Page 45 of Tying the Knot
“And then what?”
“Eli!” Dylan snaps. “Leave her alone. Why are you interrogating her like this?”
I zero in on him like a man possessed. “I want to know which one so I can remove the bite from her neck with my own, breaking her bond and making her mine,” I growl, grabbing his shirt and dragging him closer, taking my sudden fear and excitement out on him. “I want to know which of those fuckers to go to and gloat that she now belongs to me and that they royally fucked up when they mistreated her and forced her to be alone.” I shove him away from me to a deathly silence, broken only by the water trickling out of the extremely poor shower over the bath in this dingy hotel bathroom we are all crammed into.
“Well, okay then,” he mutters. “Guess you’ve decided.”
“Guess so,” I snarl. “Anyone got a problem with that?” I glare at Nik and Kaleb, avoiding Morgan’s gaze altogether.
They shake their heads, completely gobsmacked.
Eventually, I get up the courage to look at the sweet, gorgeous omega who I’ve been trying desperately to respect and leave alone to grieve for her pack.
She meets my gaze, bold and beautiful, fierce and full of fire. “Do I get a say in this?” she asks, but there is a sassy edge to it that is taunting me. She is goading me.
“No,” I growl and turn to walk away, a smile growing on my lips as she snorts and giggles.
“Well, okay then, Commander,” she calls after me. “Guess that’s me told.”
My dick goes on alert, stiff and desperate to slide into her as she presents herself to me.
I stop and turn around. “Do you still want him?”
Her face goes serious, and she shakes her head. “No. He is dead to me. They all are.”
“Who do you want?”
She swallows and inhales deeply before slowly releasing her breath, a soft purr escaping those pouty red lips. “I know that I belong to all of you.”
I growl and lunge forward, grasping her upper arms and crashing my lips against hers.
She whimpers and clings to me, thrusting her tongue into my mouth as I explore hers deeply and possessively.
It is the single best kiss I have ever experienced, and there is nothing that will draw me away from her. She belongs to us now. She is ours.
ChapterThirty
Morgan
This kiss is everything.
It’s everything that was missing from my previous relationship. It’s everything to my omega that craves this care and attention from an alpha who wants to kiss me. I deepen it, rising up on my tiptoes, ignoring the burning in my belly that the heat is causing, begging me to take this pack and claim them in every way.
As much as I want to do that to ease the heat, I’m not ready for that. Adam still has a claim on me, and until that is broken, however that will go down, I’m not ready. Elijah’s words both scared me and thrilled me to the point where slick slid down my thighs at the thought of him biting me over Adam’s mark and claiming me as his. But I don’t know how that works if the mate bond is still there. Weak, pathetic and not true, and as much as he is not part of my heart anymore, it scares me to think about Elijah claiming meoverAdam’s bite and what that will do to me. To us. Will we have to fight harder for it?
I just don’t know.
With a sigh, I pull back, and he lets me, releasing me, the fire burning in his eyes, making this an even tougher decision to make.
He smiles a sweet, gentle smile that is in deep contrast to the scowl that usually adorns his face. “We will wait for you.”
Five words that mean more than I can express in words.
I choke back the sob with a brief nod and watch him leave.
“Can you manage on your own?” Dylan asks quietly, knowing how monumental the last few minutes have been.
“Yes, thank you.”
