Chapter Twelve #2
Ally walked out of the kitchen and froze, crinkling her nose. She stared at me the way you’d stare at someone with the bubonic plague; like you were terrified to take even a step closer to them.
“Are you okay, Felix?” she asked, pinching the bridge of her nose. “You smell…fuck…really off.”
“I thought I might be coming down with something this morning, but now I’m starting to doubt that theory.”
“Uh huh,” she said, taking another step back. “I think we can definitely cross the common cold off the list. Have you seen Bennett today?”
“He left my house this morning. Why?”
“Curious about what he thinks.”
“Is he always fucking right?” I asked, doubling over again in pain. “Goddamn it. My phone is in the back.”
The room spun and I knew my face was flushed.
We haven’t even opened yet. I’m not going to make it through this shift.
My eyes shot to Ally. “Help, please,” I whined.
She held up her phone and shook it at me. “Already on it. His garage is only five minutes away. Just sit down and rest for a minute.”
Fuck, my skin is dry. I sat down on a barstool and scratched my stomach, skin crawling as the itching sensation spread across my body. My dick started to harden.
I folded my arms on the counter and dropped my head into them as I waited for another wave of nausea to pass, my dick continuing to grow. The front door opened, and I perked up at the scent of Bennett, my body relaxing immediately.
I was off the barstool and on my way to him before I even knew what I was doing. He opened his arms and pulled me against his chest, letting me nuzzle into his neck, marking him over and over again on each side.
“See?” Ally said, standing behind the bar with her nose still pinched off.
“Yeah, I see,” Bennett said. I shifted my hips and groaned as Bennett’s hard cock pressed against me.
I moaned and rubbed myself against him, seeking friction. “Mmm, someone is turned on very quickly,” I said.
Bennett pulled back and gripped my shoulders as he smiled at me. “That’s because someone is going into heat. Do you want to play the I-told-you-so game now, or later?”
“How sure are we that this is a breakthrough heat?”
Bennett laughed. “Handsome, you absolutely reek of heat pheromones.”
“The smell is seriously offensive,” Ally said.
I raised an eyebrow. “Isn’t she supposed to like this smell?”
“Don’t ask me, she’s always been turned off by omegas in heat. I think she’s a broken alpha.”
“Fuck you! Take your smelly omega out of here,” Ally yelled. “I have to serve food here in two hours, and I don’t need every alpha who walks into the bar popping a boner. At this rate, even the betas will be able to smell him.”
I whimpered, feeling chilled, and Bennett pulled me tight against his chest, rubbing my arms. He scent marked my neck, relaxing me slightly. “We do need to get you home before anyone else smells you because I don’t want to go to jail for murder,” Bennett said.
“You’re being a possessive motherfucker again,” I said, my dick twitching with pride. I gripped his hips, pulling him closer as I rubbed our dicks together. “But I really like it right now.”
“Yep, taking you home.” He spun me around to face the door before stepping toward Ally who was holding my phone and keys out to him.
When did she even get those from the break room?
“I don’t understand why this is happening,” I said when he returned. “This is months early.”
“Some omegas go into heat when they meet their true mate,” Ally said. Bennett glared at her and she lifted her hands in the air in surrender. “Or maybe when they spend a few days getting freaky with a new alpha? I don’t know. I’m not a doctor. Forget I said anything.”
“Do you think that’s what this is?” I asked. Bennett and I were clearly compatible in a way that I didn’t understand, but I was pretty sure that was just because I was clueless about relationships.
Right? We marked each other a lot when we were snuggling in bed last night, that could be sending my system out of whack.
Bennett glanced at Ally and took a deep breath. “We’re clearly very compatible, and I’m not surprised your body is reacting to that,” he said.
Ally snorted.
A wave of pine hit my nostrils, and I rubbed my face against Bennett’s chest. “You’re going to stay with me, right? You promised.”
Fuck, he smells so good. A little sweeter than usual. I want to bury my face in his clothes and never come up for air.
Oh yeah. Look at that. Those sound like heat thoughts.
“Yes, and we’re not staying here,” Bennett barked.
“Of course not, there’s no nest here. I need a nest,” I whined.
He growled and picked me up, wrapping my legs around his waist. “Fuck, I want to make you a nest that smells so strongly of me that you can never not smell like me again.”
I practically bounced with excitement as I grabbed his cheeks and gave him a hard kiss. “Yes. And then piss on me and come on me so I’m covered in your scent.”
Bennett’s chest rumbled as he started moving us toward the door. “Be careful what you wish for, Felix.”
“I’m so glad this new relationship is working out for you, and that you both seem open to watersports,” Ally said. “But if you wish to discuss any other dick-related activities, please do it outside of my bar.”
Bennett pushed the front door open with his foot. “We actually do need to listen to her because I might kill the first person who scents you and takes one single step toward you.”
“Possessive fucker,” I whispered before biting him on the nose, still grinding my hard dick against him, my cock craving the friction.
Bennett set me down next to his truck which was parked on the curb in front of the bar.
The White Fang was on Main Street in Mirror Lake, and the scene looked like any stereotypical small town in the Northeast. It was part of what made the Lakes Region so charming.
All of our towns looked the same, all of them brushing against different parts of the lake.
In the fall, people came here to see the foliage and experience the colorful, small-town charm.
In the summer, they came for the lake. The rest of the year, Mirror Lake was just for us.
“Do you need anything from your car?” Bennett asked.
“My sweatshirt!” I yelled, grabbing onto his shirt in desperation. Having Bennett’s sweatshirt suddenly felt like a matter of life and death.
Great, I’m going to be such a needy asshole and he’s going to leave me after this. This is even worse than usual.
I pulled him in for another kiss. “I’m so sorry, I can already tell I’m going to be unbearably clingy and needy.
I’ll probably even whine, which is humiliating.
Do you know I begged my parents to make me anything other than an omega—not that they had any control, of course—and my mom was so narcissistic that she said she hoped I wasn’t an omega too because she liked getting all the attention. ”
Bennett grabbed my shoulders. “First of all, that’s horrible, and we’re going to talk about that later. Second, I want to feel needed by you, Felix. This is happening a lot earlier in the relationship than I expected—”
“Yeah, I’d say. Our first date was yesterday and now I’m humping your leg on the street.
” I looked down at my hips moving along Bennett’s thigh of their own volition.
“I literally don’t think I can stop this,” I moaned, the friction feeling so good and only enhancing the need I felt growing deep in my belly.
Bennett kissed my forehead. “What I’m trying to say is that I’m genuinely crazy about you and you’re not going to scare me off no matter how clingy you are for the next few days.”
“What about your garage?” I asked.
Bennett took a step back. “Already asked Calvin to keep things running for a few days. Now stand here.”
Bennett jogged to where I’d parked my car in the small parking lot along the side of the bar and came back with my sweatshirt. I lifted my arms and whined as soon as he returned, waiting for him to put it on me.
“We have to stop at my place so I can get supplies for your nest,” he said, pulling the sweatshirt over my body. I curled into it. “I assume you want to be in your own space?”
“Yes.”
Can I curl up in your lap now?
Bennett opened the truck door and ushered me in before jogging around the hood and getting behind the wheel. “My house is about ten minutes from here, and then it’ll be only five more to your apartment.”
I nodded, bringing the cuffs of his sweatshirt to my face and breathing deeply. Bennett put his hand on my knee and I whimpered, shifting my hips as I tried to move his hand onto my dick. “Please,” I begged. “Touch me. Just a little bit.”
He chuckled. “You know a little bit won’t help at all.” He slid his hand up my thigh and cupped my dick.
I groaned loudly as I canted my hips up to meet his hand, humping him again. After several minutes, he grabbed my cock and squeezed, pulling the truck into the driveway of a gray ranch-style house.
“Is this where you live?” I asked.
“Yep.” He squeezed my dick one more time. “You going to be okay for a minute? You can come in with me, but it’ll be faster if you wait here.”
I nuzzled into his chest. “Hurry. I want a nest.”
“I know, baby,” he said. He kissed my head. “I’ll be right back.”
I covered my face with the sleeves of his sweatshirt again. A sharp pain lit up my stomach as another cramp made me double over. “Oh fuck,” I yelled.
Way to ignore the signs this morning and get yourself into this situation, Felix.
My dick throbbed, absolutely aching for release.
I unbuckled my jeans and pushed them down to my ankles, sighing in relief as my entire body calmed from the lack of fabric against my skin.
I pulled my ragging hard-on out of my boxer briefs and let my head fall back against the seat as I stroked myself.
“Oh yes,” I panted. I thrust my hips into my fist. “Oh, that’s so much better.”
I shuttled my fist up and down my cock, swiping the pre-come off the tip and rubbing it over the head with my thumb. “I need to come,” I whined, gripping myself harder and chasing a release that wouldn’t come.