PAIGE 016

PAIGE 016
“Should I shower as well?” I asked nervously after Nate disappeared into the en suite. The door opened again, and Nate stuck his head out.
His voice was rough and deep when he said, “No. Just clean your skin and the bed.” The door slammed closed, and I glanced up at Alex.
His cheeks burned as he stammered, “Uh… he’s, um, I mean… he’s, as in, Nate is okay with my…” His brows rose. “…cum inside you, but he wants Asher’s essence off you and the bed,” he finished in a rush.
It was my turn to blush. Then I scolded myself for it because I shouldn’t be embarrassed by what we’d done. Asher, and now Alex, were my mates, so we could do what we wanted with each other.
Asher laughed. “It seems, until the wolf can claim me—if he can and not the other way around—then we need to make sure I’m not scented around you while he claims you.”
Oh.
I glanced to Thorn’s neck to see the teeth marks there.
Thorn smiled. “It’s okay, sweetheart. It didn’t hurt.” He actually stood straighter and seemed proud to have the mark. I still couldn’t believe what I’d seen or how turned on I’d been watching Nate take Alex and then dominate Thorn. The way their bodies moved, the way they touched each other, fucked each other… dear God, if it was a TV show, I wouldn’t get anything done. Instead, I would watch it every day and all day long. Just thinking of the way Nate’s hips pistoned in and out of Alex and Thorn had me rubbing my thighs together. To top it all, bonding with Alex was more than I’d imagined. The way he held me down, the way he pinched my nipples and clit, the way he fucked me like I wanted was mind-blowing. I could feel him in me, feel the desire swirling inside him, the desire that had his dick growing right before my eyes.
I glanced up at him as he said, “It’s you who has me hardening. I can sense how turned on you are. What were you thinking?”
I smiled sheepishly. “About us together and about Nate with you and Thorn.”
Alex ran his thumb over my bottom lip. “You really don’t mind Nate’s claim? About us… fucking?” I’d never heard him swear; it was cute and yet sexy at the same time.
“I don’t mind at all. I love getting pleasure but also seeing you all have it as well. If it’s the five of us together or you with Nate alone and I hear about it, then I’m happy.”
In the next second, I was on my back with Alex over me. “You really are amazing and meant to be ours, Paige Alice. I’m honored to be known as your bonded mate.”
I cupped his cheeks, then ran my hands up through his hair before meeting his gaze again. “I’m glad, because I love you all the same.”
His eyes closed. He sucked in a deep breath, and I felt his love pour into me. I gasped, arched up into him, and wrapped my arms around his neck, dragging him down to me to kiss him senseless. He rocked his erection into my hip. A throat cleared, but I was too lost in the sensation, in the scent of Alex and his hard, smooth, wonderful skin while I glided my hands down his back.
“We should clean before the wolf—”
A hard, urgent knock sounded on the door. Alex and I froze. In the next blink, Alex clicked his fingers, and all of us were dressed and the bed was made with clean sheets.
“Enter,” Asher barked.
The door swung open. A pale Felnick entered. “There’s a problem, my queen.”
I groaned, rubbing a hand over my face. “Another one? Is it Lucifer on the phone?”
“No. Our brothers-in-arms, who were sent out into the world, have found Selma. She’s locked herself in a room with a few humans, threatening to kill them, and won’t come out until she speaks with the queen in person.”
“She’s here?” Thorn questioned.
Felnick shook his head. “She’s in New York.”
The door to the en suite flew open, and Nate, only in a towel, stomped in. He pointed at me and snapped, “Don’t even fucking think about going.”
Bristling, my anger surfaced. I stood quickly with my hands on my hips, only realizing I was dressed in a snowsuit. It had me blinking down at it and then glancing over at Alex. His jaw unclenched enough to bite out, “No one has the right to see your skin after….” After I’d been thoroughly fucked, he left off, and I appreciated that he had. My face heated, while I heard Thorn and Asher chuckle, as Nate snorted.
It was sweet he was being protective.
“But a snowsuit?” I pressed.
“Yes.” He nodded, and I had a feeling he wouldn’t change my outfit even if I wanted him to.
Sighing, something I hadn’t done in a while, I faced Nate again. “If you weren’t so hot and muscular, and tall, and good-looking with your warm skin—”
Someone cleared their throat loudly.
Damn Nate for distracting me with his body. My eyes narrowed even more at his smug smile. “If you weren’t meant to be my bonded mate, I would so kick your ass right now for ordering me.”
He rolled his eyes. “I’m here to protect you. I’ll easily tie you to the bed if I have to.”
That had me picturing it. Tied to the bed while he got all growly and bossy and assholey…. Wait, that couldn’t mean I liked his hard-edge moods, right?
Fuck. I thought it did.
Still, I wouldn’t let him get away with it.
“Ah, my queen,” Felnick called.
“Yes?” I asked, facing him.
“What should we do about the issue?”