Page 98 of Choosing Their Omega

“He’s got a fever, but he’s sleeping and his breathing and everything is fine,” Lily says. She shoots me a stern look.

“There has to be more that we can do to help him feel better,” I snap. “And I don’t think it’s unreasonable to want to take him to the doctor. He could have come down with something serious—one kid gets the flu or chicken pox, and he’s fine, but he passes it onto another kid and that kid isn’t fine, his body goes haywire—”

“Hey.” Cruz’s voice cuts through the panicked fog in my brain. He claps me on both shoulders and looks me in the eye, every inch my pack leader. “You need to cool down. Take a walk, take some space, something.”

His words make sense, and even though I still feel like I’m vibrating with tension, I give a short nod. Then I step away from him and head for the stairs, making my way up to my room. I want to slam the door behind me, just to give my body some way to get out all this restless energy, but that would wake up Ben so I close it as softly as I could.

I sit down on the bed, but that’s immediately a bad decision. I’m too restless for that. I get up again and start to pace.

The door opens, and I catch her scent before I see her slip in. Lily.

I inhale deeply. Fuck, she smells, good, she always smells good, and it wraps around me like a cloud.

She walks over to me, wrapping her arms around my neck and guiding me, with each press of her body, to step back and back and back until I sit down on the bed and she can climb into my lap and hold me.

The height difference between us is huge, but when I’m sitting and she’s in my lap like this, she’s just tall enough that I can bury my face in her neck while she wraps her arms around me, and I feel held.

“Just breathe me in,” she murmurs.

“I can’t calm down,” I admit. I feel like I’m confessing to some sin, the fact that I can’t let this go, I can’t be normal about this.

“Ben is okay,” she promises me. “Have you ever known me to be wrong?”

“No.” I know my tone is reluctant, but she’s right.

“We’re all here. We’re all taking care of him. We’ll keep an eye on it and we’ll take him to the hospital if anything goes wrong. The second it goes wrong. But it won’t.” Lily runs her fingers through my hair. “It won’t, because he’s not even really that sick. This is just your fear. It’s okay. Can you breathe with me?”

I nod and breathe with her, inhaling her scent and letting it fill my nostrils. She’s so calm and warm, and in this moment, she’s everything I need.

God, I fucking love her. I’m so in love with her it almost hurts.

That thought overtakes my body, and I drop my head to kiss her. Lily’s scent turns sweeter and stronger as she makes a little noise against my lips, letting me know that her body is reacting to our kiss.

I can barely remember the time when I felt apprehensive about bringing this beautiful, sweet, strong woman into our home. Now, I can’t imagine our lives without her in them. I can’t imagine my life without her in it. I don’t know how I would survive without her.

“I need you,” I groan against her lips, and I’m not just talking about the insistent throbbing of my cock, which has grown fully hard and is pressing painfully against my zipper. The words mean so much more than that. They come from my heart. My soul. My very bones.

“I need you too,” she whispers, her voice breathy with arousal.

Everything in me is urging me to claim her, to drive into her warm, wet heat and bind our bodies together. But I muster up the strength to pull away from her, breaking our kiss.

“You just finished your heat,” I say roughly. “I know how many times we fucked you during the height of it. I’m sure you must be sore.”

Omegas produce plenty of slick during their heats, priming their bodies for near-constant sex, but my brothers and I are all well-endowed, and Lily pushed her body to its limits as we all indulged in our craving for each other. Watching her pussy stretch around both Lawson’s and Cruz’s cocks was one of the hottest things I’ve ever seen, but I’m certain she must still be feeling some soreness as her body recovers from all of that.

Lily smiles, reaching up to run her fingers lightly through the hair at my temple. “You take such good care of me. You’re so protective of the people you care about, Knox. It was one of the first things I learned about you, and it’s one of my favorite things about you. I feel so lucky that I’m one of those people you care about.”

“You always will be,” I say earnestly, catching her hand in mine. I clasp it between my palms, my larger hands completely engulfing hers.

“I know.” Her luminous blue eyes shine as she gazes up at me, then her lips curve upward in a smile. “And you’re right. I am a little sore. But I’m not too sore for this. I want you, Knox. I need you.”

“You fucking have me.”

My voice is hoarse with the strength of the emotion behind it, and I grip her waist and pull her onto my lap, unable to hold myself back any longer. This time, our kiss is even hotter than before, urgent and full of unspoken meaning. My hands are everywhere, roaming over her soft, perfect body as if I’m trying to map each one of her curves.

“I love these thick thighs,” I groan out, squeezing them roughly. “I love your ass. I love watching your breasts bounce as I fuck you.”

She squirms against me, positioning her clothed pussy right above my cock and rolling her hips until the friction makes us both groan.

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