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Epilogue
Madison
“You’re sure?You’rereallysure?”
“Yes, Lucas, I’m sure, I swear to you, I’m surer than I’ve ever been about anything. Please,please, don’t ask me again.”
His eyes narrowed. “Because you’re worried you’ll change your mind?”
“No, you big alpha lunk, because you two have had this conversation a thousand times and it’s getting really fucking annoying,” Rian chimed in as he entered the den, settling behind me on the couch and throwing his arm around my shoulder. He dropped a kiss onto my cheek. “Hey, Maddie.”
I leaned back into his broad chest.
“No kiss for me?” Luc asked, and I laughed. I had gotten to see more of this side of him over the past few months: the playful boyfriend, not just the serious pack alpha, or the intense lover. Although I’d seen a lot ofthose, too. The thought sent a flutter through my stomach, and I could feel slick begin to gather between my legs. My heat must be closer than I thought.
“Mmm, no kiss for alpha, not when he’s bothering my omega,” Rian said, nuzzling his nose into my hair. “God, you smell good today. Did you get a new shampoo or something?”
My cheeks heated, but I met Lucas’s eye across the room and raised my eyebrows at him.
“Okay, fine, I get it. I just mean–you’re sure you don’t want to do this, well,during?”
“During–oh,” Rian said. “Oh.” His hand slid from my shoulder down to my waist, pulling me tighter to him. “That’s right.”
“No,” I said. I had spent a second heat with the pack–mypack, or at least the pack I had been thinking of as mine–since that first one. Although it had been better–I had had them there with me as I came down, I had known what to expect, had understood better the flood of hormones and neurotransmitters that flooded my body thanks to several complicated, but genuinely useful lectures from Lucas–I still wasn’t entirely comfortable with the complete loss of control I felt during my heat. Maybe it was because I had thought of myself as a beta for such a long time, or maybe this was how all omegas felt, and I just hadn’t been privy to the secrets of that exclusive club, and nobody told me. “I want to remember it. It’s important, and I want to remember.” Rian’s hand gripped tighter on my waist.
“Okay,” Luc said again, leaning back in his chair. There was a bulge visible in his pants, and I smiled slightly. The alpha was so, so easy to rile up. I didn’t think I’d ever get tired of that. “Gray is busy tonight, I think, but–”
“No he’s not,” said Gray, from the doorway. “Is this a pack meeting? Why wasn’t I invited?”
“Ugh, alphas, thinking they’re the center of the universe,” Rian stage whispered, and I smiled, shaking my head at what I knew would come next: “obviously,that’s you, omega.”
* * *
Suddenly it was all veryreal: the lights were dim, the curtains drawn, and the four of us were together, in various staged of undressed-ness, on a huge floor bed in the center of a cozy room that smelled of vanilla and coffee and rain. We were in the nest–mynest, technically–where I’d been sleeping, when I wasn’t with one of my new lovers. Boyfriends. Whatever they were called.
Pack, starting tonight. Starting… now.
“How do you want to do this, baby?” Gray said, and I shrugged. I was sitting crosslegged in Luc’s lap, his muscular thighs spread on either side of my legs, and I could feel his cock pressing against my back at the promise of tonight. I was wearing the black lingerie that Gray had bought for that first dinner date with him. Although he had bought me a wardrobe full of lace and silk since then, this one had seemed right for tonight. By the way his eyes had roved over me as I entered the room, he recognized them, and by the smile that flickered over his mouth, he liked them as much as I did. “All at once, or one by one, or..?”
“What did you do?” I looked to Rian.
“Ah,” he said, rubbing his hand across the back of his neck. I watched his bicep flex under his skin. My heat reallywasgetting closer. Maybe it would come early again. “We, uh, we weren’t all together for that. It was just me and Gray, me and Luc.”
“Not the three of you?” I asked, surprised, and felt Luc’s rumbling laugh through his chest.
“Not likely,” said Gray. “I was an ass, back then.”
“Then?” Rian deadpanned.
“Yeah, well,” Gray conceded. “A bigger ass. I hadn’t learned to share yet.”
I thought over the last five months, the times I’d crawled from Luc’s bed into Gray’s to sleep, or the other way around, the times they’d both appeared in my bed, already hard and eager, the nights I’d chosen to spend in Rian’s room, when I was sore or didn’t feel like taking a knot or just wanted the comforting presence of a beta. My last heat, which was fuzzy, but during which I distinctly recalled a lot of hands and arms and mouths and definitely three male parts at once.
“He got better,” Rian said, as he crawled up from the foot of the bed to kneel at my lap, between Luc’s knees. “Give me these,” he said, tugging lightly at my lace underwear.
“So eager, baby,” Gray said, smiling devilishly, and Rian smiled too.
“I’ve been waiting a long time,” he said. His soft voice and burning eyes were for me.
