“I like seeing you like this. I'm going to watch Corso make you cum.” He stands up with my wrists in his hand and presses them into the table. “I'm going to hold you here so he can take as much as he wants for as long as he wants.”
 
 Corso chooses then to push his fingers inside of me, and I throw my head back and gasp.
 
 Chapter thirty-six
 
 Devon
 
 God, she's beautiful.
 
 I sit back down in my chair so I can be closer to her face. I want to beright herewhen Corso makes her cum. I want to watch Talia's eyes roll back in pleasure. I want to be close enough to feel her breath on my skin when she gasps. I want to replace the horrible image of her strapped down on a different table with this one.
 
 She's so fucking beautiful like this. Vulnerable, giving us what we need. I'd say want, but Corso needs this from her. He needs her like he needs oxygen. Maybe more. The way he watches her makes it obvious that he needs every single thing she'll give him. And he went without her for so long. I can't imagine what it was like for him. I can't imagine having to watch Jasper the way he had to watch Talia while she moved from one wretched situation to the next. I'd have gone insane.
 
 But here he is, whole and solid. I think he always knew Talia was an omega. I can't begin to fathom what it felt like for him to watch her walk away, knowing what she was and that she was his. He's a stronger man than I am. I would have chained her to the fucking floor before I let her leave and smiled into her anger.
 
 I can't see what he's doing to her, but she's arching her hips up off the edge of the table and crying out. I let her wrists go with one hand and spread my fingers over her lower abdomen just above her mound, and gently push her back down onto the table. “Be still, Talia. Let him take it how he wants. It's his, he can have it how he likes, can't he?”
 
 “Fuck,” she whines, long and drawn out.
 
 IloveTalia like this. I wasn't involved with her last heat, I didn't want to be, but I will fist fight anybody who tries to keep me from her next one.
 
 “Not yet,” I purr into her ear, “but soon.” I lower my mouth to hers. It isn't so much a kiss as thrusting my tongue into her mouth like I'm fucking it, and she groans for me. “Soon, I'm going to fuck you. Jasper's going to help. We're going to make you scream for us for hours.”
 
 She moans again, arching her neck. My mouth actually waters. I cannot wait to mark her. I told Jasper he could choose where I put my mark. I don't care where he picks, I just want it.
 
 Alex explodes into the kitchen like the loud fucker he is. “Fuck yes! Talia on the table is going to be a meal option again!” He pulls up a chair on the other side of her and reaches under her shirt to palm her breast.
 
 Why haven't I done that yet? Silly me.
 
 I push her shirt up, exposing her to us, and pinch her other nipple. My rough treatment is in direct contrast to Alex's attention and she gasps. I turn her head back toward me and fuck my tongue back into her mouth.
 
 “Jesus,” Nathan says from somewhere, “I didn't know this was an option.”
 
 I smile against Talia's lips.
 
 “Go away,” she whines, “I can't take anymore.”
 
 Corso does something that makes her moan into my mouth.
 
 “Sure you can, pretty girl. You can take more than any of us.”
 
 She shakes her head, “I can't, Devon. I'm burning up. I can't breathe.”
 
 Alex bends his head to lick her nipple, “looks like you're breathing just fine to me, sweet pea.”
 
 It feels like an eternity ago since I fucked her through that heat spike even though it's only been a few weeks. I didn't take the time or opportunity to enjoy her body then, I was too concerned about easing her pain, and terrified to actually do it. I wanted to shove her onto her hands and knees and fuck her until neither of us could walk or think, but I couldn't because I was too afraid. I was afraid of what would happen if I did. I was afraid of how it might affect Jasper. Afraid of hurting her. Afraid of letting myself want her. Afraid of so many things. But I'm not afraid of any of those things now.
 
 Nearly being killed and then finding out she killed an alpha for me...for me...has effectively destroyed any fear I ever had. There has never been a reason to fear Talia, or fear wanting her. She didn't take Jasper from me, she gave herself to him. She gave herself to all of us.
 
 I kiss her, really kiss her. I put everything I feel into my kiss. When I pull away her eyes are wide and it looks like she might be fighting back tears. I rub my nose against hers and smile, “it's alright, cupcake. I've got you now.”
 
 She takes a trembling breath and nods at me. That's enough for Talia and me. We understand each other without overtures or declarations.
 
 I hear the lens shutter sound of a phone camera and look up to see Nathan taking pictures. The look he gives me tells me that he's also remembering those terrible pictures. I don't know which of us hated them the most, but Nathan and Jasper were the most affected by them.
 
 I nod at him, “group text.”
 
 “Seriously?” Talia hisses, but stops short of anything else. I think Corso may have bitten her, just a little.