“Hey, Buckle.” Perry squeezes my arm. “It’s okay. He’s not going anywhere.”
“He might now.”
“Shhh, he won’t. But loosen your grip, okay? What happened?”
I rock with Abel in my arms. He’s peaceful like this and I can’t imagine what he’s going to feel after I get control over myself and he wakes up.
“Chipmunk? Alpha brain? I don’t know.” I kiss the top of Abel’s head. He’s probably not comfortable like this, but he’s not awake to complain.
“How about you lay him down?” Perry waves to the lounge of the couch. “Do you think you can do that? We need to get your pheromones to calm down. He’s not used to something so potent.” Perry swallows. He’s as hard as I am.
“I’m sorry. I usually have so much more control.”
“I believe you. I think this is probably a Fate thing. None of us have fucked yet, so if we’re close to it, you’re reacting more. So am I.”
“This is mortifying,” I say.
“Put down the pretty Beta.” Perry grins, but I still feel like ass.
“You’re pretty too, Perry.”
“Oh, I know.” Perry flips his too short hair. “We’re also two different kinds of pretty. I’m not jealous. And don’t sell yourself short, Alpha. You’re handsome as fuck.”
I’m sure my face is red from the compliment.
“Put Abel down, now.” There’s a tone of authority in Perry’s voice and my brain finally obeys. I push to my feet and walk the few steps to the other side of the couch. Perry supplies a pillow, and I lay Abel on his back. “Good job, Alpha.”
I groan. “Stop saying that. You know how much I like it.”
“I am aware. And apparently you love praise too.”
I nod.
“Do you have scent blocker spray? That might help. It stinks so good in here right now that if we don’t do something, it might take a while to dissipate the scent.”
“Yeah!” I rush from the room to rummage in the bathroom cabinet, where I have a package of three sprays I never opened. Thankfully, they’re still good.
We each take a bottle. Perry douses me and I don’t like that I can’t smell him anymore after he has me spray him.
“We might need to do this until he builds up a tolerance to our sex pheromones,” Perry says. “I should have thought about that before we started playing tonight.”
“Don’t blame yourself. I forget how much different calm pheromones are from, well, the sexy time ones. He’s good when we’re cuddling. Maybe we do need to do exposure therapy so he doesn’t?—”
Abel sucks in a breath and sits straight up. “What happened? Did—Did I miss it?” He presses his fingers to his lips. “I missed my first Buckle kiss, didn’t I? I’m so?—”
I hold up a hand. “No, I messed it up by being so damn horny you passed out on my pheromones before we could even kiss.”
Perry’s lips twitch when Abel relaxes.
“Okay, good. I would have been heartbroken if I missed it.” Abel runs his fingers through his hair and looks up at me. “We get a do over, right?”
“Of course.” Perry shoves me to Abel.
I drop to my knees at Abel’s side. “Nothing fancy.” He doesn’t even hesitate, sliding to the side of the lounge and spreading his legs for me to slot between them.
“My Alpha,” he whispers, taking my face in his hands.
Our kiss is so different from when I kiss Perry. Abel is gentle and uncertain, but he grows bolder. I wrap my arms around him and pull him closer, thankful for the scent blocker spray. I scoot up on the couch, pulling Abel with me so he’s in my lap like before. Luckily, he giggles instead of passing out on me again. He leans into the kiss. I swear my chipmunk dances in my head. He’s so damn happy we’ve finally tasted the lips of both our mates.
Just like with Perry, Abel’s hips move and it takes everything in me not to grind with him. I let Abel pull away, even though I want him to stay right here. Perry squeezes my hand.
“So, what do you think about kissing?” Perry asks.
Abel nods as he presses a few fingers to his lips again. “I like it a lot.”
“We can show you the fancy stuff later,” I say as he slides off my lap.
“I want to practice every time we see each other.” Abel settles back into the lounge. “But right now, I think I need to know what Omega Nick’s next lesson is.” He pulls his knees to his chest and turns back to the TV.
This is going to be a very long night.
