Chapter 5 Ollie
Ollie
I’m giving up at this point. My heat is coming, I can’t stay away from Timber, and Kane knows my secret. I don’t know why I’m still pretending to be Luke when it hurts more than it’s worth.
I’ll find another way to pay the hospital bills. I can sort it out without lying to Timber.
I’ve come to visit my brother in the ward to tell him that this is enough. Then I’ll talk to Marilyn and confess that we have extenuating circumstances and we can’t work with Timber anymore. Obviously, I won’t tell Marilyn the full story. If anyone finds out what I’ve done, it’s straight to jail.
I just have to put on a brave face for Luke. It’ll be easier if he’s whining and complaining about being in the hospital, so I can woo him with promises of going home.
There’s chattering from behind his curtain, and I wonder if Noa or any of his other friends are visiting.
Until I slide it open, and look who’s there. An annoyingly handsome hockey player lounging back in a chair.
My brother and Kane turn to me with big, innocent smiles, like the assholes haven’t been conspiring against me.
“Well, hello, sweetness,” Kane purrs, his face lighting up.
Snapping the curtain closed, I stare at the dark blue material while holding back a groan.
I’ve been pulling my hair out because I’m so wound up about Timber that I can barely stand it. I don’t know if I can be in the same room as Kane without blowing my top.
The curtain slides open again, and he grins, his lavender scent instantly washing over me. I relax straight away, my body sighing in relief that my other alpha is near enough for me to rub on like a stripper pole.
I don’t want to leap on him and tell him how deeply I’ve missed him. That could give him the upper hand.
“What are you doing here?” I ask, trying to be casual, but it comes out as grumpily as Timber on a good day.
“Hey, I’m just having some fun.”
I stay quiet as I glance at Luke. At least he looks healthier than he did a few days ago, and maybe Kane contributed to that.
“And how did this little party happen?” I ask, eyeing up Kane, refusing to tremble as I push past him. Lavender brushes over my arm, and my eyes flutter briefly as desire burns through my body. Why do I have to be so weak to them? I need to put out a missing persons alert for my backbone.
Kane will smell my slick straight away, but I have to keep my head up. I covered myself in scent-blocking cream before I left the house, but good luck with that now that my alpha is here.
“Kane and I have become best buddies since he started visiting me,” Luke beams as I drag a chair from the other side of his bed and plonk myself down. I could have left the chair where it was, but I know my omega side won’t shut the hell up for the rest of the day if I’m too far away from him.
“Isn’t it such a coincidence?” Kane asks brightly. “Out of all the places, I just happened to find his exact ward.”
“Uh-huh,” I say, folding my arms. I’ve taken my binding vest off to come and see Luke because my nipples had been aching from being constricted for so long.
Even with a loose T-shirt, they’re still going to point like two beacons announcing to Kane that I’m ready to rock and roll.
“And it doesn’t have anything to do with how we met the last time at the hospital? ”
Kane’s shrug is exaggerated, and my gaze goes straight to his chest. He has to be wearing the thinnest Lycra in the world, because I can see every fine detail as it clings to him.
It’s literally painted on, from his abs all the way up to his hard pecs. How does he know I have a penchant for fluffy chests like that?
His pants are tight enough that the muscles of his thighs clearly tense under them as he crosses his legs, arching a brow as he catches me looking.
Pleasure runs through me as I remember the way Kane spoke to me and held me the last time we met. Even though our kisses were hot and rushed, the few real conversations we had meant so much. And my annoying omega side wants to take advantage of that and bathe in his attention.
Goddamn hockey players.
“What can I say? Luke and I meeting was the same as ours: fate. We’ve become the best of friends. Despite everything.”
The way Kane’s head tilts and his sparkle tells me enough.
“Have you been acting weird again?” I ask Luke, narrowing my eyes.
“Ha ha… well… see… there’s a reason for that…” My trusty brother avoids my gaze.
“Please tell me you haven’t been doing it with the nurses and doctors as well?”
“No! It’s just that Kane can actually put up with that shit. I mean, it’s his fault really, he’s letting me act out.”
“Well, you haven’t scared him off, so I guess there’s that,” I say. “I came to talk to you about the hospital anyway.”
“I chose to come here,” Kane says, his voice softening. “I wouldn’t spend time with Luke if I didn’t want to.”
His expression shifts from flirty to kind and understanding as I slouch into the chair. I don’t want to imagine what Luke’s told him.
“Have you been sharing all my secrets with Kane?”
“No way! I wouldn’t do that!” he says, holding up his hands. “You’re getting a big head again. Not everything is about you, you know?”
I eye up the empty brown takeout bag with obvious grease stains on the other side of the bed, and he cringes.
“Okay, yeah, maybe one or two stories from back in Michigan… but I swear it’s none of the bad stuff.
Like how brave and heroic you were when we were kids, and I just went around crying all the time. ”
I roll my eyes because I know exactly which story he told, especially from the way Kane is grinning.
“You told him the one about Mr. Collins, didn’t you…?” I ask, and Luke grimaces. It’s his favorite story because it’s how our grandparents first figured out we were switching places.
“To be fair, I liked hearing a story about how you punched an eighty-year-old man in the balls while dressed as Luke,” Kane says, barely holding back his laugh.
He’s so inviting. Why is every expression he makes even better than the last? And his scent is so perfect, it’s like he has a constant aura of sex around him.
I’m trying to control myself, but I end up scowling at him because I can’t deal with myself. I know I go alpha crazy before my heat, but it’s getting ridiculous. It’s still two weeks away, so I shouldn’t be in the danger zone.
I’ve barely been in the ward for a minute, and I’m so close to perfuming that all Kane has to do is spread his arms and say, Come here, omega, and I’ll be his.
I turn back to Luke, who’s glancing at us with gleaming eyes.
Tugging my lip ring between my teeth, I force back the whirling heat that’s building up in my body. I hope my cheap-ass suppressants will hold out long enough that they leave for their away game, and I can move out before anything bad happens.
“Besides, Luke said you were going to visit, so I thought I’d join the party. You don’t really smell like coffee—is Timber out?”
I nod, though guilt already floats through me.
“Hm, that’s a shame. I hoped you’d be smothered in it so I could have the full combo,” he says.
“Ew. Gross,” Luke cuts in before I can get even hornier. “Don’t flirt with my sister right in front of me, man. I told you about that.”
Kane just keeps staring at me, and the need I’ve stuffed down since me and Timber got back from the market a few days ago is surging up too quickly.
The second I slick, Kane’s expression grows hotter, and I nearly groan at how he shifts in his chair.
He uncrosses his legs, coming first in the man-spreading Olympics as he reclines back.
I look away from him, but it’s no use. My pussy is already part of the opening parade, and it’s heading straight for Kane’s cock.
Dammit, I’m going wild for the way his lip hitches, and his hips curve, and his stupid pants cling to the bulge between his thighs. He isn’t even hard, and there’s enough going on down there that he could fulfill all my omega dreams.
“Can I talk to you?” I growl as I shoot up from my chair.
“Wait, are you just going to leave me here by myself?” Luke gasps.
I open my satchel and shove a stack of gossip magazines at him, not taking my eyes off Kane.
“Oh, now we’re talking!” Luke gleams. “Okay, you may go.” He shoos us away with his hand. But we don’t need his permission.
I slide open the curtain, grabbing Kane’s wrist to yank him through before zipping it closed.
He happily follows as I drag him out of the ward and to the far end of the corridor, where one of the huge dinner trolleys sits, scowling because I can barely hold back. All the plastic trays on the shelves are empty, but it’s enough to hide us.
I push Kane against the wall, though it’s more like he lets me. I wouldn’t be able to move him if he put his foot down.
He presses his back to it, grinning at me.
“What is it, sweetness? Do you want to shout at me? You can yell as loud as you want, but I’m friends with your brother now.
Even if you try to get away from me, I know you and Timber are scent matches.
And Luke and I are basically best friends.
I'm going to be part of your family whether you want it or not.” He curls his hand around my ear as he lowers to my eye level.
“It doesn’t matter if it’s only as a friend.
But you know we can never just be friends when your pussy likes me so much. ”
I lunge for him. Slapping my hands on his shoulders, I pull him to my lips. I kiss him before he can react, and my moans of relief are tinted with the lavender that floods my tongue.
I perfume instantly, a whine echoing from me as he responds, his hands slipping around my back and he pulls me close.
He answers me with his own growl, and my omega side bursts with happiness as he licks at my tongue. I want to be completely crushed under him with no chance to escape. Like, I don’t have a choice because he’s got me. I’m desperate to be touched after being with Timber, but I still want an excuse.
Kane’s hands slide down to my ass, and we both sigh as he cups me. His fingers quickly dip under the waistband of my jeans, and the heat of his hand on my ass-cheek is perfection.
Underwear always feels like a cage, and I hate wearing it. I’m so glad, because it means Kane can trace the line of my ass as he goes deeper.
The second his fingers touch my entrance, I explode into another moan. Like I did with Timber at the restaurant, I tilt my hips, lift my leg like a freaking burlesque dancer, giving him all the space.
“You can do it. Do whatever you want with me, Kane,” I murmur against his lips.
“Fuck, it’s good when you say my name like that,” he groans. He pushes further down, spreading me open with three fingers and stroking along my entrance.
I’m not thinking about the angle of his wrist or how awkward it is for him. I don’t know if he can reach my clit. I just need to be touched by my alpha.
I spend every night stroking myself to sate my burning desire for them. Just tasting Kane is enough to calm the feral hunger that’s never stopped building since he first ate me out in this hospital.
“How near is your heat?” he asks as his fingers explore, and I shudder. “Even just stroking you here makes me think I could line my cock up and thrust right into you.”
“It doesn’t matter,” I gasp against his lips. “Just keep going.”
“It matters,” he says as his hand pauses. “It matters so much, sweetness. I can’t handle the thought of you going through your heat by yourself.” He presses a kiss against my forehead. “If I find out my omega is having her heat with other alphas, I’m going to rip them open. You understand?”
I groan as he threatens me, and I pull him back into a kiss.
Of course, I want my heat with him, but I want it with Timber as well. If I’m just with Kane, I know I’m going to spend three days pining for Timber. Both my alphas have to be there. Just being with Kane like this feels like I’m missing my other half.
“How do you think Timber will feel if he finds out you were alone as well?” he asks.
My eyes roll as an ache pulses through me. “Now you’re just guilt-tripping me.” I brought Kane out here so I don’t have to feel all the jumbled-up emotions that rattle through me because of Timber.
“I’ll do whatever works,” he says.
“I thought you two were supposed to be rivals. You hate each other, don’t you? Didn’t you kiss him at the restaurant to piss him off?”
“Hm, hate is subjective. Timber might say he hated it when I kissed him like I was excavating his tonsils, but we both heard the way he moaned.”
I grin with him as need pulses in my body. Their kiss lives rent-free in my head, and it’s always open to visitors.
“You shouldn’t have to go through your heat without us, sweetness.” My back arches, and I whimper as he strokes one silky finger over my entrance. “If you let us in, we can be there for you.”
I shake my head. There’s no way I can expect Timber to be with me for my heat and ever forgive me. That’s why I have to leave.
“I’d rather hurt myself that way than hurt him by using him like his ex-wife did.”
Kane’s brow furrows, though I don’t understand why he looks upset. But he doesn’t let me spiral. He captures my lips again, pushing two fingertips inside me. I burst out with a muffled cry as he runs his tongue over mine.
I’m clinging to him, shaking, desperately kissing him as I thrust my hips back to find more. I want to be touched so badly that I’m perfuming like an air freshener factory.
“Did you need it this much, sweetness?” he murmurs as he runs his thumb over my cheek. “How long have you been like this?”
“Please, Kane,” I gasp as he bites at the shell of my ear before tugging softly on a helix ring. “Just hold me.”
He groans as he presses his cheek against mine. His chest swells as he draws in my scent. “Okay, sweetness, hold on for me. Let’s go take care of your pussy.”