Page 18 of Big Knot Energy (Shadowverse)

Oh, how easy it would have been for him to release his cock, lift my skirt, and take me right there on the dance floor while everyone was distracted by the men who were filing onto the raised stage.

It took me a second to find Ax. His eyes were on me, a wide grin flashing in the dark. A second later, the opening music toThe Saintsby Andy Mineo started and I squealed. I’d seen the choreography for this particular dance but had only seen my alpha practicing it alone. I couldn’t wait to see all of them dancing together.

The men began to move, some darting forward while another line moved back. It didn’t matter how many times I’d seen Ax dance – the way he rolled his hips made me wish he would see me…differently. I wished he would look at me the way Amir did while we danced. I wished he would see me as someone more than a packmate.

I wanted him to see me ashis. I wanted them all to want me to be theirs.

But I would remain thankful the three alphas had taken it upon themselves to not only give me a place to stay where I would be safe but took it upon themselves to protect me on a daily basis. They were patient with me, taught me to speak up for myself, and gave me the support I needed to heal from the years of conditioning by first my fathers then my alpha.

Not my alpha. He was never my fucking alpha. He’d been someone my parents had chosen for me, regardless of what I wanted for my own life. It didn’t even matter to them that I wasn’t an omega like my sister. They had arranged the packs for all six of us, including my beta brothers.

Ax was back in the front, his eyes on me as he smiled and winked a second before doing this move where he jumped then dropped to the ground, rolling his hips like there was someone below him. With his body moving like water and Amir pressed against me, his scent wrapping around me and going down mythroat with every breath, his arms tight around me and his cock pressed against my back…

I was going to combust. There was no way around it. I either needed to find a way to ease the constant sexual frustration or I would go out of my damn mind.

As the music came to an end, the men all stepped to the front of the stage in nothing but low-slung jeans or sweats and smiled as the crowd erupted into catcalls, screams, whistles, and applause.

Ax tossed his shirt at me, smacking me in the face with his yummy, spiced rum signature.

“Damn, girl. I think that man is flirting with you,” Amir said in my ear, his lips grazing the outer shell and sending shivers down my spine.

“He’s my…he’s a friend. I live with him and his pack.”

“He’s your alpha?”

“No…he’s…no. He’s my roommate.”

Yeah. They’d declared today that I was pack, had almost looked disappointed that I didn’t see myself that way, but it always felt like I was their kid sister with the way they touched me in chaste ways, the way they ruffled my hair and teased me.

The way they would have sex in the other room while I laid there each time trying not to be a perv, only to end up touching myself to the sounds and their increased hormones on the air.

As the dancers left the stage, the overhead lights started flashing again and the music thumped a seductive beat through the room.

And I could have sworn that same beat was thrumming through my body straight to my clit.

Amir turned me in his arms, swaying his hips with mine again. “Fuck, you’re sexy,” he said, his sweet breath brushing over my lips to land on my tongue.

Had anyone ever referred to me as sexy? Cyrus told me I was beautiful tonight. Ax and Enzo both teased me, saying I looked good.

But sexy?

“Let me buy you a drink,” he said, leaning his mouth close to my ear.

“I’m a beta. Aren’t I supposed to buy you the drink?”

He waved a hand through the air, giving me a look as though I’d said something ridiculous, before leading me to the bar. Cyrus wasn’t behind it anymore, but I recognized the bartender who’d been working alongside him earlier and flagged him down.

“Honey, the last thing I have ever or will ever do is go by rules made by stupid people. There isn’t a way in hell I’m letting someone…” His eyes roamed me from head to toe slowly and I swore it felt like he was physically caressing every inch of my body. “Who looks like you spend her money on me.”

The beta was already pouring me a new martini before I bothered telling him, then asked for Amir’s order.

“Can we have two shots of…” Shit. What had Ax ordered for us earlier? It had burned going down, but I swore it had been pure liquid courage. “Do you know Ax’s favorite liquor?”

With a smile, Jaden nodded and got to work, pouring a beer from the tap for Amir, then setting two shot glasses of dark liquor before us.

“To the most beautiful woman in here,” Amir said, holding his glass up with a beautiful smile that caused tiny creases at the corners of his light eyes.

“To the most beautifulmanin here,” I countered.

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