Page 12 of My Knotty Mountain Men

I stand there confused about what she means byall;like the bed, the dresser, the blankets?

I’m not going to touch anything until I know, not willing to risk pissing her off even more. So I follow her into the pack room.

“Get up. Now.” She pulls the blankets off Aiden and Nolan.

“What’s going on?” Aiden’s gruff voice grumbles as he sits up, his blond hair wild like a lion’s mane.

Nolan doesn’t say anything as he watches Violet bury her face into the blanket, inhaling deeply as she lets out a lusty moan. Fucking hell, I love that sound. “This. This is perfect.”

She takes the blanket and pushes past me, heading back across the hall.

“She’s in heat,” Nolan states, no question to it.

“She is. And I have no fucking idea what to do.” I run a hand through my hair, grabbing at the strands as reality starts to seep in.

“What?” Aiden’s eyes widen. A second later, I know her perfume has hit him as he lets out a deep, feral growl.

“Hey. No.” Nolan jumps up in only his boxers. “You can’t barge in there and fuck her like an animal.”

“The hell I can’t,” Aiden snarls. “Don’t you smell her?”

“Yes, I do. And I know it’s affecting you a lot harder than it is me, but if you interfere right now, you’re going to risk upsetting her. She’s in heat; this is all new to her. Her hormones are all over the place. And she’s about to go through a heat with a group of men she met yesterday.”

“I don’t care. She’s mine!” Aiden climbs out of bed.

“And she’s mine.” Nolan gets in Aiden’s face. “Ours.” He looks over at me. “She’s nesting. She needs to make everything perfect. We can offer our help the best we can and be there for her with whatever she needs. But sometimes, there’s a process. This is a strange new place, and she didn’t get the chance to make it hers before her heat hit. I’m going to take a wild guess: with her age and the fact that you’re her scent match, it’s triggered her heat.”

“Her age?” My brows furrow. “What does that have to do with anything?”

Nolan sighs, looking a little guilty. “When I got up to pee last night, I bumped into her on her way out of the bathroom. We stayed up talking for a little bit. She didn’t tell me much about her personal life; I still don’t know her full name, where she’s from, or even what she does for a living. But she did explain thatshe was a little overwhelmed. And it’s understandable with how fast everything has happened.”

“Of course, it’s fast. That’s how this works in our world,” Aiden counters.

Nolan turns his attention to our alpha. “That’s what we were taught. But have you ever helped an Omega through their heat? Have you ever been so blinded by want and the need to please your Omega in every way?”

“No,” Aiden and I both grumble.

“And Violet hasn’t felt the intensity of a heat before. So this is a lot on her.”

“Wait... she’s...”Is he saying what I think he’s saying?

He gives me a soft smile. “She told me she was a virgin. She’s never had a heat before.”

“Holy fuck,” Aiden sighs. “Shit. Okay.” He nods, looking around the room. “We got this.” He turns to Nolan. “Right?”

Violet rushes back into our room and over to the bed. We watch as she strips the bed of our sheets. “Not enough,” she murmurs, then looks over at us. “Take it off.”

“What?” I squeak.

“Your clothes. Off, now.”

Nolan snickers. “You heard the girl. Get naked, big guy.” He starts to strip and hands Violet his sleep pants.

“But... why?” I ask. I’m so confused right now, but I do as I’m told.

“She wants our scents. She’s only been grabbing things that we’ve used,” Nolan explains as Violet goes over to our dirty clothes hamper and grabs the whole thing.

Nolan takes our clothes as we hand them to him and follows after her.

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