STORY EXCERPT

“Breathe, Brody,” he whispered gently as he hugged me closely. “Show me what happened.”

I did, opening my mind to him freely. Wesley was powerful enough he could have made me show him, but unlike other Omegas, it would have hurt me because I had enough juice to fight him.

“This wasn’t your fault either,” he told me softly as he kissed my forehead. “It was an accident.”

“Don’t hurt Brody,” Lief bellowed as he came racing into the room with Asher. “I claimed him of my own free will. I knew it wasn’t a dream.”

“Liar,” Wesley chuckled as he stood, wrapping his arms around me. “But admirable that you’d take the blame and protect him. I assume you don’t regret claiming him?”

“No, he’s amazing, but scared and I want to help him, love him,” Lief answered as his eyebrows scrunched together. “Why are you not furious at me?”

“Because you did it to protect my friend.”

“No, I meant for taking him.”

“I saw what happened in Brody’s mind. You thought it was a dream too. Everything you did and said, you wanted to do though,” he said, shooting me a glance to let me know it was true. “You wanted Brody as he wanted you. But you do have the right to call foul now that the power has cleared up. Do you want to press charges that you were raped or violated?”

“No!” Lief gasped as his eyes practically bugged out of his head. In a flash I was out of Wesley’s arms and in his. “I claimed him. He didn’t do anything wrong! I’m not pressing charges and you can’t take him from me.”

“We could actually but I don’t think that’s what my mate has in mind,” Bay said, using his best Alpha voice.

“He’s mine,” Lief whispered. “Mine and Asher’s. Wesley told him so.”

“I did. Brody is the one I saw in my vision for Asher months ago when I was living with Tristan,” Wesley confirmed. “I didn’t know Brody was the one until they were in the room for the first time and I think Lief was the missing piece. He’s opened Asher up to me better since they’ve become involved.”

“You always were scary powerful, Wes,” Asher chuckled and I shot him a dirty look.

“You might want to choose your words more carefully given where we are and what’s been going on. You’re scary tall and wide but that’s rude to say, so why do you think it’s okay to talk to Wesley like that?” Everyone in the room slowly turned so they were looking at me, Bay, Harkin, and Levey with jaws hanging open and all.

“I’ve never heard you snap at someone like that,” Wes said carefully. “You feeling okay?”

“No, not even close,” I growled, pushing Lief away. “Thinking I’m cute and wanting my ass is not the same as agreeing to claim me. He doesn’t know me and what I’ve done. I don’t deserve to be with someone and he really doesn’t deserve getting stuck with me. Undo it or I will. I promised to train hard and be the obedient solider for whatever you needed.”

“Brody, stop,” Wesley growled, knowing I was close to giving away the secret he’d tried so hard to keep.

Then I gestured to Asher. “And I don’t even think he likes me and I don’t really even care. If people would be more careful with what they say and think before they speak they wouldn’t be spreading this fearmongering. You know how it is. Someone hears him saying that you’re scary powerful, it’s a joke but it’s not because he had to really feel that way to say it.

“Then the person who heard him tells the next person that Asher’s afraid of you and maybe they should be too. And then you’ve got a whole Council who’s scared of us and some think it’s best to kill us off before we might go dark side and do something horrible to them like stick their heads up their asses even further. All because Asher didn’t think before he spoke and people are jerks.”

“Feel better now?” Wesley asked me calmly. I thought about it and nodded.

“Yes, yes, I do actually.” I stared at my friend with hope. “Will you undo the bonding? He doesn’t deserve this, Wes. I’m a mess and we both know it.”

“You’re a mess because you feel guilty for something you shouldn’t, tiny,” he said gently. My lips twitched at the tiny because I was at least three inches taller than Wesley at five six. I got the joke and knew he was trying to lighten the mood. “You know I never doubt my visions. I saw Asher happy because you made him happy and you needed him. It’s changed since Lief came into the picture now but only for the better.”

“It could be years down the road you saw,” I countered, not ready to give up my stance just yet. “Undo it and in five years I’ll let them claim me.”

“Nice try,” he snickered. “Lief wants you and he at least deserves to know why you feel the way you do and it’s not him.” I shot the man a look and saw that I’d basically kicked him in the nuts by trying to get out of this. “One month. You stay and try with them for one month, telling them what’s really going on, and if it doesn’t work and all parties come to me asking to break the bond, I will.”

“Do you even know how to do that before I agree to this?” I asked hesitantly.

“No, but I know I saw it in the journals. You don’t really have a choice anyways. These are my terms.”

“Fine. So where do we go? Back with you? I’ve been helping you translate since—” I bit my lip hard to stop in time.

“For now we stay here and handle what we need to,” Wesley said in that evasive way that he had. Which meant he had a plan. Great.

ADULT EXCERPT

I heard a tortured groan and glanced in the direction of it. It was just enough time to see Jaxon moving towards me looking like a man on a mission.

“What did I do?” I squeaked as I went to stand up.

“Your towel’s slipping,” he growled as he dropped to his knees behind me. Then it was gone and his face was buried in my most intimate places. “Please, darling.” Lick, nip. “Please let me show you that there can be true love”—lick—“there are white knights who want to save the day”—lick and fondling of my sac—“and that sometimes fairy tales don’t hold a candle to the way real life can be.”

I just moaned as he kept teasing my hole. Never, ever had I experienced anything like it. My knees shook as my whole body practically vibrated.

“Has anyone eaten out this sweet ass before, darling?” he asked in that sweet drawl, knowing full well the answer.

“No, never been about me except with Lief,” I admitted, glad my skin was probably still pink enough to hide the blush.

“Say yes and I’ll finish my meal here and show you more passion than you’ve dreamed of.”

What was there to say? I wanted what he was offering, it was just falling in love I couldn’t promise. But then who really could when they first started and they wanted me and I needed to be grounded… Oh fuck it. It felt fantastic. “Yes!”

“Good.” Jaxon buried his tongue in my ass and I couldn’t stay standing it felt so good. He caught me before I fell and turned us so that my upper body was lying on one of the beds, all the while never stopping his attentions. He was that strong. He slipped a finger inside of me and then growled in frustration.

“What’s wrong?” I asked, worried that I tasted gross or something. I just showered so the only thing I should taste or smell like was my bodywash.

“I don’t have lube. There’s got to be slick somewhere in this room with four gay men sharing it.” He pulled his finger free and stood. I went to roll over and he smacked my ass hard. “You stay right there waiting for me or I won’t finish.”

“Okay, but I want a damn kiss too if I’m going to get bossed around like this,” I mumbled as he walked away. I didn’t have any reason to complain, I knew that. It was almost comical that I was but I was self-conscious to have my ass on display like that and I was nervous I’d made the right decision.

Plus there was no blood in my brain at the moment.

“Ah-ha!” I heard Jaxon exclaim and then his heavy footsteps rushing back to me. He rolled me over and I gave out a startled yelp as I blinked up at him. The man was stripping faster than I’d ever seen someone get out of their clothes short of shredding them when he shifted. Then he was on me. “I never thought you’d ask, darling.”

“Ask what?” I breathed as his large frame surrounded me.

“To kiss you.” His mouth found mine and I moaned as his tongue pushed into my mouth as he spread my legs wider for him. It was a flurry of movement and sensations I couldn’t keep up with all while enjoying what he was doing to me.

“Gonna come!” I screamed minutes later as he pumped four fingers deep in my ass. Jaxon instantly pulled them out of me. “What the fuck?”

“Not until I’m inside of you. I want to feel your body squeezing my cock. And I promised you something new. You’ve had sex on a bed.” I didn’t get to ask what he meant. He lifted me up off the bed and wrapped my legs around his hips. Then he took a few steps over to the living room area and looked up with a smile. “Lift your arms and hold on.”

I glanced up as well and sputtered. “Seriously? You want me to hold on to the light fixture? I’ll pull it out and that looks expensive.”

“Do you really care? It’s not a chandelier but it will work for our purposes. I mean, you’ve heard the phrase having sex while swinging from the chandelier, right?” I nodded, not thinking that people really did that though. “This is close as we’ll get to that today. So hang on or you’re just going to bounce all around.”

As if to prove the point, he lowered me onto his cock and started moving me faster than I would have thought a person could even if I was smaller than him. I reached up to grab the hanging light fixture to balance my weight.

“Good little mate,” he said approvingly as he moved faster. Now that the ornate metal held some of my weight he could thrust into me more instead of lifting me up fully. “Shit, you’re perfect, Brody.”

I just grunted, not wanting to tell him I was far from it and enjoying the kinkiest sex I could ever have imagined too much to have ruined it by saying the wrong thing. Jaxon plowed into my body over and over again until I thought I was going to melt into goo.