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I didn’t get nervous. Why the fuck would I? I didn’t get on stage like Ax. And I’d yet to meet a single person who intimidated me. With the way Bain and I had grown up, with the people who’d been in our life, it was hard to find much to be afraid of…short of losing someone I loved.

It seemed that tiny circle was growing by the day. I might not be in love with Amir – yet – but I loved him for how good he was to and for Issa. Because I was crazy in love with my beta.

CHAPTER 20

Cyrus

Two shots later, and I’d ushered our little ragtag group through the club and out to the SUV. I’d made sure to have one of my employees bring it to the curb since Issa was in heels and a little…wobbly.

I had never seen her so loose. She acted as though she’d broken free from those chains her family had wrapped around her heart and mind. I just hoped it wouldn’t fade with her buzz.

Enzo and Ax weren’t nearly as drunk as Issa and Amir, but there was no point in risking them getting behind the wheel. I’d only had the one shot with them and had nursed a beer. Issa had dragged each of us onto the dancefloor at some point, even all five of us once. Although, Enzo and I pretty much just swayed a little to the music.

Ax, Issa, and Amir? I could have propped a chair in the middle of the floor just to watch the way the three of them moved. My dick had been rock hard for hours.

Yet…I couldn’t fuck Issa or Amir. Not tonight. Or at least not until their brains weren’t flooded with booze. I didn’t want either of them to regret anything in the morning.

Amir and Issa sang to the music playing through the radio at the top of their lungs. I glanced over at Enzo and shook my head with a smile. Ax was being nearly as loud as they were, except the bastard was actually on key.

Issa really had become a completely different person since meeting Amir. She was blooming right before our eyes like a fucking daisy or rose or some other beautiful flower.

She trusted the three of us, but she’d still remained closed off to outsiders, had been nervous around alphas, and was nervous to leave the house even with one or all three of her alphas.

Although she was only finally accepting that she was our beta after months of living with us.

But how much of that was our fault? Had any of us bothered to tell her exactly how we felt or asked whether she wanted a permanent place in our pack? I knew I sure as fuck had never told her my heart was hers, that I’d fallen hard for her within only days of knowing her, that I would literally give my life for her as long as she was safe and happy.

The three were still singing along to the radio as I pulled the SUV into the garage. We would have to take Amir back to the club tomorrow to get his vehicle, but he was definitely staying the night tonight. He and Issa drank entirely too much tonight, and by the time he sobered up, it would be closing in on dawn. No way would I let the omega be at risk when he could make my sweetheart smile so wide and so often.

“It’s like we have a chauffeur,” Issa announced, lunging forward and wrapping her arms around my throat before pressing her red painted lips to my cheek in a messy, loud kiss.

“We need to get her drunk more often,” Ax said as he pushed from the door and guided her out his side. “I like drunk Issa.”

“Because you’re drunk, too,” she announced, wrapping her arms around his neck and her legs around his waist, letting him carry her into the house.

He pressed a kiss to the tip of her nose, and I had to swallow back the twinge of jealousy. He’d been inside her last night with both his cock and his teeth. He’d felt her cunt wrapped around his dick while he’d bonded her to him.

I wanted that. I wanted both. I wanted her body below me, under my hands and mouth, wanted my teeth sinking into the soft flesh of her shoulder. Or maybe her throat front and center so everyone would know she was taken. Claimed by alphas who truly cared for her, who would die for her, kill for her.

Enzo was still shaking his head as he pushed through the door leading inside, but I’d seen the smile he was trying his best to hide. The two of us had drunk far less than Ax, Issa, and Amir. At least I wouldn’t be the only babysitter tonight.

Honestly, though, would I be able to reject IssaorAmir if one or both of them came onto me? I’d wanted Issa for months. And Amir’s perfume was like a fucking siren’s call to my dick, luring me in and tempting me every time we were together.

“Food,” Ax said, carrying Issa straight to the kitchen before setting her on a counter and pulling away.

Her hands immediately darted forward and snagged my shirt, pulling me closer and wrapping her legs around my ass until my covered cock was lined up directly against her panties. Either she didn’t realize her current position was flashing her lower half to the room or she didn’t care. I knew I should have reminded her, being as I was currently the voice of reason, but it was hard to think straight with the heat of her core pressing against me as Amir leaned around me and kissed her deeply and passionately.

A purr burst to life from my chest at the sight of what had officially become the center of our pack, our sweet, beautiful beta and the tall, muscular, yet sexy as fuck omega.

Her fingers were still tangled in my shirt even as Amir practically devoured her mouth, his hands pushing into her hair and tilting her head to deepen the kiss further.

My hips began to rock against her of their own accord. My brain knew I should pull away, maybe throw a bucket of ice water on thesetwo before they ended up fucking on the counter, but my hindbrain and my dick had other plans.

Amir pulled from Issa’s mouth, lifted a hand to the back of my neck, and pulled me down until he could seal his lips over mine. And the whole time, my hips continued to gyrate against Issa as though I could telepathically will our clothing away and bury myself knot deep in her.

Fuck. No. I could never knot her. Her body wasn’t born for an alpha’s knot, and I’d rather cut my own throat than hurt my sweet girl.

But I could fuck her. And I could knot Amir.

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