Page 36 of Knot Her Mountain Men

“I’m not a seductress,” she said plainly. “I genuinely have no idea what I’m doing when it comes to being an omega or being intimate with other people. I never let myself experience any of it because there was no one worth experiencing it with before. You have to tell me if I’m doing a terrible job.”

Her warm breath against my skin, followed by the softest touch of her lips had me on the edge. She smelled like fucking heaven this close.

“Is it working?” she asked in my ear.

I nodded stiffly, my fingers trembling against her.

“What are you thinking about?”

I burst out laughing. “Are you under the impression I could be thinking ofanythingexcept you right now?”

“I don’t know. Maybe your mind could wander.”

“Not fucking happening. If you’re anywhere near me, I promise you’re the only thing I’m going to think about.”

She wiggled closer and I was pretty sure Ryder was going to come back and find me perished beneath her.

Morgan let out a quiet whimper. “Touch me, Maverick.”

Ihadn’t expected to want Maverick when I came out here, certainly not without a scent to drive my instincts, but I couldn’t deny the pulsing desire in my body now that we were close.

His fingers curled over my hips and dragged me forward, my nerves lighting up at the grind of his clothed cock against my naked pussy. I dared to look up, and Maverick claimed my mouth. Eager lips coaxed me higher, until my hips were rocking desperately against him, my nails digging into his shoulders.

I needed more than I was comfortable asking for. I couldn’t fuck him in the hot spring. I mean,technicallyI could, but I didn’t know what was in this water and I didn’t want it shoved up into unmentionable places. Maybe we could wash up and explore further in the sauna?

His hands swept teasingly beneath Bear’s shirt. The calluses were rough, but I liked the feel of them.

I was definitely still out of my depth. Even so, it was nice to approach this with Maverick with a clearer head. I had no regrets about anything I had done with Kit and Bear, but I couldn’t deny their scents had influenced me into feeling more than I might have otherwise. My hormones were still something I had to contend with either way. Was it only my heat coming that let me be this comfortable with alphas? Whatever it was, there was a sweet sort of relief in it. My friends had teased me for years that I was going to end up alone—a touch-starved omega who suffered through heats that no one would ever take care of. They’d probably just been pressuring me to give in to the alphas who had asked for me, but I’d rather be alone than be with any of them.

The way this pack touched me pushed back those concerns. I still didn’t plan to let a scent match dictate my life. That wasn’t who I was. Biology could make its demands, but that didn’t mean they were practical. I intended to carry on with the plan I’d set out for myself, but the fact that Icouldfeel like this at all was vindicating. Desire had been such a foreign concept for me. I’d been told plenty of times that everything accompanying desire was meant to feel good, but my brief foray into it during my first heat was tainted by nerves. They still prodded me now, but they were harder to dredge up.

Between Kit and Bear I was well aware of the pleasure these alphas could give me and I was more eager than afraid to explore that with all of them. Each time I let one of them touch me, let them bring me over the edge, it eased my worries about going into my heat.

They would take care of me.

I burst into giggles when he dropped his mouth to my throat, his facial hair tickling my skin. “You’re giving me a serious craving for pancakes tasting like you do.”

I squirmed in his lap. The tickle was both incredible and uncomfortable at the same time, but I didn’t want it to stop. Clutching his head kept him right where he was so I could wriggle my way through the overwhelming sensation.

“You’re going to make me come in the hot spring if you keep that up,” Maverick murmured.

I let out a needy whine, my body pulsing with desire. “I changed my mind.”

He stilled instantly. “About what?”

“The snowbank,” I gasped out, clinging to him. “You can do whatever you want to me in it.”

“Is that so?” He laughed quietly. “I’ll have to wash a bit of the hot springs off you first.”

“Please.”

Maverick nudged me away so he could stand, moving to the side of the little sauna and opening up a side panel that housed a small hose. “Ryder filled up the water tank inside already and it should be plenty warm.”

I peeled off Bear’s shirt, watching Maverick’s eyes widen, and then pulled off my hat to let my red locks tumble down. Goosebumps decorated every inch of me as I climbed out of the hot spring, my nipples pebbling from the cold.

Pausing in front of him, I laid my fingertips against his chest and looked up at him for the next steps. He sluiced warm water over my body to rinse away the minerals clinging to my skin and pressed me up against the cedar, lifting one of my knees so the hose could access my pussy.

“You’re wearing a lot of clothes.” I shivered, the warm water a pleasant contrast to the freezing air.

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