“Knot.”
“Yes.” Levi pushed his fingers in deep, depositing the cream. “Of course.”
Elm purred. “Deal.”
He spread his cheeks and smeared sun cream all around the area, and inside of him as far as he could go with just his fingers.
The omega let him for a while, but his irritation grew palpable, and finally Levi couldn’t take it anymore.
“What?” he demanded, cursing when the omega took that as an invitation to move.
Elm shot to his feet in a show of adrenaline he must have been storing up, snatched the tube from Levi’s hand, and promptly emptied the rest of the contents directly onto Levi’s cock.
“Stupid,” the omega accused, then while Levi was busy being completely flabbergasted, straddled him. He grimaced as he lowered onto his cream covered member, but when he caught Levi staring, grinned brightly. “All in.”
“You promised to behave.”
“Lied.” Elm’s gaze landed on Levi’s neck, brow furrowing.
“What now?” Levi asked, shifting to get more comfortable now that he’d been reduced to a medical tool. He fucked into him a few times for good measure, figuring he may as well move the cream around and do the job properly.
Elm’s dick slapped against his chest, but even though he moaned, the omega was still staring at that one spot.
“Treasure,” Levi called to him, but only got his attention briefly.
Elm pressed against the mark on the left side of his neck—he had matching ones on each side—then narrowed his eyes.
“Not fair,” he declared.
“What’s not—” Levi sucked in a breath when the omega attacked him. Teeth punctured his skin, pain radiating down his spine as the place at the base of his neck where it met his shoulder was bitten into.
Omegas didn’t have the ability to initiate the claim like alphas did, so there was no invisible call tickling the back of Levi’s brain like there had been when he’d delivered the bite.
But that was okay.
The message was still clear.
He cradled Elm’s skull and tipped his head, giving him more space. “Go for it, omega. You’re the only one who has the right to me.”
Levi knew Elm was merely acting on instinct, that he couldn’t take any of the things he’d said or done since the initial claiming bite to heart. That there would be a struggle once his omega came to his senses, grief over the life he’d realize he’d lost and couldn’t return to, anger at Levi for being the cause.
But there was hope there as well.
Hope that these tiny offerings the omega made came from a place of truth, even if Elm wasn’t yet aware of it himself. That, in these past months together, Levi hadn’t been the only one changing.
“You’re mine now,” Levi reminded darkly. “You’re mine.”
And he was never giving him back.
Never letting him leave.
Even if he had to lock the both of them up in this house for the rest of their very long lives.
“If you resist, I’ll wear you down. Make you submit.” Levi sat up, readjusting so he’d have access to the omega’s flesh. It caused the teeth still tearing through him to tug, but he ignored the renewed pain and rush of blood. “You’ll never be free of me.”
Levi bit into the muscle next to Elm’s shoulder.
They both came undone at once.