Chapter 43
FORTY-THREE
THISTLE
“Oh…” Well. Shit. “Hi.”
Ace was staring at the closed door behind my back.
I took a step away since I’d crashed right into him, but his hand closed around my neck.
“ When did you go in there?”
“Uh… a while ago. Daddy’s really strict about punishment.”
I saw his lip curl at the name, but I perked up, inhaling crashing thunderclouds, a buzz of excitement thrumming in my veins as I sensed a rare thing from my god Alpha: jealousy .
“You know,” I whispered. “I never told you this before, but the collar really suits you.”
He lost it.
Next thing I knew, I was slung over his shoulder, a shriek in my chest (he didn’t spank me despite the ease of access, but we’d get there) as he carried me back to his room.
He dropped me onto the bed and pounced after me, pinning me to the sheets as he tossed Bunny to the foot of the bed.
Thank you, Saint Knox! I sent a happy prayer up to the heavens. I’d never even think about not listening to him again. In fact, I knew there were still hidden cameras in here even if he thought he was rid of them. No way did Knox trust Ace in this house without.
Ace saw me scanning the walls and spun.
Oh. Shit .
“Bunny!” I whined, trying to distract him.
What was wrong with giving Knox a show? He’d made all of this possible.
Maybe Rogue was watching, too.
But Ace had followed my gaze to the small black object in the bookcase—I’d just guessed based on the camera positioning when Knox had shown me the feed before. He reached for his bedside table, and before I could protest, the air was split with loud gunshots as he fired at the camera.
Oh, dammit .
He was back on top of me in a moment, eyes wild as he dragged my panties down, manhandling me like an Alpha possessed.
He froze when he spotted the gem of the plug Knox had left. The growl he let out was like nothing I’d ever heard. Before I knew it, he’d flipped me to my front, fist in my hair.
I wiggled my hips, panting as slick wet my thighs. I whined deep in my chest, needing him.
“What happened?” Ace asked, tip of his cock lined up with my entrance.
Fuck.
I tried to push back, but he had me pinned too tightly. “Told me to choke on his cock while you talked to him— Ugh !” I gasped as he entered me without warning.
“You will never do that again.”
“Can’t promise nothing !” I whimpered, muffled as he slammed in, crushing my face into the blankets.
“That Alpha isn’t bitten in yet.”
That Alpha?
Daddy?
How fucking dare he. “He would be if you were better at your job.”
Ace actually stopped, fury rocketing through the bond. “What did you just say?”
“Bunny!” I whimpered. “ Fuck me!” I tried to push back onto him, but he wasn’t having it.
“What did you say?”
“I want her dead,” I hissed. “I want my Alpha! You’re supposed to be good enough to?—”
He clamped a hand over my mouth, driving back into me so hard I almost saw stars. “You’re getting ahead of yourself, Omega.”
I was not .
Mentally, I gave him one huge shove into madness. It was meant to make a point, and I wasn’t expecting it to work so quickly, but he lost it in moments, mind slipping away. I broke his grip enough to turn around, chest heaving as I stared up at him.
I sat up, hand touching his throat. He cocked his head, wild eyes watching me intently. I don’t know what came over me, but I shoved him down onto the bed. I climbed over him, one hand planted on the sheets, the other fisting his hair and tilting his head back.
He was an Alpha to his bones, and right now feral instincts pushed him to act. He gripped me by the thighs, dragging me up and over him. His tongue found my clit, and I kept one fist tight in his hair as I gasped, stars shooting through my veins as I rode him.
That was when the plug still in my ass began vibrating. I moaned, almost collapsing, eyes darting up as I scanned the room.
Ace hadn’t taken out all the cameras.
“Fuck…” I don’t think I’d ever been so turned on in my life—Knox watching as Ace ate me out while I was still dripping his cum down my thighs.
Was Rogue maybe watching, too?
Ace’s tongue dragged up my center, and I saw stars. The orgasm hit fast, just enough to rip him back from madness as I came, a moan shuddering bone deep as I collapsed.
I could hear each of his deep breaths, feel the rage burning through the bond, uncontained, as he sat up, processing what had happened.
The plug had stopped vibrating.
Finally, he rose to his feet. I rolled onto my back to face him, steadying my breath. We stared at each other for a long moment. “He’s mine,” I breathed, chest heaving. “And if he doesn’t get into this pack, you’ll never live another day sane.”
I think he knew, through the wide-open bond, how much I meant it.
His eyes lit with rage. But he grabbed my hips, turning me on my front again and dragging me to the edge of the bed. I was swallowed by a wave of relief.
I smiled, eyes rolling back as he drove his length right to the knot.
He still wanted me.
I whined as he rammed into my core, his fingers curling around my neck, breath brushing my ear as he set a vicious pace.
“If it was between me or him, who would you obey?” he asked.
“I… Fuck .” He drove in again.
He let go, leaning back, and I gasped as his fingers found the plug.
“I…” I was panting as he slammed in, dizzy with lust as he tugged on it. “I don’t… know.”
He growled, and I let out a moan as he pulled again on the toy, the sensation too much.
My eyes rolled back as he fucked me with the tip of it, my slick making it slide around too easily.
Then he tossed it aside and drove his length into my cunt one last time, right to the knot. He stretched me over him, and— damn .
I climaxed again, seizing around him with a whimper, body shaking with so much pleasure it was hard to think straight as he stretched me around his knot and locked me against him.
I must have squeezed him really tight, because he finished too, rocking into me, a low growl in his throat as he came, pinning me against the sheets.
Fuck…
That was so hot.
So, so fucking hot.
I dragged the sheets over us, holding him tight as our breathing slowed, hearts thudding in sync.
He’d knotted me.
I was heady with happiness as he settled in beside me, holding me against his chest. We lay in the quiet, our breathing levelling out together.
I couldn’t read him through the bond now; it was locked down tight. How mad was he?
It was a while before I spoke after his knot had released me. He was tugging his boxers back on, but I didn’t want this over yet. Was he going to make me leave?
I reached over, picking up Bunny and glancing up at Ace anxiously. “I didn’t just scent match Rogue, you picked him too, right?” I asked.
Ace snorted. “I asked Rogue to join my pack a long time ago.”
“And you had no idea that he’d go and scent match me.”
“No.”
“So we kinda both picked him?” I asked.
Ace considered me. “You could say that.”
“But Knox is my pick.”
There was a long silence.
“Do…?” I hesitated. “Do you promise you have a way for him to join the pack?”
“I said I did.”
“Are you holding out?”
Ace considered me carefully. “I’m not delaying it.”
“You swear ?”
He rolled his eyes. “I swear, Omega.”
I was worried. There was still a small… small chance that he’d risk trying to get rid of Knox, and hope somehow I’d forgive him eventually…
How much did he truly resent that I’d chosen this time?
I got to my feet, pressing a hand to his chest. He released a breath at the touch, ice-blue eyes caught on mine.
“It’s just… one Alpha,” I whispered. “You picked all the others.”
He was impossible to read as he stared at me.
I chewed on my lip. “If you sleep in my nest for the night, that collar will be off by the morning.”
He narrowed his eyes, then his gaze fell to Bunny in my other hand. My heart dropped.
“No!” I tried to tug Bunny away, but he’d already seized him. “Don’t you dare !” I hissed, trying to rip him back. “Go rooting through Bunny’s pouch and I’ll send you back to oblivion.”
“Let go— Fuck !” He swore, body lurching as his scent spiked, the fresh lightning storm becoming a tempest in the air. I’d grabbed onto his essence in the bond and sent it into madness again.
A low growl ripped from his body as he released Bunny, fingers closing around my arm instead. I looked up at him in fury. His chest heaved, ice-blue eyes faint for a moment, then present.
Finally, as I came down from my short-lived tantrum, he calmed, looking truly hateful.
We were both realising just how easy it was to make him feral. I had to stifle a smile despite his fury.
“Sorry, Bunny…” I whispered. I reached up, and he flinched, the full flood of his fury suddenly twisting his expression. Still, he didn’t speak or move as if he’d turned to stone. “It’s just one night in my nest?”
I could really use that from him…
“ One night,” he spat at last.
I released a breath of relief and tried not to squeal in excitement.
Once we were in the nest, Ace didn’t seem to mind much.
He was patient as I made a huge den around us so it felt as cosy as possible.
I’d always been too nervous before when we’d lived in his place, worried he’d think it was childish.
But my instincts made Rogue and Knox happy so… maybe he’d like it?
He didn’t complain as I dragged him in and he held me close.
The scent of a fresh lightning storm was oddly wild, even though I wasn’t making him feral anymore.
Okay. The nest was good.
It was easy, with him there, to tumble off into sleep.
Sometimes I’d be woken in the night by his touch across my skin, rubbing over the fading bites he’d given me earlier. Whenever it happened, I got goosebumps, snuggling closer, inhaling his possessive scent.
He stayed until the morning, and I held my god Alpha tight, feeling like all the pieces of my pack were finally coming together.
And in the morning, I plucked the key to the collar from Bunny’s pouch.