Page 22 of Bonds of Fate

“I didn’t really know what I was doing, Gray, but I am not sorry we’re bonded—just that it looks like I hurt you. Does it feel okay?”

Grayson picks Nix up and hugs him so tightly in relief that it’s palpable. “I love it. It’s perfect. Thank you for doing it.”

“What about me? Shouldn’t you bi–” Grayson’s hand is over his mouth, stopping his request for a similar bite.

“You can’t say that to me right now, Angel. My wolf wants to bite you so badly, but I can’t. Our pack has a hierarchy, and I respect Jay too much to ignore it. It’d be a challenge I couldn’t take back, and I love our family just the way it is now that you’re here.”

“So Jamie needs to bite me first, then it’s okay? Even though I’ve bitten you and him already?”

“Exactly—wait. What did you say?”

“I can feel you both in here.” He taps his chest with his fist.

“When did you bite Jay?”

“I don’t know, but he’s beenheresince the hospital. What are you doing?” Gray grabs his phone off the bathroom vanity, and he must be texting Jay—and it looks like Nix might get answers to his questions sooner rather than later.

Fucking finally.

“Is it okay to interrupt him? You never said what a rut is or why I’m making my own lube, or if there’s anything else I should know about?”

If his mate’s face is anything to go by, there sure as hell is.

Chapter Seven: Jay

Jay

Jay comes to, flat on his back, with his head in Finn’s lap, boxing gloves nearby. His jaw aches, and his back feels like he hit the ground hard. Apparently, Gideon packs quite a punch when he’s not pulling them.

When Jay sits up, the dizziness gives him pause. A concussion, probably, maybe a cracked jawbone? Thank the Goddess that whatever it is, it never lasts very long, given resilient Were physiology.

“How’s the head? That punch almost took your head clean off,” Finn asks, “You’ve been out for a few hours. I was starting to think I needed to call an ambulance.”

“I’m okay. It’s just my jaw. Fuck, Gideon was pissed. He’s not happy that Hayes is still living and breathing, even if it is behind bars. Beating my ass in the ‘ring’ didn’t seem to improve his disposition, either.”

Jay had bet him a win of a different kind if he could get it under control enough to beat him. “Then Nix blew the door down. Finnie, the door didn’t even slow him down. It’s a reinforced steel fire door. I’m not sure ifIcould take it down like that. What the hell.”

He sees it in his mind’s eye just before he forgets to block the incoming hit.

The noise of the door hitting the rubber mats of the gym floor—Nix looking up into Jay’s eyes with a gleeful laugh. And then falling onto all fours, looking over his shoulder and presenting for Rowan, who arrived in a cloud of rut-crazed spiced rum.

“What else did I miss? Where is everyone?”

Finn hands him a bottle of water, blushing pink and smelling like sweet, fruity arousal. “Nix jump-started Rowan’s rut with a run. Rowan chased him in here, and you saw how he fucking presented, Jay. Ass up, and it was…” His mate’s gaze goes foggy for a minute as if he’s remembering, biting his lower lip. “It was everything you can imagine.” His tone says Finn will probably spend time later doing just that.

Jay puts his nose in the air, and he’s sure that someone had a fucking orgasm while he was out. “Tell me, Rowan didn’t take our omega on the floor of the gym in a full-blown rut.”

Nix’s grin had said he wouldn’t have minded, but still, it’s not the place for first times.It would suck if I missed itconflicts withI wish it was me.

“Fuck no, but Nix would have been thrilled if he had. Jay, he was wild. Rowan ate him out and made him come so hard that he passed out. Then Luca convinced Rowan to takehiminstead.”

Finn loves to fuck and be fucked, but watching his lovers is number one on his kink list. Jay wished he’d been awake, too, if only to see his Nix feeling so good after years of feeling so bad. Nix deserved all the orgasms, and he deserved them on his own terms. That Nix was happy thaws a bit of the worry inside him.

“Rowan backed down, then? I can’t imagine that. His rut’s been pushing his buttons all week.” And Jay’s.

“You’d have been proud. Luca fetched Leo and then sprayed him in the face with the hose—like a portable cold shower. Quick thinking because Rowan was ignoring Gideon’s best tricks.”

“Really? Go, Luc!”

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