Chapter Forty – Bradford
Looking back, it’s wild to me how quickly everything changed, and as a result how quickly everything fell into place.
Me, Hayden, Kayla; we’re a pack now. Pack Bentley.
This is our house. Soon enough that other house won’t be my problem anymore.
It’ll be demolished, the land sold off to a developer, and I can finally move on, just as I’ve moved on from Alpha Life.
My father’s legacy? Never wanted it. I used to think I needed it, but I don’t. I know now all I truly need are the two people who share this bed with me, the omega beneath me and the alpha to my right.
Kayla and Hayden. My pack. My family. Some days I still feel like I’m caught in a dream, like none of this is real, but it is. It’s real and I am, for the first time in my life, happy.
My face is buried in Kayla’s neck, my lips grazing the sensitive skin above her scent gland. My canines ache with the need to bite into her, but I much prefer to do so while my cock is inside her.
“I love you,” I whisper against her neck, and she murmurs the adoration back.
I reach down between us, taking my rock-hard length in my hand, and run it along her slick folds.
I don’t need to look to know the wetness is not only due to her, but also from Hayden’s cum.
There was a time when I worried I wouldn’t be okay with it, but that time has long since passed. I don’t mind. I don’t mind one bit.
Once the tip of my cock is coated in slickness, I push inside of her, taking my time in filling her up. Though I’m dying to sink my teeth into her, I also don’t want to rush this. This… it’s been a long time coming.
Her core takes my cock as she moans and writhes beneath me. She gazes up at me through half-lidded eyes, her lips parted as she breathes heavily. I take my time in making love to her. I don’t rush. I claim her like I’m claiming something precious—because that’s exactly what I’m doing.
She’s everything to me. I could not imagine my life without her.
When I first saw her, I was so blind, but I’m blind no more, and I plan to make the most of the years we’ll have together.
I don’t know if I’ll ever be ready to become a father myself, not after what I experienced at the hands of my own, but if she says she wants to try…
If she thinks I could be a good father, a good dad, then maybe she’s right. I’d try for her, for Hayden, for our pack. I’d do whatever I had to.
The desire in me is overwhelming. I can’t stop the knot from forming. My cock swells in her pussy, growing until it locks us together, and all the while I don’t slow or stop my pace. I keep going, keep moving, keep rocking my hips and plunging my cock deep into her core.
Kayla inhales sharply the moment my knot swells. She reaches up and holds onto me, as if she fears she’ll float away if she doesn’t. Every thrust on my part sends her body closer to the edge, and less than thirty seconds after the knot appears she unravels for me.
The orgasm hits her like a brick wall. She trembles uncontrollably, the sound that slips from between her lips one of pure bliss and carnal desire. Her core clamps around my knot as she gushes slick, and the whole thing makes me let loose a low groan.
She feels so damn good. You’d think, after a year, I’d be used to how her body feels beneath mine, how her pussy wraps around my length and milks me for all I’m worth, but I’m not. It’s not something you get used to. It becomes something you need, something you crave with every fiber of your being.
This woman… I would be utterly lost without her. I’m a different man with her by my side, one I didn’t recognize at first. I hope she’s proud to call me her alpha, just as I am proud to call her my omega.
I can barely get the words out: “Are you ready to become mine, Kayla?”
She nods and exposes her neck to me, arching her back somewhat as she breathes heavily. With my knot inside her, binding us together, it’s about the only thing she can do.
But it’s enough.
I have to bend my top half a bit thanks to her short stature, but I’m able to graze my lips against her neck while still fucking her. I run my tongue along her neck, making her shiver, and then, without another word, I clamp down.
My teeth pierce her skin, and the taste of her metallic, warm blood floods my mouth.
The moment my teeth hit her scent gland, something invisible snaps into place, a thread that binds us together forever.
I can feel her soul matching with mine, our hearts synching up.
Everything that made us individuals now combines to form something new, something magical.
I shudder, laboring to pull my teeth off her, and I run my tongue along the wound at the nape of her neck. Kayla must feel the same way I do, because the expression she wears right then is unlike any expression she’s ever given me.
She’s in awe. Complete, total incredulousness.
I glance at Hayden, then reach for him. I know he probably wanted to bite her while he’s inside of her, but I want him to feel the same way we do, so I grab him by the back of the head and bring him closer.
I keep myself propped up with my other arm, still rocking my hips against Kayla, as I pull him toward her.
He gets the idea. Within moments, he brings his left hand to the other side of her face, holding onto her as he bites into her, giving her another future scar.
I don’t like the fact that we’re marking her up given our pasts, but it’s the only way.
With our markings on her neck, the entire world will know she’s taken, that she belongs to us.
And, in turn, other omegas will know we’re unavailable as well.
It’s nature’s way of stopping the constant war for mates.
The moment the mate bond snaps into place for Hayden and Kayla, I see it.
She turns her head to look at him as he lifts his mouth from her neck, and they stare at each other for a few seconds before he brings his mouth to hers and kisses her hard.
His hand falls to her chest, where he cups one of her tits and runs his thumb over her nipple, making her moan into the kiss.
I can feel her pleasure. It heightens mine, feeds off it. I can easily see how mating bonds make heats and everything else intensified to the point where you can’t imagine thinking straight ever again. No matter what you’re doing, where you are, your mate is always there in your heart.
We’re like that for a long while, both of us showering our omega in attention while my knot locks us together. All hands and mouths, all greed and desire. Eventually we wind up on our sides, with Kayla nestled in the middle, having passed out from the multitude of orgasms we gave her.
“This feels so weird,” Hayden whispers softly, staring at me above her head. “Weird… but amazing at the same time.”
Though a lot of the things he says typically irritate me, I wholeheartedly agree with him.
It is a weird feeling, but it is amazing, too.
It really is magical. I now understand the people that chase after love like nothing else matters.
When it feels this good, how could anything else in life possibly compare?
“Who knew when we first met this is where we’d end up?” he goes on with a lopsided grin. “Not once did I ever think I’d end up in bed with you. With her, sure, but you?” He chuckles softly.
“You’re just lucky she likes you,” I say.
“Hah. Right. Because you don’t like me at all.”
A smile tugs at my mouth in spite of it all, and I can’t stop myself from muttering, “Well, maybe you’re not bad. We are pack, after all.” He knows I like him. The truth is, I can’t imagine this little pack without him.
“Awe,” Hayden muses, “I love you too, big guy.”
I don’t dignify that with a response, mostly because I don’t need to. Hayden, Kayla; they really are family. I’d do anything for them, absolutely anything.
This is what our future will look like. This is what will be a normal night from now on—minus the biting and the inevitable cleanup once she wakes up. We’ll disinfect the wounds and bandage her up, and then we’ll head downstairs to have some more dessert, this time cake.
I’m content. I’m happy. I’m everything I never thought I would be, and I owe it all to the two people on this bed with me.
Whatever life has in store for us, I’m confident the three of us can handle it together.
We’ve been through hell and back, and now that hell is firmly in our rearview mirror, we’ve got nothing but heaven ahead of us.