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“I’m game,” said Johannes. “Dmitri’s been hiding from everyone. I tried to talk to him, but he wouldn’t even see me.”

“Well,” said Aurelie, “when I first got here, before the wedding, Dmitri ignored me. I thought it was because he didn’t like me, but that wasn’t it. It’s because he’s scared of me.”

I raised my eyebrows. Aurelie was the love of my life and everything, but she wasn’t really, uh, scary.

“He’s scared of our connection to each other. It overwhelms him and he can’t control himself. The only way that I got him to start being with me, though, was to go into heat. Once that happened, he had to surrender to me, to his desire for me. And I know that things with Dmitri haven’t been ideal, but we all have to admit that whatever concessions he’s made have been because he cares about me, and because he loves me and wants to make me happy. When our connection is strong like that, he can’t help himself. So, anyway, I went off my heat suppressants.”

“What?” said Nikolai. “Just like that?”

“Don’t you have to get those implants, like removed?” said Johannes.

“It’s fine,” she said. “You all have, you know, those injections that chemically castrate you. I’m not going to get pregnant.”

Oh, wow, pregnant Aurelie. Why did that make me feel turned on? Weird.

I did have one of those injections, though. I’d gotten one recently, at the behest of the castle staff, who insisted that if I was involved in this, it was necessary. Like, knocking Aurelie up with a child that wasn’t Dmitri’s was practically treason or something?

I kind of liked the idea of it, though, and maybe partly because it would piss him off, and he turned me on when he was angry.

“The thing is,” she said. “I haven’t, um, gone into heat. Before, Dmitri’s presence triggered it for me, but I can’t get close to him for that this time, so I thought, maybe, all of you, it might work. Maybe bites?” She looked out at each of us. “I mean, you guys want to bite me, right? You want to do whatever it takes to trigger my heat?”

My mouth was dry.

“Just to get this straight,” said Johannes in a ragged voice, “we’re saying that we’re going to embark on a marathon sex session in order to trigger your heat—after which, we’re all going to have to have another marathon sex session to get you through your heat?”

“Yeah, but Dmitri will be there for that, and I have a plan to get him to, you know, be less afraid. It wouldn’t work normally, I don’t think, but if I’m in heat, he’ll be open to it.” She looked at me and then Nikolai and then Johannes. “What do you think?”

“I mean, I don’t have any current plans,” said Nikolai, smirking. “I could totally be convinced to knot and bite you today. Sure.”

“Yeah,” I said.

“Fuck yeah,” said Johannes. “But, um, what’s this plan of yours?”

“Well,” she said, taking a breath. “I’ve given this a lot of thought, and here’s what I think.” And then she started to explain.

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IT DIDN’T ACTUALLY take very long to trigger her heat.

We went up to the nest all together but we were all scenting heavily by the time we got there, before we even took off our clothes.

She was needy even as she was just kissing us, a brightness to her scent that made my knot huge, and we took turns removing articles of her clothing, keeping up a casual banter as we did so.

“You guys want to see her topless, right?”

“Definitely, get her shirt off, Nikolai.”

“Have you ever seen tits like this?”

“Never. She’s got the most perfect rack of all time.”

By the time we got her entirely naked and Nikolai suggested she should present for her alphas, she was flushed and moaning in a way that told me her heat couldn’t really be that far off.

But we stood in a circle as she was on her hands and knees between us, showing us her wet little slit, and started discussing what we were going to do with her as if we weren’t all dying for a taste of her slick.

“I want to see her on Nikolai’s knot,” I said. “I still haven’t seen that, and I’ve been daydreaming about it for what feels like forever.”

“Oh, she looks fantastic on his cock,” said Corentin. “I definitely recommend that little show.”

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