18. Chapter Eighteen #3
My eyes fly to Shade, begging him to intervene, but my Beta’s face is flushed, his breathing heavy, and the bond between us stays steady. He isn’t afraid. He isn’t stopping this.
He thinks I can take it.
Knox leans his weight down on me, and suddenly there is a stretch that grows and grows until it feels like I'm going to be split in two.
"Prime Alpha, Prime Alpha. Oh frack, I can't. Don't. Stop. Don't stop, don't—" I don't even know what I'm saying, just pleasure and panic tangling into a litany of high-pitched babble.
Shade holds me firm when I squirm, and Knox keeps my hips trapped beneath his. My body fights the stretch, then yields around him in tiny, trembling increments until the widest part finally slips past my entrance.
His knot locks inside me.
"Oh frack," I whimper.
The pressure hits my O-spot, and every thought breaks apart. My eyes roll back as my helpless and greedy body clamps down around him.
Knox exhales against my sweat-damp neck and holds me in place.
Everything feels right.
Knox has finally knotted me.
Except he doesn't stop there.
Of course he doesn't. He's never been one to stop striving for more after an achievement. He rocks against me, and then starts pulling out again.
"No, no, no," I protest and moan, trying to clench around him and keep him there, but Knox doesn't falter, and I can feel myself stretching wide again. "Prime Alpha, please, it's too much."
"You like it," he says.
My breath catches because he’s right.
His gaze drops between our bodies, and mine follows. I watch the place where I’m slick, swollen, and stretched around him, my body taking what should be impossible because my Alpha decided I could.
"It’s not how it’s done," I whimper, even as my hips lift toward him. "You’re going to ruin me."
Knox’s mouth parts on a rough breath. "It feels good, though, doesn’t it?"
I squeeze my eyes shut.
He's not wrong. It does.
So help me, it does feel good. He knows it too because of our new bond.
The stretch stings, and there is a burn that isn't from my heat, but my Omega loves being pinned open for him, made to take his knot, and held in place by the two Pack mates I trust with every vulnerable inch of me.
I nod, and fresh slick spills around him.
Knox catches my chin between his fingers. "Open your eyes, Omega."
My eyes spring open instantly at his order. His glowing red gaze locks onto mine, and I see ruthlessness and devotion in it. The sight of him above me sends tears spilling hot across my temples.
"There we go, sweetheart," he murmurs, giving my chin a small, possessive shake. "Keep your eyes on me. I want you to know who’s taking care of this needy little body."
I shiver all over.
This is what Knox has been holding back, what he’s been afraid of letting loose on my body.
All the control and discipline he used to keep me at arm’s length since the day we met is now aimed entirely at me.
This is him giving in. Giving me exactly what I've been begging him for.
If I thought he was a control freak outside the nest, I should have realized what beast would be released inside it.
His knot pulls free with a wet pop, and I cry out, panting beneath him while my body clenches around the empty stretch he leaves behind.
Knox watches me shake.
Then his thumb presses inside my entrance beside his cock, testing how open he’s made me.
"So loose for me, princess," he murmurs, kissing the tip of my nose with unbearable tenderness as his hips press forward again.
I cry out when the swollen base of him pushes back inside me.
He coos in sympathy, but he doesn’t stop.
Shade’s hands tighten around my wrists, grounding me through the worst of the stretch, and Knox keeps moving at a slow, ruthless pace.
My body protests and welcomes him at the same time, clenching around his knot, slicking him deeper, aching every time he pulls out and sobbing with relief every time he fills me again.
Tears blur my vision until Knox’s face wavers above me, but his voice reaches me clearly.
"Your body belongs to me and our Pack," he says, low and rough. "Your heat. Your pleasure. Your relief. We decide how you take it, and you trust us to give you what you need. Do you understand, little one?"
He holds his knot at the widest point until I’m gasping for him.
"Yes," I sob. "Yes, Prime Alpha. I understand."
"Good girl."
His cock pulses inside me, and his control thins.
The lazy pace breaks. His hips drive forward with wet, filthy sounds, knot working in and out of my stretched body until I can’t hold on to any thought except him.
"Yeah, that’s it, Omega," he pants. "Take it. Take my knot."
Then he tenses.
He drives in deep, holding me open as heat spills inside me. His knot pulses against my O-spot with each spurt of seed, and my mind goes soft at the edges.
The need that has been clawing through me finally shatters.
My heat cools in one overwhelming rush, and the relief throws me straight into another orgasm. I shake beneath him, crying out as Knox holds me through it, his knot locked deep and his bond wrapped tight around me.
For the first time since my heat began, my body settles.
And Knox is still knotted inside me.