Page 49 of In Knots

Chapter 14

“How do you feel?” he asks me. He’s rolled us over and now I lie over his body as he holds me tight.

“Hmmmm,” I murmur.

And he purrs with obvious contentment, the sounds vibrating in his chest beneath me. He strokes back my hair and whispers to me, tells me how good that was for him, what a good girl I was, and how he hopes it was good for me too.

“It was,” I whisper as sleep starts to take me. “Better than I could ever have imagined.”

When I wake later, the first light of dawn nudges through the curtain, staining the light a milky grey. I roll onto my side, reaching for the warm body that’s held me all night, sucking in lungfuls of the deeply masculine scent that marks my sheets.

The bed is empty and I sit bolt upright, finding him shrugging his t-shirt over his head.

“I thought I’d better make myself scarce before morning.” My parents are away but the housekeeper will arrive later in the morning followed by Jonathan and then there are the gardeners and the woman who changes the bedding.

“It’s not morningyet,” I protest. There’s still time before the house is invaded. “Come back to bed.” He flops down at the end of the mattress and pulls on a sock. I crawl towards him, wrapping my arms around his neck, and he kisses my forearm.

“I don’t want to make trouble for you, Alexa. I know how precarious things can be for an omega. And I can see how much your parents mean to you.” He glances over to a picture of my mother and me perching on my desk.

“If they got to know you–”

“You really think your parents would accept you dating an alpha like me? One from a pack? From the wrong side of town?”

I rest my forehead against the back of his neck, unable to deny the truth of the matter.

“I could leave,” I whisper.

“That’s a big decision, princess. Not one to make the morning after the night before.” He strokes his hands along my arms and threads his fingers through mine. “You know how badly I wanted to claim you just now? Lying in bed with you, sleeping in my arms.” I shiver hard. “It’s why I have to go.”

A meow sounds out from the window, and we turn our heads to see Claude sitting on the other side of the glass, a disapproving scowl on his face.

“Is he yours?” Ryan asks me.

“Yes.”

“Looks like he’s the jealous type. Want me to let him in?”

“Not yet.” I swallow, thinking of someone else who might be jealous. “Is Buzz going to be mad about this?” I whisper.

“No, no, not at all. Why would you think that?”

“We did this without him.”

“You like him too, don’t you?”

“Yes,” I say honestly, wondering what on earth that says about me. How mixed up I must be. Not ever wanting an alpha and now wanting two.

“We’ve never shared a girl before, an omega–”

“But at the fire, that game –”

“We’ve had our fun, princess. We’ve experimented and shit. But it’s never gone further than a one-night stand. Do you understand what I’m saying?”

“And what is this?”

“This is something more. We talked about it already. About the idea of you being both our girl. If I’m honest, princess, it turns us the fuck on.”

“It does?”

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