Chapter 17
CHAPTER 17
Issa
I ’d said the words. I’d told Ax how I felt. One down, two to go.
Maybe I hadn’t been able to look him in the eyes when I confessed how deep my feelings for him were, but at least he knew. And he’d said them back. He loved me. He and the others had given me time to heal, had waited for me to decide when I was ready to trust and allow another alpha inside my body.
Ax, Enzo, and Cyrus were the first alphas I’d ever allowed in my heart. And all I could do was hope and pray they didn’t make me regret that decision.
Ax’s wickedly talented tongue stroked my clit, his lips suctioning around it as he added a second finger to the first and pumped them into my core until my body felt as though it would combust. Like my times with Amir, it wasn’t mere tingles that rippled through my body.
Nope. It felt as though explosions were rocking through me from the inside out, stealing my breath as I opened my mouth on a silent scream and fell apart on Ax’s tongue.
He continued to work his fingers into me, lapping slowly at my clit until the aftershocks began to slow to light fluttering of my inner walls. Only then did he pull away, his chin and lips glistening with my release before he swiped the back of his hand across his face, then rose up my body, his cock sliding inside me with ease, only stopped by his swollen and throbbing knot.
I wished more than anything I could give him everything, including allowing him to knot me, to lock us together until his knot deflated. But my experiences with an alpha’s knot weren’t exactly something I looked back on fondly.
Ax’s beautiful blue-green eyes were on my face, so many emotions flittering through them even as his pupils remained blown with lust. I had no fear he would lose himself to rut and hurt me. I trusted him. I trusted all three of my alphas more than I had ever trusted another living soul.
“I love you,” he breathed out as he began to pump his hips in a slow, deep rhythm, rubbing all the right spots until my breath was once again frozen in my lungs. “I’ve loved you this whole time.”
His words held so much emotion I felt tears burn the backs of my eyes.
There was a part of me that had known all along how Ax felt about me, how they all felt about me. But another part, the louder and bigger part, didn’t believe I was worth an alpha’s love and devotion. I was nothing but a beta. In my family, a beta couldn’t exactly be used as a bargaining chip to climb the ladder or gain more power. Not that that had stopped my fathers and mother from arranging packs for all five of their beta children, not just their one omega daughter.
“I love you, too,” I whispered back.
He lowered his head and pressed a kiss to my lips before pulling back, his face barely a breath from mine. “Are you sure?”
Was I sure about the mark. Was I sure about being bonded to him. I knew exactly what he was asking without him voicing the words.
I couldn’t think of a single moment in my life I had been surer about anything as I was about believing these three truly saw me as their beta, their mate.
“Bite me, Ax. Bond me to you. Make me pack.”
“You’re pack with or without my mark, baby girl. Please know that.”
I raised my head to stop anything else he might say with my lips. Pulling back, I cupped his face in both my hands, my gaze bouncing between his. “I want nothing more than to proudly display my true alpha’s mark. I want to be bonded to the three of you.” A wry smile tugged up one side of my mouth. “That way, you can never get rid of me.”
A heart melting smile lit up his beautifully rugged face. His thrusts became faster, harder, tearing more moans from my mouth as his purr rumbled against my chest. He was barely holding his weight off me on his elbows, his forearms framing my head as he continued to stare into my face.
“I’m going to make you come all over my cock and then I’m going to show you how fucking much I’ve wanted you. You’re mine, Issa. You’re ours.”
Widening his knees, he forced my legs open wider, giving him room to slam into me harder, faster, deeper. Within seconds, another orgasm built and slammed into me like a fucking bulldozer. I screamed out his name and squeezed my eyes shut as wave after wave of the most delicious tingles rippled through my body, and I swore my body was seconds away from catching on fire and burning the bed below us.
Ax’s body hovered over mine, his chest pressing against mine as he continued to thrust into me. His lips brushed along the ugly ragged mark Antonio had forced on me a second before he slowly bit down, his teeth breaking through the flesh and sending my body soaring into a fourth orgasm of the night.
By the time he pulled his teeth free and slammed his cock into me until his muscles went taut, his eyes squeezed shut, and he grunted with his own release, my body felt as though my bones had turned to jelly. I couldn’t have stood if my life depended on it .
His tongue was soft and warm as he lapped at the blood seeping from the puncture marks on my shoulder. It would take a few days to heal, and his bite didn’t quite cover Antonio’s, but already, I could feel Ax blooming to life in my chest.
His presence was like the sun – fiery and bright. It warmed me emotionally and physically and, if my body wasn’t so tired from how many times I’d come in the past two hours, I might have rolled him onto his back and ridden him until we both forgot our own damn names.
No wonder he was always flirting – it was like his very presence inside me was yet a new erogenous zone, as though he was a walking, talking aphrodisiac.
He was still inside me, his knot nudged against my opening, but he didn’t push for more, just gently tended to his mark.
“I can feel you,” he whispered, his breath warm against my torn flesh.
“I can feel you, too,” I whispered back, running my fingers through his shoulder length hair, carefully working out a few tangles as he purred in contentment.
No. That wasn’t the right word. I could feel his beaming joy and warm affection down the invisible thread in my chest tying us together.
“Where are Enzo and Cyrus?” I asked when he pulled from me and shifted some of his weight off my torso while resting his head on my shoulder and pressing kiss after kiss to any part he could easily reach.
“I assume in their rooms. We all headed for our showers when we got home. I just happened to be the lucky one who got to your room first.”
I lifted my head and looked toward the open door. My other two alphas would have heard every noise we’d made in this room. Yet I didn’t feel a bit of embarrassment. Especially since I planned to enjoy them, as well, as soon as possible.
“Aren’t they sleeping in here tonight?”
I’d grown to love the pack cuddles at night. It made me feel so safe, as though the alphas formed this big force field around me while we slept. Even my nightmares didn’t dare appear while they were in the bed with me.
“We were all heading your way. They must have turned back around when they spotted us fucking.”
My cheeks burst into flames at his words. That had been far more than fucking. That had been…damn. That had been life changing, and not simply because I’d finally felt Ax inside of me. It was as though something deep in my heart and soul had finally clicked into place. It sounded corny, but being with Ax, feeling his presence explode in my chest made me feel like I could take on the world, like nothing could hurt me, like just being Ax’s beta formed a force field around me and my heart.
“Your beta wants you!” Ax yelled, causing me to start with surprise before giggling.
“I could have just texted them.”
He rolled fully off me, his head resting on my chest, his warm breath breezing over his bite and sending the most delicious shivers down my spine.
Heavy thuds sounded down the hall as my other two alphas left their rooms and entered mine. A sweet smile stretched across Cyrus’s face. Enzo looked…intense. I was tired, but not too tired to be with another of my alpha’s tonight.
“Let her rest,” Cyrus said as though he could read Enzo’s mind, and climbed into the bed on the other side of me. “Are you okay?” he asked, gently running the pad of one finger along Ax’s mark.
“I’m perfect.” I sighed, reaching for him and pulling his face down for a kiss.
But he didn’t deepen it, didn’t settle between my thighs and push his thick cock inside of me. He didn’t even doff his boxers before climbing into bed as if he needed that barrier between us to resist the temptation of doing exactly that.
“I’m finally pack.”
Cyrus feathered his lips across my forehead, my eyelids, my nose, cheeks, then finally my lips. “You were already pack, Issa. But now, you’re officially ours.”