Chapter 23 Fall
Fall
Mads
We board a bus as the sun first shines over the wet and dirty streets of Salt Port. The bus is a twenty-two-hour trip. Locke and I sit together in the back.
I have a bag with bottled water and sandwiches from a shop. Locke also bought us charging blocks for our phones. Once they come on, we find that there’s nothing from Oscar or Kol.
Which is to be expected, considering they are with Cadi.
My mom is doing great. The movers came and got her and her new dog into the apartment. She sent photos of herself and her boyfriend from the breakfast nook.
Every mile away from Salt Port brings us a mile closer to Cash City, and there’s no relief from the competing emotions we are both feeling. For that whole ride, I hold Locke’s hand. It stops his leg from bouncing. For a while.
I admire the bite mark healing on my arm.
It was an omega bite, so there are no special powers with it. But it feels special all the same. She grabbed it a few times like she was trying to say something to me. Maybe it was that she cared for me. Or something.
Locke falls asleep on my shoulder before our first stop.
We eat the sandwiches on a picnic table at the rest stop.
It feels as though both of us want to say something, the same something, but neither needs to. We know. We fucking know.
I racked my brain trying to figure out how to keep her with us. But we were at a crossroads. Ro wanted to stay, to break the bond, to see her mom. Locke and I have to get back to Cadi.
But I want to keep her.
I want her.
She’s mine.
I can feel it.
It’s just after 11:00 am the next day when we pull into the transfer station, worse for wear.
Locke gets me into a clinic to get new meds. It takes hours, including another stop at a pharmacy. Locke and I are practically glued at the hip. If he even makes a little bit of space between us, I’m upset. And he’s the same way. It gets us lots of stares, but I don’t care.
We don’t bother taking a train to Sky Nest. Or another bus. We walk.
When we arrive to get access to the nest, Locke calls Meier Protections Group. One of the agents meets us in the lobby.
“Locke? Mads?” A blonde alpha male greets us. He looks unassuming at first. A bit short for an alpha, and young. But Locke bows a little to him. It’s his aura. Even I can feel it.
“That’s us,” I answer.
“It’s nice to meet you. I’m Jake Meier. I came to chat with the Sky Nest security and why they are shit at their jobs. Apparently, it’s extreme incompetence at the executive level. Who would have thought?”
I think he’s making a joke, but we aren’t in any mood.
“Right,” he says and clicks his tongue. “Follow me. I’ll take you to her. She’s been asking for you both. I was able to talk to Oscar. He’s expecting you.”
We follow Jake to the elevator, and he selects the floor, escorting us all the way up and out, and down a hallway.
I feel like I’m no longer awake, but in some sort of surreal dreamscape.
I don’t recognize anything I’m looking at.
There’s not a single smell that’s familiar.
All I have is Locke, whose fingers intertwined mine.
There are three agents in black suits standing guard at a doorway.
They greet Jake formally. He turns to us.
“I’m out of here, but these men will stay here until you check out. You can ask them to get in touch with me if you need anything.”
I nod, but Locke doesn’t seem like he heard him.
Jake makes direct eye contact with both of us, then says, “Acadia is considered a friend of the Meier Pack. My omega, Ondine, was happy to hear she’s found a pack. I hope you’re good to her. I’ll make it my problem if you aren’t.”
Locke heard that. His growl is low and menacing. Jake doesn’t back down. His mouth turns up in a sly smile.
“Goodbye, Alpha Soto. Beta Soto.”
He adjusts his cufflinks, winks at me, and then leaves. Locke enters the room first.
Locke
I’m home. I’m back. I’m where I should be.
My heart rate is at 140 bpm. I’m sweating through my tattered clothes. Oscar stands in the hallway, waiting for us. It’s dark here. I can’t make out the features of his face. Is he upset? I make myself small, and I tilt my head to the side, exposing my neck. If he growls, I’ll fall to my knees.
I think I’m dying. Or am I already dead?
Is this hell? Is he the devil coming for me?
I left my omega in Salt Port. I can’t even remember telling her goodbye.
Did we hug? Did we look each other in the eye?
I have no memory. I’ve blocked it out entirely.
It’s been nothing but a blur. I marked an omega and then left her.
For my scent match.
Who I also left. I left her just before her heat.
If this doesn’t kill me now, it will kill me slowly.
I’m afraid of Oscar, but my inner alpha isn’t. He knows he isn’t angry with me. I take a few deep breaths.
I can smell the heat in this hallway. Cadi is close. With all the bravado I can pretend to have, I step up to Oscar. I open up our bond that’s been closed tight for days.
Lust. Satisfaction. Hunger. Desperation. Relief.
It trickles to me steadily. He’s also opening himself up to me.
Oscar pulls me into a hug. His body shakes.
“Locke,” he says with a cracking sigh.
His arms hold me so tightly it hurts. I want it to hurt. I want to feel his hug through everything else. Through the pain of everything else.
He releases me after what feels both too soon and long enough for Mads to wait. Mads comes over, leaning on his new cane, and embraces his alpha as well.
Oscar looks towards a door a few times, and I know that’s where Cadi and Kol are.
He points down the hall, though.
“Shower. You smell like you slept in a zoo. There’s a door in there that will lead to the nest when you’re done.”
I squeeze his arm and then head over there. I take a fast shower, using the scentless soap in there. When I’m all done, I wrap a towel around my waist and head inside. I hear Mads enter the bathroom when I leave.
I pull the handle on the door down and enter the nest.
It’s a low-ceiling, cozy space filled with their scents.
There’s a soft pink glow coming from track lights along the edges of the room.
Cadi’s floral scent and Kol’s fall leaves scent are strongest right now.
My eyes blow wide. The alpha in me wants to take it from here, and I give in to the primal urge.
Cadi is riding Kol, who’s lying underneath her. Her perfectly smooth body undulates atop him. Her nails dig into his chest. She throws her head back and moans. Dark, messy hair halos her head.
I need permission before entering her nest.
My pheromones are doing just that—asking for permission. As soon as she detects it, she twists to look right at me. Her green crystalline eyes are filled with lust. Her perfectly dewy lips open in surprise.
Kol groans from underneath her, upset she’s stopped fucking him. He grips her hips and moves her himself. He seethes through his pleasure.
I step a little closer. Her green eyes fixed on me. Kol picks up speed, fucking himself with her pussy.
What a sight.
What a beautiful thing.
“Eyes on me,” Kol grunts. Quickly obeying, Cadi looks down at him and smiles.
She leans down, putting her hands on either side of his head, and takes over fucking him. She’s going to let me watch. Her ass bounces in rhythm with her perfect tits. Cadi has a beautiful ass.
Her mouth falls open, and she’s moaning. He moves her knees, so she’s got a better angle to hinge her hips and fuck him faster. Her head drops. It was exactly what she needed. They know each other so well now. It’s been only a few days, and they are like practiced lovers.
He talks her through it, saying, “Get it, Little Momma, you know how to come like this. Show him how fucking beautiful you look when you come riding my cock. That’s it, let it take over.
You’re doing so well.” And then Kol sucks Cadi’s nipple into his mouth, and she screams out her orgasm.
She’s completely still on top of him, as her orgasm rides out.
A moment later, Kol flips both of them, so he’s on top.
He fucks her delicious, soft pussy a few times, then pulls out.
She groans, but he’s got her. They make eye contact as he crowds over her with his heavy, erect cock in hand, and stroking himself until his hot cum is streaming over her beautiful tits.
I’m so unbelievably hard, and my body temperature is ungodly high. I can practically see the steam coming off me.
This is the second time I’ve scented Cadi while she’s been orgasming, and it wasn’t around my cock.
My patience has run out.
And fucking Kol marked her with his cum.
But to be fair, this entire nest is covered in his cum. And Oscar’s. Cadi’s skin is shiny with cum and sweat and slick.
I must have made a sound (I definitely did) because Cadi and Kol look over at me. Kol still has his cock in his hand, cum glistening from the tip. Cadi is panting. My beautiful pack mates, doing what alphas and omegas should be doing with each other.
“Locke,” Cadi says on a small breath.
“You’re home,” Kol says. Home. We are at a hotel. He means, I’m with him. Kol has always wanted me, not to fuck but to be his, and the look on his face is enough to know that has never changed.
Kol climbs off of Cadi and steps off of the bed. He’s still trying to catch his breath. Cadi’s hand comes up to her chest and places her hand over the mess. “I need yours now,” she says, and it takes me a beat to realize she means my cum, too. “Now,” she impatiently adds.
Kol, not one to miss anything, comes up to me, and instead of hugging me, takes the towel off of me. He rests his cheek on my cheek and rubs his face against mine as he works my belt and then pants off.
“You came back to us.”
“We’re both back.” Kol pulls back, wide-eyed. Yes, Kol, your favorite beta is also here.
I’m naked as Kol kisses my cheek quickly, then turns to Cadi. He bends down to kiss her cheek and whispers in her ear. She nods, and then Kol leaves the nest, most likely to get his beta.
“Are you going to give me what I want, Locke?” Her voice is hoarse from crying out in pleasure for two days straight. Oscar and Kol fucked her so much that she is losing her voice. God fucking damn. “Come here, into my nest, my alpha.”
Her hand strokes between her breasts, her body undulates, her back bows, and the heels of her feet dig into the mattress.
A beautiful, perfect omega in heat. I kneel next to her and stroke my cock.
It’s so sensitive I can’t even be rough without hissing.
Her sounds, the scents, her voice—I could come just with that alone. No need to touch.
“I need your scent on me. Mark me, alpha,” she says with a preternatural voice. With one hand, I stroke my cock with purpose, and with the other, I touch my omega. My scent match. The other half of me. My master. My goddess. My world.
She’s panting at the same rate I’m stroking myself.
Her emerald green eyes lock with mine, and I’m finished.
She’s going to get exactly what she wants.
I hear the door click at the same time my release finds me.
My cum paints over her breasts. I watch every piece of me mark her nipples, breasts, and throat.
I want her to bathe in me. I want her to know who she should smell like. No one will mistake that she’s mine.
I look up briefly to see Oscar get onto the bed. Mads stands just next to it. Kol sidles up next to me.
“All of you. Now. More. All of you,” Cadi demands. She wants to be marked this way by everyone, and not just Kol and me.
And that’s when she sees him.
“Mads. Oh my god, Mads.” A tear glistens on the edge of her eye. “I need you, too.”
Her hand is back on her chest. She wants him to mark her, too.
“And Oscar,” she adds.
“Oh, baby, you’re going to drown in us,” Mads says with this deep, dark daddy tone.
How did no one here realize he was like this?
When he took charge of Cadi’s pleasure at the Institute, I thought I was going to die.
It was like him, and Oscar took up the two ends of the table. Two daddies. Fuck me. I’m horny.
To add fuel to the fire, Oscar takes up one side of Cadi, and Mads takes the other. Kol meets me between her legs. Her legs spread wide, showcasing her glistening pussy. My pussy.
Mine.
“Can I?”
“Do whatever the fuck you need to do, Locke.”
I spread her lips apart so I can see more of her. She moans in appreciation. I barely even see Oscar and Mads start to pump their dicks over her before I dip down and eat her out.
I’ve been dying to drink her in.
Her omega slick.
I’ve wanted it all to myself, and here I got her. I carefully locate her clit with just my mouth and then gently pull it between my teeth. Every movement she makes causes her clit to jolt with pleasure between my sharp alpha teeth. She’s panting and screaming my name.
“Oh, Locke. Oh my god, Locke. That’s so much. That’s too much. Oh fuck, Locke. That’s what I want. How are you…? Oh my god!”
Her desperate cries result in Oscar coming all over her chest, and he’s followed shortly by Mads.
When I left, Oscar was a virgin, and here he is showering Cadi with his cum like a pro. He bends down and lays his lips on hers. They make out lewdly.
I flick her clit with my tongue, and she moans into his mouth.
I want her to come while his lips are on hers.
I close my eyes and work her clit faster, harder.
I give her all that delicious friction. Her thighs pinch my head, and I relentlessly suck on her perfect cunt.
She tastes like heaven. I could die buried in her pussy.
She cries, but it’s muffled by Oscar’s mouth.
Her thighs shake on either side of my head.
Cadi climaxing is my new favorite thing.
My hands dig into her hips. I want her pleasure again.
I want all of it. I don’t let up. I’m going to get her to come a second time.
I lift her up and feast on her warm, slick cunt.
I glance up to see that it’s now Mads kissing her.
Oscar is sucking on her neck. Kol angles himself so he’s got his mouth on her nipple.
Cadi reaches down and grips my hair in her fingers. She pulls deliciously at the root.
“Come for us, Cadi. You have all of us in your nest, and we want to wring your pleasure from every inch of your body,” Kol murmurs over her nipple. “All your alphas and your beta are here. They came back for you.”
“I need them to fuck me!” she cries when she can find her breath. She cries out as I suck her clit.
Oh, we will fuck her. As soon as we get her to come again, we are going to run a goddamned train on her.