Chapter 7
Tex
On my lap, that’s where, I wanted to reply, but a grim look from Grey kept me from saying anything. He’d had a few words with us as we waited what felt like an eternity for my mate to arrive.
“This isn’t the way we’re supposed to do things,” he’d said. I had no freaking idea where he was getting that from. “You’re supposed to talk through limits when everyone is clear headed, calm, and not in a state of arousal.”
Not sure when that was supposed to happen, because the wolf and I were of the same mind the moment we saw Nadia. Mate, knot, claim, that was the refrain that went through my head whenever I was around her, and that would never change. I said as much to Grey.
“Perhaps with what you’re comfortable with,” Grey told Nadia in a far gentler tone that he’d ever used with me. “You’ve obviously had to deal with dickheads who aren’t interested in foreplay, but we need to establish what is a turn on or a turn off.”
“Right.”
I looked down to see Nadia’s hands were held in a tight ball in her lap.
Her scent was confusing, sweet and acrid in turns.
Reaching out, grabbing one hand and forcing it to relax as I held it, was as natural as breathing, but then she had to give me a grateful look.
All I could hope was she was feeling the same kind of relief as my thumb rubbed across her knuckles.
“Oral sex,” Grey said, like he was putting in an order of timber with a supplier. “Being fingered, anal—”
“Fuck, Grey, shut up,” Ethan hissed at him, then looked meaningfully at Nadia.
She was starting to move restively in her seat, which had me gripping her hand tighter, but then I took a deep breath in and realised why. Sweet, syrupy omega scent was like a firm hand wrapping around my knot and giving it a squeeze.
Fuck…
“Oral sex is…” She swallowed hard. “Good. Bloody hell.” Her back hit the seat, and she stared at the ceiling for a second.
“Why am I talking to you guys about this?” Nadia’s focus shifted back to us.
“Maybe because you’re strangers and it doesn’t matter what I say.
We could all walk away and never see each other again. ”
No, I could not, the wolf demanded I tell her, but we weren’t there yet.
“OK, you want to know?” That note of challenge in her voice was pure omega.
They pushed their alphas, demanding they give their all.
“Then yeah, I like oral sex, but only when a man makes it obvious he wants to be there. Not a couple of licks to get the job over and done with as quickly as possible. I assume you guys are put off when a girl spits out your cum like it’s something nasty?
” I wouldn’t know. My whole life, I’d spent waiting for Nadia to walk into it, so there was no point messing with other women.
“Well, a guy who’s not into it is just as much a turn off. ”
“You want an eater.” Ethan’s smug smile had my fangs grinding together.
He might use the golden boy bullshit on women in the pub, but Nadia wasn’t just some hook up.
Fucker ran his tongue along his bottom lip to push home his message.
“Someone who’s begging to come back for more because he likes the way you taste. ”
She stared, momentarily hypnotised.
“Ah, yeah, that. What else did you say? Fingering?” She shrugged.
“That will be the bare minimum if I’m going to take another knot.
” I liked the way her eyes slid sideways, going straight for my crotch.
I barely resisted the urge to put her hand over my knot, making clear it was ready and willing to serve her, but then her eyes flicked upwards.
“Is that something you wanted to do again? I’m sorry, we didn’t establish that. ”
“Anything that happened that day is on the table,” I rumbled. “You can assume that whatever you want, I’m down for.”
Her brows creased slightly as she peered at me, trying to work out if I was for real, but she’d find out.
“Well, while we’re being blunt, it wasn’t something I liked much before, but the stretch…” Now I was shifting in my seat. My cock was like a hound on a leash, straining to get to its prey. “That felt surprisingly good.”
“Because you were actually aroused then.” Grey was always in control, but his cool tone pissed me off even more right now.
“Most of the nerve endings are in the entrance to the vagina.” Ethan snorted at the insanity of this impromptu anatomy lesson.
“If you’re turned on, that stretch would register as pleasure rather than discomfort. ”
“OK.” There was something brittle about Nadia as her elbows hit the table.
She looked like she was negotiating a treaty of war, not our next sexual encounter.
“Then yeah, if I’m turned on, that’s something I’d like to happen.
Anal?” Every muscle in her body locked down tight.
The change in her was subtle, but immediately apparent to someone who was watching her like a hawk.
“No, that just hurts. I could barely take Grant, but what you two are packing? Absolutely not.”
“There are a lot of different kinds of anal stimulation…” My lips peeled back in a snarl at Grey’s words, making clear that I was her dog and I would defend Nadia against anything she didn’t like without explanation.
“But let’s take that off the table until you say otherwise.
From what you’ve said, you’re open to penetrative sex? ”
“Um…” Another look my way, then Nadia continued. “Yeah, if everyone’s down for that.”
“Count me the fuck in,” Ethan hissed.
“Not me.” She blinked at Grey’s reply. “That’s part of the reason why I wanted to have this conversation. I am more than happy to attempt to bring you pleasure, but that has to be a one way thing.”
“Oh, because you’re…” What the hell was going through Nadia’s head? I wondered. There was no opportunity to ask. “Got it. No touching. No kissing?”
Grey’s wolf pushed forward, his eyes turning as silver as the moon as he stared.
“That…” he ground out. “That is permitted.”
“So what are your limits?” Nadia looked at me, then Ethan.
“No limits,” I growled, willing her to see it. There was nothing she could say right now that I wouldn’t work freaking hard to achieve.
“I look forward to you trying to find mine,” Ethan replied. “But if there’s anything I’m not enjoying, I’ll let you know.”
“Breast play?” Grey was like a drowning man, paddling harder, faster, in denial of the fact that another wave would push him under.
“Yes.” Nadia was growing more confident in her replies, and I fucking loved hearing it. “Though it needs to be fairly firm.” She gestured awkwardly at her bust. “Otherwise I barely feel it, though pinchy?” A sharp shake of her head. “What I like is somewhere in between.”
“We’ll find it,” I said with a confidence I shouldn’t feel.
“What about—?”
“For fuck’s sake, Grey.” Ethan glared at him, but when his focus shifted to Nadia, something softened.
“Nadia, what do you want to happen today? The answer can be nothing, but trust me when I say you have everyone’s complete attention.
What was supposed to happen if you made it to Good Vibes this time? ”
“I…” She gripped my hand like it was a lifeline and that had a warmth spreading through my chest. I had to strain to hear her words over the frantic beat of my heart.
“We planned to make me the centre of attention for once, to put my pleasure first.” The way she looked at the three of us, it was like she throwing down the gauntlet, but she didn’t know if we’d pick it up. “That’s what I want.”
“So we talk out a scenario, like you did with Brendan.” Grey talked fast, as if he knew that he was losing his audience. “Work out something that works for you and—”
“Or we could go back to our place right now and do exactly that,” I said.
Her eyes stared into mine and for just a second, I saw the wolf push through. A flash of silver, there and gone again, leaving just a vulnerable woman behind.
“Please,” she said. “That. I want that.”
Whatever Grey or anyone had to say was drowned out by the need to surge to my feet.
Beers left undrunk, I took her hand and helped her out of the booth.
Placing my arm around her waist felt so fucking right, but she jumped, then settled against me.
One day she’d tell me what had her so skittish, but not right now.
Nadia wanted a man who was so fucking hungry for her, he’d beg for more. Well, Lady Fate was smiling down on her. There was nothing more I wanted than to drop down to my knees, part her thighs, right before I went back for another taste.
“Keys,” I said.
“What…?”
By her glazed look, Nadia was starting to sink down into her omega state.
“You’re in no state to drive and you don’t know where we live.” I plucked her keys from her limp grip. “So I’ll get you where you need to go.”
Suppressing the need to carry her out of the pub in my arms, I instead found her car and then opened her door for her. The man could be a gentleman, but the wolf? He looked over at her once we got behind the wheel, taking in every inch of her.
“Ready?”
Her quick nod and the bloom of her scent filling the car was all the incentive I needed to push the keys into the ignition and start heading for our place.