The Omni-Wolf’s Choice novel Chapter 73

Chapter 73 Catching my breath…

Bridget’s POV

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“He’s in surgery.” Ryder tells me, brushing his lips to my nose. “You did everything you

could.”

I let the air out of my lungs, but it doesn’t help. It isn’t enough. I need him to be fine. I

need that certainty.

“He better pull through,” I mutter, trying to make it sound like a joke and failing. “Because I gave him some of my special blood, and if he wastes it I’m kicking his ass.”

Ryder snorts a laugh.

“I threatened him too,” he says. “It’s kind of insane how fast we were all ready to commit violence on Connor.” He pauses, his voice softening. “He told me to tell his mate he

loves her. But he didn’t actually say who she was.”

I settle against Ryder’s chest, suddenly blank, my mouth full of nothing.

“Bridget,” he says, tilting his head to look at me. “What aren’t you saying?”

“Goddess, you’re adorable,” I blurt, attempting a hard pivot.

“Bridget Margot.” That tone-warning, amused, dangerous.

I smirk up at him. “That tone doesn’t work on me. Your punishments are my favorite.”

He shuts off the shower and reaches for two huge towels, still warm. One goes around me, cocooning me. The other he ties low on his hips. My hair drips down my back as he

walks me to the counter.

Then I feel him-hard, insistent-even through the towel.

“No,” I tell him, breath catching. “Not until Connor is in the clear.”

A growl rumbles in my ear, deeper than Ryder’s voice has any right to be.

“Connor would tell me to keep you happy,” Talon says through him, heavy and certain.

“And I can smell you, mate.”

They do this-both of them-pull me out of my head when it starts to fracture. He’s

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distracting me on purpose, trying to keep the last hours from swallowing me whole.

“Oh-” The sound tears out of me when he drops to his knees, pushes my legs apart. and drags his tongue through my wetness like he owns it.

He looks up.

Hazel is gone. His eyes have gone black.

Ryder yanks the towel off my body, and the air hits my skin just before his mouth seals

over me again. He drinks me down, then flicks his tongue over my clit with a precision

that makes my knees threaten to give. Two fingers slide inside me, to the knuckle.

I clamp around them, helpless, and he sucks harder until my body breaks.

I come hard, shaking, spilling over his fingers.

He stands.

His towel has ended up on the floor, and he’s fully ready-beautiful and brutal, the kind

of distraction that could erase a war.

He hooks his hands around my hips and drags me to the edge of the counter. My breath

stutters when he aligns himself with my soaked entrance and drives in, all the way.

“Ryder!” I shout, nails digging into his shoulders.

He starts thrusting, heavy and relentless, pinning me in place with his arms. Then he

slows, grinding when he bottoms out, and the sensation is so perfect my toes curl.

“Please,” I breathe, begging without even knowing which version of him I’m asking for-

more, faster, deeper.

All of it.

I’m right on the edge, and I need him to tumble with me.

I lean in, licking the line of his throat.

“Bridget,” he warns, but he doesn’t stop moving.

I kiss across his chest, then shift to the other side of his neck-right over his mark. I press

my mouth there, gentle at first, and feel him thicken inside me.

Goddess, how do I take all of him?

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Talon growls again as I lick up his neck. I grab his ass, both cheeks, and when he drives

deep I meet him-holding him, helping him push even farther.

“Come inside me, Alpha,” I moan.

His answer is a growl, and then he’s pounding into me like he’s trying to carve his name

into my bones.

I sink my canines into him again.

His taste hits my tongue, and the rush of it rips an orgasm out of me-bright and violent.

Light bursts behind my closed eyes. I feel everything: every pulse, every thick splash

against my walls as he finally slows.

He stays buried.

I sag into him, exhaling, arms around his neck. I lick at the bite until it seals again, and I

shiver at the way his body responds to mine.

About an hour later, we’re at the hospital, stuck in that terrible waiting-room time where

minutes don’t move right.

The second I walk in, Connor’s mother rushes me and wraps me up like she’s afraid I’ll

vanish.

“Thank you,” she chokes out. “Luna Bridget-thank you for helping save my son.”

Her eyes are swollen and raw. She has been crying hard. Of course she has. A good

mother never stops worrying, no matter how grown her child gets.

Lord Jude shows up too, checking in as if he’s part of our pack business now. Ryder told

me he’d been crucial during the fighting.

I’m relieved to hear at least one of my exes didn’t need to be put down.

“Ryder,” Jude says, “remember when you mentioned captives? Balthazar took women

and children-kept them for leverage. They were told he’d use them to build his next

coven.”

My stomach twists. “What a monster. You got them out, though. Where are they now?” I

ask, fingers threading with Ryder’s.

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“They came through the portal,” Jude answers. “Lucas and Pierce placed them in the

conservatory until you decide what you want done, Alpha.”

Ryder nods, jaw tight. “I’ll have my men move them into our overflow housing. Then we

find out where they’re from and start getting them back to their families. Thank you, Lord Jude. We’re grateful you’re here.”

“Oh-Dr. Kira’s coming,” Luna Kendra says, standing so fast her chair scrapes.

Evelyn sits quiet as a shadow. I’m sure her mother knows by now.

At least I bought myself a little more time with Ryder.

Dr. Kira steps in, expression calm in the way only doctors can manage.

“Hello, everyone. Beta Connor is… exceptionally hard to kill,” she says, and the room

collectively leans forward. “He had a severed blood vessel and a collapsed lung. His

wolf helped him hold on, and the transfusion from Luna Bridget made a significant

difference-it rejoined the vessel and stabilized him enough for surgery.”

My breath catches.

“We repaired the vessel and the lung,” she continues. “He’s healing remarkably well. He

needs rest, but you may go in and see him.”

The whole room exhales at once, like we’ve been holding our lungs hostage.

We agree to let family go first. Then we’ll only go in briefly.

Connor –

Something about me has shifted. That’s the only way to describe it-like the Omni-

Wolf’s rare blood rewrote a piece of me. I’m going to have to bake her cookies or

something. It feels like the rules demand it.

Mom finally left my room. Dad had to physically stop her after she tried to climb into my

bed twice.

I love that woman. Fierce warrior, fiercer mother.

Ryder came by earlier and cursed me out like it was a medical procedure. Luna Bridget is

my blood sister now. I told her that makes us family-officially connected.

She looked like she didn’t know how to take it.

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Damn woman’s had no one.

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Well, now she has us.

There’s only one person I want in here, and Luna Kendra has been blocking her like she’s guarding a vault. They file into my room with Alpha Marcus, and Evelyn glances at me.

Then her mom hits me with a raised eyebrow.

Yeah. She knows.

“We’ll let you rest,” Alpha Marcus says, already ushering his women out.

“Dad.” Evelyn pauses at the door and hugs him. “I’m going to stay a minute.”

He nods, kisses her forehead, and keeps moving.

Luna Kendra looks back, hesitant, but Alpha Marcus pulls her along.

The door clicks shut.

All the courage I had in battle disappears.

“Hi,” I manage.

“Hi,” she answers, sitting in the chair beside my bed. Her hand twitches like it’s trying to

reach for mine and she’s forcing it not to.

I swallow. “Evelyn, I—”

“Connor, I-”

We collide in words. I lift my hand a little, letting her go first.

She gives me a tight smile. “Okay.” Then it snaps. “You stupid son of a bitch!”

I blink.

“Were you seriously going to risk everything and get yourself killed?” she continues,

voice climbing. “Did you even think about me? About us? What the hell, Connor! If you

weren’t already stuck in a hospital bed, I would put you in one myself!”

I can’t help it-my mouth curves. “So you’re still mad.”

She glares.

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“I mean,” I add, “I technically died. Bridget dragged me back. I’m healing. And all you’ve

got is rage? No hug? A high five? Something?”

“Oh, I’ll give you five,” she snaps, standing. “Upside your head if you ever do something

that stupid again!”

She lifts her small fist toward me.

I catch it and pull.

Her balance goes, and suddenly she’s on the bed with me.

“Connor!”

I wrap my arms around her, and it’s immediate heaven-warm, right, like my body

remembers what to do with her even if my brain still feels fuzzy.

I breathe her in, over and over. Citrus, sun, her.

“Stop,” she whispers, giggling despite herself. “Someone will come in!”

She isn’t fighting very hard.

Good.

I shift her until she’s straddling me, and her breath hitches. I push the bed up a little

more, and she leans back, laughing like she can’t believe me.

I hook a finger under her chin, draw her close, and kiss her.

Like I thought I’d lost the right.

Like I’m still shocked the universe gave it back.

My hand slides into her hair. Her floral dress starts to come up, and she lets me take it-

no hesitation, no stop.

“Goddess, you’re beautiful,” I murmur.

Her skin is sun-warm, tan and perfect. She’s down to a dark teal bra and panties, and the

sight of her makes me ache.

I kiss her again, then bite her bottom lip. She rolls her hips, grinding on me, and I’m

already hard-have been since I realized she stayed after everyone left.

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“Evelyn,” I whisper.

I unfasten her bra, toss it aside, then tear her panties clean.

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She smiles-actually smiles-and lifts herself so she can slide under the sheet with me.

I’m in a hospital gown, ridiculous and thin. Her hands trace down my abs, slow and

hungry.

“Come here,” I tell her.

I grip her hips, line myself up with her slick heat, and she sinks down inch by inch.

Heaven.

She starts moving faster, finding a rhythm. Her moans get loud-too loud-so I cover her

mouth with mine.

My girl is vocal.

I can’t wait to get her in a real room.

Mine.

Or hers.

“Oh, Connor,” she breathes, rolling her hips in a slow grind that makes my vision blur.

I grab her to bounce her harder.

“No,” she gasps, laughing and scolding in the same breath. “You’re in the hospital!”

“I can handle it, baby,” I say, gripping her again.

She grabs my wrists and pins my hands down like she’s in charge.

She can’t actually restrain me.

But she’s so damn cute pretending she can that I let her.

She grinds until her clit rubs just right, and then she shatters-coming hard, trembling.

The bed is soaked.

Guess I’ll tell the nurse I had an accident.

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I hold her tight through the waves, then turn her onto her side and start driving into her faster, deeper.

I need her to remember.

Even if I can’t say it out loud yet.

“Oh Connor!” she cries, and she comes again.

That second one pulls me over with her, and I fall-hard-thinking only of marking her, claiming her, making sure she knows she’s mine.

If I can’t do it outside yet, I will on the inside.

The door swings open.

Evelyn slips-naked-and drops to the floor as I lunge for the sheet, scrambling to cover

her.

“Connor, sweetheart,” a bright voice chirps, “your Gammy is here!”

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