Chapter 37 Cain
I couldn’t think, and it was fucking annoying. Irritation ripped through me as I threw clothes around the nest at Ayden’s parents’ house. I was hot and itchy and horny all at the same time. And I hated it. There wasn’t anything that I could do about it. This wasn’t even my house. I tossed yet another shirt over my head, not paying attention to where it landed.
“Are you stripping or looking for something to wear?” I turned to Ayden’s voice, fighting a laugh as he pulled the shirt from his head.
“Neither. Nothing is right here.”
“Let me help.” His offer was sincere, but it was his fault that I was here in the first place.
“What’s the point? It isn’t our house.”
I was so frustrated that I missed him inhaling deeply. “Fuck.”
He disappeared, I growled and went back to what I was doing. I couldn’t think past this horniness. I hated it. Hated whatever had caused it. I still had no definitive answers. I heard movement behind me and when I turned, Ayden was standing there with his father. “What do you want?” I snapped.
“I see the issue,” Connor spoke into the room. “He’s a theta.”
“What the fuck is a theta?”
“It’s kind of a hybrid between a beta and omega.” Connor said it like that would explain everything.
“And why do you suspect I’m this theta? My designation test clearly said I’m a beta.”
Connor looked over at Ayden. “You haven’t told him?”
“It hasn’t come up.” Ayden’s shrug made me want to punch him in the face.
“Tell me what?”
Connor looked at Ayden expectantly. Ayden finally spoke after minutes of his dad staring him down. “Do you know anything about royal alphas?”
When I said I didn’t, they proceeded to explain it to me. I took a moment to process what he said before I responded. “Let me get this straight. I’m a theta—a designation that is a complete myth by the way—and it’s Ayden’s fault?”
“I thought you said you didn’t know what that was?” Connor’s disappointment made me shrink.
“Calliope had a phase where she studied human history. I remember bits and pieces,” I sighed. “So where does that leave me?”
“You’re displaying all the pre-heat symptoms. That suggests that Calliope will be in heat soon.”
“How soon?” Ayden asked.
“The texts suggest it’s never more than three days, but as little as a couple hours.”
“Fuck.” Ayden about summed it up.
We packed in record time, throwing everything in the back of Ayden’s car and peeling out of the driveway. Leaving in a rush was the only option. We both knew how unpredictable Calliope’s heats were, and with this new bond thing that was happening there was no telling how much time either of us had. Ayden sped down the highway, aiming for Raleigh. We were two hours out when my phone started to ring.
“Hey, Dax,” I said when I answered.
“Calliope’s in heat.”
“I know,” Ayden growled.
“How?”
“It’s complicated. We will be there in two hours—maybe less.”
“Make it less.”
Ayden took the phone from my hand and hung it up. His scent was filling the cab of the car. It was so thick it was making my cock ache to be touched. He reached down to adjust himself, and my gaze focused on his large bulge there. My mouth started to water at the thought of him using me. The sound I released at that moment was so close to a whine that I startled myself. I needed Ayden and I needed him bad.
“Alpha.” It was the only word I could get out.
His gaze flicked over to me a moment before his hand crossed the seat. Sliding the shorts I was wearing down to wrap his huge hand around my cock, his hand moved slowly, stroking me until I was breathless for him. “I’ve got you, baby boy, just relax.”
His hold on my cock tightened until it was painful. I was leaking for him, my precum collecting in the dip his hand made. With a swipe of his thumb, he collected it and teased the head of my cock with it. My eyes rolled into the back of my head, my toes curling. Just when I was about to cum, he tightened his hold until I was bucking against his hold. “Please, Alpha.”
“You don’t get to cum until we get home.” He kept that promise too, edging me for an excruciatingly long drive.
By the time we pulled into the driveway I was absolutely feral. “I need to cum, please.”
“Not until you’re buried inside Calliope.” I groaned, getting out of the car and running for the door.
Throwing it open, I stripped as I moved. Aiming for the stairs, I hit them at a full sprint. Looking around the room, I flicked on lights as I went. Not finding what I wanted, I growled and tugged open the door to the tower. I pulled it open so hard it slammed into the wall as I let it go. It didn’t matter. I needed my omega and alphas. And I needed them now.
I could hear moans coming from above and almost felt the heavy mixed scents clouding the air. I was desperate for release, to be touched, fucked, and knotted. I needed it. A wave of pain cut through my stomach, doubling me over and making me whine. I struggled to make it up those last five steps, managing to just get to my feet and open the door before falling back to my knees. The sight that greeted me made my cock throb even harder.
Dax was laying back on the bed, Calliope on top of him, facing the door as she impaled herself on his length. My next whine made her eyes fly open. I couldn’t move, I was in so much pain that it took everything in me not to burst into tears. It was the worst pain I had ever experienced. I needed relief—would do anything for it.
She froze where she was when she saw me there on my hands and knees. It was humiliating, and not in the sexy way. I hated feeling like this. Being so close but unable to close the distance. She started to climb off Dax to come to me, but his hands on her hips stopped her from moving. “Where are you going, love?”
“He’s in so much pain.” The sound of her voice made me want to cry.
Dax sat up enough so he could see me there on the floor. He picked Calliope up and set her on the bed beside him. Standing, he came to me in one large stride. Before I knew it, I was in the air and getting laid down on the bed beside Calliope. She looked down at me and asked one question, “What do you need?”
“I don’t know. I’m just hot and itchy, fucking horny and in pain.”
She was so calm, and it was pissing me off.
“Aren’t you in heat?”
“No, but I think you are,” she whispered.
Ayden walked in before I could respond. He went to Calliope and pressed a gentle kiss to her forehead. “You caught a break in your heat, I take it.”
“I don’t think I’m the one in heat.” She turned that emerald gaze to Ayden as she spoke.
“Is that a thing that even happens to thetas?”
She stared at him like he had grown a second head. “Did you say theta?”
“Can we continue this after we do something to help Cain?” Dax snarled.
“I want to listen to this,” I admitted. “Can you draw me a hot bath? That should get me through this.”
Dax grumbled and walked off. The bathroom light flicked on, and I could hear water running. The cramps were lessening at that moment, and I didn’t have to struggle to breathe through them. Taking a few deep breaths, I waited for them to continue. Ayden stripped and crawled into bed beside me, pulling me into his arms. His purr vibrated around me making me feel marginally better. When he was sure I had settled he asked what I couldn’t. “Do you know what’s going on, baby girl?”
“Theres little we know about the designation referred to as thetas. The mythos behind it is a little strange and all over the place. Basically, it’s a beta with some of the tendencies of an omega. Though one thing stays pretty consistent throughout it all.” She sighed. “All of them have something that is almost a heat, but not quite.”
“What does that mean?” They were talking like I wasn’t even there, not that I minded I loved being in Ayden’s arms.
“No one knows for sure. That’s the exact phrasing from the stories.” Before Ayden could respond another wave of pain swept through me.
It doubled me over in my alpha’s arms, he took the moment to stand and lift me. The tub was full as we entered, and Ayden slid in, stretching me out so I was laying on his chest. His hands went to work on my shoulders as the heat of the water did its thing, lessening the cramps little by little until I was fully relaxed. The water did nothing for the throbbing of my cock. As if he had read my mind, Ayden reached and wrapped his hand around it.
His hand moved and it wasn’t enough for me. I needed more, was desperate for it. Calliope came into the bathroom, took one look at me, and issued one order. “Bring him to bed.”
Dax followed her, so I was left alone with Ayden. He was gentle with me—too gentle and it was pissing me off. It took me longer than I would care to admit to make it out of the tub and to the bed. Calliope was already laying there laid out for me like a goddess. Beckoning me with one hand; I went to her allowing her to pull me down beside her.
She put her hand up and took a ring from Dax. I couldn’t make out what it was until she was lowering it around my shaft. A bright pink wearable knot was sliding down to rest just above my balls. It was tight, but I could feel the mechanism inside that I knew would put a stranglehold on my cock. I was reaching for her, something close to a whine building in my throat.
She silenced it by climbing on top of me and taking all of me in one movement. Being buried inside her was like heaven. The moan I released sounded like I had found Eden. All the pain I had been experiencing had all but disappeared. Leaning forward so we were draped with her hair, she stared into my eyes as she moved.
It was incredibly intimate the way that the world narrowed down to me and her in that moment. My hands moved up her body, tracing her curves with my nails as I went. The feeling was enough for her walls to clamp around me. My hands continued their exploration, one sliding between us to plunge two fingers inside her beside my cock; my thumb found her clit. I timed the movement of my thumb to her riding me. Soon she was going wild for me, forcing herself down until the knot was pushing my fingers deeper into her.
My free hand moved up her chest to grasp one of her breasts, bringing it to my lips I nipped and sucked at her nipple. She inhaled sharply at the pain, and it made my cock throb inside her. Releasing her breast, that hand traveled up to her throat, tightening enough so I could pull her down to catch her lips. Our kiss was all consuming, making her tighten down enough that she gushed around my cock, pushing my fingers out in the process. When she relaxed, I pushed my cock the rest of the way into her. She released a strangled moan as the knot slipped in. Her hand moved, searching for something. It didn’t take long for me to find out when the toy clamped down on my cock making me explode inside her. I couldn’t stop coming, it felt so fucking good all I could do was collapse, releasing my hold on her throat in the process.
The darkness of sleep was coming for me and all I had time for was to murmur into the room. “Sleep now, more later.”