Page 93 of The Pack Next Door
“Briar…”
The way his brows creased, his voice breaking on my name. I liked that a whole lot. My hand slid down his chest, right before I tore the fabric away. Those massive shoulders, that broad chest… The hair there prickled against my skin, right before I went for his belt.
“Hang on.” An arm went around my waist, hauling me off my bed and my alpha before setting me on my feet. “We need to talk about this.”
Jace stared at me, trying very, very hard not to stare at my breasts and failing. His eyes went from blue to silver and back again as his Adam’s apple bobbed.
“Not sure that’s possible.” Mads was always the one grinning at me, flashing his fangs, but he looked suddenly too serious. “But I think it's too late for conversations.”
On that, we agreed. My hand whipped out, dragging his head down to meet mine.
“This isn’t the way it was supposed to go.” Gideon’s cool tones cut through the haze. “We need to make amends for what happened, for not choosing her.”
“We will.” Mads nodded, and so did Jace as they moved closer. “Because this doesn’t change anything.” I jumped as his hand landed low on my pelvis, then pressed into it. “Just gotta get the heat to break, then a conversation has to be had. That what you want, Briar?”
Just a little nod and his lips brushed against mine, forcing me to chase them.
“No biting.” Gideon’s tone was stern, and didn’t that have me shivering? “It’s bad enough that she can’t consent to this properly.”
But I did.
I was the one claiming Mads’ lips as mine, the savage tangle of his tongue making me remember what else that clever mouth could do. The rasp of his stubble was the pain I needed, not the current one raging inside me. I was the one shredding his clothes, then Jace’s, each alpha stripping out of their jeans. I was the one who paused, looking around at the riches before me as they came closer. The way their cocks jumped, their muscles straining as I let my fingertips graze their shafts. Words belonged to the human side of me, but twice a year, the animal came out to play. Right now, she knew exactly what she wanted, and it wasn’t another silicone dildo.
“You said you’d help me through my heat. We agreed to that.” I surveyed the lot of them through a red haze. “That’s what you’re here to do. Nothing more.”
“You heard our mate.” Seeing that twist of a smile on Mads’ face did something to me. “We ease her until the heat breaks.”
Chapter 45
Jace
All the way up to the city, I’d imagined the ways I’d apologise for our bullshit. One of the fantasies involved me getting down on my knees, but not like this. My knees hitting Briar’s tiles, the hard, cold surface barely registering as I dragged her closer. My tongue slid through her folds, the taste of her slick sweeter than honey. One lick wasn’t enough, neither was two, forcing me to go back over and over for another taste.
“Yes…”
That sigh was everything I didn’t know I needed. Her hand on my head was unneeded. The world could’ve opened up beneath us and I’d have kept on licking. Instead, I picked her up, putting her thighs over my shoulders, and looked up for just a second to see my brothers moving in to stabilise her. Their hands roamed, unable to stop from touching our mate. She moved like a reed in the wind, swaying back and forth, and right now I needed to get her really shifting.
The world was remade into a landscape entirely formed from bright pink flesh. It tasted of honey and the sea, and while I was rocking back and forth, my cock dripping with precum, I knewthe geography. There, that little nub, I lashed it with my tongue, and then when she started thrusting against my face, my lips closed around it. Fingers slid inside her, no friction at all, right as she began to pulse for the first time. Her whimpers of pleasure were music to my ears as they came to a peak, forcing me to go back for more. It was when my fingers grazed that rough spot inside her that she really began to cry out.
“Feel good…” I pulled back just far enough to look up the line of her body, her eyes finding mine. Her lips pulled free of where she was sucking Mads’ cock, a thin line of saliva still joining the two of them. “Imagine what it’ll feel like when we knot you.”
“No—” Gideon broke away from where he was sucking her nipple.
“Yes…!”
Briar made clear exactly how she felt about that, rutting against my fingers through one shuddering orgasm, then the next. I licked her so very softly, concerned she was too sensitive, but not my girl. She rode my face, right up until the point she got sick of the seat she was on, needing another. Trying to join me on the floor, I picked her up with one arm, carrying her over to the bed. Her nest was right there next to it, something that had my brothers and I sharing a glance. It went unspoken that we wouldn’t be going anywhere near it. It was a place sacred to an omega and we hadn’t earned that right.
“Now…” She writhed on the bed like a woman possessed. “I need…”
“How do we do this?” I asked.
“If you need lessons?—”
How the fuck could Mads make jokes at a time like this?
“You need to go first.” Gideon stared at Mads. “Maybe the only one. You were the one that chose her every time.”
“Yes.”
