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I can feel the others watching. Hawk stroking himself in my peripheral vision, feel August's control starting to crack. But Cassian keeps me focused on him. On us. Like nothing else matters right now.

His words combined with his gentle pace push me closer to the edge. I can feel my orgasm building, electric and overwhelming.

He reaches between us to circle my swollen clit with gentle fingers. "Come for me."

I explode around him, my whole body seizing with pleasure, slick gushing around his thick cock as I come. My core clenches him so tight he groans, his hips bucking up into me. Through thebonds, I feel Dante and Gunner's echoing satisfaction. They love feeling my pleasure through our connections.

But even as I come down from my high, I can feel something building in him. Something deeper. His breathing changes, becomes more ragged. I feel his cock pulsing inside me, getting thicker.

"Daisy," he breathes, amber eyes going wide with something that looks like panic. "You don't understand. I could hurt you."

I can see the terror in his amber eyes, the way his whole body trembles beneath me. This powerful alpha is terrified, not of me, but of hurting me. His knot pulses against my entrance, thick and demanding, but he's fighting every instinct to claim me.

I smile, letting all my love show. "You are gentle," I whisper, hands on his chest, hips moving in tiny circles. The friction sends waves of pleasure through my oversensitive body, making me gasp as aftershocks from my last orgasm ripple through me. "You're... you're the gentlest man I know, Cassian. You just hide it behind all that scary."

Something breaks inside him. I can see it happen, like a wall he's kept up for so long crumbling away. His eyes go soft, almost wondering, like he's seeing himself through my eyes for the first time.

I start to sink down onto his swelling knot. The stretch is intense, overwhelming. We both cry out as I take him inch by impossible inch, but just as his knot begins to catch at my entrance.

"Fuck," he gasps, his amber eyes going wide with desperate need and something that looks almost like panic.

Chapter 35

Cassian

Fuck.

She's going to take my knot. This woman looking at me like I'm worth something. Like I'm not broken.

My knot pulses against her entrance, thick and demanding. Every alpha instinct screaming at me to claim her. But the terror cuts deeper. What if I hurt her? What if I'm too rough, too damaged?

"Daisy." My voice comes out wrecked. "You don't understand. I could hurt you."

She smiles. This soft, devastating smile that reaches into my chest and squeezes everything tight.

"You are gentle," she whispers, hands on my chest, hips moving in tiny circles that make my vision blur. "You're... you're the gentlest man I know, Cassian. You just hide it behind all that scary."

Something breaks inside me. Walls I've kept up for so long I forgot it was there. Through my bond with August, his love hits me. Pride. Been telling me this forever. Never believed him.

Not until now.Not until her.

She starts to sink down onto my swelling knot, and we both cry out. The stretch is intense, overwhelming, but she doesn't stop. Doesn't hesitate. Just takes me inch by impossible inch, and just as my knot begins to catch at her entrance.

"Fuck," I gasp, my whole body shaking. I look into her face, panic flooding through me. What if it's too much? What if I hurt her? My knot's about to lock and there's no going back.

Through my bond with August, I feel his emotions. His joy. His love for both of us. Been hoping for this since we rescued Daisy from the Omega House. And his arousal. Watching me claim our omega. Makes everything deeper.

Then she pushes down harder, and my knot pops inside her fully. We both cry out… her from the intense stretch, me from the incredible tightness. She goes rigid above me, panting hard, and I see a single tear slip down her cheek.

"Daisy," I breathe, reaching up to gently wipe the tear away with my thumb. "Are you okay?"

She takes a shuddering breath, her walls fluttering around my knot, and I'm so close to losing it. The worry, the panic, the overwhelming sensation of being locked inside her, it has me right on the edge.

"I'm more than okay," she whispers, her voice strong despite the tear. "I love you, Cassian."

Those words shatter what's left of my control. I pull her down against my chest and thrust up into her at the same time, burying myself as deep as I can go. She cries out, her body arching as she comes hard around my knot.

The need hits me. Primal. Unstoppable. I'm coming, flooding her with everything I have, my body doing what it was made to do. But even as the physical claiming takes over, even as every alpha instinct roars at me to complete it, something makes me freeze.