Page 161 of The Heat of Us

“I want to do it now,” she said, urgently. “While I still know what I’m doing. I want you to know that I want this, not in heat Hazel.” Her palm found my chest, fingers splayed to touch me. “And you have to promise me you’ll complete your side too.”

I lifted my chin. “I’m yours, Hazel. I know it might seem like we’ve only started something recently. But I’ve been yours for a while.”

The expression on her face would be etched on my soul forever. She kissed my neck and cradled my head. Her teeth scraped lightly, then pressure and a sharp pain. My fingertips instinctively clenched at her waist.

I could feel the bond grow like a small flower. A small green shoot emerged from the dirt, expanding and rising, the tiniest bud forming. She wanted a field of them, just for me, so I always had somewhere to lay my head.

The corner of my eyes burned and I couldn’t stop the tear escaping.

“Oh. Aleks,” she said softly.

“I love you more than I know what to do with,” I confessed. “And it still doesn’t feel like enough.”

“It’s enough. You’re more than enough,” she told me fiercely. “I love you too.”

Our lips met, a perfect fit. There was a powerful pulse of need in her bond that felt foreign to all the tender emotions she was feeling. Hazel blinked, feeling the haze of her heat ensnaring her.

“I love you.” She gave me one last kiss. It was gentle at first before it turned hungry and grasping. Her pussy was positioned perfectly over my cock and she began to slide herself along it. Covering me with her slick until I was so hard I could barely think.

“Does my omega need to come again?” I asked, my voice rough.

She didn’t reply, fully back in the clutches of her heat. I didn’t need an answer at all in the end, because she managed to position herself just right and sheath my entire length inside her.

“Oh, fuck, Hazel.” Ordinarily I would’ve wanted to eat her out at least three times before fucking her but I had to give her what she needed right now. My hands flew to her hips. “Like this,” I murmured, guiding her to grind back and forth on me instead of bouncing up and down. I loved how perfect this position was for her heat — the focus was on stimulating her clit and it meant I could last longer for her.

And the fact that I didn’t have a knot was a good thing here.

Three orgasms later she was whimpering and boneless. Laying on top of me with only just enough energy to nuzzle at my neck, a dreamy satisfied mewl escaping her every now and then.

She wants my scent. Even when she’s in heat and I’m a beta.

There was really no reason to keep doubting my place here anymore.

I knew she wanted it. But my hand still shook when I pushed aside her damp hair and exposed the side of her neck. I completely lacked the alpha impulse to bite and hurting her didn’t feel right. Ben and Remy’s bondmarks were stark on her skin. It had been unspoken between all of us to mark her on the side that didn’t hold Adrian’s fading bondmark out of respect.

Do this and you’ll always have a family.

Do this and you’re hers forever.

I bent down and with as much care as possible, added my bite beside the teeth marks of my packmates.

The single flower exploded into a field of white.

I had no idea.

No idea it could be like this.

The feeling was unassailable. How could anyone tell me I didn’t belong in a pack when it felt like this?

Hazel had a contented smile on her face, burying her head even deeper into the crook of my shoulder. She let out a little sigh and fell asleep with my cock inside her.

I still hadn’t come.

This was going to be a long heat.

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