Chapter 20 West
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West
They’re both gone. Jo to her heat, her eyes clouded and single-minded, Sam to the rut.
A fact that’s only confirmed when Sam flips her onto her hands and knees, ass in the air, and all Jo does is give a half-hearted snarl before burying her face in the mattress.
“Hayden,” I bark, and the alpha drops his hands from his pants like I caught him…
well, doing exactly what he was doing. “Go downstairs and make sure we have enough food to last us at least three days.” The young alpha looks like he wants to protest, but ultimately huffs a breath, heading for the door of the nest. “Kole, make sure these two…” I motion towards Jo and Sam, unable to help but notice how even in the midst of a rut, his hands run over her body with nothing but reverence.
“Keep fucking?” Kole offers with a smirk before clapping me on the back.
“You know, it is kind of nice when you take charge, Bratukha.” My knowledge of Russian is limited, but it has the same base as what he calls Hayden—Bratishka—and he said it affectionately, so I won’t worry about it right now.
“I will make sure they have what they need until this wave is over. What are you going to do?”
“I…” I take a deep breath. “I’m going to wash all of Jo’s scent off me so I don’t go into Declan’s house smelling like his sister in heat, and then I’m going to give him an update.”
Hayden snorts as he goes out the door. “Good luck with that, Doctor Love.”
Oh, great. Another new nickname.
Twenty minutes later, I raise my hand to knock on Declan’s door, but before my fist meets the wood, it swings open. Aidan stares at me, head tilted, a pair of over-ear headphones around his neck.
He’s an odd one, to be sure, but he’s not unkind.
When he was showing me how to work the equipment in the surveillance van, he was patient and straightforward.
Though he doesn’t seem to be one for social niceties either, so I’m a little confused that he came to the door at all.
“How did you…?” I trail off, looking at my hand still raised in the air before quickly lowering it.
“Cameras.” He eyes me curiously. “Is Jo in heat?”
My brows shoot up. “Did I not wash all the scent off? Is Declan going to be pissed?”
“There’s no scent.” His eyes quickly dart to our house next door before landing back on me. “She has been having spikes, you’re sporting a fresh bond mark on your neck, and really, there’s no other reason for you to be coming to our door at eleven-thirty-three in the evening.”
“Shit. Sorry.” I hadn’t even thought about how late it would be.
“I wasn’t sleeping.” His bluntness is refreshing and a little jarring all at the same time, but before I can ask to speak directly to Declan, there’s a loud bang from upstairs, followed by a groan.
“Is…everything okay?” I frown.
“It’s just Declan and Nolan.” His expression gives nothing away.
Another bang. Another groan.
“Are they…fighting?” I mean, something is clearly going on, and unless Declan and Nolan are together—
“No. They think it’s a secret, but Rory and I both know. But Rory doesn’t know that I know. He thinks I’d…panic.”
Oh.
“Gotcha,” I let out an awkward laugh. “Well, when they’re err…finished, can you just pass along that we’ll be out of commission for a few days? Maybe see if he can hold off on releasing the information about Senator Pierce. I’ll…I’ll text him everything that went down at dinner tonight.”
“Okay.” He nods once, before moving to put his headphones back over his ears.
“Thank you!” I call out before the door closes, and he freezes, tilting his head at me again.
“You’re welcome.”
The door shuts unceremoniously in my face, and as I turn back towards our house, it’s hard to not lose myself in the domesticity of it all.
The front porch is a wrap-around, and it’s just begging for a little table and chairs for us to have coffee in the mornings.
There’s a big tree in the front yard that would be perfect for a tire swing, and a vision of a little girl with wild, ginger hair—curly like mine, but red like hers—freckles on darker skin, and Jo’s green eyes slips into my mind, making my heart clench.
That is, until the echo of pure anguish resonates through my bond, and then I’m running. I tear into the house, locking the door behind me, running up the stairs two at a time, until I’m in the doorway of the nest, trying to catch my breath as I scan the room.
Jo is knotted to Sam, an omega whine resonating from her. Hayden has his arm around her shoulders, murmuring something in her ear, while Kole looks on with his arms crossed, a worried expression on his face.
Then she sees me.
“See?” Hayden lights up. “I told you he’d be right back!”
Anguish turns to anger as she sniffs, pulling away from Sam, who is now passed out. “You left!” she cries, her body sweaty and naked as she stumbles towards me. “You’re supposed to be here, and you left me!”
Kole tries to put a hand under her arm to support her, but she shakes him off with a snarl.
My heart cracks at the pain in her expression, and I half expect her to fight me as I gather her in my arms, but she doesn’t.
She does worse.
“And you don’t even smell like me anymore!” she wails, weakly banging her fist on my chest.
“Siren,” I sigh, running my hands over her sweaty back. “I had to go update your brother on what's happening, and I couldn’t exactly walk into his house smelling of his baby sister and sex, could I?”
She huffs, hesitantly wrapping her arms around my waist as she rubs her face on my shirt. “I guess not.”
“I’m here now, and I’m not leaving again, okay? Do you need another knot?”
She looks up at me with those damn green eyes that have had me in a chokehold since the moment I met her. “I need you.” She fingers the hem of my shirt, and I remove it without question.
When I put my hands under her ass, lifting her up so she can wrap her legs around my waist, her chest nearly burns mine. “Let’s get you cooled off a little, yeah?”
She sniffs, nodding before burying her face in the crook of my neck. I look at the guys. “I’m gonna get her washed off, okay? Can one of you get her something to eat while I do that?”
“Aw, Doctor Love is so cute when he’s in charge.” Hayden chuckles, making me roll my eyes. “I’ll go. Maybe the big guy can grab some more nesting shit and rub his scent all over it.”
I don’t wait to see if Kole listened or told Hayden to fuck off, but something tells me it’ll be the former.
We step into the bathroom and since I showered less than ten minutes ago, the water heats quickly after I turn it on.
I move to put her down to get undressed, but she only tightens her grip on me.
“Siren, I have to get my shoes and pants off.” A small growl snaps out of her, and that’s when I realize she’s been lost to the fog again.
Now that she’s had a brief period of lucidity, she may not have one again until she starts coming out of her heat.
I guess I have no choice—I can’t even kick my shoes off with how tightly I tied them earlier.
With my pants still on, I step into the shower, and let the water pour over both of us.
Hayden appears suddenly, fully nude, and starts pulling all the pins holding her hair in place.
“She has a protein shake waiting on the nightstand, Kole already sent a text letting Dec know we’re going to need a grocery delivery. ”
Damn. Why didn’t I think to just text Declan? That would have saved me from Jo’s wrath.
Hayden picks up the shampoo bottle, flipping it in his hand. “I’m kind of a pro at washing her hair.” He grins, and pours some into his palm before lathering it into her wild red strands. .
Our omega lets out a small rumble of a purr that continues as I hold her, and Hayden somehow manages to get her clean without me ever having to put her down.
We step out of the shower, and I find that my shoes and sweatpants are a lost cause, squelching with water and leftover shampoo suds. When Hayden, now wrapped in a towel, kneels down in front of me to untie my shoelaces, my brows shoot up. “Thanks.”
“No problem.” He moves to the other one as I kick the first shoe off, and once the second one is removed, he reaches for the band of my sweatpants.
“Woah there, bud,” I laugh, pulling back. “I’m sure Jo will let me put her down long enough to—”
She growls.
“Alright, fine,” I concede, sighing.
Hayden reaches for my pants again, smirking. “It’s only weird if you make it weird. We’re all here for the same reason—Fireball. And it’s inevitable that we’ll all touch each other accidentally at some point. Might as well get the awkwardness out of the way.”
I snort as he lowers my waistband, and helps me step out of both my sweatpants and my boxers. Hayden is taking a much more mature approach to this than I would have expected.
“Fuck,” I hiss when Jo whines, rubbing her naked pussy on my stomach.
“Can you wait until we get to the bed, Siren? I’m not sure how I’m going to get inside you without—”
Hayden cuts me off, muttering, “Do I have to do fucking everything around here?” I don’t have time to process the fact he’s touching my dick before he’s lining it up with Jo’s entrance, and I slide into her with ease.
Heats really are something else.
“I—uh—thanks,” I manage on a gasp as Jo locks her ankles around my waist, using them as leverage to lift herself up and down my cock.
Hayden grins, clapping me on the back. “Like I said, Doctor Love. It’s only weird if you make it weird. We’re all here for the same thing: Jo’s absolute pleasure.”
And boy, are we.
As soon as we make it back to the nest, she’s found her voice.
“Need…more…” she huffs, bracing her hands against my chest as she rides me into oblivion.
“You need a knot, baby?” Hayden murmurs, and she nods, her brow lined with sweat as she desperately grinds her hips into me. I can feel her need for release resonating in our bond, and I hate that she’s struggling to find it.
Each stroke of my cock inside her has me about ready to bust, but I’ll be damned if I blow my load before my girl comes. I know she wants me, but I lack the knot she needs right now.
“But…need…West…too!” she huffs in frustration as she bounces up and down, and Hayden smirks.
“I think I know how we can make that happen. Do you want West in your ass, baby?”
Her eyes light up like he just offered her Christmas early, and my cock twitches inside her. “Yes.” She nods emphatically.
Kole groans from his spot on the mattress. “Why do you two get all the fun?”
“You know what’s better than two cocks, Fireball?” Hayden asks as he lays down next to me, then pats his hips. She scrambles over, immediately sinking down onto him.
She shakes her head.
“Three.” He gives a shit-eating grin. “Let’s get West in your ass, huh? And then we can see if you can fit Kole in that pretty mouth of yours.”
It’s only weird if you make it weird.
The thought echoes in my mind as I straddle Hayden’s legs, reaching under to where they meet. Omegas produce so much slick during their heats, and their bodies become so relaxed that it makes anal sex incredibly easy.
From what I’ve read, anyway.
The information quickly becomes fact as I slide my fingers around her tight ring of muscle, spreading her slick around as she shudders. “Now, West,” she orders. Heat or not, I don’t want to hurt her, so I slide a testing finger to my knuckle.
The moan that leaves her as I slide in and out has my cock weeping.
“Fuck, that’s hot,” Hayden gasps, his fingers digging into her waist.
“More, more, more,” she chants, and I comply, adding a second finger, and then eventually a third. “Fuck, fuck! So good, so good, yes!” she babbles, and then I remove my fingers, lining myself up with her tight ass.
“Are you ready, Siren?” I stifle a groan as I rub my head against her.
Jo grunts in frustration. “Yes, give it to me right fuckin’ now!”
“You heard the lady,” Kole murmurs, coming over and pressing a kiss to her sweat-slicked forehead before fisting his cock. “Fuck her in the ass right now.”
She sucks in a gasp as my head starts to push in, and holy shit, I’ve never felt anything like this before. Her ass grips me tighter than anything I’ve ever felt, and in the next second, I’m bottoming out.
“Holy shit, I can feel you,” Hayden lets out a breathless laugh, and I realize that small throb on the other side is his dick.
“Oh, it’s so good,” Jo’s head falls on Hayden’s chest as she breathes heavily. “So full. I need…I need…oh!”
She cuts off as she swallows Kole’s dick down, her cries muffled.
Hayden draws back, and when he goes back in, I pull out. We continue like this, alternating back and forth, so that she’s always filled with someone’s cock.
“Fuck…not…gonna…last…long…” I grunt out, my fingers kneading the soft flesh of her ass.
“Knot!” She cries, popping off Kole, and then she takes control, bracing herself on Hayden’s chest, her nails digging into his skin as she shoves her pussy down over his knot.
The pressure it adds to my cock is insane, and before I realize what’s happening, my shaft is pulsing, waves of ecstasy over taking me as I shallowly thrust through my orgasm.
She comes on a scream, clenching around both of us as her body finally finds the release it needs. My forehead falls against her back, and when I pull out, I can’t find it in myself to care about the mess I’m making.
When I look at Hayden and Jo, her sprawled on his chest, knotted together, I find that they’re both passed out.
It makes sense, considering it’s nearly one in the morning, but I can’t help but think I should make Jo drink the protein shake.
“Sleep” Kole instructs me, putting his hands behind his head as he stares up at the ceiling. “When his knot loosens, I will wake her and have her drink. She needs her strength.”
I can’t hold back my yawn as I stretch, flopping onto the bed. I follow his orders, because really, if the last hour has been any indication, we’re going to need all the strength we can get.