24. Bailey-Rose
With some artful negotiations on my end regarding the time they deemed I should go to bed, we settled on eight o’clock.
My argument was that after having taken a nap, if they let me fall asleep too early, I’d be up at the crack of dawn throwing off my whole sleep schedule.
Not that I really had one at this point, but it was the best logic to use to make my point.
One movie and bowl of birthday cake ice cream later, I was scooped up in Gareth’s arms and deposited in my room.
“Be good, baby girl, and go to sleep,” he warned. “Tomorrow we’re going to check out the studio space and figure out what needs to happen to turn your dream into reality. Pretty sure you don’t want to be half asleep for that.”
As if on cue, I yawned so wide it made my jaw pop. “I can barely keep my eyes open, so I don’t think sleep is gonna be a problem.”
Sliding his hand around my throat, Gareth used his thumb to tilt my head back for him to kiss me. My hands fisted his shirt, trying to draw him closer to me, but he didn’t move an inch. With a playful nip on my lip, he took a step back, a smirk on his perfect lips.
“Tease,” I muttered.
“Oh, baby girl, if there is a tease in this room, it’s all you,” Gareth countered with a chuckle. “Your scent alone brings me to the edge of my control. Once your doc gets us those meds, I plan to make the most out of those three hours.”
I sucked in a harsh breath at his promise, my imagination running wild with what he might do during those three hours.
“Now that, baby girl, is me being a tease,” Gareth stated as he walked out of the room, leaving the door wide open to let me watch him swagger down the stairs.
My libido, which had been kept in check my whole adult life, was rattling the bars of its cage more and more.
These Alphas were going to be my ruin, and I was quickly discovering how little I cared.
It would be one hell of a way to go while lost in passion and lust with my men as they sent me to heaven.
Fanning myself, I dropped onto my ottoman, needing a moment to compose myself.
Once I knew my legs would support me, I headed for the closet and plucked a silk nightgown out of a drawer.
Another yawn took over as I changed, proving that no matter how riled up I might get, sleep was going to win out.
Bleary-eyed, I shuffled to the bathroom, brushed my teeth, and called it good enough.
I was on my own, at least for part of the night, since the guys weren’t ready for bed so early.
There was no doubt in my mind some of them would drift up here, so I left the door open—a clear sign I was more than happy to welcome them in my bed should they want to join me.
Crawling into my nest, I groped around for Pearl, eyes no longer able to remain open.
Finally, I latched on to one of her tentacles, dragging her to me so I could wind myself around her as I did every night before finding the guys.
With a sigh, I nuzzled one of the pillows that smelled like Warrick and let sleep take over.
The feel of a hand brushing up my leg had me stirring.
Soft kisses soon followed the same path, making me moan when those lips reached my inner thigh.
Before even being asked, I shifted onto my back, widening my legs slightly, praying they would continue.
The huff of laughter teased my skin as those hands slid under the silk of my nightgown, sliding it up my body.
I shuddered at the kiss pressed to the top of my mound, making me whimper, desperate for them to move a little lower to where my clit ached.
“Please,” I begged. “It’s too much.”
There was no reply, only the feel of my nightgown being pulled up and off my body. It wasn’t enough. I was so hot, and my skin felt so sensitive. The lightest brush of his fingers, lips, and even his breath was almost too much for me to handle, but I didn’t want it to stop. I needed more.
A whine escaped me as a finger traced from my clit down to my asshole, which had me arching, chasing after the touch.
“No!” I cried when the hand pulled back. “Pleeease. Please touch me, lick me, fuck me, anything you want. I just need you.”
When the touch didn’t return, I thrashed, searching for whichever Alpha was here with me.
With a gasp, I sat up, my eyes snapping open, desperate to find where they’d gone.
Finding there was no one in my nest, I rushed to exit the bed only to crash to the floor when my limbs refused to cooperate.
The feel of the carpet which I’d found so soft and luxurious, felt like sandpaper on my skin.
This clued me into the fact I was naked, so someone had to have been in here.
“Why are you hiding from me?” I asked, shoving up on shaky arms to look around my room again. With hardly anything in it, there weren’t many places to hide, and the bathroom and closet doors were open.
“I don’t understand what’s happening?” I sobbed, curling up into a ball.
The heat of my body was unbearable, and the rough feel of the carpet made it impossible to remain where I was.
Delirious, I crawled toward the door that I thought was to the bathroom.
Once there, I would fill the tub with cold water and submerge myself.
It would help—it had to help—because I couldn’t take the sensation of being burned from the inside out much longer.
In my misguided efforts, I picked the wrong door.
Instead of the bathroom like I thought, it was the entrance to my room.
My hand slipped on the first stair, and I was unable to stop the forward motion as I slid down to the landing.
Thankfully, I was already on the floor so while a completely ungraceful move, I wasn’t hurt.
A scent hit my nose, and instantly, a whine erupted from me as my body refused to listen to anything I was telling it to do.
“Bailey-Rose,” Vili shouted. “Guys, come now.”
The sound of thunder coming toward me had me curling up into a ball. Then a hand tentatively brushed my shoulder, and I whimpered.
“Did I hurt you?” Warrick asked, his voice panicked. “She’s burning up. Do we need to call an ambulance?”
I reached out a hand in hopes that one of them would take it and relieve some of my suffering. Fingers wrapped around my hand, gripping it tightly, making me moan and drag the hand to my chest.
“Oh fuck,” Gareth swore. “How can she be going into heat? I thought she was taking something to prevent this?”
“Obviously, whatever it was isn’t working,” Ulysses snapped.
Rolling on my back, I took the hand I held and brushed it over my nipple, hissing at how mind-blowing it felt. Yes, this is what I needed. “Please touch me,” I begged, rubbing myself against any skin I could of my Alpha.
The hand was yanked out of my grasp, making me sob at its loss.
“Yun,” Gareth’s voice sounded dark, almost threatening. “If you don’t let go of me and walk away right now, I’m going to do something all of us will regret.”
“Get out of my way, Gareth,” Yun-Sun growled. “She needs me, and I’m not going to leave her like that. Pack or not, our Omega’s well-being will always come first.”
“I agree with you, which is why I’m standing between you two. Look, you’re in rut and barely holding it together with the suppressants. Can you honestly tell me you wouldn’t do the same thing if the roles were reversed?” Gareth challenged.
The energy coming off these two men was intoxicating.
I could feel it ripple along my skin, teasing me to the point I let out a soft moan, my hand drifting between my legs.
My pussy was soaking wet, allowing my fingers to glide over my sensitive, needy clit.
That slight touch alone had me orgasming, a scream tearing out of my throat as my body shuddered.
“Enough of this,” Yun-Sun roared. “Decide right now. Either trust me as a member of this pack to protect what is ours or knock me out, lock me in my room, and I’ll pack my shit in the morning.”
“You don’t fucking mean a word of that, and we both know it. Right now, your caveman brain is in control, making it impossible to take you at your word,” Gareth countered. “I trust Yun-Sun with my life… with her life. This rut-headed idiot, not a chance.”
The sound of a struggle had my head drifting in that direction.
Yun-Sun was being held back by Ulysses and Gareth as he struggled to get to me.
When his wild, spice-brown eyes met mine, I reached a low whine full of pleading and called out to him.
In a rather impressive move, he freed himself from the others and scooped me up, cradling me to his bare chest. Instantly, I wrapped my arms around his neck, pressing myself to him.
“Alpha, will you help me?” I whispered. “I don’t know what’s happening to me.”
Yun-Sun started to purr as he nuzzled my shoulder. “Leave it to me, sweetheart. I will take care of everything.”
Then he started up the stairs, and the door to my bedroom slammed shut, followed by shouting on the other side. Yun-Sun spun, and my back was pressed to the door’s cool wood, making me sigh.
“I’ve got her pressed to the door so if you want to hurt her, by all means try and get in here. I know I’m in rut, but there’s no way Bailey-Rose could handle all of us at once. Let me handle this for both our sakes, or it could only make things worse,” Yun-Sun warned, then turned his focus on me.
“You can’t know how you’ll respond to her being in heat. If all of us are there, we can make sure no one goes too far,” Warrick argued.
Brushing his nose along mine, Yun-Sun spoke softly for only my ears, “Bailey-Rose, I need you to tell them you trust me even if I’m in rut. They won’t believe me, but they might listen if it’s you.”
It took my hazy brain a minute to figure out what he was saying, but the dots finally connected.
“Stop, please,” I called out, hoping they would hear me.
“I trust Yun-Sun to do what’s best for me, rut or no rut.
Believe in the man you know him to be because, at the core, we don’t change who we are. ”
The sounds coming from the other side of the door quieted, and Yun let out a breath of relief, resting his head on my chest. Finally having the contact I needed, my head started to clear, giving me more control over my body.
I let my hand stroke down the back of Yun-Sun’s neck, between his shoulder blades, until I couldn’t reach any farther.
The purring returned, and the vibrations set my skin ablaze causing my breath to hitch.
“Sweetheart, do you have any idea why you’re going into heat?” Yun asked between pressing kisses along my collarbone.
“No,” I answered, my voice barely more than a puff of air as I let my arms fall to my side resting against the door, opening myself up to him.
“We need to stop this from going any further. Do you have a fast-acting suppressant?” Yun pressed.
A groan of pleasure rolled out me as his tongue laved over my nipple. “I-I think so, but it’s hard to think when you do things like that.”
“Do what?” he inquired, flicking his gaze up to mine. “Oh, you mean this?”
This time he went for the opposite nipple, sending a jolt of electricity through my body right to my pussy.
If I’d thought I was wet before, I’d been wrong.
I was a damn Slip 'N Slide, and Yun’s washboard abs were the perfect friction for my eager clit.
Yun’s hand gripped my ass so hard I wouldn’t be surprised if there were fingerprints left behind.
It felt glorious to know he was leaving a mark on my body showing his claim over me.
That feeling emboldened me enough to nip at the skin just below his jaw.
“Sweetheart,” Yun growled out, stepping away from the door, creating a little more space between us.
“If I’m going to prove to myself and the others that I can handle this, you can’t go provoking me.
I need to see if you have a suppressant while my medication is giving me the ability to hold back. Where should I look?”
“Bathroom,” I started, then paused to collect my thoughts. “There is a pink metal chest with the medical symbol on it. All my medication should be there.”
Yun carried me to the bathroom and set me on the counter. Biting my lip, I tried not to whimper at the loss of his touch, but he was right—I needed to stop what was happening. Setting the case on the counter, he opened it and expanded the trays of medication.
“What am I looking for here, sweetheart?” Yun asked.
Grabbing the box, I slid it over and noticed a packet of pills that shouldn’t have been in there.
It was the daily dose of suppressant I clearly hadn’t taken for the past two days.
No wonder this was happening. With everything going on, my normal routine of taking my meds before bed had clearly gone out the window.
I tossed them on the counter so I wouldn’t forget again and dug through the bottom of the case to find the ready-to-go suppressant pen.
“This one burns like a bitch when injected,” I shared. “Think you could take my mind off it?”
Yun-Sun grabbed my hips and slid me to the edge of the counter. “I’m sure I can think of something to distract you with.”
Wasting no time, Yun buried his face between my legs and sucked sharply on my clit.
This had me instantly coming so hard my vision started to darken.
Using the last two brain cells left, I hit the button on the pen, injecting the medication.
I hissed as it felt like acid was being forced into my bloodstream, but Yun-Sun did his damnedest to make it easier on me.
Two fingers slid into me and immediately found that spot that had every woman quaking with pleasure.
The soft clicking stopped, letting me know all the medication had been administered.
Chucking the used device into the sink, I used both hands to grab Yun’s head so I could grind myself on his face. “God, yes,” I cried out. “Just like that. Oh fuck, fuck, fuck.”
The next orgasm slammed into me like a tidal wave, sweeping me under the water, making me feel weightless even as it tried to drown me. My body slumped back against the glass of the mirror, the coolness almost burning my hot skin.
A vibration at my wrist told me what I already knew, Yun had rocked my fucking world.