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SIXTY-SEVEN
Mia
I FELT LIKE I’D HADso little time with Zalen, compared to the time I’d spent with the others. I knew, now, why he’d always seemed to hold himself back from me... and I understood it—as much as anyone could, who hadn’t gone through the loss of a mate personally.
I’d been more worried about Luca, who’d spent years creating for himself the very reality that he didn’t want—a reality where, in his own head, he could only ever be a pity case for the alphas around him. He and Emiel had both come so far in the short amount of time since they’d decided to mate each other. Whenever I really stopped to think about it, I was in awe of their courage.
By contrast, I had it easy. There was only one more thing I needed to reassure myself about before the mating. I’d been putting it off, it was true, but it was time to face it head on.
Okay, scratch that.
It wasalmosttime to face it head on.
Because tonight, Luca and I were sprawled naked on Zalen’s generously sized bed; both of us perfuming and leaking slick as though our heats were due tomorrow, rather than two weeks and a few days from now.
“I need to know if you start to feel uncomfortable with anything, Luca,” Zalen was saying, as his big hand kneaded down the length of my spine, loosening each knot of tension as he found it. “You, too, Mia, but you already knew that.”
“Nngh,” I said, as another knotted muscle gave way beneath strong fingers.
Luca and I were both lying face-down on the bed, our heads pillowed on our arms as Zalen knelt between us. I had no idea how he was giving both of us simultaneous one-handed massages while also forming, y’know,sentences. Maybe it was an alpha thing? Or a stockbroker thing?
When Luca let the silence stretch too long, Zalen paused. “Talk to me, please,” he said. “I gather you and Emiel came up with some, er,special accommodations... but I don’t know the details.”
Luca shifted, the mattress moving beneath us. I rolled onto my side so I could see both of the others properly.
“I handcuff him to the bed,” Luca said reluctantly. “And, well... Byron let me use ropes on him once. But,” he hurried on, “I don’t want that tonight. I want to try it without the restraints.”
He swallowed hard. “I thought maybe I could... watch you with Mia first?”
A little rumbling purr vibrated up from Zalen’s chest, barely audible. The alpha’s scent shifted to calm reassurance.
“We can do anything you want, Luca,” he said. “You just have to say the word.”
Luca seemed to be struggling with himself. After a long pause, he broke.
“I want to sit on your face while Mia rides you,” he said in a rush. “I want you to eat me out and suck my dick while you’re knotting her.”
A wave of warm, liquidneedrolled through me as I pictured that. “Oh, my god,” I breathed. “That isso hot. Yes, please.” Myhand veered downward to slip between my legs without my even noticing, rubbing through slickness to ease the ache building there.
“Lo, the omegas have spoken,” Zalen said, mock-solemnly. “Let it be so.”
Luca glared at him, though I didn’t think there was any real heat behind it. “You know, if you’re going to make fun of me, I’m sure I can find some leather belts and neckties in this room somewhere.”
“Another night, maybe,” Zalen said, a hint of a smile still trying to break through his expression. “Tonight, it sounds like I’ve got a double serving of omega cock and pussy to eat.”
And...damn, did our pack alpha deliver on his promises.
Luca wasn’t gentle with Zalen as we both rode him, facing each other with our hands clasped for balance. Every time Zalen’s giant horse cock split me open, I was newly shocked by its size. He lay on his back, his hips rolling up to meet mine in a steady rhythm, even as Luca alternated fucking his face and pulling his dick out to let Zalen tongue at his dripping passage instead.
Apparently, this was the kind of waterboarding Zalen could get behind, because that massive dick twitched and jerked inside me as Luca made a spirited attempt to suffocate him with a flood of jizz and slick.