Chapter 8

Devin hummed low in her throat as Rey scrubbed the pads of his fingers against the back of her skull. A distracted caress as he shuffled papers on the desk. Curled up in his lap like some cat while he worked, it was the only way she remained calm.

Docile, more like it. Mindless, if she was being honest, but even that was becoming harder to come by. Those first days after the claiming had been terrifying. Her will was nothing against the stalwart walls of his. Crushing her thoughts, drowning her in his command. She walked through the world in a rosy haze that whispered sweet words of compliance.

It worked, for a time.

In infinitesimal increments, she’d prevailed. Starting with something as simple as donning a pair of underwear without his say so, it progressed until Devin lashed out. Snarling her own demands in his face as he bellowed his rage at her lack of obedience.

He’d drag her back to the bed then. Fucking her until the world tripped and tilted on its axis. The rosy haze descended for a short while afterwards.

Now he needed direct contact. His every touch, each caress keeping the frenzied screams and clawing fingers subdued. While other Alphas would have had their Omegas languishing in the nest awaiting them, he dragged Devin with him on the smallest of errands. Incapable of leaving her alone for fear of the damage she’d cause, either to herself or anyone around her.

Devin chuckled at her thoughts, ignoring the prickling at her nape when he gave her hair a sharp tug.

She’d shattered the mirror in the bathroom already. An entire stack of plates meeting a similar fate, though he hadn’t gotten to her before she could pull the jagged edge of ceramic over the inside of her wrist. Plucking at the brilliant white gauze circling her arm, she curled her lip when he gave her curls another pull.

“Stop that,” she hissed, trying to slide from his lap. Shoving at his arm, she twisted despite the fistful of curls he held.

“Come here.”

“No! Let me go.”

Rey cursed under his breath and dragged her back behind the desk when she edged around the corner. Controlling her by his grip on her hair, he bent her forward, shoving the waist of her leggings down to her knees. Ignoring her growls and the bite of her nails, Rey notched the glistening crown of his cock against her. Driving into the hilt with a single thrust, he slapped his other hand over her mouth to muffle her howl of pleasurable pain.

This she hated most. The way her body betrayed her so readily. Back arching, sending her to tiptoes to take him deep. Palms stuttered over the gleaming wood to shove back into his cruel thrusts. With her mouth covered, Devin didn’t try to hold back her cries as the sinuous heat suffused her, her moans crumpling into guttural grunts as he knocked the breath from her lungs. Giving her no mercy, he dragged her up the ragged, steep hill of her pleasure. It was brutal, fast, but he still made sure she came each time. Turning her body against her, using it as a weapon.

“This time,” he growled at her ear, his chest holding her to the desk so his hand could slip down between her legs. Thumbing her aching clit with rough circles, making her clench around him as pleasure rippled up her back and down to her toes. His other hand cupped her belly, fingers splayed wide over the faint bulge of health. Threat and promise both as he shoved deep into her clutching depths, grinding against her cervix. “This time you give me what I want.”

Devin shrieked her denial, though her legs spread wider. With her hips tipped up, she gave him space to plunge deeper with every savage slap of his hips against her upturned ass. Neither worried about the feral sounds they made, who might hear them. Rey’s single-minded intensity poured through the sticky bond, a molten wave drowning Devin in his will.

Sobbing against the tear slick wood, she lunged towards the endless abyss he offered. An explosion of white-hot light ripped through her as she fell from the teetering precipice. Pussy a wet mess of contractions, she gripped his cock tight. Screaming when it refused to bring her the mindless haze, she convulsed as the violent pleasure tore through her.

A feral monster at her back, Rey denied her the swollen thickness of his knot. Working it in and out of the tight clench of her entrance, he roared his demands against her skin, scoring her flesh with his claims. Making her feel his need down to her very soul before he forced the throbbing girth inside her. Reveling in her shrill screams before he locked tight behind her pelvic bone. Filling her with the hot surges of his come, he pinched and twisted her clit. Forcing her to take more of the unrelenting bliss, molding it into an agonizing rush.

When the knot abated, he began again. Rocking against her in slow, steady sways until Devin hiccupped and pushed back to meet him. Demanding more, praying he wouldn’t listen. The flash of his teeth was equal parts grim desire and savage determination.

Eons passed before Devin collapsed to the sweat slick wood. Lungs working like bellows to suck in air tainted by their sex, honey sweet espresso bathed her insides with every breath. She felt boneless, leaden with the weight of the orgasms he’d coerced from her body.

“Fuck, you feel so good,” Rey rasped against her shoulder, sounding just as wrung out as Devin felt. Tearing at the peeling edges of her bandage, he brought his claiming mark out into the open and ghosted his lips against the raw edges of the bite. “Take it all, sweetheart. Squeeze my knot.”

Her groan rattled around her chest as her body jerked with a painful aftershock, muscles seizing around the still expanding bulge. Twisting it in the wet grip of her body to urge more of his seed to batter her tender cervix.

A male voice neared. Panic skittered up Devin’s spine, the vulnerable position of them both driving away the soul sapping languor. Within seconds her pain receptors flared to life, the agony of being fucked hard and knotted too often slamming through her hips.

Either too caught up in the pulsing of his cock or uncaring of Devin’s fear, Rey’s reaction was to subdue. Hand folding over her nape, he slammed her back down onto the desk with a vicious growl rumbling from deep in his chest. When she dared to whine, a faint twitch of her shoulders her only real resistance, he leaned much of his weight on the delicate column.

“I’m telling you he’s busy, but hey, you want me to interrupt him, I will. Yeah, hang on.”

It was Beau. The door opened to give Devin a front row seat to the widening of his eyes, nostrils flaring as his cerulean gaze swept over Rey and Devin both. She saw the bulge growing in his slacks, straining against the zipper until it threatened to rip its way free.

Rey bellowed something, but the crimson shaded anguish deep inside her stomach overwhelmed Devin as he tugged at the knot. Wheezing as she tried to breathe through the pain, her nails gouged the warm oak as her hands fought for purchase.

“Here he is,” Beau said into the phone before tossing the cell across the room to clatter against the desk at Devin’s side. “It’s Kahler.”

The bastard didn’t leave. Leaning back against the doorframe, he massaged his erection through the fabric of his pants and eyed Devin with a hunger she could feel even at that distance. Horrified that Rey became so distracted as to take the damned call, slapping a muffling palm over her mouth when she tried to protest.

“What the fuck—Yes, of course. I’ll have them out as soon as it gets dark…” Rey adjusted his position, pushing deeper to wedge Devin tighter against the desk, stopping her wriggling. Ignoring her shrill wails as he listened to Kahler. “It’s going to cost. Moving a shipment during daylight… Yes, I understand. I’ll need more men to move that amount. I can have mine at the docks within the hour. Beau and I will figure out how to get everything there.”

Rey’s shoulders twitched at whatever Kahler said before the definite sound of an Alpha’s roar echoed through the tiny speaker. Snared between the shifting knot and Beau’s massive form coming closer, Devin couldn’t begin to decipher what Kahler had threatened.

“Rey,” she whined as he took his hand from her mouth, the sound coming from deep in her chest as she tried to meld into the warm, wet wood. Eyes rolling, she tried to keep the monstrous pale Alpha in her sights as Rey continued to hold her down.

“Back off, Beau!” Rey’s growl twisted into a prolonged groan, his hips moving in twitching thrusts as fear tightened Devin’s hold on the knot.

“You sure?” Careful strides brought Beau alongside Rey, lips working over sweat sheened ochre skin as he settled a hand low on Rey’s back. A faint push grinding him deeper into Devin.

Devin keened at the too much sensation, the edge of the desk digging hard into her mons to add pressure to her tender clit. Beau’s gentle push and tug of Rey’s hips with the smallest of touches, causing him to sway. A slow rocking that lit Devin on fire.

“Stop, please,” she sobbed as she slammed her fists into the hard surface.

The pain stopped as soon as it started. Wet warmth covered the whole of her pussy, sucking, licking. Pulling tender folds into a ravenous mouth that played over the frilled edges with surprising dexterity. From top to bottom, that tongue licked, and judging from Rey’s stuttering groan, it went far beyond her pink flesh. She shrieked more in surprise than pain as Rey tugged his hips back, taking her with him as he kicked her legs wider. Making space for the slide of expensive fabric against her inner thighs, the rough rasp of stubble tickling at her labia.

“No,” she screamed. At least, she meant to. Didn’t know if the word escaped her throat as Beau’s lips closed around her clit. He sucked hard at the pert nub, tongue lashing it with furious determination. Her breath hitched, a shiver racing down her spine and threading its way to her toes. Rey grunted, fingers curling around the shelf of her hips in a bruising grip as he edged in and out of her wet heat. The knot was softening, their combined fluids leaking out around the thick bulge.

Beau’s moan was a terrible thing. Brimming with painful need and greedy desire. His lips smacked against Devin, sucking at her entrance and the still swollen root of Rey’s cock as he swallowed the creamy liquid escaping her. Beau’s hand wrapped around her thigh, gripping the soft flesh to pull her open so his tongue could delve deep. His other arm curled around her, and as she felt the thick muscles of his forearm shift, Rey swayed with a gentle pull.

Beneath his guiding hands, they began to move. Devin aghast at the shimmering fire rocketing through her belly and chest, toes curling to grip the firm planks while pushing at the desk. Meeting Rey’s careful thrusts as the knot pulsed. The sodden sounds of their flesh coming together underlined with Beau’s quiet rumbles, his pleasured sounds coating the back of her throat with cinnamon and spice.

In that precise moment, he didn’t terrify her. Not as Rey dug his fingers into her hips, yanking her back into him. Melding their bodies together with a slow grind before leaning over her back to score her spine with kisses that bloomed in ragged pulses of fire.

Not until he slipped to a shallow depth and rubbed the coarse stubble of his cheek against her outstretched arm.

“I want it soaking,” Rey growled, and it was Devin’s only warning before a thick digit slid through her folds.

Callused fingertip prying at her entrance, Devin whined as Beau worked his finger inside her. Sliding it in and out of her alongside the shallow rocking of Rey’s length. Breath stuttering, she tried to twist away from the too much sensation. Brought back by two sets of hands and a furious snarl between her legs.

Before Devin could so much as blink, Beau’s head rebounded off of the heavy wood with a solid thump. Rey’s hand fisted in the golden locks, wrenching the other Alpha’s head back hard on the suddenly vulnerable column of his neck.

“You’re going to let her ride that pretty face, and you’re going to make sure she enjoys it.”

Beau’s lashes fluttered, hiding away some thought before he opened his eyes and gave a jerky nod. Licking at the sheen covering his lips, he dragged the sweet slick from his cheek and chin to suck it from his fingers.

Tension slipped up her spine as Rey yanked Beau’s head forward, mashing his nose and mouth against her tender folds. A single whine careened from the depths of her chest as she felt lips open wide around her. Imagining the rending power of his teeth, she jolted when nothing more than the sucking heat of his mouth covered her once more. His growl was unadulterated pleasure, the sound resonating through pink flesh.

Devin’s cry stumbled, tripped, and crashed into a guttural moan as Beau focused his attention on her clit. Her hips rocked forward, legs shuffling outwards to give the broad expanse of his shoulders more room as Beau began to feast on her in earnest. His agile tongue slid beneath her hood to drive the soft point against the aching nub. As if to reprimand her for not giving him her attention, Rey slammed into her, driving so deep her clit was pulled from the hard suction of Beau’s lips. Devin’s mouth opened on a primal scream that echoed through the room.

“You thank your Alpha,” Rey rasped at her ear, teeth catching at the soft skin before he worked his way down her neck to his mark. Setting his teeth over the throbbing wound, he licked at the mutilated flesh.

She did thank him. With her trilling cries and ragged moans as she lurched between the two males. Rey’s powerful thrusts sending waves of liquid heat spiraling through her entire body as Beau’s mouth had threads of fire wrapping tight round her trembling thighs.

The wet, furious dance between them suffused her with molten energy. It carried her high on scorching drafts, tumbled from one incredible pleasure to the next. As if they had to outdo one another, a competition that everyone won. On a shrill cry, Devin’s hand shot down to the back of Beau’s head. Grinding against the hard tip of his tongue as fire pooled low in the cradle of her hips. The impending plummet threatening with every loud slap of Rey’s hips, his glistening head working hard at her bruised cervix.

“Fuck me! Please, give it to me,” Devin sobbed, and this time there were no tears. Arching her back, she presented to Rey. Giving him her submission as Beau assaulted her clit with tongue and teeth.

Agonizing pleasure exploded through her, pulling every muscle tight. Her body convulsing as it blasted through her in brilliant white shock waves. She would have collapsed had they not held her. Forcing her to take more of their need. Beau’s hands spreading her open, pulling swollen flesh wide so Rey could watch his cock sink deep into the rosy pink of her entrance.

Dissolving into bone shuddering contractions, she begged. Pleaded for what she needed as Rey teased her with the swelling base of his cock. As if planned, Beau sucked her clit hard, biting down on the aching bundle of nerves just as Rey slammed the knot deep. Both of them grinding against her, giving her nowhere to go as she jerked and twitched in the violent throes of excruciating bliss.

Everything shattered in the brilliant white searing the backs of her eyelids. Plummeting her into a molten fire that sucked at her. Ripping away flesh and bone, leaving her soul adrift until she was cocooned in espresso and strawberries spiced with cinnamon.

* * *

Devin hummed as she came awake, fondling the rumpled front of a shirt stained with her slick. Pride swelled through her, but her deep inhale brought all the wrong information. Cinnamon and hot spices made her tongue tingle, scratching at the back of her throat.

“Be still,” Beau said in a tone a hairsbreadth away from a growl. “He’ll be back in a minute.”

Tongue heavy and thick in her mouth, it refused to form the multitude of questions banging around her skull. Devin screamed at her limbs to comply, but managed nothing more than a weak twitch, her arm sliding from its perch on his chest to dangle towards the floor. Everything overwhelmed, from the fine weave of his damp shirt to the blood pounding away at her temples. Too much sensation, overloading her senses to the point of pain.

“I said, be still!”

Devin whimpered. She couldn’t move, but the fear dumping adrenaline into her bloodstream made her heart race, breaths coming in shaky gasps. She couldn’t believe Rey had left her with him, that he’d be so careless of her. Tears sat thick on her lashes before they slipped free as she wondered if Rey had given her back to him.

“Fuck, just… calm down, okay? He didn’t want you to wake up alone after… that.” Beau let out a gusty sigh, hand slapping down on Devin’s back.

He cringed at her strained whine, touch gentling as he rubbed at her back. Strong, firm strokes that somehow didn’t add to the mayhem crashing around her body. Managing to look around, she would have jumped up and ran if she could have moved more than the tips of her fingers. Sprawled on top of Beau as he lounged across the two chairs before Rey’s desk, he cradled her body against his. She was naked, and while he still wore clothing, most of it hung open. The solid nudge at her hip when he shifted proved his cock was out and hard, digging into her skin.

As if he could read her thoughts, Beau slid her over, away from the part of him that promised nothing but violence and pain. “Never mind that.”

Devin didn’t trust whatever this was. Didn’t understand how Rey could do this to her. She wasn’t a good mate by his standards, she knew that. But this? It was impossible that he’d throw her into the gaping maw of this particular wolf. Yet an icy finger scraped down her spine, warning her of the tortures to come.

“I thought he was going to rip my head off,” Beau murmured, twisting a sweat dampened curl around his finger. “I think it surprised me as much as you when he shoved me down there.”

Devin sniffled as she gathered every last molecule of warmth and safety around herself, pleading with the virulent heat in her chest to come back, to keep her safe. Yet… Devin had to admit that despite the fear Beau engendered, she hadn’t been this calm since Rey claimed her. She wasn’t biting and clawing, wasn’t trying to end herself. And stranger still, felt no urge to.

Oh, she still wanted to gouge out Beau’s perfect blue eyes, but it could wait. For now.

“Do you like that thing he does, when he grabs your hair and makes you arch all the way back?” Beau patted her head, managing to be patronizing and cruel in a single action. “He perfected that with me, you know.”

“You see, bitch,” he continued after shifting Devin around until she had no choice but to meet his icy blue gaze, “I picked him up off the ground. Dusted him off and made him the man he is now. For whatever reason, he’s decided he needs your cunt in his life, enough so he’s fucking claimed you. I should have done something more drastic before it got to this, but… Well, now it’s done.”

Devin’s breath left her in a shaky rush as she realized what he meant. He would have killed her outright, money be damned, if he’d known Rey was heading in this direction.

“If you think I’ll let you destroy him, though, you have another thing coming. An Alpha can survive the loss of his mate, given the right motivation. You remember that the next time you’re tempted to rip him all up inside, all right?” Giving her his most charming smile, Beau pushed the hair back from her face, working the fluffy mass into a loose tail at her nape as Devin tried to squirm away from the dark promises in his eyes. “I’m not going anywhere either, baby. He may want you, but don’t forget he let me in. I’ll eat that slit if it means I get what I want. Understood?”

Devin gave a jerky nod, a shiver making her entire body shake. Tutting, Beau gathered her against him, wrapping her in the steel cage of his arms. There was nothing comforting in the way he played his fingers over her spine, nails scratching at the delicate vertebrae.

It took Rey longer than a minute to return. Devin watched the fancy mantel clock behind his desk tick, counting down every second as if her life depended on it. In more ways than one, it did. The raging, feral thing inside of her might be sated for the moment, but she still needed Rey. Felt the loss of his scent and warmth as if her lungs couldn’t get enough air.

Beau’s presence didn’t help anything.

When the door swung open, Devin leapt to her feet. Shoving Beau’s arms away, she rushed towards the widening gap to throw herself against Rey’s chest. Evil warmth coiled tighter around her heart as his arms came around her, lifting her off the ground to dangle helpless in his embrace.

“What the fuck did you do?” Rey’s growl was a thing made of pitch and shadow as it sliced through the air in Beau’s direction.

The seconds dragged out like hours, Beau’s silence tense. A ticking bomb waiting to explode, taking them all down in the ensuing blast. A painful twist around her heart, something trembled through the bond Rey had squeezed down so tight she could scarce feel him anymore.

“Nothing,” Devin mumbled against his chest, tongue darting out to taste his skin where his shirt remained unbuttoned. “I just… I mean, I…”

Palming her backside, Rey hiked her up so that their eyes were level. The rich brown of his gaze searching hers for the hint of a lie. Devin gnawed at her lower lip, uncertain as she pet at his shoulders and neck. Though the tension in his muscles loosened and the tightness around his eyes faded, he didn’t relax his hold. He took Devin around the desk, settling her on the cold surface as he took his chair. Rolling forward until he could sit between her legs, he slid his hands from ankle to hip just to feel her skin.

Shirt tugged off his bulky frame, he wrapped it around her shoulders and tucked her arms into the sleeves. Grumbling about torn clothing he’d just purchased, he kicked the ruined leggings and sweater away, and he turned to her with a lopsided grin that said he didn’t mind at all.

Cupping his jaw in her hands, Devin tipped his face up to hers. She leaned down to brush a kiss against his lips.

“I want to go home now,” Devin whispered into the quiet.