CHAPTER THIRTY-FOUR
A rchie is poised above me, his thick shaft sliding through my folds. This is so much different than being with Simon and Titus earlier. With them, the focus was entirely on me, which I loved, but I love this too. It’s like the three of us are feeding into each other's pleasure. I had felt so empty when Mattie withdrew from me, but now I see he was trying to let me have a moment with my beta.
His lips meet mine in a slow, sipping kiss as his hips slide to meet mine. As a beta, he doesn't have a knot, but that just means I get to feel him fully against me every time he bottoms out. His thrusts are slow and lazy, like we have all the time in the world. This is more than fucking me through a heat spike. This is the culmination of a year of longing, wishing we could belong to each other.
His tongue runs across my bottom lip and I open for him greedily. Our tongues tangle together, my hands gripping his face as he continues to make love to me. It feels only right that Mattie would be here, a part of this moment, even if it is only to witness for the time being. I appreciate him letting me have this time with Arch.
“Oh, Cady,” he says softly, all playfulness from earlier gone. “You feel so damn good, blossom.”
Staring into his amber eyes, his black hair falling into his face while my legs are wrapped around his waist makes me realize that a few weeks ago, I thought this would never happen.
And now it is.
“Archie,” I say breathlessly.
“What is it, blossom?”
“I love you.”
His hips stop as his wide eyes take me in, searching my face for any hint of teasing.
As if.He won’t find any. I’ve been in love with Archie Thomas long before his pack found me.
His lips crash into mine with an urgency, his tongue fucking into my mouth like he’s afraid if he doesn’t claim me right this second I’ll take it back.
“I love you too, Cady. So fucking much.” He’s breathing hard and looking down at me, and I only wrap my arms around neck, bringing him back down to me.
It’s a kiss of passion, his hips matching the urgency as they thrust into me. My nails drag down his back in desperation, the ridges of his cock brushing along those aching spots inside me with every thrust. It isn’t long before I can feel my walls clamping down and I cry out against his mouth. “Archie!”
His hips stutter as he empties himself into me. “Caaaady,” he moans, before collapsing on top of me.For a few blissful minutes, it's just me and him, sharing air as we catch our breaths, his forehead against mine.
He kisses me deeply once more, before kissing down my neck. When he reaches my collarbone he pulls out and rolls onto his side, propping his head on his hand. “So? You love me?” he asks with a shit-eating grin.
“Of course I love you, you idiot.” I giggle, reaching my hand out behind me to find Mattie’s hand. He takes it, gently kissing the back of my hand.
“I am so happy for you both,” he says warmly, with unshed tears shining in his eyes. He pushes a piece of my hair back. “You do not know how much it hurt my heart to see how heartbroken he was when he thought he could not have you.”
Shit. My lie with the TruBond didn’t hurt just me. I left Archie pining over me for months. But I thought he wouldn’t want me as much as I wanted him since he already had a pack.
I turn my head towards him. “I’m sorry Arch. For all of it. Tomorrow…tomorrow I’m going to tell you guys everything. It’s important to know before my heat hits.”
Archie frowns at me. “You don’t have to be sorry, blossom. Never. At least I had Mattie to comfort me. You only had an asshole cat.”
I snort. “That’s true.” Then I turn around and see Mattie’s still throbbing erection. “Mattie, why didn’t you take care of that?”
“It did not feel right to touch myself to such an intimate moment between the two of you,” he says sheepishly. “I can go into the shower and take care of it now.”
“You will do no such thing!” I say at the same time Archie says, “Absolutely not!” and we share a grin of understanding before I turn back to Mattie and take his hand, leading him to the bathroom.
“Take care of our alpha, blossom,” Archie says, suddenly sleepily as he lays on his stomach, still stark naked.
After I’ve turned on the shower, made sure it’s the right temperature, and stepped in, I hold out my hand for Mattie to join me.
“Thank you,” I tell him, grabbing some body wash and spreading it all over his chest.
“What ever for, amore mio ?” He looks at me quizzically, like he can’t imagine what I would be grateful for.
I keep washing his chest, my eyes following the ridges of muscle. “For letting me have that moment with Archie. For not getting weird or jealous when I told him that I love him. For sharing him with me. You’re a good alpha, Mattie.”
His chest rumbles with a purr, and a finger tilts my chin up making my eyes meet his deep, forest green ones. He looks beautiful, with his brown hair plastered to his face and the water running down his body in rivulets as he takes the bottle of body wash and squirts some in his own hand.
“It is I then, who should be thanking you.” His hands roam my body, soaping my arms, chest, and stomach. The motion seems oddly intimate, nevermind the fact I was riding his cock ten minutes ago. “For being who you are. For not demanding I cease my relationship with him. For accepting all of us, as we are, and being the pillar that holds our pack up.”
“That’s a lot of pressure,” I murmur, my eyes darting down to his lips as his thumbs brush over the tops of my breasts in a tantalizing touch.
“You don’t even need to try,” Mattie says quietly, his gaze searching my face. His words remind me of the ones that Archie spoke to me on our first time driving to work together. “You achieve it just by being your magnificent self.”
“Mattie?”
“Yes?”
“I may have told Archie I love him, but that doesn’t mean I’m not falling in love with you too.”
“And I you, cuore mio .”
***
I wake up to sunlight coming through the curtains of the nest, stretching my arms above my head. Mattie and I had finished our shower last night when he washed my hair and made love to me against the shower wall. We hadn’t thought through the whole knotting thing, so he ended up carrying me, soaking wet, with my legs wrapped around his waist, out of the shower and we sat and talked on the seat of the toilet until his knot went down.
I’m flat on my back with Archie on my left and Mattie on my right, but a weight on my stomach has me looking down. “Good morning, Tink.” Ollie murmurs sleepily, using my stomach as a pillow as he lays between my legs, apparently having snuck in at some point last night.
“Hi sunshine,” I smile, running my fingers through his hair. “You had a long day yesterday.”
“Mmm. I moved all my clients up so I can take time off for your heat.”
“I think it will be here soon, if the two heat spikes yesterday were any indication,” Simon’s voice sounds from the doorway.
“You’re home.” I smile at him. “What time is it? I thought you had a twelve hour shift.”
“It’s ten,” he grins back, “I was beginning to think you guys were going to sleep all day.”
“Just because you can be chipper after staying up all night working does mean the rest of us can be nice without sleep!” Archie grumbles, nuzzling his face into my neck.
“It was a slow night. I got some rest in the on-call room.” Simon shrugs. “I think Titus is making breakfast if you guys want to get up.”
“If McDonalds is still serving breakfast, it’s too early to wake up on a Saturday,” Archie mutters, and I giggle.
“Not a morning person?”
“Not a Saturday morning person.”
“I’m surprised Matteo is still sleeping,” Simon muses, coming and sitting at the edge of the nest. “You must have really worn him out, sweetheart.”
My cheeks heat and I cover my face. Simon was so shy and reserved when I met him. Who knew all it took was a little sex to bring him out of his shell?
“Not sleeping. But our omega is an insatiable little vixen,” Mattie has rolled over to smile at me, and I realize that Mattie, Archie and I are all naked.
Ollie snuggles further into my stomach. “A vixen that is the best pillow in the whole damn world.”
Then, Titus comes strolling into the room, clapping his hands. “Come on everyone, rise and shine! I made pancakes and eggs and the really good, thick cut bacon everyone loves!”
Archie and Ollie groan, both nuzzling against me, and Mattie chuckles, pressing a kiss to my hair before rolling out of bed, stark naked. All my men look amazing naked, but Mattie was the most surprising. With his suits, he looks polished and almost lean. Without his suit, however, it’s obvious just how thick and built he is.
Not as built as Titus, obviously, but way more muscled than I had thought.
“You have a little drool there,” Archie pretends to wipe at my mouth, and I playfully shove him away. He grabs my arms and pulled me in closer for a kiss before releasing me and rolling off the other side of the bed.
Now all that’s left is to get Ollie up.