Page 79 of Glass Omega

“Well the doves and swans at our wedding, not to mention the entire empty falconry on the property that Oona told me you built yourself don’t do a lot to disprove that theory do they? I’m surprised you don’t have a chicken coop anywhere.”

“Who knows, maybe I’ve got a whole flock of them in the basement,” I joked. There were no birds in the basement, just holding cells, but Perrie didn’t need to know about those.

“Why do you like them so much? Did you own a bird when you were little or something?”

I shook my head. “My father never tolerated pets without purpose, no. But on my mother’s good days we’d go down to the water and feed the ducks.”

It was one of my few good memories of her and they usually only happened in the summer when the sun was out for longer and the oppressiveness of her tower didn’t seem so bad.

“We used to sit and watch them until they flew South at the end of the season, it was really nice.”

When I was really little and still believed in the good in the world, I used to imagine myself flying away with them to a place far away from the Keane estate.

Then, after my mother died when I was thirteen, I never went back to see the ducks again.

“That’s nice,” Perrie said, stretching her arms over her head with a yawn, her back pressing into my chest. “Maybe we’ll have to go watch them next year when they come back.”

The brush of her skin against mine was enough to remind my inner alpha that we were still, in fact, the middle of a rut.

“There’s no time for sleep right now, pet,” I purred in her ear as my knot deflated enough to let my still hard cock slide out of her tender pussy. “We’re not anywhere close to being done.”

Twenty Two

“Perrie,” Rhodes’ voice was the first thing I heard when I finally woke up again with every inch of my body feeling stiff and sore as gentle hands lifted me from the messy bed that had been my home for the past day… or had it been two days?

I knew an omega’s heat could take days to work through, but I’d never known that alpha ruts were similar.

After the first few hours of lovemaking, Edison eventually let me sleep only to awaken me later by sliding inside of me from behind, his body pressing mine into the bed as he continued to leave a trail of bruises over every inch of my body that his lips could reach.

“What time is it?” I mumbled, only half-awake as I flopped my head into a chest that smelled of warm chocolate.

“Just after two in the afternoon, kid,” Rhodes said and my brain finally registered that he was in the room with us and was carrying me completely naked.

I jerked upright, surprising both of us as the alpha struggled to keep a grip on me as my eyes flew open to stare into his dark ones. “What’s happening? Where’s Edison?”

“Shh,” Rhodes hushed, scooting the hand that was cradling my back up to cover my mouth. “He’s asleep and unless you want to accidentally restart his rut you need to let him stay asleep.”

My mouth slammed shut as I glanced over at Edison who was snoring softly face down on the bed.

“Why did you wake me up then?” I whispered as Rhodes strode through a pair of double doors that I hadn’t noticed when we came in before, nudging them shut behind us. The doors led us through the fanciest walk in closet I’d ever seen and into a cavernous bathroom.

“Because I figured a bath and some food is in order before Edison grinds you into a pile of kinky dust,” Rhodes said and I gaped at the joking tone of his voice.

Rhodes never joked. About anything.

In fact, the last time I’d spoken to him he’d been mid-scold about my ‘seriously immature choices’ before Edison came in and carried me out of my room.

“Who are you and what have you done with the normal Rhodes McCreary?” I asked suspiciously as he put me down on a little stool that was sitting next to the massive pedestal with an inlaid tub.

Rhodes shrugged, his eyes remaining locked on my face rather than my very nude body. “I’ve had some time to think over the past few days.”

“Few days?” I gasped, gawking open-mouthed at the alpha. “How did the house function without Edison? What about my classes?”

“Everything is fine,” Rhodes assured me as he turned on the taps for the tub and tested the temperature of the water. “The house won’t burn down if Edi is out of commission for a few days, and as for classes… I—ahem—think you’re probably not going to want to go for a little while looking like that.”

I frowned at him. “What do you mean? I can’t just skip classes since we’re going to be heading into midterms in a couple of weeks.”

“Look down, kid.” Rhodes didn’t look at me and I watched as a flush had crawled up the side of his neck.

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