31. Loki
31
LOKI
M y lamb was shaking in my arms as I kicked in the door to our hotel suite and carried her inside. I’d had to wrestle her away from Alex and Jasper, and I almost punched Alex in the face when he’d resisted. My pack leader instincts were riding me hard to claim my omega before the others, and those assholes had worked her right to the brink on the thirty-minute drive from the Palisades to downtown.
“Where are we?” Seraphina asked, her sweet lips brushing along the heated skin of my neck, her scent blooming again. Those sex-drenched rum-and-cherry pheromones had nearly driven me to madness on the drive.
“Our prison,” I replied, chuckling. “This very swanky three-bedroom suite is in the Dorada Hotel downtown. Our parents rented it from top to bottom and have turned several of its conference rooms into Sentinel’s local headquarters.”
Alex and Jasper breezed in behind us. Jasper hooked the Do Not Disturb sign on the knob and slammed the door. The two of them prowled through the living room area, treading across the colorful rug and skirting the Mexican-tiled coffee table. Alex shrugged off his suit jacket and tossed it on the turquoise couch before darting into the bedroom designated as his.
I rumbled a warning at Jasper as he approached us, but he ignored me, dipping to kiss Sera’s forehead. “Blaze and I are going to gather some of our clothes and extra pillows from our bedrooms and attempt, once again, to make you a nest in a strange place. I’m sorry this keeps happening, Little Flame, but we certainly weren’t going to fuck you at your parents’ house or in your dorm room.”
She sighed happily in my arms. “It’s okay. As long as it’s a comfy mattress with stuff that smells like you three, it’ll be perfect.”
“Coming right up,” Jasper replied with a sexy grin. He dropped a kiss on her lips, and his hand wandered up her leg where it was draped over my arm.
“Cut it out,” I snapped.
He just laughed softly, eyes sparkling as he stared at our girl. “Our fearless leader is in the throes of the instinct, sweetheart. Once he gets inside his omega, he’ll settle down.”
No lie detected. “Go help Alex with her nest.”
“Yes, sir,” he purred.
He wrapped a hand around my neck and yanked me into a rough kiss, and Sera hummed her approval. I took a moment to center myself in this familiar place, stroking Jasper’s tongue with mine and taking a long drag of his spicy, comforting scent.
I nipped him with my teeth. “Get moving,” I growled.
He laughed and sauntered off into the largest bedroom to assist Alex. That room was officially mine, though one or both of the guys had slept with me most nights while we’d been trapped here, climbing the walls and missing our omega.
I took a moment to peer down again at the beautiful woman I cradled in my arms like the treasure she was. Her emerald eyes were hooded from both exhaustion and extreme horniness, if her luscious scent was anything to go by. She stared up at me adoringly, stroking my jaw with her little hand.
What lucky fucking assholes we were.
We hadn’t known what to expect tonight. Seraphina had managed some creative tactics to avoid our forced meetings, and we’d thought there was a good chance that she’d pull off something truly impressive to avoid the choosing gala. If she’d unleashed chaos, our plan had been to escape in the middle of it, throw on the casual clothes we’d stashed in the car, and chase her back to her dorm or wherever she went to ground.
But my dad had insisted she’d have real motivation to show up this time to officially begin our courtship. He wouldn’t tell me what that motivation was, so I’d punched him in his smug face.
Once we’d surveyed the party and realized Jericho had been the one tasked with getting Sera to us, we’d known the jig was finally up. She was going to find out who we really were, and we could only hope she wasn’t armed with anything sharp when she did.
But when my lamb had walked into the room, arm in arm with her demon father, wearing the regal bearing she was born with, the hint of sorrow in her eyes had turned my insides to ice.
I knew, without a doubt, that we’d done that to her.
With our continued participation in this scheme to shove her into a bond with a strange pack her parents had chosen for her.
By disappearing on her right after a heat event without a word.
Or, perhaps, by not telling her how we felt about her a long time ago. Fuck our carefully laid plans, and fuck our parents.
And yet, somehow, after everything, we were able to fight through her tears and bring back that luminous smile we loved right there on the floor of her parents’ house.
Now she was here, snuggled tight in my arms while Alex and Jasper gathered nesting items for her.
Because she’d agreed to be ours.
She loved us, just as we loved her.
“How come you weren’t having these weird possessive pack leader urges during my mini-heat?” she asked me. She brushed a lock of my hair away from my forehead, and I shivered under her delicate touch. “You let the others have me first. And I have to imagine your Alpha hindbrain was riding you even harder then.”
“It was,” I agreed. “But I think it felt different because we were in emergency mode, needing to help you through this thing that was forced on you. The urge was to control the situation, and as long as your needs were being seen to by one of us, my Alpha was satisfied. Now, however—” I dipped to steal a raw, hungry kiss. She moaned against my lips, and the erection I’d endured since the second Jasper had slipped his hand down her dress went from painful to excruciating. “—you’ve agreed to be ours . To join our pack and become our omega. It doesn’t matter that I’ve already had the pleasure of knotting you. I’m this pack’s leader, and I’ll be the first to sink my knot into my omega’s tight, slick pussy, which I know is aching for me now. Isn’t that right, Lamb?”
Her pale cheeks flushed, and she licked her lips. “Take me to my nest, Gabriel, ” she demanded. “Now.”
I would never deny my lamb anything, so away we went.
We found Alex and Jasper piling shirts, sweatshirts, and pillows on the plush king-sized bed. I set Seraphina on her feet so she could survey her nest.
“Hmm,” she said, walking slowly toward the bed, kicking her sexy little shoes off as she went. “I think I can work with this.”
Alex and Jasper stood on either side of the bed, watching her slink forward like two men who’d just crawled across the desert and come upon an oasis. She regarded them just as hungrily.
“Blaze, will you unzip me?” she asked coyly, coming to a stop at his side. She slid the shiny curtain of her bright red hair over her shoulder and gave him her back.
“With pleasure, querida.” He made quick work of her zipper, and her black dress fell in a heap around her ankles.
She stepped quickly away from his wandering hands, instead moving to crawl with purposeful slowness onto the bed.
Now clad only in a lacy black bra and a matching scrap of a thong, she tended to her nest. Her creamy tits nearly spilled from the cups of her bra, and her round, toned ass teased us as she moved around the bed, fluffing a ring of pillows.
“Jesus,” Jasper swore. “Little Flame, you are so unbelievably fucking stunning.”
“Lamb,” I growled. “Did you wear that lingerie for the Montgomery Pack? Were you going to tease them with that sexy little body to get back at Loki, Blaze, and Hawk for disappearing on you?”
She brought one of the T-shirts in the nest to her face and inhaled. Her eyes closed, the scent— my scent, because it was my fucking shirt—giving her the pleasure and comfort she craved.
“I wore this lingerie for me,” she replied, tucking the shirt neatly in the corner. “Black, just like my dress. I was mourning the Seraphina who was so impervious to Alphas and their bullshit. Who didn’t want a pack and couldn’t have been happier about it.” She rose to her knees and arched her back, reaching behind her for her bra clasp.
She snapped her bra off and tossed it aside. All three of us released a pained groan as the best tits in the world appeared in front of us.
“I should make you three stand there, outside my nest, and watch me get myself off,” she went on, running a hand absently down her taut stomach. “I should forbid you to touch me as punishment for your lies. For managing to break my heart before you put it back together tonight.”
I stripped off my suit jacket and began to loosen my tie. I dared a few steps toward the nest. She held my stare, challenging me. Her inner fire burned so hot that I could practically feel the flames.
“Sera,” I said in a low voice, “the fact that our actions caused you pain makes me want to ram my fist through the wall and then set this entire hotel on fire. I want to give my father another black eye to match the first one.” I ripped my tie off and began unbuttoning my shirt. “I’ll spend my life making it up to you, and so will Blaze and Hawk.” My belt was next, and then I slid my pants down my legs. Once I was clad only in my boxer briefs, I knelt at the foot of the bed. “With your permission, I’d like to start now.”
She crawled toward me, those heavy tits swaying gently, threatening to hypnotize me into doing absolutely anything she asked. She sat on the edge of the bed, letting her legs fall open just enough that I could slot my body right in between them and wrap my hands around her hips. Humming thoughtfully, she ran her hand over my chest and down my abs. “You really punched your dad in the face for keeping you from me?”
“Yes, and I’d do it fifty more times if I had to. Especially now that I know you were hurting, Lamb. I’m so sorry.”
A frown tugged at her pink lips. “You did say during my heat that it wasn’t what you wanted. After you disappeared, that rattled around in my head a little too much.”
Jasper sighed, and Alex rumbled a frustrated noise.
“Baby,” I said softly, “we wanted you from day one. Of course we did. But we came down here determined to keep our hands off you so that we could get to know one another without all the Alpha-omega bullshit. And it didn’t feel right to sleep with you again while we weren’t being particularly honest about who we were.”
Alex chuckled. “Except we were really fucking terrible at keeping our hands off you.”
“We really were,” I agreed. “And there was no way we were going to let you suffer a heat event alone. Fuck the plan.”
“We just hated that you were forced into sex with us, Little Flame,” Jasper added. “We’d had this fantasy that we’d solve our case, bring down the bad guys, then we’d all be together after we came clean. Of course, in this delusion, you’d just fall into our arms instead of kicking our asses for being less than truthful with you.”
She glanced over my shoulder at Jasper, then at Alex before her emerald gaze settled back on me. She was thoughtful for a moment. “I understand,” she said finally. “And it’s not like I told you how I was feeling about you either. I desperately wanted you to see me first and foremost as a professional and an asset to the team, not a spoiled omega trying to get her hooks into some hot Alphas. Maybe if I’d have said something sooner, you’d have tossed your plan out the window and told me what was going on.” She shook her head ruefully. “Or if I hadn’t dropped a blast ball on you that first night.”
I grinned. “I’m glad you did. We can’t say we didn’t enjoy the chase, Lamb.”
All mirth bled from her, and her stare bore into me with a ferocity that made me shiver. She was definitely Jericho’s daughter. “Promise me you’ll never lie to me again.”
“I swear it, Sera.”
“Me too,” Jasper said.
“Same,” Alex added.
“Okay,” she replied, blowing out a breath, and then she arched a sexy brow at me. “You can start your apology now.”
I shredded her lacy little panties and tossed them to the floor.
“Loki!”
Her legs went over my shoulders next. I allowed myself one long inhale of the sweetest omega scent on the planet, and then— finally —I tasted my omega.
I licked long stripes through that delicious slick, all cherries and rum, and my lamb moaned and shook under my tongue.
“Do you like that, Princesa?” Alex rasped. “Our pack leader is worshiping you.”
“Yes,” she hissed, writhing on my face. “All three of you are so good at this.”
I sucked her clit into my mouth and threaded a finger inside her. She squealed as I began to thrust into her slick, welcoming heat.
“I’m so jealous of Gabriel right now, Little Flame,” Jasper told her. The bed dipped as he sat down next to Sera, his pheromones thick with need for our girl. “I miss the sweet taste of your pussy.”
“Hawk,” she gasped as her muscles began to clench around my fingers. “Why aren’t you naked?”
I sat back on my heels, continuing to drive my fingers into her as I surveyed our packmates. “Blaze,” I barked. “Come relieve Hawk of his clothes and get him ready for Sera.”
Alex’s deep chuckle reeked of sex. “Sure thing.” He sauntered up to the bed, climbed on, and straddled Jasper. Their lips clashed, Jasper’s hands flying to Alex’s zipper while Alex began to unbutton Jasper’s shirt.
Satisfied those two were doing what they should be, I returned to my task of making Seraphina come all over my face. I lashed her clit with my tongue while driving two thick fingers into her, and in seconds, she shattered.
“Loki!” she shrieked.
I growled my approval against her pussy. Fuck, she tasted good.
I stood up, scooped her limp little body into my arms, and climbed all the way into the nest of pillows, blankets, and clothing in the middle of the bed. I laid her down against the pillows and crawled on top of her, taking a moment to touch my forehead to hers.
“Lamb, I need to take you hard now. Like an Alpha takes his omega.”
Jasper landed in the nest next to us, now completely naked. His muscles danced under those sexy tattoos as he propped himself up against the headboard, his hot gaze on Sera. Alex, also naked, his bronze skin glowing in the low light, slithered in between Jasper’s legs, his focus also never leaving our girl.
Seraphina nodded enthusiastically at my proposal.
Drunk on her, I flipped her onto her hands and knees with a feral growl. She squealed, which turned into a guttural moan as I buried my cock inside her. I fucked her ruthlessly, digging my fingers into the pale skin of her hips as I drove us both toward the finish line at top speed.
“Look, Lamb,” I said, panting. “Blaze is getting Hawk nice and ready for you.”
She managed a glance to our left, where Jasper lazed, a tattooed hand threaded through Alex’s thick hair while Alex ran his tongue along Jasper’s hard cock.
“Oh my God,” she moaned. “Yes, Blaze.”
He chuckled. “You like that, Princesa? Let’s see if Hawk can hold his load while Loki makes you scream again.”
I upped my already brutal pace. Seraphina was made to take my cock, which I should’ve known the second she took me so perfectly in that dingy fucking MC room even while pretending to be a beta.
Alex swallowed Jasper to the top of his burgeoning knot—Alex was masterful at sucking cock—and Jasper groaned through gritted teeth. “Fuck,” he bit out. “Take it easy on me, man. I need to fuck our girl after Loki.”
“Yes,” Sera hissed. “I’m so close, Loki.”
That was great news because I would die if I didn’t come inside my omega in the next five seconds. I reached between her legs and strummed her clit in rough, vigorous strokes. She screamed, her muscles clamping down on my dick with such ferocity that I had no chance at resisting. I groaned into the dewy skin of her neck as I came, and with the wherewithal I was lucky to still possess, quickly pulled out and flipped us around.
My back hit the bed, and I slid her right back onto my dick, shoving my knot inside her. She gasped and arched her back, taking me beautifully as I stuffed her full. My knot swelled, and she let out another hoarse shout as she came again.
“Loki,” she panted. “Gabriel. I love you, and I want you to bite me.”
I froze. Alex and Jasper snapped to attention. Jasper shoved Alex off his cock, and they both stared at Seraphina, slack-jawed.
“Lamb, I…. Fuck, are you sure? I know no one in this room was ever the type to care about OFS norms, but… the expectation is that we would wait until you graduate, right?”
She writhed on my knot, and I gritted my teeth against another rapidly building climax. Her little claws dug into my chest, and she leaned forward to bring her face to mine. “Do you think I give a fuck about what’s expected of me, Gabriel Montgomery?”
It was like someone had slapped me in the face. I didn’t think it was possible to fall harder for Seraphina, but here I was. My lamb would never cease to surprise me.
Her tight muscles began to clench around my knot, and I released a pained groan. “Seraphina Bryce, I will bond you right here, in a strange nest, on the first night of our official courtship, in the middle of your fucking school year, and outside of your first real heat because I’m so in love with you, I can’t think straight. But you better be really fucking sure.”
“Do it,” she whispered. “I don’t want to wait. And I don’t want to be in the fog of heat when it happens. When we bond, I want it to be because in that moment, we chose it, not because we were lost to hormones and instincts.”
She swirled her hips with what little movement my knot allowed her, and within seconds she was coming again, taking me right along with her. As we both fell over the edge, I struck, sinking my teeth into the soft skin at the base of her throat. Her skin broke, and the bond snapped into place.
There she was. My lamb, all fire and spirit and mischief, blooming in my chest. A soft, glowing flame to carry with me always.
“Loki,” she said with a contented sigh. “I feel you. It’s like… this intense and unwavering devotion . God, I love you.”
I licked my bite, pleased with my work. “I would do nothing but worship you from sun up to sun down if I could, my omega.”
She hummed happily and snuggled into my arms. She’d be stuck on my knot for a few minutes, and I would savor them.
Alex and Jasper crowded around us. Their hands roamed Sera’s body, giving her soft caresses and sweet words.
“So beautiful, Little Flame.”
“You look so good stuck on Loki’s knot, querida, wearing his bite. We’re so fucking lucky you agreed to be ours.”
When my knot finally deflated, I slipped gently from her slick warmth and rolled her into Jasper’s arms.
“I hope you saved some energy, Lamb,” I whispered against her lips after one last kiss. “We’re not nearly finished with you.”