Page 32 of A Twist of Luck (Shifter City Fated Mates #2)

CHAPTER 32

EMME

I n my daze, I yanked the curtain back, intent on returning it to its original setting before Slade dragon-fried my ass for snooping. This wall might have shown me his stalkery ways, but it didn’t tell me why he stalked me. For my protection, or was this evidence that he still didn’t trust their newest pack member?

As the curtain settled back in place, I heard a very slight rustle that I should have ignored, but fuck , curiosity got me. A curiosity that would no doubt kill a shifter if I kept it up.

Ducking my head behind the curtain, I took in the new facet of his stalker game, and when it fully registered, my gasp was loud enough to alert half the city.

Pinned to the back of the curtain were photos of me.

Dozens of them.

In chronological order from when I was quite young, to more current ones taken in Golden Claw. Almost all of which came from what looked like security footage in the city where I’d lived with Mom and her pack. Though, there were quite a few from my time here with the Reeves pack.

When did Slade take photos of me?

I was asleep in some of them, and others were candids from moments I couldn’t even remember.

With a shake of my head to clear the confused thoughts, I stepped out from behind the curtain, checked it was all in place, and raced back to his computers. When I collapsed in the chair, my chest heaved and my head spun.

Slade had always seemed indifferent toward me, his actions born from pack obligation.

But the wall of Emme revealed another side. I just didn’t know how to feel about it.

A part of me hated this level of invasion into my life—he’d unraveled every broken piece and secret I’d ever kept. While another part was thrilled that he felt strongly enough to keep an eye on me. For whatever reason.

A therapist could step up at any point and sort out my mental state.

“Emmeline…” I jumped about a foot off his chair.

I hadn’t heard the stealthy dragon return, and as he strode toward me, my gaze darted briefly toward the curtains to double check everything was in place. Slade paused, and the green of his eyes deepened as he too glanced at his stalker wall.

I braced myself for his next comment, but he just held up the new black mouse, as calm and cool as ever. “Got the replacement.”

“Oh, yes,” I said breathlessly, internally screaming at my lack of poker face. Get it the fuck together . “Sorry, I got tired while waiting and used your chair.”

Slade brushed past me, our bodies almost touching. “Understandable.”

“So,” I squeaked, still not getting it the fuck together , “is that all you needed from me?”

He nodded, and I tried to breathe evenly, all the while knowing my scent and elevated heartrate would clue him in on my uneasiness. “I’ll keep tracking the history of that shifter and let you know what I discover. The council has also requested a meeting on Monday for a formal statement of events. Hunter was vetoing, the last I heard, still pissed off that they aren’t pushing harder against Silver City. I’m not sure where it will end up falling.”

“Right. Thanks.”

Unable to handle the tension for a second longer, I spun to leave, Slade’s shirt swirling around me. I didn’t even make it two steps before a steel band wrapped around my wrist and I was yanked back to stare into the eyes of a predator.

I hated that instinct had me frozen in place rather than fighting for my life. “Did you snoop while I was gone, Snow?”

His voice, low and lethal, dripped down my spine and into my soul. His pupils flared as the green of his irises burned me, and I could see dragon flames in their depths.

“I… I don’t know what you’re talking about.” Nails on a board would have been less high pitched than my voice as I choked that out.

Slade tugged once and I was unable to resist falling into him. When the hard planes of his bare chest collided with my softer curves, I was scorched. “I’m a dragon, Snow. I ferociously guard what is mine, and right now, you are my possession . I own you. I watch over you. There’s no part of you that will remain separate from me. Do you understand?”

Was the air thinner in his room? Why couldn’t I breathe?

I managed another squeak, and for the first time in existence, I think I saw a true, genuine smile from Slade Riverson. Bastard looked positively pleased with himself. “I’m glad you understand,” he murmured, and just like that I was released as he returned to his computer. “I’ll see you in a few hours.”

My head was a screaming wall of static as I stumbled from the room, moving on autopilot until I ended up in my own bed, bypassing Kellan’s room completely. I expected to lie awake for hours, consumed by what had happened with Slade, but instead I drifted off so fast it was almost as if his stalker wall really didn’t bother me.

Not like I wasn’t already aware that these alphas kept a close eye on me. If anything, it was reassuring to know Slade was in the background playing dragon-Batman. Dragonman?

I’d circle around on that one when I’d slept and had a stronger mental capacity.

When I woke hours later, I was surrounded by alphas. Hunter and Kellan had both found their way into my bed, and while my first instinct should have been panic—waking with an alpha on either side of me was not my normal—all I felt was contentment.

Sprawled between them, my body was more than comfortable. My right leg thrown over Hunter’s, his hand possessively gripping my thigh. His hold slipped very close to the low throb in my core, and with Kellan wrapped around my left side, his hand on my ass, I couldn’t help but shift against them.

“Mhmmm,” Hunter mumbled as he rolled closer and all but crushed me under his bulk. “You need something from us, baby?” He pressed his lips to my throat, and a needy groan spilled from my parted lips.

The delicious rasp of his voice did not ease that incessant throbbing drumbeat between my thighs. Surrounded as I was, the bite on my throat pulsed to remind me our quintet wasn’t complete. I needed three more marks to appease fate and our goddess, and I had no idea how I would resist them.

“Nope,” I choked out in response, unsurprised when he laughed.

Ugh, his laugh was one of my favorite sounds, second only to that deep groan he released whenever he was eating me like I was his favorite meal.

No, Emme . Why oh fucking why did I add that to my horny thoughts.

“What do you think, annoying pup?” Hunter asked, lifting his head from where he’d been scenting my skin. “Is our little omega lying to us, or herself?”

Kellan yawned and chuckled, tucking his head into the side of my neck, his lips grazing over the bite, which had my core clenching violently. “She smells needy,” he murmured, voice deep. “That sweetness invaded my dreams last night, and I’m so damn happy to wake up to this.” He pressed kisses to my burning skin between each word.

Hunter slid his lips over my cheek and down my neck. The scrape of his beard against my sensitive skin created a delicious friction that had me clawing at the sheets, needing to ground myself. “Wait, no,” I gasped, choking on my own damn arousal. “We can’t. I can’t bond with Hunter too… fuck.”

Hunter’s response was to grip Slade’s shirt and pull it tighter until my hard nipples were visible. His eyes were stormier as he leaned down and lapped at one’s peak, sucking it into his mouth through the material. It felt so good that I clutched my right hand into his hair to hold him there. “Baby girl,” he rasped, “You’re giving off mixed signals. Do you want me to make you come or not?”

“Yes!” I burst out. “But… no sex.” I would beg for his claim during sex. I would beg and cave.

Hunter’s rumble emerged from deep within his beast, and when he lifted his head, his swirling gaze was all wolf as he observed Kellan kissing down my throat. “You know the deal, Emme. You will beg me for the final claiming, and until then, this is as far as it goes.”

That statement had Kellan lifting his head and blinking at Hunter. “Are you angry that I claimed her first? I didn’t even fucking think about the fact that it was your right as the entitled alpha.” Kellan paused and shook his head. “I’m not going to apologize for it, though. I will never apologize for anything shared between Shortcake and me.”

Hunter snorted, running a hand through his glorious hair, letting it fall over his forehead. “You’re still alive, aren’t you, pup. You’re part of my pack and it’s my job to keep you all safe. Bonding saved your life, so I’ll never be mad about how it happened. Emmeline and I will have our time.”

“Still right here,” I mumbled, feeling overheated, horny, and a hundred percent done with this conversation.

“Yes, you are,” Kellan joked as he leaned down and kissed my lips. “Why did you leave my bed last night, though? That’s the real question.”

Hunter distracted me when he lifted my shirt to press his lips to my stomach. “Because Slade hijacked her from your room in the night,” he said between kisses.

I jerked, and almost headbutted Kellan. “How the hell do you know that? Do you have a stalker wall too?”

Hunter’s laughter trailed over my skin, and it felt so damn good that I forgot everything else in the world but the feeling of his breath and tongue as it darted out to taste me.

“Of course he does,” Kellan said, amused. “He’s a control freak with a god complex. How could he be everywhere at once without a stalker wall?”

These alphas were too much, but damn I liked them.

I liked them more than was safe for me or my sanity.

Further conversation was cut off as Hunter slid between my thighs and lowered his head to run his nose along my sex, breathing me in. His chest rumbled my favorite sound, and he buried his face to place a wet, open-mouth kiss on my clit, before he swiped his tongue down to my ass and then back up.

Kellan caught my cry on his lips, and I opened both my mouth and thighs, needing more. The fact that I was in the midst of my first threesome, with alphas I swore I’d never bond with, should have been a concern. But it felt too damn good to do anything except hold on and enjoy the ride.

Hunter swirled his tongue around my clit, and I unashamedly rode his face, the pleasure instant and strong. When he pulled away, I cried out, only to calm when he slid one, and then a second finger inside me, curling them to thrust hard and fast. It sent me reeling into an orgasm so quickly that I briefly lost my grasp on reality as I cried out and clutched Kellan.

“Fuck, I’ll never get tired of watching you come, pretty mate,” Kellan whispered, staring down at me with the softest eyes. “I need to be inside you now. Please.”

Pretty mate . My heart swelled, and I couldn’t help the tears that sprang to my eyes.

He’d upgraded pretty girl , and it was another completion of our bonding that felt so fucking perfect.

“Pretty please, baby,” he begged again, and I had to upgrade his begging to one of my favorite things too.

I nodded. “Yes, I’d like that very much.”

Kellan’s entire face lit up. “Give her to me Alpha Hunter,” he said as he all but bounced his ass off the bed. “I need my mate.”

“Our mate,” Hunter growled, and I groaned as he slid his tongue through my release once more, before he lifted his head, lips glossy and eyes feral.

“Right,” Kellan chirped. “Our mate. Our forever.”

My emotions overflowed like a dam that had burst its banks, but I was able to keep the tears at bay by focusing on the pleasure. I’d deal with the other complexities of this bonding later.

Lifting myself, I got onto my hands and knees and pressed my aching core into Kellan’s face. His groan was deep and guttural. “Still think I actually died.”

His hands slid over my ass as he moved forward and glided his tongue through my folds, lapping up the last of my orgasm. I arched back into him, and when I lifted my head to find Hunter watching us, his gaze predatorial, I gestured for him to come closer.

The entitled alpha moved forward on his knees until he knelt right before me. The broad head of his cock poked up from the band of his boxer-briefs, the pre-cum seeping from the swollen tip tempting me in every way. I couldn’t wait to taste him again.

“Oh fuck. I need more,” I breathed.

The gray in Hunter’s gaze darkened, and he shifted positions until I was face to cock, letting me breathe in his mocha scent. Kellan buried his face in my core, lapping and sucking, and I almost died of sadness when he pulled away.

Thankfully, the thick head of his dick replaced his mouth fast, and when he pressed against my entrance, I cried out as he slowly, inch by inch, pushed inside me. Hunter drew my focus, his fingers threading through my hair as he pulled me to his cock, which was now free of his boxers.

When Kellan was fully seated, his size was enough to have my muscles protesting the invasion, even as the pleasure struck me down. When I rocked against him, I licked across the tip of Hunter, before attempting to fit as much of him into my mouth as I could.

There was no easy way to take alphas of their size, but as Hunter palmed his huge hand on the back of my head, thrusting down my throat until my eyes watered and jaw ached, and Kellan pulled all the way out to drive into me again, the pure pleasure had my body opening for them both.

Kellan’s heavy balls slammed against my clit as he buried himself fully inside me again, and I gasped around Hunter’s length as he thrust again. The sensation was too much as they moved in tandem, fucking me into a second, devastating orgasm.

This was one of those deeper, more intense releases, and I felt the gush of my cum seeping out around Kellan’s cock. He reached down and swiped through my release, holding out a glistening finger toward Hunter.

“You want to taste her, Hunt?” His voice was strangled, and I wasn’t sure the entitled alpha would be into that, but then he leaned over and licked across Kellan’s hand, groaning in response.

“You two want a moment?” I choked out, my core tightening at the sight of that interaction.

Hunter growled. “We don’t swing that way, but we will happily share every single part of you, little omega. You’re the center of our quintet. Our core.”

“Our heart,” Kellan breathed. “And soul.”

I shattered again, and this time Hunter fell with me, rasping my name as he poured his salty sweet release down my throat. I devoured every drop, and when Kellan’s thrusts turned jerkier to follow us, I wondered how I’d ever top this moment.