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“Thank you, alpha,” I gasped, and started wriggling out of my shirt.

He gazed straight ahead, gripping the steering wheel so hard his knuckles were white.

I tossed my shirt on the dashboard. “Is it all Claworn territory?” I yanked my bra over my head, not even trying to do the clasp. “Is there somewhere I can shift? I just want to shift.”

“Uh, we get out of their territory and into the Rivertooth pack’s in about ten minutes,” said Vincent. “That should be okay. They won’t mind if you’re running off your heat in their woods. Let me tell Damian that we’re going to stop there.” He got out his phone.

“Damian,” I sighed.

Vincent let out a breath. “Yeah, okay.” He dialed. “Hey, look, we’re going to stop once we get closer to Voydville, but I think you need to keep driving…. We agreed when you called me that this is the way. You said if you had sex with her, you’d bite her…. Okay, so we’re agreed. You keep going, we pull off?… Great. Bye.” He hung up.

“No Damian?” I whispered.

“No Damian,” said Vincent. “Remember, I’m your alpha.”

I nodded. “Yes, you’re a nicer alpha than he is, anyway.”

He swallowed hard. “Am I?”

“Yeah,” I said, sighing, working on the zipper of my pants and easing them off.

“Is he mean to you, Leo?”

“It’s just that you actually like me, and he resents me.”

All the air went out of him in a noisy whoosh. “You get real insightful in heat usually?”

“No, I don’t think so,” I whined, pushing my pants off. Now, I was in the passenger seat wearing nothing except my underwear. It felt fantastic to have air all over my bare skin, and I wanted to be completely bare. I shed my underwear quickly and then moaned as I rubbed into the seatbelt, into the seat behind me.

The sensations felt amazing, but they weren’t soothing, they were inflaming, and I felt my heat kicking up a few notches, and a frenzy came for me. I began to rub myself all over, letting out breathy sighs and gasps as I moved and worried my body into every available surface.

“Omega.” Vincent’s voice was hoarse. It wasn’t commanding, but instead full of desire, full of permission.

“Please, alpha,” I said, unbuckling my seatbelt. I went for his jeans. “Let me see your knot. It’ll help us both.”

He stopped me, firm but not forceful. “Hey, Leo, this is not how it happens between us.” He met my gaze, and he gave me a little shove, pushing me back into my seat. “Buckle yourself back up, omega. If you need it, touch yourself.”

“Oh,” I said, considering that. “Oh, okay.” I buckled myself again, because he’d told me to. I began to toy with my own nipples, teasing them stiff. It felt very nice, and it made my scent intensify. The scent filled the inside of the car.

Vincent let out a strangled moan.

“Does it happen between us?” I asked. “I thought you were never going to touch me.”

“Shit, Leo.” He grunted, reaching down to adjust his crotch. “You smell like a feast for a starving man. I don’t know if I can handle you taunting me.”

“I’m not taunting you.” I sat up, against the seatbelt, dropping my fingers from where I was touching myself. “I don’t mean to.”

“I know, sweet girl.” His voice was gentle. “I know you don’t mean it. I’m frustrated as fuck, but none of this is your fault. Absolutely none of it. You have nothing to be worried about right now. You need to just, uh, let me take care of you.”

I hummed my pleasure at this. “Please, alpha,” I said softly. “Thank you, alpha.” All I wanted was to be taken care of right now.

“Good omega,” he breathed, and he sounded exhausted.

“But alpha, what I really need right now, the best way to take care of me? It would be a knot.”

He chuckled. “Yeah, okay. You just need to shift. And we’re going to do that. Very soon. In fact, I’m going to start looking for somewhere to pull off.”

I felt both relieved and disappointed at the same time. “You could just show it to me. I don’t have to touch it or lick it or anything.”