Chapter 28

Chapter

Twenty-Eight

"Are you sure you're okay?" Liam asked. "What the hell was that back there?"

"I'm sorry."

"Don'tbe sorry. Ifthat was anyone else or someone else. What do you thinkcould'vehappened?"He asked, his voice stern. He almost sounded like Demetri.

"I'm sorry," I repeated. "I don't know what happened. I just thought I…"

"You what?"

"Ithought I saw something,"I admitted. Someone.

But I hadn't that was clear. My brain was just playing tricks on me now that I had been working on this project so intently with the rest of them.

"What did you think you saw?"

My past.

I shook my head."Nothing. It was nothing."

He stared at me for a long moment before he opened his mouth,luckilyhe was cut back off.

"You get it?"Demetri asked.

Liam nodded, lifting the folder.

"Good job," said Demetri looking between the two of us. "Ready to go?"

Liam looked back at me before turning silently and headed toward Demetri and wherever they planned to take all the papers I put together for them. Was this it? Were they doing everything now?

They couldn't be, right?

There had to be some lead uporwas the Prestford enterprise and the other families doing to fall like somesort ofterribly constructed bridge—tonight?

Demetri noticed me watching."Thank you again, Ella."

"It's fine. Really," I said. "You're welcome."

"We won't be long."

The house was so big, it was hard not for me to pace after what happened. I was just starting to feel comfortable and safe and that happened?

I didn't get it.

Rita'slikely future husbanda thisrate wascertainlynot a Davinson, but for a moment there, Icouldn'thelp it. My instincts were insisting, screaming?—

"Ella?"Cal noticed me. He stood at the end of the hallandI paused. He walked the rest of the way towards me."Are you okay?"

"Yes. Of course."

"You sure about that?"He raised an eyebrow.

"Everyone keeps asking me that."

He blinked a few times."Maybe there is a reason?"

There was more than one at this rate, but as I looked at Cal all the way away from me, I paused at one very specific one. I crossed my arms over myself.

Cal seemed to notice my hesitance."What is it?"

"Are you even still attracted to me?"I asked.

"What are you talking about?"

"I just mean. I get that you are, I think," I said. "I'm still here, anyway but…"

He chuckles. "You think?"

"Youhaven'tkissed me is all… since everything. You say that you wouldandmake moves like you would when we sleep together in the nestbut…"

Eyes widening, a look of understanding crossed his face.

Slowly, a heateddifferentlookstarted to transformhis expression, teeth grazing his lip as he took only a fewbigsteps to bridge the gap between us.

I was standing in front of the couch in the living roomandnow, I fell back onto it.

Cal leaned over the top of my frame until my heart took on a new beat. His body covered mine.

He pursued his lips as if in thought."I see. Am I attracted to you? You have to be kidding me, beautiful. Andkissing you?It'sall I think about. The other daywhenyou walked back in here smelling like Liam. God, I felt like I died and gone to heaven. I was giving you some space as you figured things out. Ididn'twant to rush you. To be sure you wanted me…us."

I stare at him.

Was he kidding? Icouldn'tstand for any more of his self-inflicted pain. I already told him how much he meant to me already. Icouldn"tcare less if he was an alpha. I was pretty sure I preferred it. Without Cal, Iwould'venever made it this far. Who knew whatwould'vehappened?

"Do you want me to kiss you, Ella?"He asked me."Is that what has you pacing?"

"Partly," I answered truthfully.

"You want me to kiss you like I used to when we were together? Like when it wasjustyou and meliketeenagers in the car whocouldn'tget enough of each other?"He asked.

God, that felt so long ago now.

It was. And itwasn't.

I tipped my chin up as if that would make him move faster and just put his lips on mine already.

"Aren't you going to answer?" asked Cal.

"Ithought Liam was the bossy one."

He groaned."Oh, how I hate that he still managed to beat me to getting to see you fall apart first."

"He told you that."

"Please, baby. It was written all over your face that day,"hemurmured into my ear."And in your scent."

"Iwant you to be the one to kiss me now,"I said.

"Good. Because I plan to."

I blushed hardandthat was all it took for Cal to finally bridge the gap and kiss me once and for all.

Oh, how I missed it.

Cal kissed me like he was playing with me, teasing me before going in for itcompletely, taking me for all I had as I kissed him back. My lips slipped against his as he gently bit my bottom lip, sending a gasp tumbling out from the back of my throat.

I arched into his body as he cradled me to him, trailing his mouth down my jaw to my neck.

As I leaned back, turning my head. I gaspedandnot just because of what Cal was doing to me.

Marko stood in the entry. Watching us.

For some reason, his being there only made me burn further in the inferno that was slowly starting to consume me. When our eyes met, his hazel gaze turned gold. Hot and molten.

Hetook a steptowards me, waiting for any argument to come out of me as he got closer to the two of us.

I wanted more.

More.

Cal seemed to notice only then, pulling away from where he had been kissing and nipping at my neck.

"Hmm."He hummed."You like Marko,don'tyou, beautiful? I could tell the first time you ran into him. How does he make you feel? Stunning? Small?"

Marko let loose something of asmallgrowl.

It sent shivers through me."Safe."

Again, Marko's eyes found mine. Only, instead of only heat in them, now there was something else. Softness. Understanding.

"Protected," I added.

Marko knelt in front of me.Itwas striking, taking my breath away, the sight of him there.Such alargealpha was kneeling. He was kneeling in front of me.For me.

"You think you might want this, Ella? All of us?"

"I…" I hesitated.

"Youdon'thave to,"said Cal, his words pausing between each other.

"No."

"Ah. That's fine. It's?—"

"Ido want you. I want both of you. I think."

Cal went back to smiling, planting another kiss hard over my mouth.

"Icould see it. Allof us. If I tried,"I whispered, finally admitting it."If I was as brave as you."

"As me?" Cal beamed.

"Yes."

"Oh, baby girl. I promise you are,"he said."Let'sprove it right now."

I wanted more.And more wasexactlywhat I was going to get.

Marko'sbroad hands traveled up my calves towards my thighs, gently parting them as Cal continued to lick and kiss.

"You like that, Ells? You like our big alpha getting between your legs while I kiss you?"Cal asked, and my heat felt like I was boiling as I tried to twist under their hands.

God,howdidn'tI know he had such a dirty mouth until now?

I wanted to think that part of itmust'vebeen taught by Liam.But now, it was all Cal, and I was content to reap the benefits of having two dirty-talking packmates.

Or whatever they were to me just now.

"You want to know how muchhe'swanted to do this to you since the other night down in the gym,"Marko hummedandI had a feeling I knew. I had been thinking about it just as much.

I wanted him then sobadly.To take my mind off things.To take care of me.

Now—

"Haven'tbeen withanyonelet alone one as tempting as you since…"Marko drifted off.

Since…

My eyes widened, my fire turning down a few degrees as I understood what hewas saying. Markohadn'tbeen with anyone since what happened to him. What if hedidn'twant to feel this way or be with meandIjustpractically jumped him?

"That's all the past, little omega," Marko said. "You're all I'm thinking about now. Touching… wanting… tasting."

He started a new path with his mouth down my chest. His hands gripped my hips until I writhed."You like me holding onto you tight? So youcan'tget away, little omega?"

He squeezed again.

I gasped through a moan.

Pushing up my shirt with his hands, I wiggled. Cal was already moving to sit behind me, to suppose and touch and kisswhileI looked down between my legs at Marko.

Cal'shands found ours, pulling my shirt the rest of the way over my head.

Ican'tbelieve I was doing this. ThatI was here between these two gorgeous men half naked in the living room.

I almost wanted to laugh.

But then, I watched Marko as he kissed my belly before he played with my waistband.

"Look at how bad he wants you, beautiful,"whispered Cal into my ear. The hot breath sent new shakes down my body.

"Yes," I begged, bowing off the mats. I couldn't handle the need. "Please, alpha."

I continued my quiet cries for more the entire time he slowly pulled off my pants. Markowasn'ta man of many words. Luckily, hedidn'tneed any, and Cal filled in all the blanks as he described each movement we made, making everything even hotter.

Marko threw my pants to the side and placed a few more slow kisses up my inner thigh. He acted as if he had all the time in the world before he reached my center.

"God, omega…"He licked me up my core.

Marko more than tasted me. I moaned, clenching my thighs around his head as every touch and tease he made sent me higher.

Cal continued to kiss and bite at my skin, testing to see what I liked most until I was near tears with need and pleasure, arching againstMarko'smouth.Cal'sfingers tweaked my nipples in a way that made me feel like I was about to choke on desire for them both.

I wanted them both.Neededall of them. They were mine.

"So fucking mine,"Marko growled against my slick-coated skin.

He circled me with the tip of his tongue and I couldn't hold on any longer.

My hands flew down to grasp his hair. My hips rocked into his face until I cried out louder than ever before.

Pleasure rocked me.

Marko kept going, carrying me through.