He was reacting though, his back going slick with lust and the room filling with the musk of the two of us.It was odd—carnal, yes, but I barely cared about that.I cared about holding Linc and showing him he was loved.It was about reassuring the both of us that everything would be fine.Our mate would love us and accept us, and we’d always have each other to lean on.
Linc tucked his chin forward, closer to Marcus’s head.It bared his neck to me, and I bit down.I didn’t want to draw blood, but I kept him still between my teeth.
Lust spiked unexpectedly, and I rushed to thrust into him.I came just seconds later, a thin whine escaping the seal of my teeth around Linc’s salty skin.Through the rush of it, through my racing heart and through Linc’s strained breaths, I kept moving to help him get there too.
He didn’t quite.I felt him squeeze around me, wanting to come too, but it wasn’t enough.I didn’t release his neck, but I reached down to his cock, ever careful not to nudge Marcus awake.
Linc was hard and wet, and I cupped the head of his cock in my hand, rubbing and squeezing the way he liked.
That did the trick in under twenty seconds.He came in my hand too, none of the messiness getting on the non-participants.
After, I pulled out and we lay there.When I felt Linc relax, I opened my mouth and kissed the spot I’d bitten.If he’d been human—like Marcus—I’d have left a bad bruise and teeth marks.I could still see them, even though the curtains kept most of the light out, but Linc would heal quickly, maybe even before breakfast.
He turned until he caught my eye.“I love you.”
I kissed his shoulder.“You too.Think they’ll wake up soon?”
His smile was incredibly soft.He smiled like that when he talked about Dom, maybe even about me when I wasn’t in the room.
“Not soon.”
“I’ll try napping, then.You should too.”
“Yeah.”
Linc turned back, but the tone of his voice said he was going to stay awake and watch over all of us.That was so silly, and yet so typically Linc.
I loved him so much, loved them all so much.
23
Sundays were pretty perfect already, but with Marcus waking in my arms, they were only getting better.
Linc and Ell were no longer in bed with us.Typical.Why they thought being up early was good for them was a mystery.You’d think having a mate would cure them of this need to be all productive in the mornings, but it looked like that wasn’t to be.Marcus, our reasonable mate, was still mostly asleep when I started waking up.
I listened to the house—Linc and Ell had closed the bedroom door behind them, but I’d heard the shower run earlier.I was pretty sure they were both downstairs now.Hmm.One of them was probably going to make tea for our mate, then, but I got to kiss him awake.A tradeoff I could live with.
Marcus opened his eyes.
“Are you good with mornings or bad with mornings?”I was still half-asleep myself, but I wanted to know.
Marcus sighed.“Depends.Is there tea?”
I chuckled.“My little tea snob.”
“Not a snob.”
And then he snuggled closer.There wasn’t much of a chance that he’d shock me into doing or saying something silly—I was still too sleepy for that—but fuck did this feel good.I’d have to tell the others that he’d done this.
Marcus’s scent was for sure the most dominant in the room, but I was pretty sure I could smell Linc and Ell’s sex smell.Again, nice tradeoff, but snuggling Marcus was better.Perhaps “better” wasn’t the right word.When he rubbed his nose against my chest, I stopped thinking about words altogether.
“Do we have to get up?”he mumbled.I wasn’t sure he meant for me to hear him.Human hearing wasn’t all that good.We, on the other hand, were unlikely to miss anything our mate said.
I pressed a soft kiss to his head.“We can stay like this for as long as you want, Little Red.”
