20. Zeus

Odin was right, of course.

He always was about shit like this.

The second I stepped into the corridor, I could smell the sweet scent that haunted my dreams and nightmares sticking to the walls. It emanated from her room like a siren calling me, and I was a happy sailor following her to my doom.

I ran straight towards her door. A brief tug in the bond from Apollo made me pause, but not for long.

Apollo sent me love so strong that it shuddered through my body. My pack was the only reason I had resisted her so far, and they weren't here.

This time, Candy had asked us to guard her personal rooms instead of that horrible fake nest she had for guests.

I stood right outside the door to her real apartment, staring at the white paint intensely, reaching for her with my aura to try to sense what was happening on the other side. She usually had her heats at the Spa or in her boudoir, but her juicy scent was so fucking thick she had to be in there.

Odin sent me strength, Apollo's love grew, and I was determined to stay outside and wait on her. I was strong enough to resist with their help, but it didn't matter when a harsh scream ripped from inside her room.

Panic burst inside me, my breath stolen, heart frozen, and I couldn't think over the choking fear that drenched me. I punched in the code without thinking, and those desperate two seconds it took the lock to register, beep, and click open were pure hell.

If another alpha had broken in, if anyone had touched her, I'd shred them, starting with their cocks.

Any thoughts of consequences evaporated. I had to get to her. We were her bodyguards. It was our duty to keep her safe. That's what I'd tell anyone who asked.

Another scream, followed by a loud crash, and Candy yelling out, "Help me! Someone! Help!"

A growl tore from me, and I slammed my palms on the door, shoving it so hard it banged against the wall.

I was inside instantly, my head snapping right where her scent was heaviest.

I quickly scanned the room. No one else had seen her apartments apart from Apollo, and I was so fucking jealous. Everything was various shades of pink and purple, and every single inch of the glittering room was drenched in bubblegum. I couldn't focus on that; I needed to get to her.

The scent of an omegas heat was always richer and more prone to stick inside an alpha's nose, mouth, throat, and memory, and it was no different with Candy's.

As soon as I laid eyes on her, I nearly fell to my knees.

She was completely naked, chest on the mattress, head pressed into a pillow, knees under her as her ass flew sky-high. She turned her head towards me, her eyes glazed, pupils blown, moaning as she rocked her hips.

But that wasn't what floored me.

It was how her hands fed between her legs, one furiously rubbing her clit, the other frantically thrusting a pink knotted dildo into her pussy as she gasped "Zeus, fuck…" Heavy slick oozed down her thighs, joining the already wide stain spread around her knees. "I'm so…" a cry fled from her, "...glad you're here," she finished, her thighs shaking, her ass waving like the fucking temptress she was.

I threw the front door shut behind me. No other fucker got to see this except me. It was art in fucking motion.

Her hand picked up speed, holding my gaze with her desperate eyes. "Zeus. Zeus, help me," she called out. "I need you."

I stepped towards her as the dildo entered her again. I was replacing that thing with my cock as soon as fucking possible. At least five times a week, I had to sit back as she flaunted on stage for other alphas, but not this time. This was all for me.

Candy whimpered as she stretched her left knee back, extended her leg, and rolled onto her left side. She bent her right knee upward, exposing herself, her pussy swallowing the dildo. Until she gripped the base, drew her head back, and pulled the dripping pink length from her, the same colour as her glittering nails.

I watched her in awe, salivating as she dropped it on the bed beside her.

Candy's blonde locks swept her shoulders as she gasped. I was fixated on her fingers, trailing to her pussy lips to expose herself, and she perfumed. "Taste me, Zeus. I want your tongue on my pussy."

Any sense of control I could have had vanished as my alpha instincts exploded.

An omega, my omega, was offering herself to me on a plate, and I was going to feast.

I didn't realise I had crossed the room until I was pushing her onto her back and wrenching open her thighs. My inner beast erupted, my aura flaring around us, my rut shuddering through me as I pounced.

Grasping her calves, I dragged her to the edge of the bed, the sheet bunching up around her ass as I fell to my knees, growling, my thighs against the side of her high bed.

Candy laughed, high and clear, until I flattened my tongue to run from her entrance straight to her clit. Bubblegum popped in my mouth, and I parted her lips as her clit twitched under my tongue. She still held herself open so I could wrap my lips around her clit and suck.

"Oh God, Zeus. Just like that. Please," she whined, as her whole body buckled.

The moment I licked her slick, everything dissolved, and I became an animal as I devoured her.

I needed to be inside her. I had to fill her. And her bubblegum slick was so luscious I had to drink it all up before I gave her my cock.

Instead of swallowing her down, I pressed my fingers to her entrance, sliding two into her wet heat, a scream tearing from her. She was so soft and perfect, her pussy clenching around my fingers, her slick soaking my hand.

Her moans and cries were heaven, and she sunk her fingers into my hair, my name falling from her lips again and again. I loved every piece of her I could reach, lapping at her until she mewled, holding me still as she ground her pussy against my tongue. "Zeus." she whispered, as if I'd stolen her breath. "Zeus, please, I'm so close."

One last lick had her coming on my tongue, her legs flying wide, her back arching, crying out for me as I brought her over the edge. She was dancing for me, her hips shaking, her body quaking, her heavy panting thrusting her pert nipples up as she groaned.

I lapped at her, and I wasn't going to stop, even if she begged me to.

"Fuck, yes. Don't let me go." She urged me on.

"Not a chance, sugar. You're mine now."

If she thought there was any way I was letting her go after this, she could think again. Like those crazed alphas who went into rut at the smallest hint of her scent, I would possess her, make her mine, make her part of our pack so I could watch her face as Apollo fucked her while I was inside him.

She belonged to us. No one was ever going to touch her but us from now on.

My head pitched forward, my tongue finding her entrance, sucking up the slick that ran from like honey.

"Your knot," she choked out. "Zeus, I need your knot."

How long had it been since I had knotted an omega? Not since the last time we were with her. Apollo helped me through my ruts, though it wasn't the same as thrusting into a begging omega who craved my knot more than oxygen.

I rose, standing over her as I took in the absolute fucking beauty of my omega laid out for me.

"I want nothing more than to fuck you, sugar," I said, pulling off my shirt in one smooth motion, practically purring as she ran her gaze over my body. "But I'm not putting my fat knot inside you until my pack is here."

"Why?" she moaned. "Zeus, I…"

I grabbed my jeans, pushing at the waistband just enough so my cock bounced free. Her eyes widened, her sweet lips parting into an O as I clasped my knot and groaned.

"Because they need to see your face as you take all of this."

Perfume burst around us as raw lust smashed through my body with hot need for her. I couldn't control my aura, energy tremoring between us, blending with her, beating with my love for her.

"You like that plan?" I asked as I threw off my jeans and returned to the edge of the bed.

She lifted herself on her elbows, smiling coyly at me before shuffling back. "So, if I told you my pussy is aching," she said as she fed her hand over her stomach, "that I need to squeeze around a knot, that I… ah," she cried out as she flicked her clit. "I need one…" Candy started trembling again as she rubbed herself. "I need a knot, Zeus."

I growled, my lips riding back over my teeth. I couldn't deny her when she asked so prettily.

She reached out, picking up her pathetic toy, waving it between us. "Either you knot me, or this does." She knew it was nothing compared to my cock, and if I wasn't nearly rabid, I'd tell her to do it just to see how long it would take her to admit she wasn't satisfied. But that was Odin's shit. I didn't have patience for that.

I couldn't take it anymore. Apollo was there, thumping through me, telling me to back the fuck off, but I fell on her, anyway. The toy was forgotten as I landed on all fours, her body tiny under mine.

I lowered to my elbows, leaning in to meet her shining baby blues.

"Do you know how long I've been dreaming of being inside you again?" I said as I bent down to her lips. "Candy, sugar, it's been torture watching you every night, stripping for other men when the only time you should be naked is in our arms."

I placed a gentle kiss on her lips, but she pulled back, shaking her head, pain lighting her eyes.

"Then…" she panted, swinging her arms around my neck to hold me close, "how about having to go through that every night?" She drew in a deep breath before another shudder rippled through her. "What about wishing it was you? Every time I had to leave the stage, you never wanted me." Her head tipped forward, and I ran my nose over her neck, marking her with my scent, making sure the smell of passion fruit would stay etched in her skin for the rest of the night.

"I wanted you," I growled against her cheek, nudging her ear before moving back to meet her angry stare. "Of course I fucking wanted you, sugar. You're my addiction."

"That doesn't make a difference when all you're going to do is go back to ‘guarding' me. If you wanted me so much, why didn't you take me every time I came offstage?" She bit her lip, and I groaned at the sight of plump flesh caught between her teeth. She stiffened as my aura rolled over her. I couldn't help it, she always did this to me.

Candy stretched, pushing out her breasts against my chest as she looked up at me, her lips hitching. She knew she had me. "How can I trust you when you won't admit you feel the same way as me?" she whined playfully.

I snarled and she yelped as I dropped my head to her shoulder, stemming my anger and frustration as my teeth rode her neck. I could have bitten her, just like she asked.

"You little minx." I chuckled as I lowered my hips, and she softened into me as soon as my hard cock pressed against her pussy. "You like playing with me, don't you?"

She curved her back, sighing. "Well, it's so easy to do."

I took a breath, indulging in her captivating smirk that lit up every cell in my body, especially my cock. "Do you feel that?" I purred, kneading my nose into her neck.

She trembled under me. "No one makes me hot like this, sugar. It's only you. Only you make me this hard. Only you drive me so crazy that no matter how much I fuck my hand after a show, no matter how many times I come inside Apollo—both of us dreaming of your gorgeous tits bouncing onstage—it's never enough." I kissed her neck, grazing my teeth down the muscle that tightened as her head leaned back into my shoulder, offering herself to me. "You know why?"

"Why?" she asked as her perfume surrounded us.

"Because there's nothing better than your pussy." My hand left the mattress to find her hip, keeping her close, a lick of her sweat-stained skin nearly flooring me. "Knowing how it is to be balls-deep inside you and not being able to touch you?" I groaned, pressing myself into her. "It's hell." I rubbed up against her, feeling how well my cock fit into the crease of her pussy as she widened her legs. "Since that first time I tasted you, I've wanted nothing else. Only you."

"Then bite me," she moaned quietly. I might have missed it if every single part of me wasn't completely attuned to her.

"Candy…"

"I mean it, Zeus." She ran the tip of her finger over the spot I'd just licked. "Bite me. Take me. Make me yours."

Clenching my teeth, I held back my wince at the pain that crackled in me like a new fire.

"I know you want it," she gasped as she lifted her heels, bumping them on my ass. Her thick scent spread around her as she moved her hips, grinding on my cock. Her eyes were desperate, pleading, her skin burning as her next heat wave came. "You know how right it would be, Zeus. I want you to be mine."

In my rut-fuelled mania, it all made sense. She was ours, so we'd bite her. We belonged together, and we had waited so long that I wasn't going to lose her to that fucking contract that ruled our lives for years.

"Sugar, you drive me wild every fucking night." I said. "Imagining you moaning, writhing beneath me as I fill you with my cock over and over again. But I can't bite you."

Plus, Odin and Apollo were both beating at me through the bond. And my mate was moments away.

"So you're going to push me away again, aren't you? Even like this?" She shook her hips, rubbing her wet heat up and down my cock.

I wrapped my arms around her, placing the smallest of bites on her shoulder—not enough to break her skin, but enough to tell her I loved her.

"Apollo's almost here," I said through gritted teeth, taking the coward's way out. I didn't want to have this talk when I'd just tasted her again for the first time in years.

"And Odin?" She gasped as I jerked my hips, sliding my cock through her lips, opening her up for me.

"Odin will be here soon, I promise."

If Odin kept being stubborn and wouldn't give in, I'd have to fuck her extra hard for the both of us.

Anyway, if I wound Apollo up enough, Odin would crack. I knew how my brother was. He could look down on me from his high horse all he wanted, but he didn't get to play that game when I knew he was wanking over Apollo every night. He was too serious, only giving in and joining us once in a while when Candy really got to him.

I reached out to Apollo, telling him to hurry the hell up with a bump of energy. I needed him with us. I needed my pack.

And I was going to do everything I could to make her come so hard that Apollo would hear her in the stairway before he arrived.

"I'm nearly there, Zeus." She was panting so hard, her body slack, letting me dominate her completely. And it was the best fucking thing I had done in years. The best thing I'd done since I'd last fucked her.

"You're magic," I groaned as I pressed my cock against her, getting her there, our bodies flowing in time together, sweat and breaths blending, our passion fruit and bubblegum so sweet that the only thing that could cool it was my brother's sharp scent. It was how we stayed balanced as a pack, our mango and passion fruit, Odin's lemon vodka, and, when Candy finally became our omega, we'd need my brother more than ever.

"I'm going to come again," she croaked. "Oh God, Zeus." Every movement brought us closer until her cries peaked.

But, at that moment, the door burst open, and my mate stumbled in.

His growl was lost as Candy dissolved under me. Her pussy quivered, her ankles firm around my back, using me to rock her hips in time with the thrust of my cock through her folds.

Every part of her was a mess, and it was stunning. Her hair laid out around her, pink slashes on her cheeks, wild eyes, rose skin pearled with sweat. I was sure Candy would keep on slicking for me until the end of time.

Apollo's surprise transformed into lust as she came. I could feel him watching us, feel how much he wanted this.

"Zeus!" he snapped as the door clicked shut behind him. As if it was my fault our omega lured me in here. I could tell he was trying to be ‘the good guy', but I knew he wanted her as much as I did.

Candy shook, clinging to me with small whimpers as I eased off her pussy, lifting myself up to grin at the pleasure on her face. Both of us turned our heads to look at our mate expectedly.

Apollo's pupils were blown as he took us in, and he'd already forgiven me.

He'd frozen, exactly the same way I had, absorbing the details of the scene of our crime, before desire suddenly blazed through him, and he nearly collapsed.

We were both on fire, but not as much as Candy, who was mewling, pleading with me to stay with her. "Zeus, make me come. I need to come again. Please."

"You're perfect when you're in heat," I groaned, leaning in to kiss her. All I had to do was line up my slick-covered cock and push inside her.

Her sharp heels on my hips urged me on, but Apollo was already jumping onto the bed beside us.

Our gazes clashed, and I opened myself to him, showing him everything I was feeling—how content I was to have my two mates together, and how much I wanted him there with me when I made her scream.

Candy reached out a hand, her mouth wide, eyes fluttering closed. "Apollo, I need you." Her voice trembled as I ground against her again. My cock was aching. Just seeing them together nearly sent me over the edge.

"I'm right here, sweetheart," Apollo murmured as he stretched over her, his knees next to her elbow, his palm denting the duvet beside her right cheek.

I lifted my head as he teased his fingers through hers, sighing in satisfaction as he bent to steal her lips in a fierce kiss. With Apollo loving her, I could focus on her pussy again.

She shuddered, letting out a small gasp as Apollo stroked her face, tracing his fingers over her nose, her cheeks, her lips, honouring every inch of her gorgeous face, the same way he did for me when we lay in bed wrapped in each other's arms.

"I've missed you," she whispered to him, tugging him down to kiss.

I loved her. I loved them both, but I loved watching them together most of all.

Now that my mate was here, it was time for the real fun to begin.