Page 25 of Brandy Snap: Part One

But the fierce hate both for himself and the soft female omega buried in my arms beat strong through our bond.

Each heat suite came with a retiring room, a space for alphas to rest during their omega’s heat. One could close the door and take time to sleep, eat, and generally refresh. If we didn’t take time to care for ourselves, we were likely to burn out and would be unable to satisfy our voracious omega.

It was hard for Caspian to control himself at the best of times, but add a haywire rut and a new omega, and he was bound to want to separate from us. Though I wished he had approached it more tastefully.

Rather than ripping his cock from her the second his rut subsided, swearing as he stumbled backwards and retreated to the retiring room, he could have at least tried to perform some form of aftercare. It was his duty as an alpha to an omega in heat, after all. Even if she wasn’t ours—yet.

Kai’s gaze bounced furiously between myself and Melanie. I was convinced if I made one wrong move, it would be the end for me.

My charming omega may not have killed anyone, but violence wasn’t beyond him, as shown by the bite marks that entirely covered my body.

But it was difficult when the desire to hold both Kai and Melanie and sink into their beautiful scents and bodies was dominating me.

Omegas’ heats came in waves. For half of the day, Kai had been desperate for a knot. Now, we were granted a repose as he’d entered a lull. Kai’s body was temporarily sated as he enjoyed a more lucid state that would allow him to make decisions, albeit rash ones.

Such as the one he was currently presenting.

“There is not a single chance that Caspian will agree to this,” I said, my voice low, not taking my eyes from her. It was like Melanie had placed some kind of spell on me. I was convinced that if I looked away from her, she would disappear.

“Look, if it’s a choice between dragging her to the parties or dealing with the stuck up omegas Zania has chosen, what do you think Cas would prefer?”

“Neither,” I sighed. “And we don’t have to choose while you’re both still in heat.”

Fondness swept through me at the gentle rise and fall of her chest while a low growl rumbled from Kai.

All I had to do was bend down and I could brush my lips against her hair, her cheek, gently lean over her to wake her and take her in a soft kiss before the sleep had cleared from her eyes. Kai and Caspian dominated her when she was awake, and I was left with the barest morsels of attention. Even my questions to her fell on deaf ears when Caspian was inside her.

“Sin!” Kai hissed, and my gaze shot up at him. The only time I was this easily distracted was when my alpha instincts dominated me. But I couldn’t technically call it distracted, because I was intensely focused on my omegas.

Omegas. Plural.

“It’s unfair to all of us if we do this.” I pressed my lips in a thin line.

Kai clicked his tongue. “Look, we can just pay her. She’s obviously getting serious money for crashing my heat. Plus, she got to fuck the Risler pack. She isn’t exactly doing it out of the goodness of her tiny black heart. She’s bound to take something under the table.”

He wasn’t wrong. Wecouldsimply hire her for ourselves. But we could not ‘pretend’ that she was our mate in front of our family when my need to bite her slowly crushed me.

“If she’s cunning enough to worm her way into my nest, then she can handle a few parties with you and Cas's families.”

“I do not see this as a solution to our problem. Let us at least wait for Caspian.”

It was unfortunate that my biggest weakness was Kai’s pout whenever I denied him anything.

And he layered it on me with years of skill and a pointed glare.

“She claims she’s a beta,” I said. Though it was an awful argument when her slick stained the bottom of the bed.

“Yeah, sure. You know these omegas will say whatever just to get an in with us. It’s probably just part of her schtick as a host.”

“She was wearing a maid’s dress. She could have presented as an omega later in life.” My arguments were growing even thinner.

“Fuck, seriously? You’re going with that. You know that’s just a rumour cooked up by health nuts to get betas to buy hormones. Don’t try that shit on me,” Kai growled as Melanie shuffled against me in her sleep, her ass rolling straight over my cock.

My growing erection was poorly timed considering I was attempting to reason with my omega.

Kai shuffled closer to her, tilting his head to look at me over her shoulder. “Either she really is a maid and she’s been hiding that she’s an omega, or your bitch-ass parents dropped her in our laps to prove that I’m worthless. Which fucking worked, by the way, because look at you. I can feel your fucking cock from a mile away.”

I didn’t protest. There was no merit in denying it when I was already trying to come up with scenarios where Caspian and Kai could accept her into our pack.

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