Page 94 of Shrine of Fire

“You can’t smell it?”

“Mmm.” Her eyes glazed over a little bit, and she nuzzled into my neck. “Lemons and clean cotton. I love the way you smell.”

“Don’t think she’s noticed, mate,” Hashir said with a sleepy grin. “She’s thinking about getting your cock inside her, not your designation.”

Nova looked up at me and cocked her head. “I don’t understand.”

“I’m not an alpha,” I said, the words bouncing out of my mouth and off me, bruising me, like massive boulders. “I can’t knot you or bond you.”

“Don’t care.” Nova kissed my cheek. “I want you.”

“I lied to you.” I scanned her face, waiting for that other hammer to drop, for her to be hurt, angry.

“It was your father’s idea?” She cupped my face. “Couldn’t stand the thought of not having two alpha sons?”

“No, love.” Hashir looked at me from over Nova’s shoulder, gentle understanding on his face. “Pretty sure his father wouldn’t stand for Stefan not being an alpha.”

I nodded slowly.

Nova’s mouth dropped open. “You thought he would…”

“As the years passed and I didn’t change designations, he kept saying no son of his would be a beta.” I shook my head. “I didn’t want to find out how far he would go. After all, he always held it against me that I had killed my mother in childbirth.”

Nova frowned and pulled me against her. Even on the edge of her heat, when she was feeling over-warm and her heart was pounding, she was still comforting me. “I’m sorry he’s a horrible person. But I don’t care you’re not an alpha.”

I let out a sigh, my relief so vast it almost swallowed me. I buried my face into her hair, and she stroked her hands down my back. I didn’t deserve her, but I would do everything I could to make sure she wanted for nothing.

“Besides,” Cuan said from my other side. “Beta cocks do it best. We can bottom out all day without getting knotted up.”

I laughed and shook my head. “You have been quite helpful proving that being a beta isn’t the worse thing in the world.”

Nova nipped my neck. “It’s not. I wantyou, Stefan. I don’t care how your cock is shaped. I want you inside me.”

My already hard cock jumped at that. “Whatever my omega wants.”

Nova growled, and sat up, pushing me onto my back.

I looked up at her. “Nova, I love you.”

She paused, and then smiled brighter than a thousand fires. “I love you too.”

I pulled her dress over her shoulders, not wanting there to be any layers between us. Nova opened my robes and ran her hands down my chest.

She ground her pelvis against mine and moaned out loud.

Cuan and Hashir shifted onto their sides so they could watch and somehow that felt right too.

“They’re gonna watch me take you,” Nova breathed, wrapping her hand around my cock. I cried out, nothing in the world felt so good.

Pleasure blotted out all coherent thought. If I’d known it felt this good to have her touch me, I would have told her I was a beta the second she saw me and hang the consequences.

“Can the others watch?” She positioned herself over me, her wet heat so close. “I need you.”

“Yes, let them.” Pride swelled inside, for once I would be the one pleasuring her. I arched my back, crying out as she slowly sank down onto me. Wet sucking heat filled me, and I almost blacked out.

Nova threw her head back and moaned. She lifted her hips up only to sink right back down again. Heat exploded over me, and I grabbed her hips. Nova swiveled her hips, clenching her pussy tight around my cock and I gasped, thrusting up into her.

“Yes, that’s it,” I panted, grabbing her hips. She went faster, the slapping sound between our bodies loud in the room until I felt her walls fluttering around me, and I came with a hoarse shout, coming inside her.

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