Page 39 of Into the Fire: Before

Propping herself up on her palms against Taryn’s spread knees, Brea looked between Lin and me. “Congratulations, boys. You’re to the skin round.”

Thank you god thank you god thank you—

“You may touch wherever you like…”

THANK YOU THANK YOU—

“…just not with your hands.” Brea arched a brow as she let her words sink in. “Your hands are to remain where they currently are: on my omega’s knees and on your own, hard cocks.”

This time, Lin was the one who spoke up, asking with a choked sound, “So…that means…”

“Lips and tongues only.” Brea winked at Taryn before dropping down to her own knees in front of Taryn, shoving her skirt up the rest of the way so the whole dress bunched around her waist. She cut her eyes to Taryn. “Up,” she said, and Tarynlifted her hips off the seat so Brea could pull her utterly soaked panties down. Lin and I relinquished our respective legs just long enough for Brea to work the scrap of red fabric off the omega’s body before grabbing her back and opening her again.

Now, bare.

Brea held the drenched panties in front of Taryn’s face, pinched between two fingers. “Who wants them?”

My hand reacted before I’d even heard all the words, snatching that bit of lace from her grasp and bringing it to my nose before she had time to realize my transgression and punish me for it. As a beta, the pheromones of alphas and omegas weren’t normally super strong to me. Sure, I could scent them and could even pick up on the more subtle notes of high emotion at times. Even with Caine and Lin, though, it had taken me a good while to suss out the nuances of their scents.

Which made my reaction to Taryn even more confounding. Her scent shouldn’t affect me so. Shouldn’t have me panting and straining in my pants and desperate for every little bit of it I could take in. I shouldn’t be able to detect the excitement and lust and sly mischief coloring her aroma. Shouldn’t also be able to detect the quieter undertones of trust (of Lin and me) andlovefor her alpha.

But I could. And I never wanted that smell to go away.

I opened my eyes, meeting Brea’s gaze. She looked amused, studying me. I swallowed, crushing the (fucking hell, damp) panties in my hand. “I’m sorry, Alpha.”

It was a lie. I wasn’t sorry. And even a punishment from Brea would likely be better than a reward from most anyone else. Still, I was desperate to taste Taryn, to trail my mouth across her skin. If my impetuousness cost me that…well, the panties did smelldamngood.

Brea

Ifsomeoneputagun to my head and asked me which I prefer, getting my omega off myself or watching,commandingothers to do as I wished, it would be lights out because I’d have no answer.

Taryn’s perfume hung thick in the air like humidity, making my heart race and my breaths come short. I hid it, though. I was leading this scene, and I had to maintain my role.

Brooks stared at me, chest heaving, waiting to see if he’d be punished again for swiping my omega’s drenched underwear without permission. Maybe I was going soft for the eager beta, but I gave him a wink and returned to my instructions.

“Lips and tongues only,” I repeated. “Begin.”

They both dove in immediately on either side of my omega’s throat, Lin starting under her jaw just above her clavicle, Brooks targeting the sensitive spot near her ear. Lin hummed in delight as he lavished open-mouthed kisses down the center of her throat, down to the mound of her left breast over the top of her lacy bra. The tip of his tongue traced her soft flesh, following the contours of the bra’s lacy edge. On the right side, Brooks had Taryn’s earlobe in his mouth, pulling and teasing it with his teeth as his palm gripped and rolled over the bulge of his erection.

I watched my stunning, perfect omega as she surrendered herself to the onslaught of pleasure and attention. Her chest heaved, a subtle shine from sweat coating it. The city lights strung all around and above us reflected off it, making her almost literally glow as she writhed her hips and bit her lips and moaned her pleasure.

I placed my hands on the insides of her knees, my fingers layering with both men’s, and pressed them even wider open. Lowering myself to my knees, I leaned in toward her bare, glistening pussy and inhaled deep. She lifted her head from the back of the couch just enough to gaze down at me beneath hooded eyes. Her pink tongue traced over her lips in that way she knew made me nearly feral.

What goes around comes around, sweet Teacup.

My tongue swiped up her entire entrance, catching every beautiful drop of slick she released. With the very tip of my tongue, I traced a scorching slow trail along the outer oval of her sex. Taryn groaned, a guttural ecstasy from the back of her throat. Smirking, I did it again, this time with my tongue diving just a bit inside her opening.

She fuckinglovedwhen I teased the shallow part of her cunt.

Above me, Brooks dashed to catch my omega’s lips with his, kissing her hungrily even while his hands stayed where I instructed him.Good boy.

Lin,meanwhile, had nosed his way into the cup of Taryn’s bra and was suckling on her nipple with abandon. Taryn’s legs quivered beneath my hands. The near torturous level of euphoria climbing and climbing and climbing through her was a dizzying drug in the bond.

My nose perfectly aligned with her hot, swollen clit, and I added just a little bit of pressure as I continued the slow, steady circles of my tongue inside her cunt. Taryn groaned loudly fromthe back of her throat, breaking away from Brooks’ mouth to gasp and pant and look down at me, mouth open.

Time for the big finish.

With one final swipe of my tongue through her juicy, dripping vulva, I brought it up then to circle her clit—a quick circle, then a pause, quick circle, pause, maintaining constant pressure all the while.

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