Kestrel
“There are dead robins in the forest,” Sage says to Blaze as they walk towards the couch I’m curled up on. “It makes no sense. We don’t have them here.”
I look up, startled, frightened, one moment of pure terror that is quickly swept away because it makes no sense.
Sage stays where he is, checking his phone, while Blaze disappears again back the way he came. A pang hits me. I miss Blaze. All that flirting and teasing…it was real to me.
Rolly smiles at me and holds out a muffin that he’s procured from thin air. His delightful charm and adorable ability to get under the skin of all my alters is quickly making him a fan favourite.
“Oh, you are well-trained. Who told you that feeding me was how you win me over?” I tease.
He waggles his eyebrows. “I caught you last night raiding the kitchen, you go straight for the sweets.”
My cheeks heat.
He’s right. Merle steals silver items, Raptor looks for weapons, but I want the sweets. Chocolate, muffins, biscuits, yogurt. Hell, I’ll sit with a jar of jam and just eat spoonfuls of it. If it’s sweet, it’s fair game. I’m not sure how I feel about how quickly they are figuring me all out.
“Gimme,” I say and pounce on the muffin, moaning around the dense, rich chocolate.
“God, that is hot.”
“Hot?” Sage says when he sits down. “Mildly terrifying. Especially the glare you are getting. Step closer to the muffin, Rolly; I want to see what happens.”
He does that, and a deep warning growl erupts from my chest, scaring the crap out of me. I look down; the muffin is held close to my chest, but I’ve somehow snatched up a knife and am holding it out in warning.
“Oh, that is just…” Rolly bites his lips and makes this mmm sound that goes right through me. I could have a bite of him as soon as I’m finished with the muffin.
I take another mouthful and find three alphas staring at my lips.
Blaze walks in with Roseland. “What are we staring at?”
“She sins with her mouth,” Rolly whispers. “Sexy, sexy sins. I want to lick it.”
I continue eating, but find all five of them staring at me now. I snarl in warning and lick my fingers as I unfurl myself and stand up.
When I look up, their eyes are glazed, and there’s a bit of drool on King’s chin.
I roll my eyes and deliberately swish my hips as I walk out of the room.
I’m not as nonchalant as I pretend to be. My scent has changed, it’s warmer, thicker, and has a sweetness that I haven’t smelled before.
I’ve had weird pretend heats. Painful days where I have suffered in a room I’ve locked from the inside and outside.
Rooms so hidden and so far away from anyone who might catch my scent that I can suffer and scream alone until it’s over.
But the minute another alpha comes near me, it all goes away, and a deadly side of me comes out, and I come out swinging.
But those heats came with warnings, changes in my body, my dreams. There were signs, and they never lasted longer than twenty-four hours.
This is just a change of scent that is different from anything else. It’s subtle and tempting, and it seems to be affecting them, too. Their scents are sharper, or maybe I can just smell them better.
We can’t go into heat right now.
I don’t know who says it, but we all agree.
It’s too dangerous.
Rolly slams me into the wall and licks the back of my neck.
“I was right!” he shouts as he leans off me. “She tastes as sweet as that muffin.”
I growl, but it’s all playful, I am painfully aware of how hard and strong his body is and how good it felt pressed against me.
An involuntary groan escapes my lips, and I feel his gaze on the back of my head as he forgets all about the other alphas.
“Kest?”
“Rolly, come on, we need to go lock up for the night!” King says.
“Nooooo, I need to…oh, come on.”
I turn and watch in amusement as he is dragged away. Roseland has disappeared, which just leaves Sage and Blaze watching me warily.
I huff out my breath and stare at them.
“You’re going to make me do it?”
Sage raises an eyebrow. “You are big enough to tell us if you want a cock, aren’t you?”
I glare at him. “I’ll go find a door handle to get off on.”
Sage laughs, but Blaze is not laughing. His eyes are burning. He steps past Sage and grabs my wrist, towing me through the house until we get to the pool.
“Are you telling me I need to cool off?”
He growls, and a dagger appears in his hands. With incredible speed, he cuts my clothes off me, leaving me standing there naked, gaping at him.
He then slowly reaches out and pushes between my breasts. I don’t even think to fight him, I just fall backwards into the black pool.
Before I can even come up from the water, the alphas have dived in, and they are swimming around me.
I tread water and turn, watching their wake until they resurface. Sage comes up laughing and grabs my thigh, pulling me to him. His fingers are dangerously close to where I ache.
So close I shudder and twist, clinging to him. I wrap my legs around his waist, only to realise he’s naked.
“Isn’t this fun?” Sage whispers.
I huff at him, but it is kind of fun. Blaze rises out of the water right at my back, huge and hot, and when he leans on me, a fire I was trying to put out explodes into an inferno. It’s not a heat, but it’s close.
It’s pure, unadulterated desire. For these alphas, I am a hot, melted mess. Blaze nips at my neck, and I tilt my head back onto his shoulder, groaning. I must tighten my thighs because Sage hisses and then leans forward and grabs a part of my throat with his teeth.
I lose myself in their mouths. All I can do is hang on as their hands slide over my skin, leaving super heated trails.
“I think I’d like those cocks now.”
Sage laughs, I feel it in my chest. I feel it everywhere. He breaks away, swimming lazily to the shallows where he stands up.
“Why are we rushing?”
“Who’s rushing? The last few weeks have been foreplay.” I turn as Blaze breaks away from me, but unlike Sage, he just swims in a circle around me.
I swim towards him, but with a small, teasing smile, he stays out of my reach. I growl in frustration and duck under the water, swimming towards the shallows.
A hand grips my ankle and drags me back. Fingers slide up my leg and slip between my legs, stroking my clit. I open my mouth to cry out and exhale a mouthful of bubbles.
His fingers torture me for long moments before he lets me go, shoving me to the surface. I get to the shallows and burst out of the water, lungs burning. I turn, searching for them, but I can’t see them. Not even a sign.
Who has a black pool, anyway?
The lights turn on, and I suddenly can see the appeal. It’s beautiful, but it still doesn’t reveal the missing alphas.
Fingers trace up the crease of my ass, then over my lower back before disappearing. When I turn, there’s no one there but ripples on the surface.
When I turn back, Sage is standing in front of me. He steps towards me.
“You asked and you shall receive,” he whispers. “And receive.”
I hit the side of the pool. He grabs me under my thighs and lifts me up like I weigh nothing, setting me on the very edge of the pool. I try to scoot back, but he just drags me to the edge and pushes my thighs wide open.
“Before you can have what you want, you need to pay the price.”
“What’s the price?”
“This!”
He leans over me and sucks my clit into his mouth.
I gasp, struggling to stay quiet and still as he ravages my pussy. Within seconds, I know he’s got my number. Every flex of my muscles, every jerk and flinch, and he’s taking it in, adjusting and learning, and within a few moments I’m screaming as my first orgasm is torn from my body.
“Stairs, Sage.”
Sage lifts me up, dragging his tongue up my stomach to my breasts as he walks and then he sets me down.
I twist onto my hands and knees. My knees can’t reach the step, but that doesn’t stop Sage, he grabs my ankles, maneuvering my legs apart and steps in, pressing his cock to my throbbing pussy and grinding into me.
“Hope your balance is good.”
“What?”
Blaze rises out of the water, his cock is massive and dripping as he comes around in front of me and lounges on the step.
“Come on, Kestrel, you wanted it. You got it.”
I look at his challenging stare.
“You’re going to roar for me,” I snarl at him.
He shrugs. “Prove it.”
I try to move, only to feel Sage press into me.
No hands.
Fine.
I duck down with my mouth, tasting him. He tastes of the pool and wait a second; he’s underwater. I pull back, craning my head.
“How freaking big are you?”
Blaze and Sage both burst out laughing.
“You can take me, can’t you?” Blaze purrs, his black hair floating in the water around him.
I lift my chin. “Of course, I can.”
I can, can’t I? I eye his cock; there’s gotta be a record or something there. Of course, I can.
With determination, I lean forward to take him, only to be rocked forward, gasping as Sage fills me completely.
My toes curl, and I just need a second to feel everything, the stretch, the amazing feeling of fullness and rightness. Blaze tsks and grabs hold of his cock, pressing it to my lips, stroking the tip of his cock over my bottom lip.
“Open wide, little omega.”
I part my lips and groan when he presses into me, too. I’m filled from both ends, and I love it. I’m burning up. I writhe and grind against Sage, while I suck and work Blaze’s cock like I’m making love to it.
The first groan I get out of him is one of my proudest moments.
When he grips my hair and tilts his head back, gasping and biting his bottom lip, I think I might die of pleasure, but when he flexes, finally shattering his control and shoves his cock deep into my mouth, I know that I will do anything to see him like this again.
“She’s getting so wet just sucking you off, Blaze. She’s pouring slick everywhere. Such a good, horny little omega. You’re a little whore for your alphas aren’t you?”
My chest tightens and expands as I virtually purr around the cock buried in my throat in pleasure.
“Mmm, that’s it, tighten that pussy around my cock. Squeeze it. Show me how bad you want me.”
Blaze pulls out, and I let out a tiny little mewl.
“Oh, fuck!” Sage snarls and slams into me. He fucks me hard, making the water splash around us. He sets my legs down and grabs my hips, holding me up as he rails my pussy.
Blaze leans back, watching with dark eyes as he strokes his cock. “You broke him.”
I can barely think. I can barely do anything. My body is alight with feeling, and each stroke is just sending the fire brighter.
I sob, and then he shoves harder, and I’m knotted.
I scream.
“Shit. That’s the most beautiful sight I’ve ever seen,” Blaze says reverently. He stands up, pulling me against him, supporting my weight as he strokes us both and whispers to us.
It takes me a moment to decipher his words. “You’re perfect. Both of you. So beautiful. Absolutely gorgeous.”
His hands trail over us, exploring everywhere, pulling at my nipples, stroking my clit, tugging at Sage’s balls.
We stay like that until he pushes us both up against the side of the pool. Sage supports me now and grunts.
Blaze growls, and suddenly, we’re rocking, and Sage and I are shouting, nerves screaming as his knot is dragged in and out of my oversensitive pussy, but Blaze is relentless.
For an hour, he keeps us knotted, rocking us back into arousal, laughing with delight when Sage curses him out, then fucking us so hard we both come again. Then, he knots Sage.
I have never, ever experienced a day like today, but I really, really hope I get to do it again.
Afterwards, Blaze carries me to their bedroom and rubs me down with a towel. He’s so gentle with me, and I can’t do anything but stare at him.
“I’m sorry,” he whispers. “It was real for me, all of it. I made a bad decision because I was worried, but I liked you, I do like you.”
The walls fall down, and I reach out and touch his hair. “Can I brush your hair?”
Sage pauses, his mouth falling open.
“Yes,” Blaze whispers, and I get the impression that this is the single most intimate thing I can do for him.
I take my time, gently, respectfully showing him with every stroke how much he means to us.
Sage just sits on the end of the bed, watching, stunned.
When I’m done, he carries me to their bed and curls up around me, with Sage on the other side.
It’s like we’re in a bubble. A perfect bubble.
I don’t want to ever see it burst.