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Sin

“N o,” I said, meeting Kai’s wide grin in the dimly lit room.

“Come on, it’s the perfect plan.”

I shook my head before returning my attention to Melanie. She lay curled on her side, her back pressed against my chest as she used my right arm as a pillow, her ass comfortably securing my cock. The only reason I hadn’t buried my nose in her neck was because my omega already looked like he wanted to murder us both.

But wrapped up in bed with two sated omegas felt like heaven. Sadly, Caspian had decided to ‘rage quit’, as Kai so triumphantly called it.

Caspian might have claimed that he was exhausted and needed sleep. But never once had he left Kai alone in his heat for more than three hours. And Melanie had been sleeping for five.

But the fierce hate both for himself and the soft female omega buried in my arms beat strong through our bond.

Each heat suite came with a retiring room, a space for alphas to rest during their omega’s heat. One could close the door and take time to sleep, eat, and generally refresh. If we didn’t take time to care for ourselves, we were likely to burn out and would be unable to satisfy our voracious omega.

It was hard for Caspian to control himself at the best of times, but add a haywire rut and a new omega, and he was bound to want to separate from us. Though I wished he had approached it more tastefully.

Rather than ripping his cock from her the second his rut subsided, swearing as he stumbled backwards and retreated to the retiring room, he could have at least tried to perform some form of aftercare. It was his duty as an alpha to an omega in heat, after all. Even if she wasn’t ours—yet.

Kai’s gaze bounced furiously between myself and Melanie. I was convinced if I made one wrong move, it would be the end for me.

My charming omega may not have killed anyone, but violence wasn’t beyond him, as shown by the bite marks that entirely covered my body.

But it was difficult when the desire to hold both Kai and Melanie and sink into their beautiful scents and bodies was dominating me.

Omegas’ heats came in waves. For half of the day, Kai had been desperate for a knot. Now, we were granted a repose as he’d entered a lull. Kai’s body was temporarily sated as he enjoyed a more lucid state that would allow him to make decisions, albeit rash ones.

Such as the one he was currently presenting.

“There is not a single chance that Caspian will agree to this,” I said, my voice low, not taking my eyes from her. It was like Melanie had placed some kind of spell on me. I was convinced that if I looked away from her, she would disappear.

“Look, if it’s a choice between dragging her to the parties or dealing with the stuck up omegas Zania has chosen, what do you think Cas would prefer?”

“Neither,” I sighed. “And we don’t have to choose while you’re both still in heat.”

Fondness swept through me at the gentle rise and fall of her chest while a low growl rumbled from Kai.

All I had to do was bend down and I could brush my lips against her hair, her cheek, gently lean over her to wake her and take her in a soft kiss before the sleep had cleared from her eyes. Kai and Caspian dominated her when she was awake, and I was left with the barest morsels of attention. Even my questions to her fell on deaf ears when Caspian was inside her.

“Sin!” Kai hissed, and my gaze shot up at him. The only time I was this easily distracted was when my alpha instincts dominated me. But I couldn’t technically call it distracted, because I was intensely focused on my omegas.

Omegas . Plural.

“It’s unfair to all of us if we do this.” I pressed my lips in a thin line.

Kai clicked his tongue. “Look, we can just pay her. She’s obviously getting serious money for crashing my heat. Plus, she got to fuck the Risler pack. She isn’t exactly doing it out of the goodness of her tiny black heart. She’s bound to take something under the table.”

He wasn’t wrong. We could simply hire her for ourselves. But we could not ‘pretend’ that she was our mate in front of our family when my need to bite her slowly crushed me.

“If she’s cunning enough to worm her way into my nest, then she can handle a few parties with you and Cas's families.”

“I do not see this as a solution to our problem. Let us at least wait for Caspian.”

It was unfortunate that my biggest weakness was Kai’s pout whenever I denied him anything.

And he layered it on me with years of skill and a pointed glare.

“She claims she’s a beta,” I said. Though it was an awful argument when her slick stained the bottom of the bed.

“Yeah, sure. You know these omegas will say whatever just to get an in with us. It’s probably just part of her schtick as a host.”

“She was wearing a maid’s dress. She could have presented as an omega later in life.” My arguments were growing even thinner.

“Fuck, seriously? You’re going with that. You know that’s just a rumour cooked up by health nuts to get betas to buy hormones. Don’t try that shit on me,” Kai growled as Melanie shuffled against me in her sleep, her ass rolling straight over my cock.

My growing erection was poorly timed considering I was attempting to reason with my omega.

Kai shuffled closer to her, tilting his head to look at me over her shoulder. “Either she really is a maid and she’s been hiding that she’s an omega, or your bitch-ass parents dropped her in our laps to prove that I’m worthless. Which fucking worked, by the way, because look at you. I can feel your fucking cock from a mile away.”

I didn’t protest. There was no merit in denying it when I was already trying to come up with scenarios where Caspian and Kai could accept her into our pack.

Kai blew out a short breath. “You and Cas are already so wound up over her that five seconds in you both went back on everything you promised me about being your only omega forever. Which was never gonna be true with Cas anyway, but I at least believed you.”

His hurt stabbed more frantically with every word. Any ache that had grown over the years as Caspian entertained his feelings for Camille was nothing compared to it. Because Caspian had never touched Camille as a lover since we shared a bite.

“So, let’s fucking do it. You and Cas can slobber all over her, we get a shield for these fucking parties, and we can find out if she really is a plant by sticking her in front of Zania and watching her get torn apart.”

A light growl rumbled at the back of my throat at the idea. I started in surprise the second I realised what I’d done.

Kai’s heart plummeted as the colour fled from his face. He choked on his pain, guilt piercing me as Kai’s shock quickly morphed into a murderous stare as we both realised what had passed between us.

The only people I’d ever growled for were Kai and Camille. And never once in my life had I ever raised my voice or threatened either of them. After growing up under our families’ tight fists, I refused to use anger to subjugate others.

“I’m sorry,” I said, reaching for him, stroking my bare and battered fingers over his neck, softening us both. “I’m truly sorry, Kai. But those reasons are why this is a terrible plan,” I replied.

“It’s exactly why it’s a genius plan. And, at the end, you can get rid of her and we can be a nice, happy, three-man pack with no other shitty omegas getting involved.”

Even so, abandoning Melanie now that we had matched with her was unthinkable.

The match was part of our biology. Once we found a scent match, our bodies would literally ache to be with them until there was a rejection or a bite. We were blessed enough to not have to endure the separation, but there were reports of people dying of drug overdoses as they attempted to manage the pain of being without their scent match. There were awful stories that some would catch a whiff of their match in a crowded place and never be able to find them again. Unable to bond, they were left in limbo, dealing with the chronic pain of not being together.

But there was still rejection.

And, as much as Kai and Caspian may despise me for it, I didn’t want to reject her.

If we rejected her, we severed the psychic bond that had already formed between us when our scents matched. The bond would only grow stronger the more time we spent together, until the ache became too much and we either had to break or seal that bond with a bite.

But with a bite would also come the hell my parents had rained on Kai since we bonded. And I didn’t feel that Melanie deserved that simply for scent matching with us. We had learned the hard way with Kai that an instant bite was not the answer.

I sighed deeply as Kai glared, and I finally replied to him. “She won’t have appropriate clothes, she won’t know the etiquette, she’s probably unprepared for social niceties. If she really is innocent, is it fair to subject her to the whims of our life?” Though, I had to admit, it would be enjoyable to see the look on our families’ faces if we appeared with a prostitute in tow. The horror alone would be enough to make it worth it, but we couldn’t put Melanie or Kai in further danger.

“We’ve fucked her.” Kai shrugged. “That’s basically the criteria. Zania just wants something with a pussy. Why not her?”

“You know better than I that that is not what she wants.”

I wouldn’t voice my real thoughts. Because I wouldn’t dare tell Kai that I was already thinking of what life would be like if we brought her home.

“There’s no fucking way someone like her can even think of being worthy of people like us if she can’t deal with the high society bitches. Even if we just use her for a month. As far as your parents know, she’s going to be dealing with it for the rest of her life, so why not wind her up and watch her go?”

Because after all the mistakes I’d made introducing Kai to our family, I didn’t want our new omega to suffer the same fate.

Kai was naturally strong, but the way Melanie cried and begged as Caspian fucked her had woken up my innate need to do everything I could to protect her.

“If she really is a fucking whore, just imagine how cruel Zania will be? And then you can swoop in like the hero and save her because—”

“Kai,” I pressed, cutting him off, my brows creasing.

Another mistake.

Kai flinched, pain beating from him as he met my stare with wide eyes.

That was twice within barely a minute. I was already affected so deeply by her, yet Kai was suffering the most for it.

If it wasn’t for the heat-laden scents that blurred my mind, I could approach the matter more logically.

But Kai’s concern was founded. My circle of attention expanded the longer she was curled against me. My alpha instincts beamed with pride at having a sated omega buried in my arms. But Kai was the omega who carried my bite, who I would spend my life with, who had my heart.

“I am not a hero,” I replied. “I simply despise misplaced cruelty.” Especially when it was thrown at Kai by everyone in our families’ social circle.

Kai bounced back quickly, his shocked look morphing into a grin as he edged closer to her.

“But I’m sure you’d still like to rescue her, like you do with Camille and anyone else pathetic enough to need your help. Think how happy Brandy would be. A poor, na?ve omega at a big party like that, and the beautiful Sin glides in to rescue her. How poetic. How romantic. How fucking awful.” He glared at me, his jaw grit, swallowing hard. He reached out to squeeze the arm Melanie used as her pillow. Pain flowered from the spot he dug into, but it was nothing new.

“It doesn’t matter what happens here. You’re still my alpha,” Kai growled.

“I have the bites to prove it, do I not?” I asked, tilting my head, showing the numerous half moons that painted my shoulders like a collage.

Even if she did accept Kai’s proposal, with both Caspian and Kai fighting against her, it would likely be the worst month of her life. But it would be better for us if we brought out an omega at the beginning of the Selection season rather than be forced to endure any number of simpering women looking to join the Risler family.

“You were all for picking an omega from Zania’s fucking list. This is an easy fix,” Kai said.

We were supposed to find a way to rescue my sister, but to hurt Melanie in return wasn’t right.

I adjusted myself on the bed, glancing down at her again, my heart easing at her sleeping face. Even without the explosive emotion and panic she had first shown us, her brow still furrowed and her shoulders hunched. Her entire body was stiff, despite her soft breaths, and I wanted to ask her what made her feel like she had to hold herself so tightly, even in sleep.

A sharp laugh bubbled up from Kai as he shuffled closer, pressing his knees against her legs.

His look had turned mischievous, roughly pushing between her thighs and opening her up.

“Kai, don’t,” I warned. “She needs as much rest as you do. Especially if she really has presented late and it’s her first heat.”

“But it’s so much fun. And she’ll want a cock as soon as she wakes up, so why not get ready?”

I wanted to say more, but Melanie’s breaths changed. She stretched, her ass grinding back, rubbing against my cock as she gently groaned. She moved her hand, running it over my arm until she found my fingers stroking her hip.

Perfume, her deep, rich scent of spices, wafted over both of us, and I moaned as she wiggled her ass to get even closer to me. I couldn’t resist anymore. I dropped my nose, burrowing in her hair as I took a long breath. My eyes closed as she filled my senses, luxuriating in the pure smell of a new omega, our new scent match.

Kai clicked his tongue at me as her lashes fluttered, pressing his knee harder, slipping up between her thighs.

Now that she was awake, my objective had changed.

She was an omega in heat. Even if she was in a lull, she needed us. It was my job as an alpha to satisfy her. There was nothing else more important. Alphas were created specifically for this role, and I aimed to be the best at everything I did, including the quality of my omegas’ orgasms.

I had spent years learning how to please Kai after we met him. Before that, I didn’t have the slightest interest in anyone until I became aware of Caspian as a potential pack member. My relationship with Caspian was tumultuous enough—sex was the main thing that connected us. Until Kai and the beautiful light he brought to our lives.

But it had suddenly become a larger campaign. What was the best way to keep both omegas happy? Particularly when Kai was furious to begin with?

Melanie moaned as Kai traced his finger from the centre of her breasts downwards, his grin deepening as she arched into his touch.

Though his hand disappeared beneath the curve of her stomach, I felt the moment he touched her pussy. Not just because of the way her body jerked against me and she cried out, or because of the waft of perfume that followed, hitting me like a hard shot of spirits on a cold evening. It was the feel of her slick on Kai’s fingers that tingled through the bond.

My head dropped, pleasure blazing through me as I nudged a lock of hair away from her ear.

“Is that good, Melanie?” I murmured, using the hand on her hip to hold myself firm against her ass. “Do you want Kai to play with your pussy? Or do you want something bigger inside you?”

She writhed under me as Kai explored her. Melanie twisted her head to meet me with half-lidded eyes, and I sighed in relief. It was as if I had been deprived of her for years, and one look quenched my thirst.

“Yes, both,” she sighed. Her aura was slow, drowsy, just like Kai’s in the morning. "Anything. Please, Sin," she whined. "Just give me anything." She reached up, tugging at the back of my neck, bringing me close enough that her breaths scattered over my lips.

I groaned at the force of the need that beat through me at her words. A softness I thought I only ever had with Kai reignited with a different flavour. Because I had two omegas to care for and protect now.

All our extenuating circumstances were swept away as her heat fired up again, and my alpha instincts responded. I was happy to swim in the fantasy that this could continue forever.

And all I had to do was take care of her and protect her. Whoever she was, wherever she had come from. Whether she was sent by our parents, a cunning omega out for a bond, one of the Knottinghill hosts, or all three, she was ours.

Desire shuddered through me as she urged me onwards, and I surrendered completely. Pleasure exploded in me as I sunk to her lips, both of us moaning, the world disappearing as her taste flooded my mouth.

A snarl rumbled beside us as Kai reminded us he was here, but I was too caught up in the madness of her heat that stole over me so suddenly.

Kai played with her pussy as she ground on me, pulling yelps and cries from her.

I gave in to the temptation that I had been resisting for Kai. Wrapping my arm around her stomach, I held her softly, lifting myself up on my elbow. My right wrist slid under her neck as I deepened the kiss.

Caspian had already had the chance to fuck her, but I wanted her to know what it could be like if she really became part of our pack. If she stayed with us in the heat suite, and if she let us bite her.

I brushed my hand up her stomach, cupping her full breast. She overflowed in my hand, her nipple firm, notched against the web of my fingers. All I had to do was squeeze and her back arched, a low moan travelling through her lips as I kneaded her.

She moulded herself to me like the only thing parting us was our skin. She had given so much of herself to Caspian while they were fucking, even though he was furious, so what would it be like to make love to her instead?

“Melanie,” I groaned as I broke the kiss as Kai’s anger flared in our bond, fuelled by Caspian’s awareness from the room beside us. “How can you be so soft?” My voice was filled with breathless wonder. It was the passion that I only reserved for Kai.

I watched her curiously as she blinked sleepily up at me with a dreamy smile. I was dizzy, failing to grasp thoughts, drunk on the perfect blend of my omegas.

Kai gave a fierce growl, and she gasped as he teased her pussy.

“Now, Brandy,” he purred, pressing in closer to her. “You didn’t answer us properly: do you want me to keep playing with you, or do you want to be fucked until you can’t breathe?”

She jolted, suddenly wide awake as her gaze flew to Kai. A tremble ran through her, her excitement palpable as it oozed through her scent.

“Yeah.” He sneered. “I fucking thought so.” He whipped his hand away from her pussy, summoning a noise of complaint from her.

“Get on your back, Brandy. It’s time to see what being an omega’s all about.”