Page 136 of Feral Alphas

“Kiss?” I ask and my eyes widen as he copies the word.

“Kizz?”

“He’s asking for a kiss, Kye. He understands more of what’s going on than we thought.”

I lean right over Rose, crushing her heaving bosom against mine to reach him. She moans as the movement drags my knot deliciously through her. Zane’s tongue darts out against mine, and the feather touch triggers a fresh batch of compulsion that sends me writhing into Rose all over again while my mouth locks with Zane’s. Someone’s taught him how to kiss properly because he sucks hungrily at my lips and tongue.

I once thought Rose’s interest in these feral alphas was fleeting and I could replace it with my love. I shake my head as I remember how I planned to wean her affections for them so we could move them out of the house. But she’s been patiently teaching them and loving them, giving these two battered men the second chance they deserve. I was wrong. Strange as they are, they’re family for sure.

Both Zane’s musk and Colt’s tangerine scent flood my nose and I swear and anchor myself on the bed, grinding Rose with all I’ve got. “I can’t stop,” I gasp.

Rose wraps one arm around my neck, but it flops limply after a minute, the stunning omega exhausted. Only the purrs deep in her chest and the repeated lifting of her hips tells me she’s okay.

“Colt, I can’t stop!” I shudder with the force of the power rolling through me. “What if I hurt her?”

He chuckles and sits up, resting his arm over my shoulder. “Welcome to true manhood, Kye. You’re in rut, and I’d say it’s good timing. You’ve been fucking her all through the night.”

“What?” I stare at him, sure he must be teasing me, but although his brown eyes glint with humor, he’s perfectly serious. The powerful urges I’ve been feeling for weeks come to the boil, begging for release.

“Colt.”

“Yes, love?”

I groan softly. This is how Luka felt about him, unworthy but loved regardless. “Will you bite me?”

He flinches and his hand comes to rest against my cheek. “Bonding between alphas is extremely rare. I don’t think that’s a decision to make during rut.”

I lean into his touch. “I think I made it before I left the lawyers. My father disowned me, and I realized I didn’t care. I want to take your name because this family is all I need.” I press my sweaty hand against his chest. “Although I believe Luka should be here too.”

He drops his head onto my shoulder. “I agree, but I’m not sure how to move forward.”

I pause a moment to catch my breath and dab at the sweat tickling its way down my arms. “Maybe give him a chance to explain himself? You’re hard to talk to when you’re angry.”

He sighs and clenches his fists. “I just wanted to protect her.”

I ruffle his hair. “He wanted the same for Rose.” I hesitate, then decide to throw caution to the wind. “I know this is highly personal, but I looked up the wage for civil servants in your position, and I compared it with the bills Luka showed me, along with an estimate of what he was spending for the household. Colt, did you know he never ate lunch?”

Colt looks at me, confusion in his eyes. “He told me he never got hungry.”

I smile sadly as I stroke Rose’s smooth hip. “Have you ever met an alpha who wasn’t always hungry?” I tip my head back and groan as another wave of heated energy pulses through me, driving my knot deeper into Rose. “We get to the teenage boy stage and never grow out of it, Colt. Fifty thousand a year will barely support two people, let alone five, not counting my contribution, which I couldn’t pay that week.”

Colt blinks at me, tears swimming in his eyes. “He was skimping on meals all this time because I couldn’t afford it?”

I run my hands through his beard. “He was very serious about his role in this family, and that includes paying the bills. I’m just not sure it was mathematically possible.”

“Get Luka,” Rose whispers, sounding like she’s sleep talking. One glance at her curves and I’m lost to the frenzy again, humping my cock into her like our lives depend on it. I growl against the forces tearing through my nerves and Rose shivers and whines with pleasure.

“Colt!” I growl, baring my teeth at him. “Do it. Bond me.”

He swallows hard. “I’ve heard it hurts a lot.”

“Do I belong here or not?” I snap, wiping at froth around my mouth. My body quivers, strained like a bow at full tension. “They said we can’t mark her, but that doesn’t apply to me.”

Colt nods and tugs my shirt off. “I’ll do it where you can choose to cover it up,” he says, a possessive alpha growl rumbling through his chest. He looks me in the eye. “You’re family, Kye Romdine Nesters.” He kisses my upper left arm, and then his teeth sink deep.

I cry out as waves of pain jolt through me, followed by pleasure and a deep sense of satisfaction that I don’t think is mine. Belonging. My arm still in his teeth, I shout and make the final flight into orgasm, shuddering into Rose with everything left in me.

Her head falls back, and she screams, knees drawing up as my cum shoots into her. I swear her belly’s distended from all my cock’s offerings, but I must be imagining things in the delicious haze settling over us.

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