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His knot releasing me woke me. I was still lying across his chest beneath a blanket I didn’t remember anyone putting over us, and my other four men were exactly where I’d left them.

I reached for Alaric through the bond without thinking and found him immediately, warm, awake, and so quietly pleased that I smiled before I’d even opened my eyes.

“I can feel you.”

“As I can feel you, my heart.”

His fingers started moving through my hair again, and I smiled before I looked toward Caius.

He was watching me from across the nest. His expression gave almost nothing away, but the hunger in his eyes definitely did.

“Alaric.”

“My heart.” He must have felt how badly I wanted Caius, and how hesitant I was, through the bond. “Wanting Caius is no betrayal. Your affection for one member of this Pack takes nothing from another.”

That eased the last bit of worry in my stomach.

I nodded, kissed him softly, then turned towards Caius.

“Caius.”

He crossed the nest and knelt beside us, the mattress dipping beneath his weight. Alaric stayed behind me, one arm loose around my waist, and even with him there, the choice still felt mine completely.

Caius’s eyes darkened as I reached for him. I touched the scar along his cheek, slid my hand around the back of his neck, pulled him toward me, and kissed him.

He answered with all the hunger he’d been holding back, his mouth hard against mine as one hand closed around my waist. When he pulled away, every muscle in his body looked tight.

“Forgive me, little one. I’m not as gentle as my brother.”

I touched his face. “I can take it, Caius.” Then I leaned closer and whispered in his ear, “I like it rough.”

A deep, almost animal growl came from him before he pushed me onto my back and entered me in one hard thrust, all the way to the hilt. The sudden stretch made me cry out, but I didn’t want him to stop, so I grabbed his shoulder before he could move away.

“Is this how you like it, Omega?”

“Yes!”

He started fucking me so hard and fast that there was no chance of me matching his thrusts. I could only hold on and take everything he gave me.

His hips hit mine harder.

“Greedy.” Thrust. “Little.” Thrust. “Omega.” Thrust.

His arm slid beneath me and held me firmly against him as the rhythm grew faster. I could hear the others growling around us, but I stopped listening to anything but him.

“Caius.”

His mouth found mine again, and the next thrust pushed me over.

Pleasure tore through me, my whole body tightening around him as his name broke from my mouth. The need to claim him came with it, so I pulled his neck towards me and bit.

Caius roared as his teeth sank into the other side of my neck.

Pain turned into pleasure as his knot swelled and locked us together, his cock pulsing deep inside me.

Then the second bond opened, and his joy hit me first, so strong it stole my breath, followed by satisfaction and an overwhelming sense of relief that nearly broke my heart. Of course he was relieved. He’d waited so long for a mate.

My poor, poor Caius.