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“Let’s go to the shower.”
“Um, I know I gave you shit earlier about carrying me, but it’s going to be a lot harder when I am literally stuck on your dick.”
I smiled at him and started shuffle-bouncing until my feet were hanging off the bed. He was clinging to me, laughing hard enough that he snorted. An embarrassed squeak followed the snort and I fought valiantly to not laugh at him. I stood and held him up by two handfuls of his ass. The angle was awkward, but he wanted to be clean, so we'd make it work.
“Wrap your legs around me.”
He did as I asked but tightened his arms around my neck as well which pulled him up just enough to tug on my knot, making us both hiss at the sensation. I turned on the shower and stepped under it too soon, causing us to get sprayed by cold water for a minute or so.
“Sorry, Biscuit. I’ll be more prepared next time.”
“I don’t mind, not like I’ve had any experience beyond the inflatable one Shae had. We can learn together.”
My face went slack before I turned my head as shame worked its way through me. That was his first time being knotted and I’d freaked out and made it about myself. Some fucking Alpha I was turning out to be. Ethan gripped my chin again, although much gentler this time, and turned my head toward him.
“What’s wrong?”
I pressed my forehead to his as I felt my knot finally going down, pretty soon we’d be able to separate.
“I made a mess of your first time being knotted. Isn’t it supposed to be special or something for an Omega? Like losing your virginity? I freaked out and?—”
He silenced me with a kiss and smiled against my lips.
“Silly, Alpha. I don’t need candlelight and chocolates or whatever other romantic crap running through your head. I was with you and I came more times than I have outside a heat. It was perfect.”
I nuzzled into his neck and closed my eyes, focusing on the feeling of warmth and love and comfort, of being with Ethan. A purr thrummed through my chest and, for the first time since I’d woken up in that hospital bed, it was because I’d wanted it to. Ethan sighed and melted into my arms under the soothing spray of the shower.
“Theo?”
“Hmm?”
“If—since you have a knot and a purr, I’m guessing you have a bark?”
I quirked a brow at him and nodded thinking back to a few times in the hospital when I’d been annoyed while speaking to the Beta nurses or doctors. They had stiffened as if fighting a compulsion before I’d realized what I’d done and apologized.
“Do you think you could bond me?”
“I don’t know, Biscuit. But absolutely nothing would make me happier.”
Ethan’s smile was radiant and his scent warmed with happiness. He tucked his head back into my neck as we waited out the last few moments of this connection. Maybe I would get the hang of this Alpha thing after all.
CHAPTER TEN
MILES
The next morning, the mood in our home was lighter than it had been in weeks. Even before Shae was taken. We’d all been forced out of our routines, and some of our comfort zones, when Ethan all but fell into my Beta’s lap and into both Shae and Theo’s hearts. Trevor obviously had the most violent reaction to the little Omega and not just when he and Theo physically came to blows. Trevor had been almost living at the Drake House barracks by that point, desperately trying to pretend that Ethan’s presence in our lives was just a phase the others were going through. I hadn’t been sure what Ethan’s place in my life would be. Would he be a friend of sorts, like Theo and Trevor?
My Alpha instincts had made it clear pretty quickly that, as an Omega in our pack, I wouldn’t be able to just passively exist alongside him. I’d been so fucking relieved when I realized that all I wanted was to make sure he was comfortable and safe: fix his nest, make sure he was fed, those basic caretaking impulses that all good Alphas had. When his heat hit, I nearly broke and begged Shae through the bond to come to me so I wouldn’t have to go to them in the nest. They explained to me later that the pheromones Ethan put out during his heat were almost like a high. They hadn’t realized how wide open they’d been in the bonds until Theo had asked them to come help me.
I felt a flush creep up my neck and my dick thicken in my shorts, thinking of that day. Shae’s head was in my lap but the pillow beneath it saved me from having to explain. By the time Shae had made it downstairs during Ethan’s heat, I’d been inches from a full rut, something I hadn’t been close to since the night Shae and I had bonded. They’d been drenched in Ethan’s pheromones, but they’d sweat enough that their own scent overpowered his. I couldn’t even wait to take the robe off them when they came toward where I stood, hands braced on the counter. I’d just turned them around and bent them over the island. Lifting the robe, I barely remembered to ask if they were ready before plunging into their sinful warmth. I’d fucked them brutally and they’d begged for my knot. I didn’t knot Shae often but that time neither of us could resist. They’d been so ready for my dick that my knot didn’t take much work before their tight channel was strangling me. My knot always went down faster with Shae than I’d been told to expect with an Omega. Then again, the only experience I had with an Omega came from what we learned in textbooks at school, so what did I know?
After the heat, Shae had begun bringing Ethan along with us on some of our dates. Seeing them so completely infatuated with him had been too cute for me to pout about the loss of alone time with Shae. Before they’d been taken, they’d made sure to spend most nights in our room. I appreciated how Shae split their attention as equally as they could between Ethan, Jade, and I. Not because I was jealous, exactly, but the speed at which the other members of the pack were falling in love with him made me uneasy, and Shae always brought me comfort and peace.
I could talk through any feelings or concerns I had with them and know that nothing would leave our space and nothing would change how they felt about me. Ethan and I had been having movie nights when Shae was working. Sometimes Jade or Theo joined, but often it was just us. We’d been working our way through some of my favorite cult classic type movies from the 80’s and 90’s and I’d started looking forward to those nights with him. We’d been watching one of those about hackers that had made him laugh, and had him fully hooked, the night Shae had been taken.
A hulking Theo sauntered into the kitchen, pulling me from my thoughts before I started to relive the darkest days of my life, and bringing Ethan’s sweet cinnamon rolls scent with him. It wasn’t just Ethan’s scent but the much stronger, Alpha version of Theo’s own bayberry and oak. I reached an arm out to wrap my fingers through Shae’s and rest our hands on their stomach. Theo nodded a hello of sorts to where Shae and I were lounging on the couch while I drank my coffee. He headed over to the stools at the island where Trevor and Jade were eating breakfast. Sitting on the opposite side of Jade from his brother, he reached out, tugging the stool she was on until it fit between his spread thighs. Then he wrapped his arms around her, nuzzling into her neck and making her giggle.
Shae and I both grinned at the girlish, lighthearted sound that came from the de facto head of our pack. Jade so often kept everything close to the belt, giving her bondmates the dominance they craved in the bedroom and projecting all things Alpha for the world. I’d worried about whether she would ever let herself let go of that need for control—the need to make everyone happy and feel loved, to just be in the moment with anyone but me—until I saw her with Theo for the first time. He was obviously another safe space for her, but a romantic one, as Shae was for me. Theo cleared his throat, pulling all of our attention to him.
