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“Good timing, we just made it back,” Kane says, wrenching the door to the trunk open. His chest is heaving and his eyes are dilated.

Damn, he’s a trooper. I don’t know if I would’ve survived the drive if I couldn’t even watch Luna fall apart. I’d probably just pull the car over on the side of the road so I could participate.

Luna has a dazed smile on her lips, and she lifts her arms out to Kane. The movement brings attention to her tits and her pretty pink nipples and fuck, my cock throbs.

“Take her inside, Kane,” Archer says, climbing out of the passenger door. “Give her what she needs to ride out the rest of this heat spike. That may be your knot.”

My head whips back to Kane to watch him swallow hard.

“Lucky bastard,” I grumble, handing Luna, wrapped in the blanket we had on the floor of the car, over to him.

“Shut it. I didn’t see you volunteering to drive,” Kane shoots back, smiling down at Luna as she curls into his chest. “Let’s get you inside, little one.”

CHAPTER 35

Luna

Isnuggle into Kane, sinking into his pine forest scent. I missed him. In the back of the car, Chase, Madden, and Archer’s scents were all around me, but I couldn’t really scent Kane from the front of the car.

I’m glad he knows I want to be held close right now, too. All of them seem to know what I want. It’s nice.

I can barely feel the cold of the outside, my body still feeling far too warm to be comfortable. My skin still feels funny, too. Almost like it’s too small for my body.

I must shift uncomfortably in Kane’s arms because he lowers his cheek to mine. The physical contact instantly settles some of the weird feelings in my chest.

“Hmmm, you’re still warm,” he mutters. “I think in order for your heat spike to go down we may need to take things further than we already have.”

“Further?” I ask, my eyes halfway closed from the heaviness I feel.

One of the others must’ve opened the door to the house because Kane manages to walk in without moving me. I stare up atthe familiar chandelier in the foyer and that instinctive omega part of my brain celebrates at being back at the pack house.Mypack house.

“A knot, little one.”

I blink my eyes open to look up at him, hesitating.

Oh.

I heard Archer mention something about a knot, but I think I was too hazy from the orgasms to really process things.

I don’t think he misses the subtle souring of my peppermint perfume as doubt creeps in.

“It doesn’t have to be mine. We have toys I can use with you if that’ll make you feel more comfortable. We know this is sudden.”

I swallow hard, gripping the lapels of his suit jacket with one of my hands. I feel the strength of his heartbeat under my clenched fist. I focus on his pine forest scent.

This is Kane. He’s safe. All the members of my pack are safe. I can trust them with this.

And it’s not like I’m a virgin. It’s not like I haven’t taken a knot either, though I hated it with all of my body and soul. Maybe that’s why I’m so freaked out. Alpha Niall made sure that taking his knot was the most humiliating, painful experience it possibly could have been.

Alpha Niall made me beg. He made me back myself onto his knot, my palms and knees digging into the cold concrete of that stupid cellar, tearing myself open because I wasn’t ready.

I’m an omega. It’s in my nature to be able to take knots.

Alpha Niall said I was a failure, but none of my guys have ever said anything remotely similar. Maybe it’ll be different this time.

And even if it does hurt, Kane wouldn’t be mean about it.

“Hey,” Kane whispers. “I can see the cogs in your brain turning. I don’t want you to stress yourself out.”