Page 103 of Hot Knot Summer
“Hey,” River cuts in gently, brushing her hair back from her face. “You think we don’t want this? Fuck, Emma, this is everything.” His voice drops, and he bares his teeth just a little, tongue grazing one of his canines. “I ache to mark you. To taste you like that. To make sure no one else ever touches what’s ours.”
Levi presses a kiss to her hand, more tender than I’ve ever seen him. “You want a bond? I want forever. With you. No questions asked.”
I lean in, my lips brushing her ear. “This is all I’ve wanted for too long, Emma,” I whisper. “To have an Omega to adore, to protect, to fucking worship. You. Only you. Let me love you the way you deserve.”
Her eyes well with tears as she twists her head to look at me, a single drop slipping down her cheek.
“God,” she breathes. “You guys are going to destroy me.”
River chuckles. “That’s kind of the plan.”
Levi grins. “Ruin you, claim you, love you. In that order.”
Levi lies in front of her, one arm wrapped around her waist, his mouth brushing reverent kisses across her breast. River shifts down to her hip, pressing slow kisses along her waist and the curve of her thigh. I stay near her shoulder, my mouth brushing the curve of her neck, feeling the thrum of her pulse beneath my lips.
She moans, hips rocking gently, her body sensitiveand burning, already tuned to us. The tension coils tighter. We surround her and prepare to seal the bond.
“Are you ready?” I ask softly.
“Yes,” she whispers. “Please.”
And we bite, my teeth breaking skin, the coppery taste of blood on my tongue.
Three sets of teeth sink into her skin—River at her inner thigh, Levi at the swell of her breast, and me at her throat.
She cries out, sharp and high, her whole body bowing between us, but her next breath is a gasp of need, a whisper ofDon’t stop.
I feel the change instantly.
It’s like a wire threads through my soul, locking me to her. A flash of heat, of belonging, courses through my chest and down to my very bones. My knot throbs, still locked inside her, but now it feels more than physical. Spiritual. My body knows hers in a way I can’t explain, every heartbeat syncing, every thought drowned in Emma.
I pull back from her throat, panting, and stare down at her like I’ve never seen anything more beautiful in my life.
I’m hers.
And I’ll never survive being without her now.
River groans as he lifts his head, licking blood from his lips. “That’s beautiful,” he mutters, then kisses her hip like a vow.
Levi licks a smear of crimson from her breast, then rests his forehead on hers. “You’re ours now.”
Emma huffs a wet, teary laugh. “You three can still joke around during the most emotionally intense moment of my life?”
“We’re Alphas,” Levi says smugly. “Multitasking is a specialty.”
“I’m stuck under your collective body weight,” she adds with a grin. “And also full of knots and cum.”
“Flatter us more,” River murmurs, nuzzling against her legs.
We collapse again, still tangled. Levi and I are still knotted deep inside her, pressing her snugly between us, as though we’re guarding her from the world. River lies sprawled across her lower half, his head near her hip.
Her fingers thread through mine, and when she speaks, it’s soft, full of something real.
“That was... incredible, and I don’t think it’s over.”
I press a kiss to her damp temple. “We’ll go again.”
Emma laughs, and I swear I could die happy right here, inside her, claimed by her, wrapped around everything I never thought I’d have.
