Chapter 56
56
JASPER
“My knot’s going down,” Ronan announces, swiftly pulling out and stepping off the bed.
I take his place, dropping to my stomach between her legs.
Briar’s gaze is fire when it slips down the length of her body and fixes on my face.
I burn and burn beneath it.
Her pussy’s a deep pink now, and I keep my touch gentle as I spread her open and watch in awe as she leaks both her and Ronan.
My throat constricts around a loose groan as I lick my way up her inner thighs, taking my time even while knowing I should be moving fast.
Her energy is low.
We’re pushing the limits of her exhaustion due to the sear of pain she’s had to withstand and the orgasms that have sucked what was left from her.
I can’t stop myself from dipping my tongue into her pussy and tasting her, though.
Can’t stop from grinding my cock into the mattress and pulling her clit between my lips.
Her whimpers shoot straight to the rigid length between my legs before they’re gone, stifled.
I flash my eyes up her body to find Dash fucking into her mouth.
Briar works him with quick, enthusiastic bobbing movements that betray how badly she wants him despite her dwindling energy.
I’m working against the clock here, and I remind myself of that while lapping at the fresh slick dripping from her entrance.
Her thighs quiver beneath the hands Landon sets atop them, keeping them splayed wide while she bucks against my mouth.
“Do it now, Jasper,” he orders, flashing a heated look between me and her.
The order drifts like a promise in the air.
Briar opens her eyes, focusing on me as I move onto my knees and hike her up by the hips.
She doesn’t let go of Dash, keeping her mouth around him while I run the tip of my cock through her pussy.
“This is the last time I’ll ask, love. But is this what you want? My mark on your skin for the rest of your life?”
She tips her chin as best she can, her beautiful, bright blue eyes glimmering.
I don’t make either of us wait any longer.
The heat is immediate.
I split her open with the first few inches of my shaft before having to stop, breathing through my teeth to calm down.
She clenches right around me and mewls into Dash’s groin while her fingers search for me.
I take her hand and thread our fingers before hovering over her body and sinking the rest of the way inside.
My knot presses against a wet, searing heat as I bottom out and bring my lips to the breast unoccupied by Landon’s fingers.
I’m too aware of the placement of Ronan’s bite and the other two men around us, who no doubt haven’t forgotten it, either.
It’s right there in front of us, both a tease and a promise.
I’ve known where I’ve wanted mine since the moment I met her.
And I’m selfish tonight because I’m grateful I get to claim it before the other two can.
“Briar,” Dash blurts out, his hips stuttering as she sucks his cock so hard her cheeks hollow.
“That’s enough. I’m—I don’t want to come like this.”
Her brows furrow as she releases a low, muffled noise.
Dash strokes her cheek as I pull out and thrust back in so hard she loses focus.
He steals the chance to pull out, replacing his dick with his lips as he kisses her reassuringly.
My balls are tight, my knot growing harder with every press against her skin.
I’m growing frantic.
“Look at me, Briar.”
She pulls away from Dash.
The full weight of her stare drives me wild as I pick up the pace, pressing forward to rub my knot against her clit with every inward thrust. She flutters around me, her slick dripping down my thighs and onto the mattress.
Her lips are parted, every breath sawing in and out of her chest. She’s not anticipating the sting of my teeth in her shoulder or the sudden fullness of my knot popping into place.
A blissful scream follows, ringing in my ears and burying itself in my memory.
She says my name like a prayer or a curse.
Maybe both. But I hear it.
Both in my ears and my mind like an echo of a fleeting thought, here and gone in a flash.
I stumble through my head like a stranger.
I’m fuller now, the overwhelming sensation of feelings that don’t belong to me searing through my skin and bones.
Briar and Ronan. Both of them are here now, but not completely.
After releasing her shoulder, I soothe the mark with my tongue and whisper, “There you are.”
Briar nuzzles into my neck, warm breath scorching my skin on the way down to the dip of my shoulder.
She finds the same spot I did and gives me her mark.
I flinch before relaxing again, my heartbeat slowing.
The contentment I’m feeling doesn’t just belong to me.
My omega lets her eyes shut the moment she removes her teeth and lies back on the bed.
“You need to eat,” I murmur, running a knuckle along her cheekbone.
She frowns, head shaking.
“Later. Please. I’m tired.”
Landon sets a hand on my unbitten shoulder.
“We’ll wake you up to eat in a couple of hours. Sleep while you’re not in pain, baby.”
“Don’t leave.”
“We won’t.” Ronan kisses her temple, then the centre of her forehead.
“We’ll be here beside you all night,” I promise.
We’re still connected as I shift us until we’re lying on our sides.
Her head finds a place atop my biceps, and then the others are joining us, finding spots on the bed.
It’s the first time we’ve ever slept together like this, but I think I could get used to it.
After all, we’re pack.
LANDON
I woke before anyone else had.
The bedroom is so full of pheromones that it’s hard to pick up the scent of french toast and eggs, but I know it’s there.
I risked burning the kitchen down to make her breakfast at the crack of dawn and only got back in bed a few minutes ago.
She’s been sleeping so peacefully that I haven’t had it in me to wake her.
The curtains Briar chose at the nesting store succeed in keeping the light out, blocking out all but a tiny glimmer of early morning sunlight.
She doesn’t need anything to keep her up.
Not until her heat has passed.
My arm is numb from where Briar’s rolled onto it.
Jasper’s still at her back with Dash on his other side.
Ronan rolled onto his back after I snuck out of the room, leaving an opening for me to take once I got back.
The soft fan of her breath on my face tickles as I tuck her hair behind her ear and just .
. . stare.
She’s so beautiful.
Dainty in a physical way but never spiritually, even when she doubts that herself.
There is no other omega that would have stood up to me the way she did while simultaneously leaving a door open between us.
It took me too long to walk through it, but now that I’m here, we can close it forever.
A light moan slips past her parted lips.
Her perfume explodes in the air, making my cock stiffen against my stomach.
I’ve kept my shorts on, needing that boundary, but the longer I refuse my instincts to take her, the wilder they’re growing.
The signs of rejection sickness that I’ve fought off to near extinction are starting to return, goading me into giving in.
I will. Oh, fuck , I will.
But it wasn’t my turn to have her yet, and after all the shit I’ve put my pack through over the past couple of years, standing back to watch them have the moments they deserve with her was the right choice.
Briar makes another low, breathy sound.
It draws me closer, my fingers travelling from her ear to the bottom of her still-puffy bottom lip.
She whines, body rolling closer to mine.
I swallow. Hard.
“You smell so good,” she mumbles sleepily, bringing her face to the space beneath my chin.
Her tongue peeks out, swiping along the curve of my Adam’s apple before repeating the action.
I clench my jaw so hard it might crack.
Precum leaks from the tip of my cock, soaking into my shorts as I thrust forward before I can stop myself.
Briar tips her head back and opens her eyes, blinking heavily at me.
The bright blue has dulled, now tired and warped by the effects of her heat.
“You stayed.”
“I did for a while. Then, I made you food. The kind you have to eat this time.”
Her cheeks pinken as she rolls her lip between her teeth and nods loosely.
She shakes on the mattress, her stare wavering as she struggles to keep her eyes from rolling back.
“I don’t know if I can,” she admits weakly.
Suddenly, there’s pressure on my cock.
I hold my breath, refusing to look down at where she’s touching me.
“I’m empty, Alpha. And wet . So wet .”
Fucking fuck.
My knot throbs, hardening to stone.
I say nothing as she pushes me onto my back and reaches slim fingers beneath the band of my shorts to tug them down.
My brain has gone blank, every argument lost in the wave of lust that plows into me.
“Please. I need your cock. Need you to knot me. It hurts being empty like this.”
“Briar,” I warn through clenched teeth.
“Call me Haven.”
“I’m going to fuck everything up if you don’t wait, Haven ,” I growl, fitting her hips in my hands.
She moans in approval and climbs onto my lap once my shorts reach my knees.
“I’m not hungry for food. Only you.”
The hot press of her cunt to my shaft turns my vision white.
She blows out a long breath, attention glued to the space between us.
Dropping her hands to my chest, she rolls her body forward, my cock soaked in slick.
“Your knot is so big,” she gasps, bucking against it when she glides backward.
“I want it inside of me.”
With my hands on her body, I struggle not to take complete control of her movements.
She feels too fucking good.
I’ve dreamed of feeling her split apart around my cock and, even more so, taking my knot.
In my fantasies, she can barely make it fit.
We try for minutes, her begging louder and louder until finally, it pops inside, stretching her wider than any of the others have.
“Can you take it? Will you make it fit?” I bite out, guiding her hips to snap harder, quicker.
She rolls her head to the side, jerking when her clit rubs against my pubic bone.
“Make me take it. Don’t stop until we’re locked together. I’m a good girl, Alpha.”
“No, you’re not. A good girl would have listened when I said you had to eat first. Instead, you took my shorts off and planted your bad girl pussy on my cock, slicking it up so I have no choice but to slip it inside.”
It hurts to breathe.
My lungs are too constricted, seizing with the desire to fuck her deep and hard, leaving no option but to fill her with my cum and keep it locked up tight.
Briar bends forward over my chest. Her ass lifts up, waving at the ceiling as she kisses my skin, not leaving an inch of it untouched.
Fingers rub over my abs and down the path of my V line before clamping around my knot and squeezing.
I buck into her touch, grunting.
“Jesus Christ. Shit, Briar. You’re pushing me.”
She starts massaging it in her palm while nipping and sucking my pecs, leaving small purple bites on her way up to my throat.
My blood boils. She’s so confident right now, working my body within an inch of my life, like if she doesn’t get my cock, she’ll lose her only chance at pleasure.
“Fuck her, Landon. Stop delaying the inevitable,” Ronan speaks up from my side.
I can’t take my eyes off Briar long enough to see what he’s doing now that he’s awake.
My attention is so narrowed I can’t split it.
“Dash first,” I snap.
“Not me first. You, Lan.” The voice comes from our beta.
Briar whines, loud and needy, before scraping her teeth across my throat.
She’s teasing a bite, and I’m—I’m fraying.
I won’t be able to deny her much longer without risking causing myself physical pain.
I shake my head angrily, my knot throbbing in Briar’s hand.
There’s a pool of precum on my stomach, so close to her pussy.
“I don’t deserve it.”
Briar hovers above me, her face an inch from mine.
The fire in her eyes has returned, not from her blazing body temperature but from determination.
She’s still inside of herself, even now.
Her lip curls as she snarls, “ You’re mine. Mine, Landon. We deserve each other.”
There’s no more fighting it.
I lift my hands and fill both with her cheeks before bringing her mouth to mine.
She relaxes in my hold, our lips parting and tongues swirling.
Then, she’s moaning into my mouth.
I give her one back when long, rough fingers grip my shaft and line it up with her pussy.
Whichever of my packmates it is touching me makes sure I’m slicked up completely before helping Briar lower herself onto me.
She slips down slowly, panting against my lips as she’s stretched again.
“Ohhh.”
“Feel good, baby?” I ask, chasing her mouth in search of another kiss.
We’re running on limited time here.
I can’t do everything I’ve wanted to with her this time because I simply won’t last. Neither of us will.
There will be time , I remind myself.
Decades worth of it.
“So good,” she slurs, bucking her hips wildly.
“Oh, god!”
Dash’s scent is duller than the others, yet right now, it’s as obvious as theirs are.
I let Briar pull her mouth away as she pushes up on her hands and looks over her shoulder.
The pressure against my cock is different now, and I find out why when Dash appears behind her.
He cups her breast in his hand and presses his chest to her back.
“Is this okay?” he asks her.
Her eyes cross from the pleasure of what he’s doing to her.
She grows tighter, and the realization hits me hard.
She lets her head fall back to his shoulder, eyes on me again.
“ So okay.”
“Are his fingers in your ass, Briar?”
Her lip disappears into her mouth while she nods.
Dash’s knuckles brush my shaft while retreating from her, and then he’s encouraging her to lean forward, creating more space between her legs.
That’s when I feel him stealing the slick from my cock to wet his.
“Will you both bite me? Together?” she blurts out, gaze cloudy.
I find Dash watching me from over her shoulder, a soft, easy expression on his face.
He brings his fingers back to her asshole, stretching his fingers out to the point I can feel them prodding the thin skin dividing us.
“If that’s what you want, we’ll give it to you,” I declare.
Dash kisses her jaw.
“As long as you still take your alpha’s knot, I’ll bite you when he does. We’ll do it together.”
Together .