Page 22 of Bubblegum Pop
On instinct, I lifted my aching arms and clung to his neck, my hands barely meeting the top of his spine. Everything about Odin was huge, and I finally relaxed, finally safe.
I moaned as my nose grazed his neck, a deep breath making me drunk on the pure scent of him. “Odin…” I murmured, licking at his skin, drawing a quiet groan from him that went straight to my pussy.
His thick brown beard scratched against my cheek as I leaned into his hold and met his stormy gaze. I didn’t want them to treat me with pity, like some of those attendants did. I needed my mates, my alphas; I needed the men who would love me even when I broke.
Wrapped in a fluffy violet blanket, Apollo’s scent blended with ours as Odin turned and led the way through corridors and down a flight of stairs.
“You could take me here, you know.” I gasped at the thought, shifting my hips, rubbing on him as he walked. I wished Odin and Apollo could wipe away every memory of what had happened in that room. Finish my last heat the way it was supposed to go, with my mates. “You could push me up against the wall and fuck me,” I groaned.
Odin’s energy hardened, his grasp growing firmer. “We’re here to take you back to London. Nothing else,” he said, his attention fixed on Apollo as he walked in front of us.
I curved my back, dropping my left arm to trace the solid line of his pecs through his shirt, shifting my shoulder to grind on his nipple.
He flinched, and sparks lit up inside me. It was the first sign of real life I’d felt for days.
His heart beat next to my ear, and I saw the slight bob of his Adam’s apple as his body shook, but he was walking too quickly for me to tell for sure how affected he was.
The sound of their footsteps changed from carpet to tiles, and the walls shifted from the elegant royal blue of the heat suites at Knottinghill Spa to a soft white of the staff corridors.
I groaned as a fresh scent hit me, and I turned my head, whimpering as Zeus raced towards us. “What the fuck, guys? Why the fuck are you taking so long?”
Apollo stepped in front of us, looking up at him. “Zeus…”
“No, I can’t believe you’ve been—”
“Zeus.” Apollo’s voice was like a whip, cutting through everything else in the wide corridor. Zeus’s back straightened, angry, as his gaze flicked to me.
He instantly changed, his rage morphing into pain when he met my eyes.
“Oh, fuck,” he rasped, backing down instantly. “Oh, sugar, I’m so sorry.” He swept towards us and, within seconds, his thick fingers buried themselves in my hair as he bent over, pressing his lips to my forehead.
In my numb state, I could only feel Zeus’s lips and Odin’s hands.
Passion fruit blended with Apollo and Odin’s scents, the sweet burst like a perfect sorbet on a hot day helped lift the ache. My eyes fluttered as I breathed them in, finally whole.
“Are you ready to go?” Zeus murmured as he pulled back.
“Go where?” I croaked.
Zeus cupped my cheek, and I eased into his smile as a new wave of heat flooded me.
“Home.”
They were arguing the moment Apollo started the car. I could hear them in the background as I drifted off in Odin’s arms.
“She’s still in heat!” Zeus said from the passenger seat. “We can’t leave her alone after all she’s been through. Let’s take her back to ours.”
Odin’s breaths thrummed through me as I lay against his chest in the back of the car. My breaths were in time with his, peace I’d never felt before drifting over me as the delicate strokes of his thumb on my forearm lulled me back to sleep.
“Michael said she rejected a post-heat treatment.” Apollo’s voice was so beautiful, so light compared to the deep rumbles of Odin’s chest and Zeus’s rough snarl. “We can’t take her back to our flat when there’s nothing there for an omega.”
I didn’t need a nest when I had them. Those alphas didn’t let me make one, so I didn’t need one now. That’s what I thought, but my instincts were telling me to gather blankets and pillows, anything soft and lovely, so my three alphas could lay me down and fuck me until I was sated.
“We’re her scent matches, Apollo.” Zeus grew more frantic by the second. “We’ll be enough.”
I kept my eyes closed. I didn’t want them to know I was awake. Just hearing Zeus say how we were meant to be together had tears threatening to spill from me. I hated that my heat made me more emotional. My weakness was even more obvious like this.
“That won’t be enough to protect us from Michael if he finds out,” Apollo said, and Odin let out a sharp exhale. A pregnant pause hung between the three of them before Apollo spoke again.