Chapter 21 #2
“Because you suppressed it? Or because you spent it alone.” Nick reappears in the doorway.
“Your scent is…” he grunts, and I risk a look his way.
He looks concerned and grumpy all at once.
Alphas and their pushy questions. “Your scent is incredibly overpowering.
I can feel it pushing me into a rut. So we need to know, was it unfulfilled because—"
“Suppressed,” I cut him off but shrug, like it’s no big deal that I’ve suppressed every heat I’ve had except one. Like I’m not hanging on by a thread right now.
“When did you last have an unsuppressed heat?” Kai asks, and I wince.
Glancing behind me, I grab the shirt I stole from him when we were eighteen.
Holding it to my chest, I take a deep breath and meet his eyes.
He looks from me to the shirt, mouth popping open as he sucks in a ragged breath when he recognizes it.
“Just after you left,” I admit weakly, but as much as I don’t want to, I need to be honest. “It was hell.” His expression crumbles, his scent is full of pain as his eyes fall shut, and I have to look away.
Needing their strength to say the rest, I look up at Benson and Nick.
They need to know how bad this heat could get and why I did what I did.
“I was broken-hearted and alone. I didn’t know it was coming until much too late.
I didn’t even fully understand what happened until after.
It was just two days of constant pain and endless tears.
I remember begging—” I trail off, voice breaking.
I bite my lip, trying to keep the final confession in, but Kai shakes his head.
“Let it out, Plumshine.” Kai’s encouragement, and the way he takes my hand in his, helps me force the words out.
“I remember begging for Kai to end the pain,” I whisper, a few tears escaping as I blink.
“Fuck, Plum. I’m so fucking sorry.” Kai moves onto both knees and pulls me into his arms. “I’m a fucking asshole.
The worst fucking asshole.” Kai shifts us so he’s sitting on the floor and gathers me against his chest, so I’m sideways, as he leans back against the wall, cradling me as he holds me so tight.
“I feel fucking horrible, Plum. If I could take it back right now, I would. I wish I could carry that pain for you instead. I would do anything...”
“I know,” I whisper, nuzzling into him, pressing my nose into his neck so I can breathe him in. Being wrapped up in his arms feels fucking wonderful. “It’s why I showed up to your apartment after Thanksgiving,” I admit, glancing over at the two alphas.
Mostly to make sure they aren’t contemplating homicide after hearing my confession. It’s hard to tell when they both look like they are trying really hard not to react. I’ll focus on them in a second.
I pat the beta’s chest so he’ll loosen his grip and move so I can look Kai in the eyes.
“If you knew I was suffering alone in my room, crying out your name—if I had been able to tell you what was happening, you never would've let me suffer like that. But I couldn’t call you, and you didn’t know.
You never knew,” I say, as his eyes turn red.
“You’re not a bad man. You made a mistake without knowing the cost we’d all pay for it. ”
“I would have dropped everything and spent every dollar I had to get back to you and end your pain,” Kai vows, holding my gaze as he searches my eyes. He leans forward to press his forehead against mine. For a moment, we stay like that, until I pull away.
“We were both young, and some of us were dumb,” I tease, making him smile with me. “And you made a really shitty mistake, but you aren’t, and never were, a cruel or heartless man.”
“Do you forgive him, Omega?” Nick asks, his voice strained. He looks ready to attack if I say no.
“I do forgive him,” I tell them honestly, biting my lip before adding, “But that doesn’t mean he can’t find ways to make it up to me now…”
“Thank fuck.” Benson sighs, his shoulders slumping. “I really didn’t want to have to bury a body while you’re in heat. We’re already going to be exhausted enough as it is.”
“Fuck off,” Kai barks, flipping the alpha off, glaring when Benson smirks.
“He’s serious,” Nick adds with a shrug, calm and collected while discussing homicide.
“No fighting, and no hurting each other,” I scold, pointing at each of them one at a time before laughing when I get three annoyed glares in return. “Soooo, do you think you two could close that door?” I ask, and they both frown, glancing at the door behind them and then at me.
“You’re kicking us out?”
“Who said that? No, I’m locking you in,” I answer sweetly. “I want to fuck Kai for the first time in five years, before my heat takes control and I forget the whole thing, but I need your pheromones, or I’m not going to make it long before everything goes dark.”
“Fuck, when you say it like that…” Benson reaches past his brother and shuts the door, then takes a seat against the wall facing us. Nick chuckles, sits on the floor next, and watches me with a satisfied grin.
Not so grumpy now, huh, big guy…?
“I guess they’re watching then.” Kai chuckles.
“You thought we’d face the wall instead? Of course we’re watching; that’s our omega,” Benson says with a grunt.
I ignore them, repositioning myself so I’m facing Kai with my thighs straddling his lap. I sink down, grinding against his boxer-covered hardness.
“You’re still hard?” I lift my brow, pushing my hands into his hair as I take in the sight of his handsome face, then kiss him again. Fuck, I love the way he kisses me back. Rough and needy.
“I have been hard for over two weeks. Honestly, I think I’ve been hard since I breathed in your scent on Halloween, and you made up that naughty lie about Benson being your new boyfriend,” he admits when I pull away, running his palms up and down my thighs.
“I hope you don’t expect an apology for any of it.” I shrug.
“Nope, never.” He shakes his head slowly, and I tug his hair at the back of his head, just hard enough to make him grunt. “Although my neck is still hurting from that even naughtier bite.” He lifts his hand to his neck, rubbing it.
“Shouldn’t have tried to tell an omega no,” I argue and roll my eyes playfully.
“No, I shouldn’t have,” he murmurs, looking into my eyes as he leans in to press our foreheads together once again. I shut my eyes and simply breathe him in. I’m starting to get hot, and I know even with the alpha's pheromones, my heat isn’t going to be held off much longer.
“Make love to me, Kai,” I whisper, and then press my lips to his again and kiss him like it’s the first time all over again. No more hiding from each other. No more being someone else to keep our hearts safe.
This is us. Real and raw.
The thought makes me sigh happily, smiling as I continue kissing him. He gets his boxers off when I lift up long enough for him to tug them down, and then I’m gripping his shaft in my hand and stroking him. I have to break the kiss to glance down between us. Well, hello again.
“Oh, look, my favorite candy cane,” I tease, and Kai groans.
“Not that again. Candy canes are much smaller," he complains, but then he’s laying me down on my back and pressing his tip to my center. Kai’s cock is long, thick, and so fucking good at making me come.
“Good thing he busted in that poor rag a few hours ago,” Benson mutters to Nick, and I lift my head to glare at him. He grins, blowing me a kiss.
“It’s okay. He’s telling the truth.” Kai gets this mischievous look in his eyes before kissing me hot and heavy, then whispering. “Will you present for me, Plum. So your alphas can see every look on your face as I make love to our omega?”
“Fuck yes,” I gasp, shoving at his shoulders and making him chuckle as he moves out of my way.
I can feel my instincts slowly taking over, but for now, I’m just going to enjoy this.
“Um.” I pause before getting into position once I’m sitting up.
“All three of you want to stay, right? For my heat? Because I want you to stay. All of you, obviously.”
“There isn’t anything in Heaven, Hell, or Earth that could drag me away from you now, Peppermint Plum,” Kai declares as he leans down and bites into my shoulder, making me gasp.
As a beta he can’t bond me, and the bite doesn’t pierce my skin, but it will leave a mark, and I fucking love that.
My eyes flutter shut for a moment until I look up at the alphas.
“You thought we locked ourselves in here so we could watch you fuck the beta, and then we were just going to fuck off after?” Nick scoffs, shaking his head at the absurdity. “Hell-fucking-no, Plum. We’re in this until the end. The end of your heat, or the end of time, whatever takes longer.”
“Aw,” I say, pressing my hand to my chest. That was so romantic.
“You’re the only girl I can ever remember wanting, and now you’re telling me you want me too?
Why the hell would I walk away from that?
We are all exactly where we want to be, Omega.
Now fuck your boyfriend before you slip into a heat fog and start demanding we fill you with cum.
” Benson’s words have the desired effect and turn me the hell on.
He’s getting really good at the dirty talk.
“You two already filled me with your cum, remember?” I get onto my hands and knees, press my chest to the floor of my nest, and lift my ass in the air for Kai once again. Only this time, he’s right there, caressing my skin and pushing two fingers into my slick center.
“You are so fucking wet, Plum.” Kai shivers as he slowly pulls his fingers out of me, and I look back to see him coating his cock with my slick.
“I want to hear your screams, Sweet Plum. Make sure everyone knows how much you love it when I fuck you.” Pressing his tip to my center, then gripping my hips tightly.
Kai lets out a low groan as he pushes in.