Chapter 2 – Seth
CHAPTER TWO
SETH
She’s so fucking pretty.
Even flushed head to toe, her pink lips swollen, I can’t stop kissing her and neither can Bennett. June’s auburn hair looks like strands of fire in the dim light. It’s a tangled nest at the back of her head, her lush, curvy pale body marred with marks from our lips, hands, and grazes of teeth.
We got the call from Theo on the way back from Heathrow. I wish we hadn’t even left — but shareholders wanted a meeting and happened to be in Dublin. I tried everything to get out of it, but they won’t ever just see me, it always has to be Bennett and I.
I’d nearly thrown open the door to the car and ran back to the townhouse. The only thing stopping me being the fact it was faster to just stay seated.
I knew her heat would come early. The idiots at the designation center swore that she had two weeks, but they weren’t looking at her when I charged in there. She’d been exhausted, tired, and out of it — leaving her in their incapable hands wasn’t an option.
I make a lot of rash decisions, but she’s my best one.
My muscles feel like jelly as I pick up another orange slice, guiding it to her lips as I kiss the side of her head. Her body leans back against my chest, curled up in my lap as I murmur, “One more bite.”
She sighs, parting her lips and letting me feed her. The lucid moments are touch and go, sometimes I swear the only thing she wants to feel is pleasure, over and over again — but a few times she’s just cuddled against mine or Bennett’s chest, seeking out our general presence. I have no idea how anything to do with omega heats work, but I’m fine with figuring it out on the fly as long as she’s taken care of.
“I’m tired.” Her voice is hoarse and I turn, wondering where Bennett is with the water bottles. It’s barely been twenty-four hours since we’ve gotten home and I don’t doubt that she’s exhausted. The stupid pamphlets the center gave Bennett said a heat could last anywhere from five to seven days. Endless days of sex, insatiable need, a burning hot fever, full body shakes, and cramping — I can’t even fathom it. The most terrifying part is that if she doesn’t get the care she needs, it can irreparably damage her body.
I rub her side, pulling her closer. “Want to nap on me for a bit?”
June nods, finishing chewing the orange. The slices are perfect segments, with every strand of white pith picked off. Theo left them by the door an hour ago without a word.
She turns in my arms, her body soft and languid as she nestles herself against my chest. I look down at her, sliding my fingers over her hair, just watching her for a moment as her face slackens, sleep pulling her under for a few stolen moments of rest.
Her breathing evens out as I rest my head back against the nest wall for a moment, closing my eyes too. I already sent Bennett away twenty minutes ago, reminding him that Arin will be back as soon as the contracts are signed in Paris. He’s selling some huge property in the countryside and I already pulled him away from it once when I made the last-minute decision that the woman in my arms was coming home with Bennett and I.
Never did I expect we’d all find ourselves in this situation, but I don’t take her trust in us lightly.
June’s begged for Bennett’s knot more times than I can count, and I’m slightly worried he’ll be totally out of energy if he comes back into the nest without a nap. I don’t know why it didn’t click just how insatiable she’d be, since that’s the entire point of the heat — to make her beg and beg for days until the ultimate biological goal is achieved — getting her pregnant.
I take some comfort in the fact she has a birth control implant. She was on it when she was still a beta, and the designation center doctor assured her it’s also used with omegas too. I don’t envy her, waking up one day with a totally different designation sounds horrifying. I always knew I was just… normal and it’s worked for me. Meeting Bennett and feeling attraction to him wasn’t life-changing until he sunk his teeth in me, giving me a silver bond mark at the junction of my neck and shoulder and a connection to him forever.
The bond in my chest hums, low and tired, but he’s clearly taking care of himself, and that’s all I want for him. I push love back at him, receiving an immediate swell of affection in return, smiling to myself as I whisper to the darkness of the nest. “I love you too.”
Glancing down, I take June in while she rests, lifting a hand to smooth out the line between her brows.
I love her too.
It’s not a hard thing to do.
The world insists betas are benign, that there are no biological instincts one way or another, no true bonds forged between a beta and omega — because omegas are really meant for alphas one way or another. Alphas are the ones with a knot, or a lock. They’re the ones predisposed to care for another person to the level an omega needs.
But the second I saw the woman in my arms in that elevator, I knew she was missing from mine and Bennett’s lives.
She stirs, breathing out against my neck as she wiggles in my lap. One of her hands moves, and then she’s touching me, wrapping fingers around me and pulling slowly, coaxing my cock back to life as I groan.
“Already?”
Her lips twitch, her eyes still closed as she turns and kisses my chest, jerking her hand. “Please?”
She’s so fucking polite when she’s out of her mind with lust, if it wasn’t an insane scenario, I’d find the humor in it. Also, it makes it hard to think about how amusing it is when her fingers keep trying to push me into the tight, wet sheath of her.
I kiss her head, sliding my hands down to grasp the curve of her ass. I grab two handfuls of her body as she moans, sliding a leg over mine. The smell of her slick floods my senses — it’s so goddamn sweet, like licking dripping honey off a spoon, tinged with a herbal, tea leaf aftertaste.
Grinding against her, I whisper, “How do you want me this time, baby?”
I’m selfish, I kind of want her ass again, or to just eat her out until my jaw locks — but my body is hers to use right now.
June leans up, her eyes hooded as she cups my face and kisses me slowly, like she’s savoring me. She slides away and I arch an eyebrow as she rests her forearms on the edge of the nest wall, cushioned for this exact reason. I watch as she bends her body over, sighing softly as she arches, not saying a word.
I can take a fucking hint.
Sliding a hand over the dip of her back, I move behind her, bending down to kiss her shoulder as I rub the head of my cock through her folds. She writhes, her breathing growing more and more labored as she grasps the plush wall. I thrust into her, punching my hips forward, as deep as I can go, rewarded by the sound of her soft keen, slurring out, “ so good .”
Grinning, I rest a hand on the small of her back. I push her down for me before pulling out and slamming in again, watching her ass jiggle as I do. Jesus . My own head spins for a moment as I move at a steady pace, tired but doing my best to block it from mine and Bennett’s bond. I can last another round — or two, most likely, because it’s taking more and more to satisfy her. I should have bought more toys. The two little bullet vibrators that Bennett and I used last night have already died. They didn’t even make it to the early hours of this morning.
Some help would be great , but the only other alpha in the house is lurking downstairs like a fucking specter.
As if I conjured him, I look up, pausing mid-stroke to see Theo in the doorway, his eyes zeroing in on June.
The alpha fills the space, his broad shoulders hunched slightly, clad in a tight t-shirt and a pair of sweats that do nothing to hide the clear arousal straining in them. I continue thrusting as I bite my tongue, my eyes sweeping over him, from his bare feet, up to his pale arms covered in black tattoos, to his slightly long blond hair, pushed back. It’s not long enough to pull into a bun — yet, but I think June would dig it if it was. I would.
“You’re doing so well for me, June,” I groan as I reach between us, toying with her clit as my eyes focus on Theo. “Does that feel good, baby?”
She arches into me, turning her body into a literal work of art as she cries out. I increase the pace, slightly breathless as Theo’s eyes flicker over her, then land on me, his nostrils flaring.
I smirk back at him, my voice even. “Don’t you want her, Theo?”
June whines, her head lifting slightly, and I know she’s looking at him, as much as she can when she’s blissed out with my cock buried inside her.
“Don’t you see how good she can take it?”
Theo’s hands clench into fists at his sides. He’ll break soon, there’s no way he’s going to survive this little starvation hissy fit to the end of her heat.
I strum June’s clit faster, making her release another gush of slick around me, the smell of her arousal permeating the air. I move faster, a little harder, and I’m rewarded by her cunt spasming around me. “Do something for me, baby,” I grunt, leaning down to whisper in her ear just to watch goosebumps rise on her skin. “Say Theo’s name when you come around my cock.”
The words do the trick. She gasps, her body trembling as she scrambles for purchase on the side of the nest. I feel it before she comes, a rush of heat through her body, burning me as I sink into her steadily. She gives into the orgasm, her voice a soft whine. “ Theo .”
I never knew I’d be so into making her say other men’s names, but fuck if it isn’t the hottest thing in the entire world. I pull out, grabbing myself and stroking quickly, leaning up so I’m positioned over her back before I come, breathing hard as I cover her skin in my release. It’s not much, and I’m exhausted, my balls ache, my body shaking as I look up at Theo.
“Look at that.” I smear it on her back, leaning down to kiss her shoulder lovingly as she sinks down into the blankets. I adjust them around her, making sure she’s comfortable as I stumble to my feet, fully naked. “Her perfume is so thick, I know it’s dripping down your throat, Theo. Are you still going to stand there and deny her?”
His breathing turns ragged as I climb out of the nest, moving to the doorway. Theo’s nostrils flare when I get close enough. He’s no Bennett — but Theo and I have done our fair share of dancing around each other, and he does like to occasionally join Bennett in wrecking me. This is fair game. I do wonder sometimes if Theo wouldn’t enjoy being put in his place, but I don’t know what he and Arin get up in their spare time.
Theo licks his lips, backing up and colliding with the side of the wall in the hallway outside the nest. “I can’t.” I step closer, following him as he glances at the nest doorway, his expression breaking. “ Fuck , I started all this, didn’t I? I’m the reason she’s so miserable.”
I reach out, touching his chest, my voice softening. “Yeah, you did. And she’s wanted you since I got in there with her. She wants all of us.”
There’s something dark in Theo’s eyes as his palm presses against the front of his sweats.
I watch as his hand tries to alleviate the length straining in his pants, raising an eyebrow. “Problem?”
“Yeah.” He rasps the word and then pushes the waistband down, exposing himself as he barks at me. “ Fix it . Be a good beta and suck me off , because you got this started and need to finish it.”
I grin at him, running my tongue over my teeth before I drop to my knees and wrap my hand around his cock, the same one coated in June’s slick. I take him into my mouth without preamble, sucking him down as he groans above me. It won’t take long, he’s already twitching in my mouth as his hand fists my hair, tugging on it as his hips jolt forward, pushing him to the back of my throat.
I wrap one hand around his knot, swollen and hot under my palm, and use the other to toy with his balls as I pull back and gasp, “Did you knot her while we were gone? Bennett said it feels like heaven. I could feel him nearly black out from the pleasure in the bond.”
With that image planted in Theo’s mind, I deep throat him. He rewards me with a roar, bending over as he comes down my throat. I lean back, laughing as I look up at his confused expression.
“I was just supposed to bring water.”
I glance at the two bottles near the door, then grab them, slapping Theo on the shoulder as I crack one open and down half of it.
“You know you could go in there.”
Theo gives me a haunted look as he pulls his sweats back up, his throat bobbing. “No.” His eyes dart away. “I can’t. Not until Arin says it’s alright.”
I nod, crushing the bottle in my palm as a beat of anger flashes through me.
It passes in a heartbeat. I don’t know the full story about his background, but I’ve made a few educated guesses through the years. We all have our differences, but it’s what makes this pack work.
“It’ll be okay. She’ll be lucid again. You didn’t… hurt her.”
Hesitating with the bottles in my hands, I raise my chin at the taller alpha. His eyes are purple underneath, the pale skin bruised from lack of sleep. Theo hasn’t been in the nest, but he looks just as wrecked as June does — and that doesn’t sit well with me.
“I don’t know what happened between you two, but she was upset — only because you left her.”
Theo makes a strangled sound, and when he looks up at me, there are tears in his eyes. Bennett once gave me a look that lost — completely beholden to his own biology and designation, like he couldn’t escape the shackles of his own innate desire.
I sigh. “Get out of your own head, for your sake and hers.”
Pushing the nest door open, I let it shut behind me as I climb back into the bed with June, adjusting the waters so they’re within reach as I wrap myself around her, waiting for her to wake up again so I can feed her more fruit and get her to drink something.
Fucking alphas .