Chapter 565
They seriously try to hold me down as Lil counts, “5…4…3…”
“Oliver, if you don’t let me go right now I will not let you touch me until AFTER my birthday.”
I have not been righted, standing on my feet so fast ever in my life and he looks a little terrified.
“Well, we know who will cave first in a fight with her.” Dakota laughs and then catches my eye and blanches.
“So you can keep your hands to yourself then.” I say pulling my shirt over my head, thankful he didn’t rip it to shreds. When I pulled my head through I shot him a look and headed for the door.
When I open it Lil just looks like she is barely holding down a laugh. “Should I be thanking my lucky stars that the Alpha’s office is soundproof? I figured that Gentry’s comment about not being mated would get to them, but damn, they work fast.” She giggles, like actually giggles at me and I know my face is on fire.
“Shut up, nothing happened.” I grumbled. “Nothing happened.” I follow her down the hallway. I don’t have to look behind me to know my guys are following. I don’t want to look and see the states I left them in. I kind of feel bad, but she said ‘we have a problem’ and I can’t ignore that either with everything that is going on.
“Only because there wasn’t enough time. There’s three of them and only one of you. I’m sure the twenty minutes we all left you alone was not even enough time for you to relax your overthinking mind, let alone do anything else, but based on your crooked ponytail you did get some action.” She wiggles her eyebrows at me as I frantically pull my hair down and try to smooth it into a respectable look before we get all the way outside and I hear my guys all chuckle low behind me.
***” Just for the sake of proving a point, let’s drag this out.”*** I tell my wolf and roll my eyes. She’s not super happy about waiting on the mating, but she agrees with Lil and thinks we are going to need lots of time since there are three of them and I am still a virgin. I’m not a nun, but I also hope they take their time. None of them are small by any means and I’m afraid one interaction might break me for days and there’s no way two will hold off if I give one a chance. We are going to have to suck it up no matter how sore and painful the first few times are.
“What was such a big problem?” I tried changing the subject. I can still feel their desire and arousal and it’s a bit distracting. Who am I kidding? It’s a lot distracting, but I have to figure out how to tune stuff like that out.
“You’ll see.” She pushes through the door leading from the kitchen out to the back patio. All our friends are standing around the firepit. Nothing looks out of the ordinary to me, but we’ve been gone for a while so sol maybe I’m missing something. I look over at Lil and she seems confused. “It flared up right before came to get you. It got at least twenty feet high, I swear.”
She’s not really one to exaggerate, none of my friends are. I look around at everyone and there is some kind of feeling or vibe around them. I can feel it more than I can see it. Something happened and they are or
trying to understand ess
what it was. They don’t believe they imagined it.
“What the hell?” I say more to myself at my observation than to anyone else.
“What is it, Bitty?” Oliver walks up behind me and locks my body to his with one arm. I always saw this gesture and thought it would feel suffocating or controlling, but the way Oliver does it, it’s reassuring, like he’s letting me know he’s here just for me.
I open my mouth to speak and relax back into him when the fire jumps up a few feet and in response we all jump. Both Cam and Dakota grab my hands and the flames raise again.
“See what I mean? Something weird is going on.” I step away from my guys and towards the fire and as soon as the contact is gone the fire goes down to it’s normal height. “What did Gentry and Elena say?”
“Nothing yet. They haven’t seen it. They headed to the Beta house to get a few supplies and then I think their plan was to talk with Ava about the Alpha ceremony and what we can do to speed up the long ass process.”
I reach back and grab Dakota’s hand again and the fire gets brighter. Huh, I wonder… I pull him close to me and wrap my arms around him in a tight hug. He doesn’t question or resist, but squeezes me back, again the fire gets brighter. I look up at him and I know he can see where I am going with this, he leans down to give me a kiss and the deeper he makes it the higher the flames get.