Page 70 of Bonded By Christmas
“How the fuck did you manage that?” I whisper-hiss.
I nod at Lacey as she lies on Grim’s chest with his pointer and middle fingers in her mouth. I can’t tell if she’s actively sucking on them, but it damn sure looks like it from here. It’s kinda like cockwarming, but not quite. I’ve heard it referred to as suckling or nursing, and it’s one of my life goals. It can be done to help calm or soothe the anxious party. It’s endearing and just really fucking intimate.
Goddammit, now I want to murder Grim so I can take his place.
“Dunno,” he says softly, shrugging a giant shoulder. “I was brushing my fingers over her cheek, and she just latched on. She also didn’t want to climb off my cock even after my knot went down.”
He’s living my goddamn dreams right now.
I take a deep breath and recenter myself.
If she’ll do those things with Grim, she’ll do them with me too. I just have to be patient and wait my turn.
It would be really convenient if Mother Nature would catch up and help curb some of the possessive instincts alphas are born with. It all harkens back to the days when alphas were solely responsible for the protection of their omega, but now that packs are a thing, it makes it hard to share.
Bonding is supposed to help lessen some of those tendencies. It apparently just hasn’t kicked in for me yet.
“You’re no longer locked together?” I ask, climbing onto the edge of the mattress.
“Too close.” Grim growls, baring his teeth.
Lacey jolts in her sleep, pulling a hand up to slap over his mouth. It also tugs his fingers free of her lips, and she mumbles, “No angry growling when I’m asleep. Sexy growling is acceptable under certain circumstances. I don’t know if this is one of them.”
I snort, ignoring Grim and bending over to brush her messy hair away from her face.
We have to start taking better care of her. A good first step to that would be to look into buying replacements for all the products she normally uses. She’s always beautiful, but I’ve never seen her hair quite so poofy. It’s what I would consider naturally wavy, but at the moment, it has tangles that don’t seem like they’ll be easy to get out.
Lacey is pretty low maintenance, or maybe with everything going on she hasn’t had the chance to complain, but I know women can be particular about their makeup and hair routines. We want her to really start to look at this place as home, which means we need to make her as comfortable as possible.
At some point, we’re going to need to clear out her apartment, likely after we determine if that blacked-out SUV today was a fluke. We could always do a quick delivery order, though. Especially if she has items she prefers over what we happened to have on hand.
“Good evening, sleepyhead. You’re so damn cute when you first wake up.” I plant an obnoxiously loud kiss on her cheek, and Grim’s chest rattles with another growl. He can get right the fuck over it. She wassuckingon his fingers. That’smydream. I’m not sure what that says about my life goals, but I’m a simple man. “I hate to bother you,” I lie. “But we have a surprise for you downstairs. Want to come check it out?”
Lacey plants her hands on Grim’s chest and pushes herself up.
I almost laugh.
Omegas areallabout the gifts and treats. I figured that would perk her right up.
“Yeah, I do.” She nods, and it makes her tits jiggle.
It takes everything in me not to dip my head to bite the side of her perfect tit.
I mean, come on.
It’srightthere.
I settle for catching her nipple between my fingers. Giving it a little twist, I shove myself off the bed before I’m tempted to do more.
“Perfect.” I clap, glancing back to the pajamas I dropped on the dresser on my way in. “I brought you a set of those super soft pajamas you love so much. I’ll be happy to help you into them.”
“I’m going to look around for a spray bottle. If we don’t tame your waves, those tangles will turn into actual knots,” I murmur, setting Lacey down on her feet in the bathroom. “Why don’t you visit the toilet while I peek around for some proper hair care items?” I ache to tease her about being willing to help her clean up, since I know Grim’s cum is still dripping out of her, but she just woke up.
I’ll need to ease into all of that.
It’s always a battle between my Daddy side and my sadistic side.
I love a little soft degradation, but I’m not into any of the hardcore stuff.
