28. Xavier

Getting to worship an omega in our nest has been a lifelong dream of mine. But given our nomadic and dangerous lifestyle, I always knew it was unlikely. Before Casper, I'd almost resigned myself to the fact that our purpose was to save omegas, not cherish one of our own. Casper needed our protection as powerful men, and other than the pleasure he found with Declan, seemed oblivious to us as alphas. I thought we might grow together over time, but after a few failed overtures, even that hope seemed elusive. Rest and recuperation, I told myself, are just as important to an omega as intimacy and affection, and I devoted myself to that.

Until Jasmine Crenshaw entered our life and I understood the beauty of balance. Watching our two omegas fall in love proved that I could both care for someone and crave them in equal measure. As a caregiver, I thought I would always be the center of my omega's world, that they'd turn to me to share their troubles, and I'd be the first one to tend them when they went into heat. But watching Casper give Jasmine her first orgasm is enough to convince me that this is exactly where we're meant to be. Alphas forming the pack I've always dreamed of with two omegas at its heart.

But how close did we come to never having it at all?

"He's out," Erik murmurs as Casper sinks into the nest for some much-needed rest.

"He earned it," Dec laughs, brushing his hand over Casper's tousled curls. "And what about you, sweetlin'?" He coos to Jasmine. "Do you need a nap too?"

But she's already climbing into my lap, her arms winding around my neck. She's flushed and slippery, her skin like electric silk as she rubs her breasts against my chest. But it's her eyes that draw me in, pools of deep green light, shimmering with bottomless heat. "I want your mark, Xavier," she murmurs, sucking gently on my neck. "Will you claim me, Alpha?"

I run my fingers over the bruise I've already left on her throat. "Do you know how close I came when I was scent marking you?"

She gives a needy little shiver, her tongue dancing over my pulse point. "You said you didn't want to hurt me. But if you don't claim me…"

"There's no hope of that now." I cup her face, so she can see how serious I am. "You're it for me."

"And Casper," she says quickly, glancing down at him. With so much love in her eyes, it makes my stomach twist and my mouth dry. Because I'm reminded again how close we came to this never happening at all.

Given everything I've just learned about her, Jasmine has no reason to trust us, and even less reason to put her future in our hands. When she recounted her father's crimes against her, I felt rage surge through my blood like wildfire. Erik compared being drugged by Quinn to aging fifty years overnight, stripping away his strength until he was a shadow of himself. But Jasmine's revelation filled me with so much power, I could barely contain it. All I wanted to do was find her father and the corrupt men who helped him and tear them apart. Slowly and viciously, so they truly understood the depth of their crime.

But she's here now, I remind myself. She's safe, and she needs me to prove that I'm worthy of her love.

"Our beautiful, brave omegas," I tell her, kissing her softly as I ease her back into the nest. "Lie down, sweetheart. And if anything hurts, tell me, and I'll stop."

"Xavier," she sighs as I nuzzle her breasts, my fingers skimming over her nipples. I want to touch her everywhere, to stroke all those places where I left my scent. She arches up, pressing her body into my hands. "I want you so much."

I gently slide my fingers inside her, determined to soothe her in every way. But as she gazes up at me with her trusting eyes, my stomach twists with a new fear. I'd rather end myself than hurt her, but my emotions are so close to the surface. My famous control feels like it's hanging by a threat. If I claim her, will that fire in my blood spill out and scorch her? Will I prove that no alpha can ever be trusted to care for her?

I realize I've frozen up when Dec jolts me back with his purr. "You look so good like this, Alpha. I'm hard as a rock watchin' you tend to our girl." There's something in his eyes – Sympathy? Understanding? – and then he leans over and kisses me, his lips soft and warm.

I'm pretty sure my mind is still blank when Jasmine makes a sweet sound. "Do it again. But kiss him harder."

I don't wait for Dec to obey, grabbing his head and pushing my way into his mouth. He tastes like courage and compassion, and something fierce claws at my chest. Not rage, but possessive pride. Because he's mine, just as Jasmine and Casper are mine.

When I pull away, Jasmine gives a happy mewl and Dec laughs. "You like that darlin'?"

"She has a soft spot for threesomes," Erik says with a chuckle of his own.

"That"s because she had one with you. Your knot's so big it requires double handlin'."

"We watched a threesome, we didn't have one," Erik corrects Dec.

"Want to fix that now?" Jasmine asks, her eyes narrowed in challenge. "Less talking, more doing, Alphas."

We all smirk, but I'm watching her closely. She doesn't want soft words and gentle hands now. This is an omega who"s always been alone. The more pack members around her, the safer she's going to feel. And what she wants to feel is the strength of a pack.

And multiple orgasms, if her next needy whimper is anything to go by.

"Give her your mouth, Erik."

My voice skims the edge of domination, and my oldest friend studies me for a moment, something hot and primal passing between us. But then he gives me a nod, and fits his lips to hers, soaking up her sighs. The sight sends a throb of satisfaction through me, and I find her clit, rolling the nub until she shudders.

"Get me wet, Dec," I tell him, and he doesn't hesitate, leaning down and sucking my cock into his plush mouth. Jasmine cries out, writhing against my hand, her nails sinking into Erik's shoulder. She sucks her way along his neck while her hooded gaze is glued to Dec's mouth. When he lashes his tongue around my throbbing head, slick gushes into my palm, her heels digging into the bed. A shivery kind of ecstasy rolls over me, watching the pleasure I've unleashed. "Are you ready for me, Omega?"

"Yes! Please!" She pulls Erik down behind her, fitting into the V of his huge thighs. Declan lifts off me with a slurp, and we all groan at the state of my cock. Ubers are big; our knots never really deflate. But there are different degrees of hardness, and right now I'm as swollen as fuck.

"Hold her, Erik," I tell him, even though he doesn't need any coaxing on my part. "Open those sweet thighs for me."

He obeys, and once they're settled, I swipe a thumb over Dec's swollen lips. "When I'm inside her I want you to tease her clit. Don't stop until my knot is pushing against your mouth."

His pupils are almost fully blown, the edge of his rut starting to thicken in the air. But he still shoots me a cheeky grin as he flops on his belly. I grasp Jasmine's thighs and line my cockhead up with her opening. Her pussy is pink and glossy, her slick coating every swollen inch. She might have never taken an alpha cock before, but her body knows what it wants, and she arches up as I press inside her.

The sensations batter me on all sides. Her needy cries, the heat of my packmates' eyes, the velvet glove of her channel, already fluttering around me. She's trying to coax my seed from my shaft with her strong omega muscles, but I'm not ready to surrender it just yet. "Rub your cock along her ass," I tell Erik as I pull back and stroke deep inside her. I start a rhythm that's both deep and controlled. "Let her know that she's ours, and we're going to fill her every hungry hole."

I can't tell if Erik plays along, but Jasmine is writhing and mewling, her nails carving tracks in his thighs. I smirk down at the beautiful demon I've unleashed, but then Dec shoots me a wink, his wicked tongue licking a hot stripe up my shaft.

I stutter, the swipe of his pointed tip across my knot nudging me closer to the edge. But then he parts her puffy lips with his long, powerful fingers, and starts sucking on her throbbing clit. She clenches down on me so hard I see stars.

And then a sleep-tousled Casper rises up beside me like I've conjured him out of my dirtiest fantasy. His hair is wild, his skin flushed, and his mouth is hanging slack in hunger… until he drops down opposite Dec and adds his tongue to the blissful mess.

I surrender to sensation. The clutch of her body, the spikes of her nails when she rears up to clutch my thighs. We snatch bruising kisses, our bodies jolting under the slippery warmth of two enticing tongues. I"d close my eyes if it wasn"t everything I'd ever dreamed of, our mingled scents rising over us in a perfumed mist. Most packs form one at a time, with careful courtships and private claimings. But I want them all, in every way. I want everything. And my ferocious greed summons my uber right to surface.

"Xavier," Erik says, a hint of warning in his voice.

But Casper is purring, and Dec is grinning, and Jasmine is pushing down on me until my knot catches on her swollen opening. "Don't stop!" she gasps, staring into my lust-soaked gaze. "Give me everything!"

Who am I to deny her hunger when it perfectly matches mine? "I will always care for you…"

She grinds down harder, squeezing my knot with her pussy. Determination flashes in her blown-out eyes, her hand finding mine and clinging to it. "You care for me by loving me, Alpha."

"I do," I growl, thrusting my knot into her until it's wedged deep. "I love you. With everything in me."

"I love you too!" she almost wails, her pussy throbbing with the first rush of her release. "Bite me, alpha. Make me yours forever."

Erik surges forward, driving her towards me. I'm filling and stretching her, my body claiming what it needs at the most primal level. Jasmine digs her heels into the nest, trying to take me deeper, but we're as close as two people can be. And then I'm fitting my mouth to her scent gland, taking the tender flesh between my teeth. My entire life seems to shimmer before my eyes and then I bite down, shark teeth slicing into sweet flesh. Jasmine comes in a velvety gush, her body turning liquid in my embrace. A similar warmth pools in my chest and I gasp as the bond snaps into place.

It's a sharp sting, almost violent in its intensity, and Jasmine cries out as she comes again. I was so lost in the moment of her claiming, I barely felt the release surging from my body. But with every sweet clench of her pussy, another pulse of hot cum is torn from my knot. I groan, my arms pulling her tight, my tongue swirling around my bite mark. It's raw, and deep, and everything I always dreamed of. A mark of possession, but deeper than that, a point of connection. And through it I feel her bottomless love and infinite affection. We might be clinging to each other in a primal joining, but this is why we were made. This is why we exist. Because that desperate need for love inside me, has met its perfect match in the women clasped in my arms.

"Can you take her into the tub?" I ask Declan some endless moments later. We've eased apart, but I'm still circling the stars, soaking up the sweet connection I can feel sliding under my skin. I don't need to tell Dec twice; he and Erik have already swept her up and are carrying her away. Not away, I tell the possessive beast grumbling in my chest. Just into the bathroom. Because it's their turn to tend to our omega and welcome her into the pack.

I prepped the bathroom after I spoke to Patrick in the hall, making sure he knew he was welcome to the suite across from ours. The two-seater soaking tub is already heated, the soothing oils stimulated by the jets. And through the new bond throbbing in my chest, I feel a sudden flare of contentment tinged with awe. Jasmine, I'm almost certain, is sliding down into her first experience of a Japanese soaking tub.

Casper squirms against me, drawing my attention back to the nest. He's wriggled his way up to lie against my shoulder, and I feather a finger over his smiling lips. "Are you happy?"

"I think you gave her exactly what she needs." It's a non-answer and the perfect answer at the same time. "And it's how I want it, too. You boss us all about, squeeze out every ounce of filthy pleasure, and then give me your big fat knot."

"And my big, fat bite," I remind him.

He makes a happy rumbling sound. "I want it to look like a wolf has mauled me."

I laugh at the greedy look on his face. "Dec's right. You're trouble." He gives me an innocent flutter of his lashes and I throw an arm across my eyes, my belly aching with the need to laugh. But once I start, how will I ever stop? "You're such a menace, I bet you'll top all of us from the bottom."

"I'm not so sure," he says, pressing his hard cock against my thigh. "You sounded pretty dommie to me."

He's right. At least part of the happiness simmering under my skin is how that claiming played out. I've always thought my dominance was more about caregiving than control, but everything we did felt so right. Like that raging beast under my skin has had its fill, now lying fat and happy as it basks in my pack's contentment.

I drag my arm away from my face and roll to kiss Casper's pouty lips. "Do you want to shower with me while they soak?"

His eyes sparkle with a familiar mischief. "Right now, I want to check if that knot is really as impressive as Jasmine made it sound."

"Told you," I smirk as I grab his hip, digging my fingers into the lean muscle. "Topping from the bottom."

But he just pinches my nipple and swings a leg over my waist, leaning down to whisper, "Good boy, Alpha."