Chapter 19
19
Hazel
It was taking forever to unpack my clothes in my old bedroom. Since the closet in the master was currently being used as my nest, I’d opted to make my childhood bedroom the place I’d put all my stuff. I peered around at the room and frowned.
The space was covered in shirts, pants, dresses, shoes, and more accessories than I could count. I was ninety-nine percent sure I hadn’t picked out half of this stuff, which meant my pack had been adding stuff behind my back.
A soft smile toyed on my lips, and I sank down to my knees in the middle of the room before picking up a shirt that was the exact soft gray color of Rhett’s eyes when he smiled.
Deciding holding it wasn’t enough, I stripped off my borrowed shirt and bra before tugging the gray shirt over my head. That felt better. Less like I was about to work a corner and more like I was home.
Home .
God, that word meant so much now. So much more than it ever had. It lifted me up like a rising tide of overwhelming emotion, helping to settle another piece of my frayed nerves.
That sense of serenity was abruptly shattered when the door to my bedroom slammed open and Kellan appeared. His hair was falling out of its usual messy bun, and his chest heaved, testing the strength of the fabric stretched across the hard muscles.
I jumped up, heart hammering like a rabbit’s caught in a hunter’s trap. “What’s wrong? What happened?”
Kellan took two large steps toward me and grabbed me in his arms, lifting me as I wrapped my arms and legs around him like a baby koala clutching a tree.
“Kell—”
His mouth crashed against mine as he spun us to pin my back against the wall. His hips fit perfectly between my spread legs, his already hard cock nudging me through layers of fabric and lighting up my insides.
“Mine,” he snarled between frantic kisses.
My hands speared into his hair as the pounding in my chest migrated much farther south. I rocked my hips, needing friction. His scent swirled around me, potent and intoxicating as I drowned in his touch.
“Fucking hell,” Crew snapped, coming into the room with the rest of the pack. “Couldn’t wait a minute?” He looked torn between being amused and annoyed.
Kellan growled low in his chest. “I’ve waited long enough.” And I shivered as he kissed a sensitive spot on my throat.
Over his shoulder, my eyes caught on Crew’s. “What’s going on?” If they were all here, it had to be serious.
But they didn’t look worried or upset.
“OS called,” Rhett answered, wrapping an arm around Jude. Both of them grinned at me.
My breath caught.
Kellan’s head lifted, his dark eyes glittering with promise. “Ours.”
Crew chuckled softly. “What Kellan’s not-so-eloquently saying is, OS has agreed to our bonding.”
Hope exploded in my chest. “Really?”
Kellan sucked hard at the spot where my neck met my shoulder. “Really.”
“We can bond now?” I demanded, torn between stripping and crying with relief.
“Or we can wait for when you’re ready,” Rhett countered. “These last few days have been fairly taxing on you, dove.”
“No waiting,” I decided. “I want to bond. Now.”
“Yes,” Kellan rasped, his hard length pressing against my clit. Stars popped in my vision as I felt slick pool in my panties.
“Kellan, take her to her nest,” Crew ordered.
For a second, I thought Kellan might resist, but he spun me away from the wall and stalked out of the room, forcing the others to step out of our way as he marched down the hall and literally kicked the door open.
I giggled as I worked his hair free of the elastic, needing to run my fingers through the silky locks. I tugged on his hair, fusing our mouths together as we stumbled over the threshold.
“Careful,” Rhett warned from behind us.
“Don’t break our omega,” Jude added, only sounding half-serious.
Crew moved around us to open the door to the nest, and I grinned at him as Kellan nipped at my neck once again and moved me into the small space. A place that smelled like us. Like home. Like pack.
I impatiently pulled at Kellan’s shirt, desperate to have it off so I could touch his bare skin. To run my tongue along the edges of his tattoos and rake my nails down his back.
A frustrated whine swelled in my chest as I jerked at the fabric again. “Off,” I managed to choke out.
Kellan huffed and set me down, which sent my needy omega impulses into overdrive. Now was not the time to give me space. I needed my pack to figure out how to strip while still touching me.
“Easy, little one,” Crew rasped in my ear, his hands landing on my hips and tugging me against his chest. “Let me help you out.”
In front of me, Kellan tore at his clothes until they were in a messy, shredded pile at his feet. He kicked them away, standing gloriously naked in front of me. I devoured him with my eyes, taking in the dark, swirling ink that curved around bulging muscles in his chest, shoulders, and arms.
I licked my lips as his cock bobbed up, so hard and erect it looked painful, the purple head already seeping precum.
Crew kissed my jaw. “Let’s show him exactly what’s his, shall we?”
I nodded, squirming as I tried to press my thighs together for relief.
Kellan fisted himself in his hand, giving his cock a hard stroke as he watched us with hooded eyes while Rhett and Jude came around behind him and leaned on the wall, looking like they were getting comfortable to watch their own private porn brought to life.
Crew’s hands fisted in the bottom of my shirt and he whipped it up and over my head. His hands came back to cup my bare breasts, rolling my nipples between his skilled fingers.
I arched into his touch with a gasp. “More.”
Lightning flashed in Kellan’s eyes as he watched us. “I want to see her cunt.”
Crew chuckled and his hands skimmed down my sides to push my leggings and underwear away. Cool air hit my heated core, and my scent flooded the space. All four men groaned as they inhaled deeply.
Crew dragged a finger through my soaked folds before bringing it up to the light. The way it glistened was obscene. “I think she’s ready for you, Kell.”
“My omega,” Kellan snarled, reaching for me and snatching me from Crew with a low, almost feral growl. I whimpered and pressed myself against him, a fresh wave of slick flowing from my core and smearing the insides of my thighs.
“Kellan.” Crew’s tone was sharp and it cut through the haze of lust simmering in the air.
Kellan glared at him, and I realized why Crew was hitting the brakes. Kellan’s pupils were blown wide, practically eclipsing his dark irises. His peppermint and lemon scent was everywhere, and his body was trembling.
My brain ticked over the telltale signs of an alpha about to go into rut. AKA the time when an alpha was downright insatiable for his omega.
The shiver that started in my scalp and went to my toes was pure excitement. My inner omega was a greedy bitch who wanted all the knots.
“Are you good, Kell?” Crew asked as Jude and Rhett straightened, ready to intervene if needed.
Kellan’s breaths came in ragged pants and, after a moment, he blinked and slowly nodded. “I won’t hurt her.”
I huffed, burrowing tighter against his chest with a mewling noise that reminded me of a baby kitten. I might hurt him if he didn’t start touching me.
Kellan’s arms tightened around me as he nuzzled the top of my head, still looking at Crew. “I’m good. Promise.”
Crew nodded and stepped around to join Rhett and Jude, taking his place along the wall and watching. Waiting.
“Alpha,” I whimpered, kissing my way across Kellan’s chest. I licked his nipple and felt his sharp inhale. I was an inferno of need, and if he didn’t touch me soon, I was going to combust.
“I’ve got you, sugar,” Kellan crooned, one hand palming my ass while the other delved into my hair. His lips feathered over mine. “I’ll give you everything you need. Tonight, tomorrow, for-fucking-ever, Hazel.”
He guided me down to the mattress and settled his weight over me, the frenzy from his earlier kisses abating, becoming less demanding.
I gave a faint growl because soft wasn’t what I wanted. I wanted my alpha to claim me. To rut me until my muscles ached from the strain of trying to keep up with his pace.
Kellan hesitated, his gaze catching mine. “Haze?”
Jude cackled from the other side of the nest. “Dude, you’re being too sweet. I think she prefers you practically feral.”
Kellan’s nostrils flared. “Is that so?”
I nodded.
Some of that manic light glittered deep in his eyes once more. “Me, too, sugar.” Without preamble, he drove his cock into me in one long thrust, and I cried out as my inner muscles fluttered around him, burning as he stretched me wide open.
“Like this?” Kellan used his knees for leverage, pistoning his cock in and out of me.
“Yes, yes, yes ,” I chanted, my nails digging into his shoulders as my legs wound around his narrow waist. I rolled my hips, desperate to meet him thrust for thrust.
“So fucking perfect,” he groaned, his thick knot pressing against my opening.
“Knot, alpha, please,” I begged, my back arching as he sucked one nipple into his mouth and kept teasing me with his knot.
“Ready to take my knot like a good little omega?” His fist tightened in my hair, arching my neck and exposing the long column of my throat.
I tried to nod but couldn’t. My orgasm was right there . Hovering just out of reach. I scrambled to wedge a hand between us, my clit buzzing with anticipation of my fingers giving it much needed attention.
“No,” Kellan barked, stopping my movements.
I clenched my teeth.
“Hands above your head, omega,” he ordered next.
My arms lifted in response to the command, and I linked my fingers to keep from reaching for Kellan—or myself—again.
Kellan lifted one massive hand and wrapped it around my wrists, pinning them to the mattress. His eyes flashed as they dragged over me. “I love you, Hazel.”
Tears pricked my eyes. “I love you, Kellan.”
He pressed his knot inside me as his deft fingers found my clit and rubbed it furiously. I exploded in a cacophony of flashes of light and color, my world shattering as Kellan came with a roar before he dropped his head and bit my neck where it met my shoulder.
Pain flared bright in the spot for a moment, but then the pain morphed into a burning, drugging wave of pleasure that sent a new wave of desire crashing through me. I jerked as I fell apart, wondering if this was it. If this was how my life ended.
And, in a way, it did.
Just as I tumbled head first off a cliff into the abyss, a golden thread wrapped around me and pulled me back. A thread that lead straight back to Kellan.
I gasped as my alpha’s love slammed into me, his feelings for me too powerful to adequately articulate into words because those words hadn’t been created yet.
“Mine,” Kellan snarled, rutting into me over and over until there was zero doubt who I belonged to.