Page 51 of Follow Your Instincts (Fairview City Omegaverse)

Ben

M aggie, Soren, and Lucas were off to get her stuff from the Omega Center and some clothes from her apartment. I was bummed I couldn’t join, partly because that meant Lachlan and I would be terrifyingly alone after my morning client appointments.

I couldn’t stop replaying what had happened during Maggie’s heat. It would have seemed like a dream if I wasn’t deliciously sore from his very large cock.

But what if it was just a product of pheromones?

Before Maggie, I’d been an expert in casual sex.

Was that what it was to Lachlan? Something fun to do during Maggie’s heats?

He hadn’t given me any indication otherwise.

If so, I needed some time to come to terms with it and box up those feelings yet again.

So I was avoiding him in my favorite way: working out way too hard.

After my early client appointments, I ran six miles around the neighborhood, trying to work off some of the nervous energy that was coursing through me. It didn’t work.

I crept back into the house as quietly as possible, intending to sneak upstairs for a shower before Lachlan knew I was home. His office door was closed, so I figured he was catching up on work after Maggie’s heat.

I was not expecting to literally run into him on the stairs.

“Shit,” I yelped, windmilling my arms to find my balance. Lachlan caught my shoulders and steadied me.

“Why are you sneaking around?” he said. He didn’t let go of my arms.

“I’m not sneaking around ,” I said disdainfully.

“You were tiptoeing,” he said. His grin faded. “Wow. You are avoiding me.”

I shook off his hands and started climbing the stairs. “I’m not, I just… didn’t want to disturb you.”

Lachlan followed me up the stairs. “Well, you are,” he said when we reached the landing.

“I am what?” I said, annoyed. Couldn’t he just go back to being broody Lachlan and leave me alone to overthink things in peace?

“Disturbing me,” he said simply and blocked the way into my room.

I scoffed. “I’m disturbing you ?”

“Yes. You have been for weeks now,” he said.

I goggled at him. “Well, I’m sorry for whatever I did to bother you, but I’d like to take a shower-”

“It’s not your fault. You’ve been disturbing my dreams, keeping me awake, keeping me from working because I can’t stop thinking about you,” he said, still blocking my way.

My stomach leapt, and I went very still.

“Do you regret what happened between us?” he asked. He reached out as if to touch my face, but dropped his hand.

“No,” I breathed.

“Then why are you avoiding me?” He stepped in closer, and I stepped back.

“Because… because that wasn’t just some heat-induced thing for me, okay?” I snapped, stepping back further. “It meant something to me.”

“Why do you think it didn’t mean something to me?” Lachlan asked, still maddeningly calm. He took another step forward, and I retreated until my back hit the opposite wall.

“You’re straight! Or mostly straight, I guess.

And that’s fine, I came to terms with that a long time ago.

But introducing this new dynamic is kind of a lot when I don’t want it to just be something I get during Maggie’s heats.

” My throat started to block up, and I felt tears welling.

Fuck, now I’m crying. “I want you all the time, and this isn’t fair. ”

He stepped in closer again and brushed his hand across my cheekbone to wipe away my tears. “Sweet boy,” he said. “I want you all the time, too.”

He leaned down to kiss me, soft and tentative at first. He caged me in with his body until I was flush against the wall.

He licked at my lips, and I opened my mouth for his tongue to sweep in, and I was still crying, but it didn’t matter.

All that mattered was that he kept kissing me so I could pretend for a few more moments that this was real.

He broke the kiss to look down at me. “Love, why are you crying?”

I shook my head. “Because this can’t be real,” I said.

Lachlan laughed softly and ran his hand through my hair. “It feels very real to me.”

“It’s just, usually I wake up around this point,” I said, smiling through my tears.

“You’ve been thinking about us, too?” He asked.

I laughed incredulously. “Only like every day for years, with a little break when I finally realized it was never going to happen, and then constantly since you and I were with Maggie the other day.”

Lachlan’s face broke into a radiant smile, his scar tugging at his lip. “It’s a little bit newer for me,” he admitted. “But I can assure you that this is, in fact, not a dream.”

Then he kissed me again and ran both hands through my hair, down my neck and shoulders, finally coming to rest at my waist. He pressed me against the wall, and I felt him hardening against my thigh.

I lost myself in the kiss, which was more of a fight to get closer to each other, our tongues tangling and breath coming fast.

“Fuck,” Lachlan said. “I… I told myself I wasn’t going to come on too strong.”

“Please don’t stop,” I gasped and reached down to grip his cock through his pants.

He grabbed my arm and trapped it above my head. “I fully intended on showing you this isn’t just physical for me. And then I ended up attacking you in a hallway.”

My heart was thundering. “It’s not just physical for me either,” I whispered.

Lachlan was breathing heavily, his chest heaving against mine. “I love you, Ben. I’ve loved you as a packmate for a long time, but it’s much, much more than that, now.”

I surged forward to kiss him again, grabbing him everywhere I could reach. “I love you, too, you idiot.”

We stumbled through the doorway to my bedroom, and I tore my shirt off as I fell back on the bed, looking up at him. Lachlan stared down at me, stunned.

“You’re gorgeous,” he said, leaning over me.

“Not as gorgeous as you,” I said, and pulled him down for another kiss. I couldn’t get enough of him, his whiskey scent, the feel of his body against mine. I pulled off his shirt so I could feel his coarse hair against my chest.

“Slow down,” he said, trapping my hands again and laughing against my lips. “There’s no rush.”

I groaned and thrust my hips up so he could feel how hard I was. “My dick is saying otherwise.” I put on a fake pout. “Would you pretty please fuck me?”

He smirked down at me. “I’m not going to fuck you today,” he said. “I want to take our time.”

“But you fucked me yesterday! ” I said.

“Exactly,” he said. “So you can have a little patience.” He kissed me softly on the temple. “I want to do this right.” Another kiss, this time on my cheek. “Take you on a date,” he said against my lips .

“Now I know how Maggie felt, you’re a sadist,” I said. “It’s very unfair to kiss me like that and then leave me like this .” I thrust my hips against him again.

He stared down at me with a predatory gleam in his eye. “I said I wasn’t going to fuck you. But I won’t leave you wanting.”

My breath whooshed out of me as he stood up and yanked my hips until they were at the edge of the bed. He stripped off my shorts and boxers and my cock sprang out and bumped against my stomach.

Lachlan knelt between my legs, and I leaned up on my elbows to watch him. “I should shower first.”

Lachlan shushed me. “I want you like this. But fair warning, I have no idea what I’m doing,” he said, smiling tentatively at me, before wrapping his hand around my length and stroking firmly from the base to the tip. I bucked into his hand and bit my lip against a groan.

“I love that you’ve even got freckles here,” he said, brushing his finger across a group of freckles on the sensitive head of my cock. Then he lowered his head and took me in his mouth, and I forgot to breathe.

“Good news,” I said softly as he licked experimentally from my swelling knot up to the slit that was leaking precum. “You’re a natural.”

Lachlan hummed around my cock and set up a steady pace, working my shaft with one hand. When he teased one finger against my asshole, I cried out and couldn’t stop myself from thrusting into his mouth.

“It’s too good,” I said. “Fuck, I’m not going to last.”

Lachlan looked up at me, my cock still in his mouth, and brushed his finger against my ass again. Then he took my length down his throat as far as he could.

I bowed off the bed and came, shouting his name. He groaned in pleasure as he swallowed down my cum.

I floated back down and pulled him up to the bed beside me. He wrapped his arms around me, tracing his fingers along my back until I broke out in goosebumps. I pressed my face into his throat and breathed in his scent.

“That was incredible,” I mumbled. I rolled us until I was on top and reached for his cock to return the favor, but he grabbed my hands again and kissed both my palms before rolling us back to our sides.

“Just let me hold you,” he said, earnest and sweet.

“But you’re still hard-” I said, reaching for him again.

“I told you, we’re taking our time,” he insisted. So we lay quietly, nose to nose.

“I love you,” I said after a few moments to test out the words again. Lachlan’s smile lit up his face.

“I love you, too,” he said and kissed me gently. I could taste myself on his tongue.

“So, we should probably talk to Maggie,” I said, laughing nervously. Her reaction during her heat had been enthusiastic to say the least, but I wasn’t sure if that would extend to include a full-blown relationship.

He nodded, his eyes serious again. “We should. We need to tell her how we feel.”

“About each other?”

“Yes, and about her. You love her just as much as I do, I can see it,” he said, smiling again.

“Of course I love her,” I said. “How could I not? She’s sweet and funny and brave and strong. And hot as fuck.”

He laughed quietly. “So we’ll figure it out,” he said. “Now that I have both of you, you’re not going anywhere.”

I kissed him again and just as I was devising a way that I could trick him into letting me get him off, his phone rang.

“Ignore it,” he said against my lips, finally letting me roll on top of him again. “It’s probably just work.”

But as soon as his phone stopped ringing, mine rang and I broke off our kiss to check. “It’s Lucas.”

I answered the call. “You’re interrupting something very important, so I hope-”

“ Shut up ,” Lucas barked, and my mouth snapped shut. “Maggie’s gone.”