“I told myself if I had one taste, that’d be enough. I just needed one woman to take my knot, let me lock her down for the night, and then I’d be able to let that need go.” Reed loosened his grip on my hair as his arms went around me, holding me so tight my breath came in short little pants. “Then she walked into that lawyer’s office to settle how we would parent our cub.” A small silence. “That’s when I knew.”
His voice shifted then, more wolf than man speaking.
“You’re not getting away now, beta. I’ve got the taste, the scent of you.” He buried his nose in my hair, sucking in great lungfuls of me. “I said I’d step back, keep the fuck out of your way, but I can’t hold back anymore.”
“Don’t.”
The word just came out, slipping past my lips and Reed stiffened. I turned around then, facing down the big alpha.
“Don’t hold back. This is us, right?” I glanced over my shoulder at Damon and Jasper. “We’re a pack, right?”
“Fuck yes, we are,” Jasper said, pushing forward. “Does that mean…?”
“You’re accepting the bond.” Damon’s grin was positively smug. “I knew the cute fluffy animals would get under your skin.”
“The only cute fluffy animals that’ll get under my skin will be yours, won’t they?” I corrected him. “I’ll get to meet your beasts?”
“Fuck, don’t say that.” All humour was scrubbed from Damon’s face, his eyes wide as they stared into mine. “I’ve been doing deals with my wolf since the moment we clapped eyes on you. Telling him you want to see him?” He let out a little growl at that.
“Well, promise him that I’ll give him belly scratches and head rubs later,” I replied, trying to pull away but Reed’s grip tightened, instead forced to draw the two of them closer. “But I’ve got a use for the man first.”
“We are ready and willing to serve.”
Chapter 51
Right now I felt like a girl at a feast, not knowing where to start with all the splendour laid out before her. Damon and Jasper smiled, cocky bastard things that they were, but Reed, he just shook his head and snorted.
“I can see your fucking brain whirring,” he told me, his mouth hovering just over my ear. “Going a mile a minute, thinking: What do I do? Who do I touch first?”
“Me, obviously,” Damon said with a grin.
“No one,” Reed corrected, sweeping me up and setting me on the bed. “Later, you can make yourself oh so well acquainted with every inch of us.”
“There’s eight in particular I’d particularly like attention on,” Damon said before Jasper punched him.
“Just for once, I’m gonna need you to shut that fucking mouth,” Jasper said. “Or don’t. Keep yapping and get kicked out of the bedroom to wait on the veranda, like a naughty dog.” He let out a noisy sigh as he crawled on the bed after us. “There’s no fucking way you’re eight inches.”
“You’re right, I’m probably closer to nine.”
“If you two fuckwits are quite finished,” Reed said, grabbing my hands and pushing them up the bed, then holding them there. “We’ve got something much more pressing to deal with.”
One hand slid down, forcing my legs to part and that’s when the smiles faded. Instead, Jasper and Damon both looked at me like a wolf might his prey, with hungry, hungry eyes. Reed smoothed a hand over my mound, just ruffling my pubic hair, not doing anything else, but that brought them crawling across the bed.
“This is about Lily’s pleasure,” Reed ordered. “We’ve brought enough shit into her life. Now it’s time to kiss and make it better.”
“Yeah, I’m on board with that,” Jasper rasped as he took up position by my head. He stroked my face, the experience a strange thing when being forced to hold still. I was completely at their mercy, something that made Jasper smile. “Pretty little beta. You’ll make more of those little kitten sounds when we please you, right?”
I didn’t get a chance to answer, his hand sliding around my throat, tipping my lips upwards for him to claim. He started slow at first, just gentle press after gentle press, until my mouth parted. Then his mouth grew harder, more demanding, his fangs digging into my bottom lip as he sucked on it.
“That’s it, beta,” he said as I opened my mouth to suck a deep breath in. “Open up for us.”
What that meant, I couldn’t tell. One set of hands held my hands in place, but another gripped my ankle, turning it out slightly as a kiss was placed there then further up my calf, then another. Jasper and Damon were almost synchronised, kissing my mouth until I was pulling against Reed’s grip, wanting more but not able to get it until they were willing to give it to me. Then Jasper’s hands sank into my hair, drawing my head up until I couldn’t go any further without pulling free of Reed. His tongue thrust inside my mouth, teasing mine forth and then it was all open mouthed and messy, a low growl forming in his chest as a result. Then Damon wended his way higher.
“More of that,” came his disembodied voice. “I can smell how fucking wet you’re making her.”
“And it’s your job to make her even wetter,” Reed growled. “She’s gonna need to be dripping if she’s gonna take us.”
“You gonna do that, beta?” Jasper pulled away to ask the question, staring into my uncomprehending eyes as I leaned my head up towards him, seeking more. “You gonna take all your mates’ knots?” Damon’s hands slid up my thighs then, scoring the flesh, drawing my attention to the ache between them.