Page 83 of In Doubt
I laugh too. “You’re really something, Baby Girl.”
“You have to stop flattering me,” she says, hitting me softly on the shoulder. “I’ll start believing you.”
My brow creases. I don’t know what she means by that. But then she’s yawning. “Enough talking, snuggles and sleeping now.”
“I need to talk to my pack.” Although, I’m not going anywhere knotted to her and she knows it.
“Later,” she mumbles, slotting her head beneath my chin, and then her eyelids fall shut.
It takes another ten minutes for my knot to deflate. It’s never been hard for that long. My body is reluctant to let the omega go as if it’s terrified this is all some delicious dream. A dream I’ll be ripped from soon enough.
Carefully, I roll away from her, arranging the blankets around her body, and finding my boxers on the floor, then tiptoeing out of the room.
I find my packmates lounging around on the sofas.
Levi looks as if he might strangle me. Aiden’s face is taut with pain and Dylan has a curious glint in his eyes.
I smile at them sheepishly, combing my hand through my dishevelled hair. I stink of sex and the omega. There’s no doubting what I’ve been doing for the last three hours.
“How did the talk go?” Levi asks, his voice dripping with sarcasm.
“Good,” I say, dropping down next to Aiden, who can’t help shuffling towards me and sniffing my body.
“Shit!” he groans.
“The talk was good?” Levi repeats, frowning hard. Forget strangle, he might knock me out judging by the fists resting on his knees. “So you didn’t get somewhat distracted?”
“A pleading omega, fingering herself and begging for cock is pretty damn distracting,” I mutter. “I’d like to see how you’d fare, mate.”
“Shit,” Aiden repeats, eyes glazing over as if he’s imagining that scene. “Shit, you lucky bastard.”
Levi looks away from me in disgust.
“But we did talk and…”
“And?” Dylan asks eagerly.
“She wants to give this a try.”
“Us?” Dylan asks, his eyes wide as if he can’t believe what he’s hearing.
“Us. Our pack. All of us.”
“You sure it’s what she wants,” Levi glares at me. “She wasn’t drunk on your cock, trying to please her alpha, saying what she thought you wanted to hear.”
“No.” I say firmly. “She wasn’t. I’m not some teenage dickhead who can’t understand consent, Levi, and I wouldn’t ever want to put her in a position she regretted.” My eyes dart to Dylan. “She’s been hurt before.”
“Hurt?” Levi asks, jaw stiffening, flexing his fingers.
“I don’t know the details, she hasn’t told me. But we have to go careful. She’s given me a safe word and I suggest we take this slow.”
“Slow,” Aiden, cackles. “She’s in heat.”
“And if you don’t show her respect and constraint, I’ll fucking rip your balls from your body and stuff them down your throat!”
Aiden throws his hands up in surrender, frowning at me. “And I’m not a dickhead either. Of course I’m going to show respect. I’m just saying, when she’s in the throes of her heat, she won’t want to go slow.”
I shrug. “We’re guided by her. Agreed?” They all nod.
