Page 59 of Knot Broken

Because she belongs to us, the wolf growled.

Mine to watch closely, catching the moment when her eyes went wide. Silver flickered around her iris, making clear her wolf was watching everything I did and that just egged my beast on. He wanted to lure her forth. When she shifted, we’d run through the forests in the hills, under the pale moonlight. He’d shove his nose into the ruff of her fur and breathe deep her scent. My lungs did the same thing right now, the sour scent of pain easing into something sharp but sweet.

“You don’t have to…” she murmured, right before my thumb pressed hard into the arch of her foot. “OK, yeah, you totally need to keep doing that.”

“That’s just what we’ll do, right, Grey?” Tex asked, shooting me a meaningful look over her shoulder as he moved to start massaging the tight muscles there.

“Right.”

I didn’t need him pushing me. Watching Nadia’s lips part, her breath coming slower, was more than enough incentive. The tiny little moan of pleasure was an unexpected achievement and I knew then I needed to hear it over and over again. I shifted, turning to face her and just for a second, she frowned. Because she thought I was done, I realised, right as I placed both feet on my lap. My cock was hard, aching and pressing against the fabric of my shorts, but I ignored it. Both thumbs rubbed the tight fascia of the soles of her feet, forcing it to relax.

“OK, this is amazing,” she breathed, eyes closed now. “If I knew having two guys massage me was this good, I’d have booked a double appointment with massage therapists, not sexual surrogates.”

“No charge,” Tex replied, leaning in closer to dig his fingers in, then brushing his lips across the shell of her ear. “And we are available any time you need to release some tension.”

“Release some tension?” She chuckled at that, then looked back over her shoulder at him with sleepy eyes. “Is that what we’re calling it now?” Her hips moved. “Seems like you’re enjoying this as much as I am, big guy.”

“Always,” Tex said, his voice growing deeper. “I’m always going to respond if I’m touching you. Shit, just being within ten feet gives me a semi.” A gentle kiss was pressed to her neck and I felt the little shiver that went all the way down to her toes. “Alphas are put on this earth to serve their omega. That means we’re ready and willing.”

“Tex.” I glared at him. “Now’s not the time. Nadia’s been through a lot.”

“And you’re both doing a really good job of distracting me from that.” Leaning back against Tex, his arms went around her as she stared at me through half closed eyes. “Unless you’ve got some trick up your sleeve that can help me turn into a wolf right this second?”

We could, the wolf said. If we command her⁠—

That’s not going to happen, I snapped back. We will never force her to do something so fucking dangerous.

“No?” she said, something a little arch in her tone. “Then it’s just a matter of getting through each day, doing what Riley’s team advises me to do. But…” She reached behind, pulling Tex’s head down so his lips hovered over her. “Right now, I just want to feel good. We need to feel good, right?”

“Nothing I want more, omega,” he growled, right before placing a hard kiss on her lips.

I watched the proceedings as if from behind a glass wall. They made quite the picture kissing. Tex’s hand curled around her throat, keeping her where she was as he made a very thorough inspection of her mouth. Right as I was about to pull away, leave them to it, Nadia turned back to me.

“And what about you, Grey?”

Disengaging from Tex, she crawled closer and in that second, I could see the wolf she would become. Graceful, fluid in her movement, she came to a stop just in front of me. The brown of her irises had turned to grey and that had my wolf shifting inside me. Challenge, that’s what he saw, so he pressed forward. My hand wrapped around her jaw. Her skin was like velvet as I smoothed a thumb over her cheek. I was touching her, touching my omega, and my heart was thudding too damn fast in response.

“What about me?” That was the wolf asking the question, not me. “What do you need from me, my mate?”

“The day we met, you didn’t let me touch you.” Her head twisted in my grip to stare up at me. “Ethan was fine with it, but you weren’t. Has that changed?”

Yes, I wanted to snap. Every day when I woke up, until I went to sleep at night, I ached for her, but I didn’t say that.

“I…” She frowned slightly at my response. That micro rejection had me wanting to shy away. My hard-coded responses were rarely helpful, so I leaned forward. “I’ve spent my life waiting for you. It scares the shit out of me, how much I want you, but somehow that just makes the need more intense. So if you’re asking if I’m like Tex? If I walk around unable to keep my eyes off you, cataloguing every curve, every expression in my brain, then yeah, Nadia, things have changed. I’ve never touched another woman and I never will, because whether or not I’m the right alpha for you, in my heart, there will only ever be you.”

How did I expect Nadia to respond? Not going perfectly still as she stared at me, that was certain. I swallowed, muscles tensing, ready to pull away, but the wolf locked them tight, not letting me move for a second. Perhaps because he saw what I didn’t.

The moment when my mate broke my hold and lunged towards me.

Hands stroked through my hair as her mouth brushed against mine. Fuck, her mouth was so damn soft. Little kisses delivered so fast I struggled to keep up, so my arms went around her, pinning her to my chest. Parting her lips was an instinct I didn’t know I possessed. Just needed part of me inside her. Right now, it was my tongue, hers sliding against mine in a sensual sweep that had my whole body stiffening. Her legs parted, and then she straddled my lap and that was when my whole world shattered. The weight of her pussy pressing against my aching cock dragged a growl from the depths of my soul.

“Seems like things have changed.” When she pulled back, a hectic light flickered in her eyes. “You didn’t make that sound last time.”

“My sounds don’t matter.” Plucking her from my lap, I laid her down on the couch, studying the form hinted at through the voluminous sweats. “Yours do. Right now, I want to strip you bare and lick every damn inch of you, but if now’s not the time…”

My voice trailed away as she pulled her sweatshirt over her head.

Fuck.