Page 59 of Pack’s Prize

“I want you to mark me, Theo. All of you, I want to be yours.”

“When, Ava, just tell me. When is your next–”

“No,” I gasped, as I felt his teeth close lightly on the skin of my neck, “not during my heat, I don’t want to wait, I want it–I want itnow, Theo, please, now…” My knees hit the edge of the bed a split-second before my back hit his mattress, and I had to giggle. “Don’t you think we should tell Elias before we defile his bed?”

“Mmm, yes,” he purred, “we should. Probably.”

I let him kiss me for a moment longer, let myself relax into the feeling of his lips on my skin, the heat building in my stomach and the slick building between my legs.

“Go, Theo,” I urged, and he left with one final nip, rolling off of me and padding through the doorway.

It seemed like only seconds later that Elias burst into the room. “Ava,” he breathed, his eyes roving over my body, spread out on his bed, before landing on my face. “Really?”

I nodded.

“Now?”

I nodded, and watched his pupils widen, his blue eyes growing dark.

Michael arrived a moment later, followed by Theo, who stepped over to his easel and dropped a sheet over the unfinished painting to protect it.

“We’re all here, alpha,” he said, and Michael’s breathing hitched, his eyes darting from me to Theo and back. I smiled. It was almost cute how much he loved hearing that.

Almost, because at the moment, Michael looked anything butcute.He slowly unbuttoned his shirt, tugging the shirttails from the waistband of his pants. His expression as he approached me was molten lust.

“Omega,” he said. “How do you want this?”

I didn’t care. It wasn’t theactthat I wanted, the bite, the fleeting euphoria.

I wanted them, the bond, the relationship.

“I just want you,” I said, my voice breaking.

I found myself surrounded by my alphas, their presence comforting even as the pheromones of the room grew thick and stifling. Michael was behind me, both of us on our knees, his arms wrapped around my waist in a hug, his nose in my hair. Elias and Theo were in front of me, Elias’s hands on my hips, Theo’s eyes burning into mine.

I’d wanted toremember, to have this outside of my heat so I could recall every detail, but, as Michael slid his cock between my legs, my slick coating his shaft and his hot skin against mine sending sparkles zipping up my spine, I knew already that I would remember only this:

The feeling of utter surety.

Of safety.

Of warmth, and love, and belonging.

His cock pushed inside, parting my tight, wet heat, and I let out a sigh as he bottomed out, filling me so deeply that I thought my heart would burst. He fucked into me slowly, drawing almost all the way out, then pushing back in. Every ridge and vein of him made me quiver and gasp for breath, closer and closer to bliss.

“Please, alpha,” I said. “I don’t want to wait.”

“Yes, omega,” Michael said. He sheathed his cock again, forcing the breath from my lungs.

I opened my eyes to see Elias watching me intently, gaze never wavering from my face, even as Michael bent his head to the place where my neck and shoulder met, even as he bared his teeth against my skin, even as he bit down, hard, and I cried out, my eyes rolling back and my body going rigid as a burst of heat and light and pleasure slammed into me. I could feel it as the bond sparked and snapped into place between us, and Michael roared–and he was coming, too, and the pleasure of it crashed over our new connection and spilled into me just as his hot release drenched me from within. Where there had been two humans, two hearts, there were now one.

Elias kissed away the tears from my face before I even realized they were falling over my cheeks, kissed down to the column of my throat and down my chest to my ribcage, then my hip, where his teeth grazed against my skin and then he, too, sank into my flesh, bruising, biting teeth quickly replaced by soothing tongue and lips, and Michael’s breath was sweet with my own scent as he whispered in my earoh, the way youfeel,omega–

I surged up and over again, my entire body contracting, my focus narrowed only to the two brilliant points of light that burned deep into my flesh and down into my soul.

I clung to Elias as he laid me back down on the bed, his body over mine, one hand cupping my cheek. He captured my lips with his, his tongue tangled with mine, and I moaned as my own taste filled my mouth and a second bond settled over me with a tug from behind my ribcage. It was overwhelming, the flood of emotions and sensations andpower, and–

Theo was between my legs, spreading them wider, eyes closed and face rapturous as he kissed up the inside of my thigh, his mouth hot against my skin, his tongue flat against my entrance, where I knew he would taste Michael.