Chapter 16

When I'd had my first heat spike, Theo had been driving us to the pack house. I'd been desperate for relief but also unsure of my place in the pack and a little scared about it all. This spike though, I wasn't going toward the guest room of their house. I was being driven back to my nest in our home. The other big difference was that, while Theo was still white-knuckling the steering wheel as he drove, cursing every car and stop light. I was blissed out with Shae's mouth teasing me and making the drive bearable.

"Like that. Oh, fu—please let me come."

Theo had snarled at us when we tried to undo our seatbelts, because, safety or something, but Shae was making a valiant effort despite the awkward angle and barely being able to get my dick out. Their hand squeezed my base as they sucked and licked at the head.

"Two more minutes."

I could hear the strain in Theo's voice and whined at his distress, which only made his jaw clench further. The car lurched slightly as he floored the pedal, clearly giving no more fucks about the speed limit. At that moment, Shae squeezed me tighter and moved their hand in time with the shallow bobs of their head. I'd tried not to push their head down, but I was so close.

My hand went to the back of their head anyway as my dick thickened and I started to cry out. Shae moved their hand from my shaft and swallowed me down until I felt the tight squeeze of their throat along my tip. I threw my head back against the seat as I felt every pulse of my release and every contraction of their throat as they swallowed every bit of my cum. My chest was heaving and I was still hard but Shae continued to gently suck me until the car finally rolled into our parking spot at the front of the house.

They sat up and gently tucked me back into my pants leaning over to kiss me with the taste of myself still on their mouth. I moaned into their kiss and tried to climb in their lap after they'd freed me of the seat belt but their hand on my chest stopped me.

I whimpered as I looked at their face, knowing they wouldn't reject me, but my hindbrain was so fully in control that it felt like a rejection.

"I'm not coming into your nest this time, baby."

I whimpered again and, dammit, my vision started to blur with tears.

"I don't think our Tough Guy will be able to resist biting you, Ethan. I want it to be just you two when it happens. You both deserve that."

Fuck. Theo had bonded Jade. He could bond me now. My heart raced at the possibility that I would finally be part of the pack.

My door was wrenched open, and Theo bent inside, pressing me into the back of my seat and collaring my throat with his rough hand before he took my mouth in a scorching kiss.

"Can't wait any more, Omega. Need to make you mine."

I whined against his mouth and chased his kiss as he released my throat and stood back from the car, beckoning me. Stumbling out of the car with my eyes locked on his, like he held me under a spell, I took his hand, and we started up the short stairs to the front door. The sound of a car door slamming broke me from my needy trance. I stopped and the motion tugged at Theo's hand causing him to whip around.

"What's wrong, Ethan?"

"Shae."

They jogged up the stairs and cupped my face in their hands, kissing me softly.

"I'm going to go make sure you have something to eat when you're done. Remember, I got to have you all to myself last night, so let your Alpha show you how much you mean to him."

I whined. I didn't like turns. I needed them all.

"You'll have all of us soon, baby. Trust me, though, you'll want time with just Theo today."

Stupid hormones. Thinking words are supposed to stay on the inside.They looked at Theo for a second and nodded as something passed between them. I grabbed one of their hands from my face to drag them along behind me, determined to keep them with me as long as possible. But when I saw the tension in Theo's back and the way that his other hand was clenched, I realized Shae was right.

He hadn't been granted much time to deal with the demands of his designation and, with added impact of the spike riding me, his Alpha instincts would be in the driver's seat. I kissed Shae again at the bottom of the stairs then turned back to my Alpha who was barely containing himself, then we started up the stairs as fast as we could.

Theo grumbled the whole time about my nest being so fucking far away until I reminded him that Miles meant for it to be because I was more protected that way. That point earned a grunt that I decided meant fine. Racing up the stairs left us winded and when we finally got through the door, the sounds of exertion transformed to laughter as we both stumbled around trying to strip too quickly, leaving us in a tangle of limbs and clothes. The relief that had come with Shae blowing me in the car was wearing off as I got in the nest and the combined scents of my pack hit me.

I had just managed to free my foot from the trap that occurs when you forget to take a shoe off before you take off your pants. In my defense, the sound of Theo's belt being removed was very distracting. I discarded the shoe and my pants off to the side, then I realized that Theo was standing still, looking at me intently. When he spoke, the seriousness of his tone had me paying close attention.

"Ethan, I know we've talked about it and you said you want my bite but we didn't really say when and I—fuck, I don't think I can keep my teeth out of you if we go any further."

Moving toward him, I made sure to speak as clearly as I could and held his gaze as I did.

"I love you. I want your bite more than just about anything. Shae told me that the bond is like having pieces of someone else's soul tied to yours. I want to know what it feels like. I want that with you.'

"Fuck."

He didn't need to say any more. He crowded into me and started walking me backwards toward the center of my nest. Theo's his callous-roughened hands landing on my hips to guide me. When he ran them lightly up my ribs, teasing my hypersensitive skin, I closed my eyes, thinking he was about to kiss me. Instead, I felt his grip tighten under my arms and he lifted me slightly, my eyes sprang open as he tossed me onto the plush mattress and my collection of pillows, blankets, and stolen clothes.

I laughed as I landed in my nest. Then I looked up at Theo. He was smiling, wider than I'd ever seen, and he was fucking breathtaking. My laugh cut off as my stomach tightened and my perfume flooded the room. I opened my mouth to speak but the sound that came out was an instinctual Omega whine, calling to Theo's hindbrain in a way that my words never could.

The smile that had me riveted slid from his face and his growl thrummed through the air. I slid my legs apart and leaned back on one elbow, gripping myself with my other hand.

"Need you, Alpha."

Theo's eyes snapped to mine and his tongue ran along his teeth before he sank them into his bottom lip. He stroked his pierced length as his gaze moved over my body.

"Part of me wants to eat you until you come from just my tongue, but I need to get inside you."

His gaze focused on where my dick was leaking so much that I didn't need any lube as I stroked myself through heaving breaths.

"On second thought."

Theo dropped to his knees between my thighs and leaned over me with his hands on either side of my head, forcing me to drop onto my back. His hips pressed into mine until our dicks lined up and I couldn't stop myself from rolling my hips trying to create some kind of friction and relief from the inferno of need building in me.

My hands moved to his chest and I stared into his blue eyes. Did all Omegas feel hypnotized by their Alphas? I fucking hoped so.

He put most of his weight on one hand and pulled the hand that I'd had on my dick from his chest and up to his mouth. Watching him lick the precum from my hand had me panting and squirming beneath him.

"Please, Theo."

Without saying a word, he moved my hand down to where we were pressed together and wrapped it around both of our lengths.

"Use that slick leaking from your dick to get yourself off and cover my cock in your cum. Don't want anything between us, even lube is too much. Going to fuck you with nothing but your cum to slick up that perfect hole."

I whimpered and tightened my hand around us both. Each stroke had me groaning, not just from the pleasure-inducing grip of my hand, but from the feel of his pierced cock against my shaft. Each one of the bars was an added pressure point along my overly sensitive dick. I was going to come in no time at all. When I couldn't keep my eyes open any more, Theo began to kiss and nip along my throat.

"I know just where I want my bite, but I can't reach it like this. I need to be inside you first, so be a good Omega and come for me."

Theo bit lightly on the space between my neck and shoulder after he spoke those magic words. I didn't know if it was possible for an Omega to come from an Alpha's command alone, but I'd been so close that the teasing nip he gave me sent me over the edge.

My neck arched, and my head pressed back into the pillows and blankets as I sobbed out unintelligible words. Theo pulled away from my neck and took over jacking my dick through the orgasm while my muscles spasmed through the aftershocks.

When I came back down to earth, Theo's pupils were fully blown and he was coating his shaft in my cum. That might have been a turn-off for some, but it set my instincts spinning, because my Alpha was covering himself in my scent. Anyone who came near him would know who he belonged to as good as any bite. A brief growl brought my attention back up to Theo's face before he spoke.

"Hands and knees, Omega."

Even in my semi-boneless state, I managed to turn over faster than I'd ever done in my life. As the mattress sank gently with his weight, the purr that I heard coming from behind me had me arching my back and dropping my head. The tops of his thighs pressed lightly into the backs of mine and his hand ran up my spine with just the right amount of pressure to make me groan.

The head of his length teased against me as his hands gripped my hips, stopping me from pushing back onto him.

"You're not in charge right now, Ethan. I know what you need, and I'm going to give it to you, but I'm going to enjoy sinking every inch into your tight heat. Then I'm going to fuck you full of my cum and claim you. Are you going to be a good Omega for me?"

He punctuated his last sentence with a slow press against me, allowing just his tip to stretch my opening. I wanted to beg. I wanted to cry. I needed him to sheath himself inside me and rut.

"Please, Alpha. Pleasepleaseplease."

Theo's purr got stronger and took the edge off the desperation I felt. He ran his hand slowly up my back again, and, this time, pushed the smallest amount when he reached the space between my shoulders. I gave in to his unspoken command and dropped down to my forearms, pressing my face into the blankets and taking deep breaths of my pack's scents. He did exactly as he promised and slowly fed me his inches until I was deliciously overwhelmed by the sensation of him moving in me.

His knot pressed against where we were joined, and I couldn't hold in the keening sound that came from me. My hands clutched at the blankets and my abdominal muscles contracted. It wasn't anything as bad as a full heat, but I needed his knot.

"Theo."

My voice was laced with a whine and that seemed to snap the restraint he'd been showing. A wordless cry ripped from my throat as he pulled almost all the way out then slammed himself back into me. His bruising grip on my hips kept me mostly in place but he was pounding into me with enough force that I was rocking forward with each thrust. The bedding had bunched up beneath me, providing just enough friction to tease, but not to push me over the edge.

I shifted my weight to one arm and started to move my other hand to my dick to stroke it in time with Theo's thrusts. A growl cut through the sounds of our skin slapping together and I froze.

Theo bent over me, fully sheathed within me except for his knot, and wrapped a strong hand around my throat. He straightened, bringing me with him until my back was pressed to his chest. The hand at my throat shifted up and he turned my head to the side so that he could rub his nose against my cheek and rake his teeth along my jaw.

"Keep your hands off your dick. You're going to come untouched; do you hear me? You're going to soak your nest from nothing but my cock, my knot, and my bite."

"Fuck, Theo. Please. Knot me. Make me yours."

The hand around my jaw tightened again and he growled into my ear.

"You've always been mine. Bite or not."

I nodded frantically, tears building in my eyes from need and from the intense emotions those rose inside me at his words.

He wrapped his other arm around my waist to steady me as he used the grip on my throat to force my back into an arch that had him hitting me in the perfect spot. My hands reached back to claw at his thighs as I mewled at how well he was turning me out.

"That's it. You're taking it so well. Going to give you my knot, sweet Omega."

Before I could say anything, Theo snapped his hips, slipping his knot in me and setting off a second orgasm. I screamed out at the force of the release that barreled through me. Theo's hips stuttered and he angled my head to the left before I felt the burn of his teeth sinking into my skin.

My heart skipped a beat and my breath stuttered as the tether of the bond snapped into place. Though my eyes were open wide, I couldn't focus on anything around me. Even the secure hold of Theo's arms keeping me in place was a distant sensation. The bond settled and I knew tears were streaming freely down my face.

I'd thought about what a bond would feel like, even before my designation had emerged, but nothing could have prepared me for the all-consuming sense of rightness that permeated through me at a soul-deep level. At first it felt like I was riding a really gentle high, that spacey feeling, like there was something different in my own mind, something I couldn't quite touch. But the more I focused on it the clearer the emotions coming from Theo became.

Theo was utter devotion and love. He was a raging need to protect. But most strongly at that moment was the pleasure of the orgasm that was still rolling through him as he emptied himself into me. My dick twitched and I clenched around his knot, moaning and feeling out the bond. His tongue moved over the bite to tend it and I wasn't prepared for how that simple touch would feel as good as if he was deep-throating my dick.

"Ohmygod, Theo! Fuck, I'm gonna?—"

Another orgasm barreled through me, and I collapsed onto my chest. Ass still in the air because my Alpha's knot was still locked in me. My dick kicked against my stomach, and I sobbed through the intensity of the pleasure rolling through my body the same feelings feeding through the bond from Theo. He rocked into me, barely able to thrust with how tightly his knot fitted inside me, but each slight movement sent shockwaves through me. Theo's hands moved over mine and he settled his weight on top of me. He began to purr again as he nuzzled into my hair and my neck. His nose and lips grazed over his bite, making me shiver.

"I wanted my bite here, but I didn't think through knotting you like this. I want to see your face."

I sighed and let his weight and his purr bring me back down to earth. Focusing again on the bond, I could tell the rush of his orgasm had mostly faded and in its place was something like contentment, and so much love. That love just washed over me like waves breaking on the shore, rolling one after the other.

"Ethan, are you alright? I didn't hurt you did?—"

I squeezed his hands, where they still held mine stretched over my head, and thought about how much I loved him, how happy I was. I knew the moment that he registered those feelings in the bond because his relieved sigh brushed along the back of my neck before he began placing reverent kisses there. Theo's knot loosened: faster than before but I figured that was because it was supposed to happen like that in a heat so that an Omega could be knotted frequently, and spikes must have the same effect.

Theo pulled out of me, then raised up into a plank position, allowing me to wiggle around until I was on my back beneath him. The look on his face nearly stole my breath again. I'd never had anyone look at me the way my pack did, but Theo's face was full of awe and a reverence. I couldn't have pictured a look like that if someone had simply described it to me. It was the kind of devotion that you had to see for yourself to understand. That look, coupled with the warmth of love in the bond, had tears clouding my vision again.

We'd been through so much, all of us, in such a short time. If this was what waited at the end, I would go through hell all over again for this, for him, and for them.

"Don't cry, Biscuit."

A hiccupping laugh broke from my lips, and I reached up to pull his weight back onto me. I pressed my face into his neck and inhaled as deeply as I could. Theo's bayberry and oak was stronger between the sex and the bonding, and I couldn"t get enough.

"Happy tears… Alpha."

His purr thrummed to life, vibrating between our chests and the bond was filled with satisfaction.

"Mmm, the things hearing you call me Alpha does to me, mate."

My breath caught and my Omega hindbrain went into full preening mode. Theo's deep chuckle told me he could feel that too.

"Like that, do you, mate?"

I nodded fast and pressed my face into his neck again as my cheeks flamed. Theo nuzzled into my hair, marking my cheek and temple before whispering into my ear.

"Mate, love, bonded… mine."

Each word sent a shiver through my body as he punctuated each one with a kiss, pressing the final one to the still healing mark of his claim.

"I love you."

"Love you too, Ethan."

I'd opened my mouth to say more, but whatever profoundly sappy words I was building up to were silenced by the growling of my stomach. I groaned, partly from annoyance at the lost moment and partly because I knew that meant the spike was over and celebratory bonding dick would have to wait. There was no way any of my pack would hear that noise and let me do anything before they fed me.

I could feel Theo's smile stretch where his lips were still pressed to my skin and the breath from his silent laughter huffing against me had me squirming to get out from beneath him. I brought my hand down on his firm, rounded ass in a playful slap and he grunted as his hips bucked into mine.

"Careful, Biscuit. You need to eat but there's nothing to stop me from sitting you on my cock and forcing you to finish your food before I let you come again."

There was no hiding how I felt about that with the way my perfume flooded the room and my dick kicked between us.

"Well, looks like we have a plan for dinner."