Chapter 14
It”s beenthree months since Alice quit her job at Labyrinth Solutions. Nothing that Logan said could make her stay, though he did try his best before witnessing Grant and Caleb walk her out of the building with a box of her desk trinkets and mugs in their arms.
Lily officially followed suit a month later, making their new company Walton Marketing her full-time job.
It was humble beginnings, but they were making just enough that both of them could do it full-time. It was enough to live on and, soon, would be enough to hire some more help. Alice worked fifty-hour weeks. Sometimes from the office, they”d set up in the upstairs loft, sometimes from the local library or her favorite cafe.
Even when it’s a lot, it’s never tedious.
The deadlines are her own and she doesn’t have to deal with any of the corporate nonsense that she”d grown accustomed to.
It’s hard work, but she’s steadily getting new clients. And between her and Lily, they”d need to hire a few more helping hands soon. Before the end of the year, they’d be a team of five if everything went the way she wanted it to.
Tonight she’s four-nonstop-hours deep into finishing up a project for a new client when warm hands descend onto her shoulders. She immediately relaxes her hunched posture and pushes off her headphones.
”Five already?” she asks with a yawn. She tilts her head back and accepts a kiss from Grant, still in his work clothes, his tie loose around his neck. “You’re handsome.”
”Thank you.” he kisses her again. “But it’s actually six, baby.” She curses and looks at her desk clock where, sure enough, it’s already six. ”You need to eat something.”
She motions to the half-eaten sleeve of saltines next to her keyboard, which pulls a laugh out of Grant. He swivels her chair to face him and kisses her some more before pulling her up into a hug. She lets his scent wrap around her, pressing her nose into his chest. Her favorite part of any day.
”We ordered Thai.”
”Oh, thank god.” Alice squeezes him one last time before patting his butt and leaving him to change while she investigates the Thai situation downstairs.
Caleb is already serving noodles and curry onto plates for the three of them. She holds him around the waist, standing on tiptoes to peer over his shoulder.
”Did you get rangoons?” she whispers and feels a laugh shake his chest.
”Of course.” Caleb reaches into the plastic bag and removes one more styrofoam takeout box. Her mouth waters just thinking about it. ”How was it today?”
”Great!” Alice starts on getting out forks and cups—the blue ones, her favorites—moving around him in the kitchen. ”By some miracle, all the clients we billed this week paid on time and Lily delivered a bunch of projects, so things are looking good for next week.”
”And how were you feeling?”
”Ah,” Alice shrugs. ”Maybe just a little antsy.”
Her second heat is just about due, they can all tell. She’s clingier than usual and can’t stop messing with the nest. The blankets have been washed and re-washed and nearly every hoodie owned by Grant and Caleb has been commandeered, either to be worn by Alice around the house or put over pillows like cases. The blackout curtains were secured, the whole house cleaned top to bottom, and she’s been having the hot flashes that tell her it really won’t be long now.
”Do you feel sick? Feverish?”
”I feel hungry,” she says, but doesn”t hold his eyes. He always knows when she’s keeping something from him, it’s obnoxious. ”Now stop worrying and feed me a rangoon please.”
Caleb rolls his eyes before opening the box and sliding it over.
”Thank you, thank you,” she says before promptly burning the inside of her mouth on the filling of a full wonton stuffed in her mouth.
Caleb and Grant sit on either side of her at the bar and she tugs at each of their stools until they inch closer to her. Satisfied, she digs into her food. She”s starving and anxious about what she wants to ask them. The solution to both is shoveling food into her mouth while the guys update her on the day”s office drama.
Scott isn’t nearly as productive as she was, but he’s really stepped up in the role. Logan has had to do a lot more of his own work, though.
After ten minutes of her nodding and humming like she”s listening and then asking for them to repeat themselves when they ask a question, Caleb and Grant put their forks down and turn to face her.
”What is it?”
”What is what?” she says around a mouthful of noodles.
”You”re acting weird,” Caleb says. ”Distracted.”
“I’m not.”
Grant raises an eyebrow, not buying it for a second.
Alice finishes chewing and then drains the rest of her glass of water. She knows she shouldn”t be nervous, but she can”t help herself. It”s not a small thing, what she wants.
”I want to finish the mating bond before I go into heat,” she blurts and both of the men’s jaws gape open. “With both of you.”
”You do?” Grant manages at the same time Caleb says, ”You”re sure?”
She is sure, as sure as she”s ever been about anything—she has been for a while. At Christmas, both Caleb and Grant expressed that they did in fact want to bond with her, but not until she was ready. She was thankful for their patience and even more thankful that they hadn’t brought it up since.
And well, now she is ready.
”I think it”ll help,” she says. ”My mom says heat is less painful if you”re bonded.”
”That may be true,” Caleb nods.
”But that”s not the only reason,” Alice says, then releases a huge breath. She looks between them and lets them each pick up a hand. ”I love you both. I want to be bonded to you permanently.”
“You do?” Caleb’s face goes soft.
“How could I not?”
”Great question,” Grant says, earning a little smile. ”You don”t feel rushed, do you?”
”No. I want this. And I want to do it before I”m so consumed by my heat that I can barely remember my own name, much less one of the most important moments of my life.”
When neither of them says yes, she goes on by saying, ”I know we haven”t talked about it in a while, and if anything has changed for either of you?—”
”It hasn”t,” Grant assures. ”Couldn”t.”
”I”ve wanted this since the first day,” Caleb admits. ”I”ve always wanted this to be forever.”
”Anything you want,” Grant agrees. “We’d wait as long as you need.”
The heat is really making her hormones volatile because their assurance makes her eyes well with big, sappy tears. She’s turning into her mother.
“Then I want it,” Alice says.
”When?” Caleb asks, suddenly sounding very urgent about this.
”I thought maybe. . . tonight?”
Caleb and Grant”s eyes meet across Alice for just a minute before they spring into action, Caleb unbuttoning his shirt while Grant deftly plucks Alice up from the stool.
”Wait, now?” She squawks, but clings to Grant with her legs around his waist.
”Baby, we”ve been waiting for this moment. We”re not going to waste another second,” Grant says.
”Gotta do it before you change your mind,” Caleb chimes in. Alice laughs loudly before pulling herself flush against Grant”s strong chest. Over his shoulder, Caleb”s already stripped off his shirt and she can see there”s a bulge in the front of his pants, ever eager for her.
Grant goes for the nest instead of their bedroom, dropping to his knees and resting her on her back gently atop the pile of pillows and blankets. Caleb clicks on the strings of lights while Grant gets to work kissing up Alice”s body and stripping off her clothes.
In her mind, she planned to look a bit sexier for this moment; maybe some lingerie or a silky slip instead of the matching sweat suit she wears to work on days when she has no meetings. Her hair, too, is in two frizzy red braids that whole chunks of hair have escaped from. But the way both men look at her like she’s the most radiant thing in the world, she knows she doesn’t need any of that to enamor them.
Caleb climbs onto the bed, crawling over her until her lips can fuse with his in a kiss that sears them both. His tongue is hot, probing immediately into her mouth—no grace, there’s hardly ever grace with him—he is all heat and excitement and passion, and Alice adores it.
”I love you, I love you,” Caleb breathes against her mouth. ”Loving you like this is all I can think about sometimes, the way we all fit together.”
A little moan escapes Alice when she feels a stubbled chin scrape between her thighs. It takes nothing for her to be soaked this close to going into her heat when it seems that one of them even ghosting their hand across her back will make her flood with slick.
”Baby,” Grant whines, as if the sight of her wet and spread before him is painful to him.
”Get me ready for you,” she says. Something devilish and possessive draws across his face and he gets to work, licking and nipping and teasing her.
”We”re going to need a couple of orgasms from you, Sweetheart, can you do that for us?” Caleb asks, watching Grant with rapt interest.
Alice is not often as patient as they’d like. They’d prefer she have a minimum of three orgasms before demanding their knots. They say she’s bossy and impatient, not a glimpse of people-pleasing tendencies when it comes to being pleasured.
”You sit back and let us have two, then we’ll give you what you want, you greedy girl.” Caleb twists at one of her nipples, the sting overwhelming her senses as Grant presses his tongue into her hole again and again.
Two orgasms might not be difficult, not when she”s already so close to her first.
She twists her fingers in Grant”s hair, pulling him closer to her and grinding against his tongue which he swirls around her clit. When Grant sucks it into his mouth, he adds three fingers into her, sliding effortlessly inside.
”Caleb,” Grant groans, and pulls his head away from Alice so Caleb can take a turn lapping at her pussy while Grant keeps his relentless fingering, pressing circles to her g-spot. Grant holds Caleb”s head to Alice, his grip tight on the back of Caleb’s neck.
”She tastes perfect, doesn”t she?” Grant asks. Caleb can only moan his ascent. ”That”s our mate, baby. That taste was made for us.”
Alice groans, her hands seeking purchase anywhere and finding Caleb’s forearm.
As she squeezes his arm tighter, he only licks faster.
”That”s it,” Grant coos. ”He”s doing you just right, isn”t he, Alice?”
”Yes,” she breathes, and then repeats herself, chanting yes, yes, yes as Grant”s fingers and Caleb”s mouth bring her right over the edge, drenching Grant”s palm with more of her slick that Caleb licks off of his fingers.
Alice tries to catch her breath, but before she can, Grant is already rubbing slick from her slit down to her tight hole. His thumb rubs circles around the entrance and her breath hitches every time he presses.
”One more, baby. Can you give us another before we fuck you?” Grant asks. He sounds so sweet, not like the demanding pleasure devil he really is.
”Okay.” She whines and writhes beneath Grant”s fingers. ”But hurry.”
Grant and Caleb laugh, then communicate something in their silent way before Grant removes himself between her legs and lies down beside her.
”Come here, baby,” Grant says, and tugs her until her front is pressed to his chest, his rigid cock squeezed between them. She wants to touch it and suck it into her mouth until he loses himself in her, but she knows he won”t allow it. They have different plans for her tonight.
”There you are,” Grant says, his face now level with hers. She tastes herself on his tongue when they kiss and quickly gets lost in it, kissing and breathing him in all while rubbing her body against his, hoping to make him even harder and tempt him into giving her what she really wants.
A hot open mouth laps at her ass before Alice feels something slide into her cunt. She gasps at the smooth, cold intrusion as it slowly pushes her open. It”s a toy, one that”s thicker than either of them, and Caleb works it in by degrees, one centimeter at a time, then out, before pressing it in a little farther. Her slick makes it glide easily, but she has to breathe deeply through the stretch.
She tries to lift her ass higher in the air, her face resting against Grant”s neck as he breathes encouragement into her ear.
”That”s a big cock, love, but look at that. You”re taking it perfectly.”
”I am?” she gasps as it slips in a little farther.
Caleb”s hand rubs soothing circles across her ass and lower back. ”Just breathe sweet thing, that”s right, you”re doing so good.”
Caleb fucks her with the toy and she expands around it. The stretch is intense but exhilarating, and pain morphs to overwhelming pleasure. She feels dizzy, gripping her mate for dear life as her other rocks the dildo into her. ”Do you think you can come around this?”
”I don”t—ah.” Caleb must’ve hit a button on the dildo because it clicks to life, vibrating inside her and shaking her entire cunt. It moves, too, she can feel it thrusting inside of her, eliciting the most inhuman noises from her mouth.
“How’d we get such a perfect Omega?” Caleb asks.
She moans again, long and loud in Grant”s ear, and feels his dick twitch against her stomach.
”That”s right, keep feeling that.” Grant licks up her neck, tasting the salt and sweat there. Alice thinks he might complete their mating bond right then, but instead, he peppers kisses over her.
Her pussy pulses around the shaking toy that thrusts into her G-spot and she”s caught off guard by the orgasm that sweeps over her. A cold sweat covers her skin as she comes, and comes, around the toy, tightening around it as if trying to push it out of herself or suck it in farther, she”s not sure.
”Good, good girl coming for us like that,” Grant mutters in her ear. ”Our perfect girl.”
”Alpha,” she pleads, and maybe it”s the desperation in her voice, but they don”t make her wait. Caleb pulls the toy from her slick hole and Grant readjusts her so that she”s higher on his body and his cock is lined up right at her entrance.
There”s no preamble before Grant is sliding home in her. He”s less thick than the toy was, but warmer and she is so addicted to the feel of their cocks inside of her that it feels like a slice of heaven.
Alice looks over her shoulder for Caleb, who is rubbing something on his cock, watching intently as his mates join together.
”You”ll…be in my,” Alice breaks on a moan as Grant pushes faster into her cunt. ”In my ass?”
”No, sweetheart,” Caleb says. ”Not quite.”
Alice”s face twists in confusion, but Grant”s knot almost breaching her entrance makes her breath hitch.
Caleb inches between their legs and rubs his slick head between her ass cheeks and down to where Grant fucks her from below.
Alice understands all at once what they plan to do: both of them inside her.
She groans at the thought and gasps as Caleb slips two fingers in alongside Grant”s cock.
”It won”t fit,” she breathes. ”There’s no way you both can fit.”
”We will,” Grant says. ”We”ve got you, baby.”
Grant steadies his thrusting to a stop and all three of them hold their breath as Caleb lines himself up. With excruciating slowness, he presses his cock against Grant”s in her hole, stretching her wider than the toy, wider than either of their knots, filling her until she feels she might faint at the sensation.
”Breathe, sweetheart,” Caleb says and she and Grant both take labored breaths. As she relaxes, Caleb can slip in farther, and after a pause, he begins to thrust. “That’s unreal. It’s. . . fuck.”
Grant and Alice both moan, while Grant”s mouth is on her neck again, sucking and nipping and licking.
”Do it,” Alice whispers, ”Please, Alpha.”
Grant”s hips pulse, pumping just once deeper into her as his teeth bite down on the soft part of her shoulder, completing the mating bond in one glorious moment, connecting them indelibly forever. By the way his hips jerk, Alice knows he”s coming in her as he does, and through the bond she can feel his extreme pleasure, only heightening her own.
She feels more than that, though. There’s his tenderness and love, the protectiveness he feels, and devotion to both her and Caleb, it”s all there in the bond, and he can feel all of her just the same.
Unlatching, he licks at her neck, sealing the wound that already tingles as it heals to a light scar. They breathe together, hearts thundering against each other, and kiss until Alice is dizzy and her chin is bright red from his stubble.
When they pull apart, Alice turns again to study Caleb whose face is screwed up in concentration, like he”s trying his hardest not to go into a rut.
”Pull out, angel,” Grant tells him, and Caleb does. Grant follows suit, and turns Alice around so she is laying her back on his front, just like the first night he brought her here when she had been so sure the three of them couldn’t be together.
Caleb wastes no time crawling over her and mounting her again, sliding to the hilt of his knot and falling immediately into a feverish rut.
Alice tugs his head down to her other shoulder and as his knot presses into her, she bursts, coming around his cock as his teeth sink into her skin—marking her as his forever and sealing their bond while his semen mixes with Grant”s inside of her.
She”s pumped full and feeling her own emotions alongside Grant”s, and Caleb”s, mingling together as perfectly as their scents do. It”s the most perfect blend of the three of them, now bonded for life, mated to one another.
”I love you,” Grant says as Caleb licks at his bite. ”I love you, I love you, I love you.”
Alice reaches up and holds his head. They”re all sweaty messes, but together like this, finally bonded, they”re perfect.
Whole.
Completely and joyfully matched.