Page 60 of Free Me

“Thank you for loving me. Thank you for being by my side through all of this, even though it would be easier to find an alpha who isn’t broken.”

“Hey, stop.” Miko directed Linus to sit on the edge of the bed, and then took his crutches away. Knelt in front of Linus and slowly pushed the leg of Linus’s jeans up to show off the prosthetic. “I know you feel broken sometimes, but I don’t see you as broken. I don’t see you as incapable or disabled or less than. I see the best friend who noticed I was showing heat symptoms and did everything in his power to get me to a safe place. I see someone who happened to sit on my right instead of my left the night we were in a crash that neither of us caused. I see someone I want to spend the rest of my life with, to raise children with, and to be happy with.”

For the briefest instant, Linus’s eyes burned and he thought he might cry tears of joy. But as he gazed into his bondmate’s eyes, Linus saw love and lust and desire, and those tears evaporated. A new, powerful blast of lust and desire scorched from the top of his head right to his dick. Linus grasped Miko’s forearms and tugged him up so they were at the same height. “I want that same future with you. No one else.”

“Good.”

The sassy response sparked Linus’s desire, and he pulled Miko forward and into a hard, sensual kiss.

Miko had spent the entire six-hour train ride in a state of near-constant sexual frustration, knowing exactly what would happen when they finally got to the Porter cottage. He’d been annoyed by the caretaker’s need to give them a tour of the home, when everything in him wanted to shove the older beta out the door so he could have sex with his bondmate. But he’d behaved, and nowthey were finally in the bedroom, slick at the ready, expressing their love verbally in ways that only amped up Miko’s desire.

Linus was his true match, and soon they’d share it in every way possible.

They’d kissed more times than he could count, kissed in so many different ways than he imagined possible—until now. Linus’s kiss this time was forceful and demanding, but somehow also curious and questing. Similar to all the kisses they’d already shared but also unique to now. Unique because tonight they didn’t have to stop. They didn’t have to restrain their emotions and desires. No one was coming home. No one else was sleeping on the other side of a shared wall.

Tonight, they could let go and make love.

Pleasure shot from all directions like a sparkler, hitting his head, his heart, his groin, all the way to his toes. His entire body hummed with energy, and Miko was making some sort of sounds, he knew he was, but Linus greedily swallowed them with his forceful kisses. Miko was so drunk on those kisses that he wasn’t sure when Linus pulled him up, or turned them so Miko was on his back on the bed, Linus pressing him down. Their groins thrust together while their mouths and tongues continued their aggressive dance. Miko could easily get off like this but that wasn’t what he wanted. He wanted—no, he needed for his future mate to come inside him. To claim what Miko freely wished to give.

“Get these clothes off,” Linus growled. Miko didn’t know whose clothes he meant, and he didn’t care. He yanked at his own pants, sweater, and undershirt, and did his best to devolve Linus of his own layers. They’d dressed for cold weather, goddess-dammit, and that precaution was annoying the crap out of him right now. He needed to feel Linus’s skin, to taste the salt and sweat. To know what it felt like to press his body, naked, against his bondmate’s.

Clothes landed on the floor around the bed, and when Linus paused their activities to remove his prosthetic, Miko took a moment to stare at the naked length of his alpha’s body. He’d lost weight since the accident, so his ribs stood out more, and his belly was a bit concave, but those lean, wiry muscles on his arms and thighs from years of running remained. Miko, on the other hand, had gained some weight from inactivity, thanks to his sore ribs, and he had a bit of a pooch around his middle, but Linus didn’t seem to notice or care.

Their imperfections didn’t matter, not now, not ever.

Linus was beautiful, and his erect cock seemed bigger in the open, rather than hidden behind layers of cotton. Miko grinned. Goddess, yes, he wanted that inside him.

First, he wanted to taste it. With a soft, needy growl, Miko shoved Linus onto his back and knelt over him, his own hard cock pointing right toward Linus. Linus gazed up at him with hunger in his eyes, burning there alongside trust and love, and Miko drank it in. Then he bent and took the head of Linus’s cock into his mouth. Linus released a long, deep moan.

Miko savored the taste of his bondmate. The musk and sweat and the hint of Linus’s own sandalwood flavor. The flavor of his alpha. He’d heard stories about how during heat, an omega’s slick was supposed to be irresistible to their alpha. No one ever talked about how wonderful their alpha’s essence tasted for the omega. Or maybe it was just him. Just them. Miko didn’t care which.

He licked and sucked Linus’s dick, desperate to know every inch of skin, every small tickle of pubic hair and twitch of muscle. He explored Linus’s balls, licking each in turn, as drunk on the sounds Linus made as any fine liquor. Instinct tugged him lower, to explore Linus’s hole, but they hadn’t talked about that, and Miko didn’t want to cross a line while Linus was so high on endorphins.

So he savored Linus for as long as he could, until Linus yelled, “Stop! Too close.”

Miko rose onto his hands and knees, looming over Linus, whose skin was flushed, his mouth open as he panted. “You sure you don’t want some early relief,” Miko purred. “If you come now, you’ll be inside me a lot longer later.”

Linus’s expression went briefly feral before he collected himself. “Okay. You don’t have to swallow if you don’t want.”

“Oh, I want.” He resumed making love to his bondmate’s cock, taking him as deeply as possible, then mixing it up with short bobs of his head. Strokes with his hand. Linus’s left foot dug into the mattress near Miko’s knees, trying furiously to find purchase in the soft material while Miko coaxed an orgasm out of his mate.

“Fuck!” Linus’s entire body thrashed when he came, and Miko did his best to hold on and ride it out, swallowing everything Linus offered. His scent and taste flooded Miko’s senses, and he savored every drop. Miko snuggled up close to Linus’s trembling body and slung an arm across his chest. Kissed his neck and cheek, thrilled at how blissed out Linus was. As close to completely calm and joyful as he’d been in weeks. Maybe months.

Since long before the accident, when the soccer season had become Linus’s entire life’s goal. His entire sense of self-worth. Now, Linus was almost at peace.

“I loved that,” Miko whispered. “Doing that for us.”

“It was amazing.” Linus blinked lust-filled eyes at him. “My turn.”

Miko didn’t have time to prepare for the whirlwind of motion. Linus didn’t have the same grip or balance to manhandle him the way Miko was sure he wanted, but Linus got Miko onto his back. Instead of over him, Linus layperpendicular, his upper body resting on Miko’s upper thighs. Braced on one elbow, he licked around the crown of Miko’s dick.

“Shit!” Miko nearly sat upright at the shock of a tongue against his skin for the first time, but he’d lost control of his muscles at some point. All he could do was lightly thrash while Linus sucked him with the same intense, focused energy Miko had given him. Discovering every small bit of skin, every nook and crevice with his lips and his tongue.

But Linus didn’t stop behind his balls. He rolled Miko onto his stomach, stretched out between his spread legs, and pulled Miko’s cheeks apart. Before Miko could comprehend what was about to happen, a hot tongue dragged over his hole. Miko cried out, unable to censor the noises of sheer pleasure ripping from his vocal chords. If he thought having his dick sucked felt good, that was downright painful compared to a tongue licking and stabbing at his asshole.

He flew on the endorphins, flew on the utter rightness of it, not quite computing when a tongue became a finger. It didn’t matter, because he trusted Linus, and he knew whatever happened next would be amazing for them both.

Linus could have savored Miko’s hole for the rest of the evening and gone to bed a happy man, he loved it so much. Miko’s toasted coconut scent was so much stronger there, so strong he couldn’t imagine what it would be like during heat. But those were thoughts for another time. When they had forty-eight-hours of hormones and being hard and wanting nothing more than to fuck. Expected to do nothing more than satisfy his omega’s needs with his knot.

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