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“Sure, honey.” I pat his cheek and shift slightly - and immediately wince as his cock slips out of me with an absolutelyfilthysquelch. “Oops.”

Ash whistles. “Well, someone’s gonna need a mop.”

“Don’t look at me,” I say brightly. “I did my job. Twice.”

“Three times,” Theo mumbles, sounding almost defensive from where he’s face-down in the mattress.

Ash grins. “Overachiever. Love that for you.”

I roll to the side, stretching like a cat in a sunbeam, limbs sore in that perfect way, slick cooling uncomfortably on my thighs. Ash shifts too, catching me with a hand on my waist.

“Easy,” he murmurs. “Still shaky?”

“A little,” I admit. “But honestly? I’ve never felt better. It’s like… my brain’s turned back on.”

“Hot sex does that,” Ash says, already rising from the bed. “Resets the system. Like a factory reboot, but with more fluids and fewer IT tickets.”

Theo makes another half-panicked, half-adoring sound. “You two are going to kill me.”

Ash shrugs. “Just imagine what Kai’s gonna be like when it’s his turn. That man’s basically sex and sarcasm in a tank top.”

Theo groans into the mattress. “God help us all.”

“I’m beyond help,” I sing, smug and warm and high on heat and pack and the absolute absurdity of this moment. “And you love it.”

Ash walks toward the bathroom like he’s done this a hundred times - and let’s be honest, he probably has - and comes back with a towel slung over one shoulder, looking disgustingly competent and smug.

“Don’t move,” he says. “You’re leaking all over my side.”

“Yourside?” I lift a brow.

“You’ve got your hoodie. I’ve got my mattress real estate.”

He kneels down, opens the towel with one hand, and starts wiping me off with the kind of calm efficiency I imagine he used in combat triage.

Except, y’know, between my legs.

“Wow,” I mutter, breath hitching slightly. “You really have done this before.”

“I’ve seen things,” Ash says, with the grim weight of a man who has seen too many fluids in too many climates. “Things I can never unsee. This? Not even top five.”

Theo lets out a sleepy giggle. “She’s still kind of incredible though, huh?”

His fingers trail down my leg, teasing, not quite touching my core.

Ash doesn’t even blink. “I know,” he says, voice quiet, eyes locked on mine. “I’ve known.”

He folds the towel up neatly and tosses it onto the nearby chair like a man who files his war reports alphabetically, then settles beside me again, one hand trailing down my leg - teasing, not quite touching.

“But now I’veseenher. Heard her scream for another alpha. And I’m wondering…”

He lets the pause stretch, his fingers brushing just enough to make me jolt.

“What?” I whisper, voice catching.

Ash leans in, his lips brushing my jaw.

“…If she’ll be able to take Kaiafter all that.”

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