“What do you think you’re doing, boy?” I growled at him, pulling him all the way off the bed and forcing him to his knees facing me. “You can’t get away from me. Don’t you know that you’re just a place for me to put my cock?”
 
 Darby let out a wail, his body losing all energy. He opened his mouth wide and sought out my protruding cock before I could force him to suck me, weeping as he did.
 
 Shit. That was the wrong thing to say to an omega who was questioning his self-worth. I absolutely did not believe the only thing omegas were good for were fucking and breeding, like some alphas I’d known. There was no way Darby would have achieved so much in such an unusual field unless he was damn smart. It hadn’t been my intention to undermine that.
 
 “That’s a good boy,” I said anyhow, figuring some praise couldn’t make things worse. “Give me that beautiful throat of yours.”
 
 If I hadn’t been overwhelmed by omega heat hormones right about then and if my balls hadn’t been so full they could burst, I might have taken more time and worked to build up Darby’s self-esteem instead of fucking his mouth until I was shooting my cum down his throat.
 
 The cum might have done some good, though. Darby’s weeping turned to moans of relief, and his sucking increased as he swallowed everything I gave him. The desperate feeling of agony that had been pouring off him switched to buzzing, omega contentment as I gave him what his body desperately needed.
 
 That gave me another idea as well.
 
 “I want your juicy hole,” I gasped, my first orgasm fading and the stirrings of another had already begun, as I pulled back.
 
 Darby lost his balance slightly, relying on the grip I had in his hair to stay upright as he gasped for breath. “Yes, sir,” he gulped, breathless. “Fill my hole. Fuck me hard.”
 
 “I intend to,” I said, scooping him up and yanking him to his feet.
 
 Darby’s eyes flitted longingly to the breeding bed. I definitely took note of the burst of eagerness I felt from him. But I had other things in mind for this heat wave. Three was pretty much the top number of heat waves an omega could have from a Heat Lightning pill, maybe four, and I wanted to make the most of this one.
 
 “I want to breed you,” I said, wrapping my hand around Darby’s throat and narrowing my eyes at him for a moment. “I want your sweet, hot body to grow fat with my baby. Only a beautiful, intelligent omega will do to carry my seed.”
 
 That got me exactly the emotional reaction I wanted from Darby. He heard ‘breed’ first, and his pulse sped up under my fingers. Then he heard the compliments, and his heart went one way and his head another.
 
 I didn’t give him time to sort out the confusion. As roughly as I could, I manhandled him so that I could push him forward over the bed. He lost his balance and flopped forward, and as soon as he lay on his stomach across the mussed bedcovers, I kicked his feet wide apart, then grabbed his hands. I wrenched his hands behind his back and pinned them there with one hand, then pulled his hips up so his dripping, sore, red hole was displayed to me with the other.
 
 I drew in a long breath of his scent, then said, “Yes, that smells like a ripe womb to me.”
 
 Darby wriggled, but rather than trying to get away, he opened his legs wider and tilted his hips up to me.
 
 I accepted the invitation willingly and guided myself to pound home into his hole.
 
 We both cried out at the visceral pleasure of alpha and omega being joined in heat, but I took it farther as I thrust deeper and deeper in him, my knot tingling in preparation to expand.
 
 “Yes,” I gasped, thrusting hard enough to rearrange his insides. “You’re mine, boy. My feisty, clever omega. You feel what I want you to feel. The only opinion of you that matters is my opinion. You are who I say you are. You’re the only one I want carrying my seed. Open that womb for me right now!”
 
 Darby cried out, weeping for what was probably half a dozen reasons, and fuck me, but the mouth of his womb softened immediately on command and the head of my cock punched right in.
 
 Breeding orgasms were glorious. I was lucky that, for whatever reason, it was easy for omegas to have them with me. Each one was special and unique, and each one was a level of pleasure that was so over the top that it couldn’t adequately be described.
 
 My knot blasted full inside Darby’s hole, fusing us together as my balls emptied everything they had and more in a series of pulses that were so strong I cried out with each one. They kept coming and coming, making the edges of my vision go black as I curled over Darby, thrusting so hard I thought I might split him in two.
 
 It was the spiritual bliss of connecting with another human being that gave me the real pleasure, though. It went beyond the physical and straight into a union that made me feel like I had access to Darby’s soul.
 
 And it was a good soul, a pure soul. He was filled with pain, but I embraced that, too. I wanted to make everything better for him. I wanted to give way more than I took, really and truly filling him with the sense that everything would be alright. If it had been possible, I really would have put a baby in him, actuallyclaimed him as my own, and loved and nurtured him and our child for the rest of our days.
 
 As the power of the moment began to subside and I flopped onto the bed, Darby still held tightly in my arms, our bodies intimately and irrefutably joined and entwined, I started to wonder if it might not be possible to keep this complex, beautiful, sensitive omega in my sheltering embrace forever.
 
 CHAPTER SEVEN
 
 Darby
 
 Ifell asleep. I have never, ever fallen asleep like that during a scene. I mean, there were times when I’d played a fantasy that lasted several days, but in those cases, my fantasy alpha and I had slept separately, recovering mentally as well as physically in our own spaces.
 
 I slept in my prince’s arms, even after his knot went down, secure in his embrace. No one had ever made me feel so safe and protected. Even more significant, my prince somehow made me feel safe from myself.
 
 “What’s your name?” I asked quietly, before I was even certain my prince was awake, even though it was against the rules.