Page 21 of Seducing Selena

We went back inside, and I was beside myself, my instincts right at the surface. She smelled so fucking good my instincts were screaming at me toknotandbiteandclaim.

I barely heard the words Seb spoke to her as he unlocked her chains. Instead, I was looking at her body. The rich tan of her skin and the slightly darker shade of her nipples peeking out from underneath the blanket. The glossy shine of her dark hair and the generous curves of her ass as Seb picked her up.

The way his fingers dug into her skin, I couldn’t wait to feel her underneath me, and I hoped she chose us. Because I’d already chosen her. We had to make it through this mission, because this fucking gorgeous Omega belonged to us in every way, and I wanted her to be ours by choice. Not because of this… mess.

And if she didn’t choose us after we told her the truth, at least we would have these few days with her. Because I already knew on scent alone, she was the one. The blessing and curse of these instincts we had. They could be the source of such incredible beauty and an entire world of pain all at the same time.

I ducked in front of where Sebastian carried her and opened the door to the nest and flicked the lights on. Not exactly the world’s prettiest nest. All the cushions were dark and utilitarian, but it would be so much better than fucking her in that cage on a tiny bed. My Alpha wouldn’t let me. It would be fucking unacceptable.

If she chose us.

“Selena?” Sebastian asked. He’d asked her the question, but she was still staring at the nest, bewildered.

She looked up at him suddenly. “Yes?”

I caught the way he squeezed her a bit tighter. I sure as hell wasn’t the only one of us affected by the little Omega. “A heat is one of the few things we do not interfere with. If you don’t want us to help you, we can leave you in the other room.”

Her mouth dropped open as she looked at him, and then at Nick, and finally at me. The hope in her gaze broke my heart. “You’re letting me choose?”

“Yes,” Nick said.

Selena didn’t speak right away. She just stared into the middle distance, and we waited. She was already going into heat, and her mind probably wasn’t working as quickly as she was used to. Not to mention this was all going to be a bit of a mind fuck.

There wasn’t much we could do about it, but it didn’t mean I wasn’t sorry.

“I choose you.”

Everything in my soul filled with relief. For a few days at least, we could pretend that the outside world didn’t exist, and while we were in the nest, we didn’t have to keep up appearances. We could simply treasure her like an Omega was meant to be treasured.

How I had wanted to the second I caught her scent.

I sensed all of us felt the same relief. “Are you fully in heat yet?” I asked.

“Not yet,” she said, blushing. “But I’m close. It was meant to start tomorrow, but I think… being around the three of you made it come a little early.”

Her wording wasn’t lost on me, and I wished we could fully trust her. It seemed obvious that someone who was planning their heat wouldn’t be a spy. But in these last years, I’d seen stranger things than someone waiting until the brink of heat to take action. We needed to be careful. If someone wanted us involved in a heat and out of the way?

Still, I was going to relish every second I could be in this nest with her.

“What triggers it?”

Her face and body turned a deeper shade of her blush. “Time. And sex.”

“That won’t be a problem,” Sebastian said. “Trust me.”

Nick stepped closer on the cushions and looked at our Omega. She looked up at him too, chest rising and falling more quickly. So fucking stunning. I couldn’t believe we were in this position.

I’d never been a person to blame things on being unfair, but it felt like it this time.

“We still are who we are, sweetheart,” Nick said. “Any objections to us using some things on you in here? Tying you up?”

There was conflict in her eyes. Not because of the question. We all scented the wild burst of perfume now swirling around us at the idea. I knew why it was there. Because if she said yes, then did that mean she accepted the treatment she would get once she returned to being a slave?

“We won’t use it against you,” I said quietly. “I told you before. We’re certainly not good Alphas. But we’re not as bad as some.”

“Okay,” she said. “Then that’s fine with me. What i—” she bit her lip, and fuck if I didn’t want it to be me biting her lip.

Sebastian lowered her to the cushions. “You can speak.”

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