Chapter 29
CHAPTER 29
Issa
W e hadn’t even gotten through the first day of Amir’s heat, and already, I was exhausted. Omegas tended to demand their alphas during this time. They needed an alpha’s knot to ease the terrible symptoms of their cycle.
Not our omega. He refused to let me out of his sight for even a few moments. Any time I so much as ran to the bathroom to relieve my bladder or bring in clean towels, Amir’s omega would go nuts, a long, keening whine tearing through the air nonstop until I was back in sight.
It wasn’t until he’d fallen asleep with Cyrus’s knot locking them together that I was able to retrieve more water bottles and some fruit. I’d had to cut up apples, strawberries, and wash blueberries before putting them all in a big bowl, then grabbed a box of protein bars before sprinting through the house and back to the nest.
For now, he was still asleep. I’d dozed in and out between waves, but now, I was having a hard time getting any rest. I kept wondering whether it was partially my fault that his heat had come early.
Of course, it would have eventually hit him, but we should have had a little more time. It felt as though it was after the night that asshole had grabbed my wrist – then gotten his ass kicked by Ax – that Amir had begun to show the first signs and symptoms of his cycle.
He would never blame me. None of them would.
That didn’t stop me from blaming myself.
Maybe it had been a bad idea to go to work, especially at a place filled with drunk alphas.
But…why the hell should I have to hide away? Why should I have to shape my life around those who didn’t know how to control their emotions or conduct themselves with class and maturity?
Chocolate and strawberries grew stronger in the air as a soft whimpering came from Amir. His eyes were closed, and his breathing was slow and even, but his brows were puckered and his face looked taut like he was in pain, even while he slept.
I hated this for him. I knew there was absolutely nothing I could do to make it go away, not permanently, but I still hated that he had to go through this a few times a year. After watching how my sister had been treated our whole lives, I’d never had any desire to be an omega and was thankful I’d presented as a beta. But I would take Amir’s place in a heartbeat if it meant I could spare him the pain.
“You should get some sleep,” Cyrus whispered to me from where he was wrapped around Amir.
His knot would have deflated, but I couldn’t see whether he’d pulled free from our omega. The waves had woken Amir a few times each hour, the longest period of sleep only lasting around thirty minutes since we’d gotten home yesterday evening.
Not even twenty-four hours, and I was positive none of us had gotten more than a few hours of sleep in that time. As in, maybe an accumulation of three or four total.
The alphas had put in the most work physically, but Amir still required me to at least be in his line of sight if not physically touching him.
Or sucking him.
Or fucking him.
Carefully extricating myself from the tangle of limbs, I crawled closer to Cyrus to avoid waking Amir. The longer he slept, the more rest our alphas could get. And the more rest I could get, if I could ever fall back to sleep.
“I’m going to run downstairs and get more water and food. Maybe take a quick shower.”
“Better hurry,” he said with a silent chuckle that shook his body.
Because, yeah, my sweet Amir became unhinged if even one of us wasn’t in the room when each wave hit. Didn’t matter if all three alphas were servicing him, fucking him, knotting him. If he turned his head and couldn’t see me, a heartbreaking keening whine would lift into the air and tears would fill his pretty green eyes.
Pressing a quick peck to Cyrus’s lips, I shuffled from the room as quickly and quietly as possible, stopping in the shower first. I wouldn’t have time to shave or even wash my hair, but I needed to wash away the sweat, slick, and cum that coated my skin.
After I’d dried, I skipped pulling on clothes since I’d have to remove them as soon as I stepped back into the nest, anyway, and jogged downstairs to load up my arms with water bottles and grabbed a few bags of chips, pretzels, and an unopened roll of cookies. Not exactly the epitome of nutrition, but everyone needed the calories to keep their energy up.
I hadn’t been out of the room for more than fifteen minutes, but Amir was awake, that whine filling the space, his sweet perfume carrying a bitter hint to it as the alphas struggled to reassure him I was still here, that I’d only stepped out for a minute, promising him I would come back. Promising him that I hadn’t rejected him. Promising him that I hadn’t abandoned him.
Dropping everything beside the door, I hurried to Amir, rushing into his open arms and burying my face in his neck when he closed his muscular arms around my back .
“I’m sorry, habibi ,” I said, using his nickname for me and hoping I wasn’t using it incorrectly. “I just got some food and water for us. I’m here. I would never leave you.”
Leaning back, I cupped his now stubbled cheeks in my hands and stared into his eyes. “You know I love you, omega. I’m here. I will never leave you. I couldn’t.”
The whine finally faded out, but a tear escaped over his bottom lash and trailed down his left cheek.
I kissed it away before pressing my lips to his, tasting the saltiness of his tear mixed with the sweetness of his mouth.
Another arm wrapped around my waist and lifted me. Amir’s cock was held steady by one of our alphas, then I was lowered slowly onto my omega, a moan pulling from our throats as I settled fully on him.
“You two are so beautiful together,” Cyrus muttered into my ear as he pressed kisses to my cheek and shoulder as his fingers gently stroked along the mark he left on my throat.
Amir’s fingers tightened in my hair and held me steady as he claimed my mouth, devoured my mouth in a desperate and hungry kiss. He was reassuring himself and his omega that his beta was still here, that his pack was whole.
That I hadn’t abandoned him.
Never . I could never willingly walk away from Amir. I could never walk away from any of them. It would be easier to rip my heart from my damn chest.
Actually, that was exactly how it would feel if I were to lose a single one of these men, as though someone had torn open my chest and yanked the organ from its cavity.
A moan sounded from somewhere to my right. I desperately wanted to turn my head, see which of my alphas were pleasuring themselves – or each other – to the sight of Amir and I making love.
And that was exactly what we were doing. It didn’t matter that this because of his biology, or that he needed the release to help with the cramping or heat. I would make love to my omega every day for the rest of my life if I had a choice in the matter .
Amir’s arms tightened around me as his kiss grew frantic, his hips thrusting up into me harder, faster.
I squealed when he lunged forward, laying me on my back as he pumped into me, his cock stretching and filling me until it felt as though I was moaning nonstop.
“Can I take you while you fuck our beta?” Enzo asked Amir.
“Please, alpha. Knot. Please.” Amir’s eyes were unfocused, his pupils fully dilated until there was only a sliver of the seafoam green of his irises. His hindbrain had completely taken over and this wave of his heat had washed away any other thought but the need to breed.
We were both on birth control, but even I felt the need to see my alphas fill him with their seed in hopes of one day seeing his belly rounded with our first child.
And it would absolutely be ours . He might carry and birth a child since I wasn’t sure I ever wanted to experience pregnancy, but I would be more than proud to be a mother to any children from our omega.
Enzo positioned himself behind Amir and I knew the moment he entered him from the guttural moan that escaped both men and how deeply Amir’s cock was pushed inside me.
Ax gripped my thighs and opened me wider until my knees were nearly touching my chest, giving Amir more room to move.
Amir began to fuck into me, which pushed him back against Enzo. He was taking us both at the same time as Enzo moaned and grunted and the first tingles of an orgasm tightened the muscles in my lower belly and ran up my spine.
“You’re taking your alpha so well,” Cyrus cooed to Amir, pushing his hair from his face and running his lips over the marks they’d all three left on him, almost exactly in the same placement as my own marks.
Ax knelt beside my head, his cock fisted in his hand. He didn’t need to say a word. I immediately opened my mouth, maintaining eye contact as he moved closer and fed me his length until the head hit the back of my throat and activated my gag reflex.
But I didn’t want him to stop.
I wasn’t sure what it said about me that I loved when Ax lost control of himself, when he fucked into my mouth until tears welled in my eyes.
Between the absolute bliss and carnal need in his eyes, the pleased growl rumbling through him, the moans and grunts from Enzo and Amir…
I imploded. My eyes rolled closed, and I moaned around Ax as little explosions rocketed through me, tightening my abdomen muscles and sending fireworks and stars dancing behind my closed lids.
Amir’s moans grew louder, and he pumped into me harder, faster, pushing me further into the mattress. He grunted and his cock danced and jerked in my pussy as he filled me so full his cum ran down the seam of my ass to soak into the cushion below me.
But he didn’t stop. He kept thrusting into me, pushing himself back against Enzo to take his alpha deeper.
My omega’s arms gave out, and he collapsed on top of me, his weight only held up on his elbows, his hips still snapping forward while Enzo fucked into him from behind.
“I’m coming,” Enzo growled out, the sound tickling something inside me and awakening a fresh wave of need.
“I’m going to come down your throat,” Ax said.
And my body tightened again, milking Amir’s cock inside me, sending him spiraling into another orgasm.
He was the first omega I’d ever been with and had had no idea how much spilled from them during their release. I could practically taste it on the air mixed with the spicy sweetness of Ax as he shouted, his hand tightening in the hair at the top of my head and shot his load into my mouth and down my throat.
Amir’s body was pushed into me hard as Enzo thrust forward, knotting our omega, before rutting into him in shallow thrusts, his own sounds of pleasure added to the three of ours as he came inside Amir.
When Amir’s arms gave out, he crushed me under his weight, and I struggled to pull in a deep breath .
Ax pulled from my mouth and arms snaked under mine and began to tug.
“Your beta can’t breathe, omega,” Cyrus said. Even during our omega’s heat, my sweet alpha kept his head, remained lucid enough to protect me.
As much as I wanted a gulp of oxygen, I had to bite the inside of my cheek when Amir lifted enough to pull from my core and allow Cyrus to pull me out from under him.
Enzo rolled the two of them to their sides while they waited for his knot to deflate. With Amir’s own release trailing down my thighs, I shifted my position to get a better look at where the two were connected and felt my heart swell with so much love, so much affection.
This…this was perfection. This moment, these men, this pack.
I finally had the life of my dreams, even if my muscles and joints were sore and I was growing exhausted.
And we still had a few more days to go before any of us would be able to rest.