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He withdrew with a quick slap against my cheeks, and I yelped in surprise, my limbs shaky. Archer came to my side and held me as he helped me down.

“I’ve got you,” he purred, pulling my back into his chest as we rested on the ground. He ran his fingers gently along the curves of my body, giving me a chance to catch my breath. “Are you alright? Do you need a break?”

I turned to look at him, reaching up to cup his stubbled cheek.All my alphas were much hairier than usual—even Cam’s beard was longer than he normally kept it. Days of living wild in a fae world without access to a razor would do that to you, I supposed.

“You look really hot with facial hair,” I said, enjoying the feel of his whiskers against my fingers.

He brought my palm to his lips and kissed it. “Maybe I’ll keep it,” he replied, his eyes twinkling.

He let go of my hand and his own wandered further down my side, grabbing my thigh and positioning himself behind me. “Let me know if you need to rest.”

“Archer, the only thing I need right now is you,” I whispered, and with that he slowly pushed himself inside.

My back arched into him and I gasped, enjoying the slow pace. Julian, Elias, and Nolan had been quick and hard, which was exactly what I’d wanted—a confirmation of our reunion, to feel overwhelmed and surrounded by my pack as our desperation from being apart melted into physical reassurance we were together again.

But Archer was taking his time, wrapping my leg around his hip as he thrust deliberately. He circled my clit with his fingers, kissing the top of my head and whispering sweet nothings in Korean as his cock filled me over and over.

Another orgasm finally rippled through me, and as I opened my mouth to moan Archer slid his fingers inside, having me suck my slick off them as he drove home his own release.

He came with a low roar, holding onto me tightly, our heartbeats syncing as we peaked and then relaxed.

I barely had a chance to rest before Cam finally made his move, lying on his side to face me. “Hey, beautiful,” he said, nuzzling my nose with his own.

“Hey, handsome,” I replied.

He took my cheeks and kissed me, slow, deep, and full. I whimpered as Archer withdrew. He stayed behind me, though, his body rocking me into Cam’s lips. He swallowed each sound, sucking on my tongue and sighing into me.

“Marlowe…” My name was like a prayer on his lips. “Marlowe, please forgive me for not protecting you. For not keeping you safe. I’ve failed you three times already, I won’t… Ican’t… fail you again.”

Tears pooled in the corners of my eyes. “You haven’t and you won’t. All you’ve ever done is fight for me, even when I thought you were a disgusting pig and didn’t want to have anything to do with you.”

He peppered kisses on my cheeks, slowly pushing me onto my back. Archer scooted away, leaving me beneath Cam’s large frame.

Despite lying naked on the forest floor, the ground was quite soft and warm, and the slightly spicy aroma of the earth surrounded us in an enchanted embrace.

I stared into Cam’s baby blue eyes, loving the way they crinkled as he smiled. “And I’ll never stop fighting for you, either.”

My legs parted around his hips and wrapped around him, nudging him towards my center. It felt so good to have his weight on top of me, like a hunky security blanket I never wanted to take off. He rubbed his jaw and neck on mine, marking me with his scent.

It was richer somehow than I remembered, like alcohol aged to perfection, and I got heady breathing him in. I loved all my guys’ scents, but Cam’s had definitely changed. It seemed obvious, and even silly, but there was only one word that sprang to mind as his cock nestled into place at my entrance.

“Alpha,” I sighed.

He stilled, his eyes catching mine as they dilated to almost pure black.

“Omega,” he replied, capturing my mouth with his as he thrusted inside.

I moaned at the feel of him, like I was coming home. Each movement, each touch, every scrape of his teeth on my skin was a claiming, letting the realms know who I belonged to, and I relished every second of it.

And I met him with a claiming of my own, licking every inch of skin I could reach. I felt absolutely feral, but in the best of ways. He fucked me, hard and purposefully, taking the last spot in the pack so he could knot me.

And damn, did I want to be knotted. I’d wanted to be with all my alphas tonight—scratch that,neededto be with all my alphas tonight—but as fun as it was to be all together like this, I really craved our special, one-on-one moments. I loved to take my time with each of them, because half of the enjoyment was the intimacy we shared after sex, waiting for their knots to deflate as we cuddled, talked, touched, and kissed, without any urgency or need to move on.

It was also when I was knotted that I really came to understand what made me different, physically, as an omega. If someone would have told me two months ago that my body was designed to take a special kind of cock that literally locked into me after sex, I would have thought they’d been watching some weird ass porn.

But nope, this was my reality, and minus the vampyr ex, the Conclave assholes, the brother betrayal, and the fae dictator, I was loving it.

Cam’s hips rolled and snapped with expert proficiency, hitting me deep and in all the right spots. Every inch of him was perfect.