Chapter 18
CHAPTER EIGHTEEN
ALFIE
"We're out of time," I said into the phone as I talked to Luka. I was standing in the driveway, leaning against my car after I helped Sydney into the house. Her skin was clammy and pale, while her cheeks were flushed, and the way she doubled over on the drive home only confirmed what we already knew was going to happen.
Her heat was here. Or well, close enough to being here.
"I thought as much," Luka grunted, and in the background, his chair squeaked.
"What do we do?" I sounded like an inexperienced virgin asking such a simple question because clearly, there was only one thing we could do. But I had fucked many women in my life, and none of it had come close to how I felt loving my omega and helping her through her cycle.
"Nothing." He blew out a breath, and I knew doing nothing was absolutely the worst thing for him right now. He was biologically trained to go to his omega and ease her pain. "At the moment, at least, she hasn't fully entered her heat stage. I don't want to scare her."
"So you're staying at work then?" I crossed my legs at the ankle as I got comfortable against the metal at my back.
"For now. If things change drastically, then let me know."
"Will do." I hung up, not needing further instructions.
I didn't want to go inside. As far as I knew, she was sleeping in her nest where I had laid her, so instead, I reached into my glove box and pulled out the book I'd been reading. Getting myself comfortable, I lost myself in the lure of the story, not realizing a few hours had passed until I felt a tightening in my stomach. My hand jolted, finding the spot in my stomach that had grown uncomfortable.
What the hell?
The buzz of my phone tore my attention away from the discomfort as I picked up the phone to answer Luka's call. "I'm on my way. Keep her comfortable until I get there."
He hung up before I could respond, but it didn't matter. With a panic, or maybe it was desperation, in his voice like that, it could only mean one thing: our omega's heat had come, and it was up to me to help her until her alpha arrived.
How had this happened? How could we feel her heat come on when we'd never even bitten her? I wasn't sure, but I didn't let myself ponder on the thought too long because, in our minds, she was our omega, and that was all that mattered. And now, our omega needed help, and I was positive I was the only one at this moment who could help her.
I slipped into the house, the scent of her so strong my knees almost buckled. Fuck, if it was this hard for me to control my body, how hard would it be for our alpha to handle the scent of his omega's heat?
"Sydney," I called as I walked down the hall, using the wall as support as my legs shook. I didn't need her to respond; I just wanted her to know I was here. I could follow her scent just fine, and the scent led me to her nest, which she apparently had never left.
I pushed the door open right as she whimpered, her eyes glassy as they met mine. My voice was soft with sympathy as I looked at her. "Darling."
"It hurts, Alfie." A tear ran down her cheek.
"I know." I fell to my knees and brushed some damp hair from her forehead. "I need to know before the alpha gets here: do you want blockers?"
"What?" Her voice cracked on the words, and she squinted her eyes.
"Do you need blockers?" I repeated my question. "You’re in heat, Sydney. And if I don't distribute the blockers now and Luka gets here, there will be no time."
"I can't be," she whimpered, rolling onto her side. "I can't go?—"
"Sydney. You are, and if you don't take—" The pain in my stomach hit me at the same time she doubled over and holy shit. If I was feeling even a fraction of what our omega was feeling, I couldn't imagine the pain she was in. I needed to give her relief, that was clear, and who the hell knew when Luka would arrive? "Take off your clothes, omega. I'll help you."
It wasn't like she had much to remove. With the onset of her heat, she had already started to strip herself of anything touching her skin, but I still wanted her to know what was going to happen. She shimmed herself out of her underwear and pulled the thin tank top over her head, exposing herself to me, gloriously naked.
I swallowed hard, fighting against the urge to plunge myself face first into her pussy with no regard to how she felt, as long as I got to taste her. "Good girl."
I offered her praise as I sat against the wall of her nest, before grabbing under her arms and pulling her back toward me. With her back to my chest, my hands could roam freely over every curve, and as I rested my head against her shoulder, and my fingers found her peaked nipple, she gasped, her body squirming against my hold.
"Shhh. It's okay, omega," I cooed. "I'll make you feel good."
A strangled cry escaped her as I let my other hand smooth down her skin until I reached her thighs, already drenched with her slick. "Look at how wet you are, darling. Your body is so primed for your alpha. You're so ready for him, aren't you?"
"Yes!" she cried out when I gave her thigh a gentle slap. "God, yes, I want him."
"Are you ready for his knot?" I drew my tongue out, sliding it over her shoulder blade as I let my middle finger sink into her wet core. She thrashed back against me, begging unintelligible words. "Your alpha will fill you so good, and after he takes you and knots you until you've gone wild, I'm going to take you too. And Felix. Do you want that, darling?"
"Yes." She gasped as I added another finger. "More, Alfie. I need more."
I placed a kiss on her neck. "I know you do, baby, I know you do. He's coming now. I'm going to make you feel good in the meantime, okay?"
"Please," she whimpered, and I couldn't take it anymore. With my hard cock pulsing against her back, I moved my fingers in and out, sliding into her core and rubbing against the spot inside of her that made her grow wild. With my thumb, I grazed against her clit, offering our omega the only pleasure I could while she waited for her alpha to claim her. To mark her. To own her.
"He's going to claim you; you know that right, Sidney? He's going to bite you and make you scream his name as he unloads his seed into your body until you catch. And we'll own you. You'll be ours. Carrying our child. Do you want that?"
I spoke the words, remembering she never had a chance to take the blockers and now, it was too late. The door slammed open and instantly, Luka's pheromones slammed into us. The scent caused our omega to instantly orgasm, a scream leaving her mouth as her body clenched around my fingers, soaking my palm with her slick.
I continued to work her body, a hand on her breast as my other hand was buried deep in her pussy as she soaked me. Damn, I wanted our omega. I'd do anything to have her. I'd fucking die for her.
"It's too much," she whimpered.
"No baby, it's not enough. Not yet," I whispered against her ear as the bedroom door slammed against the wall. "Your alpha is here for you; he's wild with his need. Are you going to give him what he wants?" I asked her as I pulled my fingers out of her body and brought my slick-soaked fingers to my mouth.
She watched in fascination until the door to her nest was torn away and Luka, looming with eyes pooled with need, stood in the doorway, waiting to claim what was his.