Page 16 of Knot a Chance in Hell

Darkness had fallen outside. I wanted to have a conversation, try to get to know them better, but any opener that I thought of felt not right in the moment. Kodiak finished his dinner first, even with a heaping second serving.

Rubbing his hands together, Kodiak stood and grinned. “Now it’s time for my second piece of pie today.”

Heat flared in my cheeks. I barely managed to swallow what was in my mouth and had to wash it down with the last of my wine. Add the alcohol to the fact my body was buzzing with Ezekiel and Kodiak on either side of me, my emotions and hotdesires were threatening to get the best of me. Especially when Kodiak said that.

“Fuck no.” Silas suddenly stood and pushed away from the table, shaking everything on it. “You two already did it? Jesus fucking Christ. Everything’s in the pisser because of her.”

Kodiak lurched toward Silas as Ezekiel rose from his chair with a growl. I grabbed the forearms of the two Alphas closest to me, letting my anger run over the rush of lusty need.

I wanted to scream that we did notdo it. Well, unless he counted oral sex as doing it, but I didn’t. And if I did, what business was it of Silas’? I wasn’t his. And no matter how Ezekiel and Kodiak were acting, I wasn’t theirs either. All this Alpha posturing was infuriating.

“If you have a problem with me, Silas, you talk to me. And you two sit down. I can defend myself.” I huffed, my head swimming more with wine and fury and throbbing heat. Marching around the table, I glared at Silas, determined to stand on my own in front of him. Though Kodiak placed himself in front of me. All that sexy protective Alpha muscle tense and hot…

“Look at you,” Silas snapped and shook his head. He leaned in, and I could almost feel his breath on my face. The musky scent of him made my heart beat harder and my panties wetter. “This is me talking to you now, Omega. You’ve made a mess of things. Pitting brother against brother. Think how you’re destroying us when you have one or the other buried between your legs, you hussy.”

Silas snatched his beer and stomped away to his room. The door slammed, echoing in the cabin.

Why did I want to run after him and comfort him?

I swallowed hard, not being able to process that last word. Why did it hurt so much? No one in my life had ever called me such a thing. I’d been ready to jump Ezekiel earlier, and then Ilet Kodiak eat me out. I could plead I had no control, that my heat was making me do these things. But it would be a lie. I wanted both of them. If I could have them together, filling me with their cocks, I would do it in a second.

“I’m going to kill him.” Kodiak seethed, breathing heavy.

“Not if I do it first.” Ezekiel was walking around the table, his sights on the hall toward the bedrooms.

“No.” The word came out softly, just a little more than a breath. My hands were shaking. “No. Don’t fight anymore.” I didn’t want to be the one that made them hate each other. Kodiak raised his arm to put it around me, but I moved out of his reach. I wanted him and couldn’t allow myself to do so. “I need some time alone to clear my head.”

Before either of them could say anything, I took off down the hall and locked myself in my room. Tears of anger and confusion wet my cheeks. Slick had soaked my panties. A cold shower was what I needed. The shock would be good. I’d be able to think more rationally.

I stripped off my clothes and left them on the floor before heading to my third shower of the day. Silas’ opinion shouldn’t matter that much. His words shouldn’t hurt like that.

Damn him. Was he right?

CHAPTER NINE – Ezekiel

Everything in me roared to go after Nicolette. I wanted to hold her, kiss her, make all her troubles go away. Just to see that radiant smile. She was the most beautiful woman I’d ever seen.

What made her even more so was her fierce strength and independence. So while I desperately wanted to soothe her, she asked for time alone, and I would give it to her. Instead, I set about cleaning the kitchen and storing the leftovers.

Kodiak stalked up and down the hall, growling and cursing, struggling with his own need to go to her and to bash the living hell out of Silas. The fact that he was compatible with Nicolette, too, triggered my possessive side but somehow I was also happy for him. He’d wanted an Omega in his life, and after seeing her online, he wanted it to be her. But where did that leave her and I?

And Silas. Fucking hell. What bug crawled up his ass? I never expected him to be pleased we had an Omega in the house after what happened two years ago with Sarah, but he could at least keep his mouth shut.

Nicolette begged us not to fight. So I wouldn’t, no matter how much I wanted to toss Silas off the side of the mountain.

I wanted her to be happy and feel welcome, and it was so hard to do when Silas was being an ass. The anger in me roiled in my guts. It wasn’t something I was used to, this seething mixed with the extreme need to claim Nicolette. I barely kept myself in check on both levels. I’d always seen Kodiak and Silas acting much more like Alphas than I ever did, but with a compatible Omega in the house, I felt the possessive predator in me wanting to break loose.

Storming past the kitchen, Kodiak went to the unfinished side of the cabin. Things banged and saws whirred. At least he was using his anger to do something productive.

Once I had the kitchen clean, I grabbed my coat and put on my boots and took the dogs for a walk. All that tension made them antsy, and they had energy they needed to burn off.Ihad energy I needed to burn off.

I took them for a run, but I didn’t go far. I didn’t have my bear spray and we had to get up early to head out to the Tongass. Even if it was snowy, we still had a job to do, and the snow we got wasn’t a big one. Those would come in January and February. Sometimes we didn’t get to work at all those months.

Which would mean more time with Nicolette. Snuggled in at home in front of the fire, playing in the snow, kissing under the blankets. I could not get her out of my mind.

When I returned to the house, Kodiak had retreated to my room and claimed the bed. I wasn’t going to fight him on it. I dried off the dogs and made sure they had water for the night. Kavik padded down the hall and sat in front of Nicolette’s door. I shook my head and gave a little whistle for her to come and lay with me in the living room. She refused to move and scratched on the wood attracting Atka’s attention. He trotted down the hall and dipped his head down, sniffing under the door, and whining.

I wanted to see Nicolette too, but I would respect her privacy. Her first day with us was a big one, and the tension was nowhere near being cleared up. I whistled for the dogs again, but they didn’t move.

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