Again and again, we did that all night long.
I lost count of how many times I came, or how many times Tarin knotted me.
I now had a new favorite hobby.
Chapter Eighteen
Tarin
Alli slept in the crook of my arm, the sides of his face tinged pink, eyelashes a smiling, dark brown line against his upper cheeks. His mouth was curved up in dream, sweet, fulfilled, content.
My Burn went on for two full days. There had been some breaks during which I managed to get a robe around my body and make my way to the kitchen for food for us.
Normally, I did not go through my Burns in my own home because of my guests. I was a fairly private person, plus I didn’t want to have them feel an ounce of awkwardness around me. I wanted my Omega wards to know they were safe.
But this had been an emergency. I hadn’t had time to think, let alone plan any sort of getaway.
Alli woke, his eyelids fluttering, and turned to press his naked body tighter against me. One of his legs was thrown over mine. The covers went up to our legs only. The rest of his lovely body was revealed to me, from that sweet, plush ass to his flat hairless chest, to the luscious cock, soft now, that nestled against my hip.
It had been his first time, and he’d been amazing. The most amazing lover I’d ever had.
Alli squeezed his arm around my waist and lifted his head, balancing on his elbow and looking down at me.
I raised my eyebrows, my smile turning to a grin. That look on his face, it made me want to give him the world.
“I have questions,” he said, licking his lips, finding his morning voice.
“Yes?”
He winced a little. “Not to spoil the mood, but--”
“But what?”
“Tarin, tell me about Kee. I thought—I thought--”
I put a gentle finger to my lips. “Shh. No need to ever worry about him again, my love.”
The way he blinked those lashes at me. My cock swelled again. Soon. Soon I would be pummeling him with my own big knot again. And again. Both in and out of the Burn.
I wanted him all the time now.
I knew I would never get enough.
“But you and he--” Alli began.
“Kee is bonded to another Alpha now,” I said softly, my fingers drawing up over his cheek to weave into the dark hair on the side of his head. “He wanted privacy to tell me because he thought I wouldn’t take it well, that I’d be hurt. A week ago, I would have. When I met you, my heart was already broken. That’s why I couldn’t allow myself to believe in our instant rapport. But now I had my own bonding story to tell him in return. Do you understand now?”
His eyebrows came together. “You told him about me?”
“Of course I did. You are the center of my life now. I want the entire world to know.”
“You do?”
“I do.” I flipped him over and lay between his legs, keeping most of my weight on my knees. “I want to celebrate. I want to shout it from rooftops, mountain tops, the very clouds themselves.”
“I didn’t know you were soooo romantic,” Alli said, mouth twisting. Then he burst out, “How did I get so lucky?”
Ah, but it was I who was the lucky one.