Chapter 29
Silver
A warm hand tickles my back with steady and slow strokes up and down my spine, tucked beneath the shirt I stole from Alek. My cousin’s sweet and earthy scent clings to the material, comforting me while I feel like ass, but there’s another scent that now wraps around me like the comforting embrace of home.
“You awake yet?” Aero whispers quietly against the top of my head, his lips brushing against my hair as he speaks.
“No,” I grouch, not ready to wake up and face the day. Call me a chicken or whatever the hell you want, but facing the pack I essentially ran away from before hearing them out about a possible betrayal and being told I was being stupid by my own cousin doesn't make a girl feel good. Excuse me if I want to remain in the blissful solitude of sleep a little longer before dealing with either betrayal or stupidity.
“As much as I’d love to let you sleep longer, baby, I need you to wake up so we can clear a few things up. I’m currently being glared at by a very miserable beta and three frustrated and furious alphas,” Aero informs me, splaying his whole hand on my back, the spot beneath his palm warming.
Sighing, I keep my eyes closed and snuggle into Aero’s chest, because, apparently, I’m a total sap and can’t help myself, and ask, “Are they pissed at me?”
“No, Sunshine,” Rage answers instantly, followed by Haze’s agreement, “Nowhere close, gorgeous.”
“Speak for yourselves, assholes. I’m pissed I had to sleep alone last night,” Munro grumps, and when I pop one eye open, I actually find him scowling at me like an asshole. I narrow my eyes on him, feeling prickly and still lacking the right amount of sleep, and he points a dangerous finger at me. “Don’t give me that look, princess. The woman I love ran away and decided to sleep somewhere else last night, only for me to find her sprawled over the omega and not in my bed. I’m allowed to be pissed.”
I relax only a fraction, because hearing the L word is officially my kryptonite. And, you know what, I really did mean it when I told Aero that I’m ruined. I’m so ruined that Alek kicked me out, told me to figure my shit out, and quit wasting time. I’m so ruined that I couldn’t even sleep without them. I’m so godsdamned ruined that I came crawling back at two o’clock in the morning just to find one of them and actually sleep, my eyes so sore from crying, and my heart aching, and pathetically homesick for my pack.
Rolling my eyes at the beta, catching his lips twitch only once, I mutter, “I came back, didn’t I? Quit your bitching. It’s too early for it.”
A deep, bone-tired sigh sounds from the doorway of the living room before Pace finally steps inside, and he lowers himself cautiously to the coffee table before his golden-honey eyes meet mine. My entire body tenses, through no fault of my own, and Pace catches the movement and winces before he softly, so painfully softly, asks, “Think you might consider hearing us out now?”
It’s the defeated look that blends heartbreakingly into hope that has me finally sitting up, Aero helping me into a seated position beside him. With a kiss to my temple that I don’t knock away like I probably should, he says, “I’ll get you some juice and bagels.”
He’s hurrying off to the kitchen before I can protest, unsure whether or not I’ll be able to eat anything with my stomach turning into knots, still feeling the pain today as fresh as I had yesterday.
Clearing my throat, I nod slowly and gesture to the alpha who claimed he wanted to bond with me and took a check from my mother instead. “Floor is yours, alpha.”
His eyes flash with momentary heat that sparks a flame in my chest, but I pretend it’s heartburn while I watch him as he watches me. From his back pocket, Pace produces a slip of paper. The very same one he accepted from my mother, and he places it gently in my lap without taking his eyes off me for a second. They’re as intense as they usually are, burning into me like a brand.
Breaking his gaze, I look down at the paper and instantly feel sick. Because that there is not twenty thousand fucking dollars. Shutting my eyes tight, I drop my finger onto the paper with a bit of a petulant stab, and mutter, “So, that’s more than I was expecting, too. Response valid.”
“We didn’t go there for that, Tink,” Pace promises, and my eyes open to find his boring into me. Licking his lip, he slides from the coffee table until he’s quite literally on his knees before me, points at the paper, and declares, “That? That means nothing to me. You know why?”
I feel like I might, but I’m stubborn and still nursing a really big wound, and so I shake my head. Like he knows I’m only being petulant, Pace’s lips twitch and he leans in closer to confess, “Because I have a woman, an omega, that I love right here, who is worth more than all the money in the world. That right there is a lot, but it doesn’t touch the sides of what you’re worth, Silver.”
My entire body stills as I stare at Pace, tears filling my eyes for a whole new reason than they had yesterday. Pace slowly smiles, and he hesitantly drops his hands to my thighs, before he says, “I wasn’t lying about bonding with you, Tink. I want that more than anything in the world, with you and no one else. I knew it weeks ago, because I spoke to Meemaw and asked for her blessing.”
Swallowing hard, my heart officially hammering rapidly against my rib cage, I ask, “When?”
Pace shrugs. “At the charity benefit when you were making out with Munro.”
The beta snorts before he takes a seat beside me, close enough that I feel the warmth of his body and can smell the faint notes of pine and citrus. It only distracts me for a second before I blow out a harsh breath and shake my head, rubbing my temple when an ache forms behind my eyes. “So, why did you take the money?”
Pace rubs my legs, dragging his warm palms up and down my thighs, as he explains, “I was too busy chasing after my girl to realize I still had it in my hand. Silver, we went there to make sure your mother wouldn’t bother you again. We want you to have a comfortable life without that woman hanging over your head, so Aero and I went to warn her away. You walked in just as she wrote the check and handed it to me. I never would have taken it, not in a million years.”
My eyebrows pinch as my thundering heart calms a little. “You… you were warning her away from… from me?”
The twins snicker, Munro sighs as though he can’t believe he’s found love with a dumbass, and Pace’s smile grows wider. “Yeah, I was, because one day, hopefully soon, we’re going to form bonds. Down the line, sometime in the future, we might have little Silvers running around the house. For all of that, I don’t want that woman to be a source of worry for you. No more random fucking meetings with packs that don’t stand a chance. No more petty bidding wars that make her feel good. No more bullshit and poison. I wanted us to start our lives together knowing that she wasn’t going to be a problem, and that you could finally let go and be who you want to be, with us by your side and that woman nothing but a bad memory.”
I’m struck stupid, rendered speechless, and I can only stare at Pace as the tears finally fall down my face. Sniffling and voice strained, I check, “So, I have been a dumbass?”
“Yeah,” Munro answers the same time the twins say, “No.”
Pace looks at the ceiling as if he’s praying for patience, but his lips are twitching more now, like he’s not trying too hard to keep his feelings bottled. Just then, Aero comes back to the living room carrying a plate of toasted bagels with cream cheese and a glass of apple juice, eyeing the scene before him before raising his eyebrows. “Does she know that we were threatening her mother now or…?”
“She knows,” Pace confirms, dropping those eyes back to me and my heart pieces itself right back together, glued together with the love I feel for them. I’m such an idiot. Alek was right, I was being stupid. If I’d taken a moment to stop and think, instead of reacting on sight, then I would have had this story hours ago and I certainly wouldn’t have had to go through the chaos of emotions that had me crying for hours on end. I wouldn’t have had to try sleeping alone for the first time in weeks, wouldn’t have had to doubt everything I thought I knew or understood about what was happening with my pack, and certainly wouldn’t have felt like my whole world was falling apart.
With a little whimper, I’m hauling myself from my seat and launching myself at Pace before I can talk myself out of it. My arms are banded around his shoulders, my face tucked into his neck, and my tears are soaking into his shirt in a matter of seconds, and it takes my alpha a moment to wrap me in his arms.
“I’m sorry,” I whisper against him, inhaling his smoke and leather scent in deep waves, shivering against him when one of his hands sneaks beneath my shirt and he holds me close.
“Don’t be sorry, Tink. I get why you thought what you did, and I don’t blame you. I’m just glad you’re home where you belong,” Pace rasps, dropping his head to my shoulder. “You’re our woman, Silver Gage. Our omega. We’re not giving you up without a fight, you hear?”
I nod against him, feeling emotional and so fucking lucky that they’re mine. That they still want me to be mine after my dumbassery.
Eventually, I pull back, my face wet with tears that Pace wipes away with a smile and a fond shake of his head. I trap his hands against my cheeks, his large hands framing my face, and I feel the love for this man explode in my chest. My breath escapes my lungs with the feeling that comes over me so suddenly, and I finally confess, “I love you, too, by the way.”
“Damn straight, you do, Tink,” Pace teases, grinning big now, the brightest smile I’ve ever seen on his face. It lights his features up so beautifully and I inhale sharply at the way his honey-gold eyes sparkle with the love that practically radiates from him as he watches me. “You’re ours, okay? We might not have a lot to offer, but we will love you harder than anyone ever has before. We’ll look after you, make sure you’re loved, cared for, and protected at all costs.”
“Okay,” I breathe, accepting that I’ve been a total dunce, and accepting that this pack, my pack, are the best things that have happened to me.
So, with that in mind, I lean in and press my lips against Pace, offering him another apology with my kisses. I sigh against him when I taste him, shivering as his purr breaks through his chest, rattling against me.
When he pulls back, it’s only enough to ask, “We good, Tink?”
“We’re good,” I promise, leaning in for another kiss, molding my lips to his and shivering when his purr deepens.
I’m yelling loudly when Pace hauls me up in his arms, my legs banding around his waist suddenly, and he laughs before declaring, “In that case, we have some making up to do. I need to replace the image of you crying with your heart broken with images of you crying for other reasons.”
Before I can protest, not that I would in the slightest, I’m being carried from the living room, up the stairs, and to my nest, a collection of footsteps following after us.
As soon as I’m locked away in my nest, the mingled scents of us all stronger here than anywhere in the house, Pace lowers me to the cushions, fitting himself between my legs as he hovers over my body with his larger frame. His gaze roams all over my face, searching for something, before he says, “You’re everything to me, Silver. Every fucking thing. Never doubt that, okay?”
I nod and drag him down to my body, surging up at the same time to kiss him. Before things can escalate, however, Aero shoves Pace away and mutters, “You’re hogging her. Give someone else their turn.”
“You had her all night, you shit,” Munro snaps, sending a disbelieving look over to Aero.
“We were sleeping, and that was only from two in the godsdamned morning,” Aero retorts, and suddenly it’s a verbal tennis match between them, the pair bickering like siblings over who gets to play with the toy they both like.
While they’re arguing and Pace is rubbing his hands over his face in exasperation, the twins take advantage and seize their moment, dragging me away from Pace before Rage hauls me up into his arms, twists until he’s sitting against a pile of cushions and sits with me in his lap. He flashes a rare grin at me, and I offer one back, my heart growing five times the size it was before. It only expands that much more when Haze sidles in behind me, pressing his chest along my back as he leans in to kiss my neck and wrap his arms around me from behind. “Missed you, gorgeous.”
I hum as a scattering of pleasure blooms where he’s kissing me, and I breathe, “I missed you.”
“How much?” Rage quickly inserts, his large hands clamping down on my hips as I lower myself to sitting. The moment I do, I feel the hardness of his cock through his sweatpants and cry out.
That sound silences the whole room as I breathe, “A lot.”
The twins chuckle and Haze leans in to whisper, “How about you prove it, gorgeous? Show us how much you missed us even when you were pissed at us.”
Goosebumps break out over my skin and a sudden wave of arousal tears a moan from my throat while my body grows slick and needy. My perfume floods the room so fast that it’s dizzying, my bubblegum aroma bursting from me with an intense need that damn near has me in a chokehold. Suddenly, the bickering stops, the room falls silent, and I open my eyes to find all five sets of intense gazes pinning me in place between Haze and Rage.
Aero is the first to move, dropping to his knees beside me and the twins, and flooding me with his scent that grows as dense and as heady as mine. He leans in, brushing his lips across my ear and he reaches a hand for my lower belly, and he softly asks, “What do you say, baby? You forgive us enough to give you what you want?”
There’s literally no pause when I nod, my breathing already picking up with the pace my arousal seems to be growing. I already know I’m soaked between my legs. It doesn’t take much at all these days, a simple heated look from either one of my guys sending me headfirst into a spiral of lust and desire. “There’s nothing to forgive. But if you still want to make it up to me, then I’m good with that, too.”
Aero chuckles against my ear, and my body shivers almost violently as more of my perfume spreads through the room around us. “It would be our pleasure.”
He’s backing off suddenly and, before I can ask where he’s going, Haze is turning me and hauling me into his bare arms before I have the chance to utter a single word. My skin connects with his with a wild rush of warmth, and it takes me a second to realize he’s stripped down until there isn’t a single item of clothing on his body.
“Oh, fuck,” I breathe, eyeing every inch of his broad shoulders, sexy muscles, and tapered waist that leads to a shaft I can feel pressed between us, the tip of his already hardened cock pressing against my lower belly.
“A single night was too long to go without you, gorgeous. If I don’t have to wait to sink into that pussy of yours again, then I’m not going to,” he gruffly admits, grinning at me with dark, stormy-blue eyes filled with enough heat to start a house fire.
I shake my head, wrapping my arms around him. “No waiting.”
“Then let's get you naked,” he grunts, right before a pair of strong hands reaches for my shirt from behind me.
The scent of rhubarb, sweet, tart, and earthy, reaches me just as Rage tugs my shirt free quickly, revealing my bare breasts that receive a choir of hot, manly groans of approval, my lack of bra a hit as always. His hands then travel south, to where my boy shorts sit snugly around my hips, and he asks, “These got any sentimental value to you, Sunshine?”
Frowning, I shake my head, and the bastard is quite literally tearing them from my body before I can comprehend what he’s doing.
“Oh, my god,” I gasp, my wide eyes finding Haze’s desire-filled gaze after watching my shorts disappear in a scrap of tattered material.
“No waiting, right?” Haze teases, right before he lifts my body with a display of strength that has desire filling me bodily, notches his hard cock at my entrance, and lets gravity do its thing. I’m sinking down on his length with a long, thready moan, my walls gripping him tight as I adjust to the sheer size of him. Another round of groans greets me, and I look over to the others, finding them stripping quickly of their clothes as they watch my body take Haze greedily.
As soon as Haze bottoms out inside me, his knot already swollen and rubbing against my sensitive opening, I know that I won’t last. The tease of his knot, the feel of him filling me, his large hands holding me at my hips and waist, it already has my first orgasm rearing its head, crawling towards me quickly and adamantly.
“You gonna come just by feeling my cock, gorgeous?” Haze grunts, and I clench around him in answer. His chuckle is filthy, laced with arousal, and I’m pushed that much closer to a climax when he says, “Don’t hold back, Silver. We’re going to have you coming all day, and all night, until you can’t keep your eyes open any longer. Maybe even past then.”
“Fuck,” I gasp, my walls tightening around him as I draw nearer and nearer to climaxing.
“You like that idea, gorgeous? Us taking you even while you’re asleep? You’d still feel us, I’m sure. This tight, little body taking us while you rest,” Haze drawls with a husky voice, grinning a dirty grin that sends me careening over the edge with a fucking wail of pleasure that I’m sure would be heard from three streets over. I never knew I had a dormaphilia kink, but, apparently, I’m discovering new things about myself, discovering my likes and dislikes along with my pack.
“Shit, yeah. Just like that,” Haze grunts as I come hard, my nails digging into his shoulders as I pull around him with a gush of slick and cum.
Before I can even come down from the high, Rage is at my back, taking a hold of my waist. He bands one arm around me, lined beneath my breasts, and he tugs me back until I’m leaning on him while the other hand glides over my body and ends its journey at the apex of my thighs.
I’m panting for breath and still fluttering around Haze as I watch Rage’s fingers reach for my clit, just as he roughly demands, “Give him another one, Sunshine. I need you soaking, relaxed, and loose.”
I cry out, my head falling back against his shoulder, as he circles my clit with a perfect amount of pressure just as Haze grips my ass tightly and starts fucking me with slow, effortless pumps of his hips. I can feel him everywhere, dragging out the aftershocks, sending my mind into a tailspin of desire that swarms my body while Rage’s fingers send me soaring higher and higher with a need so desperate that I can’t help the wild noises escaping my mouth.
“That’s a good, little omega,” Rage growls in my ear, his stubbled jaw brushing over the sensitive skin of my neck. “You’re taking him so well, Sunshine. So fucking well. Come for him again and I’ll sink into that sweet ass of yours so you can take us both. See how good we can make you feel together.”
Fuck me, they’re already making me feel good enough that I can’t catch my breath, my body quaking with it, but the thought of taking Haze and Rage at the same time seems to trigger something inside me and I’m crying out as Haze hits a spot deep inside me that sends me into an orgasm that blindsides me and steals all of the air from my lungs. I’m coming hard, grinding against Haze’s knot with every thrust he makes that pumps him deep inside me.
“Fuck, yes, gorgeous. You feel so fucking good,” he growls, pulling me away from Rage and dragging my shaking body over his as he lies down against the blankets and pillows that make up my nest. “Think you can take more?”
I’m nodding rapidly, almost desperate for more. I’ve never taken anyone in my ass before, but I’m an omega who isn’t shy about sex. I’ve experimented, and I know enough about anal to know that I might die if I don’t have Rage sinking into my ass in the next five seconds.
A collective growl of approval sounds out around the room, and I glance over at Pace as he lounges lazily to my right, cock in hand as he strokes slowly and steadily with his heated, honey eyes pinning me in place with such intensity it’s a miracle I don’t go up in flames.
Munro and Aero are to my right, both bare and watching me just as closely. Munro is gripping his cock tightly as his eyes roam over my body, cataloguing every inch and committing it to memory as Rage runs his hands up and down my back at the same time Haze starts fucking into me from below. Aero lies back with his arms outstretched, his whole body on display for my hungry eyes. His cock twitches as I run my eyes all over him, already leaking heavily with precum, and my mouth waters with the need to taste him.
A slow, filthy grin appears on his mouth, and he says, “Let me watch you take two alphas like a good girl and I’ll give you my cock, baby.”
I moan, and my body reacts by gushing more slick around Haze, making him growl with approval.
“You wet enough for me, Sunshine?” Rage asks, pressing into me, his cock as hard as stone and wedged between my asscheeks with a taste of promise.
“She’s wet enough, brother. Holy shit,” Haze groans, his speed picking up as he pumps in and out of me with a maddening pace. When I start clenching around him again, he grunts, “You better fucking move it if you want in on this, bro. She’s already squeezing me tight enough that I know she’s about to come again.”
“Fuck,” Rage grunts, right before I feel his hand drop between Haze and me. His grunt turns into a maddening growl as he finds the mess between my legs, and as he scoops my slick up in his fingers, he leans over my back and demands, “You stay nice and relaxed for me, Sunshine, okay?”
I nod and feel his hand brushing my ass as he slicks his cock up with my juices as lube, right before he notches his tip at my tight hole and slowly, very fucking slowly, pushes inside. It’s a stretch, and I cry out as he breeches the tight ring of muscle that has only ever seen sex toys, trying to breathe steadily as I take every inch of cock with painstaking slowness.
By the time Rage bottoms out, I’m a trembling mess of need, and Haze is no better. “Shit, I can feel you inside her, bro. She’s fucking tighter, too. Fuck.”
Rage snickers, and my body clenches at the sound, turning that snicker into a grunt that has me smiling and panting through waves of pleasure that wash over me. “Just wait until I start fucking her.”
Giving me a couple of minutes to adjust, Rage curls his body over mine, tucking his face into the crook of my neck with teasing bites and kisses that have my body reacting, and just as he scrapes his teeth over the sensitive flesh, he pulls his shaft from inside me, before slowly gliding back in.
“Ah, shit,” Haze groans, his grip on my hips tightening until I’m sure I’ll have bruises to wear proudly tomorrow.
“See what you do to us, Sunshine?” Rage growls against me, pinching my flesh between his teeth and setting off a fresh blast of pleasure through my body while my body clenches around them both at the promise of being bonded right here and now.
I find that the idea doesn’t scare me or set a flurry of nerves off in my stomach. In fact, the idea of the twins biting me right now, marking me as theirs forever, sets off the orgasm that had only been teasing the edges of my mind. The idea of belonging to them in every sense of the word pushes me over the ledge. I want that. I want to be theirs, to wear their marks in my skin forever.
I’m coming hard and fast, pulsing around my two alphas, crying out as I’m assaulted by waves of pleasure. And as the two fuck me in tandem, drawing me to higher and higher heights, I decide that I want those bonds. Fuck, there’s nothing I want more than cementing our pack as a whole unit, and sharing the rest of my life with these men.
“Do it,” I whisper through aftershocks. “Bite me.”
Rage only pauses for a split second before he’s snarling around my skin, growling as he fucks me harder. Haze’s pace quickens from beneath me, dragging out my pleasure, and he surges up to the other side of my neck to graze his teeth over my aching flesh.
“You sure, gorgeous?” he strains, as though he wants what I want so desperately but he’s forcing himself to double check.
Breathless and still being bulldozed by pleasure, I nod and pant, “I love you. I love both of you. I want this. Bite me.”
It’s all they need before they sink their teeth into my flesh, forming a bond between us that will never be broken.