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She’s in heat and in pain and she needs her alpha.

“Come here.” I shoot up into a sitting position and wrap my arms around her, dragging her back up the bed. I settle in next to her, alarmed by the flaming heat of her skin. “Fuck, you’re burning up. Are you okay? How do you feel?”

A whine is my only response as she nuzzles into my chest, her hands needily dragging me closer.

“You should have stopped. You should have let me take care of you,” I chastise, my heart dropping into my stomach.

She shakes her head against me. “I needed to… make you feel good. I wanted you to come. Did I… did I do okay?”

My heart cracks at her admission, the dull ache splintering through my chest. She pushed through her discomfort to pleasure me, which I never would have allowed if I knew what she was doing.

“You did so well,” I say, dipping to press my lips to her scalding forehead. “So fucking well, my precious omega. Now, lie back and let your alpha take care of you.”

She obeys, pulling away from me and settling into the blankets. When her eyes drift open to meet mine, they’re hazed over and dreamy.

“Skylar,” she says, her voice wobbling. “Please make the pain stop.”

“I will, preciosa.” I slip my hand between her thighs, my fingers gliding through her slick as she shudders against me. “I’ll make it all go away.”

CHAPTER FORTY

RIANN

My thoughts haze over as Skylar slips between my thighs. She’s all I see as I roll my tongue around my mouth, savoring the lingering taste of her. Making her come, watching her shatter, has to be one of the most glorious things I’ve ever done.

And after this heat, I plan to make her come again and again.

Even if she argues, even if she protests.

All I want to do is make my alpha feel as incredible as she makes me feel.

Unfortunately, the only thing I can focus on right now is the ache building in my core and the need burning through my veins as my heat takes hold of me and doesn’t let go.

I moan her name, at least I think I do, and pain knots my stomach. I want—no,need—relief. I need Skylar to make the pain go away. And, even though I’ve never had one, I want a knot.

How exactly that will work with a female alpha, I don’t know, but she has to know something I don’t.Right?

Her lips crash against mine as she slips two fingers inside me, quickly finding a toe-curling rhythm that has me bucking my hips. The way she works me, curling her fingers and hitting that magical spot that leaves me gasping, is so perfect; it’s like she was made for me. She knows all the buttons to press, all the places to tweak, to have my pussy gushing slick.

“More,” I pant against her lips. “I need… more.”

I want her to stretch me, fill me, fuck me.

A whine escapes me as she slips a third finger inside, keeping up her steady thrusts, burying them as far as they’ll go. She kisses and sucks along my neck, teasing my skin with her teeth, moaning in my ear as I buck my hips up to meet her.

It feels so fucking good, and everything is almost perfect, but it’s not enough.

“More,” I beg, barely registering the word. The heat is burning through my instincts, clouding my thoughts and my mind. It feels like I’m floating, suspended somewhere between pain and pleasure, and only one thing will make it better. “Please, Skylar, I needmore.”

“Okay, preciosa,” she mutters against my lips, sliding down my body and kissing my chest as she goes. “But I’m going to go slow; I don’t want to hurt you.”

She presses an open-mouthed kiss against my stomach and I can feel her work a fourth finger into my pussy. The delicious stretch has me arching my back and fisting the blanket, a gasp tearing from my lips.

Slowing her thrusts, she pushes her fingers deeper. A breathless moan slips out of me every time her knuckles bump against my opening, and when she dips to take my clit into her mouth, I cry out from the pleasure.

“Fuck, fuck, fuck,” I babble, my hands shooting to fist in her hair. I drag her closer, bucking my hips against her face wildly, chasing my release. It’s building, slow and steady like a storm, and every flick of her tongue has me inching closer.

“Don’t stop. Don’t stop.Fuck. Yes, right there.” I can’t control the words flying out of my mouth as every muscle in my body tenses, preparing for detonation. Skylar sucks my clit into her mouth again, teasing the sensitive nub between her teeth, and my climax slams into me full force.