“Of course you do,” muttered Dmitri. He rubbed his forehead. “Okay, well, it’s our honeymoon, sweet girl, so after that, we’ll work it out.”

“Okay,” I said, leaning in and offering him my lips for a kiss. “Thank you.”

Dmitri kissed me.

“You don’t need to get permission from him for me to bite you,” said Corentin.

“She does, actually,” said Dmitri.

“If you think I’m doing it in front of you, you’re insane,” said Corentin.

“We’ll see about that,” said Dmitri. “I think you’d like it, actually, being told where on her body to bite, being told when, being told how.”

Corentin’s scent rose in a way that told me he would like it.

“But I get to choose,” I said. “Because when Corentin and I talked about it, he said I could.”

Corentin touched me. “Absolutely, my love. And don’t think I’d let him steal this moment from us just because he makes my dick hard. You and me, it’s more than that, and we both know it.”

I looked up at him, smiling, reassured.

“You’re saying that what I have with her isn’t real?” said Dmitri.

“Who cares what he says?” I said, turning to Dmitri. “You and I are the only two people who need to understand our relationship.”

Corentin snorted.

Dmitri shifted on his feet, looking worried.

I patted his chest. “Dmitri, I’m yours.”

“Yeah,” he said, looking at Corentin, not at me. “I bet he doesn’t ask you to say that.”

Corentin just shrugged. “I mean, she is mine.”

“Oh, fuck you both, maybe I don’t want to be anyone’s.” I pushed past Dmitri and went back into the nest.

I looked down at the place where Johannes and Nikolai were still sleeping, thinking about lying down there and trying to sleep, and then thinking about Corentin and Dmitri coming back in and fighting over who got to sleep with me and deciding I didn’t even want to be part of that.

I stalked out of the nest, down the stairs, and all the way back to my room, where I dove into my bed and pulled the covers over my head.

Maybe the only thing I actually liked about multiple alphas was the sex.

I wasn’t sure the relationship aspect would ever work.

19

johannes

I WOKE UP when the omega stormed out.

I sat up in the nest, scratching my stomach, yawning.

Dmitri came in after her, with that Corentin guy on his heels. So, he’d put his mouth on my dick and stuff, and I’d seen all of his tattoos, even the ones in unmentionable places, but I didn’t know a damned thing about him, which made for utter awkwardness in the wake of a strange sort of intimacy.

I actually knew the feeling. A lot of times, when Nikolai and I hooked up with people, it would be like that. We’d all be naked. I put my tongue all over various parts of their body. And then, in the morning, we’d be not-strangers, and it would all feel odd.

So, it was uncomfortable, but I guessed I was used to it.