Wait, no, that’s not right. Having her for life means having all of them. It means bites and bonds and the pack I swore to never have.
I’m still reeling from my conflicting thoughts when Hunter bands his arm around Madi’s middle and lifts her all the way onto her knees in front of him, her back to his chest. He reaches down and gathers up the slick dripping between her thighs. His hand disappears between them, and Madi moans. Is he doing what I think he is?
My own ass muscles clench in response. Phoenix slides out from under them, sitting up in front of Madi, so he can watch.
“I’m gonna take this ass now, omega. Gonna stretch you with my fingers, then my thick crown. You’re gonna take all of it, all the way down to my knot, aren’t you?” Hunter says all of this almost as if he’s narrating for us just as much as warning her. “Such a good girl. You want your mate’s cock in your ass, don’t you? You’ve needed this for so long, haven’t you? Just as long as I have. ”
Madi gasps and whimpers and squirms. I press my palm against my groin, trying to control myself. Phoenix sends me a knowing wink before he moves closer to Madi with his masculine hand wrapped around his length.
“Come on, Hunt, stop hogging our girl and let me feel that perfect pussy,” Phoenix says, knee-walking even closer.
Fuck, I think I’m gonna bust a nut right here in my pants. Caspian isn’t even trying to hold himself back. He’s stroking his length in slow, even jerks. His cock isn’t much different from mine, despite being paler. I don’t know why I’m surprised to see a lack of scales or something unusual. He just grew human legs, after all. I realize I’m leaning closer as if I want to inspect it, or lick it, so I rip my gaze away before I do something I’m not ready for.
Madi arches her back, pressing her perfect breasts toward Phoenix, as if she’s trying to fuse with him. Her eyes are glazed with need, sweat beading on her smooth skin.
Hunter slams into Madi’s pussy one more time before pulling out. He leans back enough for us all to see his sopping wet dick before he slowly presses it into Madi’s already prepped ass at the same time Phoenix pushes into her from the front. She’s speared between them, a silent scream forcing her perfect mouth open as her head falls back on Hunter’s shoulder.
“That’s it, angel, relax.” Hunter kneads her breasts from behind. “Give yourself over to us. Let us show you how much we missed you, how much you mean to us.”
They hold her tight between them and move as one with the kind of graceful teamwork that only comes from years of friendship. Jealousy and lust cloud my vision so thoroughly I have to ball my fists in my shorts to keep from moving. The action stretches the fabric tight across my aching shaft. The pleasurable pain of unfulfilled desire courses through me in waves of tension that build with every drive of the alpha’s hips into the omega.
My ocean_omega. My omega.
No, not mine. I don’t know what we are. I’m not sure what I am to any of them right now. All I know is that I want this moment to last forever. Teetering on the edge of release, watching the fiercest, most stunning woman I’ve ever known fall apart between two men I find irresistible, all while a fucking merman strokes himself next to me. It’s… it’s… I don’t have words for it.
“Get over here, squishy,” Phoenix says through gritted teeth. “I want to suck that merman dick.”
A sharp pain stabs through my chest at him asking for Caspian and not me. But then Caspian stands, filling my vision with his perfect ass as he meanders behind the threesome. He positions himself so as not to block my view, as if he knows I like to watch. Gods, they’re a sight. My mouth feels dry, every muscle coiled.
I thought the tableau before me couldn’t get any better, but then Caspian slides his cock between Phoenix and Madi’s faces. They both lunge for it as if it’s the only sustenance they need on this barren island. Now, my mouth waters, imagining that hard length is sliding against my lips and not theirs. Caspian looks like an old god or warrior, standing tall while they worship his body, his armor glinting in the sunlight.
“Need to bite you now,” Hunter growls at Phoenix, but his gaze swings immediately to me.
I suck in a sharp breath and hold it, muscles so tight I feel as if I’ll snap, but I won’t stop what’s about to happen. They love each other. Phoenix wants to be in Madi’s pack with both these men. They’re scent matches. I won’t stand in the way, even if I don’t know what my place is here, yet. Even if I don’t know if it’s what I want.
Phoenix loves me. I think Hunter would be happy to have me in his pack. Maybe Madi, too. But I’m not sure love and attraction are enough. All I can think about is the way my mom withered after she lost her mates. Fear grips my chest in a vise, squeezing the air from my lungs.
Hunter and Phoenix are still looking at me, so I nod, the movement brief and shaky. I won’t deny them this. Hunter takes it for the permission it is. He reaches around Madi to grab the back of Phoenix’s head, then he lunges forward and sinks his teeth into my firebird’s shoulder.
Phoenix doesn’t miss a beat. He licks from Caspian’s tip to his base, then bites his hip hard enough to draw blood, bonding the merman to him. As soon as that’s done, he bites the top of Hunter’s forearm while Hunter digs his teeth into the side of Caspian’s waist, right where it curves in.
It’s breathtaking to witness a pack form right before my eyes, giving and receiving pleasure, caring for their omega in the most intimate way possible. All her holes filled as they all caress and please each other. It’s beautiful.
And I’m excluded from it. That image Phoenix painted our first night on the ship has come true. I’m watching from the outside as the people I love make love. And it hurts. Because the reality won’t end the way Phoenix proposed. They won’t turn their attention toward me when they finish.
I’ll still be on the outside.
I know that’s by my choice. They would welcome me if I joined them now. But I don’t know how. It’s like I’m stuck here by my fear and my promise, unsure how to accept what they’re offering. Unsure if I should.
26
Even through the haze, I can feel each new bond settle around me. I can sense Phoenix now, my bright bubbly alpha, but only by proxy of my bites with Caspian and Hunter. My eyes lock with Nix’s, and I whimper around Caspian’s swollen shaft.
“Don’t worry, sunshine.” He lifts my breast in his hand and sinks his teeth in, so close to Hunter’s bite that the two marks form something like a heart.
Tears stream down my cheeks at the rightness of the connection snapping into place. All three of my alphas connected to me forever, knitting themselves around my heart in ways that are uniquely theirs. But there’s something missing.
Phoenix and Hunter slam into me together, and I pull my mouth off Caspian’s cock to let loose with a scream of pleasure, only to have my mate grip my hair and stretch my lips again.