Page 105 of Eclipse Sector
I pressed my lips to her neck, my purr loud and demanding against her back. She didn’t even seem to notice I was here, her body contorting into a tighter fetal position as I cocooned her from behind.
“Vana,” I breathed, my teeth skimming her raging pulse. I hadn’t bitten her yet, because the moment I’d been about to, she’d gone into a full-blown heat. “I’m right?—”
Cillian,Kieran said again, drawing my attention back to his mind.Did you hear what I said about the estrus parties?
Estrus parties?I repeated more to myself than to him. Then I shook my head. Because it didn’t matter.Kieran, I can’t do this right now,I said to him for the first time in our very long friendship.Ivana… Ivana needs me. I can’t focus on what you’re saying while she’s…I trailed off, swallowing.She needs me,I repeated, my arms tightening around her.
You’re choosing to focus on Ivana instead of our present issue?Kieran asked slowly, his mental voice holding an edge to it that had my teeth grinding together.
She’s part of that “issue,” as you call it,I argued.And someone has to take care of her.Something I’d failed to do for far too long.
And that someone is you?he pressed, that edge still underlining his tone. It wasn’t incredulity, but it was definitely an emotion of some kind.
However, I really didn’t have the patience to determine what that edge meant or why he was being a dick about this.
Yes,I snarled at him.She’s mine. And she needs me. So fuck off.
Silence met my words, making me relax only marginally.
Because Ivana was still sobbing and using that damn toy on herself instead of my knot.
Instead ofme.
Because she had yet to realize I was here despite my purr at her back.
“Iv—”
Cillian, Kieran interrupted again, a thousand years of being connected to his mind making it very easy for him to call for me.
What?I demanded.
It’s about fucking time you claimed that female,he said to me.Now give her your complete focus and stop listening to me.
I blinked. Then I snorted back at him.You’re an asshole.
Likewise. Now go take care of your woman.A mental wall seemed to slam down between us, one I didn’t even know he could create.
Or perhaps I’d done it.
I’d evaluate it later.AfterI helped Ivana.
Pressing another kiss to her throat, I slid one hand down her body to where her hand was working between her thighs. “Take out this fucking dildo, Omega,” I said into her ear as I grabbed her wrist. “And get up on your hands and knees.”
Her entire body jolted against mine, her mind seeming to clear once more. “Alpha?”
“Yes, I’m here, and I want to fuck you. So get rid of this poor excuse for a knot and let me mount you.”
Ivana released a sound that was part whine, part relief, and pulled the contraption from between her legs.
Only to freeze in the next instant as her mind rebelled, telling her this was a fantasy, that I wasn’t really here because I never come for her.
Overhearing all that chaos—and the residual pain those thoughts caused—had me growling against her neck in a way only an Alpha could. “Now, Omega,” I demanded. “Get that sexy ass of yours in the air, spread your fucking legs, and present yourself to me.”
She shivered in response to the dominant wave of energy I released onto her, the cloud in her mind subsiding in an instant.
You’re really here,she thought at me.
Yes, I am. And my knot is so damn swollen that I’m about to take you just like this. So either get yourself into position, orgrab on to the mattress. Because I’m going to fuck you, Omega. Hard.
