Chapter 39 Sugar and Spice
Sugar and Spice
Mads
“We have to take two cars!” I shout from the other room while I’m hopping into the shower.
“What?!” Kol yells back from the hallway.
“They won’t make it! She’s in heat! We need to meet them on the road. Oscar has been driving eight hours…” Kol rips open the shower door.
“What’re you shouting about?”
“They won’t make it! We have to take two cars.
When we find them—you have Oscar’s location, right?
—someone needs to go with Oscar to dump Padrick’s car.
Then I need to go with Ro and bring her the rest of the way.
She needs me! She needs us! She can’t be in heat while Oscar is driving the car. She needs a partner.”
Kol picks up a shampoo bottle I drop from my shaking hands. He squeezes the contents into his hands and takes over washing my hair. His sweats and t-shirt get soaked, but he doesn’t seem to mind.
“Someone needs to go with Oscar to dump the car. And someone needs to get Ro back here.”
Kol then takes the sprayer from the cradle so he can rinse all the soap off that I haphazardly put all over myself.
“Two cars.”
“Yes!”
Before I can stumble out of the shower, he grabs my elbow and helps me out.
I walk through the apartment naked, holding onto the wall as I go, with my alpha following me, until I get to my room and put on some clean clothes (I think they are Oscar’s, to be honest) and then go rifle through the keys.
Locke and Cadi meet us by the door. It’s been raining all day, and by the sound of it on the other side of the door, the storm has gotten worse.
“I can’t leave, Mads,” Cadi tells me. She’s got one of her cute vests on, along with jean shorts. Locke is holding her hand. What is she saying? Also, the rain is colder than usual. I pull out one of the alpha’s coats with a hood and wrap it around her.
“Why can’t we leave? Ro is going into heat before she gets here. We have to meet them.”
She puts her hands on my shoulders, and the gesture actually puts me at ease, oddly. The jacket hangs off her shoulders like it may fall off.
“The nest store is delivering the rest of the things soon. I want to finish getting it ready for her. If I go, they may just dump everything on the street or just leave and not come back. All the things we picked are coming.”
I take a deep breath. Cadi rubs my arms.
“Mads, you go. You go and meet them. Help Oscar bring her home.”
I look at Locke standing behind her, giving me a sad look. Then there’s Kol, who dutifully stands next to me. He’s got my cane in his hand, and I take it from him, leaning against it.
I hate being separated. I ask Kol, “Will you come with me?”
“I was already planning it.”
My pleased smile catches his eye, and the look on his face turns heated. But I look down and notice he’s still sopping wet from the shower. He doesn’t seem to notice because he’s so focused on me.
Weirdo.
“You guys go. Locke and I will stay here and have everything ready for her.” Then Cadi gets serious.
“Please be kind to her. We don’t want her coming out of heat regretting anything that happened.
I had my first heat medicated, and it was still a doozy.
My dad arranged for me to be with alphas through a program.
I didn’t even get knotted. Which is normal for a first heat. ”
I have so many fucking questions about everything she just said. But instead I say, “Of course. She’ll be safe with us. You know that.”
Looking at her freckled face and silver nose ring, saying goodbye, makes me want to die.
“I hate being apart.”
She giggles and brings me in for a hug.
“It’ll be a few hours, Mads. I’ll see you in a few hours. You’re worse than the alphas.”
I wrap my arm around her and pull her tight to me.
“I know. I’m just starting to understand why they behave like this.”
I hate when we’re apart. I hate that Oscar has been gone all day. Everyone in this bond is so precious to me.
She squeezes me back.
I make Kol go and change, but when he comes back, he has a shirt in his hands. He pulls my shirt off and puts the flannel one he brought over on me.
“What’s this?”
“You can wear Oscar’s pants, but you can’t also wear his shirt. That’s mine.”
I pull up the collar and smell it, and it smells a little like him, all earthy.
“Is this clean?”
“Nope.” He goes back into the apartment. I just took a shower. Whatever. I roll my eyes, kiss Cadi on the cheek, hug Locke, and head out, throwing on jackets and opening up umbrellas. They are right behind us, headed to the new house on foot.
Kol comes up last, holding armfuls of bedding materials. I hold the umbrella above him as he puts the items in the back seat of his car that’s parked on the street.
“What is all this?” I ask from behind him.
“Your bedding and Locke’s shit, too. For the omega. When we get her from Oscar, I want to make it comfortable back there for her and you.”
Oh.
That’s thoughtful.
We get in the car and head out. I cannot believe Ro is about to go into heat before she even makes it here. What the fuck! I get into Kol’s SUV, and we race out of the city. Every stop sign and traffic light makes me want to scream.
“Mads, we will make it to them. Oscar isn’t replying to texts, but that’s normal. We got his location. We are about two hours away, but headed towards each other. This is like one of those math problems from hell. Anyway, we will make it.”
“I know, I’m just…Can I admit something?” My knees are bouncing. I rub the head of the vulture on my cane. It helps relax me.
“Of course. Tell me all your secrets, Mads.”
For the first time since yesterday, I take a real, honest breath.
“She’d asked me something while I was in Salt Port. It was something you and Locke, and even Oscar, tried to ask me, too.”
“What did all of us ask you?”
We take the ramp onto the freeway. We will take this all the way to Ro. We are almost there, sugar.
“She asked if I could feel it. How we were drawn towards each other. Locke asked me the same thing, something like, ‘Don’t you know what I know…’”
“Oh, yeah, that. The pull we felt towards you. You felt it then? When you were grumpy and resistant?” He teases me.
Even though he’s being funny, I know he’s always wanted to talk about this. So I tell him the truth—
“I did. I one hundred percent did. I was frightened of you, but I was also assured you would never hurt me. It was so weird. Like how I was going to email you to turn down the job, but I wanted to hear your voice, so I called you.”
A jilted smile etches across his face. That was a hard phone call.
“I’m so sorry we pressured you and pushed you so fast. If I could go back, if things were different, I wish I could have taken my time. It killed me to make you feel so overwhelmed.”
“Oscar explained that to me. Locke was in danger. It’s ok, Kol.”
“I wanted to do things right with you. I really like you. Actually, Mads…” He swallows and shifts in his seat, then looks over at me, making sure I’m looking him in the eyes, “I love you. I’ve loved you for a while now.
I love how smart you are. I love working with you.
I think you’re so handsome—it actually keeps me up at night thinking about how beautiful you are.
I just want you to have everything good and worthy in this life. With you, I want things to be perfect.”
“Kol, I love you, too.”
Why the fuck are we in seatbelts driving 90 miles per hour down the freeway? I put my hand against his neck and jaw. I have all these things I want to tell him. I open my mouth and let them pour out.
“I’m so excited to be with you. There’s so much we are going to do together.
I’d been so hopeless this last year. I lost my job.
My body is different. I moved in with my mom.
I really wondered if anyone would even like me anymore, because I didn’t.
Then I met you, and every word out of your mouth has made me feel better.
It felt like you saw me, and then…” I choke on my words, but push through.
“Then you chose me. I’m incredibly lucky to know you, Kol. Aren’t you so excited for the future?”
“I’m so excited, My Sweet Prince.”
My entire face flushes.
I love it when he calls me that. I let that feeling wash over me. I feel so special and loved.
“Let me see it,” he says. Did he just ask me to take my dick out? He sees the look on his face and laughs. “No, silly, my mark. I want to see my mark on your chest.”
“Oh!” It’s still weird but not that weird. I lift my shirt to my chin and twist so he can see it. He looks so damned proud.
“That’s the shit.”
“Are you feeling as bitey as you have in the past?”
“Only in the fun way.” He bares his sharp teeth with a big smile.
“You can bite me sometime…in the fun way.”
“Don’t fucking tease me, beta. I’m already at the brink over here.”
I chuckle and then put down my shirt. He mock frowns.
“You know that feeling? The one where you feel a connection…I felt it with Ro, too. She knew it right away, and so did I.”
“It’s terrible to be away from the one you know is right for you, isn’t it?”
I look out the window at the scenery. The trees are far from the road, and the sun is setting. The whole world is golden.
“Oscar’s location is within a half mile of ours,” Kol says. He calls him.
“Oscar, take this next exit. Now!” Oscar makes a noise. He’s unable to say real words.
We are there first, watching this beast of a car peel off into the dirt next to an intersection and park next to us. I’m out of the passenger seat before the engine turns off, and I rush over to the side door and open it up to find my girl absolutely feral.
Stunning.
Monstrous.
Fucking sexy.
Her clothes are hanging by a thread. Her pink tongue practically hangs out of her mouth. Her pupils are blown and filled with lust.
“Mads?” she asks like it’s the dawn of a very long night.
I reach into the car and wrap my arms around her and pull her out.
My cane falls to the ground. Her legs wrap around my waist, and I manage to pull her up and out.
Her thighs are thick and feel incredible in my hands.
It’s all my lizard brain can think about.
I knew she had gorgeous, thick thighs, but goddamn.
I need to feel them. In my hands, pressed against the sides of my head, and tightening around my hips as she comes…
“Mads?”
“I’m here, sugar. I’m here.”
She doesn’t look at me with clear eyes. It’s only hunger.
She molds herself to me and lays her lips on mine.
She tastes like soda pop against my tongue.
Her skin is so warm, I could melt into her.
I feel Kol direct me to the back seat of his car.
He’s laid the seats down and put the bedding material out for us.
I rest my weight on my bad leg, but I was smart and took some painkillers about twenty minutes ago, so there’s only sharpness, and it goes away once I’ve got both of us in the car.
She’s underneath me, kissing my neck and exploring me with her hands.
God Almighty, I can’t believe this is happening.
Kol’s left the door open, and I watch him and Oscar.
Oscar has a rare, permanent smile on his mustached face.
Seems like that wasn’t an ordeal at all.
Kol has his hand on his shoulder, and their heads are bent together, talking.
“She’s come several times in the last hour. It’s the perfect time to have a dedicated partner,” Oscar assesses.
“You’re a dirty dog, alpha,” Kol teases.
Oscar ignores him and puts his phone in his hands.
“Take my cell phone and get Ro to the nest. I’ll go dump the car and make my way back to Cash City. I’ll go to the apartment first. Then, to the new house. Expect me back tomorrow.”
“So, Padrick is no longer with us, then.”
“I didn’t ask. I assume we won’t be seeing him again in whatever capacity. He was going to take Ro. He said he’d assault her and then sell her to the men her father promised time with her. They are all sick fucks who should be buried beneath our feet.”
“Agreed.”
They say their goodbyes, and Oscar leaves. Kol gets into the driver’s seat, and we are back on the road.
“Get these fucking clothes off,” Ro says angrily at both of our clothes. My balance gives out, and I lie on the makeshift bed.
We get all our clothes off, but before I toss my shirt, Ro stops me.
She brings my hand with the shirt up to her nose and takes a moment to enjoy it.
Kol is a devious bastard. It doesn’t matter how many times I think I am acting like an alpha.
Possessive, horny, crazed—he out-alphas me.
I catch his eye in the rearview mirror. He looks so pleased with himself.
Ro takes all the clothes and arranges them around our makeshift nest. It’s the cutest fucking thing I’ve ever seen. Omegas care and keeping their nests will always delight me.
Then the girl pounces on me. I pull her overtop of me and position my head between her legs. The sway of the car aided me in this move, but it was still lucky. I reach up and feel between her legs.
Good fucking god, she’s wet.
“I’m fucking ready, Mads. I’ve wanted this since I met you. Don’t let me down.”
Oh, she has no idea what I want to do to her.
“I’m happy to hear you want it, sugar. But how you get it is up to me. Do you understand? I need a verbal yes.”
Her hands are up near the driver’s seat, and I wonder if she’s looking at Kol.
Finally, she says, “Yes, beta.”
“Good girl. I’m going to make you come first. I need to know how sweet you sound when you come with my tongue in your wet cunt. Then, I’m going to enter you. You’ll continue to behave, right?”
She nods her head, and I pull away from her.
“No, no, no, stop. Yes! Yes, I’ll behave!”
“Good girl.”