I ached.
And not just for my alphas.
Everything hurt.
I tugged on the shirt clinging to my skin. It was soaked with sweat. Moaning, I rolled onto my back and blinked blurry eyes up at the ceiling. My tongue was sticking to the roof of my mouth. I was thirsty. So thirsty.
I wanted my alphas but Derek couldn’t get a hold of them.
What if John got to them?
“Hey.”
I turned my head to watch Derek as he entered the room. He carried a small tray that he placed down on the bedside table. Taking a seat on the edge of the bed, he helped me sit up.
“Some ice cold water,” he muttered, pressing the cold glass to my lips.
I reached up to grip the glass as I parted my lips. Derek pulled the glass away after a few sips.
“I still can’t get a hold of them,” he said softly. “But I send someone I trust to check it all out for us.”
“It’s hot,” I croaked. “Hurts.”
“I know.” He soothed a hand over my hair. “Do you want to take a shower?”
I instantly nodded.
After giving me a few more sips of water, he stood and held his hand out for me. I slipped my hand into his and scooted closer to the edge of the bed. However, the moment I stood, the room started spinning, and everything darkened.
I didn’t know for how long I was out, but when I came to, I was sitting in the tub with cool water beating down on my body. My back was resting against a hard chest. It only took a few seconds to notice the fact that I was completely naked, and so was the man behind me.
Panic hit, but it faded the moment he started purring.
He nuzzled his cheek against mine and moved the shower head up so the water hit my breasts.
“I have my boxers on,” he said softly.
I sucked in a deep breath.
His scent filled my nostrils. The smell wasn’t unpleasant but it didn’t belong to any of my alphas.
Longing filled me, the need for my alphas so bad that a whimper fell from my lips.
Derek squeezed my leg. “I’m sorry, sunshine. I know you want them and I’m trying my best to find them for you,”
1/5
“Did John get them?” I wondered out loud.
He was silent for a moment. “I don’t know.”
Gripping his hand, I turned it around and studied it. He had a few scars on his knuckles and one across his palm.
“It hurts,” I whispered.
I pressed his hand to my lower stomach. There was some relieve from the warmth of his palm.
“I need you to tell me how you’re feeling.”
Licking my dry lips, I closed my eyes and told him everything I was feeling.
“It’s not the same as what I read about omega heats,” I muttered.
Derek stroked the skin of my stomach with his thumb.
I was sitting naked in a bathtub with an alpha who had kidnapped me and I wasn’t scared.
“No omega experiences the same heat,” he said softly.
“Have you ever…” I trailed off, but he understood what I wanted to know.
“Yes, a few times.”
“The tea isn’t working,” I croaked.
“I know.”
The air got locked in my throat when his hand slipped lower until his fingers brushed the curly hair. I held still, waiting for his next move, but his hand didn’t slip any lower.
“Let me help you, Daisy,” Derek whispered against my ear.
An unexpected sob fell from my lips.
Muttering a curse, Derek wrapped both arms around me and hugged me to his chest.
“I’m sorry, Daisy,” he croaked. “I’m so fucking sorry.”
I wasn’t sure what he was apologizing for, but I felt sorry too. Sorry because I knew that there was only one way for him to help me. My alphas were going to hate me. I didn’t want to spend my heat with them but I was going to spend it with another alpha.
“Can’t y–you take me to t–them?”
“I don’t know where they are, sunshine. It’s too dangerous for me put you in a car and leave the safety of the cabin while you’re in heat. John is out there looking for you.”
I shuddered.
Why couldn’t he just drop dead? Why couldn’t one of his many enemies just fucking shoot him so I could go back to my alphas?
2/5
Derek stood with me in his arms and stepped out of the bath. Placing me down on the toilet, he grabbed a towel and knelt in front of me as he started drying my body.
I was no longer hot, but I knew it would only take a few seconds for my body to start heating up.
“This is my mistake and I’m trying my best to fix it.” His eyes darted over my face. “The last thing I want to do it put you in anymore danger in your condition. You need to trust me. Let me help you.”
Let me fuck you. Let me knot you so the pain can go away and you can feel better.
Those where the words he avoided saying but it hung in the air between us.
“They won’t want my anymore.”
“If they love you as much as I know they do, they will understand. This is out of your control but you’re doing what you can to make it through it.” He wrapped the towel around my shoulders and tugged the ends together under my chin. “There’s a few things I can do that don’t involve penetration, but I’m afraid it it doesn’t help then that is the only option we have left.”
I swallowed. “I don’t want you to come in me. I don’t want to get pregnant.”
He was nodding before I even finished my sentence. “I’m going to leave you to use the bathroom and then when you’re done, I’m going to make the pain go away.”
“Derek.”
“I’m going to bring you some clothes and once you’re dress we’re going to take a short walk to a friend who can maybe help us figure something else out.”
I tensed.
“You don’t have to worry, sunshine. David can be trusted.”
“How do you know?” I whispered.
“I just do. I need you to trust me okay?”
I nodded.
Trust.
I had trust with my alphas, but it was going to be broken when Derek fucks me, because I know despite the things he said, there was only one thing that will take the pain away and help me through my first heat.
It was unavoidable.
***
The clothes were itchy.
I was starting to get hot again. I could feel the sweat against my forehead and upper lip. Any second now the pain in my lower body would start again.
Derek stumbled slightly but managed to regain his balance before we fell.
3/5
His arm tightened a fraction and then loosened again.
Despite the fact that I had insisted on walking on my own, I had only managed a few steps before I collapsed. Derek had instantly picked me up, guiding my legs around his hips and arms around his neck. With one arm hooked under my ass, he used his other to move the branches out of his way.
It wasn’t so bad.
He didn’t smell unpleasant.
I turned my face to press my nose against his neck. His skin was warm.
“Almost there,” he muttered.
I sucked in another deep breath and whimpered as my pain flashed through my lower half.
He stumbled again, nearly dropping me. I slipped a few inches down his body. Derek muttered a curse when my pussy rubbed against his hard cock.
I tightened my legs around his waist before he could hoist me higher up his body.
We stepped out of the treeline and started walking up a gravel drive. I glanced over my shoulder. The house was too big to be called a cabin. I buried my face in Derek’s neck again.
His scent was keeping me calm.
Any second now I was going to meet an alpha I had never met before.
My breathing sped up the closer we got to the cabin.
I wanted to go back home.
As Derek climbed the steps on the front porch, our bodies rubbed together. The pleasure was instant, but it stopped to soon. He stopped at the door, hesitated a moment and then pounded on the heavy wood.
The door jerked open a moment later.
“Jesus fuck Derek,” a man cursed. “What the hell are you thinking running around the forest with an omega in heat?”
“The tea isn’t working. Can you give her something?” Derek asked. “She was on suppressants for about a week and a half. I didn’t know.”
“How long has she been like this?”
“Two days, but it’s getting worse now.”
They continued to talk and all I could focus on was the pain, and the urge to seek pleasure. Our bodies were still pressed together and every time he moved, my pussy rubbed against his cock.
My nails dug into his shoulders as I started rolling my hips. He wasn’t my alpha but at the moment I didn’t care. I gripped his hips tighter with my thighs.
A moan fell from my lips as pleasure shot through me.
4/5
Turning my head, I pressed my mouth to his skin. I shuddered as his taste filled my mouth.
Not too bad.
I want to taste his lips.
Raising my head, I buried my hands in his hair and searched for his lips. Frustration hit when he turned his head away, denying me.
“Daisy.”
“Make her come,” another man ordered.
“She’s not mine.”
“Doesn’t matter. She needs an orgasm. It’ll help with the pain she’s experiencing,”
“David-”
“Give her to me.”
I was ripped from Derek’s arms and lowered to something soft in the next second. Someone hovered over me
but before I could take him in, my eyes snapped down when I felt the tug on my yoga pants.
The new alpha pulled it down past my knees and then dipped his hand between my legs.
My body jerked when his fingers brushed my clit.
He used my slick to rub my clit in circles. He wasn’t gentle about. But I didn’t need gentle.
I parted my legs as far as the material of my pants allowed. My hand shot down to grip his wrist as pleasure started to rise.
I blinked up at the face hovering close to mine. It wasn’t Derek.
The new alpha looked scary. He had a thick beard that covered half his face, but his brown eyes were kind.
“Let go,” he ordered softly. “I got you.”
A thick finger rubbed along my slit and a moment later it slowly entered me. With his finger still on my clit and the one moving inside my pussy, I crashed over the edge within seconds.

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