“My father—” He just shook his head slowly. “I had to come in. You two are dumping everything else on me, so I need to get my head around the mess you’ve created.”
And with that, my already raging paranoia rose several notches.
Evan’s MO was to faff around, doing as little as possible, until someone else could be ‘persuaded’ to take his work on. He would never do weekend work to catch up. There was a possibility he might be under the pump due to his dad’s interest in our study, but… I pulled out my phone and tapped out a quick message to Candy, alerting her with our special code that Evan was en route.
Go home. Have doctor prescribed orgy. I got this, was all I got back.
The driveback to their place was a tense one. I couldn’t seem to get comfortable, even though I was wedged between Ryan and Haze in the backseat. The touch of their skin was a bit like a TENS unit, sending low pulses of warm electrical feeling throughout my body, which stopped the pain and brought a realisation with it.
What the pain masked was a deep need that throbbed on the same frequency as their touch. It was like something inside all of us was starting to synchronise, only hurting when it was out of sync. Colt was driving, and his eyes flicked to the rear vision mirror regularly to check on me, but when I had that realisation, they held mine for just a fraction longer.
“So what do I need?”I asked when we got to the house, my voice a little breathy as I felt something tighten inside me. “I have questions, so many questions.”
“And we’ll answer them as soon as we’ve tended to you,” Fen replied. “Inside and into the shower in the main suite.”
“The main…?”
I didn’t get a chance to wonder what that was as Ryan picked me up, carrying me down the hall and through the last door at the end.
“What the fuck?” I asked, catching a glimpse of a massive bed and floor to ceiling windows that Colt and Blake quickly jerked closed, creating a warmer, darker, cosier space.
Which somehow made my muscles start to unlock.
Bags were dropped on the bed, then they moved as one towards me.
Run, she told me again, but with no fear this time. Instead, it was a delicious thing, like she was suggesting I gorge on my bodyweight of Swiss chocolate.Run, and they will catch you.
But before I could decode that, Fen stepped forward, putting his hands on my shoulders.
“You wanted answers?” he said. “You’ll get one of them now.” His eyes roamed up and down my body. “The way you respond to our cum. Haze and Ryan, you’re up.”
“Oh, thank fucking fuck…” Haze hissed, stripping down instantly, Ryan doing the same, though more slowly.
“Fen, we’ve barely even kissed,” he said.
“So take your time, or as much as her need will allow,” Fen instructed. He stroked the side of my face with his thumb, then pulled away. “I said I didn’t know the science, Riley, and I don’t, but I do know this—what’s in us, what’s in you, it works together through a ripening. We’ll lick every drop of your slick away as often as you’ll let us, use it to coat our cocks, our fingers, our tongues, but you need to do the same.”
“So what, this is gonna be some kind of biologically mandated blow job?” I asked.
He stepped in then, right up into my space, so I could feel the heat of his body just before he pressed his thumb against my lips. They parted without thought, and he watched with complete fascination as I swallowed his finger down.
“No one will make you do anything. Scientists reliably predict what will happen based on hours of observation.” He blinked, then withdrew his thumb, rubbing it against my bottom lip. “Then you can consider alphas among your number. We have observed the care and preparation of omegas for centuries, finding ways to ease the pain and maximise the pleasure. You will bond with us, my mate, when you are ready. You will be locked down, unavailable to all other men but us. We will be together, heart to heart, until such time as it’s our moment to return to the earth, so we take the process of mating an omega very seriously.”
He took that last step forward, my body pressed against his as his arms wrapped around me, holding me close now.
“We want you to be happy, Riley. Satisfied, fulfilled, but mostly? We want you to come out of this loving us, not hating us, and I think you’ll find we’re prepared to do almost anything to make that happen.”
A kiss to my forehead. That was what I got before Fen pulled away and was replaced by Haze.
“You ready, baby?” he asked me, eyes dancing, like we were kids again and at the fence to Mrs George’s prize orchard, ready to raid it for apples. When he held out his hand, I took it, just like I had then, and with that, he drew me into the adjoining bathroom.
Chapter 31
“Wow—” I started to say as we entered a huge bathroom.
“Ignore it,” Haze commanded. “This place was built to alpha specs, so it has to be able to fit everyone inside it at the same time. Now, we need to get these off.”
He’d started to undo the buttons of my blouse when Ryan walked in, looking around warily at everything that wasn’t me.