Chapter 21
CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE
Kayla
It felt like I was floating on a cloud, my mind not completely awake yet, but my body sensing the warmth and comfort around me.
I still wasn’t completely sure I wasn’t just hallucinating. The pain had been so bad for so long I wouldn’t have been surprised if I’d forgotten to turn the cold water off and been swept away into hypothermia land.
I hated how fragile heats made me feel. With this one being full-blown and then some, I’d never felt weaker, curled up in the bathtub, waiting for my pack to come.
I was angrier at myself more than anything; I’d sent them away when, in the back of my mind, I knew something wasn’t right.
The smell of something delicious broke through Rio’s scent, and I lifted my head from his warm chest to sniff the air like a dog. Rio was awake, his dark brown eyes watching me as he pushed a clump of hair out of my face.
I didn’t need to touch my hair to know it was a tangled mess. It had been in a sloppy bun, but with the rolling around in pain and writhing on the bathtub floor, it felt tangled as fuck.
“How are you feeling?” A line formed between Rio’s eyes, and I reached up to smooth it with my thumb.
“Horny and hungry.” I wiggled on top of him, seeking the friction of his cock against my clit. At some point, he must have slid out of me after his knot went down.
He groaned and rolled me over so I was under him. “Kayla, I can’t begin to tell you-”
I silenced him with a kiss, not needing any more apologies. They would probably spend the rest of their lives making up for the fact that they weren’t there when my heat hit.
Our tongues tangled together and the ache between my legs and in my lower belly quickly became painful. I needed another knot and I needed it now.
I heard the door open as Rio ground his dick against my clit. The bed dipped, Kane’s warm smoky scent making my blood boil. There was the faint scent of bacon too, which made my stomach grumble with hunger. I hadn’t eaten since our date.
Rio’s lips left mine, and I whimpered from the loss of contact.
But they were quickly replaced by Kane’s and Rio rolled off me so Kane could take over.
I didn’t know how long it had been since they’d gotten home and Rio had knotted me, but none of that mattered; I was going to need them all before I was satisfied.
Kane kissed me like he hadn’t in months, and I wrapped my legs around him, pulling him closer to me. He kissed down my neck, sucking on a spot that he seemed to like the most.
“That’s where you’ll bite me.” It wasn’t a question so much as a proclamation that the spot was his to take when it was time.
“Yes.” He pulled back to look into my eyes. “I’m sorry we weren’t here. I should have listened to my instincts.”
“No. You listened to me. That’s more important sometimes.” I smiled, and he chuckled, moving his lips to my nipple and sucking it between his lips. “Fuck me, that feels good.”
I wanted to take things slowly but also wanted him to flip me already and pound into me. My hips moved against him, my slick coating his dick as he plucked my other nipple between his fingers.
“How do you want it, sweets?” Sweets. I liked that.
“From behind. Fucking rail me into the mattress.” My voice had turned needy, and I didn’t care for a single second because it seemed to light a fire in Kane’s eyes to match his scent.
He bit one nipple while pinching the other, and I cried out, my cunt feeling like it was going to cramp up on me. With a pop of his lips as he released me, he moved off me and flipped me like I weighed nothing.
“Show me that ass, Kayla girl. I want to admire what I’m about to fuck.” He smacked one cheek, making me squeal with delight.
Jesus, I was lost to these alphas.
I got to my knees and rested my forearms on the bed, my ass in the air, preening like a fucking peacock, and I loved every second of it. “Do you like what you see, Alpha?”
He growled deep in his throat in approval, and I wiggled my ass, presenting it to him for the taking.
“It’s a tough decision whether to fuck your ass or this sexy pussy.” He ran his hand over my cheek and then between my legs, cupping my sex possessively.
“I need your knot,” I whimpered, pressing into his hand as he slid a finger in. I sighed and rested my forehead on a pillow. “No teasing.”
“Your wish is my command.” He removed his finger, and I heard the distinct sound of him sucking his finger before he lined up with my entrance.
His cock filled me in one sharp thrust, my body lurching forward with the force. I cried out, my back and neck arching like I was a cat stretching.
“Tight and wet as fuck.” His hand cracked against my ass again, and I clenched around him. “You like that, Kayla girl?”
“Yes!” My whole body was alive with feeling and my core ached for an orgasm and for his knot to fill me. “Again, harder.”
His fingers dug into my hip, and he pounded into me, our skin slapping against each other in an erotic symphony of sexual bliss.
He smacked my ass again, harder this time, making me yelp.
It was the good kind of pain that quickly crossed into even more pleasure as my pussy clenched and flooded with slick, ready to take whatever he had to give me.
He reached around me, his fingers going straight to my swollen clit. I cried out as he rolled it between his fingers, my orgasm slamming into me. He worked his hips until his knot was firmly inside me, the noises coming from him strengthening the tidal wave of pleasure pulsing through me.
My body practically convulsed as the first rope of his cum shot into me, his roar telling me just how much pleasure my body was bringing him.
I started to collapse onto the mattress, but his arm hooked around me, keeping my hips up as he finished spilling into me in short little thrusts that had me seeing stars.
Every centimeter of my body was tingling, and my chest heaved as my orgasm waned and I went limp underneath him. He shuddered with one last thrust and lowered me to the bed, his body weight pressing into me briefly before he rolled us onto our sides.
“Are you okay?” He peppered kisses along the back of my neck and shoulder, his arm hanging loosely over me and resting by my belly button.
I was too tired to answer and instead put my hand over his, entwining our fingers. I was more than okay.
A different kind of pain woke me what couldn’t have been more than a few hours later. I had no concept of time, my body and brain only really focused on the constant need that simmered between my legs. But what I needed now was food, or I was going to keel over from starvation.
Kane was gone, but in his place, wrapped around me like a protective shield, was Beck. My pussy immediately clenched at the realization he was cuddling with me, and I scrambled from the bed before my hormones got any ideas about needing him right that instant.
He groaned and rolled over onto his stomach, clutching the pillow I had just been sleeping on, but he didn’t wake up. They all had to be exhausted just as much as I was. They’d won a game and then come back here for a different type of game.
I tiptoed to the bathroom and caught a glimpse of myself in the mirror.
My hair was a disaster, and I attempted to take the ponytail holder out, only to find it stuck in the tangled mess.
I was too weak to care and quickly used the bathroom and washed my hands and face.
My body was sticky and gross, but a shower could wait until after I ate because I was damn near about to pass out.
Grabbing the soft terrycloth robe I’d hung on the back of the door as part of my nest preparations, I went back into the bedroom and let out a little squeal when I ran straight into a chest.
“Jesus, Rylan, don’t sneak up on a girl like that.” I pulled on the robe and secured it so he wouldn’t get any ideas just yet. “I need food, and you’d better not tell me you have some right between your legs.”
I looked around for my phone and found it charging on the entertainment center. My parents were probably so worried about me. Taking it off the charger, I swiped it open and found no messages.
“I hope you don’t mind, but as soon as we plugged it in, the notifications were going crazy from your parents, so we sent your mom a text that we were here, and you were fine.” Rylan came behind me and wrapped me in his arms.
“Thank you.” I went back through the texts with a sigh. “I should put a password on this so you guys don’t see all the dick pics guys send me.”
“Haha,” Rylan said dryly and then glanced over at Beck sleeping. “He hasn’t slept, so let’s give him some peace.”
He grabbed my free hand and led me from the nest room, shutting the door quietly behind us.
“Why hasn’t he slept?” I stopped him and turned him to face me. “He’s not having regrets, is he?” If I was an insecure omega before, them sending me away after getting me through my heat would make me even worse.
“Not at all.” He pulled me to him, his purr soothing my worries, which seemed to be exacerbated by my heat.
“He was taking care of business stuff, then he walked the perimeter of the property about ten times, making sure it was secure, and then he made some phone calls to get beta security guards out front.”
“What? Why?” I had felt safe in their house, but maybe I shouldn’t have.
“N’Pact knows you’re in heat… that’s how we got here; they let us take their plane with them.” Even he seemed a little worried about that.
“You really think they’d try to break in here because they know I’m in heat? They haven’t even met me.” I didn’t want to believe that alphas could be so driven by their instincts that they’d take an omega in heat by force.
“It’s better to be safe than sorry. Then he’s paranoid about Brian. I can’t wait until we can officially fire his ass.”
Brian. Just his name made me want to vomit. “What did Brian do?”
“He had the balls to ask if you purposely stopped your pills to start your heat. Like, why would that matter anyway? It’s your body.
” My mouth fell open at the accusation, and Rylan put his hands on my arms in reassurance.
“We do not think you did it on purpose. But maybe you missed a pill or two by accident?”
“No. I have an alarm on my phone that goes off every day. Fuck Brian.”
“He was enraged we’re all for forfeiting the championship too if we need to. I don’t see why he cares so much. He gets paid regardless of if we win or lose.”
“He’s an idiot.” My brain was still latched onto the pill issue. Even if I had stopped them, it wasn’t like I knew it was going to start when it did. “I do need to call my doctor and ask about why I’m going through a full heat when I take my pills every day at the same time.”
“Maybe we’re just so sexy, we caused it.” Rylan kissed my forehead and then led me away from the nest.
It was almost six in the morning and the house was darker than usual. As soon as we were in the main living room, I could see why.
I hadn’t even known the floor-to-ceiling windows had giant roll-down blackout shades. It made the house that much more appealing. All it needed now was some new décor and it would feel like home.
Kane was asleep on the couch and didn’t stir as we walked past him into the dining room where Rio was at the table using my sewing machine.
“What are you doing?” I let go of Rylan’s hand as he continued to the kitchen, and I went to stand behind Rio, wrapping my arms around him and putting my chin on the top of his head. He was working on my quilt, and it filled me with warmth.
“Well, you had the one sample block made and all of the fabric pieces cut. I hope you don’t mind.” He had just finished a block and cut the thread. “It took a few YouTube videos, but I think I’ve got the hang of it. Only pricked my fingers a few times.”
I bent over his shoulder and kissed his cheek. “Thank you. Maybe you can be my first employee.”
He turned and captured my lips, but I quickly pulled away. “None of that. I need food and a shower before any more sextivities can take place.”
Rio laughed. “It’s just a kiss.”
“A kiss turns into tangling tongues, which turns into me thinking about tongues in other places, which then-” He silenced me with another kiss, laughing against my lips. “Thank you. I was headed down a dark path there. Food. I need food.”
My core was already starting to ache with need again. I was at least grateful for the small reprieve their knots seemed to give me. The thing was, in the back of my mind, I knew the worst was yet to come.