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“If you don’t want this, say so now,” Xavier growled, staring down at me with eyes the colour of the moon. “If you need me to stop—”

I remembered what Jamie had said, thinking about what my mother would say for the first time in years, before smiling up at him.

“And why would I do that?”

Chapter 30

Xavier

“And why would I do that?” Kai said to me and suddenly I became all too aware of our nudity, her bare body soft and tiny beneath mine. My cock ached with how fucking fast it filled with blood, but I ignored it as I stared down at her.

My Kai.

My mate, the only woman in the world I’d ever love and I could barely feel my face as I stared down at her, my hands gripping her way too tight, as if she’d slip from my fingers and away from me if I didn’t. But holding her made me all too aware of those fragile bones in her shoulders, the graceful sweep of her collarbones.

“Yeah?” I knew she’d changed. She had to have, surviving out in the human world. But the challenge that glittered in her eyes, it had the wolf growling and the man feeling so much satisfaction. “So you’re not gonna take off if I do this?”

My lips still tingled from where she’d brushed the lightest of kisses and I found myself going back for more. And the moment our mouths touched, the world exploded. White light filled my head and a steady whine started up in my ears as I felt her.

Her lips parting, slowly at first, then much more readily, eagerly. And me? I sucked in a breath through my nose, diving right into her. Her taste, the sweet, sweet scent of roses blossoming in the air, melding with that of crushed grass and wet stone, creating a perfume I’d never forget. Her thighs widened and my body fell into the gap, grinding up and into her softness, though not inside her, my cock rocking against that slick cleft, as I kissed her and kissed her, over and over. I felt her tongue tangling with mine, one kiss bleeding into another until Jay decided to intervene.

“Hey,” he said. I growled at him, half blind with need, not even seeing him as my brother right then, just another male. An intruder, someone else trying to get to my girl. But Jay ignored me to talk directly to her. “You got some of that sweetness for me too?”

“Fuck…” Hearing her curse was so damn hot. Kaia was always a lot more careful about what she said around others, but not Kai. “Sometimes it feels like a dream, the three of you.”

“Not a dream,” Jay assured her, stroking her hair back from her forehead. “Not unless it’s one of those real dirty ones that wakes you up in the middle of the night with a wet pussy and a twitchy clit.”

“Jesus, Jay—” I growled, but she just grinned, reaching up to drag his head down.

My brother shot me a jubilant look, right before he devoted his entire attention to our mate, kissing her lips until they were swollen and slick. But I was the one who felt her shift underneath me, felt her hips flex, watching the little nipples of her breasts pulling tight. So I threw a look at Atlas and he moved. When I rolled off Kai, she reached blindly for me, but she didn’t realise she’d never need to again. We’d be on her tail every second of the day, until she was sick of the sight of us. I settled down beside her, slinging an arm around her waist, my brother doing the same as we shared a look.

Kai had always been the sexiest damn woman I’d ever seen and the years and the new purple hair had done nothing to change that. If anything, it just made it all the more intense, the sway she had over us. But right now wasn’t about mounting her, rutting her into the ground, even though my dick was dying to do just that. It was about her. We’d never really had a chance to court her like we wanted, due to her stupid mother’s ambitions, so in some ways this was a moment to reclaim that. Not to fuck her in the dirt, but to learn her: map the ups and downs, the ins and outs of her body, collate her reactions and her responses.

My hand shook as I slid it over her stomach. I had a steady grip when I looked down the barrel of a rifle or when working the clippers over a recalcitrant sheep, but I lost all that the moment I touched her. Tracing the slight swell of her stomach, following the harsh ridges of her hipbones, tangling my fingers in her pubic hair, even watching the shift of her thighs, spreading wider, sweet rose-scented slick filling my nose. And Atlas—I looked up when his hand paused, caught the moment when he bared his fangs, not at me, not even at Jay or Kai, but from need, in response to her scent. My own canines ached the same damn way, with the need to mark our mate. But as Kai moved more insistently, the scent of her growing more intense, sweeter, I jerked my hand away and then looked meaningfully at Atlas, trying to get him to do the same.

Kai broke away from Jay, looking bright eyed, flushed in the face: so fucking beautiful. I used that distraction to haul her upright and into my arms.

“We bought you some food,” I told her.

“Not hungry for that,” she mumbled, right before kissing me again. I wanted to get lost in that, in her, my arms tightening around her not wanting to let her go, loving the feeling of her with me, touching me, tasting me. But we’d get caught up in the moment if we didn’t stop things, so I didn’t let myself get drawn further into that vortex.

“You know we want to devour you from head to toe,” I said, staring into her eyes and she shifted then, straddling my hips, then lowering hers slowly, so I felt the wet brush of hot little omega pussy.

“Yeah, that,” she said with a smug smile. “I want that.”

“But that’s not how this is gonna go.”

Jay groaned and then flopped dramatically on his back onto the grass, while Atlas just shook his head slowly.

“Isn’t it?” Her eyes danced then, bright, bright silver. “Maybe not for you—”

“That’s the spirit, baby.” Jay jack-knifed upright and dragged her from my arms, placing Kai in the same position across his lap. “Dudley Do-Right over there can choke the chicken to the sounds of me—”

“Showing our mate how much we love her.” Everyone went silent when I spoke the words. “Making that so fucking clear to her that no one and nothing will have her thinking otherwise again. Courting Kai in the way we should’ve back at home. Making her feel special.”

“Fuck…” Jay pressed his forehead to Kai’s chest and I knew I’d won. She played idly with his hair, but didn’t seem surprised when he pulled away to stare up at her. “You know how much I want to give you everything your scent is telling me you need…”

“But you’re not going to.” She let out a sigh and pulled away before shooting me a dark look. “Cock blocker.”

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