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“Say what I want to hear, and we can go eat pancakes with our family.”

I opened my mouth to point out they were his family, but quickly thought better of it. “I’ll behave, Alpha. Happy now?”

“Tell me you’ll be a good boy.”

“Alexei,” I whined, as his fingers sped up.

“Come on, baby. Show me you love it when I dominate you.”

Alexei was gnawing at my scent gland now, not quite breaking the skin but threatening it with every brush of his teeth. My breaths turned to gasps as he kept me right on the edge, and a tear dripped down my cheek as all rational thought and awareness of my surroundings left me.

“Tell me what I want to hear and I’ll make you come.”

Self-respect? What self-respect? “I’ll be such a good boy for you, Daddy. I’ll be the best boy. Please, can I come, Alpha?”

Alexei groaned in pleasure, grinding his hard cock against mine. “Come for me, baby.”

Stars flashed across my vision as I did my best to muffle any noise in his skin. Shudders wracked through me for long moments as his fingers gently pumped in and out of my hole.

“Come on, sweetheart. Let’s get you cleaned up so I can feed you.”

I stayed lax in his arms as he took me back to the shower. Whined in complaint as he made no attempt to get himself off on my wet, slick body as he gently washed my cum off me. Cuddled into his chest as he carefully dressed me in fresh clothes and carried me out to the kitchen.

I didn’t return to myself until the sounds of children arguing over a screen broke the bubble of contentment I’d fallen into.

“Here,” Sascha said, smiling as she put a plate down in front of me when Alexei dropped into a chair, settling me on his lap.

I tried to move when he grabbed the fork, but his other arm kept me pinned as he scooped up a bite of pancake dripping in maple syrup and held it to my lips. Sighing, I gave in to the inevitable and let him feed me.

“A mate looks good on you, brother,” Sascha said, watching us.

I couldn’t hide the slight flinch at the word mate.

“I’ll need your help keeping him safe,” Alexei said, feeding himself now that I was full.

“Of course,” she said, patting the bulge at her waist where I was pretty sure she was packing a firearm.

“I can take care of myself.”

“I know you can. I think I fell for you that first time you managed to almost knee me in the balls.”

Sascha let out a peal of laughter, eyeing up my short stature. “Did he really? Okay, I get it now. That’s adorable.”

Oh, fuck her. Dickishness clearly ran in the family, and I could feel Alexei’s laughter vibrating against my back. Rolling my eyes, I ran a hand down the arm that had been caging me in before viciously digging my thumb into a pressure point that would make his hand numb and twisting out and off his lap. I might’ve been too dick-drunk to get myself free before, and I probably couldn’t hold my own for long if I was in a real fight with Alexei, but I could sure as fuck use my grappling and close-quarters training to make him hurt and remind him I was there because I chose to be.

It was all I could do not to stumble at the record scratch in my brain at that thought. Ignoring the two Alphas in the room, I went to make myself coffee, grabbing two extra cups so I could make the kids hot chocolate while it brewed. If Sascha was going to be a bitch, I was going to make damn sure her kids went home with the maximum sugar-high I could manage.

“Oh, and he’s vengeful, too,” Sascha murmured as I plonked down two cups overflowing with marshmallows in front of her children. “He’s perfect.”

“Yes, he is.”

Fuck my life.

CHAPTER 10

ALEXEI

My eyes tracked Ryder’s form hungrily as he preceded me into the elevator. I’d bundled my sister and her kids out the door an hour earlier and had my way with him on the kitchen bench while we cleaned up, and we were now belatedly making our way into the office mid-afternoon. If the idea of bending him over my desk wasn’t so enticing, I wouldn’t have even bothered.