Bonds of Fate (Fated in the Stars #2)

Chapter Twenty-Five Nix

Nix

Nix barely takes in anything of Luca’s room before he’s ushered into a dimly lit bathroom. It’s cluttered but comfortable, the kind of lived-in mess that speaks of comfort, not appearances. The faint scent of lavender cleaner lingers, a reassuring sign that—despite appearances—it’s mostly clean.

Luca presses a new toothbrush into his hand, and Nix welcomes the distraction, letting the sharp taste of mint chase away the lingering bitterness of vomit and fear.

By the time he’s rinsing his mouth, Luca is already pulling him toward the shower. The sight of the rainfall shower head makes Nix huff a quiet laugh—the pack must have bought them in bulk, considering how many he’s had the pleasure of standing under this past week.

Luca twists the water on, setting it to perfect warmth, then tugs Nix’s t-shirt over his head before pulling off his own.

His beta’s body is beautiful and golden, with round shoulders and pecs and the tiniest waist Nix has ever seen. Luca is gorgeous, and someday, he’d like to spend time just looking at him.

That will have to wait because Nix is so tired, and all he can do is just let the warm water cascade down his exhausted body and enjoy his baby’s soft hands rinsing the duvet fluff out of his hair and down onto the floor of the shower. There’s a vanilla- almond body wash in Luca’s hands, too, and Nix can just rest his forehead on Luca’s shoulder.

“Tired, baby?” Luca’s voice is soothing, and together with their combined scent of vanilla and mocha that’s trapped with steam inside the shower enclosure, it makes his eyes close, and he sinks further into Luca’s soft, silky skin.

“Mmhmm. I’m so tired, but I’m also glad to be here with you.” Safe here with you, Nix means. Turning his head to the side and rubbing his cheek against a surprisingly round deltoid, Nix jumps. “Holy shit, Gideon! Have you been there the whole time?” Gideon is sitting on the toilet lid, watching them under the shower.

“Can’t let my kittens out of my sight for one minute.” It’s a growl, and the heat in Nix’s belly surges.

He’s helpfully reminded by his wolf that he still doesn’t have a bite from either of his mates, but he’s bone-tired, his legs aching so deeply that the muscles occasionally twitch from overuse.

He feels like he’s run a marathon, and right now, he can’t even find the energy to do anything that might require effort.

Luca is hard against his belly, and when Luca slides a hand under Nix’s balls and back to give his butt a gentle squeeze, Nix slumps into his hold. Maybe this is just what he needs: to let Luca take care of him. He can have these gentle touches with safe hands that will ease him toward that floaty space. A space where he can let someone he loves make him feel good, and the memories will stay locked in that mental box.

“Can I, sugar?” Luca whispers, and it doesn’t even really register for Nix what Luca is asking his soulmate.

“Nix, can Luca make you both feel good? Then we will cuddle in the nest. Would you like that?” Gideon’s question is slow and sweet.

“Yes, please.”

“Luca, can you get some of kitten’s sweet slick in your hand?”

Luca doesn’t waste any time reaching behind him, and Nix parts his legs a bit to make it easier for Luca to slide his fingers between his cheeks. It puts his mouth on level with Luca’s pec if he bends his head, and Nix gives in to the urge to bite down, not hard enough to break the skin, but hard enough to make Luca moan.

“Fuck, he’s so wet, the water can’t even wash it away. I want some in my mouth. Please?”

“If you eat it all, then you might not have enough glide for later.” Gideon is teasing, the promise of more glinting in his eyes.

“I will, he’s got so much, see?” Luca holds his hand out, and yes, there’s water, but there’s a palm full of slick, too.

Nix’s cheeks flush even more under the water, lips parted on every panting breath. The heat of the shower and the slow-burning arousal pushes the pain of the last few hours even farther away.

“Okay. My kitten likes to make more, anyway.” Gideon hasn’t moved from his place on the toilet lid, but he’s pulled his sweats down under his balls. Even though he’s not touching it, his cock is standing straight up, and there’s the telltale glint of precome sliding down his length, visible in the dim light. It’s a pretty dick, and with one of his last cognizant brain cells, Nix manages to tell him so.

“Pretty dick, Gideon,” he slurs. Gideon flushes at the compliment, and Luca huffs an almost silent snort into the top of his head. “Surely you’ve heard that before?”

“You’re not getting me this time, kitten. I’m still down one point.”

Nix suddenly remembers how he’d gotten two up on the sexy Gideon before the living room ‘event’ where he’d claimed two-thirds of the pack. He groans at the memory and lifts his head to see Luca still sucking Nix’s slick off his fingers before moving on to lick the palm of his hand.

“That’s enough, Luc. Time to make our sleepy kitten come.” Gideon takes his cock in hand and gives it a few slow pumps.

There’s a finger at his hole, and his cock twitches in pleasure-pain at the abrupt intrusion. When it slides into the second knuckle, Luca whispers, “Shhhh. Don’t tell.” Like it’s their secret.

“Stand up straight, kitten, there you go. Luca, one hand only, and you come after Nix. You’ll need to save it for me.” Gideon has stopped touching his cock, and his hands are resting in fists on his gorgeous thighs. His instructions are issued in a condescending and detached tone that seems to drive Luca wild.

“Eyes on me, baby.” Luca grabs Nix’s jaw firmly. “Gonna make you feel so good. Wash away those bad dreams. Ready?”

He is more than ready. The lazy pleasure from before is now a red-hot fire in his belly, where it’s only Nix, Luca, and Gideon. He’s safe, and everything scary is far, far away. Nix can only nod and hold Luca’s waist.

“Words, kitten.” Gideon’s voice brooks no argument, but Nix can’t find his words; they have floated away on that lighter-than-air feeling.

“Fuck.” Luca’s slick hand is around both their cocks, and he’s got his bottom lip caught between white teeth, black eyes burning into his own. “Please, baby. Tell me yes,” he begs.

“Words, kitten, or he stops.”

“Yes. Goddess, please.”

At that, Luca grips them hard and starts a fast up-and-down rhythm over both their cocks. The grip is firm enough, but Luca’s hand isn’t big enough to do the job for both of them. Only Nix’s cock is in Luca’s palm, and Luca’s getting the tips of his fingers. It must be maddening.

Luca is riveting in his desperation—his mouth is open around his moans and soft cries. Nix can see his slippery tongue, and Nix slides two of his fingers along its surface until Luca gags, his eyes rolling back and the hand on their dicks stuttering.

The burning feeling in his pelvis sparks into a conflagration, and the pleasure begins to flow out in hot waves. He’s going to come, but his hole is clenching on nothing, and Gideon is so far away.

He wants them both.

Needs them to seal their bond into his skin, wash away the memory of that closet with their love and pleasure.

“Gideon.” He holds out his other hand, palm up, and just as he’d intended, Gideon cannot resist. Luca doesn’t slow his rhythm at Gideon’s approach and supplements the friction of his hand with short thrusts of his hips. The head of Luca’s cock keeps catching every now and again on Nix’s. They’re similarly sized, and it makes for a perfectly matched glide.

Gideon leans in and speaks right against Nix’s open mouth. “What do you want, kitten?”

“Bite.” To show Gideon what he means, he pulls Gideon’s lower lip in and bites down with his human teeth—he’s sucking up the tiny amounts of blood and saliva and then turning to share it with Luca.

Luca drops Nix’s dick and slaps his hand around the base of his own so hard while pulling away, he squawks. “Ow, fuck. You gotta warn me. Fuckin’ hell.”

Gideon’s face shows his shock. “Now, kitten? Do you want me and Luca to claim you now? Together?”

“Please.”

Gideon pauses for a minute, reaches to turn off the shower, and then grabs two purple towels from a pile on a short bench.

“Are you serious? We’re going to do this now? Holy Fuck. Yes!” Luca is out of the shower and dripping across the floor without his towel, leaving both his partners standing staring after him.

Nix can’t help but giggle at the sight of his bouncy red butt jiggling out the door at top speed, and Gideon just sighs. “I suppose I should have expected that.”

“He keeps you on your toes, Gideon.” Nix shakes his head fondly.

“That he does.” Gideon dries Nix off and wraps him up. He brushes his hand through Nix’s dark hair and leans in to kiss him softly, with reverence. The banked fire in his gut bursts into flames, and Nix lets the towel drop. He sucks Gideon’s tongue into his mouth and lavs the small bite he’d made before with his own.

“Gideon, please.” He wants to feel Gideon’s skin on his so badly, so he takes the neckline of his Quest tank top in his hands and rends it in two, not slowing down until he’s got those sexy-as-fuck sweatpants all the way down around his ankles as well.

He’s about to step in even closer for that full-body, skin-on-skin experience when Luca pops his head around the door frame. “What is keeping you guys, let’s go!”

Nix’s heart is lighter than air, even though his dick is throbbing in time with his heartbeat, and the insides of his thighs are slick with arousal. “Guess we should go, eh?”

Gideon rolls his eyes and grabs him up under his butt, and all Nix can do is hang on.

The large room is dim, but Luca has turned on a small, lavender-colored lamp. His bed is a veritable nest of blankets that smells mostly like Gideon and Luca, but there are overtones of pine and cinnamon, basil and black currant, and spiced rum and vanilla . It’s all of them together, and Nix’s wolf loves it, even if there might be a tinge of sad mocha and the petrichor from Gideon’s angry lightning strike.

Nix realizes they must have lain here when they were mending their rift.

Feeling a pang of sadness at causing the disagreement, he looks up into Gideon’s eyes, only to find understanding there. “We are good now, kitten. It will be okay. Do you believe me?”

Nix does. He trusts Gideon to know his own mind, and Luca’s, for that matter. It is a relief, and maybe because he entrusts his heart to these two men, he can trust them to help carry his burdens.

“I do. I believe in you, Gideon.”

Gideon’s eyes widen slightly as he catches the minute difference.

Believing in someone means trust in action and deed, for present actions and future ones. It is more than just trust in someone’s truth, it is faith in their spirit.

“You, too, Luca.”

Luca had his sweet mouth open to ask, me too , but Nix managed to beat him to it, so now he just crosses his very nice arms with a huff. “Can we fuck now?”

Nix laughs out loud, and the relief is freedom, so he throws himself at Luca, taking them both to the bed. They both look at Gideon expectantly.

“Don’t rush me. I am thinking about how I want to enjoy you both and how we can give our omega his bites.”

Nix gives a full-body shiver.

“Oh, fuck . Say that again, please.”

Gideon is too smart to play dumb. “Our omega.”

Nix moans, long and deep. His wolf is beside himself, and Nix wants his dick in something and a dick in him, maybe two. Oh, Goddess. Before he knows he’s doing it, he’s on his knees, ready to straddle Luca and return the favor of a nice, long ride. “Whoa fuck, baby. You like that, huh? Gideon, our omega, likes it when we remind him he belongs to us.”

“He really does. Can you kiss him for me? Nice and deep. I’m going to be a bit distracted. And Luca, I haven’t changed my mind. You come after Nix.”

Nix is almost 100% sure Luca is not going to have to wait long.

“Gideon. Please.” When Nix lies down again, his cock slides right up alongside Luca’s, between their bellies. There’s a soft smack on the inside of Nix’s thigh. It makes him shiver, sending sparks to his balls, and Luca chuckles.

“Feels good, eh? Something to think about for later, but not now. Kiss me, baby.”

Then Luca is the one doing the kissing, tongue licking into his mouth and luring Nix’s tongue into his own. Gideon uses both hands on Nix’s hips to tilt them up into an obscene curve before pulling apart his cheeks. At a strong suck on his tongue, Nix clenches, and he can feel a dollop of slick seep past his rim.

“Oh, holy fuck. You are incredible. I’m going to need this down my throat. Hang on, kitten,” Gideon growls.

Nix is not prepared for Gideon’s mouth sucking hard on his hole, and he can’t move his hips as Gideon still has them in an iron hold.

Luca has started a slow grind, though, Goddess bless him, and he’s making sure Nix is getting some friction on his hard dick. His sweet, mocha-flavored mouth is licking and biting at Nix’s like he would devour him at this end while his soulmate holds him captive at the other.

Nix sinks both hands into Luca’s hair and pulls gently, just to hear him moan, and the floaty feeling rolls over him in waves. He’s not going to hold on long enough for Gideon and Luca to claim him because, for the second time that night, he’s hurtling toward his orgasm.

“Sugar, need you to fuck him. Please, wanna feel his belly bulge, all pressed up against me.” It’s enough to make Gideon stop his relentlessly pleasurable licking and sucking to slide a finger past Nix’s rim. There is no resistance and Gideon moans.

“I have a better idea. Do you remember when we first brought our omega home? You wanted me to fuck you both at the same time. Would you like that?”

Oh Goddess, does Nix want that. He really does. He’s not sure how that’s going to be possible, but Luca is tensed up with his eyes squeezed shut.

“Fuck fuck fuck.” He’s breathing heavily and twitching a bit. “Gideon is going to put his dick in you, baby, and then he’s going to pull out and put it in me. Won’t that be nice?” Luca’s eyes are going hazy, and his smile is sweet, but when he makes eye contact with Nix, he seems to pull himself back.

Seeing it makes Nix regret that his mate is staying alert for him to make sure he’s okay. Nix knows his Luca needs that floaty space, too, and Nix wants him to have it. “It’s okay, baby, you can let go. I want you to let go. I’ll help Gideon take care of you. Let go.” He accompanies it with a pinch to Luca’s hard nipple.

Luca smiles beatifically, and Gideon squeezes Nix’s hip tightly. When Nix checks in with him, he’s wearing a small, matching smile in gratitude.

“Gideon, fuck Nix. Please. Need to feel it.”

So does Nix, so he wiggles his ass with a moan.

Gideon pulls Nix up onto his knees so his back is flush against Gideon’s chest. “Alright, Luca, over on your belly, there we go, baby.” Luca flips over eagerly, red ass up and face turned to the side. “Okay, kitten, now you. Open those beautiful legs again. Now put your legs over Luca’s, just like that.”

Nix ends up with his dick pressing flat into the base of Luca’s spine at the top of his butt, his legs over Luca’s thighs so that when Luca spreads his legs wider, it opens Nix up to Gideon’s gaze, too.

There’s reverence when Gideon groans, “Oh, fuck. I wish you both could see what I see. Gorgeous.”

“Take a picture, Gideon. Please, I need to see.” Maybe Nix will show them to Finn. Finn said he likes sexy-texting.

Gideon finds Luca’s phone first, and the shutter clicks a few times before Nix feels a hand pulling his cheek apart.

Nix clenches and pushes out another gush of slick in hopes that maybe there will be some video, too.

When Gideon has taken in his fill, and Luca is grinding his dick on the duvet with moaning whines and whispered begging, he reaches down underneath Nix and comes away with Luca’s purple plug that he drops onto the floor with a thud.

There’s a scent of Gideon’s rain-soaked come leaking from Luca’s hole, and Nix wants some in him, too. “Gideon, now.”

He can’t see it for himself, but he can feel Gideon scooping up some of that flood of all-natural vanilla lube, followed by the slick sounds of his hand on his pretty dick. The soft head of Gideon’s cock is smooth as it pushes inexorably past that first ring of muscle, and it is pure pleasure as he slides home. He is as deep as he can go, and Nix is so full.

His whole body burns with pleasure when Gideon starts fucking in and out—fast and then slowly, grinding when he’s all the way in.

“Gideon, I can feel you in him. Harder. Oh fuck, oh fuck. Now me. Please. Please.” Gideon pumps his hips once, twice, three times before pulling out.

There’s a sharp slap, and Luca moans. “You’re not in charge here, Luca.”

There’s a pause, and Nix feels Gideon pull out, and Luca wails. “Baby, he’s fucking your slick into me.”

Kissing the back of Luca’s neck, Nix whispers nonsense about love and how fucking hot he is.

Gideon fucks back into Nix and then again into Luca, with no discernible duration or frequency—there is just Gideon’s almost imperceptible groans of pleasure and awe.

The lull while Nix waits his turn works to delay the urgency on one hand but increases the torturous pleasure on the other. Gideon is almost silent in his pleasure, and Nix hopes that next time, he can watch Gideon’s beautiful face.

The unreliable rhythm pushes Nix down alongside Luca into his own floaty space where there is only pleasure and patience—patience and pleasure.

Nix isn’t sure how long it goes on, and the silence is broken with Luca’s moans overlaid with his own deep voice begging, “Make me come. Need to come, Gideon. Need your bite.”

His pleas are enough that Gideon pulls out one last time, hauling Nix up—only to lay him down beside Luca, flat on his back in the nest.

Holding Nix’s ankles in his hands, he knees in close.“I’m going to fuck you hard, and then I’m going to come on you. Then Luca and I are going to make you ours. Come when you want to, kitten.” The alpha is glistening with sweat, eyes glittering and gorgeous. “Ready, omega?”

Nix lights up at being called omega. “Come on, Gideon, you talk too m–much.” He tries to sound teasing, but Gideon has taken his breath away with a single hard thrust. Gideon’s brow is furrowed in effort, and his eyes shift from Nix’s face down to where they are joined.

Nix reaches for Luca’s hand. The beta has rolled onto his knees, cock hard and standing straight up, his eyes on the place where Nix’s groin meets his thigh—the place where he’s going to bite—the picture of restrained patience.

It’s not long until he feels his orgasm barreling down on him—wave after wave of pleasure rolls over him as Gideon’s perfect cock hits his prostate, and he knows he’s not going to last. “Need to come, Gideon. Luca, I’m going to come.”

Luca leans in and takes the head of Nix’s dick into his mouth, sucking hard while he pinches his nipple. It causes Nix to clench, causing both he and Gideon to groan in unison.

Luca pulls off just as Gideon’s rhythm falters. After a few short thrusts, Gideon pulls out and comes in large spurts over Nix’s groin. Luca gets a hand on Gideon’s knot, and there is another hot load that eases the way for Gideon to jerk Nix’s cock. It takes two short pumps, and Nix is coming over his belly, locked up and shouting his alpha’s name.

“So pretty when you come, baby,” Luca moans.

Both his mates are gently bending his thighs out at the hip and lying flat on their bellies. Luca uses his tongue to clean Gideon’s come off his left hip, while Gideon does the same on the right. “Ready to be ours, omega?”

Luca’s fangs drop, and he doesn’t wait for an answer—he is first to strike, biting deep. Luca grinds his cock into the bed and comes, moaning into Nix’s skin.

Gideon makes sure Nix is watching when he sinks his fangs in—Nix’s cock twitching as he comes again weakly onto his belly.

He can feel them both—a purple and turquoise glowing bond that twists and turns to entwine with a silver light radiating from somewhere deep inside the center of his body. It is the three of them together, and they are the perfect blend of AlphaBetaOmega, just as it should be and as it has been since the beginning of time.

Gideon lies down with his head on Nix’s thigh, draping his forearm across his eyes, but Nix can still see his pretty lips slick with blood and come. Luca lays his head on Nix’s abdomen, two of Nix’s fingers deep in his mouth, and he is so sweet, riding that edge between arousal and comfort that epitomizes the essence of Luca Wilde perfectly.

“Can feel you better now, baby. S’nice, isn’t it, sugar?” When Gideon doesn’t answer, Luca sits up. “Gideon?”

He still has his arm over his eyes.

“Gideon?” Nix tries to pull his arm down, but Gideon is resisting. “Gideon, please look at me.”

The beautiful entwined bond is pulsing, and Nix’s wolf is settled like he hadn’t been before, so it can’t be wrong . But Nix’s omega needs to hear that Gideon feels some of that contentment, too.

Gideon gets up and walks into the bathroom, but he and Luca are quick to follow after a shared look of concern. When the shower turns on, Nix is trying not to panic, and if he listens to the bond, he knows Gideon is so happy—it just doesn’t explain the abrupt departure or his strange quiet.

They find him leaning on the back of the shower with both hands on the wall, head hanging down between his shaking shoulders. Together, they step in behind him. “Gideon, please look at me.”

Gideon does look then, and tears are falling unchecked down his cheeks, noticeable even through the shower water. “Fuck. It’s so much. Can you feel it?”

They are quick to join Gideon under the water. Luca smiles sweetly, cuddling in close, rubbing one hand over Gideon’s back and the other along Nix’s side. “S’good, right?”

Gideon sighs and does the same—a hand around each of his mates—effectively creating a triptych telling the tale of the Goddess’s greatest creation: AlphaBetaOmega.

“The best I have ever felt in my life,” Gideon breathes.

Luca reaches behind to grab the body wash for the second time that night and sets about washing them. He runs a gentle hand over the two bites on either side of Nix’s dick. They are perfectly symmetrical—which is odd because he’d expected Luca’s bite would be smaller.

It doesn’t take long until they’re back in Luca’s room, casting the soiled blankets to the floor and just rolling in on top of the remaining ones to pull a duvet over them. Nix is on Gideon’s left, and Luca is on the right. It’s cozy and safe, and Nix is connected to two more of his mates in yet another incredible way. Red and magenta and turquoise and purple ribbons of fate are swirling and giving him strength in ways he could never have expected.

“Thank you,” he whispers when they are almost asleep. “I love you both so much.”

Luca is snoring a tiny bit, asleep already, but Gideon presses a soft kiss to his temple. “Go to sleep, kitten. Tomorrow, we train.”

The words cast a frisson of fear along his spine, but he also knows that while it isn’t a blanket endorsement of his choice, Gideon is saying that he believes in him, too.