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“You got her?” Kerian asked.

“Yes, I’ll be fine if I take the first seat,” Quintin responded.

Another pair of hands helped to keep us balanced as we made it into the limousine without Quintin surrendering his hold of me. When I felt like he was seated, I lifted my head, watching Kerian climb in and move to sit opposite. Halstead wasn’t with us, but I remembered he was in charge of taking care of the bill, so it might be a moment for him to get that settled. My body pulsed with need, almost as if it was a physical thing inside me demanding to be acknowledged. It caused my muscles to tighten and my breath to catch at the force of it. A whine emitted from my mouth as the wave rolled over me, taking its sweet time to pass.

“I need one of you, please,” I begged, sweat breaking out on my skin, something that had never happened before.

In a fleeting moment of clarity and realization, it dawned on me that I’d been forced to take that medication. Clearly, going to the pharmacy for the suppressant had been pointless unless it was the reason I’d been able to make it this late in the day because of it. God only knows, but right now, all I cared about was my pussy getting the attention she desperately was screaming for.

Quintin shifted me so my back was to him and urged my legs to fall on either side of his legs. There was a slit in this dress, but it only came up to my knee as this was a classier dress than others I’ve worn. In an action that had me swearing, impressed, and, if possible, even more turned on, Quintin grabbed the fabric and ripped it from the end of the slit up to my hip. That done, he swept the fabric aside like a curtain revealing my weeping pussy to Kerian.

“You need to help me do this,” Quintin told Kerian. “I can’t fail her, not now of all times.”

Kerian’s expression was one of love and understanding. “You won’t fail her, just like you’ve never failed me or H, but I will help you forever and always.”

sixteen

Quintin

I had to prove myself.

Lainey needed me, and I was sorely lacking in skills and knowledge when it came to Omegas as well as women. Of course, I knew the basics that everyone was taught in school and biology classes, but I’d never been interested in women. The trauma I’d suffered at the hands of a woman who was supposed to love me unconditionally left me with a bitter taste in my mouth. It wasn’t that I’d written off all women or didn’t find some women I was comfortable being around. The core of the matter was I never thought I had a chance past basic friendship.

The guys would yell at me for thinking this, but who would want an emotional basket case like me?

Now here I was in a limousine with a woman in my lap. Not just any woman, an Omega who I was scent matched with. The need to bury my face in the back of her neck and lick her skin, knowing Lainey would taste as amazing as she smelled, was hard to resist. Right now, it wasn’t about me but about her. As I held her, I could feel that last wave of her heat growing stronger, having still been denied a knot. We needed to maintain it until we got home, and it was safe for us to give her that. When a knot expands, locking the Omega to the Alpha, it could last anywhere from fifteen minutes to forty-five, depending on the situation.

Meaning if any of us knotted her here or in the restaurant, we’d literally be stuck for a minimum of fifteen minutes. That was a risk none of us were willing to make with something so precious to us. Not every Alpha had a scent-paired Omega, and with so many people spread out all over the world, it wasn’t always a guarantee you’d be able to find them. Thus, it was why our culture as a whole viewed them almost as soulmates, a person who completed their pack in a way no one else could. How true all that was, I didn’t know, but I was coming to realize there was a special connection with Lainey.

I wouldn’t say I was instantly madly in love with her, but my instinct was to protect, nurture, and give affection to Lainey. Everything in me wanted to provide for her. While that might sound like an absolute cop-out to many, I would tell them I didn’t believe it either until this very moment. It’s like how people try to describe the instantaneous love you have for a child the moment it’s born. You had no reason to feel those emotions, but our biology knew it had to do something to protect this small life that couldn’t protect itself. Therefore, it triggers a bond between parent and child to ensure that the child can grow to become an adult furthering the species.

However, even knowing this was a biological response toward Lainey, and we had a lot of work ahead of us if she chose to be part of our family, I was going to enjoy the feeling for as long as it lasted. The sound of her breath catching as I slipped my fingers between her legs, lightly stroking her pussy, made me purr for her. My chest rumbled with the deep sound as I used my other hand to grasp the front of her throat, my forearm nestled between her breasts.

“Did you know you’re the first person I’ve ever purred for?” I murmured in her ear as I held her tightly against me. “Alphas only purr for their lovers, children, and their Omegas. I have two lovers who mean everything to me, but it seems that this sound was meant for you and you alone.”

Tilting her head slightly, I kissed and nipped along her neck as I slowly toyed with the outer parts of her pussy, teasing the entrance that was practically vibrating for me to enter. The erotic sounds of her whimpers and cries made my cock so hard I feared I might come without even touching it.

Spotting movement out of the corner of my eye, I saw Kerian across from us, his cock out and his hand fisted around it, stroking it lazily. “Look at Kerian. Do you see what you’re doing to him? How your scent is so intoxicating, it makes us hard the second we smell it. I’m fairly certain with just your sounds alone, you could make one of us come. I know I’m on the verge. Then there’s this seductive body you have, plush with soft skin and enough of you to grab hold of as we fuck you into the mattress when we get home.”

The more I talked, the faster her breathing became, and the thundering speed at which her heart rate was going felt as if she was running a marathon. I could feel the frantic pace under my grasp, and it had me gripping ever so slightly tighter and forcing her head back so I could capture her lips as I slipped one finger inside her. To my shock and amazement, she came instantly, the walls of her pussy clamping down on my finger as if it feared I would leave. Instead, I languidly stroked my finger in and out of her, drawing out the orgasm and moving on to the next one I hoped to achieve fairly quickly.

I broke our kiss as the car door opened to reveal Halstead, who had to pause a moment as her perfume slammed into him. “Holy fucking shit, I think I just dry orgasmed right here.” He grunted. “Why is it so strong? There’s no way it should be like this, even if she skipped one. This is next-level potent.”

“They made me take a drug,” Lainey muttered as she sagged in my arms. “I didn’t want to, but I had no choice.”

My brows snapped together. “Who?”

Pulling out my fingers, I shifted her so she was now sitting sideways. Halstead kneeled on the floor of the limousine as it pulled away from the restaurant, placing a hand on her bare knee. “Lainey, what kind of drug?”

She shook her head vigorously. “No, I can’t tell you. I shouldn’t have even said that… it will get me killed.”

The stormy expression that crossed Halstead’s face reflected my own emotions. “Doll, there is no fucking way I would ever let someone harm you. I know nothing has been set or agreed upon, but no matter what you choose to do at the end of your heat, you are still our scent-paired Omega. No one better fucking harm a hair on your head, or I swear to God I will take all the power I have in this world and the next to crush them.”

I couldn’t have agreed more with that sentiment. None of us were foolish enough to believe that just because we had this interaction and understood we were scent-paired, it changed things between her and us. We were all grown adults with lives, homes, and careers. It wasn’t like we could just throw everything out the window and start a new life. If we weren’t willing to do that for her, how could we expect her to do that exact same thing for us? Everything was about communication and negotiation, which would take time.

“Not them… you won’t be able to touch them,” she answered. “We can’t talk about this. They are always listening, watching, and know your weaknesses. Please forget I said anything. After this heat, everything will be back to normal.”

She was right about one thing, now wasn’t the time to talk about it. However, that didn’t mean we’d forget or drop the matter. If someone threatened her to this extent, forcing her to change even her name to keep safe, then we would get to the bottom of it.