Chapter 16 Eli
ELI
Iam exhausted, I can’t imagine how Thea must feel.
Four days in and it doesn’t seem like her heat will let up any time soon.
According to Liam, the average length of heats is five days but they can go for seven.
I doubt this will be over in another three days, assuming it goes a full seven days.
Thankfully, she hasn’t had another spike since being with Ben, but that doesn’t mean things have been slow.
As much as I hate to admit it, Micah not being involved has helped.
He’s been able to prioritize Thea and the rest of us eating and drinking.
Thea seems to loathe having to stop or wake up to do that.
I wish Micah felt okay enough to be involved, since he’s her mate too.
Even as kids, he always kept himself at a distance.
If not for my sparkling personality, we probably never would have become friends.
I basically never left him alone until he accepted I was his friend.
He’s been in the nest nearly the entire time, only leaving to make food for us when he thinks the protein bars Liam packed aren’t enough.
I woke up one time to find him hand feeding Thea a forkful of scrambled eggs when she was half awake.
That’s been the only time we’ve been able to convince her to eat.
I quickly pretended to be asleep after seeing that.
Can’t risk him knowing I know. Gods forbid we all see his soft side he keeps buried deep.
I’m currently curled around Thea as she sleeps. She’s like a furnace, her skin constantly hot. She appears to sleep easier when one of us is next to her, more specifically wrapped around her. How any of us can sleep when she’s so hot, physically, must be out of pure exhaustion.
She turns around so she’s facing me, nuzzling her face into my chest, taking in deep breaths of my scent.
Over her shoulder I see Parker coming over with a thermometer in hand.
We’ve all been pretty good about checking her temp every hour or so.
Someone is always up to do it. He quickly takes it and shakes his head, turning it so I can see the reading—105.
5. Shit. Another heat spike. Me and Liam are the only ones left—besides Micah—she hasn’t bonded to. It’s my turn then.
Giddy excitement runs through me as a flash of memory pops in my head of the first time we met and scenting her. That feels like forever ago now.
“Sunshine?” I lean down and whisper in her ear. I get just a light groan of acknowledgment. She’s more lucid than she’s letting on. Throughout this heat she’s been more lucid during lulls than any of us expected. I’m sure Liam is going to look into why later.
Shuffling down a bit so we’re face to face, I start peppering kisses on her cheek and down her neck.
When I get to her bond mark from Keelan, she moans.
Her eyes open, the brown-green mix so fucking beautiful like the rest of her.
My hand teases her nipple. We’ve all learned how much she loves her nipples played with, the rougher the better it seems. She swings her leg on the outside over mine, opening herself up for me.
I don’t take the bait, continue kissing and sucking on her neck and pinching her nipple just so.
“Eli, please.” Her hand moves towards my cock. I grab it quickly.
“Tsk-tsk, Sunshine. This is all about you, I thought you enjoyed this?” I say, pinching her nipple harder. She lets out a gasp.
“Fuck. I-I do, but I need more,” she stutters out with a bit of omega whine, eyes pleading for my knot.
Before I give her what she wants, I take her big tit and lean down, sucking it into my mouth and biting but not breaking skin yet on her nipple.
She throws her head back in pleasure, making me smile around her.
My hand grips her thick thigh draped over me, before releasing her with a pop and angling my cock with her slick pussy.
I rub against her a couple times, teasing her clit.
She’s writhing in pleasure for me, but I won’t draw it out longer. She needs a knot.
I finally enter her. It may not be our first time together four days into the heat but as cliche as it is, it feels that way every time we’re together.
I feel every inch of her pressed against me as I start fucking her.
I tilt her head up to look at me, since we’re still on our sides.
Our eyes don’t move from each other’s, even after I go faster, my knot starts to inflate, teasing her entrance.
I see every movement and reaction in her eyes and this is before we’re bonded.
She already feels so entrenched in my soul I can’t imagine what the bonding will feel like.
My hand grabs onto the side of her belly, fingers digging into her soft flesh, enabling me to go faster until my knot enters her and fully locks us together.
Our orgasms are loud and take everything out of me.
But not so much I forget what’s most important.
Leaning down and grabbing her remaining unmarked tit, I suck it into my mouth, swirling my tongue around her nipple.
I take more of her into my mouth before I bite down, marking her, my mate.
Her body is trembling against me. She then buries her teeth into my neck, completing the bond.
Sunshine. That’s what it feels like spreading through my soul.
A deep warmth until it’s the purest emotion I’ve ever felt coming from her—love.
She loves me. I don’t know why I’m surprised because she’s told me before this.
Feeling it is such a different experience.
I can only return it to her, pushing all my love down the bond so she knows how much she means to me.
I almost wish the bond lets us read each other’s mind so I could tell her how I feel in a better way compared to my mouth.
We don’t move from our positions, except to rest against one another after tending our marks.
My knot won’t go down for a while. Parker comes into view to take her temp again.
He nods his head and shows me the screen.
It’s normal again. Phew. Good. Liam is the only one left.
Hopefully she won’t have more than one heat spike for the rest of the heat.
My arms tighten around her. My Sunshine, my mate, my universe.