Chapter 15
I hadn’t expected to want Maverick when I came out here, certainly not without a scent to drive my instincts, but I couldn’t deny the pulsing desire in my body now that we were close.
His fingers curled over my hips and dragged me forward, my nerves lighting up at the grind of his clothed cock against my naked pussy. I dared to look up, and Maverick claimed my mouth. Eager lips coaxed me higher, until my hips were rocking desperately against him, my nails digging into his shoulders.
I needed more than I was comfortable asking for. I couldn’t fuck him in the hot spring. I mean, technically I could, but I didn’t know what was in this water and I didn’t want it shoved up into unmentionable places. Maybe we could wash up and explore further in the sauna?
His hands swept teasingly beneath Bear’s shirt. The calluses were rough, but I liked the feel of them.
I was definitely still out of my depth. Even so, it was nice to approach this with Maverick with a clearer head. I had no regrets about anything I had done with Kit and Bear, but I couldn’t deny their scents had influenced me into feeling more than I might have otherwise. My hormones were still something I had to contend with either way. Was it only my heat coming that let me be this comfortable with alphas? Whatever it was, there was a sweet sort of relief in it. My friends had teased me for years that I was going to end up alone—a touch-starved omega who suffered through heats that no one would ever take care of. They’d probably just been pressuring me to give in to the alphas who had asked for me, but I’d rather be alone than be with any of them.
The way this pack touched me pushed back those concerns. I still didn’t plan to let a scent match dictate my life. That wasn’t who I was. Biology could make its demands, but that didn’t mean they were practical. I intended to carry on with the plan I’d set out for myself, but the fact that I could feel like this at all was vindicating. Desire had been such a foreign concept for me. I’d been told plenty of times that everything accompanying desire was meant to feel good, but my brief foray into it during my first heat was tainted by nerves. They still prodded me now, but they were harder to dredge up.
Between Kit and Bear I was well aware of the pleasure these alphas could give me and I was more eager than afraid to explore that with all of them. Each time I let one of them touch me, let them bring me over the edge, it eased my worries about going into my heat.
They would take care of me.
I burst into giggles when he dropped his mouth to my throat, his facial hair tickling my skin. “You’re giving me a serious craving for pancakes tasting like you do.”
I squirmed in his lap. The tickle was both incredible and uncomfortable at the same time, but I didn’t want it to stop. Clutching his head kept him right where he was so I could wriggle my way through the overwhelming sensation.
“You’re going to make me come in the hot spring if you keep that up,” Maverick murmured.
I let out a needy whine, my body pulsing with desire. “I changed my mind.”
He stilled instantly. “About what?”
“The snowbank,” I gasped out, clinging to him. “You can do whatever you want to me in it.”
“Is that so?” He laughed quietly. “I’ll have to wash a bit of the hot springs off you first.”
“Please.”
Maverick nudged me away so he could stand, moving to the side of the little sauna and opening up a side panel that housed a small hose. “Ryder filled up the water tank inside already and it should be plenty warm.”
I peeled off Bear’s shirt, watching Maverick’s eyes widen, and then pulled off my hat to let my red locks tumble down. Goosebumps decorated every inch of me as I climbed out of the hot spring, my nipples pebbling from the cold.
Pausing in front of him, I laid my fingertips against his chest and looked up at him for the next steps. He sluiced warm water over my body to rinse away the minerals clinging to my skin and pressed me up against the cedar, lifting one of my knees so the hose could access my pussy.
“You’re wearing a lot of clothes.” I shivered, the warm water a pleasant contrast to the freezing air.
“Literally only one piece,” he pointed out with a laugh.
“One piece too many.” The temperature differences everywhere were tripping my brain: icy air around me, the warm water quickly turning cold, the heat of his skin where he held me, and frozen ground beneath my feet.
Maverick briefly hooked the hose into a holder before stripping down and rinsing himself off too. “A snowbank is probably too cold while you’re wet. Come into the sauna for a bit.”
I followed him eagerly into the small space. It was hotter than July inside and smelled incredible with the baking cedar wood. Maverick kneeled in front of the first of two tiers of seating.
Holding my breath, I settled myself onto it and pulled his mouth to mine. I wanted to know his scent so badly. I still wasn’t confident I could get him to react strongly enough to combat the blockers, but I was willing to give it a go.
Maverick’s hands swept over me, his fingers curling over my ass to draw me closer. I jolted at the first brush of his cock against my skin, and he pulled away to check on me. “Doing okay?”
“Nervous, but okay.”
“We don’t have to do anything.”
“But I want to.”
“Climb up one more level, then.”
I followed the instructions, bringing my hips to the same height as his face. Maverick’s eyes gleamed as he surged forward, diving between my thighs with a voraciousness that had me clutching his hair.
Holy fuck.
I whined with every sweep of his tongue, the tease of his beard making me squirmy again.
I bucked helplessly. He held me firm, giving me no room to escape the onslaught of sensation. Between the heat of the sauna and my reaction to him, I was panting and sweating, bordering on desperate.
“Maverick, please.”
He sucked hard on my clit, making my pussy ache for more. Now that I knew what it felt like to be fucked by an alpha I craved, it was all too easy for my body to remind me what I needed.
“Please what?” He peppered tickling kisses up my inner thigh.
“More.”
“You’re gonna have to tell me what more means, sweetheart. I can imagine a lot of things.”
“Fuck me.”
He nipped my thigh, looking up at me with dusky blue eyes ripe with mischief. “Let me get you off first.”
I leaned my head back against the hot cedar while he went to work again. Each fervent flick of his tongue coiled my pleasure a little tighter. His movements didn’t falter once, and I scaled the peak with a series of whimpers and growls to serenade us. My sounds shifted, becoming more frantic the closer I got. Maverick held steady until the tension in my body overwhelmed me, snapping all at once with a gush of slick he eagerly lapped up.
I nearly came again on the spot when Maverick rose up and planted his hands on each side of my head. “You still want me to fuck you?”
My answer was to lock my ankles behind his waist and pull him in.
With one careful adjustment, he notched his cock at my entrance and I held my breath, clinging tightly as he slid in. His groan in my ear had me shaking.
My pussy consumed him eagerly, taking every inch he had to give while I panted against his skin.
“You feel so fucking incredible.” Maverick nudged my face with his until I turned toward him so he could devour me in a kiss.
I pushed on his ass with my heels. That was all it took for him to really get going. Kit had needed to take his time with me, to prepare my body that hadn’t been touched for so long, but apparently since then my pussy had been waiting for another chance to let one of them in.
I reveled in every desperate vocalization Maverick coaxed from me. The sauna was an echo chamber, each noise of pleasure amplified and reflected.
Maybe my phoenix analogy was more accurate than I realized. The Morgan of only a few days ago would probably have had an aneurysm if she could see me right now. Everything was radically different than before. Usually change would freak me out, but these alphas were certainly a delicious distraction. I couldn’t think enough to worry around them.
“Do you want my knot, sweetheart?”
“Yes, please,” I begged.
I buried my face against his throat, hoping his scent might sneak through, but there was only the cedar of the sauna and the salt of his sweat beyond my own scent overwhelming everything else. His hips grew more erratic with each thrust until he finally slammed home, the pressure of his knot making my whole body arch like a bow, my vision blinking out for a few glorious seconds before my pussy adapted.
Floating in bliss, I huffed and puffed, soaking in the feel of him buried in me. I still wasn’t used to getting fucked, but my cunt was certainly interested in making it a more regular occurrence.
“I need to take us outside or I’m going to melt.” He groaned, dropping kisses down my throat and over my shoulder. “Saunas are not meant for strenuous activity.”
“I don’t mind a cooldown.”
He scooped me up, balancing my weight with his hands on my ass cheeks, and my limbs wrapped around him. “Ready for the other half of the sauna tradition?”
“Other half?”
He stepped into the hot springs and leaned forward, submerging me into the snowbank. I shrieked from the cold, every inch of me tightening before he hoisted me up, turned and flopped back into it. Maverick chuckled as I squirmed. “It’s not so bad.”
The alpha picked up a bit of snow and tapped it against my nipple, the peak puckering before he inched me closer so he could wrap his lips around it.
“You’re going to give yourself frostbite,” I admonished. My shins were in the snow right along with him, but he was right: it wasn’t so uncomfortable I couldn’t bear it.
With one good heave Maverick was upright and sinking us into the hot springs. I hissed at the shock of heat against my cold skin. He made quick work of my hair, somehow managing to braid it and thread the ends through the top to keep it out of the water. He scooped handfuls to pour over my skin, my pussy squeezing each time he did so, and the cool breeze immediately stole the heat. “When you get comfortable with Ryder, you should ask him to take some pictures of you spread out in the snow. I know it would be cold as hell, but I’m pretty sure when I flipped you onto that snowbank you were the most beautiful thing I’ve ever seen.”
My cheeks warmed. “I could think about it.”
His cock twitched inside me and he groaned, sweeping his hands through the water and up to cup my breast. “Sweetheart, you’re never getting off my knot at this rate.”
I wasn’t going to complain about being trapped on a knot. “You really think I look good?”
“Good enough I want to devour you with or without the scent match. You’d make Ry come in his pants if he got to take pictures of you in the snow with all that red hair out. Even better to see that pretty pussy dripping, capped in red curls like you’re waiting for some ancient forest god to ravish you.”
I swallowed hard at the mental image. I couldn’t deny it would probably be very striking, like a cardinal perched in the snow. “I’m not waiting for any forest god, Maverick, but if you wanted to ravish me again, I definitely wouldn’t stop you.”