Page 32 of Knot Their Soldier: Part Three

When he reaches my mating gland, he stops.

His inhale turns ragged. His hands flex against the bark on either side of me, caging me in without touching me.

"My Omega," he grunts.

The words vibrate through me, rough and broken and full of need.

I glance at Shade over Viper’s shoulder, my heart racing for a completely different reason now.

‘Safe to say your theory is confirmed,’ I think. ‘He definitely remembers me.’

I squeak as Viper suddenly spins me around and pulls my hips back until I am bent over with my hands braced on the tree.

His body is huge and shaking as it crowds mine, and I barely get a moment to think before my bottoms are pulled down around my ankles.

Cool air kisses my exposed slit.

"Mine," he growls.

Oh frack.

One enormous hand is pressed against the trunk beside my head while the other locks around my hip. He presses his face into my neck, breathing me in with rough, desperate sounds that make my knees weaken for an entirely different reason.

Okay, yup. This is happening.

I'm being mounted by an Alpha in Blood Lust.

Heat rushes through me, tangled with fear, relief, and the dizzying certainty that he knows me.

I know he does because he's being gentle with me, even now.

‘Baby girl?’ Shade’s voice brushes down our connection, tight with worry. ‘Are you okay with this?’

I look at him over Viper’s shoulder. Shade is pale, rifle lowered but not forgotten, his eyes fixed on me with aching concern. Knox is still on the ground, bloodied and struggling to rise, terror and hope warring across his face. Blaze stands with drying blood on his cheek from hitting the tree, watching Viper like he’ll tear him apart if I give the word.

They’re all waiting for me.

Protecting me.

Even from each other.

My heart swells until it hurts.

‘I’m okay,’ I send back, and this time I mean it. 'I want this to happen.'

It's that inexplicable knowing again. A current in my veins that tells me this is right.

Viper's fingers flex at my hip and he drags them back until my back is bowed and my ass raised. I tilt my head to the side, gifting Viper my submission and accepting whatever fate my Alpha bestows.

For a few breaths, he only shakes against me, huge and feral and heartbreakingly lost.

"Viper?" I ask.

In answer, he sheaths his length inside me in one sharp thrust.

"Ah!" I scream into the night air, gasping in shock as my walls spasm around the intrusion.

"Fuck. Halley!" Knox shouts. "Are you all right?"