by Joyee Flynn
Rowan took the mic out of the stand and gestured to the ocean with his free arm. “Well meet me at the water.”
Everyone smiled at that one, Blaine moving up behind Edric and dancing with his little mate. A few more couples moved over to the designated dance floor, recognizing the tune as a good love song. Carson, on the other hand, his eyes filled with tears as he tried to move away from Ian. Declan looked as if someone kicked him in the nuts as he watched his mate crying. Taylor looking about the same.
“Someday I’m gonna steal your heart,” Rowan sang and then took the deep breath for the chorus as Declan got to his feet.
He moved towards Ian and Carson from one side as Taylor did the same from the other. It was like poetry in motion and proof that love can be enough and overcome anything. I’m not sure who saw whom coming first but it was like they just knew part of them, their mates, were coming closer.
Rowan belted out the chorus with Jaxon backing him up on the other mic as Rowan pointed to Edric. At the same time Declan reached Carson and grabbed him, his smaller mate fighting him. “I’m gonna steal your heart away.”
And that’s when it happened. Declan mashed his mouth down to Carson’s. Right in the middle of the chorus. Ian didn’t seem to notice as Taylor got too close and he went to push his mate away. Taylor slapped his arm out of the way and used his other one to grab Ian around the back of the neck. Their mouths clashed as their bodies collided.
“Epic,” Tristan whispered as we all moved closer together, staring at them knowing full well wild horses couldn’t stop us from seeing how this turned out. It seemed Falcon picked the right song with Augustana’s “Steal Your Heart.”
“I love you,” Declan cried as he wrapped his body around Carson’s. “I love you all so much. Please don’t leave me. I’m sorry. I had doubts and I shouldn’t have and I blew up. You’re the strongest man I know and you don’t need to be coddled or make things all about you. It’s about us and I don’t want to be anything but us ever again.”
“I love you too,” Carson said as he wrapped his fingers in Declan’s hair. “We’ll figure this out. We had a fight and we all blew up. It happens but I’m not anywhere as long as I’m loved and wanted.”
“You’re wanted,” Declan practically sobbed as he sank to his knees. “My soul belongs to the three of you. I can’t lose any of you.”
“Good,” Carson growled as he went with his mate. Then he pulled Declan’s head down until they were kissing again, their bodies falling to the ground.
“Totally epic. There’s just no other word for this night,” Jared whispered and I couldn’t have agreed with him more.
“I never cheated. I didn’t want to cheat, I wasn’t going to cheat,” Taylor growled when he and Ian broke apart for air. “I missed the spark of something new. A guy was flirting with me and I kept dreaming about it because I’ll never have that new relationship feeling again, that excitement over a first kiss.”
“No, none of us will,” Ian said quietly as he searched Taylor’s eyes. “And you want that again?”
“Don’t we all?” he chuckled, shaking his head. “You’ve been with other men, so has Declan and Carson. I’m the only one who’s only been with the three of you. Everything’s been so much drama and upset that I wanted to feel that spark.”
“And now?” Carson asked from the sand as he and Declan stared up at him.
“What I have is more important than the excitement of kissing someone for the first time,” Taylor answered. “I just needed time to come to that decision on my own. I needed to work it through. I can’t help that I dreamed about someone else but it wasn’t about him. He was faceless in the dream. It was the excitement but when we got here I realized, we’re not exactly boring. We’re always doing new things and throwing spice into our life.
“I wouldn’t trade our lives for a million first kisses with a million different guys. I just couldn’t see that in Chicago where I haven’t wanted to be. I don’t want us to lead the pack anymore. I want us to run off and live here or wherever. I hate being a Beta but I stay because I love you guys. All I want is you guys and to be happy.”
“Us too,” Ian agreed before mashing his mouth back to Taylor’s.
“Awesome,” I chuckled as the song wrapped up and our friends made up. “Fucking awesome.”
“Thank god,” Tristan whispered as the four of us hugged tightly. “They were too good together to ever break up.”
“Amen to that,” I agreed, kissing each of my men when they brought their faces closer to mine. Amen to that.
* * * *
Marlow
“I wouldn’t trade this for any woman in the world,” I moaned as I traced my tattooed name running down Vencentio’s ass with my tongue. “Nothing is sexier than this.” Then I thought about how that sounded. “Okay, well, it’s a tie for all my sexy men.”
“Nice,” Carter grunted as Vencentio sucked his cock. “Don’t grovel. It is like the sexiest thing ever. Get him stretched out.”
I nodded, not looking to start trouble where there wasn’t any. I quickly finished preparing our little mate as I kept kissing his tat. I’m not sure how I ended up being the one to show him how great it was first, probably because I had been in the biggest of trouble, but I wasn’t complaining.
Using the extra slick I had on my fingers to get my cock ready, I then pushed into Vencentio’s perfect ass. We both moaned and Carter’s eyes just about rolled back into his head from the vibrations Vencentio was sending down his cock.
“I’ve got some residual anger,” Galvin admitted as he shoved his cock in my barely prepared hole. “So this might hurt a bit.”
“That’s not a punishment when we both know I love it that way,” I mumbled as I braced my hands on Vencentio’s hips, the dual sensations already driving me nuts.
“I know,” he growled and started fucking me desperately. The four of us moved as we had before but not like we had before if that made sense. We’d never had a fight like this and it was a desperate, clawing need to reconnect as our passion hit new levels. It was like extreme makeup sex… Not worth the fight but something we’d also never forget.
“I love you,” I screamed to the three of them as they set my body on fire. Sex had never been like this when I’d been with women. I didn’t think it was because it was a woman though, just I had never been in love with them. But I’d dealt with the fact that I’d grown up thinking I was straight and clearly I wasn’t.
No man who loves a fat cock in his ass while fucking another ass could be straight.
And I was fine with that and never being with another woman because it wasn’t about the sex of who I was with but the person. I was lucky enough to have three of the highest caliber of people love me and share my bed. I wouldn’t ever forget that.
“Oh fuck,” Carter groaned as he came first. I leaned down and started stroking Vencentio, knowing we were going to fall like dominos soon. Sure enough he was next, his ass tightening around me as Galvin cried out and filled me. I was last, my climax slamming into me with the force of a fucking train.
It felt like it went on forever. My hands shook on my mate as I stared down at my name permanently marked on his body. It was amazing and so was the sex and I was a lucky, lucky man. When we were spent, Carter flopped back on his ass, wincing when something poked him probably. Galvin pulled out of me and I sat back on my feet and brought Vencentio with me so he was on my lap.
He glanced at me curiously over his shoulder. “I don’t want you getting poked by whatever we’re all in here or bitten by anything. You need to just stay right here forever.”
“On your cock?” he giggled, raising an eyebrow at me.
“I meant staying snuggled up with me but your way works too,” I teased. “We all good now?”
“Yeah, I think we all made up,” Vencentio answered as he glanced around, everyone nodding and smiling. “Good. Now we just need to decide if we want to live on the island or go back to our lives. Anyone actually
like Santa Fe?”
“No, not really,” Carter hedged. “It’s not so much leaving Santa Fe that bothers me. I mean, those guys will be fine now that you helped them with their wolves. They don’t really need us. It’s more once we run we can’t ever go back. I mean, really. If we got caught, the Council could have us killed since we ran.”
“But it’s not fair. Other wolves can leave the country or transfer to other packs outside the US if they move or just have no pack if there isn’t one,” Vencentio bitched as he crossed his arms over his chest. “You guys could step down and just leave. I’m the one who can’t go and the reason we’d have to run.”
“You’re right. It’s not fair but it’s the current rules and I just want to make sure everyone takes that into consideration while we talk about maybe giving up our lives at home and living here.”
Everyone nodded and we were quiet for a bit, the mood kind of ruined. Then I had an idea how to make us perk up again. “I think we’d know more if our wolves checked out the island. Who’s up for a run?”
“Genius,” Galvin chuckled, giving me a quick kiss before shifting. Vencentio stood and winked at me before changing forms as well. Carter and I were last and we hurried after our mates. Maybe we’d like the island and it would be worth running. I know I thought it was worth it already just to keep my men safe and not having to deal with all the shit we did. But we’d make the decision together as a family… Just as we should.
Chapter 7
Carson
“So we’re officially making up and not canceling your contract or mating with us, right?” Declan panted as he draped over my back and kissed my shoulder as his sweaty chest moved against my back.
“I’d think so,” I answered nervously. “Or we just had makeup sex for the purpose of sex only.” Wait, did that even make sense? Wow was my brain a little muddled.
“Shut up and fuck again,” Ian growled as Taylor pounded into his body. “We’re fucking making up, no one’s fucking leaving, and you will fucking like it!”
“That’s a lot of fucking,” I chuckled. “Taylor?”
“Not leaving. No one’s leaving if I have to hunt them down and chain them to me. Love you all too much,” he managed to grunt out in between thrusts.
“Fine but then we’re not doing two on two,” I grumbled. I moved Declan off me, ignoring his questioning look. Then I took his hand and practically pushed him in front of Ian. “You know how to take Ian’s dick in your ass. Get to it. You’re giving me a blow job for all my heartache while I make out with Taylor so we’re all connected as we should be.”
“Whatever you say, my mate,” he chuckled and slid under Ian. Taylor slowed his thrusts as they worked out the logistics.
“Forgive me?” Taylor asked me hesitantly while Ian was quickly getting Declan stretched.
“You should have talked to us before all this and I don’t mean about your working out stuff in your own head,” I answered carefully. “We all wish we could have our first kisses again. I get that and you needed to work through that on your own. But the other stuff, hating being a Beta and not wanting to lead the pack. You should have told us that.”
“How?” he whispered. “How could I say I hated my job and I was tired of the stress it took on all of us? We give everything for those people. We have for years. I’d rather kidnap Omegas if they need an out plan. That part I like. We help them. The rest is just playing parent to a bunch of grown-ups who won’t act like it.”
“Just like that. That’s what you should have told us,” I answered gently. “We’ll start coming up with a few different plans. If we move here, then what? I want detailed plans of getting us all out, what we do when we’re out, and how we keep other Omegas from suffering as I did before we talk about moving.”
“I thought you and Ian were leaving?” he asked as Ian growled.
“Talk after sex,” he bitched.
“Yes, Ian,” I chuckled. I moved into position as Taylor started working his hips. Declan’s mouth was like heaven and it took almost no time for me to blow. I held out as long as I could. I really did but after the emotional roller coaster I’d been on the past few days, I didn’t have any energy left to fight off pleasure.
I screamed as I came, Ian going next, and Declan and Taylor coming in third together. When I was spent I sat back on my heels, smiling at the picture my three men made, sweaty, sexed up, and cum filled. Nice. And I had almost lost that. Yeah, I had a reason to have gotten upset, and when I thought Taylor was cheating or wanted to off the vision I’d seen, my reaction was valid though severe. I couldn’t ever blow up like that again.
“Baby? What’s up?” Taylor asked quietly. I shook my head as tears burned in my eyes. “No, no secrets or keeping things in. We’ve seen that doesn’t work for us.”
“I almost destroyed all of this, us, because I blew my top. I can’t believe I did that. If you guys hadn’t fought for Ian and me, we could have all broken up.”
“We’ll always fight for you,” Taylor said gently as he moved over to me and pulled me into his arms, making me stand. “We will always fight for us. I knew what you said last night was out of anger and because you thought there was no other way. That didn’t mean I’d ever let you or Ian go. It just wasn’t going to happen. We don’t have calm lives, Carson. If we have a perfect life and you blew like that then yeah, I’d be pissed.
“But we’re here checking out an island because all our lives might be in danger. We’re under tremendous amounts of stress. It’s crazy times and we’ve got challenges we’ve got to overcome. So you blew and Declan had a moment of doubt and I had some shit spinning in my head. So what? It’s a blip on the radar and we’re moving on, no fault, no blame, and keeping our family together. Deal?”
“Yes,” I sighed as I hugged him back.
“So basically you’re saying that I’m the only perfect one of the group,” Ian hedged. I glanced over to him and saw he was grinning like the cat that ate the canary.
“Yes, that’s exactly what he just said,” Declan chuckled as he cleaned up. “Let’s go eat. I’m starving.”
“Yeah, I’ve not eaten all day,” I agreed as I grabbed my shorts. I used Declan’s shirt to clean up as he did. We could just take a dip in the ocean so that was just to get us back to the beach. Not like everyone didn’t know what we’d been doing. “Where’d you get the lube?”
“Oh, I had a bunch of people give me some when I lifted you off the sand and carried you away, Ian and Taylor right behind us,” Declan drawled. “Apparently this was a master plan to get us back together along with Vencentio’s inner circle.”
“Fine by me. It worked,” I chuckled, shaking my head. “And I want to dance with my men later.”
“Deal,” they agreed. We made our way back to the party, everyone clapping as we joined them… As Vencentio and his inner circle stepped out of the foliage on the other side of the party. There were all kinds of whistles and catcalls as we all stood there and practically blushed. Okay, I did fully blush.
Then I thought, fuck it, and rolled with it. I walked over to Rowan, got up on the stage, and kissed his cheek before doing the same to every guy there. “Your mates are very lucky men.” I eyed over Rowan especially. “You could get me out of anything I’m ever wearing with that voice.”
“Thanks, but I’m good,” he chuckled nervously and almost instantly had his arms full of Edric.
“I keep him very, very busy,” my friend growled at me.
“I’m sure you do. Tit for tat, brother,” I snickered. It took Edric a second but then his face lit up with a smile.
“Yeah, I already forgave them. They’re going to try and back off a bit and give me some room to breathe. And the rest of it I decided I’m spanking Rowan for being mean tonight after he keeps serenading me.”
“Deal,” Rowan purred as he nuzzled Edric’s neck. “You better eat up though because I’ve got a lot of groveling planned and you’re going to need your strength.”
“So do
you. I’ll make you a plate and you guys can take a break after your next song.” Edric gave him a quick kiss and we got down off the stage.
“Really? Your clothes would fly off for him?” Ian asked with a snicker as I got moved back by my men who were piling food on their plates.
“No, but I wanted him to make up with Edric after plotting something so nice for the fighting couples.”
“Actually, the plan was Asher’s,” Cameron chuckled. “Falcon and I helped pick out songs and found lyrics and luckily only Hugo had to quickly learn one of them. The other guys knew them already. It was like a team conspiracy plot.”
“Nice,” I chuckled, shaking my head. “Well I’ll have to thank them later as well. Did someone pull out Rowan’s cake from Costco? We should at least give the man his cake.”
“Yeah, he does totally deserve it,” Edric purred as he stared at his man. “So does Colin. Maybe I’ll wear the cake and let them eat it off me.” Rowan and the band started up again and this time was playing Maroon 5’s “Love Somebody.” “I love this song and he knows it. Yeah, god, he’s forgiven. I’m going to cream in my pants just watching him.”
“Always a good goal,” Declan chuckled. “Mayo on your burger, baby?”
“You’re making a plate for me?” I asked as I set back down the plastic plate I just picked up. “I can do it.”
“Of course you can,” he said, blinking at me in shock. “We don’t do things for you because we don’t think you can. We do them because we love you and want to make sure you’re taken care of.”
“I know, but you’ve got to be starving too.” I moved closer to him and bumped my hip against his. “You’re a growing boy who needs all his nourishment.”
“Then it’s a good thing I have two hands,” he chuckled, showing me the other plate he was making up. “But if you get our drinks I’ll make sure to give you lots of grateful kisses.”