Track 35 Beautiful Things

Her soft admission is like a balm to my heart. To the part of me that has been struggling to make her mine for the better part of ten years.

I can't fucking believe this is happening. After all this time, I'm going to claim my girl. The other half of my soul. I'll be able to feel her in my heart, to read her emotions, to have a better understanding of what she's thinking. But more than that, I'll finally feel at home. At peace.

Sorrel's always been a point of calm for me, the only thing that can soothe my alpha beyond compare. And now I'll have her with me always.

Still, I have to make sure. I understand her reluctance with the Cordova Pack. The last thing I want is to claim her and then feel her regret when she realizes this isn't what she wants.

She looks up at me with those gorgeous eyes of hers as I cup her cheek. "You're sure this is what you want?" I ask, thumb stroking over her soft skin.

She gives me a small smile and nods. "Remember when I told this is what I've always wanted with you? It was the truth. I'm sure, Gage. I want you to make me yours."

A relieved breath whooshes out of me as my forehead drops to hers, my hand sliding to her lower back to pull her closer to me.

"You're already mine, biscuit. This is just makes it official. Makes it so everyone else knows it, too."

She grins up at me giddily and I can't stop myself from kissing that smile. She opens immediately, humming happily as my tongue touches hers, strokes it, caresses it. The hand on her back slides down to her ass, hefting her into my arms. Her legs part, thick thighs winding around my hips as her arms fold around my shoulders.

I'm vaguely aware of the other males in the room following us as I haul Sorrel into the room she slept in last night, but I don't spare them any more thought than that. I'm finally going to claim my girl, after years of wanting this, wanting her. My alpha can't focus on anything else but the soft weight of her against my body, her sweet moaning sounds and her lavender scent filling the space. I lift one knee and place it on the mattress before bending at my waist and laying the precious cargo in my arms down gently.

A throat clears from the side of the bed, and Sorrel and I stop kissing long enough to turn our heads toward the omega standing there, uncertainly. "I know it might be a little… weird, but do you think… can we stay?" He burst out. "Can we watch?"

Sorrel lets out a surprised gasping moan, her hips rolling up to grind against my cock, and I suck in a hissing breath in response, before I chuckle. "Oh, you little filthy voyeur. You like the idea of that, don't you?"

"Yes," she whispers breathlessly. "I do." She looks up at me, fingers tracing my jaw. I bend my head to nip at the tips and a soft giggle sounds from her. I fucking love that sound. Always have. "We're pack, aren't we? It makes sense that they'd be here for this."

The bed dips next to us as Gray crawls up the other side of the mattress from Liam. His thumb catches her chin and turns her to look at him. It's on the tip of my tongue to tell him not to. I want her full attention on me, but this is what being part of a pack is like. Knowing that I won't be my girl's only focus and understanding that it doesn't mean she loves me any less.

"You mean that, sweet thing? We're pack?"

Her nod is almost shy. "I-I think so. I want to be. I want to… I want this to work."

His thumb strokes her bottom lip. "We do, too. Whatever it takes, Sorrel. We'll do it." He bends and brushes a soft kiss against her mouth before leaning back. "Now, claim your first pack mate while we watch."

Her cheeks flush the prettiest shade of pink as she peers up at me. "You ready, growly?"

"So fucking ready," I say, voice a growl like she and Liam call me. "I wish I could say I have the patience to work you up, lick your pussy and make you gush all over my face first, but baby, I don't think I can wait."

She nods. "I don't want to wait either." Her lips brush my mouth, my cheek, right to my ear as she pushes up to whisper. "I want you inside me. Now."

Demanding little thing, I think, but I'm already moving, shifting back, pulling off my shirt and my pants as the others help our beta get undressed, pulling off the hotel provided t-shirt and sweats. Hate that she put those on rather than our clothes, our scents. I'm not the only one.

Rafe snarls at the fabric. "From now on, conejita , you'll wear our clothes when you're lounging. When we're at home and it's just us… hell, when we go out. I want you covered in our scents. None of this." He shakes the shirt in his fist at her and she laughs.

"Okay, I can do that." Her fingers brush over his scowl. "You're just as growly as Gage."

His expression softens, and he kisses her palm. Then I'm dragging her away from him, rolling her under me, my knees nudging hers apart.

"Gonna fuck you now, biscuit. Gonna claim what's mine."

She nods again, legs winding around my hips as I lean over her, gripping the base of my cock to run my tip up and down her wet folds, circle her clit with the tip in a way that makes her hips jump as she moans.

"Do it," she orders, hand clamping around the back of my neck to tug me down to her mouth for a filthy, hungry kiss. "Fucking do it." A snarl against my lips.

"Better do it, man," Rafe says, sounding amused as hell. "Don't want to make our girl wait."

"Shut the fuck up," I hiss at him, before notching my cock in her entrance and giving my girl what she wants.

"Fuck, Gage!" she moans as I thrust into her. I only make it halfway.

"Oh, god. So fucking tight," I grit out, working in short bursts until I'm fully seated in her hot grip. "How did I forget how fucking tight you are, biscuit?"

Sorrel's hands wander around my body, fluttering from my shoulders to my back to my ass, never fully settling, while my hands remain stationary. One on her thigh, holding her open, the other planted by her gorgeous face.

"Look at you, beautiful girl, taking him all the way to the hilt," Liam coos from next to us. Drawing our attention to the fact that he's naked and so is Gray. I watch as the prime of our pack slides two fingers down the omega's ass crack, circling the tight hole there.

"Gushing slick, sweetheart. Has watching out beta get fucked turned you on so much?"

Liam nods, forehead pressing into the mattress. "Yes, alpha."

Gray replaces his fingers with the tip of his cock. "You need your alpha to take care of you?"

"Yes alpha, please."

Gray's eyes flick up to mine, as Rafe positions himself by Liam's head, cock bobbing against his bare abs. "You gonna claim our girl or watch us fuck our omega?"

I look back at Sorrel. She's watching the three of them with wide eyes, her pupils blowing wider with arousal at the sight. I can't blame her. But I want her attention on me while I fuck her. So to the sounds of Liam choking on Rafe's cock, I pull my hips back and slam into her again, making her tits bounce and her attention fly back to me.

"Oh, fuck, yes," she moans. "Fuck me."

And so I do. Slamming myself in and out of her, tilting just so to hit that spot that makes her scream and her toes curl.

I fuck her through an orgasm, holding back on coming myself because, holy shit, she feels too fucking good and I don't want this to end. And yet, I do. Because at the end of this, I'll bite her, claim her, make her mine.

My knot swells at the thought, wanting to lock inside her when I spill my seed. It's part of the bonding process with an omega and its instinct to want to do it with Sorrel too. She's my mate, after all. The only one I've ever wanted.

My knot swells further, aching and throbbing, needing the tight clamp of her pussy. "So fucking good," I pant out, grinding the bulge against her clit and making her scream my name. It sounds so fucking nice, I do it over and over.

She's so warm and soft, and I'm sure if I just push a little, force it, I'll pop my knot right inside her and the squeeze will be exquisite and she'll fucking fall apart all over my cock. She'll love it , my alpha assures me.

Nails scrape over my skin as I start to push in, her pretty aqua eyes widening. "Gage," she gasps. "Wait."

" Do not knot her ," Gray orders, and I lift my head to bare my teeth at him. He meets my glare head on, cock still buried in Liam's ass, but focus entirely on us. "Don't look at me like that. You'll hurt her. She's not ready to be knotted. Not yet. Right, sweet girl?" His fingers push a lock of her dark hair off of her face as she looks up at him with eyes full of adoration and lust.

"Right," she says before sinking her teeth into her lower lip. "But it's something we're working on."

"What have you been up to, you gorgeous little beta?" Liam asks, reaching between us to tweak her nipple, moaning when Gray grinds into his ass as a reward.

"We've been knot training," Gray admits, reaching down to circle her clit. Maybe that should bother me, how close he is to my cock, but when my girl gasps and rolls her hips up while clamping down, I can't say I mind all that much.

"Fuck," I hiss, eyes slipping closed at how fucking good she feels. "Fuck, baby. Squeeze me just like that."

"Knot training?" Rafe says, sounding frustrated and turned on all at once. "And you didn't think to tell us? Give us a heads up that at some point we're going to knot our pretty little beta? Lock into her, keep our cum from spilling out? Breed her ."

I growl at his words, and my hips give an involuntary thrust as Sorrel moans under me.

"I thought it would be a pleasant surprise for the both of you," Gray says, thrusting leisurely into Liam.

"What a treat," Rafe murmurs. "What a dream."

Sorrel flushes and buries her face in my shoulder, teeth scraping over the flesh there. I tense as sharp pleasure fills me, and I nearly cum right then. "Fuck, baby," I groan. "You're gonna bite me too, right? Mark my skin, show the world I'm yours."

"Yes, Gage," she pants against my skin as I pick up the pace again. "Yes, fuck yes."

"Good girl," Gray purrs, slamming harder into the omega, matching my pace. Then he looks at me. "No knotting," he reminds.

I nod, veins popping with the restraint from holding myself back from her. But Gray is right. It would hurt her, and that's the last fucking thing I want to do. No, when I finally knot my pretty beta, I want it to feel so damn good, she never wants to climb off.

"Gage," she moans. "Fuck, Gage, I'm close."

I pick up the pace, working to stroke inside her just right to get her there. The timing needs to be just right. It'll hurt her less if I sink my teeth into her when she climaxes, and that's what I intend to do. I'm so fucking ready for it. Ready to feel her in my bones, never to be parted again.

Her fingers tighten on my shoulders, one hand sliding up to cup the back of my head, guiding me down to her neck as she arches it, giving me all the space I need. "Here, biscuit? You want me to bite you right here?"

She whimpers and nods, hips working double time to meet my thrusts, sweat slicking her golden skin. "Yes, please. Gage. Please. Now. Now!" I feel her clench around me and I move in a flash, my teeth snapping down on her neck. Blood floods my mouth and my alpha roars his fucking victory as the first tingle of our bond forms between us. She screams, and I'm not sure if it's from pain or pleasure, but I can't stop from digging my teeth in a little deeper. This fucking mark is here to stay. Forever.

She's still fucking herself on my cock, rolling her hips up, trying to take me deeper. "Knot," she murmurs. "Knot me, please, I can take it."

"No, you fucking can't," Gray rumbles from beside us, but I don't look at him. Instead, I pull back and examine the two semicircles of my bite on her skin. "Gage!" She cries. "Please. I need it."

"Shh," I murmur. Now that I've marked her, I can think a little clearer. "No baby, not today." One of my hands loops behind her head, lifting her up as I continue my assault on her pussy with my cock.

"Bite me, baby," I moan, holding her to my neck. "Please. I need your mark on me. Now."

Sorrel's blunt teeth sink into the muscle of my trap, biting hard as she clamps down on me with her cunt, growling and groaning out her release as my cock pulses inside her, my vision going bright white and then black.

The connection between us strengthens, grows, blooming into a solid thing that I can feel in my chest. I pull back to look down at her. "There you, biscuit," I murmur, bending to kiss the dazed look off her face, tasting the copper of both our blood. "There you fucking are. My heart. Right where you're supposed to be in my chest."

"Gage," she whispers, and it's so much more than just my name. It's everything she's feeling at the moment. Love and joy and awe and completion and reverence. For me . The unworthy asshole who's been in love with her for forever.

I angle my head to lick at my mating bite, lapping at the blood trickling from her, both hating that I hurt her, that I made her bleed, and loving the sight of my teeth marks in her flesh. She shifts and tries to do the same to me, adorable and unnecessary. Her bite on my skin is purely decorative, and it's going to take longer to heal. But I couldn't be prouder to have it.

The scent of lemon blueberry cheesecake hits my nose. Liam's scent has always driven me crazy. Crazier than I care to admit, but this is… creamier, sweeter, sharper. More. His scent but turned up to twenty-five.

"Heat," Gray breathes. "Liam, baby, you're going into heat."

The omega whimpers as Sorrel twists her head to look at him. "Liam?"

He reaches out to her, laces his fingers through hers, and squeezes. "The sight of your pleasure, the scent of you…" Green eyes flick up to mine. "Both of you together… Bonding. Her begging for your knot. It was apparently a trigger. I was already close, but now I'm there. It's happening."

Oh, fuck. I've never been with an omega in heat. Male or female, it's never been something I've thought about doing, because the only person I would want to spend days fucking is the one currently under me with my cock still buried inside her. But she's a member of Liam's pack… I'm a member of Liam's pack and that means I'll likely be involved.

At the very least, I'll be in charge of making sure they all eat and stay hydrated. Monitor to make sure everything goes smoothly.

The omega looks at my girl with pleading eyes. "I want you to be a part of it… will you?"

Sorrel melts under me, her expression going soft and liquid. "Of course, I will. I wouldn't leave you wanting, Liam."

He whimpers again, and the sound makes my dick twitch and Sorrel clench down on me. We both watch as Rafe crawls over and swallows Liam's cock in one fell swoop, making the omega thrash under him in pleasure. "So good, omega," Gray croons. "You're doing so good. Rafe is gonna make you come, take the edge off, so we can discuss your heat with our new pack members, yes?"

Liam nods frantically, soaking up the praise as his hips thrust into Rafe's mouth.

"Discuss?" Sorrel asks, sounding breathy and horny. "What do we need to discuss? Aren't we all just going to have a lot of sex?"

Gray looks up at us, me still buried in her pussy, unwilling to leave the tight clamp of her body. Not so soon after bonding with her. My alpha is already demanding that I take her again, fill her with my seed repeatedly, breed her.

"Yes, that's the general idea." He runs his fingers lazily through Liam's hair as the omega cries out, arching his back. Fuck, his pheromones are going crazy, saturating the air. My hips drag out of Sorrel and then back in, in time with the bobbing of Rafe's head, like I can't fucking help it. "But there are ground rules we need to cover. Like how far everyone is willing to go." This he says while looking right at me. Sorrel tips her head to look at me too, a moan falling from her kiss-swollen lips.

"Gage?" Her soft fingers brush over my cheek, down my neck to her bite mark. My eyes drift shut at the tender touch. She's everything I've ever wanted. I never considered having an omega, helping them through a heat, I never thought about what it would be like. I didn't allow myself to linger over the realization that by picking her and only her, I'd be neglecting a part of my alpha. But now… Now I don't have to choose, because getting Sorrel also means gaining a pack and an omega. Liam.

My eyes open and I smile down at the woman who has held my heart for so long. She touches my smile with the tips of her fingers and I kiss them gently, before looking up at Gray, Liam and Rafe. "I'll go as far as Liam wants me too. If not, I can hang back, make sure everyone is drinking water or-"

"No," Liam gasps out, frantic green gaze on me, fingers gripping Rafe's dark hair. "No, I want you. Fuck, do I want you. Both of you. Please. Please. I need you."

The sound of him stating that to both me and Sorrel is enough to have me coming again, hips grinding into our girl as I spill inside her. She gasps and writhes under me, clenching down too, the heat pheromones in the air infecting her, lighting her up with pleasure.

"Well, now that we have that covered," Gray says, sounding perfectly in control, but the stiffness of his dick and the pre-cum dripping from it are telling. "Let's talk about bonding."

"I want it," Liam says immediately, hands fisting Rafe's dark hair, hips thrusting and grinding. I watch as Rafe grips his ball sac and squeezes, making Liam shoot into a sitting positing with a long loud moan, before he sinks back down, hips pressed into his alpha's face as Rafe swallows and swallows and swallows, humming his pleasure the whole fucking time.

Jesus, is this what the heat is going to be like?

No, Gage. It'll be more. More of everything. So much pleasure you lose yourself in it for fucking days.

We watch as Rafe cleans Liam's cum off of him and then sits back on his heels, looking like a smug motherfucker, and Liam trembles and shakes, splayed out on the mattress. He gulps in air, flaccid cock already growing hard again.

"Now then, mi amor ," Rafe says, wiping at the corner of his mouth with his thumb, no doubt catching some of the omega's cum. He shuffles over to me and Sorrel and feeds it between her lips. Her eyes flutter as she moans. "What were you saying?"

Liam huffs and flaps his hands before flopping them onto the mattress, still staring at the ceiling. "I want the bond. All the bonds. Every bond. I want to bite Sorrel and Gage and make them fucking mine ."

Gray looks up at us. "That urge is only going to get worse as his heat progresses. You'll both likely start feeling the need to claim and be claimed. We need to know if that's something you want or if Rafe and I need to step in to keep it from happening." His cool gray eyes focus on our beta. "Though, if I'm honest, I'll be battling the urge myself."

"Same." Rafe strokes a finger over Sorrel's parted lips, dragging her bottom lips down and then releasing it with a pop to circle my mating mark. A warning growl rumbles from me, but he just chuckles and doesn't actually touch the claim. "I want my mark on this pretty neck too, conejita . So you need to say right now if it's something you don't want."

Sorrel's eyes close. A shuddering breath trembles out of her lungs blows over my face, and then the most beautiful smile takes over. I can feel her prodding our bond, feeling it out, sending a little thrill through me. "I think…" she says softly. "I think I do want it." Her aqua eyes open and meet mine. "I didn't know what it would be like before. I didn't know it would feel like coming home, having a bond."

She pushes on my shoulders and I reluctantly pull myself from inside her, grunting at the spill of my cum as I do so. Oh fuck, that's the prettiest fucking thing I've ever seen.

I growl when she pushes up to her hands and knees and crawls away from me, ass swaying, cum dripping, smearing those gorgeous, thick thighs. I was wrong. This is the prettiest fucking thing I've ever seen. My cum. My mate. Mine. Mine. Mine.

When she's next to Liam, she leans back on her heels and brushes her fingers over his cheek. "If you're all certain it's what you want, that you want me forever, to be a part of your pack for good, then I want it too."

Liam lets out a relieved laugh and sits up, throwing his arms around our beta and dragging her down to his chest, peppering kisses over every inch of her skin he can reach while she giggles. "Fuck yes. Yes, you lovely, gorgeous, sexy fucking beta. I want you always and forever. You're fucking mine. Have been since the first time I saw you a month ago."

I blink at that. Has it really only been a month? So much has changed in such a short amount of time. So many good things have come to pass, even with all the bullshit. The most important two being that I finally found my pack, even though I never thought I would. And that Sorrel is finally fucking mine .

A bubble of laughter pops at the realization. She's mine.

I can feel her in my chest. Even now, when she's not touching me, I can fucking feel her.

At the sound, she looks up at me from the cradle of Liam's arms, where he's shamelessly grinding his cock into her belly. Her face is flushed and her lips swollen, hair a mess and she's never fucking looked so good in her entire life as she does in the arms of our omega. Well, maybe she looked better when impaled on my cock.

"Fuck, lovely, dirty girl. I need inside you. Please, let me fuck you," Liam begs. "Need to fill you up, feel you come on my cock. Please."

Sorrel pulls her gaze away from me, and down to the male writhing under her, looking dazed. "Yes."

"No," Gray says, sounding stern. "Not yet."

Liam snarls and thrashes, clutching our beta tighter to his chest. "She's mine."

"Yes, sweetheart, she is. She's ours. But you're in heat and we don't want to ride it out in a hotel room, do we? Wouldn't it be better to be in your nest?"

"Nest," Liam murmurs, rolling the word over his tongue. Then he nods. "Yes, you're right. The nest is better. Let's go."

And then he rolls off the bed, taking Sorrel with him, and striding to the door butt ass naked with her in his arms.

"Liam!" Sorrel gasps out, a hint of laughter in her voice. He pauses at the sound and kisses her smiling mouth, groaning with hunger, cock dripping enough pre-cum on the floor to create a small puddle. She kisses him back and then smooths his hair from his forehead. "Maybe we should put on some clothes before we go?"

"Why?" he asks, carrying her into the living room. "We're gonna spend the next few days naked, anyway. I'm just saving us time."

Pulling on a pair of sweats, Rafe sounds on the verge of laughing as he calls out. "So you're alright with everyone seeing Sorrel naked then?"

Oh, fuck no. My alpha rumbles at the thought and I finally move off the bed, snatching up my clothes and yanking them on to rush after my omega and my beta, to make sure they don't set one foot outside this room without something covering them.

I needn't have worried though. By the time I make it through the door, Rafe and Gray have them separated and are pulling clothes over both their bodies to cover them up. I watch as they do, arms crossed over my chest and fucking loving the view.

Sorrel glances up and catches my eye. "You never said."

I move closer, drawn to her just like always. She's the sun and I'm just the lucky moon caught in her orbit. "Never said what, biscuit?"

She disappears behind a t-shirt that smells like Rafe and then pops back up, her hair even more wild than it was. "If you wanted the bonds, too."

The three other males pause for just a moment before they all start moving again, pulling on clothes, covering up, gathering the essentials. Everything else we can leave here until we're ready to come back for it. Or we can have the hotel staff pack it up and send it to the pack house.

I tuck a strand of her hair behind her ear as Rafe kneels in front of her and slips a pair of socks on her feet. My eyes flick to Liam, who's watching us with a hungry expression on his face, so full of wanting. He's the one that needs to hear this, really. Though everyone will.

I nod slowly. "Yeah, I do. I want the bond."

The smiles that the two of them give me are… devastating in the best fucking way. So full of joy and happiness and love… fuck. There's so much love in their expressions.

Liam moves closer, and leans up on his toes, though he doesn't have to go far, to press a kiss to my mouth. It's relatively chaste, and I can tell he's holding himself back. "Thank you, growly bear," he murmurs.

"You're welcome," I say back, automatically, even though there's no reason for him to thank me.

Sorrel wanders over to us, nuzzles into my chest, and I drop my head to lick at our bonding bite. She shivers and whimpers as a shot of arousal filters from her side of the bond. I fucking love that reaction. I'm obsessed with it.

"Okay," Gray says, stroking a hand down Liam's spine. "I think we have everything we need. Let's get our omega to his nest."

Sorrel tips her head back to meet my gaze, read my expression, and I know she's felt my emotions through our bond. Awe. Excitement. Nerves.

She's reflecting them back at me. Our first heat as a part of a pack. Our first heat ever.

I'm not sure if our scents are giving us away, but the three others surround us, rough purrs rising from their chests. "It's going to be perfect," Gray says. "You're both going to be perfect."

Liam nods. "Yeah, and even if you aren't, we'll all be so fucking out of it we won't notice."

Sorrel chokes on a laugh and I join her. "And by the end," Rafe says, voice low and rumbly. "You'll be riding our knots, little beta."

Both of our heads whip in his direction and he just grins at us. "I think a three-day fuck fest is the perfect to finish your training, don't you think?"

Sorrel shivers and nods. "Yeah. Yeah, I think we should do that."

"Well, fuck," Liam groans. "We need to move right now. And I need someone to fuck me in the car."

That's enough to get all of us moving.