Page 56 of Lonely Alpha

I’d imagined it was her tongue stroking me instead of my fingers, and that had morphed into Dash’s tongue and Ambrose’s cock. My thoughts were a damn mess, and the orgasm had left me unfulfilled to the extreme.

“Dash, you can’t have her as your omega, and it’s rude to talk about her like she’s not there.” Mercury’s scolding tone was the first to come from the dining room.

“I know she’s there. I’m speaking it into existence. She’s going to be mine, and so is Leighton.”

Leaning against the door jamb, I glared at him. “Is that so?”

He turned his attention to me. The man didn’t have a lick of shame. “I do believe it is so.”

“She’s my omega.”

“But she could beouromega.”

“I would have to join your pack for that, and I don’t plan to.”

He pouted at me. “Why not? We’re stellar.”

“For one thing, I don’t think Mercury wants me.” The slim man didn’t deny it. “And another, I don’t want a pack. I never have.”

“There are perks,” Dash said.

“Like what?”

“So many tongues that would give way better orgasms than the one you just gave yourself.”

I didn’t react. I wasn’t going to give him the goddamn satisfaction of informing him that I’d just imagined his tongue on me.

“I’ve got to work again today,” I said. “Are you two both staying with Kiara?”

“No—”

“Of course we are.” Dash beamed, cutting off Mercury’s refusal.

“Perfect.”

It wasn’t perfect. This pack was getting way too entrenched into this, and they shouldn’t. Dangerous people had me in their pocket. I wouldn’t put it past my mother to start blackmailing them too. They had secrets, I was sure, and she was an expert at finding them.

“Ambrose will show up at some point when he wakes up and realizes Mercury is missing from our apartment,” Dash said. “Then it’ll be a full house.”

Kiara shifted in her seat. She probably thought Ambrose was holding a grudge. He wasn’t the type. One grudge was enough for him—the one he held against the people who set his house on fire and killed his parents. Besides, I’d seen the way he looked at her when we arrived back at home with her dark bonded to me.

He wanted a piece of both of us.

“Just don’t overwhelm Kiara.”

“There’s nothing overwhelming about us,” Dash said.

Mercury scoffed and I rolled my eyes. Walking across the kitchen to my mate, I kissed the top of her head and snagged some food from her plate. I didn’t have time to sit down and eat with them, not if I planned on finding a solution to the whole situation.

“I’ll be back as soon as I can,” I murmured, and she nodded.

I was leaving her in the lion’s den, but it was the best option because I was going to be walking into a snake pit.

NINETEEN

AMBROSE

Mercury was gone by the time I woke up in the morning.

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