Page 75 of Eternal Light

Nix hesitates, wiping his cheek with the back of his hand before giving a single, short nod.

Gideon pulls Luca into his lap so he can latch onto Gideon’s neck, licking and sucking at his mating bite.

“You were so brave, baby,” Gideon murmurs into his cheek and up into his ear. “You both were.”

“Luca was the bravest,” Nix says, and Jay almost misses what comes next as Nix begins to move in earnest, tilting his hips back and forth. It’s the weirdest sensation—being sad, in pain, and simultaneously aroused to the point where he could come. “You should have seen him, standing up to Withers and Carnell.”

That’s part of what scares Jay to his very core.

Leo cracks Jay’s window, as the scents in the car must be messing with the sensitive beta’s nose—scents of loss, fear, and arousal, and that’s just what Nix is pumping out. Add in Gideon’s anger and Jay’s pain…well, even Jay is grateful for the cool breeze across his face.

Mention of Carnell is almost enough to kill his hard-on, but Nix leans in to bite his ear and lick his bite.

“What did they want?” Leo asks, turning so he can face them, arm over the back of the seat, running his hand down Nix’s back.

Luca pulls Jay’s hand into his again so he can run Jay’s wrist along his throat, then lick at his palm before nipping at the tips of his fingers—all before answering.

“He thinks you’re still dea—er—gone, and he wants Gideon. He’s so delusional, it’s scary.”

“Mmm,” Nix hums his agreement, pulling Jay’s attention back to him. “We need a plan to kill that fucker, and soon. He wants Gideon to run his evil empire, and he plans to take our pack out at the knees to do it. For now, I want you to come in me, and then I have to get to Grayson. Can you do that?”

Can Jay mark his omega up from the inside and remind him he’s alive? That they’re together, and that Jay is never, ever going to be that stupid again?

Fuck yes, he can.

“I can do that. Like this?” Jay uses his free hand to pull up Nix’s T-shirt in the front so he can see his mate’s pretty dick. “You going to ride me, baby boy?”

Nix doesn’t answer; he just begins to move, bearing down as he uses his slim thighs to lift himself and let gravity bring him back down.

Luca pulls Jay’s index finger into his mouth and begins to suck, forcing it back far enough that he gags.

Jay has always had a weak spot for Luca gagging around his fingers (or his dick), and it ramps up the burning heat in his cock.

Leo reaches over the front seat to hold Nix’s T-shirt out of the way and get a look at where they’re joined. “Fuck, Nix. You are taking him so good.”

“I am, I am. Feels so good. Going to come, Jamie. Make me come.”

Jay thinks he’s hardly had to do anything, but Nix grabs his hair again to hold his head still.

Nix kisses him softly, and compared to the hard and fast grind in his lap, Jay feels that kiss in his heart—the dull pain he’d felt all day finally easing away.

Jay comes hard, with Nix right on his heels. His knot slips in as Nix gives one last push down. He finally gets both arms around his beloved, and they sit there, gasping into each other’s mouths, foreheads pressed together in the quiet of the car.

In no time, Nix gingerly goes to his knees over Jay’s lap so he can pull off Jay’s partially formed knot.

“We can go now,” Nix says. Jay’s knot pinches a bit, but his omega doesn’t flinch. “I think I made my point,” he says, with a pat to Jay’s cheek.

Dumbfounded, Jay has to ask, “Your point?”

Nix sits for a moment on Luca’s lap and lets Gideon help him pull up his shorts.

“You can’t do that if you’re dead. Keep that in mind,” he says before climbing over the seat, past where Leo is sitting with his mouth open and his dick hard—the scent of Jay’s come leaking out of his vanilla-slick hole.

“Well, he told you,” Leo laughs. “Couldn’t have said it better myself.”

It’s lighthearted, and Nix had meant to lighten the moment, so Jay chuckles, but he still catches Nix’s eyes in the makeup mirror, where he’s trying to fix his hair.

He has a few fresh tears in the corners of his eyes, but his beloved mouthsI love you, and Jay mouths it back—and adds analwaysfor good measure.