Page 48 of Heat Clinic

All I hear on the other line for a moment is silence and breathing, and I worry that I’ve pushed it too far. But I don’t think I’ve read the situation wrong. At least I hope I haven’t. I’m pretty good at reading people.

“Oh, were you done? Please… don’t let me stop you from adding to your count. It’s like you think I can’t spank the brat right out of you,” he says.

Oh, I hope he tries.

“I have soooo much to teach you,” Tom crows from the background.

“I’ve changed my mind,” Marcus says. “You two aren’t allowed to be alone in a room together for more than five minutes.”

“That doesn’t actually limit me as much as you’d think,” Tom says.

My cheeks hurt from smiling so much as I listen to their banter and realize that I’m a part of this now. I have a pack.

“So Emily goes home in the morning and we wait for her call. Then what?” he asks.

Back to business.“My shift ends once she’s released, and then I have the rest of the week off to recover. My next shift isn’t until Friday. This wasn’t my holiday to work, but I switched with someone.”And thank God for that.When I think of how easily I could have missed meeting my pack, it pulls at something in my gut.

“Our schedules are flexible, so we can stay in town a few more days. Shall we plan for lunch tomorrow?” he asks.

They don’t live here.I look at the courtship request paperwork and finally note something I should have seen long before now. “You live in New York City.” I knew they had multiple properties, but before I knew they wanted me, I didn’t pay too much attention to details like addresses.

“Yes. Is that… a problem?” he asks. “We spend most of our time in the city. Tom goes to London occasionally to deal with the gallery. I travel sometimes for business, but the city is our home.”

Standing there in the paved parking lot of the free clinic, I decide. There’s no way I’m missing this opportunity of a lifetime. “It’s not a problem for me, but I can’t speak for her. I’ll talk to her about it when she’s lucid.”

“I’ll send you the reservation information for the restaurant.”

“And I’ll see you there. Bye.”

We hang up, and I call my mother and tell her the news. I warn her it’s not a done deal yet, but she gets excited anyway, and by the end of the phone call practically my whole family is texting me their congratulations. I float back to Emily’s room on cloud nine, and she’s still sleeping when I creep in, but she chirps in her sleep and lets me into her nest, then snuggles against me as I lie there and stare at the ceiling in the dark.

I have a pack now. I’m going to get mated. My mates are ridiculously hot and disgustingly rich. It still feels too good to be true. I… need to figure out how to break the news to my family that I’ll be moving out of state.They’ll get over it.

Emily fidgets and fusses until she gets a hand under my scrub top and touches me skin to skin. For someone who was so initially shy about it, she’s turned into quite the nudist. We nap together, and when I wake up with her climbing on top of me and grinding, I’m not even mad about how I’ll need to change my scrubs yet again.

She leans down and rubs her cheeks all over me, coating me with the pheromones from her scent glands. It’s not as strong of a scent as the ones on her neck. While she’s dry humping me, I reach up and skim my hands over her neck and gather up the oils there, transferring them to my skin and hair. My pants are wet from her sweet slick, and my cock is rubbing against my pants in a way that’s both delightful and awful.

I undo the tie of my pants and push them down, along with my underwear. “I’ve got what you need, baby.”

She lets me lift her up long enough to bring her down on my cock, and then she’s riding me for real, dropping her head to lick my neck and collarbone and the faint beta pheromones my skin secretes without the overdeveloped scent glands that alphas and omegas have. She grinds her clit against my pelvis and takes her pleasure while I palm her tits, playing with them, then trail my hands down and around to caress her ass.

“You like that, baby? Does my cock make you feel good?” She bites her lip and nods, purring as her hips rock over me.

It’s a slow, sweet fucking, a delicious end to a life-shattering heat. While she gyrates above me, her brow knitting as she gets closer to coming, all I can think of is how grateful I am I switched shifts and found her. Found all of them. Now that I’ve met them, I can’t imagine any other future.

Emily is sweet and cute. I want to cuddle and fuck her, then cuddle her some more. Tom is the best sort of trouble. I can’t tell which one of us will end up topping the other, but I’m excited to figure it out. And Marcus… Marcus feels like he can wreck me and put me back together. Like I can trust him to do that.

I’ve met a lot of alphas in the years I’ve worked here. Some mistake being an asshole for being tough. But not Marcus. He’s gentle when he needs to be. I can recognize a keeper when I see one.

“We’re gonna be so happy, baby.” I dig my fingers into her ass and help her bounce on my cock. She moans and leans against me until we’re both tired and spent. My cum and her slick get added to the nest. After, she uses me as a pillow and falls back asleep, gently snoring.

Her heat breaks in the night as she sweats it out, and I bully her into the bath as she comes back to awareness and rationality. I get out the healing massage oil and rub her down, paying special attention to her sore cunt. She tolerates my ministrations with a blush, especially when I pry her labia apart to check each fold for small tears. I’m thankful there aren’t any. Marcus is huge, but he’s a generous alpha and that makes the world of difference. There are some things that even an alpha's growl can’t magic away.

“This room reeks.” She picks up one of the stained sheets and turns it over, trying to find a spot that’s not crusty.

“No, baby.” I kiss her nose and slap her cunt and pronounce her thoroughly tended to. “It smells like pack.”

I claim her mouth in a kiss, and she’s stiff for a moment before releasing a tense breath and melting into it.

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