Chapter 29
twenty-nine
Jo
Hayden can tell something is off.
He doesn’t say anything, but I know he can sense it. He sticks close to me while we eat lunch, his hand never leaving my thigh, and my omega peeks her eyes open a little more at the attention, secretly hoping he’s into voyeurism and might start fingering me under the table.
My hormones are all over the place.
Kole is nowhere to be seen, which I do not like, but he mentioned at breakfast something about being gone the rest of the day, so I know not to worry.
I don’t know if it’s because Hayden is paying extra close attention to me, but something in me is…
stirring. A need. It’s more than lust, and it’s deeper than the need to call him mine.
His smoky-pepper scent is getting stronger the more I’m around him, and by the time we’re going back to my room after lunch, I’m ready to rip his clothes off.
“Damn, Fireball,” Hayden gasps as I straddle him on my bed, sucking at his neck. “What got you all hot and bothered, huh?”
“You,” I groan, grazing my teeth right over where my bite will go when I finally have my heat and we can bond.
Shit, that thought came out of left field.
“Me?” he asks, surprise in his voice. “Have I done something?”
I sit up to grind myself on his erection. “Just being your usual, sunny self.” I gasp at the sensation, and then I’m off him, scrambling out of my clothes. I need him to knot me, like…now.
Wait. I don’t know if I can take a knot anymore. No more slick.
But…fuck, I’m willing to try.
“Clothes, off,” I order him, and he quickly sheds his own jumpsuit and briefs until he’s laying naked on my bed, his hard, weeping cock standing at attention.
I want to take a second to appreciate the hard planes of muscle that he obviously works so hard to keep, but all I can focus on is his dick.
My mouth descends upon him, sucking him fully down my throat, and his taste explodes on my tongue.
“Shit, shit! Jo…” he groans, his hands fisting my sheets while he tries to not buck his hips.
I pop off him, licking my lips as I move to straddle his waist. His fingers run through my folds, making my back arch and a low moan escapes me.
“Um, Jo?” I barely hear Hayden as I notch him at my entrance and sink all the way down on his perfect cock. He lets out a little moan as I take him.
“Fuuuuck, Darlin’,” I groan, my head falling back in bliss. “You fill me so good.”
“I—fuck,” he curses as I start moving my hips, letting him slide in and out of me with ease. “Jo, you’re—fuck, you’re producing slick.”
I freeze, looking down at where we’re joined. Just like he said, I’m saturating both of us with the slippery, clear substance.
There’s an implication to that that I’m not wanting to take too close a look at right now, but I’m all for taking advantage of the new opportunity it’s providing me.
A grin breaks out on my face. “That just means you get to knot me.”
He swallows. “I’ve never knotted anyone before. I’ve…I’ve only ever hooked up with betas. I’m glad you’re my first.”
I growl, my hand reaching for hair so I can yank the strands. “Don’t talk about other women when you’re inside me.”
His pupils blow, and he groans at the way my fingers pull his hair. “Sorry,” he moans, “just don’t stop moving those hips, baby.”
“Brat,” I snarl, then start moving again. His hands reach up to massage my tits while I’m riding him, and my head falls back in ecstasy. “Fuck, Hayden.” I gasp, feeling myself get close to the edge. “You’re gonna knot me, and then you’re gonna bite me, okay?”
It won’t bond us, but my omega is screaming for a bite and a knot in a way that I’ve never experienced before.
“Bite?” His brows shoot up. “Jo, I want to bond you, but are you sure now is the best time—ahhh.” His eyes roll in the back of his head as I lean forward and pull his hair again.
“It won’t bond us. It can’t. The medication will stop it from happenin’.
You’re on inhibitors, it should be fine.
” I don’t know why I’m so sure of this, but maybe I’m just trying to find any reason I can to give in to the whims of my omega.
“Please.” The word comes out a whine. “Please, Hayden, I need your bite.”
Hayden growls, his eyes flashing with something before he flips us so I’m on my back and he’s driving into me. The new angle allows him to reach even deeper than he was before, and I cry out at the new sensation, no longer able to talk with how quick and hard he’s thrusting.
The orgasm that had been sitting just out of reach catapults front and center, and when I come undone, Hayden shoves his knot inside me, locking us together like two pieces of a puzzle.
“I love you, Jo,” he pants, rutting his hips shallowly as he finds his own release. My heart soars at his words. I’ve known him barely a week, but I know that I love this alpha.
And then he’s biting me, the flesh of my breast under my nipple, and the brief flash of pain gives way to unholy ecstasy. I come again from his bite, my walls pulsing and fluttering around his knot, buried deep in me.
Something blooms in me, lighting me up from the inside out.
Mine.
Hayden pulls back to look at me with hooded eyes, and the next thing I know, I’m lunging forward, my teeth are piercing the skin above his heart. A connection unfurls between us, as natural as breathing, and I feel like I’ve finally found where I’m supposed to be.
In Hayden’s arms.
He groans, his hips stuttering to a stop, and when he rolls us to our sides, his hazel eyes pierce mine.
Warmth unfurls in my chest, and as I come out of my lust-filled haze, my nose twitches at the new scent that surrounds me.
No. Not a new scent, it’s still smoky and pepper, but…more.
Mine.
“Hayden,” I breathe as his eyes widen and his own nostrils flair.
“Jo,” he gasps, his hands finding my face as he kisses me in earnest. “I knew you were mine.”
Because Hayden? He’s my true scent match. I don’t know how, but…we bonded.
My sweet, tortured boy is my fated mate.
“Wait,” I shake my head, pulling back. “If you can scent me…does that mean that everyone else will be able to as well?”
Hayden’s expression morphs from glee to realization. “Shit.”
If the facility realizes that we’ve not only found a work around for the medication they use to control us, but that we’ve bonded as well?
We are so fucked.