Chapter 60
Chapter Sixty
~Harlow~
This is torture. Minutes tick by, then an hour. My hips hurt from the awkward position I find myself in. My shoulders and wrists ache, and it is getting swelteringly hot in here. I shift uncomfortably, and Leon groans.
"Zara, please, don't move. You're making it worse," he groans lewdly before releasing a savage growl.
"Can't you mind-link him?" Fuck, I would beg, plead, and kiss his fucking feet if he would just undo the restraints. I’m feeling claustrophobic, and panic is beginning to make my heart race.
"He is blocking the mind-link, and I think they left the house," Leon moans as I writhe, trying to turn slightly so I don't have to crane my neck to look over at him. He sighs when I manage to shift enough that he isn't given such an ungodly view of me.
"Did he turn the A/C off?" I ask breathlessly, sweat beading on my skin. I peer over at Leon when he doesn't answer. When I do, I find his eyes blood red, his fangs protruding, and he is breathing harshly.
"Your scent," he groans, and his face twists with savage hunger. Heat pools low in my belly, spreading throughout my limbs, and slick saturates the bedding beneath me. I gasp.
"No, I just finished my heat!" I gasp in horror.
"You live in a house full of Alphas. Expect regular heats," Leon hisses, and my eyes go to the cage surrounding his manhood. My eyes bulge, and I feel lightheaded looking at it. Man, that's gotta hurt. The skin is so red it looks on the verge of bursting as it’s strangled.
"Leon?" I murmur when he roars, kicking his leg out. To my horror, the chair leg snaps, and I could have sworn I hear his bones crack.
"I can't. I can't, Zara. Fuck, what was he thinking?"
"Can't what?" I ask in horror as the other cuff snaps at his thrashing.
"I will hurt you if I don't get out of here," Leon growls, the whites of his eyes turning red with his need to feed on me.
"What?"
"You smell so good!" He moans loudly, thrashing in his restraints. I watch his shoulder dislocate, and he snarls viciously when the cuffs still don't give. Fuck, the more he struggles to get free, the more my pheromones pollute the air.
His Alpha aura and pheromones drive me wild. Fear licks through my veins as he becomes enraged with his need to be free, but nothing he does is enough to break the restraints. I pray they don’t give because if he gets out, with his bloodlust as it is, I am as good as dead.
"Try Raidon or Rhen," I plead with him as slick spills from me.
I shut my eyes, trying to ignore the flaring heat that burns through me.
My stomach cramps, pain tears through me, and all I want is to roll into the fetal position to ease it, but I can't move.
As time slips by and darkness floods the room, I became lost to the heat, just as Leon becomes lost to his bloodlust.
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~Thane~
"Something isn't right," I mutter, feeling Leon's discomfort. We’ve only been gone an hour, and he’s never usually this distressed. I wouldn't normally leave him like that, but I figured they would be fine, if a bit uncomfortable, in each other's company.
We were not going to be gone long. We were called back to work after a fire alarm went off. A small fire was started in the loading docks, and we have to assess the damage.
"Fuck, I knew I should have left one of you there with them," I curse, spinning the car around. Luckily, we are only ten minutes away from the house, since Raidon had to stop by the post office.
"He'll be fine; slow down. The corners are making me feel sick," Raidon mumbles.
I’m going the speed limit, so his comments aren't warranted. I have this nagging suspicion something is wrong. I am accustomed to Leon's discomfort, but he has gone from uncomfortable to utter distress.
I’m cursing that I haven't marked Zara and made her pack yet, because then I would be able to feel her too and be able to better gauge the situation.
Driving back, we stop at the electronic gate. Rhen shifts uncomfortably, and I glance at him.
"No, something is wrong," Rhen confirms, and I peer at Raidon in the mirror, who is extremely pale.
No wonder he had been so grouchy in the car. He’s mistaking Leon's discomfort for feeling sick.
"Raidon?" I ask him.
"Get to Leon," he rasps.
The gates finally open, and I drive straight into the garage, throwing the door open. I freeze the moment I step into the house, floored with the scent of her heat.
"Fuck," I curse, my eyes moving to the stairs.
"Why is she in heat so soon?" Rhen gasps, and my eyes widen, knowing Leon is wearing a cage.
"Why do you think? An Omega in a house with not just one fucking Alpha but four," Raidon snarls, taking the steps two at a time, racing to get to them.
"Thane fooling around with her must have brought it on," Raidon growls.
Rhen and I follow after him and he bursts through the door before I hear him gasp.
He moves quickly toward Leon, dropping to his knees in front him, working to release the cage that is strangling his cock.
Leon thrashes, and I can see the blood pooling in his lap.
Raidon is quick to remove the cage, while Rhen removes the cuffs.
The moment he’s free, Leon lunges at Raidon, sinking his teeth into his neck like a savage.
Rhen has to wrestle Leon off of Raidon. I stand there, stunned at the scene before me. Rhen's able to pull Leon off of Raidon, who then drags Leon out of the room before he can get to Zara.
"Deal with Zara while I help Raidon," Rhen growls, slamming into my shoulder as he moves to pass me, but I grip his arm to stop him.
"I'll help with Leon. I am of no use to Zara, Rhen. Not while she’s like that," I snap at him, but he isn't hearing it.
"I'm not coming back in here until you mark her. If you had already, this never would have happened," Rhen says, glancing over his shoulder at her. Banging from downstairs has Rhen rushing out to help Raidon with our blood-crazed mate. I gulp, turning to see Zara writhing on the bed.
She is out of her mind in heat, unaware of her surroundings as the haze envelopes her. I crawl onto the bed, quickly removing the cuffs before pulling her into my arms and cradling her, but she isn't having it. She attacks me as soon as my skin touches hers, and my scent smothers her.
Turning in my arms, her claws slip from her fingers, slicing my shirt to tatters as she fights to reach my skin. Anything to ease her agony.
I wrap my arms around her waist. Her demonic, lust-crazed eyes glare back at me. Her pupils blow apart and retract with each wave of heat that rattles through her. Her legs wrap around my waist as I move to lean against the headboard, hoping Rhen or Raidon will come up soon to ease her pain.
My Calling slips out, and she moans, licking and nipping the skin at my neck while her hands paw at my pants to free my cock. "Zara, wait," I tell her, knowing I can't knot her, can’t give her what she needs.