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The air went breathless and tight between the six of us, nothing but the rustle of the breeze and the low crackle of the fire.
They all stared in awe, but the silence was too much, so I kept going. “If you don’t want to do it so quickly, I get that. We can do a big ceremony with it if you want. Or we can do it now with a ceremony later. I just know I’m not going to change my mind and I don’t want to wait to feel you simply because some people might think it’s too fast.”
Hawk came to me so quickly he nearly stumbled, cupping my face and kissing me. He was purring. The air was suddenly filled with it. “I’ve never wanted anything more in mylife,” he said, pulling the hoodie over my head and glancing at me. “Do you want to go to the nest, or?”
I laughed, suddenly in the middle of a tangle of limbs as they touched me. Hugged me. Kissed me. The hoodie I’d been wearing ended up spread on the ground, a makeshift blanket of all our clothes.
“We’ll do whatever you want, sweetheart.” Vaughn rolled himself over me. “Ceremony. No ceremony. A ceremony every fucking weekend. But I’m not letting another day go by without you being mine.” He searched my face. “Are you sure?”
“I’m sure.”
His smile took my breath away. “Then we’re going to bite you first, fuck you after, and I don’t know if we’ll ever want to stop.”
“That’s the whole point, right?” I smirked. “Forever?”
“Forever,” he agreed. His mouth dropped to my skin, lips skating along my collarbone to the edge of my shoulder. I didn’t have time to wonder what it would feel like. Vaughn bit down, and the pain made me arch, and then it was nothing because I was drowning inVaughn. His wild playfulness and the dark, feral part of him that liked to chase and take. The love he spoke to me rang true, and more than anything else, feeling that told me this was right.
Perfect.
“Woah.”
Vaughn’s pupils were blown wide where he looked at me. “That’s about the only word there is, huh?”
“Yeah.”
Cade was in my line of vision. I reached for his hand and pulled him toward me. My gut knew he needed to be next—needed him to know he wasn’t going to be last because he was a Beta. He wasn’t a fucking afterthought. “Where?”
One hand came up to cradle my face, and I leaned into his touch. “Where what?”
“Where do you want me to bite you?”
He pulled my face to his with deliberate intention, taking my lips in a sinful kiss that had heat dropping through me and showed me exactly what I was in for later. “I’ll wear your bite with pride no matter where you choose to put it, princess. I’m yours.”
“Do you care if it shows?”
“I’d love that, actually.”
I didn’t second guess. My instinct drove me, and I bit where his neck met his shoulder, our bond springing into existence in the same way Vaughn’s and mine had. But Cade felt different.He felt likehim. Steady and controlled, and so deep I shuddered to feel all of him. The way he looked at me. Saw me. Loved me. I knew this was a moment where it was okay. “I love you, Sir.”
Cade’s eyes flared. Not with anger, but with desire. I felt how the words hit him and how they struck true. This wasn’t a joke and it wasn’t teasing. I loved the very heart of him.
He kissed me one more time. “Go get bitten by your other Alphas before I go get some rope to tie you down with.”
I didn’t have to go far. Hawk’s arm circled my waist, pulling me back against him. “Any preference, baby girl?”
“No.” All I wanted was him.
Teeth pierced my neck, nearly identical to where I’d bitten Cade. Hawk’s sweetness filled my chest—settled next to the others. His teasing and the way he cared. The way he liked to watch me. Not only during sex, he liked me in his sights because I made him happy. He loved me. Holy shit. It was all so much.
How didn’t I know?
“Because you weren’t looking,” he whispered quietly. “Now you never have to.”
It was Joel’s turn, hair bright as a flame in the dying sunlight. “I think part of me knew.” He caught a stray piece of my hair flying in the wind. “When I answered the phone that night. People have found us before, and I never kept talking. Always hung up. With you, I couldn’t. Some part of me knew you were ours before we even met you, Isolde. I felt with everything in me, that if I hung up the phone, I’d regret it forever. I’m so glad I was right.”
“Me too.”
My Alpha gave me a mark matching Vaughn’s on my other shoulder. The easy, breathless comfort of him snapped into place through our bond. The Alpha who liked to fuck my body into pleasure when I couldn’t even feel it, and make sure I wascared for no matter what. He kissed my forehead, and I got teary all over again.
