Chapter 25
I’m a voyeur watching my hottest fantasy play out in front of me.
The woman I’ve been crushing on, kissing my boyfriend, while a merman and her professor pull her shirt over her head.
Yeah, merman. I still can’t get over that.
And he’s probably the most attractive male I’ve ever seen in real life next to my firebird.
That long blue hair, those piercing eyes, his toned physique—it all combines in a way that has my blood rushing south.
Hunter lifts Madi back onto the flat rock where I’m sitting. “Present for your alphas, omega.”
Shit, that’s hot. Madi seems to think so too, because she’s instantly scrambling onto her hands and knees.
“Wait!” Caspian barks then points to a little cave-like overhang of rock where there are textiles clustered in a makeshift nest.
Phoenix climbs out of the water behind Hunter and Madi, then runs to grab the fabrics.
I can’t believe Madi has been living here, in these conditions. My poor, sweet ocean_omega. She deserves so much more than this. Once we get back on land, I’m going to spoil her with the nest of her dreams. And anything else she could want, too.
If she’ll let me. If she wants me.
An unsettled feeling sinks my stomach. Do I want her? I vowed I’d never bond with a pack. Can I go back on that promise to myself? Do I want to risk it?
Hunter kisses Madi, divesting her of the little shorts she’s wearing.
Even in her aroused state, she glances at me, as if she’s asking permission, checking to see if I’m alright with what’s about to happen.
It’s not like there’s anywhere I could go.
We’re trapped here. But that’s not the reason I nod in response to her silent question.
Phoenix carefully spreads the fabrics down, layering them for more padding. I can’t tell what they’re made of, seaweed or some kind of aquatic animal skin, perhaps.
While Phoenix is prepping, Caspian lifts out of the water and sits beside me, spreading his powerful tail on the dark rock. His scales glisten, reflecting the afternoon light like a rainbow.
“All good,” Phoenix says. He lies down on the fabric with a cheeky grin. “Come sit on my face, sunshine. I want to taste you.”
Hunter lets go of Madi and smacks her ass with a playful glint in his eyes. “You know what I want, omega.”
She smirks, gives him one more quick kiss, then crawls over Phoenix on her hands and knees.
She opens her mouth and swallows his cock at the same time as dropping to her forearms and wiggling her ass in the air right over Phoenix’s face.
I guess that’s one way to present—mouth full of cock, pussy dripping onto Phoenix’s chin. Sassy little omega.
My cock swells, and I try to be subtle as I adjust myself, but Caspian catches the movement. He wiggles his eyebrows at me. “I know we don’t know each other well, but I could take care of that, if you want.”
“I… um… uh…” I shake my head. “I just want to watch.”
“My little voyeur likes the cuck chair,” Phoenix calls out just as he slides Madi’s bikini bottoms to her knees. “Or is it a cuck rock in this case? Whatever.”
He lifts on his elbows so he can reach the feast hovering above him. At the first swipe of his tongue, she gasps his name.
Fuck, I bet she tastes as good as she smells. Ripe pineapple and coconut with a sharp hint of rum make me crave a pina colada while sitting on the shore. I can’t even scent her as strongly as an alpha would, and I still feel buzzed.
Then the other smells hit me. My firebird’s papaya and vanilla that I’d recognize anywhere.
Hunter’s sandalwood with a flowery undertone.
Closer to me, there’s a tart lime scent that reminds me of a margarita with a sea salt rim.
That must be Caspian. Of course the handsome merman smells as mouthwatering as he looks.
Even my limoncello rises to the occasion, swirling with the other scents and making me drunk on this makeshift pack. Or is it becoming a real pack? I know that’s what Phoenix wants.
Hunter stays standing, watching with hungry eyes. He prowls around, taking in everything, before settling behind Madi, his knees right by Phoenix’s shoulders.
“Such a good omega,” he says, rubbing a hand over her backside, then up to the thin band tied across her back. He snaps it roughly, and she moans, the sound muffled by Phoenix’s cock. I’ve never seen anything as erotic as Madi’s plump lips around my firebird’s stiff shaft.
But then Hunter unties Madi’s bikini top, and the image before me gets even better.
The wet fabric falls on Phoenix’s tense abs.
Her heavy breasts sway forward and back as Hunter slides home, forcing her all the way down Phoenix’s length.
My firebird wears a shit-eating grin as Hunter fucks Madi from behind right over his head.
“They’re a sight, are they not?” Caspian says in a soft voice meant only for me.
He’s still right beside me, not touching me anywhere, but he’s close enough for his body heat to seep into my skin.
I glance down just in time to see the scales on his tail smooth out and split into legs.
The scientific anomaly, the impossibility of it, draws all my attention for a moment before my gaze lands on his long, hard cock.
It swells thicker. I force myself to look away, only to find his eyes on my face.
He smiles at me, bright and without any of the malice or authoritarian dominance I expect from most alphas.
“I like you,” he says easily.
I swallow the lump in my throat. “You don’t know me.”
“But I know Madi and Phoenix, and they like you.” He bumps his shoulder against mine. “And you are a very attractive male. One I would not mind seeing more of.”
My cheeks burn at his direct suggestion, my mouth going dry.
I can’t keep my gaze from drifting back down his body.
My eyes catch on the intricate armor he wears on his shoulder and around his neck.
The latter seems to be made of a material I’ve never seen before.
Ultimately, though, it's the swaths of bare skin that steal my focus.
He chuckles softly. “Watch the show, beta. It’s about to get good. She’s pure magic when she comes.”
Hunter pounds into Madi as if he wants to punish her for leaving him alone, or maybe he wants to remind her who she belongs to. He grips her hips so hard, the soft flesh indents around his fingers.
Phoenix lifts himself a little higher and sucks Hunter’s balls into his mouth. The kneeling alpha roars at the sky. “Fuck, Nix! You’re gonna make me come.” Hunter’s thrusts stutter at an irregular pace. “Madi, Madi, Madi.”
It’s unclear if Hunter’s chanting is just an exaltation of praise or instructions to Phoenix.
My firebird takes it as the latter and returns his attention to Madi’s clit.
A second later, she’s gasping, no longer sucking Phoenix as her whole body shakes and her knees go out, slipping so wide she falls on Phoenix’s face.
Hunter slams forward and drops with her.
Madi makes the sweetest noise I’ve ever heard as she climaxes. It’s the only music I want to hear for the rest of my life.
Wait, no, that’s not right. Having her for life means having all of them. It means bites and bonds and the pack I swore to never have.
I’m still reeling from my conflicting thoughts when Hunter bands his arm around Madi’s middle and lifts her all the way onto her knees in front of him, her back to his chest. He reaches down and gathers up the slick dripping between her thighs.
His hand disappears between them, and Madi moans. Is he doing what I think he is?
My own ass muscles clench in response. Phoenix slides out from under them, sitting up in front of Madi, so he can watch.
“I’m gonna take this ass now, omega. Gonna stretch you with my fingers, then my thick crown.
You’re gonna take all of it, all the way down to my knot, aren’t you?
” Hunter says all of this almost as if he’s narrating for us just as much as warning her.
“Such a good girl. You want your mate’s cock in your ass, don’t you?
You’ve needed this for so long, haven’t you? Just as long as I have. ”
Madi gasps and whimpers and squirms. I press my palm against my groin, trying to control myself. Phoenix sends me a knowing wink before he moves closer to Madi with his masculine hand wrapped around his length.
“Come on, Hunt, stop hogging our girl and let me feel that perfect pussy,” Phoenix says, knee-walking even closer.
Fuck, I think I’m gonna bust a nut right here in my pants.
Caspian isn’t even trying to hold himself back.
He’s stroking his length in slow, even jerks.
His cock isn’t much different from mine, despite being paler.
I don’t know why I’m surprised to see a lack of scales or something unusual.
He just grew human legs, after all. I realize I’m leaning closer as if I want to inspect it, or lick it, so I rip my gaze away before I do something I’m not ready for.
Madi arches her back, pressing her perfect breasts toward Phoenix, as if she’s trying to fuse with him. Her eyes are glazed with need, sweat beading on her smooth skin.
Hunter slams into Madi’s pussy one more time before pulling out.
He leans back enough for us all to see his sopping wet dick before he slowly presses it into Madi’s already prepped ass at the same time Phoenix pushes into her from the front.
She’s speared between them, a silent scream forcing her perfect mouth open as her head falls back on Hunter’s shoulder.
“That’s it, angel, relax.” Hunter kneads her breasts from behind. “Give yourself over to us. Let us show you how much we missed you, how much you mean to us.”
They hold her tight between them and move as one with the kind of graceful teamwork that only comes from years of friendship.
Jealousy and lust cloud my vision so thoroughly I have to ball my fists in my shorts to keep from moving.
The action stretches the fabric tight across my aching shaft.
The pleasurable pain of unfulfilled desire courses through me in waves of tension that build with every drive of the alpha’s hips into the omega.
My ocean_omega. My omega.
No, not mine. I don’t know what we are. I’m not sure what I am to any of them right now.
All I know is that I want this moment to last forever.
Teetering on the edge of release, watching the fiercest, most stunning woman I’ve ever known fall apart between two men I find irresistible, all while a fucking merman strokes himself next to me. It’s… it’s… I don’t have words for it.
“Get over here, squishy,” Phoenix says through gritted teeth. “I want to suck that merman dick.”
A sharp pain stabs through my chest at him asking for Caspian and not me.
But then Caspian stands, filling my vision with his perfect ass as he meanders behind the threesome.
He positions himself so as not to block my view, as if he knows I like to watch.
Gods, they’re a sight. My mouth feels dry, every muscle coiled.
I thought the tableau before me couldn’t get any better, but then Caspian slides his cock between Phoenix and Madi’s faces.
They both lunge for it as if it’s the only sustenance they need on this barren island.
Now, my mouth waters, imagining that hard length is sliding against my lips and not theirs.
Caspian looks like an old god or warrior, standing tall while they worship his body, his armor glinting in the sunlight.
“Need to bite you now,” Hunter growls at Phoenix, but his gaze swings immediately to me.
I suck in a sharp breath and hold it, muscles so tight I feel as if I’ll snap, but I won’t stop what’s about to happen.
They love each other. Phoenix wants to be in Madi’s pack with both these men.
They’re scent matches. I won’t stand in the way, even if I don’t know what my place is here, yet.
Even if I don’t know if it’s what I want.
Phoenix loves me. I think Hunter would be happy to have me in his pack. Maybe Madi, too. But I’m not sure love and attraction are enough. All I can think about is the way my mom withered after she lost her mates. Fear grips my chest in a vise, squeezing the air from my lungs.
Hunter and Phoenix are still looking at me, so I nod, the movement brief and shaky. I won’t deny them this. Hunter takes it for the permission it is. He reaches around Madi to grab the back of Phoenix’s head, then he lunges forward and sinks his teeth into my firebird’s shoulder.
Phoenix doesn’t miss a beat. He licks from Caspian’s tip to his base, then bites his hip hard enough to draw blood, bonding the merman to him. As soon as that’s done, he bites the top of Hunter’s forearm while Hunter digs his teeth into the side of Caspian’s waist, right where it curves in.
It’s breathtaking to witness a pack form right before my eyes, giving and receiving pleasure, caring for their omega in the most intimate way possible. All her holes filled as they all caress and please each other. It’s beautiful.
And I’m excluded from it. That image Phoenix painted our first night on the ship has come true. I’m watching from the outside as the people I love make love. And it hurts. Because the reality won’t end the way Phoenix proposed. They won’t turn their attention toward me when they finish.
I’ll still be on the outside.
I know that’s by my choice. They would welcome me if I joined them now. But I don’t know how. It’s like I’m stuck here by my fear and my promise, unsure how to accept what they’re offering. Unsure if I should.