Page 44 of Beta and the Beast
Watching Sarah eat is easily one of my and Romulus's favorite things to do.
Would much rather watch her wrap her lips around my cock than her fork.He grumbles in our shared mind as our eyes are locked onto where Sarah's lips are pressing together, the metal tines of her fork slowly visible as she pulls it out of her mouth.
Lucas kicks me under the table, forcing me to look at him so I can scowl in his direction. He has an amused look on his face, and I realize everyone is looking at me, waiting for me to say something. Did someone ask us a question?
"Uh…"
"Sam asked if you're excited about the renovations they're starting tomorrow?" Jace, out of everyone sitting at the table, isthe one to rescue me from further embarrassing myself. I make a mental note to grab more of that ice cream he likes on the way home as a thank you.
"What renovations?" I ask, my brows pulling together. "Is this what everyone's been refusing to talk to me about?"
"I thought Sam was going to tell you," Sarah says, looking over at her brother, who gives her just as confused a look as she's giving him.
"Why would I tell him when you're the one always with him?" Sam asks.
Sarah rolls her eyes. "You're with him just as much at the alpha center."
"I don't spend the night with him," Sam grumbles under his breath, earning him growls from every alpha around the table. The reaction is what he wants, though, his eyes sparkling when he looks at his sister. For someone who wanted nothing to do with alphas, she sure has a lot who would jump to her defense if they think anyone might be disrespecting her.
"Well, I purposefully didn't tell you because I thought it was funnier this way and told Jace to tell the other boys not to tell you either." Lucas claps his hands together like he's some cartoon villain.
Sarah shakes her head, replying to her brother a little too late for it to sound believable, even though her words are true, "He doesn't spend the night."
I clear my throat, moving us back on topic. "What renovations?"
"We got permission from the landlord to knock down the wall separating the coffee shop dining room from the bakery's waiting area. We're making it into one big shop." Sam leans back in his chair, watching to see what my reaction is going to be to that, and I don't think I disappoint him when I open my mouth to say something, anything, and have to close it because I don'tknow how to voice what I'm trying to say in front of all these people.
I turn toward Sarah, who's using her fork to push her food around so she doesn't have to look at me. She's known about this the whole time. It might've even been her idea to help her coffee shop. And I need to know if she realizes that it means we'll be around each other all the time. If that wall goes down, and I know she's at the coffee shop, I'll be at the bakery just to be in the same building as her.
"You want this?" I ask, my voice quiet as though everyone at the table isn't listening.
Romulus flickers in control, not to fight them, but because he wants out when our little beta tells us she wants to be around us as much as we want to be around her. If she tears down that wall, our lives are more interconnected than they already are, and she's never getting rid of us.
"Can we talk somewhere more private?" Sarah asks, her eyes darting around the table, narrowing on one of her brothers.
Romulus is up and out of his seat before he gets confirmation that we can use Janie and Sam's house for our privacy. I'm surprised he doesn't throw Sarah over his shoulder and march her inside to the first soft surface he finds.
Need to hear her say it first. Need to know she's mine.
"Don't fu–" Someone hits Sam. I don't know if it's his mate or brother or my brother or Jace, but he doesn't get to finish whatever he's saying, and Sarah and I ignore him.
Romulus waits until the sliding glass door snicks shut behind us, and then he drags Sarah over to the couch and pins her body underneath ours.
"What did you want to talk about?" he asks.
His mouth is on hers as soon as he asks the question, keeping her from replying until he's had his fill of her lips against his, his tongue in her mouth. The sweet scent of her as her arousalblooms in the air around us. When he pulls away, he purrs in satisfaction at the lusty look on her face and the swollen pink of her lips.
"I thought Sam told you," she says, her eyes transfixed on our lips, and it has Romulus purring louder. She lifts her pretty brown eyes to mine, where my glasses are a little skewed. She's sweet when she lifts her fingertips to the edge of the frames and readjusts them. "I thought you were okay with it."
"With my mate being in the same building as me? With getting to work near my beautiful beta every single day?" Romulus grabs one of her thighs, hiking it high up on our hips as he settles more between her legs. "I'm fucking ecstatic."
"It's just that once this is all over, I don't want you to feel like I'm trying to force you into–"
Romulus kisses her, the only thing that's going to keep him from growling at how unhappy he is with her words. How unhappy both of us are with her words. He kisses her hard, biting at her lip and suckling on it when he's been too rough. Not until we're both panting does he pull back, words seeming to evade Sarah now that she's lazily humping, trying to grind herself against us.
"Do you want children?" I ask when I realize Romulus has given me control of our body to ask the question we need to ask before he loses control and bites her.
The question seems to sober Sarah from her lust, and as her brows tug together, she shakes her head a little bit. "What? No, I mean, I never had the desire to get pregnant or raise a kid. No, why?"
