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“I’m never going to last, sweetness. Not with how… Fuck, Trix. Don’t squeeze like that. I need to get my knot inside. Need to fill you up with cum so that your womb can’t hold any more.”
Was I insensate from so many orgasms? Because when his knot slid in, caught against my pubic bone, plugging me up, my soul seemed to leave my body. I saw the face of the Goddess, smiling, blessing, granting me the most perfect peace I’d ever known. Nothing could feel more complete than my alpha’s knot stretching me.
Nothing more complete until the sharp pain of his bite on my mate gland.
I screamed as the sting of his teeth competed with the joyful knowledge he would forever be mine.
He collapsed on top of me, the delicious heaviness of his body pressing me into my nest.
“You can’t leave me now.” I grinned into his chest, nuzzling at the crisp hair, pulling his scent deep into my lungs. “Will it be like this every time?”
He rolled us on to our sides and hooked one of my thighs over his hip, which caused his knot to tug against my entrance—what a delicious thrill to know that even in this angle, it would not slip free. While he pressed a kisses to the top of my head, a hand stroked and squeezed my thigh, my bottom, and along the thick curves of my body.
“Alpha? Will it always be like this?”
“Of course it will. How could it not? You are perfect.”
Tears pricked my eyes. I wasn’t perfect—too fat, too short for any fashionable clothing—but if my mate thought me perfect, I’d be happy.
“Besides,” he purred. “Your heat has only just begun. We have days to get this right.”
“We have a lifetime.”
“Wake up, Trix.”
I curled into a tighter ball, my face pressed into the dark hair that covered his chest. “No.”
“If you do and drink your water, I’ll bring you hot tea with extra sugar.”
I giggled. My alpha knew me so well. “Very well.”
“Good omega.”
I sat up and watched him pull on his breeches, which had somehow managed to escape the nest, heavy with the smells of sex and stained with cum. “I’ll be quick.”
He cracked the door open and slipped out of my nest. My grin grew until my cheeks hurt. Tod had mated me. I was a mate and to the alpha I’d longed for my whole life. I fingered the fresh bite on my mating gland. It had hurt when he bit me, but the kind of pain that had morphed into a heady pleasure greater than I’d ever known. I wished for him back so that he could tend the bite. Instinct said he needed to suck more of my toxin into him, for the acid in his saliva to ensure the mate bond held. True Mates, my heart told me. We were destined for each other.
But he didn’t return. Perhaps he was the one preparing the tea. Perhaps my parents wished to congratulate him, us. There were so many things that could have held him up. I could be patient. We had so many other heats to share. The clock showed that twenty minutes had passed. Only then did I became anxious. Where was he? I found a fresh chemise and wrapped myself in a thick blanket before leaving my nest. I could not hear his deep, melodic voice when I stepped into the hall. In fact, there was no sound but my parents hushed voices. I followed the sound to the drawing room. My father’s eyes looked a little red and my Mama had an arm about his shoulders saying something too low for me to understand.
They looked up as I entered the room.
“Where did he go?” I asked my silent parents. “Did he go to get me candied orange peel? A servant could have gone. An omega needs her mate…”
“He left.” Mama’s voice was frigid. “Now. Go take a bath. You’ll feel better for it. I’ll have one of the maids take care of the things in your room.”
I recoiled as if hit.
“No! Don’t touch my nest. Why would you touch my nest? If I’m to move in with Jack, I’ll need to bring it with me… Where is he?” My words drifted off as my parents did nothing to reassure me that my mate would return. “Are… You aren’t saying he is coming back… Why aren’t you saying he is coming back?”
“Darling,” Papa jumped up and ran towards me, pulled me into his arms. “It is for the best. You need an alpha who will care for you as you deserve. One who is worthy—”
“Tod cares!” I cried out. I knew he did… He should care. He cared enough to see me through my heat. I’d forced his hand, to be sure. He’d arrived when I was already lost in lust. But we were more than that, he and I. I’d known him, loved him my whole life and had forced myself to wait until I was eighteen before I’d approached him. And he had mated me! I had the bite to prove it. “He is worthy to be my mate. More—”
“He does not deserve you,” Mama snapped. She had nothing of my omega father’s delicacy. “Better that he left. Hopefully that bite will fade. Another alpha will happily take you. You are… You are so beautiful and charming and intelligent and talented…”
“She cannot stay here while she hopes he will be back,” my father interrupted softly. “Shall we send her to Cordelia or my sister?”
“London!” I recoiled at the thought. I knew my mate would be back. I knew he would return for me. Perhaps he had just left for a couple of days to secure a home for us. His uncle was an alpha, perhaps he would help set us up with a flat of our own… Yes. I’d let my mate take care of it. He’d be back. I chose him and chose wisely. Then it struck me. “He won’t know where I am if I am in London.”
