Page 24 of Captive Omega
I believed that with all my heart. I wouldn’t have traded Luna for anything or anyone in the world. But for her, that was not enough, because none of us were happy about this new turn of events.
Nathaniel pressed his lips together so tightly they went white. He didn’t have a connection with Luna, not like I did, but he couldn’t have missed her anguish and distress. “Look. I think we’re all in this together, whether we like to or not. So here’s what I suggest. We have to adapt.”
“Adapt?” I repeated. “What did you have in mind?”
Nathaniel arched a brow at me, and that was when I understood. If we were going to make this work, for Luna’s sake, we had to breach the gap between us. Unfortunately, there was no time for us to bond properly, like pack mates would. We were on the run, and with two packs chasing us, we couldn’t afford to be at odds. There was only one solution to this, and as crazy as it might have seemed, it was better than the alternative.
Luna didn’t seem to agree. Even if she was in heat, she somehow found the strength to pull away from Nathaniel and Samuel and shake her head. “You don’t have to force yourselves into something because of me. There has to be another way, another solution.”
“Luna, you’re our mate,” Samuel told her. “If we’ve found one another like this, it has to be for a reason. And sure, we could all sit here and bemoan the fact that our relationship isn’t what we expected. Or we could see it for what it is and what it can give us. A surprising connection with great potential.”
I nodded. “He’s right. Let’s face it. If they hadn’t shown up, I would be in no condition to protect you.” I might have claimed otherwise, but I was realistic enough to admit that right now, they were far better equipped to handle a threat than I was.
“That doesn’t mean the three of you have to fuck,” Luna said bluntly.
“No, it doesn’t, but we can still try,” I told her. “I mean, I’m not at my best here, but I’m willing if they are.”
It wouldn’t be the first time I experimented with males and the twins were attractive. It had never occurred to me until now, but there was something sinful and decadent about taking two siblings—and male twins, no less—as lovers. It was a shame that my injury wouldn’t let me enjoy it fully, but I would do my best to go along with it anyway.
“Just relax and stop worrying, Luna,” Samuel said. “We’re here for you and for one another. You know in your heart that this is meant to be. It always was.”
Luna scrutinized his face with concerned eyes. Maybe she’d have continued to protest, but I allowed her to glimpse my true feelings instead of trying to suppress the pain.
It worked. Impossibly, despite how much the poison was affecting me, she found comfort in it. “I can feel you better now. You really do want this, don’t you?”
“I would never lie to you, Luna,” I told her, “even if I could.”
“There you have it,” Samuel offered. “Now, just let go. We’ll take care of everything.”
In his words and in my bond with her, Luna found steadiness. When Samuel pulled her into his arms and kissed her, she wrapped his arms around his neck and eagerly responded.
I expected to feel jealous over it, at least a little. Even if I’d told her I was okay with it, there were some things that couldn’t be stopped, and my instincts remained those of a possessive Alpha. At first, the threads of that frustration were inside me, like a deeply rooted anguish I couldn’t let go of. But Nathaniel was there, and he lay down next to me on the cot. “It’s a little strange, isn’t it?” he asked me. “Watching them together.”
I nodded. They were beautiful, but at the same time… At the same time, what?
I took a deep breath, forcing myself to follow the advice Samuel had given Luna—to let go. Nathaniel didn’t try to help me. He was just… there, waiting patiently.
And maybe we would have continued doing that, just waiting and taking our time with one another. But Samuel decided to speed things along and slid his hand down, between Luna’s legs. A surge of pleasure rushed through me as he pressed a finger into her cunt.
It was like someone had just wrapped their hand around my cock. I hissed, and a mix of pleasure-pain rushed through me.
By my side, Nathaniel clicked his tongue in apparent disapproval. “You know, I heard a rumor about energizers. They’re said to get a boost from endorphins and hormonal responses. I feel like it’s definitely something we should explore.”
I had no idea if that was true, or if he was just bullshitting me, but I couldn’t have cared less. When he wrapped his hand around my dick and started to jack me off, he smirked knowingly. I glowered at him, torn between telling him to stop playing around and punching him in the face. Out of sheer exasperation, I shoved my pain and exhaustion aside, grabbed his shoulder and pulled him down.
As Nathaniel and I kissed, the connection between me and Luna flared brighter, like a shining star or a blooming flower. It should have been impossible, because we were already so close to one another, our souls entwined by our bond. And yet, there it was, the potential Samuel had been talking about, turned into a gift we could use as our secret strength.
I thrust my tongue into Nathaniel’s mouth, mimicking what Samuel was doing to my mate. Slowly, my pain was fading away altogether. The migraine that had almost felled me earlier vanished like it had never been there at all. The flavor of Nathaniel’s desire replaced the bitter taste in my mouth. I reached for his dick and wrapped my hand around it, monitoring his response to my touch, registering everything he liked and disliked. If I deliberately teased him from time to time, he had no one to blame but himself, because he’d done the same to me.
Luna broke the kiss between her and Samuel and turned toward us. “I realize what you meant now. Yes, we have to do this.”
Her eyes were feverish again, but the fire wasn’t as terrible and painful as before. When she came to me and Nathaniel, her touch was soft, almost gentle. Lust and urgency burned between the four of us, but I still felt like we had all the time in the world.
Nathaniel kissed her first, and I allowed it, knowing it was their first kiss, the first time they could share intimate moments like this. Nathaniel and I had to stop touching one another, but that was okay, because I took pleasure in seeing them together. We were all like the pieces of a puzzle finally sliding into place, and I hadn’t realized just how much I was missing until now, until the chaos had brought us here.
It was, once again, because of the chaos that things escalated very quickly. The kiss between Nathaniel and Luna turned frantic, the scent of their arousal now more intense. I met Samuel’s eyes over Luna’s shoulders and nodded. “I think that’s your cue to take what’s yours.”
If my words surprised him, he didn’t show it. There would be time enough for surprise later. For the moment, we’d reached an agreement, and all of us realized that this was what we were supposed to do.
