Page 48 of Follow the Rhythm (Fairview City Omegaverse #2)

A fter a quick nap, we bullied Jess into a bath in Kieran’s massive tub so Charlie and I could clean up the nest. Kieran also convinced her to drink water and eat a few grapes while I played with her nipples and Charlie distracted her with his tongue.

Time stopped meaning anything. The only thing that mattered was taking care of Jess; knotting her, or eating her deliciously sweet pussy, or fucking Charlie while Kieran knotted her so she could watch. Anything she wanted, I was ready to give it to her on a silver platter.

Jess was asking for bites. We’d held off after a whispered conversation during one of her brief naps, but she was getting more insistent.

We wanted to make sure it wasn’t something she’d regret after the haze of her heat wore off, since we hadn’t talked to her about it beforehand, but it was getting harder and harder to resist her demands.

I didn’t want to resist. I’d surrendered my heart to her years ago; it had just taken me a while to realize it.

But that just made me hesitate even more.

No matter what she and Charlie and Kieran said, I still felt the burden of grief.

She deserved only light in her life, and it felt selfish to tether her to my tainted soul.

I grabbed four water bottles from the refrigerator, guzzled one quickly, and then wandered back to the nest, my thoughts spinning in circles.

Everyone was still asleep when I crawled back onto the mattress.

My last thought before sleep claimed me was that, even with these doubts, I was more sure than ever that I wanted to take care of Jess for the rest of my life.

I woke to Jess’s scent, her lips on my neck and collarbone, and her small hand on my cock. I was already hard, and I wondered how long she’d been stroking me in my sleep.

“Hi,” I said, guiding her lips to mine for a kiss. They were dry and hot. “Did you drink some water?”

“I don’t want water,” she said irritably.

I nudged Charlie with my foot. He blinked awake, and I pointed to the water bottles near the door. “I’ll give you whatever you need, darling, but you must have some water first.”

She drank begrudgingly. Kieran woke too and helped us bully and praise her into finishing the bottle.

“Good girl,” Kieran murmured, stroking her back softly, as she nuzzled into my chest, her hand back on my cock and her perfume spiking along with her temperature.

I reached down to touch her, and she was already soaked.

“Come here,” I said, rolling us until she was under me. “I’ll take care of you.”

I slid inside her slowly, and she rocked into me, whimpering. Her pussy was already clenching softly, trying to draw me in, but I kept my pace slow and patient.

“I’m burning up,” she panted, gripping her breasts roughly and trying to urge me faster. Her face was flushed, and I could almost feel the haze of heat from her skin. She needed to come before her fever spiked too high. “Please, Ellis.”

I looked over at Kieran and Charlie, wordlessly asking for their help. She’d reached a new level of neediness. I picked up the pace a bit, and she moaned in relief.

Kieran and Charlie held a brief, whispered conversation, then Charlie lay next to her to lavish attention on her breasts, soothing the marks she’d left on her skin.

“I need more,” she moaned, sounding pained.

“We had an idea,” Charlie said, meeting my eyes briefly, and my hips stuttered. “Do you want me to fuck your ass while Ellis knots your sweet pussy?”

Jess moaned, her eyes fluttering closed. “Fuck yes.”

“Jesus Christ, yes,” I muttered, my cock throbbing even harder.

Charlie’s smile was incandescent. I rolled us again, so Jess was on top. “Lean forward, darling,” I said, pulling her down for a kiss. Kieran was kneeling beside us, and it felt natural to have him holding the thick mass of her hair away from her face, whispering encouragement in her ear.

Charlie moved behind her, and I could tell he was playing with her arse when she gasped into my mouth. “Oh god,” she panted, propped on her hands.

“You’re so beautiful,” Charlie said reverently as he used her slick to tease her hole open with his finger. “Do you want us to fill you up?”

“Yes, Alpha, please,” she begged.

“Fuck, you’re already ready for me,” he growled. He gathered more of her slick onto his cock, then looked at me. I nodded.

He straddled us both, his thighs outside mine. “Take a deep breath,” he coached, then slowly pushed inside. I groaned at the sudden tightness, and Jess whined.

“Are you okay?” Charlie asked her, stopping immediately.

Jess nodded, her eyes closed tightly. I brushed her cheek, and she opened them. She looked drunk with pleasure. “Yes. Don’t stop.”

Charlie swallowed roughly and continued his slow slide until his cock was fully seated inside her. I remained perfectly still to allow Jess to accommodate us.

“Fuck, I’m so full,” she said, almost plaintively.

“You’re incredible,” I said, still cupping her cheek.

“Such a good girl,” Kieran said and tugged her hair gently to give her a filthy kiss.

“Whenever you’re ready, you control the pace. Take whatever you need,” Charlie said, his voice tight. I knew that as soon as she started moving, things would be over fairly quickly.

She rocked forward, then back, working Charlie and me slowly at first, and then faster. I reached down to stroke her clit, and she gasped roughly, squeezing us even tighter.

I met Charlie’s eyes. He looked like he was barely hanging on to his control. My canines were itching with the need to sink into Jess, to claim her completely.

“Bite,” Jess whispered, presenting her neck to me, as if she’d heard my thoughts. “Please, Alpha.”

“Darling,” I pleaded, not even sure what I was asking for. But then my teeth were scraping against the left side of her neck, and I felt Charlie lean forward to do the same on the other side. It changed the angle, and we all cried out.

“Bite,” Jess said, her voice stronger and tinged with desperation. “Please bite, please.”

“It’s alright, love.” Kieran ran his hand along her spine, and she shivered. “You’re doing so well.”

“Please,” she whined, and my heart broke. Why were we denying her what she wanted? Every fiber of my being called out to mark her. “Ellis. Charlie. Please, I want you so much, please.”

Afterwards, we weren’t sure who bit first. But as Jess rocked forward, I slid my knot inside her and finally, finally sank my teeth into her sweet, soft skin.

She screamed, high and sharp, but then her pussy was clenching and fluttering around me, and it was so tight I couldn’t think.

I licked at the bite I’d made, soothing the broken skin, and Jess’s scream turned into broken cries of pleasure.

I became aware of my surroundings slowly and lifted my mouth from Jess’s neck.

Everything seemed to happen in slow motion.

A small kernel of something hot flared in my chest and burned brighter and brighter until it felt like I might combust. It was love, so fierce it could only be Jess, filling the hole in my chest that had been made for her.

She sobbed, but I knew it wasn’t from pain or sadness because I could feel her joy so deeply it felt like my own.

And there was Charlie, his gorgeous face incandescently happy, soothing the mark he’d made on Jess’s neck.

There was no need to say it, because I knew she felt it the way I did, but I wanted to say it anyway.

“I love you, darling. I always have,” I said, and I let her feel it, the memory of the first flutter of love so many years ago.

She answered with the echo of her years of yearning, and I knew I still had so much to make up for. But there was no anger, not anymore.

Jess smiled through her tears. “I love you, too. Obviously.”

And then Charlie was whispering in her ear, and I knew they were having a moment of confession by the way Jess’s happiness doubled and expanded.

I would talk to Charlie later to tell him how I felt. That he’d been a lifeline, and then something so much more. That I loved him, more than I thought possible in such a short time. But that could come later - we had all the time in the world.