“Violet?” Miles jumps up from his seat and rushes around the table to help me. Still the perfect gentleman. Always the perfect gentleman.
Thankfully I cough and manage to dislodge the obstruction on my own before Miles has to resort to the Heimlich maneuver.
I’m mortified, and I also know I shouldn’t be reacting like this. Alphas and omegas are matched precisely for this reason—to make babies. In Miles’s mind, the fact I will bear Pack Muldoon’s children is a foregone conclusion. He doesn’t know why that will never happen.
And if I keep acting like this every time the topic comes out, he’s going to start asking questions. Maybe he’ll come to me, or worse yet, maybe he’ll reach out to my mother.
If I’m not a good little omega, any one of my new alphas could run crying to her. And here I thought mating myself off would put an end to my mommy issues. I’m incredibly lucky that Miles made an offer. Otherwise I’d be at home now, preparing for a dangerous and short-lived life with Pack Fernando. And since they know my secret, I wouldn’t be able to find an excuse to get away. Wouldn’t be able to trick them like I can trick Pack Muldoon.
I just have to play this right.
I can’t be cold and stand-offish. Just as I can’t be warm and overly flirtatious.
There is a fine line between being accepted and being discovered, and I must tread it very, very carefully until I can orchestrate my escape.
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“Fuck, I’m about to come,” I growl, then pump my load into the pretty beta who’d been flirting with me all weekend as I showed her and her group of friends around the state.
She lets out a porn-star moan as her face twists and she joins me… or at least pretends to.
Make no mistake, I know how to satisfy a woman. But with betas, you never know what’s real and what’s an act. They’re not made for sex the way omegas are, which means they try extra hard to put on a good show.
And this one writhing beneath me now? Tiffany, I think her name is. She could go pro.
I grunt and roll off her, completely spent. God, I needed that. It had been too long. Way too long.
And with our pack’s search for an omega in full swing, I’m literally thinking about sex all the time. A red-blooded, all-American alpha can’t be expected to keep it in his pants. It’s not like I’m mated off yet. I will be soon, though, if Miles’s meeting with that omega in San Francisco goes well.
“Yeah, you like that, baby?” my naked beta whispers between gasps for breath. But why is she asking now that we’re fucking finished?
Tiffany sighs and snuggles against my chest like she belongs there.
No, I can’t let her get attached. This is why I always choose out-of-towners whenever I need to have a bit of fun. One psycho ex is more than enough to learn that lesson.
“Don’t you have to get back to your friends?” I suggest, sitting up to put some distance between us.
“Nope.” She giggles softly and strokes a hand across my bare chest. “I’m all yours tonight. Tomorrow too, if you want me.” She moves her hand lower and lower until she finds my balls and gives them a suggestive squeeze.
Fuuuuuuck. She’s leaving town day after tomorrow, so what would it hurt if I have a little more fun before she goes?
I growl and drag her onto my lap so she’s facing away from me.
She wiggles and moans, bringing my recently spent cock back to life as she gives a few quick pumps, then guides my swollen head toward her entrance.
So much for restraint.
She starts screaming at the top of her lungs as she rides me, and I’m half tempted to push my hand over her mouth just to shut her the fuck up. Instead I plant a hand on each tit and squeeze so hard I must be leaving marks. I can’t wait to leave my mark for real, once I have our omega and not some half-baked stand-in.
My temporary mate and I work together to move her up and down my shaft, hard and fast, milking my cock toward another release.
I close my eyes, focusing on the physical sensation as I try to block out her screams.
But it isn’t long before my mind goes elsewhere.
Tiffany is pretty with dark hair done up in a high ponytail, blue eyes, and a deep tan. She’s got huge tits, and from the way they hardly bounce at all, I’m guessing they’re the work of a surgeon rather than God.