Page 36 of Rhythm Of Our Souls (Heartbreak Melody #3)

Brady

Something feels off. This uneasy feeling settles over me, making my skin crawl. I don’t like it.

“What’s wrong?” Lulu asks, giving my hand a squeeze.

Blinking, I shake my head and look down at her. “I feel off,” I grunt, not sure what is going on with me.

Everything's been fine for the past few hours. We went out, explored, and had a good time.

I’ve been missing Ally, wishing she were here with us, but she was exhausted. She needed that extra rest, and I know she would have been pissed if we stayed because of her.

But now I’m starting to think we shouldn’t have left her there alone.

“Are you okay? Do you feel sick?” she asks, brows furrowed in worry.

I shake my head. “It’s hard to explain. I just know something is wrong.” I rub at my chest, not sure what this aching feeling is.

“You okay?” Liam asks, realizing we’re falling behind.

“Call Ally.”

He doesn’t ask why, instantly going on guard as he grabs his phone and calls her. “Fuck,” he growls. “Nothing. Went to voicemail.” He tries calling again. “Damn it. I’m calling Nial.” He’s the guard we left stationed outside our hotel room.

My gut turns as worry fills me, this uneasy feeling growing stronger and stronger by the second.

“I need you to go in and check on Ally, now,” Liam growls, moving forward, heading towards our hotel. Grabbing Lulu’s hand, Gavin, Nate, and I all follow after him.

“Is she okay?” Lulu asks. “What’s going on?”

“I don’t know. I just have this bad feeling,” I tell her.

“Fuck!” Liam roars and breaks out into a run.

Nausea fills me as we start to run after him.

“Oh god,” Lulu whimpers.

“What the fuck is going on?” I growl, demanding he answer.

“She’s in heat. Nial says it’s bad. She’s crying, in pain. Fuck! We shouldn’t have left her. Not this close to her heat.”

Guilt hits me like a five-ton bag of bricks, and panic seeps in. Ally is alone in her hotel room, in heat.

I need to get to her. I need to make the pain go away. The idea of her being scared and alone makes me sick.

Out of breath and frazzled, we make it back to the hotel ten minutes later. We take the back way in and up the employees' elevator.

The space around us is tense; everyone is anxious to get to our Omega.

“I’m going to find another room for the next few days, but I will be in and out to check on you all, okay? Let me know if you need anything,” Gavin says when we make it to our floor.

“Thank you,” Liam grunts before taking off down the hall.

“Are you sure?”

“Go.” He nods. “Your Omega needs you.”

Giving him a quick hug, I take off towards her room.

As soon as I’m in the room, I’m met with the sounds of her cries. They’re going to haunt me forever.

Pain splinters through me as I rush desperately towards her bedroom.

“Ally, Precious, we’re here. You're okay,” Liam chants, trying to soothe her.

“Not okay. Not okay. Not okay,” Ally sobs, her head tossing back and forth. The scene before me shatters my heart. She’s lying on the bed, naked, covered in sweat as she works a toy between her legs, in complete anguish as she tries to work the toy inside her.

A broken sound lodges in my throat at the sight of her. My sweet Omega. Fuck. Fuck, fuck, fuck!

“I don’t know what to do!” Liam says, eyes wide with dismay as he claws at his hair.

“I’ve only been through one of her heats with her, and it wasn’t like this.

” He shakes his head. “I’ve listened outside the room as she went through them, but it was never like this.

She never sounded like she was in pain.”

Between going through this with Lulu for a number of her heats and my Alpha instincts kicking in, I take charge.

I’m over to Ally in a flash, brushing her matted, sweaty hair back. “Hi, baby. Hi, my Sweetheart. I’m here.”

At the sound of my voice, Ally looks up at me with fear-filled eyes, and it takes everything in me to keep it together for her. “Alpha?” she whimpers. “Alpha, please.”

“I know, baby, I know. I got you.”

“Fuck me,” she pleads, grabbing at my arm with helplessness. Tears spill down my cheeks as her nails dig into my arms. “Please!” she screams. “Fuck me.”

“I will, Sweetheart. I will. I promise, but you’re burning up. We need to get you cooled down before you get sick.”

“No,” she weeps. “No, no, no.”

Pulling the toy out of her, I toss it to the side before scooping her up in my arms. “I got you, Omega. I’m here.” Rushing to the ensuite bathroom, I crank the shower to cold, not bothering to take my clothes off as I step under the spray with her.

Ally lets out this long groan as her body goes limp in my arms, her head tipping back and letting the water fall down her face. Her body temperature starts to recede as we stand there under the shower spray.

I stare down at my Omega, never feeling fear like this before in my life.

I’ve seen my men get shot at. I’ve been in fights that were life and death.

But this? I don’t think I’ll ever be able to recover from this.

The pain I feel right now... it’s like I’m feeling what she’s feeling.

And if that's true, then I hate myself for being away from her for even a second to let her feel this way.

“Hey,” Lulu’s voice startles me. My feral eyes snap up to hers. “Baby, I need you to breathe.”

Her eyes are red, and there are tear tracks down her cheeks.

“I did this,” I whisper, in shocked horror.

“No.” She shakes her head. “No, you didn’t.”

“She needed me and I wasn’t there,” I croak, falling backwards onto the shower bench, gripping Ally tightly in my arms.

“Look at me.” Lulu cups my face, forcing me to look at her bright blue eyes. “You are not going to blame yourself. What you’re going to do is focus all your attention on our Omega, okay? She needs us, and we’re going to do everything we can to help her, right?”

“Right.” I nod, looking down at Ally, who doesn’t seem to be in as much pain anymore. “Right.” I brush the wet hair from her face and kiss her cheek. “I’ve got you,” I tell her. “I’m gonna make you feel better, take all the pain away.”

She whimpers, snuggling into me.

“We need to get her out of the water before she gets too cold,” Lulu suggests, looking down at Ally. Seeing her like this is probably agonizing to her.

Getting out of the shower, I carry Ally back to the room. Liam is pacing, losing his shit while Nate tries to talk him down.

When he sees us walk back in, he rushes over to us. “Is she okay?” He touches her cheek with a shaking hand. “Fuck, baby, I’m so sorry. I’m so fucking sorry.”

Placing her down on the bed, she whimpers. “No,” she protests.

Stripping out of my wet clothes, I toss them to the ground before crawling into bed after her.

“Brady,” Nate gets my attention. “You need to be inside her.”

“W-what?” I frown at him. “She’s in distress. I’m not going to take advantage of her,” I growl.

“You’re not,” Nate insists. “The pain she’s feeling can only be taken away by her scent match. She needs you inside her, pleasuring her. The pleasure will replace the pain. The connection is needed.”

I look down at Ally, who’s looking up at me with lidded eyes. “Knot,” she whimpers. “Knot, please.”

Swallowing hard, I nod, not liking at all that this is our first time, but I can’t have my Omega hurting anymore.

“I’ll give you my knot,” I promise, shifting so that I’m between her legs. She's already dripping with slick, her sex swollen with need.

My cock thickens, this primal desire rushing through me. I’ve never felt like this, so out of control. When her peppermint cheesecake scent hits my nose, I lose it. Like a switch being flicked, I go from panicked to pure primal feral Alpha.

Burying my face between her legs, I feast on her cunt like it’s my last meal. Ally screams out, but this time it’s not in pain but pleasure. She claws at my head, pulling at my hair as she grinds her pussy against my mouth.

Growling against her core, I suck and lick, fucking her with my tongue as slick threatens to drown me. I want more. I need more. I need every last fucking drop of her cum.

She cums with a scream, body tensing as her back arches off the bed.

Chest heaving, I move my way up her body. Ally’s chest rises and falls as she lies there to catch her breath. This small smile plays on her pretty pink lips.

I kiss her, swallowing her moans. It’s messy and wild, just like this moment.

Grabbing her leg, I lift it over my hip, positioning myself at her entrance, and thrust forward. I’m just going off my primal instincts, letting it control my every move. I don’t think I’d be able to resist it even if I wanted to.

A deep, bone-rattling growl reverberates in my chest as her drenched pussy welcomes me in without any resistance.

A needy little mewl leaves Ally as she tosses her head back in pleasure.

Like a madman, I start to fuck into her, each thrust more punishing than the last.

My mind starts to cloud over, the only thing I can think about is fucking my Omega. Knotting her. Breeding her. Filling her with my cum.

Liam

“He’s hurting her!” I growl in Nate's face, trying to get past him as he blocks my path to Ally.

“He is not,” Nate raises his voice. My attention is on Brady as he fucks Ally savagely. My heart is in fucking pieces after seeing her like that. I promised to never let any harm come to her, and here I was out enjoying the Vegas strip while she was here, in agony.

Not only have I failed her as her bodyguard, but I’ve failed her as her Alpha, too.

I don’t deserve her. I never did.

“Hey.” Lulu cups my cheeks, snapping me out of my thoughts. “Look at me.” My eyes drop to her bright blue ones, settling something inside me. “She’s okay. He isn’t hurting her. He’s in a rut.”

Brows furrowing, I watch as he growls like a feral beast while fucking Ally like she’s a damn ragdoll. “He’s hurting her,” I growl as I take a step forward.

“No. He. Is. Not!” Lulu shouts, blocking my way. “Look at her, listen to her. See her reactions. Don’t pay attention to what Brady is doing.”

Swallowing hard, I look at Ally, really look at her.