by Nora Phoenix
The little omega unbuttoned the top button of Enar’s jeans, letting out a soft moan. God, he had it bad. “Please…” It was all he said to Enar, who gently rebuffed his attempt to undress him, but the soft words brought Lidon to his knees.
Palani let out an audible gasp. What was he to the omega, Lidon wondered. His lover? Not that it interested Lidon right now. His head buzzed with want. Was he doing this? Like he still had a choice, he scoffed at himself. His body screamed at him to get this party started, but he forced himself to use his brain. Was there any reason he shouldn’t do this?
“What about pregnancy?” he checked.
“I’ll make sure that’s covered,” Enar answered. “Don’t ask.”
He wouldn’t. He never did, not when half of what Enar did was illegal. Besides, his brain was about to surrender to his dick.
“You have thirty seconds for further instructions,” he bit out at Enar.
“Knot him long and often and let him suck you off at least once and swallow your load. He needs as much of your hormones and proteins as he can get.”
“Do I need to be gentle?” He looked at Palani, who watched the exchange with a mix of relief and anger. Lidon understood both, but he had no emotional energy left to say anything to the beta right now. Fighting off what he so desperately craved took all his energy.
“No. He can take it. Just…” Lidon watched the man shoot one last desperate look at the trembling omega on the bed. “Be kind to him. He’s not himself during a heat, and he’s vulnerable.”
Lidon didn’t understand what he referred to, but he’d find out soon enough, he reasoned. “You’ll stay?” he checked with Enar, who nodded.
“I’ll be in the living room.”
Enar lifted the omega’s head off his lap and kissed his forehead. “He’ll take care of you, little one. You’ll feel much better after.”
Lidon was amazed Enar could walk away. Even with the suppressants in his system, how did he manage to overcome his urges? It had to be because Enar’s alpha-drive was low to begin with. Lidon would fight anyone who tried to keep him from claiming Vieno right now.
Enar got up and signaled Palani to leave, but the beta hesitated. “Palani, now.”
When Enar wanted, he could be a full alpha, and despite his worry over his friend, Palani had no choice but to obey. They closed the door behind him and left Lidon with the trembling man on the bed, who looked at him with big, blue eyes.
“You sure you want this?” Lidon asked. He was far gone, this little omega, but not past the point of consent.
He nodded.
“I need words, Vieno. I want to make sure this is what you want.”
“Yes. Oh, fuck, please. I’m… You smell so good.”
Lidon smiled. “Nowhere near as good as you.”
Vieno licked his lips. “Are you sure you want this?”
An omega checking consent with an alpha. Lidon wasn’t sure he’d ever heard of that before, but damn if he didn’t appreciate it. “Yes.”
They had a minute at most before the hormones raging through their systems would overtake them both. Maybe he could give the little omega a little sense of security and safety? “I haven’t fucked anyone in months, which is why Enar asked me. My hormone and pheromone levels are sky high which will help you…and in return, fucking you will help me as well.”
“Why?”
That was the question, wasn’t it? Even Lidon himself didn’t fully understand. “Personal choice,” he said.
Vieno closed his eyes and let out a moan, his ass shifting again on the bed. Yeah, time was up.
“Last chance, Vieno. If you want me to walk out, you have to tell me now because in a few seconds I won’t be able to anymore.”
Vieno opened his eyes again. “I’m surprised you held out this long.”
“You and me both.”
“Take me. Please, please, take me.”
Vieno wriggled out of his dark-stained underwear. When he turned around and positioned himself on his knees, Lidon spotted the lubrication dripping from his hole. His perfectly pink, quivering hole that drew Lidon in, like helpless prey being seduced by a predator. As the alpha, he was supposed to be the strong one, but right now, he was helpless.
Lidon let go of the impossibly tight grip he had on his self-control. The alpha roar he let out came from his toes, rattling glasses in the kitchen cabinets. He stripped in seconds, his cock jutting free with a painful jolt.
His blood roared and before he knew it, he was on the bed behind Vieno, grabbing the slender hips with both hands. There was no time for foreplay, for kissing, or any tenderness. This hole was desperate to be filled and neither of them could wait any longer.
He lined up, then surged in with one powerful thrust. Vieno cried out, but not in pain or distress. It was lust. Pure, unadulterated lust. The same lust that thundered through Lidon’s veins, through his cock. It only took seconds for the first load to release, but it didn’t bring either of them what they craved.
Vieno lowered his head on his forearms, pushing his ass back. “More. Harder. Fuck me harder.”
Lidon intensified his grip on the bony hips, yanked him an inch or two closer and plunged back in. Vieno was slick and warm and tight and fucking perfect. For the first time in years, Lidon allowed himself to surrender to the alpha lust rolling through his body. He fucked Vieno exactly the way he asked to, hard. Then even harder, until he had to brace the lithe body with both of his strong arms to provide counterforce.
“You fuck me so good, alpha…your cock is so perfect…”
“Lidon,” he managed between deep thrusts that took his breath away. “My name is Lidon, not alpha.”
“Lidon,” Vieno repeated. “Fuck me, Lidon…your big alpha cock fills me up so good.”
Lidon’s balls pulled up as he came again, harder this time. He let out another roar, throwing his head back. Damn, this felt so good. His body was on fire. He could fuck for hours now, fueled by how own released lust and the hormones Vieno triggered in him.
“The next time will be my knot,” he promised as he pulled out and pushed Vieno on his back to change positions, then slammed back in again. Vieno wrapped his legs around him, pulling him in.
“I can’t wait… Your cock feels so good already inside me… You’re so hard for me, so fucking big.”
Hmm, he was a little firecracker in bed, wasn’t he? Lidon growled as he slid in deep, the omega’s own slick providing the perfect lubrication. He was so fucking perfect around his cock, so tight.
“I want to ride you…fuck myself senseless on your big, fat dick.”
For an omega, he was surprisingly vocal in bed. Most of them didn’t provide more than grunts and whimpers.
Then it hit Lidon. This was what Palani had hinted at. The gene, it made Vieno lose all his inhibitions. This was probably just the beginning of how vocal Vieno would get.
Damn.
5
If there was anything more awkward and uncomfortable than listening in on your omega-lover getting fucked by an alpha, Palani would like to learn what. He froze when the roar reverberated through the apartment, but Enar shot him a calming look. “It’s okay. That’s a good sign, actually.”
“He sounds like he’s about to rip him in two,” Palani protested.
“He is, in a way. That’s his alpha roar. Haven’t you ever heard one before?”
He shook his head. Palani had learned about them, but he’d never experienced one in person. His brother Rhene was an alpha, but Palani had never thought of asking him to demonstrate one. He’d imagined it as a kind of scream, a loud yell. The reality was that it had sounded way more animalistic than that. It reminded him of howling, which made sense considering their ancestors, but it was a tad eerie.
“Why is it a good sign?”
“It means Lidon’s alpha is accepting Vieno as omega right now. That means he’ll be able to knot and fulfill him.”
Knot him. That’s what it all came down to. The one thing
Vieno needed that Palani could never give him. Sounds were audible from the bedroom. The subtle creaking of the bed. Grunts. Slaps of flesh against flash. Then Vieno’s crystal-clear voice, praising the alpha who was taking him. Damn, biology sucked.
Palani lowered himself on the couch and closed his eyes. He was so tired and yet so fucking hard at the same time. Vieno’s heat might not affect him the way it did alphas, but he wasn’t immune. He smelled him now, too, probably because Vieno’s heat was starting for real, triggered by the released alpha pheromones and hormones.
“Do all alphas let out a roar like that when they fuck?” he asked, his eyes still closed.
It was easier to speak when he didn’t have to watch Enar, who undoubtedly struggled with being horny as much as Palani. Palani had watched him like a hawk with Vieno, and despite the blockers the doctor had shot himself with, he was anything but unaffected. He’d kept himself in check, though, and so had Lidon. Palani would have had no qualms about knocking the cop out as well if he’d not been able to control himself around Vieno.
“No. Younger ones usually don’t. It’s triggered by the alpha’s urge to release hormones, and younger alphas don’t have that urge yet ‘cause they fuck around enough to keep their levels steady.”
“Why are Lidon’s levels so high? You told him fucking would help him, bring his levels down.”
When Enar didn’t answer right away, Palani opened his eyes. He caught Enar adjusting himself, his rock-hard cock visible in his jeans, and quickly closed his eyes again. He shared the alpha’s predicament. His own dick was hard enough to hammer nails with.
The doctor was hot as fuck, which didn’t help his erection. Palani pictured him easily with his eyes closed, courtesy of his photographic memory. He was less muscled than Lidon but still built like an alpha, with smooth golden skin showing under his T-shirt. His hair was short on the sides but styled into a faux hawk in the middle, which suited his face. His blue eyes were razor-sharp, betraying his intelligence and street smarts.
“He chose not to have sex for a while, for personal reasons I can’t divulge. But it affects him and he was at a breaking point.”
Palani's eyes shot open and he raised his eyebrows. “I didn’t think anything affected alphas.”
Enar scoffed. “You have no idea. Being an alpha is not all it’s jacked up to be.”
“Neither is being a beta.”
“True. And I think omegas don’t exactly have it easy, either. We all need each other in some way.”
Now it was Palani’s time to scoff. “Yeah, right. Said the alpha-doctor. You guys get whatever you want and need while the rest of us are second and third-class citizens.”
“I know.”
The calm answer surprised Palani.
Enar sighed. “Why do you think I try to help omegas as much as I can? I’m well aware they have few options.”
“Try none,” Palani said, but without venom.
“I’m familiar with the injustice, Palani, trust me, maybe even more than you. I’ve seen heartbreaking shit over the years.”
“It’s so unfair, you know? Some of it may be biology and that sucks, but the rest is rules and norms and laws, and they suck even worse.”
“Wanna tell me what happened to Vieno three years ago?”
Palani swallowed. He’d known Enar would ask at some point, but it was still the hardest thing for him to talk about. “His parents had arranged an alpha match for Vieno, the middle son of a befriended family. He was the only alpha in his family, and they pressured on him to start a family, since he was the heir-apparent for his wealthy grandfather. He was a major asshole, but that didn't matter to Vieno’s parents. Neither did the fact Vieno didn’t want this match. Then his first heat started, weeks before the wedding. They didn’t want to move it up, but neither did Aloysius, his alpha, want to risk Vieno getting pregnant already. So he agreed to fuck with a condom.”
He clenched his fists as memories assaulted him. Vieno had been a wreck, physically and emotionally. It had taken a year before he’d somewhat resembled his old self again, but he’d never gotten the gleam in his eye back, that happy twinkle he used to have.
“And then the gene manifested itself…” Enar guessed.
“Yeah. Vieno told me what he could remember and his alpha was quite…detailed when he broke off their engagement. He called Vieno a slut and a whore…” He swallowed, struggling to keep his composure. “Said there was no way he’d been a virgin, not with how wanton he’d been, how vocal and desperate. He’d brought in two of his friends, since he’d concluded Vieno had fucked around anyway. They took turns. Vieno was…”
He wiped away an angry tear that had escaped.
“Raped,” Enar said, anger simmering in his voice. “They raped Vieno.”
“Not according to Aloysius or his friends. They claimed Vieno had begged them to fuck him.” Palani couldn’t keep the bitterness out of his voice.
“Sure, in the throes of his heat, made worse by the Melloni gene, at a point when he wasn’t able to give consent anymore.”
Palani pushed out a slow breath, relieved and comforted by Enar’s passionate words. The fact that an alpha defended Vieno meant more than Palani had expected.
“Aloysius broke off the engagement and blamed Vieno to anyone to would listen. They shattered Vieno’s reputation. No one wanted him anymore. Plus, he refused to even come out of his room, too traumatized. After a few months of that, his parents disowned him and he moved in with me.”
Enar’s eyebrows raised. “His parents approved that?”
“They disowned him, literally. Filed a court petition and everything. They pretend he doesn’t even exist anymore. His sister sneaks over every now and then to see him, but he hasn’t seen his parents since he moved in with me.”
“And you’ve helped him with his heats ever since.”
“Yeah. As best as I could.”
Enar stayed silent for a little bit. “That can’t be easy for you.”
“What do you mean?”
Enar leaned forward, his blue eyes focused on Palani. “His behavior during heat hasn’t changed from that first time, I assume, which means he’s still quite desperate. As a beta, you have no means of quenching his thirst, which is an impossible situation for you both, but especially for you.”
Palani broke off eye contact to stare at the floor. “Biology sucks,” he mumbled.
“It does,” Enar confirmed. “But it’s an honorable thing you do, taking care of him when everyone’s deserted him.”
“I love him,” Palani said, then clamped his mouth shut. Why was he telling all this to a virtual stranger? He’d never said those words out loud, not even to Vieno himself. Not in the way he meant it and felt it, as way more than mere friends. There was no sense, since they could never be together. Vieno deserved an alpha who could meet his needs, truly fulfill him.
“Are you alpha-compelling me?” he asked, suspicious.
“No, I promise. I rarely use it, only when I have to calm patients down.”
“Why? It seems like a mighty handy thing to have.”
“I hate it. How can you ever trust anything anyone says when you know you have the ability to make them say it? How would you know you didn’t accidentally compel them, even just a little?”
Huh, he’d never looked at it that way, but that made sense. His first thought had been that Enar was using his alpha powers to make Palani share his feelings about Vieno. It had triggered his suspicions, and he wouldn’t be the only one. The constant mistrust from betas and omegas had to be hard for alphas to deal with.
“Other alphas can’t compel you, right?” he asked. That’s what they had learned in school in biology, but he might as well check. He’d been taught more that turned out to be absolute bullshit.
Enar hesitated for a second. “Usually not.”
“That’s an interesting answer. That means you're aware of cases or circumstances where it’s possible.”
Another slight delay b
efore Enar responded. “In certain situations, it’s possible for one alpha to influence another. It’s rare, but it can happen.”
A loud cry from the bedroom startled Palani. Vieno, shouting out Lidon’s name with abandonment. Palani cursed his walls that were so fucking thin, he could even detect the passion and lust in his friend’s voice.
“I’m sorry.”
Palani looked up at Enar. “For what?”
“For having to listen in while another man fucks your omega.”
“He’s not mine,” Palani said automatically, as he had done million times before when people remarked on his friendship with Vieno.
“Yes, he is. Not in the traditional way, but he is yours. And I’m sorry for all of this. You can leave and I’ll stay here to keep an eye on them.”
Palani’s jaw set. “I’m not leaving him. Not ever again.”
Enar sent him a smile. “I didn’t think you would, but I wanted to offer just in case.”
“You can nap for a bit,” Palani suggested. “I’ll stay awake.”
Enar shook his head. “I couldn’t sleep right now if I tried. Not even with all the suppressants in my system. I’m too jacked up.”
Yeah, Palani recognized that feeling. His cock had been hard for hours, relentless in its urges to fuck. Or be fucked. God, he hadn’t been fucked in ages, what with Vieno being a bottom-only. He craved a good pounding, anything to get these hormones out of his system. Maybe he could ask Enar?
He stilled at the unexpected thought. Where had that come from? Ever since Vieno had moved in, Palani had been faithful to him, even if they didn’t have sex in between heats. He made do with a variety of toys, which wasn’t ideal, but he refused to betray Vieno. Their relationship was complicated as fuck, but they were still together. Vieno might need an alpha right now, but that didn’t mean Palani could abuse that need for his own pleasure and have Enar fuck him, no matter how much he wanted him to.