Chapter 20 #2
“Hey, wait.” Bird mock struggles, as Joker drags him to the edge. “You wouldn’t throw a poor, defenseless Omega in would you?”
“Of course not. But I would throw you in, Cookie.” Joker pushes Bird in the back.
To my shock, Bird manages to step to the side and shove Joker in the back in return.
Not expecting it, Joker tumbles face first into the water.
Bird and I burst out laughing, as Joker emerges spluttering.
I feel light inside.
Bird’s brightness shines through the bond. My own shadows have never felt like they’ve been banished to haunt the back of my mind before.
When have I experienced this kind of playfulness?
When I was drilled in swimming in the Adonis’ luxurious basement swimming pool underneath the house, I had to wait until late at night when everyone else was in bed.
My instructors coached me in efficient, technical laps.
If I had dared to mess around like this, I would have been beaten.
This is new to me.
Bird stands with his hands on his hips like he isn’t the civilian between two killers. “I have a sister who was as much a rebel Omega as I was. We playfought all over the penthouse, including in the pool. Sorry, but I have some tricks up my sleeve too.”
Joker sighs, holding his hand over his heart. “I’ve just fallen even harder for you, Cookie. But you do know that you’ve done it now, right?”
Bird starts to look nervous. “Ro, you’ll protect me…?”
I pace closer to Bird, resting my hand on his shoulder. “Oh, you sweet…” I shove Bird into the water next to Joker with a loud splash. “…summer child.”
Joker stares at me before patting his chest. “Be still my heart.”
I’m getting the hang of this playful thing, right?
Bird reappears with his wet hair plastered over his face. He struggles to push it out of his eyes.
He glances up at me and then at Joker, who looks poised to dive toward him just like a shark.
He swallows. “What is this? An Omega Hunt?”
“What a good idea.” Joker arches his brow. “I am a Hunter, after all.”
Bird splashes him in retaliation, and outraged but laughing, Joker splashes him back.
Joker swims toward the Omega, and Bird can’t even start to swim away, before he is being lifted in Joker’s powerful arms.
Joker turns Bird around in the water, while Bird struggles to escape but he’s giggling, and his wet hair streams around him like he’s a merman that has been ensnared by a sailor in his nets.
Joker kisses Bird, before glancing over his shoulder at me. “Why don’t you transform into an Omega? Then I can hunt two Omegas.”
Suddenly uncomfortable, I cross my arms. “Why don’t you change? Then I can hunt two?”
Joker’s brow furrows. “Normally, I would. But you’d never catch me, baby. It’s fine, we can play like this.”
I sit on the edge of the pool, kicking my feet in the cool water.
“I don’t like becoming Switch when I’m not in heat or unless there’s a good reason.
I enjoy nuzzling with Bird as Switch, when we’re in a nest. I know that you can become an Omega and switch between your dynamics whenever you want to, but it’s not as easy for me. ”
“You’ve been fed too many lies about both Omegas and Rogue Switches.” Joker exchanges a glance with Bird, before releasing him. They both swim back to me. “I’ve been researching them with this outlaw network who fight for Omega and other dynamic’s rights. I’ll show it to you.”
My pulse races. “You’re serious. Is this real data?”
“I don’t know if it’s enough to convince anyone. But it’s a start.”
My expression tightens. “We must find a way to get this information out to the world. I don’t mean to corrupt politicians. I mean everyone.”
Joker and Bird reach the side.
“I’m working on it.” Joker’s eyes gleam. “I have contacts amongst the Omega resistance.”
“The terrorist group…?” Bird squeaks in shock.
“Not a surprise.” I shrug.
“They’re freedom fighters,” Joker corrects Bird.
“They’re fighting to change things for Rejects, Hotel Omegas, and abused Omegas everywhere.
They’ve done more to change things for every dynamic in the sports, music, and the political worlds than anyone else.
It’s not enough yet, but it’s getting there.
When they spread the word about Rogues, well, that may be the final missing piece of the jigsaw puzzle that finally opens the cage for everyone. ”
I frown. “What do you mean?”
Joker blinks the water out of his eyes. “Rogue Switches aren’t the only dynamic that the government are hiding.
They just want to make it look like there are three distinct dynamics and no one can switch between them.
It’s not true. Don’t you see how everything will be turned on its head, when that’s proved not to be true? ”
My throat is suddenly dry. “More reason to kill us.”
“It wouldn’t be fun otherwise.” His gaze sweeps over my scarred body, and I cross my arms defensively. “Three gunshot wounds. Six… seven...eight knife wounds. Is that a dog bite?”
“Battle scars from being a mob assassin. Not a Rogue.”
“Didn’t you become a mob assassin because you were born a Rogue?
Look, most people don’t know we exist. If they do, then they believe that we are either a myth or a monster.
Yet our powers can help people with pheromone imbalances or issues with their heats and ruts.
As fighters, we’re powerful. We have stronger pheromones than Alphas.
We’re more desirable than anyone. We should be ruling the world, baby. ”
“This is your real plan, isn’t it?” I stare at him.
He hums noncommittally.
Then it’s my turn to yelp in shock, as Bird and Joker both grab my legs and yank me tumbling into the water.
I flail around in shock.
I growl, blowing my dripping hair out of my face.
I’m laughing, however, as my pack members foolishly don’t attempt to escape because they’re too busy laughing and high-fiving each other.
Brats.
I’m not sure which of them is the bad influence on the other, but I love it.
For the first time, I play in the water, splashing each of them in turn.
Then I dive on Joker and cage him against the side. I kiss the water off his lips as my way to thank him for this night out of the cabin and for sharing this part of himself with me.
He kisses me back, sliding his hand up into my hair.
I feel Bird swim up behind me. His hard cock presses against my back.
Bird purrs, licking up and down the back of my neck. My eyelashes flutter.
“Now, I’ve caught my little Beta, what shall I do with him?” I murmur against Joker’s lips.
“Love him?” Joker replies with an aching hope and a devastating doubt in the question.
“In the way that I can.” I glance around to capture Bird’s lips. “The same for my Omega.”
“We don’t need you to say it.” Bird’s gaze is soft. “I can feel it through the bond.”
I startle. “What do you feel?”
Bird wraps his legs around my waist, nipping at my scent gland. “How close you feel to us. Your heart. The sensation is like being held and knowing that I will always be cherished and kept safe. I have a home in your heart. I know that.”
“How about we make Jokes feel that too?” I grip Joker’s chin and turn him into another kiss. “I’m not good at words. But this…?”
I grip his cock between my thighs, then encourage Bird to shuffle lower. When the men’s cocks rub against each other between my thighs, they both moan.
I bite the inside of my cheek to remain cool, when their cocks tease across my pussy and clit, sparking pleasure through me.
“Work for it,” I growl.
Joker wraps his arms around my neck, before both men work themselves between my thighs and against each other.
I throw back my head, shaking from the stimulation.
Ecstasy winds through me at the feel of the two men’s naked, wet bodies pressed against mine, their cocks rubbing against me in just the right ways, and their panted breaths.
Pleasure winds through me.
I stare up at the moon and the streaming clouds above. Snow feathers down.
Amongst the shadows, I feel like I am being christened in the arms of my Omega and Beta.
My old life is being shed, and I am becoming something new.
“Come,” I order.
I howl my own pleasure, as the two men desperately kiss each other over my shoulder, as they come streaming into the water, and I feel that this is their christening.
In this moment, the three of us are as connected as we could be.
I feel truly powerful tonight.
I am no longer rejected, abused, and alone.
I have an Omega and Beta.
I could rule the world.
Yet Phantom isn’t with us.
How does our Chief Alpha fit into this pack? Is Phantom as obsessed with us, as our date to the nighttime swimming pool has taught me that we are with each other?