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“Yes, Alpha, please,” she begged.
“Fuck, you’re already ready for me,” he growled. He gathered more of her slick onto his cock, then looked at me. I nodded.
He straddled us both, his thighs outside mine. “Take a deep breath,” he coached, then slowly pushed inside. I groaned at the sudden tightness, and Jess whined.
“Are you okay?” Charlie asked her, stopping immediately.
Jess nodded, her eyes closed tightly. I brushed her cheek, and she opened them. She looked drunk with pleasure. “Yes. Don’t stop.”
Charlie swallowed roughly and continued his slow slide until his cock was fully seated inside her. I remained perfectly still to allow Jess to accommodate us.
“Fuck, I’m so full,” she said, almost plaintively.
“You’re incredible,” I said, still cupping her cheek.
“Such a good girl,” Kieran said and tugged her hair gently to give her a filthy kiss.
“Whenever you’re ready, you control the pace. Take whatever you need,” Charlie said, his voice tight. I knew that as soon as she started moving, things would be over fairly quickly.
She rocked forward, then back, working Charlie and me slowly at first, and then faster. I reached down to stroke her clit, and she gasped roughly, squeezing us even tighter.
I met Charlie’s eyes. He looked like he was barely hanging on to his control. My canines were itching with the need to sink into Jess, to claim her completely.
“Bite,” Jess whispered, presenting her neck to me, as if she’d heard my thoughts. “Please, Alpha.”
“Darling,” I pleaded, not even sure what I was asking for. But then my teeth were scraping against the left side of her neck, and I felt Charlie lean forward to do the same on the other side. It changed the angle, and we all cried out.
“Bite,” Jess said, her voice stronger and tinged with desperation. “Please bite, please.”
“It’s alright, love.” Kieran ran his hand along her spine, and she shivered. “You’re doing so well.”
“Please,” she whined, and my heart broke. Why were we denying her what she wanted? Every fiber of my being called out to mark her. “Ellis. Charlie. Please, I want you so much, please.”
Afterwards, we weren’t sure who bit first. But as Jess rocked forward, I slid my knot inside her and finally, finally sank my teeth into her sweet, soft skin. She screamed, high and sharp, but then her pussy was clenching and fluttering around me, and it was so tight I couldn’t think. I licked at the bite I’d made, soothing the broken skin, and Jess’s scream turned into broken cries of pleasure.
I became aware of my surroundings slowly and lifted my mouth from Jess’s neck. Everything seemed to happen in slow motion. A small kernel of something hot flared in my chest and burned brighter and brighter until it felt like I might combust. It was love, so fierce it could only be Jess, filling the hole in my chest that had been made for her.
She sobbed, but I knew it wasn’t from pain or sadness because I could feel her joy so deeply it felt like my own.
And there was Charlie, his gorgeous face incandescently happy, soothing the mark he’d made on Jess’s neck.
There was no need to say it, because I knew she felt it the way I did, but I wanted to say it anyway. “I love you, darling. I always have,” I said, and I let her feel it, the memory of the first flutter of love so many years ago. She answered with the echo of her years of yearning, and I knew I still had so much to make up for. But there was no anger, not anymore.
Jess smiled through her tears. “I love you, too. Obviously.”
And then Charlie was whispering in her ear, and I knew they were having a moment of confession by the way Jess’s happiness doubled and expanded.
I would talk to Charlie later to tell him how I felt. That he’d been a lifeline, and then something so much more. That I loved him, more than I thought possible in such a short time. But that could come later - we had all the time in the world.
Chapter 36 - Jess
The bonds with Ellis and Charlie felt like threads of light in my chest. Charlie was buttery sunshine, steady and strong, while Ellis was a bolt of lightning. They were tethers, but I felt lighter than air.
They lavished me with kisses and praise, and I was sohappybecause I knew it was what they wanted, too. I was so happy it felt precious, like it could slip away at any moment, but it didn’t. It just stayed there, a glowing sun, the knowledge that I was loved making me giddy.
Ellis and Charlie had knotted me at the same time, which I didn’t even know was possible, but would be something I asked for in future heats.
As we came down from the high together, and their knots released, I knew my heat had finally broken. I was fully lucid and so, so tired.
