He lifts his hands to my cheeks as well, and we hold each other while we kiss, soft and searching at first, but then a fresh rush of desire catches up with us and our movements become more frantic.
He sits and pulls me onto his lap, and I wrap my legs around him, feet on the floor to steady us as he pushes his way inside. We hold each other as tight as we can while still allowing enough movement to create that earth-shattering friction that makes everything all right.
We kiss, and we touch, and we fuck and make love. Because what can this be if not a deep, abiding love?
“I love you, Violet. So, so much,” Miles tells me again and again as our bodies crash against each other.
When his knot begins to swell inside me, I am ready for it. But then I remember there’s something he and the others don’t yet know. I want nothing between us, no distance, no clothing, and no more fucking secrets.
“Miles,” I whisper, trying to keep my voice steady despite the intense waves of pleasure that make me whimper and moan on top of him. “There’s something I need to tell you.”
“Later.”
“But…”
“Don’t worry about tomorrow. Be here with me today.” He parrots my earlier words back to me, and so I return to our perfect little bubble. I will tell the guys the last little part as soon as they’re ready to hear it. I would have told them before now, but there was no time once my heat made itself known. Later we’ll have another big discussion and reach a decision together. Miles is right, this part can wait—at least a little longer.
For now I plan to bask in the moment, to delight in the perfection of us.
Miles rakes his teeth across my neck, but Archer stops him with a firm hand on the shoulder. The two exchange a look that escapes me, then Miles is moving back toward the floor and pulling me down with him.
Archer enters me from behind, murmuring his love for me as he eases in inch by inch. Together the three of us find a new rhythm, and then Ben is standing before me, cock in one hand as he takes my hair in the other and guides me to him.
I turn my face before he can probe my cheeks. “Noah,” I call for the final member of our pack. I know it’s about to happen. The alphas will mark me with their bites, and we will be joined officially, eternally.
“I’m not an alpha,” Noah reminds me from somewhere close by but not close enough.
“But you are mine.” I beckon and wait. I refuse to do this without him. We are Pack Muldoon, and we are one.
And then he’s here standing beside Ben. Miles helps hold me up so that I can stroke and lick them both, one after the other. Again and again.
Archer’s knot swells in me, causing me to lose my breath as I am filled to bursting from both sides. “Oh,” I cry out.
“Shhh,” he soothes me, leaning in to kiss my neck, my back, any part of me he can reach. “Shhhh, you can take it, our perfect little omega.”
I’d laugh if I were capable of making any sound other than a symphony of pants and gasps of pleasure. “I’m not perfect,” I manage to say with great difficulty, breaking each syllable apart with another whimper of happiness.
“But you are ours.” I don’t even know who says this. It doesn’t matter. The speaker doesn’t change the truth. I am theirs. All of theirs.
And I agree. “Yes.”
“Forever,” Archer says, bringing his teeth to my neck but not clamping down. Not yet.
“Forever,” Miles adds, pulling me to him and placing his teeth on the other side of my neck.
Ben brushes my hair away from the back of my neck, changing position so that he can kneel down and bring his face to me. “Forever.”
“Noah…” I moan. “Need you too.”
“Forever,” my beta promises, bringing his teeth up high, just below my jawbone.
And then it’s my turn. “Forever,” I agree, because once you find where you’re meant to be, even forever isn’t quite enough. But for now, it will have to do. And as each new day comes we’ll do our best to pack a million moments, a million memories into that forever.
Together Archer, Miles, Ben, and Noah clamp their teeth onto me, marking me with their bites for all to see, so that all will know I, Violet Steele, am bonded to Pack Muldoon now and yes… forever.
epilogue
SIX MONTHS LATER