Page 204 of Bliss & Her Idols

His cock has softened and slipped out of me, trapped now between our bodies.

Finally, I feel like I’m settling back into my body.

I blink at Torin. “Did we fall off the branch?”

He looks smug. “See, I can make the earth move with my knot.”

I’ll allow him that one. He deserves it.

Then Torin rubs his thumb affectionately over my wet cheeks. I didn’t even know that I’d been crying at the intensity.

“Well, I’d better poke out my eyes, since I’m the one who made you cry.” He sighs. “When your own words come back to bite you in the ass.”

I shake my tangled hair out of my eyes to glare at him. “Don’t you dare. They’re too pretty.”

“You think my eyes are pretty. You can’t take that back.” Torin studies me. “Are you really okay?”

“Hmm.” I gently tuck Torin’s cock back into his trousers, feeling both possessive and protective of his knot. “I needed that.”

“I did too.” Torin is unexpectedly quiet.

“But did we hurt your back?”

“I told you, pain is—”

I pinch Torin’s pierced nipple, and he yips. Then I raise an eyebrow as if to say,point made.

“Okay,” Torin admits, grumpily, “I feel pain. Although, that was hot. You know from our negotiations that I’m into nipple play. Let’s do it again sometime with nipple clamps, ice cubes, and lots of teasing. But I’d rather train myself that something doesn’t hurt, while my goal isn’t achieved. I can fuss about it afterward, and my adoring pack can coddle me with…” He tilts his head like he’s running through a list of his favorite things. “Endless cups of tea, along with plenty of kisses and licks to improve the healing process.”

“Done. You’ll need Cricket to make the tea. Jin and I will provide the licks and kisses.”

Torin grows quiet.

Then his expression shutters. “It sounds like heaven. But there’s also a hell if we fail. Do you want to know the other thing Mena told me, as she was laying the belt into my back?”

All of a sudden, the fuzzy feeling is driven from my mind. It’s disorientating.

I still force myself to nod.

“I have negotiated two weeks mandatory bond leave with the rest of my pack, while Mena wants me to do interviews and be public about our love story like Rory has planned. Then once fan interest has died down, Jin will return to his normal practice and management under Rory, Una will take my two Omegas under her wing, and I’ll…”

“What?” I’m trembling more than the wings of the butterflies.

“It’s okay,” Torin replies with a calm that doesn’t match the torrent of fear through the bond. “It’s a risk that I knew I was facing, when I returned to America. I’m prepared to pay it, as long as you’re not exposed as resistance. Don’t my Omegas risk execution? If our plan doesn’t succeed, then I’ll only be permanently locked up in the Alpha Center.”

CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX

Idol Camp, Idol Estate

“Onlybe permanently locked up…?” I mutter under my breath, as I cross the courtyard behind Torin toward the Idol camp, still unable to believe he told me like that.

By the time that this mission is over, I will show Torin that there is noonlyabout him being ripped away from our pack and imprisoned.

None of us would survive that.

Torin’s suffering and pain matter.

“Hmm, what did you say?” Torin glances over his shoulder.

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