Page 25 of Ondine, Vol. 2 (Cash City Omegaverse)

The Lighter Side

Shadow

J ake is going to fall off of this thing.

He sees something wrong with the omega. Yeah there’s something wrong with her.

She performed a four minute song to a nearly empty auditorium and yet bent space and time and made us all feel feelings some of us probably didn’t even know existed.

Jake experienced “awe” and Sebastian and I were close behind him.

Jake hasn’t breathed. And he sees something with Ondine.

Her face is all red. The tail end of Jake’s tie shakes, indicating she’s trembling.

Fuck.

She needs an alpha. She needs Freddie.

Omegas need their bonded alphas.

And why did she take my book?

My hand in my pocket holds tight to my pen. At least she didn’t take that.

But I’d give it to her if she asked.

Sebastian and Arnie are still staring at the stage. I grab Jake by his collar and turn him to the exit. He takes the hint and we all leave the auditorium. She said she’d meet us up front, but none of us want to wait.

My dad texted me to say that he couldn’t really do anything about the audition.

He said they were incentivized to be more diverse, and hopefully that helps.

Obviously the reason there’s never been an omega in the company has nothing to do with skill, and everything to do with social discrimination.

The grant helps work around that. One less salary and they have to play nice.

I can’t imagine they weren’t impressed. Moved. Absolutely floored.

She plays like she’s got your heart in the palm of her hand.

I grab Jake’s arm before he takes off into the dark music hall. He yanks it out of my hold and takes off running. I roll my eyes and go after him. Arnie is next to me, and Sebastian is at our back. Always the watchdog.

He’s using his nose and it leads us right back to the practice room.

Ondine is pacing and crying and she’s got snot on her face. She’s a total mess.

Jake grabs her into his arms and I decide I’m on guard duty with Sebastian by the door. Arnie doesn’t go to her either. I give him a questioning look.

He mouths alpha .

She needs an alpha.

“What’s going on, baby?” Jake asks.

“She’s still recovering from bond sickness, Jake. She needs alphas. She needs Freddie,” Arnie answers.

I should have known. I’d been researching omegas. Arnie bullying the hell out of me was unpleasant, to say the least. But he did point out that I wasn’t as prepared for this as I should be.

And I’ve been trying to bridge that gap.

Jake looks horrified and pulls her away so he can see her face.

“I didn’t realize this might be too much,” she says. She’s clutching my poetry book that’s wrapped up like a mummy with Jake’s tie.

I want that back.

There’s a soft knock at the door, and I take that as my cue to leave. For a moment. I go into the hall and close the door behind me.

The woman who came and got us earlier stands in the dark hallway with a big scary smile.

“Hello, you are welcome to leave. We’ll call Ondine with our decision by tomorrow evening.”

“Yeah, that’s not going to happen. She needs some time. She’s going through…an omega thing. Sort of. She may need a bit.”

“Oh, well, she’s the last audition of the day. Everyone is leaving.”

It’s so subtle you’d nearly miss it. She’s not happy she has to talk to an alpha. She’s not happy she can’t operate as she does with every other person here. She’s inconvenienced, and it’s all the fault of an “omega.”

I hate to do this. Dig up the corpse of my old name, but I’ve already done it once today for my girl. Might as well do it again!

“I’m Yin Wong. I’m sure it’ll be fine if I’m the last one at the Wong Music Hall.”

Her eyes bug out and her fake smile drops.

“Right. Ok. I’ll let some folks know. Take your time.”

I reach my hand into my pocket, but my fucking book isn’t there.

I growl and then go back into the room filled to the brim with vanilla ice cream and birthday cake.

Jake has Ondine up in his arms, a bridal carry, rocking her. It’s actually unbearably sweet. Arnie is watching them intently, but keeping his distance.

Omegas need the cutest things. They need to be held, carried, soothed, massaged, and petted.

And they need their alphas.

I pull out my phone and call the monastery. I ask for my brother. They already know it must be urgent. Why that old fucker isn’t already sitting in the office at the only landline waiting to hear from her I couldn’t tell you.

“Princess?”

“Ewe, no. She’s a little discombobulated. But I think hearing your voice would help. Putting you on speaker—“

“Ondine?” He yells. Thankfully, I have the phone pointed away from me.

“Freddie?” She squeaks.

She pops her head up from Jake’s shoulder. Her eyes are all round and sad as hell.

“How did your audition go, Princess?”

“Fine,” her voice quivers.

“It went very well. Not fine. It was a performance of a lifetime,” Jake corrects.

“It’s not what they were looking for.”

“You didn’t hold back, did you?” He asks.

She hesitates, but then says, “For the first movement. But then I couldn’t.”

“Good. I’m glad they saw you play like you do.”

My arm aches, but I stand here and let them talk. Freddie says he’s waiting for his helicopter to arrive to take him to the peninsula. He tells her to stay with Jake. It’s about this time I see my book still clutched up to her closely.

Why did she take it?

Omega behaviors are not as random as I used to believe.

There’s this thing about nesting they do that I just cannot wrap my head around.

I was reading about nesting the entire time we were by the fire yesterday.

I think Ondine made herself a little portable nest. His tie and my book.

I get that part. The nest. She needed it to calm her nerves.

But why did she take something of mine? Is it just because I was here, or…

no. She wouldn’t have taken something of mine if she didn’t want it.

She likes me.

For some reason, it never occurred to me that she’d like me back.

Freddie and she say their goodbyes and I finally drop my arm and put away my phone.

Jake is purring for the omega.

I go stand by the door again, this time facing it. Sebastian stands next to me. I don’t hear much of anything as I stare into nothing.

There’s a hand on my elbow.

I spin around, assuming I’ll meet Jake’s eyes, but I have to look down at Ondine. Her face is all puffy from crying. Her hand tightens around my bicep. Jake is across the room where I last saw the both of them.

“Shadow,” she says on a whisper. Why is she talking to me? Arnie is here. Sebastian is here.

“What?”

“I need something from you,” she says and her cheeks get all pink. A sweet pink. Like someone put two little pink moons on the sides of her face.

She takes a step into me and I back up.

She takes another step, and I hit the door with my heels. She takes another fucking step and my back and head and arms press into the door. Her hands press into my stomach.

What the fuck is happening?

“I’m nervous to ask, but,” she turns a little to Arnie. He cocks his eyebrow at her. I have a feeling he knows what she wants, but is waiting for her to say it out loud.

“I can smell you. That sugary fig smell. It’s…oh so nice.”

She likes my smell.

“I want to taste you. No, sorry, I need to taste you.” Her voice is so utterly smooth it melts into my skin and makes me shiver.

“Ok,” I agree. “You can taste me.”

It doesn’t even shock me. I didn’t need to think about that one.

Her hands splay out and she smooths them under my duster and around my waist.

And now, I’m hard.

She sneaks a glance at Arnie.

My dick is so hard and it needs to be adjusted otherwise I’m going to be in pain. I shift my legs and it does nothing.

“Give her what she wants,” Jake says from behind her shoulder.

She wants to suck my dick, right? Like that’s what she’s talking about. But I’m not sure.

So, I wait to see what she does.

And what she does nearly breaks my heart.

She pouts.

Both sides of her mouth frown and her eyes get all moist.

“Oh, love,” I say without thinking.

She takes her hands off of me and says to Arnold, “Tell him what to do.”

His face smooths out and he suddenly looks like he’s the professional omega whisperer he claims to be.

“Shadow, fucking reach into your pants and get your pre-ejac and feed it to your omega.”

I get as far as “reaching into my pants” before I stop. Is he serious? He’s serious. She’s still pouting.

Sebastian’s orange scent clouds around us and I glance over to see him. I feel his arousal through the bond. Everyone is watching us.

I push my thumb over the slit on my dick and gather up a healthy score of precum, then bring my hand to her lips. There’s a momentary relief in my pants, but it’s right back to intense fucking pressure.

Her face relaxes, and she leans a little bit forward. With my other hand, I hold her on the back of her neck.

“Open, Ondine,” Jake commands.

She sticks her pretty pink tongue out. I take a beat to enjoy the moment, then I press my thumb onto her tongue. She closes her mouth and sucks. She loves it. Her eyes dip back and she makes this delicious sound.

Wow.

“More.”

Well, shit.

I undo the button on my pants and open them up. I have to remove my hand from her neck, since that’s the hand I jerk off with.

My cock springs out of my pants, pointing right at the omega that is so desperate for me.

I don’t have any more precum, so I just stroke my dick up and down. Ondine is mesmerized.

“Ondine, baby, spit on it for Shadow.”

I pause and hold still in anticipation.

Ondine gathers spit in her mouth, giving me all her attention, and then bends down a little and sure as fire spits on my dick. It’s the hottest thing I’ve ever seen. And that has so much to do with Jake standing next to us, tilting his head so he can watch too.

The last time Jake and I were sexual together (if we aren’t counting Ondine’s heat, which does not count) was before we even became a pack.

“Who taught you how to spit like that?” Jake asks Ondine, jealousy ripping through the bond.

She just smiles at him.

He grabs her neck and her smile only grows.

“Who?”

“I was an unsupervised teen who spent an entire summer once with the local riff raff causing trouble. Spitting over bridges. Stealing from charity bins and cowboy camping in the foothills.”

“You and Sebastian are perfect for each other,” he says mostly to himself.

And then he kisses her. It’s obscene. He overwhelms her with the kiss. Grabbing her tits and tilting her over.

She did basically describe Sebastian’s childhood.

I pump my dick harder. I want to come and paint her fucking mouth with it. I want her to be absolutely covered in me. Her hand, previously unknown to me, meets mine and she doesn’t falter, joining me in stroking myself. I whack my head back against the door as I groan at the incredible sensation.

Jake’s scent balloons in the air around us and he grabs my wrist, pulling my hand away, then he and Ondine are both stroking me.

Sebastian moved out of the way so it’s Ondine and Jake sandwiching me.

I don’t know what to do with my hands. And I can barely think straight.

They both kiss my neck and my face. Ondine licks my jaw.

And Jake is fucking talking so much and I can barely process a word—“ You have no idea how long I’ve waited for you.

How I’ve held back. How I’ve fucking lusted after you.

Shadow, fuck you for fucking being my favorite fucking alpha.

Do you think Ondine wants to fuck you? Do you think the three of us could share a bed? ”

I’m going to die.

His words are breathy and fast and unthinking. They caress my skin and seep into my blood. What is he even saying? I’m going to need him to repeat everything again when my brain cells aren’t all just chasing my fucking climax.

And chasing is the right word. Jake and Ondine pick up their speed, matching my desperate breaths. My pants give up and crash around my ankles. I must be squirming too much because Jake presses his thigh and knee into me, holding me against the door, still pumping my dick.

I’m done. I’m so done.

Our combined noises is what does me in. Ondine’s sweet soft breaths. Jake’s grunts. My pleas for help. I’m done. My climax pulls at both my inner thighs and I’m worried my veins will cramp. Cum erupts out of me and shoots all over their hands and the floor under us.

I cry out with curses and nonsense.

Ondine and Jake look at me with wonder. What the fuck just happened?