Chapter 44
W hile Miles and Diego were occupied, I stole Callie away for a much-needed bath. I was honestly surprised Miles had held it together as long as he had, though the strength of his rut had been impressive. I’d almost worried Callie wouldn’t be able to take a fucking that intense, but she’d come on repeat like a champ, her slick protecting her from Miles doing any damage. She might need to sit on an ice pack for a while once this was all finished, though.
I’d filled up the bath when it looked like things were finally calming down out there, and Callie stretched out in my arms in the massive soaker tub. She hummed happily, brushing the edge of lucidity. Her heat spikes had been longer this heat. I wasn’t quite sure if that was because it was her first natural heat with alphas, or if Diego’s bonding had kicked it off.
I made Callie sip from a water bottle while we soaked, lounging in the tepid bath. I didn’t want it to be too hot when her skin was already burning up.
“You awake yet, princess?”
“Mostly,” she replied, stretching further and rolling her ankles.
“I want to talk to you.”
Callie laughed quietly. “Ominous.”
“It’s nothing bad,” I promised.
“Okay.” She sighed and tipped her face up, nuzzling my cheek with her nose.
“I’ve been thinking. This pack is my family, I’m closer to them than any blood, and I’ve realized that there’s no pack without you.” I breathed in her sweet scent and traced patterns over her skin. “I had no intention of bonding you when we came here, but after seeing Diego and Miles get their teeth in you, it’s all I can think about.”
As if on instinct, she tipped her head to the side, baring her throat to me. I dropped my mouth and slid my tongue up the column of her neck. I didn’t dare use my teeth.
“What do you think about bonding?”
She relaxed a little deeper. “I think I might like an ‘I love you’ before we crack open our souls to each other.”
I couldn’t help but laugh. “I’ve never told any partner I loved them before.”
“Have you told your pack you love them?”
“Yeah, but that’s different.”
“Is it? We’re pack.”
“Does getting fucked into unconsciousness turn you into a brat?”
Callie giggled. “Maybe.”
“What I feel for you…I’ve never felt for anyone else, ever. I want to be with you, body and soul. I want to continue learning every detail of your life, your hopes and fantasies. I want to take care of you until I’m put in the ground.”
Callie’s sigh was deep and luxurious, her fingers snaking up to cup the back of my head. “It’s okay if you can’t say the words.”
It wasn’t, though. I hadn’t heard it much growing up, and she probably hadn’t heard it nearly enough in her last relationship. Withholding it from her just because I was scared wasn’t fair.
“You’re it for me. There’s no point in denying it.” I laced our fingers together and brought her hand up so I could kiss the back of it. “You’ve been far sweeter to me than I deserved with how I behaved when you came onto the scene. I felt it from the start but was too fucking stubborn to accept it, but I think…” I sighed. “It feels so much better not to fight it, to just let you in.”
Callie wriggled around in my arms until we were face-to-face.
“I do love you,” I promised. “I genuinely have no idea what else I’d call what I feel. I’ve just been a cranky chickenshit about it.” I toyed with the wet ends of her hair, wrapping it around my fingertip. “I want to be your alpha.”
She cupped my cheeks, drawing me in for a kiss that stole my breath. “I love you too.”
“I don’t have to bond you today,” I said quietly. I wanted to, though. The whole pack had that connection with her and I wanted to be part of it. The thought of waiting another three months for a chance made my stomach twist.
“What if I want it to be today?” Her eyes were bright and focused on me, no sign of the heat hormones driving that decision.
“Do I have to do it on stage?” I’d take her any way she’d have me, and maybe I was feeling sentimental, but I wanted to avoid the spectacle for this.
Callie tipped her head, showing off her throat where Diego’s bondbite sat alone, space for mine right alongside it. “Do it right here.”
My cock hardened so quickly it smacked her, setting off a fresh bout of giggles. My teeth ached as I drew her onto my lap. I didn’t slide into her, knowing that had been the trigger point for Miles to go into a rut, and I was not going to let that happen while I was in the bath with her.
Callie’s smile was content and she relaxed entirely against me, purring as I kissed my way from her shoulder to the top of her throat, carefully avoiding Diego’s bite. My instincts were a dull roar in my ears, demanding I claim her.
“Amir,” Callie whispered, “take me.”
I licked the space above Diego’s bite and set my teeth against her skin, shaking with the effort not to tear into it. Her fingers curled in my hair, the soft press a silent encouragement.
I bit down until I broke the skin, and Callie convulsed in my arms with a cry of pleasure before her teeth sank into my throat in turn. Pleasure hit me like a truck, my body tensing and my cock emptying into the bathwater. The brilliant light of her exploded in my chest, and I couldn’t help but feel like an idiot for having been afraid of this. All that sweet affection washed over me like waves on the shore, leaving me smooth, all the sharpest edges of my worry smoothed away in the wake of her.
All the warmth of Callie, and the delicate tendrils of the rest of my pack reaching out poured into me, the five points snapping into place, a constellation connected like it was always meant to be. I was complete, at peace in a way that made me never want to move from this spot.
Callie licked my throat, sending shivers through me. Her purr was like a buzzsaw.
Kai appeared in the doorway, an anxious Diego and Miles on his heels.
“Welcome to the pack 2.0,” Kai said with a grin. “Are you gonna go into a rut too?”
“I feel in control at the moment.”
“Good. We should still get back out there, though, just in case. If you’re going to rock Callie’s world, the audience will want to see it.”
Kai helped extract her from the bath, and the five of us tumbled back out onto the stage while the audience was getting settled. Desire pounded like a drum through my body as Callie slipped into another heat spike.
“Fucking hell.” I tried to breathe through the surge that came through the bond, but there was no helping it. I descended on Callie instantly. The water had washed most of her slick away, but the spike brought more, easing my way into her. She arched like a bow and the rest of the pack fell upon her.
We had little finesse in the way we crowded around her, rearranging her so we could all get somewhere. Diego propped her up on my lap to work his way into her ass, Kai going straight for her clit while she pawed at Miles to get his cock into her mouth. Once Diego was fully seated, he lay back, drawing Callie down on top of him, and I followed along, fucking her while she was sprawled over him. Her fingers curled around Kai’s cock, her body containing all four of us in some manner or another. It was a hell of a snug fit with Diego wedged up her ass and my knot threatening before I’d even come.
Her pussy squeezed me with every twitch of her muscles at the attention the pack was giving her. She looked so fucking beautiful while she was being used.
“Our perfect omega,” I whispered. “All ours.”
I grabbed hold on her thighs and rode her while the others did their best to make her come, unraveling Callie in an endless cascade that eroded my self-control.
I clung to the edges of reality, desperate to stay focused and present. I bucked as hard as my instincts wanted, huffing her scent, overwhelmed by the torrent of need that came from every angle in the bond. Kai spilled first, painting her skin with cum that shone under the stage lights. Miles followed next, emptying down her throat, a trail of white dripping over her cheek. Then Diego, Callie erupting as his knot filled her, the pressure setting me off a second later, my own knot locking Callie and me together.
Desperation burned through me. Kai kept teasing her clit, and I was certain my orgasm wasn’t going to stop with the way Callie’s cunt kept clamping down on my knot. I was breathing so hard spots danced in my vision. Callie begged for more and I wasn’t sure how that was even possible.
I sank down onto Diego’s legs and tapped Kai, dragging him to wedge himself in front of me. I leaned back as far as I could to accommodate while I battled for coherency, Callie’s body giving way to Kai’s fingers somehow wedging into her with me already filling her up.
“You really want more, little dove?” Kai asked.
“Yes!” She shuddered, rolling her hips between Diego and me.
Kai huffed out a nervous breath. “Okay. Be a good omega for me and stay still.”
No one moved. I barely breathed as Kai patiently created space for himself, his fingers pushing Callie’s limits while she mewled and shook, doing her best to obey his instruction. The audience was silent and watching to see if he’d actually make it inside our omega with my knot already in there. It shouldn’t really have been possible, but there was something to be said for a determined omega. She whined and shivered the whole time, her scent thick as a fog around us.
All at once, Kai’s cock breached the seal of my knot, the pressure setting all three of us off, Diego following after as Callie’s body contracted around him.
“Fucking fuck fuck !” I listened to the sound of everyone’s frantic breathing, the slurp of Callie getting her mouth back on Miles and triggering his knot as well, though he blessedly had the foresight to pull out before it swelled behind her teeth.
Four cocks in an omega. We’d never done that before, but considering how tenacious Callie had been, it probably wouldn’t be the last time we tried this.
Time warped and faded, marked only by spikes of heat and pleasure. I lost myself in the taste and feel of our omega, drowning in the affection that flooded the bond. It cascaded in waves as we carried Callie through the final hours of her heat, giving her every ounce of pleasure she demanded and then some.
She was so perfect, and for once I didn’t question it. It was impossible to question if I had made the right choice in bonding her because the reality was that I felt the truth and rightness of that decision in every ounce of my being. The pack ebbed and flowed through the bond, wrapping around one another in the ancient dance of alpha and omega.
It was just Callie and I at the tail end of the heat, and I leaned down to whisper in her ear, nipping her sensitive skin as my hips rolled lazily to drive my cock into her.
“I love you, princess.”
Callie shuddered as she came again and locked all of her limbs around me, pulling my mouth to hers. “I love you. ”