Epilogue
LOKI - ONE YEAR LATER
The tantalizing scent of cherries and rum hit my nostrils, a tease of my omega lingering in the hallway.
“Fuck, she’s already been through here,” I said under my breath.
“I smell her,” Alex agreed. “How in the hell did she beat us?”
Jasper chuckled. “She must’ve gotten the security system code the old-fashioned way instead of having to break into the system with blunt force like we just did.”
“And the little brat rearmed it before we got here,” I muttered. She would pay for that later. “Let’s move—there’s no way she’s more than ten minutes ahead of us. If she finds the necklace first, we’ll catch her before she can leave with it.”
We crept further along the dark hallway. The expensive carpet muffled our steps, the ghosts of the happy family who no longer lived here giving us unsettling stares from the framed portraits on the walls.
No, Randall Johnson’s wife had left him six months ago, and now he had all seven-thousand square feet of this Palisades estate to himself. He was making use of it entertaining his new mistress these days.
His mistress, who was also a thief.
“Alex, bring up the rear,” I said as we approached the door to the primary bedroom. “In the event Seraphina’s already located the necklace and tries to make a break for it, you’re our last line of defense.”
Alex chuckled and cracked his knuckles. “You got it.”
We had a $25,000 success bonus riding on securing this necklace for our client in addition to the usual fee required to hire Sentinel in the first place.
Seraphina must’ve had something similar in place for her client’s engagement with Bryce Solutions. She was highly motivated, but she wouldn’t tell us shit.
The necklace in question was an extravagant diamond-and-ruby number worth over half a million dollars. Our client, a cheating scumbag whose money was still good money, had given it to his wife for their anniversary five years ago.
Unfortunately, his mistress, who now happened to be Randall Johnson’s mistress, ran off with the necklace before his wife managed to send an army of packers into their marital home and clear out her belongings.
Our client approached Sentinel’s new Ciudad del Sol satellite office for assistance in recovering said necklace from said mistress because he’d paid a pretty penny for it and needed all the money he could get before his wife fleeced him in the divorce.
We took the case because, well, we needed cases in Sentinel’s new Ciudad del Sol satellite office.
Our client’s soon-to-be ex-wife had taken issue with the idea that the necklace belonged to her soon-to-be ex-husband. He’d given it to her, she claimed, and the rule of no take backs was in effect. She hired Bryce Solutions to return it to her, and Jericho thought it would be amusing to give the case to Seraphina, their newest field operative, knowing full well that we were already working the same case from the opposite side of the scorched alter.
It had been a race this week. Sera had taken to sneaking around our condo, covertly doing her research, sometimes disappearing up to the penthouse to get help from Cameron. Her intense focus on her new job was frustrating and adorable and sexy, and no amount of edging her would get her to spill what she knew.
Sentinel’s new Ciudad del Sol satellite office was not above playing dirty, after all.
Two nights ago, we caught her tailing Melissa the Mistress on the same date night we’d also tailed her to, which meant all of us saw that necklace around Melissa’s neck and identified her new boyfriend Randall at the same moment.
Melissa hadn’t been home to her apartment since, and as luck would have it, she and Randall had just departed for a vacation in Cozumel. We could only hope neither of them was stupid enough to travel with half a million dollars in jewels.
“All house security cameras still down?” I asked Jasper, my hand on the doorknob.
“Confirmed,” he replied. “Seraphina cut the feed, but I was able to get in and loop it just in case our client is taking the time to monitor his home security system when he’s not balls deep in his thieving girlfriend.”
“Good. Let’s get that necklace and our omega and go the fuck home.”
I threw open the bedroom door.
Darkness greeted us, and the room was eerily silent save for the hum of the AC unit pumping air through the vent in the ceiling.
I held my flashlight aloft. No sign of our omega.
Except for the lingering scent of boozy cherries, intensely sweet with mouthwatering omega lust.
A flutter of excitement and need bloomed in our bond.
Seraphina knew that we’d caught her, and our game turned her on.
“Lamb,” I purred, stalking slowly around the room. “We know you’re here.”
“We can smell you wanting us, Little Flame,” Jasper said as he prowled to the other side.
Alex lingered by the door and sucked in a big breath. “Delicious, Princesa. Hand over the necklace, and we’ll give you what you clearly need.”
At the sound of featherlight steps on the hardwood floor, I jerked my flashlight toward the entrance to the en suite bathroom.
Nothing.
“Lamb,” I growled in warning. Where the fuck was she?
A blast of cherry pheromones to the face was the only warning I received before my omega appeared in front of me, a beautiful deadly apparition.
“Hello, my loves,” she said, her husky voice stirring my dick to further attention. “Looking for this?”
She dangled the necklace from her gloved finger, its gems shining like tiny supernovas in the crossbeams of our flashlights.
Someday I’d use a chunk of my trust fund to buy Seraphina something even more spectacular to decorate her beautiful body.
Not today, though. Today I was going to pry that thing from her little fingers, secure it for my client, then hold her down and fuck the sass right out of her.
Jasper floated closer to her. “Sweetheart, it’s three against one. You’re so amazing, so skilled, beating us to the necklace all by yourself. But you didn’t beat us out of the house.”
Alex chuckled. “Better luck next time, querida.”
She smirked and tucked the necklace gently into a pouch on her belt. “Oh my, you do have me cornered, don’t you? Three big, strong Alphas and only teeny little omega me. Whatever will I do?”
I did not like the sound of that.
“Lamb,” I growled. “What?—”
She whipped a clunky handgun from her belt, raised it high, and pressed the trigger.
Rapid bursts of intense green light blinded me. “Fuck!”
“It’s a laser dazzler!” Jasper shouted, stumbling nearby.
I blinked rapidly, trying in vain to rid myself of the halo in my vision.
The patter of quick feet sounded behind me.
“ Shit ,” Alex barked. “She’s getting away.”
The door slammed, probably somewhere near Alex’s face. I blinked again, my vision slowly returning.
“Get her!” I roared.
We stumbled into the hallway and raced after her through the cloud of dizzying omega pheromones she left in her wake.
When we hit the ground level and finally burst through the front door, we were just in time to watch our omega dive through the open window of an SUV slowly rolling across the estate’s circular driveway.
Seth Bryce shot us the world’s most infuriating wink from the driver’s seat as he jerked the car around and sped away.
We were ready for our omega when she finally waltzed through the front door of the spacious downtown condo we’d shared for nearly a year.
It was dark in our living room save the soft yellow light from a single lamp. I sat alone on our large leather couch, freshly showered and wearing only sweatpants.
“Hello?” she called from the foyer. “Anyone home?”
A predatory rumble sounded from nearby. I raised a hand, demanding silence.
“Loki? Alex? Jasper?”
I chuckled. After a year of being together, our mate had gotten used to our real names, but she still swapped them with our call signs at random. I would always be Loki first to her, and I wouldn’t change it for anything.
She walked into the living room, no longer dressed in her work clothes. Now she wore a tight white tank top that barely contained her full, perfect tits and her favorite purple yoga pants. She smelled freshly showered, her red hair still damp where she’d braided it over her shoulder.
She was the sexiest little vixen in the entire goddamn world.
Our eyes met in the dim light of the room. She froze, drinking me in where I lounged on the couch, my arms draped lazily across the back, my bare torso flexing as I glared at my omega.
My omega, who had been a very, very bad girl.
Cherries and rum perfumed in a thick, lusty fog around us.
“Loki,” she said, her voice husky. “What are you doing here, sitting alone in the dark? Brooding? Being a sore loser?”
“Lamb,” I said, my tone threaded with warning. “Do not test me. Not tonight.”
That only made her smile. “My $30,000 finder’s fee already hit my bank account. My name is up on the board at headquarters now. I should really be thanking you for being just one step behind me this entire investigation.”
I continued to give her a cold, penetrating stare even as I knew my pride at her receiving big accolades at work would shine down our bond.
“No more talking,” I snapped. “Strip.”
She lifted her chin, defiant, but I could scent the gush of her slick from here. My mouth watered.
Her eyes flashed. “Make me.”
She took a few slow steps away from me, but she was thwarted when her back hit the solid wall that was Alex and Jasper. They’d converged from the shadows of the room to block her exit, and she gasped as the exposed skin of her back hit their hard, naked chests.
“I’d do what he says, Princesa,” Alex purred. “You know what you did. Take your punishment like a good girl, and maybe Loki will let you come at the end.”
“If he’s feeling charitable,” Jasper added. He swept her braid aside and palmed the back of her neck possessively with his tattooed hand. She only just managed to stifle her moan. “If he isn’t, you might end up tied to the bed, aching and empty, while you watch the three of us fuck instead.”
Now she really did moan, low and desperate.
“No, she likes that idea too much,” I declared. “Take her clothes off. Now .”
She gasped as Jasper ripped her tank top over her head. He tossed it aside and immediately cupped her bare breasts in his large hands. There was something about seeing Jasper’s inked hands on my lamb’s creamy, round tits that got me extra hot.
Alex knelt and yanked her pants to her ankles. “Mmm, no panties. I think our princesa was expecting to be punished.” He sank his teeth into the globe of her ass, and she squealed.
“Quit fucking around,” I barked. “Bring her to me.”
“You heard His Majesty,” Alex said, chuckling. He stood up and scooped Seraphina into his arms, earning a scowl from Jasper.
As he approached, I leaned onto my elbows, my predatory stare never leaving Sera’s face. She was attempting to glare at me, but her green eyes were hooded, and she practically shook with need in Alex’s arms.
I snatched her with a possessive growl. Alex barked a laugh as I spun and pressed my omega into the couch cushions. Her rum and cherries surged again. I had to go somewhere deep inside myself to hang onto my last shred of control instead of letting myself get drunk on her desperate, needy pheromones.
I straddled her and grasped her chin in tight fingers, holding her still so that she was looking me right in the eyes. “That little stunt you pulled earlier was ridiculous and unnecessary, Lamb. I thought we were past you thinking it’s appropriate to deploy crowd-control weapons against your pack.”
She writhed underneath me, her little claws digging into my biceps as I loomed over her. “You should know better by now, Gabriel,” she said, baring her teeth. “I don’t give a fuck what’s appropriate , and I play to win.”
Shuddering, I gave her a feral grin. She knew how to push my buttons, and I loved it.
I flipped her onto her stomach and jerked her hips into the air. I freed my aching cock from the confines of my sweatpants and buried it in her with one brutal thrust. Her delicious scream could’ve shattered the windows of our condo.
“We’re going to use you for our pleasure now, Lamb,” I said, bending down to press my lips against her ear, “since you’ve been such a bad girl. We’re going to pump you full, one right after the other, and you won’t be allowed to come.”
She groaned into the cushion beneath us, her hips rocking as she tried to work herself on my cock. I held her still, choosing instead to slide slowly in and out of that hot, slick channel at a leisurely pace.
Alex and Jasper watched us from the other side of the large sectional couch, two hungry wolves salivating over their trapped lamb.
“Loki,” she growled. “Fuck me already.”
“I am fucking you, doll. I’m fucking you how I want to, which is to open you nice and wide for Blaze’s use.”
“She’s plenty ready,” Alex said, his hazel gaze pinned to where my dick pumped lazily in and out of our omega. He slid off his side of the couch and prowled over. “Move. I’m tagging in.”
I raised a brow at him as I slid inside Seraphina one more time. “Do you want your ass to be next?”
He smirked. “That’s just threatening me with a good time. Now, get the fuck out of my way. I’ve been hard since I smelled her in Randall Johnson’s hallway.”
I held Seraphina down as I pulled out of her. She whined at the loss of my cock, and I stroked a hand down her back.
“Shh, Lamb. You only have yourself to blame for this.”
Alex shoved me, and I collapsed onto the couch next to Jasper. I barely had time to blink before Alex had ripped his pants off and plunged into our omega. He set a ruthless pace, racing to the finish line. Her sweet screams filled the air.
“Ah, ah,” he said, reaching down to swat Sera’s hand from between her legs. “None of that, querida. No touching yourself.”
“Definitely not, Lamb,” I growled. “Your only job is to take Blaze’s cock until he’s finished with you.”
“You are such an asshole,” she snapped at me, then she buried her head to groan into the cushions once more. “Fuck, Blaze. It’s so good. Give me your knot. Please give it to me.”
Blaze shut his eyes like he was in pain.
Jasper laughed next to me. “Foul play, Little Flame,” he said.
“Alex, do not fucking knot her,” I commanded. “Do not do it.”
“Fuck,” he groaned, slowing his thrusts as he came. He pressed his sweaty forehead to Sera’s spine and dropped a few lingering kisses there, and then he put his lips to her ear to murmur something that made her grin.
Jasper hopped excitedly to his feet. He shouldered Alex out of the way, and Alex fell into a heap on the cushion next to me.
“I don’t think our princesa has learned her lesson, Hawk,” he said lazily. “Don’t take it easy on her.”
Jasper grabbed Sera by the ankles and rolled her onto her back. She stretched, languid and sensual, as she made big doe eyes at him. “Hi, Hawk.”
“Hi, sweetheart,” he said. He shoved his sweatpants down his hips, and his long cock sprang free. He stroked it as he examined our omega, no doubt proud of himself for putting her fantastic tits on display for us. “You look so good with Blaze’s cum dripping from between your thighs. Are you ready to take more?”
Her green eyes sparkled. “I’m ready to take your knot and milk you dry as you make me shatter, my love.”
His nostrils flared, and he buried his dick in her without further discussion.
“Jasper, keep it together,” I said between clenched teeth. I was now squeezing my own dick so hard, my eyes nearly crossed. “She does not get to come.”
“I heard you the first three times, Gabriel,” he growled. He caught Sera’s sneaky little hand again before she could get it between her legs, and he pinned both of her wrists above her head as he fucked her hard. “That’s it, Little Flame. You’re so fucking pretty like this. Taking everything we give you.”
She mewled underneath him. “Yes, Hawk. I love it. I love you.”
“I love you too. Fuck, I’m close.”
Sera’s hooded gaze found mine. “Let me come, Loki.”
“Not a chance, Lamb.”
“Please?”
I could feel how close to the edge she was riding through our bond. Blaze had brought her there, too, but after a year together, we knew exactly how to play her body to throw her into a climax. Jasper was pounding ruthlessly into her now, but if he wanted her to come, he’d have shifted his hips to hit the sensitive spot inside her next to her slick gland.
My smile was evil. “Maybe you’ll remember this next time you think about pulling another one of your stunts.”
Jasper groaned as he finally found his release. He buried his face in her tits, and she sighed, running her fingers through his curls. When he’d caught his breath, he shifted to press a long slow kiss on her lips.
“Behave for Loki,” he whispered conspiratorially in her ear. “The only thing he likes more than edging you is making you scream.”
I slid from my side of the couch and grabbed Jasper by the back of the neck. He laughed as I peeled him off my omega and shoved him onto the couch next to Alex.
They’d made a real mess of our girl, and I knelt between her legs to examine it further. “Look at all of this,” I said, running a finger through the cum between her legs. “Do you feel used, Lamb?”
She grinned. “Thoroughly.”
“Have you learned your lesson?”
She wiped the smile from her face and gave me her most contrite look. “Definitely.”
I smirked. She was so full of shit, but I wouldn’t have her any other way. “I see. Well, in that case, if you take my cock as perfectly as I know you can, I’ll think about letting you writhe on my knot until you’ve had enough.”
“Fuck yeah,” Blaze said. As usual, he was the first to cave. “She’s always perfect.”
I dropped onto my elbows and threw her legs over my shoulders. I peered up at her from between her thighs, meeting her hooded emerald gaze. I was certain I looked as high on her cherry-scented slick as I felt. “First,” I said, “I’m going to clean up Blaze and Hawk’s mess.”
She choked on a sob as I ran my tongue through her pussy, lapping up her slick and Alex and Jasper’s combined release like it was my last meal on earth. All my favorite flavors, right where I wanted them, which was leaking from my well-fucked omega.
“You like that, Little Flame? Loki has such a wicked tongue.” Jasper had slinked back over here, and I came up for air just in time to watch him shove his tongue down her throat.
Alex had joined us, too, and he had his mouth all over her tits.
“Greedy assholes,” I muttered, and then I went back to my task.
I worked my girl to the brink until she was shaking under my tongue. Even I was only so strong, so I finally thrust two fingers into that wet, needy pussy and threw her over the edge.
Her scream of pleasure zinged through my entire body like a drug, and a deep rumble of approval sounded from my chest as slick gushed all over my face. The ecstasy consuming her exploded in our bond, making my head spin.
I didn’t give her time to come down. I rose to my knees, wrapped my hands around her pert ass, and pulled her right onto my cock. She squealed, and I fucked her mercilessly, aiming right for the sensitive spot inside her and reveling in that tight, slick heat.
It took no time at all to have her spasming around me, shrieking and sobbing as she came hard for the second time in the span of a minute. Alex and Jasper held her down and purred praise into her ear as I shoved my knot inside her.
“Fuck,” I groaned as her muscles clenched around me, wringing my release and every ounce of energy I had left from my body. “So fucking good, Lamb. So perfect.”
She wrapped her legs around me and pulled me close. I rolled us so as not to crush her, and we lay quietly, Jasper and Alex snuggled up to my sides, all of us stroking her heated skin as we waited for my knot to deflate.
“You guys realize that I’m going to misbehave even more now if this is my punishment?” she asked after a few minutes. “I don’t think I’ve ever come so hard.”
“Loki’s particular brand of edging will do that to you, querida,” Blaze replied.
I kissed the top of her head. “Unnecessary use of laser weapons aside, we’re really proud of you, Lamb. Closing your first solo case after only a few months as a full-time operative is an impressive achievement.”
She melted further into my arms. “Thank you. It felt really good. And now all of my dads know I’m capable, not just Jere.”
Jasper chuckled. “I think you proved yourself pretty capable in their eyes after creatively escaping your courting meetings and being a key player in saving the omegas caught in Candi Jenkins’ evil schemes.”
“And now, because of you, we get to help omegas and other women in need in between our gigs for rich divorcées,” Blaze added. “It was because of your spirited advocacy that my dad approved our off-the-books vigilante work with your brothers and Dylan.”
She sighed happily. “I love you guys. I still can’t believe I’m bonded to the hottest Alphas in the whole state and I get to continue doing this thing I love. Being the person I want to be. Making a difference for other omegas when I can.”
Utter devotion in its purest form blossomed in my chest, echoed by Alex and Jasper in their own links to our omega. Never in our wildest dreams had we thought we’d be here, not only bonded to an omega who all three of us were equally obsessed with, but that our omega would be such a spirited, deadly, amazing woman who could defy even gravity if she so chose.
“We love you, too, Seraphina Bryce,” I replied. “Exactly as you are, forever and always.”
The End