Chapter 16
Omega Chamber, Devil Estate
My eyes snap open.
I’m hot, burning up.
I’m being held in someone’s strong arms, supported between their legs.
I’m naked, stripped of my dress. My bare skin feels sticky and over sensitive.
I can smell the scent of my pack around me. I’m in the cocoon of my nest.
My nest in the Omega Chamber.
I’ve never had one of those before.
Suddenly, even through my fever, I feel safe.
Despite the way that my skin is itching and my temples are throbbing, I start to purr.
“Alpha,” I cry.
I need my Alpha.
I need to be knotted.
Please…
There are voices — people talking on the other side of the room — but I can’t concentrate on them.
I’m in heat.
I struggle to battle through the haze and concentrate on the voices.
All around me is a haze of green and twinkling lights, as if I’m inside a fairy forest.
Above me, I can see the blue sky through glass.
I nuzzle more firmly against the Alpha’s chest, taking comfort in their touch, but unable to resist wriggling my ass against them because I need their fucking knot in me…right…now.
Meanly, they don’t knot me but instead, shift me in their arms and stroke my hair.
“Alpha,” I whine again.
“I’ve got you, beloved,” a Scottish voice rumbles.
Kai.
Recognizing him cuts through the fuzziness in my mind, bringing me back from the edge into some clarity.
I’m tipping into heat.
It’s a heat that feels more intense than any one that I’ve been in before. It’s ravaging me, as if its seeking out a bond that no longer exists.
It’s also one that may kill me.
Do the others know?
I turn my head toward the voices and watch the serious and worried ways that Lark, Antonio, and Gabriel are talking on the other side of the chamber, and I realize that perhaps, now they do.
Gabriel’s expression is grim.
It lightens, when he notices that I’m awake.
“You’re back with us, Mer.” Gabriel marches to the bed, dropping to kneel next to it and take my hand in his. “Are you okay? How are you feeling?”
“Hot,” I whisper. “Need your knot.”
Antonio chuckles. “And a needy Omega can even rhyme.”
Kai rests his cool hand on the back of my neck and then on my forehead; it feels heavenly. “Her temperature is higher than it should be at this stage.”
Gabriel’s expression tightens. “Antonio filled me in about what this heat means. But I’m not letting you go, when we’ve only just been united. I’d follow you to hell and back. We’ll get you through this heat, even if it means that our knots are sore for the rest of the month because of how many times we’ve knotted you. We’re going to rut you, over and over, while Lark and Antonio make you come on their clever fingers and tongues. I’m military; I know how to plan a roster. We’ll stand guard over your pleasure and make sure that you ride out this heat, okay?”
My eyes widen, but at the same time, more slick gushes from my pussy.
Fuck, yeah.
I nod.
“We need your consent to bond, however, while you’re still aware enough to give it.” Kai strokes down my neck. His touch sets my nerves on fire. “I know that you’ve agreed to bond with Gabriel. But Antonio told us that bonding with multiple Alphas increases your chance of survival. I only intend to bond with a willing Omega. I need you to know, lass, that even before I knew that you were my brave soldier’s Mercy Dragon, I was falling for you. I want you, sweet Omega. Will you bond with me?”
In answer, I twist in Kai’s arms and capture his lips with mine in a long, deep kiss.
I whimper, desperate to feel the huge dick in his trousers inside me.
With an act of incredible control, he doesn’t hump against me, but kisses me thoroughly, instead.
When I pull back, his cheeks are flushed.
He’s not as unaffected as he looks.
Lark is watching our exchange with quiet longing. “How are the Alphas in this room, which reeks of pheromones, not falling fully into rut? Shouldn’t you be as needy as us Omegas?”
“I’m never needy. I may become wild.” Gabriel arches his brow. “Soldier here; I have self-discipline.”
Kai smirks. “Scottish. They make us hardy there, lad.”
Antonio strolls toward the bed, before snatching up a plate from the top of the fridge. A single peach has been neatly sliced into delicate pieces.
Then he calls over his shoulder at Lark. “Come on, needy Omega, we have a job too. You’re going to be the tongue, and I’ll be the fingers.”
“Call me needy again,” Lark warns, “and you won’t have any fingers.”
Antonio theatrically shudders, before sending me a wink.
Lark crawls onto the bed, kissing my foot, as he settles in a lazy half-sprawl. “This is all about you. Our pack is in this together.”
Does he know that he said our pack?
My heart swells.
“I’m going to get you through the next twenty-four hours. It’s what Betas are best at.” Antonio perches on the bed next to me. His expression is surprisingly sincere and serious. “I’ll get food and drink in you, even if I have to force it down your throats. Actually, that may be kinky. Still, it doesn’t matter if you’re needy or wild. I’ll be the one with the cool head for once, looking out for you, while you’re totally wrecked.”
“Romantically put,” Lark mutters.
“Thanks,” Antonio replies, deliberately missing the sarcasm. Then he holds up the plate. “It’s not only Alphas who get off on hand feeding.”
I lick my lips, staring at the ripe looking peach slices. “Feed me.”
Antonio’s eyes darken, before he picks up a slice and holds it to my lips.
I suck it into my mouth and moan at the sudden, intense burst of floral flavor.
It’s like I’m being fed magical flowers within this forest by a beautiful fae. Perhaps, one who will make me never want to leave this glade.
Except, I never want to anyway.
I didn’t realize how much I needed the juice and sugar, until I’m eagerly licking over my lips. “It’s sweet.”
Antonio smiles, fondly. “You sure are.”
My cheeks heat, and I reach out, desperate for his touch and to reward him. I grasp his hand, pulling it to my mouth. I suck and lick each of Antonio’s fingers clean.
He shivers, and his long, butterfly lashes flutter.
Slowly, I move down Antonio’s palm, which is sticky with the syrupy juice of the peach, licking stripes along it.
Then I press kitten licks over his thumb, before taking two of his fingers back into my mouth again, swirling my tongue over them.
Antonio drops the plate, which doesn’t break but sends the peach slices splattering along the floor, as it rolls to the side.
“Good Omega,” Antonio breathes.
Kai meets Gabriel’s gaze over my head. “Lucky Antonio, getting his fingers fellated. He looks as happy as if it was his cock.”
“Why wouldn’t I? Shit, her mouth…” Antonio groans. “Don’t make me come in my pants.”
Gabriel gets a dangerous look in his eyes.
He pushes himself up from his knees and prowls like a dark shadow onto the bed behind Antonio.
Antonio stiffens like he’s aware of the danger but is too lost in my touch to do anything to save himself.
It’s flattering.
Lark watches with dilated eyes.
Sucking on Antonio’s fingers is distracting me from my own heat.
It’s not as good as sucking on a cock, which is what my body is calling out for. But for now, I’ll take it.
Gabriel presses his front against Antonio’s back, before pressing his hand to Antonio’s hard crotch.
Once, twice, then thrice.
Antonio whimpers.
“I’m not going to touch you again,” Gabriel whispers, pushing a curl away from Antonio’s ear in a move that feels more like a threat than a comfort. “You’re going to come just from our Omega’s touch.”
“You’re really going to make me…?” Antonio’s cheeks flush, as he glances down at his pants.
“Well, if you will get in bed with the devil…” Lark’s look at Gabriel is admiring.
Antonio gives puppy dog eyes at Kai.
“You know your safe word,” Kai says, “if you don’t want this. But I think that you want to show us how you can come untouched in your pants just because our Omega is sucking your fingers, one of your Alphas is kissing your neck over your bond mark because you’re his, and the rest of us are watching you because we’re never going to stop paying you attention.”
Antonio comes with a moan, throwing his head back onto Gabriel’s shoulder.
Instantly, Gabriel wraps his arms around Antonio’s waist, murmuring words of reassurance that are too quiet for me to hear in his ear.
As gentle as his words are, Gabriel still presses with his palm hard over Antonio’s crotch.
“Well done, Antonio,” Kai praises. “You were perfect, lad.”
“I’m sticky as the peach now.” Antonio wrinkles his nose.
Gabriel laughs against his neck, tightening his arms around him.
Finally, I let Antonio’s fingers slip out of my mouth reluctantly with a pop.
Gabriel maneuvers Antonio to the other side of the nest, wrapping a soft, velvet blanket around him.
“Good boy.” Gabriel kisses Antonio at last, softly. “You’re always amazing.”
Antonio smiles, pliant and relaxed in a way that he isn’t normally.
Gabriel cards his fingers through Antonio’s hair, lying next to him on his side.
“Now, I’ve stolen Toni from our Omega, so you two had better get her ready for me,” Gabriel commands, looking at Lark.
Thank fuck.
I whine, desperate to communicate how much I need to be knotted.
There’s a fire between my thighs.
Kai slips his hands under my arms and manhandles me easily into the center of the bed.
He’s so large that I feel tiny next to him.
He leans down, and his blue eyes meet mine, as he kisses me. “Let us take care of you, beloved.”
He’s still dressed in his suit. He hasn’t even taken off his jacket or tie.
He looks perfectly put together, while I’m wrecked.
But then, so’s Antonio.
“Don’t you have a duty with your tongue, lad?” Antonio calls to Lark.
Lark rearranges himself, sprawling between my thighs.
“Close your eyes.” His voice is cool. “I’m going to make you feel so good.”
I shiver but before I can obey (and there’s no doubt in my fevered mind that I will), Kai’s hand slips over my eyes, shutting out the light.
My breathing speeds up.
Kai leans down to whisper hot against my cheek, “Let me help you with that, beloved. I love taking care of you.”
My heart is racing.
Everything is much more intense, now that I’m not staring up at the sky.
For one brief, horrifying moment, I feel trapped in the dark cell again.
But then, I feel Lark nudge my thighs apart at the same time that Kai rests his hand lightly on my throat.
Immediately, I’m brought back into the present.
I can smell the heather mixed in with my other mate’s scents.
The dark merely heightens the intensity, as Lark kisses up my sensitive skin; his tongue feels like cool salve against my hot skin.
I whine in pleasure.
When I try to hump my hips, Kai tightens his hold, and I still with difficulty.
Lark rests his hands on my knees, circling soothing circles, while his tongue mimics the pattern along my clit.
I’m already close.
Lark darts his tongue lower, however, in and out of my pussy, until my eyes are wet with frustration.
“Please,” I chant. “Please, please…”
Pleasure is winding through me.
It’s like an elastic band that’s about to snap.
Lark trails his tongue down, cool and sinuous, even further.
My eyes widen, when he pushes my legs up and over his shoulders and licks down my crack and over my ass.
And the unexpected sensation over those sensitive nerves tips me over the edge.
I scream, as slick pulses from my pussy. “Songbird…”
Kai removes his hand from over my eyes.
I blink down at Lark, as he lazily licks upward over my pussy again, working me through the orgasm, until I feel wrung out.
But it’s also taken the edge off the heat.
I feel less desperate. The haze has retreated.
Will enough orgasms from these men truly save me?
Are they really going to share the duty of getting me through these intense twenty-four hours?
By the serious but satisfied way that Lark is looking at me, I know that they are.
Lark lowers my legs off his shoulders, turning to kiss my knee as he does. “You’re prepared. Time for our Chief Alpha to give my woman the knot that she needs.”
“I want Gabe to knot me first!” I blurt the words, before I can stop myself.
Then I shake, as adrenaline surges through me.
Lark hisses out a sharp breath, before sitting up as tall as he can and trying to look intimidating, even though Kai is at least twice as large as he is.
The Chief Alpha has the right to knot an Omega first.
Always.
It’s breaking the rules for a pack member to request anything different.
It’s taboo for an Omega to do that.
Kai may be a liberal Alpha but even he can’t overlook that disrespect.
In distress, my scent sours.
“She doesn’t know what she’s saying,” Lark insists, valiantly. “This heat is messing with her mind. It would be wrong to punish her and dangerous too. I’ll stop you, if you try.”
Gabriel’s lips twist into an unwilling smile. “I don’t doubt that. I’d have been happy to have you in my army unit because you’d always have had my back. Loyalty and courage like yours is admirable.”
“And hot,” Antonio adds.
Lark’s eyes narrow. “I’m not joking.”
Kai runs his thumb along Lark’s cheek, soothingly. “Aye, lad. I gathered by the rumbling growl. Listen, I’m not an American Alpha. Whatever toxic beliefs you hold about dynamics, I don’t. The nest. Heats. The first knotting. In Scotland, these are all sacred and within the power of the Omega. I worship you, Mercy. Everything that happens here in this bed is your choice. I’m simply honored to be part of it.”
My eyes burn with tears.
What he’s saying is beautiful.
A gift.
Lark’s eyes are gleaming with tears too, but they’re happy ones.
I think that Lark’s beginning to believe that this pack is telling the truth.
Finally, their actions are showing that he can trust them.
Lark moves to the side.
I hold my hands above my head, encouraging Kai to hold them. I want the connection with both my Alphas, during the rut.
Kai growls his approval, and his canines glint in the light.
He settles one strong hand around my small wrists, pinning me in place.
Yet I feel safe and anchored by his touch.
As my core throbs, hot and desperate for stimulation, I stare up at the glass ceiling out to the wide, blue sky.
It’s vast and bright.
It’s the freedom that I never thought I’d have again.
Gabriel crawls across the bed to cage me.
He’s smiling, and joy surges through me that his rare smile is because I chose him.
Then he leans down, unbuttoning his jeans and pulling out his large cock, which is already hard.
I stare at it.
It’s as gorgeous as Gabriel is. Its base is thick with a knot.
Am I going to be able to take his knot? It’s large and it’s not even inflated yet.
But I’ve been well prepared.
My mouth waters.
I’m desperate to suck on it and feel how it stretches my mouth like I’ve imagined in my fantasies so many times, but then, there’s a lot of time for that.
For now, he rubs the head of his dick over my pussy, lubing it with my slick and then lines it up.
My heart speeds up
“Please,” I beg.
My heat is burning so intensely that I’m desperate for his knot.
With intense self-discipline, Gabriel holds himself above me and rests his forehead against mine for a moment.
I’m caught in his cinnamon coffee scent.
His skin feels deliciously cool against my raging temperature.
“Sometimes alone in the barracks,” Gabriel whispers, and like this, all I can focus on is the intense lavender of his eyes, “I’d wake and find that I’d come in the night to a dream of you. But now, I’m going to bury myself between your thighs, and it’s not a dream. I’m going to come so deeply inside you — fill you up and breed you — that you’ll always be marked as mine. Then I’ll bite you, and we’ll be bonded like we always should have been. Then everything and everyone else will be the dream.”
I want that.
I need it.
It’s like he’s inside my head, pulling out my desires.
I whine, struggling in Kai’s hold now, desperate to put my arms around Gabriel and encourage him inside me. But Kai doesn’t let go of me.
Gabriel looks down at me, coldly commanding. “I’m in charge now. I’m going to knot you and make you delirious with such pleasure that you’ll forget your own name. And you know what, Mer? You’ll think that mine is yes, Alpha, fuck yes…”
Lark clambers across the bed to pull Antonio into his arms, snuggling under the blanket with him. “Big words for an Alpha with big dick vibes…and big dick. I’m watching.”
“And a voyeur,” Antonio points out, tracing the outline of Lark’s hard cock.
“They’re beautiful together,” Lark replies.
“I always rise to a challenge.” Gabriel winks at me, and I know that the pun is intended. “I’ve spent my life devoted to my career or my missions. But now, I’m also devoted to you.”
Then he plunges into me with one hard thrust.
My back arches, but Kai holds me in place.
Gabriel grips hard onto my hips, waiting for me to adjust for a moment, before fucking into me, slow and deep.
His gaze never leaves mine.
I toss my head from side to side at the intensity of the sensation.
My heart’s beating fast, and my pulse is roaring in my ears.
There’s a thin sheen of sweat on my skin.
Gabriel is as controlled and unyielding as any soldier, however, increasing the pace, while ecstasy begins to wind through me.
It’s overwhelming.
Perfect.
“Alpha, fuck, yes…” I gasp.
He’s right. I do think that’s his name.
Gabriel leans down to nip at my lower lip. “You’re going to take my knot now, good Omega.”
Suddenly, Gabriel’s hitting exactly the right angle inside me on every thrust like he’s deliberately waited until this precise moment.
My back bows, and I scream.
The jolts of pleasure make me feel like I’m a cloud, floating in the sky above.
Gabriel’s breathing stutters, before he tightens his hold on my hips.
“Mer,” he gasps like he’s waited his whole life for this moment.
And finally, we’re both coming at the same time.
Gabriel’s knot inflates.
It’s getting larger and larger, pushing me over the edge of pleasure again and again and…
I howl, thrashing from side to side.
Kai leans down and kisses me.
Gabriel’s knot locks us together. I’m blinded by pleasure. Kai’s tongue is fucking my mouth, claiming me.
It’s so intense that my cheeks are wet.
I’m shaking, falling apart, and yet, I’m held together by Kai’s hold on my wrists.
This is nothing like the bland, boring times that Fletcher knotted me, as if he was going through the motions.
This is life changing.
I can feel Gabriel’s knot, where we’re locked together.
We’re no longer two; we’re one.
Gabriel should have been the first Alpha who I bonded with. In the world of our fairy tales, he was my Chief Alpha.
But in the end, it doesn’t matter how we’ve got to this point.
We’re here now.
He’s the Alpha who I’ve chosen to start the process of saving my life.
My connection to all four men is intense.
When Kai draws back from the kiss, Gabriel and him exchange a kiss of their own over me.
Then Gabriel turns his piercing gaze back to me. “You’re beautiful, Mer. You fit perfectly on my knot. We’ve belonged together our entire lives. Will you accept the bond of the Devil pack?”
I don’t even hesitate. “Yes.”
Kai leans down to rest his teeth against the right side of my neck. I shiver at the graze of his teeth against my sensitive skin.
Then Gabriel lowers his mouth to the other side of my neck.
At the same time, my two Alphas bite.
I howl in agonized ecstasy.
Kai and Gabriel only bite deeper.
They destroy my old, savaged bond bite.
Instead, they form something new — bond bites that mark me out as their Omega and an official member of the outlaw Devil pack.