Chapter 7: The Heat Begins
Ben awoke to the sun slicing through the canopy in thick, hot beams. The cozy warmth of the furs had become an oppressive heat, and the gentle thread of the bond beneath his sternum was now a live wire, sizzling with a frantic, urgent energy. He was slick with sweat, his skin oversensitive; the brush of the linen tunic against his nipples made him gasp.
A deep, rolling cramp tightened low in his belly, and a fresh wave of wetness soaked between his thighs. His scent, usually a mild mix of fresh grass and dew, flooded the clearing—cloyingly sweet, fertile, ripe. It was the smell of an omega in full, begging heat.
“Fuck,” Leo choked out, already awake and propped up on an elbow beside him. His golden eyes were blown wide, pupils swallowing the irises. His nostrils flared as he drank in Ben’s scent, a low growl building in his chest.“Ben. Your heat…”
Kai was on his feet, a silhouette against the brightening sky.His back was tense, his hands clenched at his sides. Ben could see the effort in the line of his shoulders, the deliberate, measured rise and fall of his breath. When he turned, his amber eyes were dark, gleaming with a possessiveness that made Ben’s stomach flip.“It’s early. The bond must have triggered it.” His voice was a rough scrape, the calm mediator utterly gone.“We need to get you inside. To the den.”
Another cramp, sharper this time, clenched deep inside Ben. He whimpered, arching off the furs.The need wasn’t emotional; it was a brutal, physical demand. His hole clenched around nothing, aching to be filled. “Kai…” he pleaded, the word barely audible.That was all it took.Leo moved like a spring uncoiling. He was on Ben, his weight pinning him to the furs, his mouth hot and desperate on Ben’s neck.Not a love bite, but a claiming. His teeth scraped the bonding mark from the ceremony, and Ben cried out, his hands flying to Leo’s back, fingers digging into the hard muscle.“Leo—” Kai started, but it was a weak protest. He was already kneeling beside them, his hands shoving the white tunic up Ben’s torso. The cool morning air hit Ben’s fevered skin, and then it was replaced by the scorching heat of Kai’s palms, rough and demanding, mapping his ribs, his stomach.
“No time,” Leo growled against Ben’s throat, his hips grinding down. The hard, thick line of his cock, still confined in his trousers, pressed against Ben’s thigh. It was damp at the tip, a wet spot of pre-cum soaking through the fabric.“He needs it now. Can’t you smell him?He’s fucking drowning in it.”
Ben was. His mind was dissolving into a haze of want.He reached for Kai, fumbling with the laces of his pants. “Please,” he begged, the word filthy and raw.“Both of you. Need… need you inside.”
Kai’s control shattered. A sound ripped from him, something between a snarl and a groan. He stripped Ben’s tunic over his head, then yanked his own clothes off with none of his usual precision.His cock sprang free, fully erect, the head flushed dark and leaking. Leo didn’t bother undressing fully; he just wrenched his trousers down past his hips, freeing his own erection, which lay thick and heavy against Ben’s stomach.
“Turn over,” Kai commanded, his voice thick. “On your knees.”
Ben scrambled to obey, his body shaking with anticipation.The moss was cool and forgiving beneath his knees. Leo stayed in front of him, his hand tangling in Ben’s white hair. “Look at me,” Leo demanded, his breath hot on Ben’s face.“You want this, rabbit? You want us to fuck you full?”
“Yes,” Ben hissed. “God, yes, do it.”
He felt Kai’s hands spread his ass cheeks. The air touched his soaked, twitching hole, and he pushed back shamelessly, presenting himself. A slick, wet sound—Kai spitting in his hand, spreading it over his cock—and then the broad, hot pressure of his crown against Ben’s entrance.Kai didn’t tease. He pushed in, a steady, inexorable invasion that stretched Ben open with a burn that melted instantly into a devastating, full pleasure. Ben screamed, the sound torn from his lungs as Kai seated himself to the hilt, his pelvis flush against Ben’s ass.
“So tight,” Kai groaned, his hips giving an experimental rock that made Ben see stars. “So fucking perfect.”
Before Ben could adjust, before the exquisite feeling of being filled by Kai could settle, Leo’s hand guided his own cock to Ben’s lips. “Suck,” Leo ordered, pushing the head past Ben’s lips.“Take me in, Ben. Fuck your mouth while he fucks your ass.”
Ben opened, letting Leo slide deep into his throat. The taste of salt and skin filled his mouth. He gagged, tears springing to his eyes, but Leo held his head still and began to fuck into his mouth with shallow, brutal thrusts.
Kai began to move. Withdrew almost all the way, then drove back in, setting a deep, punishing rhythm. Each thrust rocked Ben forward onto Leo’s cock, forcing him to take Leo deeper.He was packed, stuffed, utterly owned from both ends. The bond wasn’t a golden thread anymore; it was a conflagration, a wildfire burning through his veins, connecting their pleasure into one blinding feedback loop.Spit and pre-cum dripped down Ben’s chin. He couldn’t breathe, couldn’t think, could only feel and take. Leo’s growled obscenities were a distant counterpoint to the wet slap of Kai’s balls against his skin. “That’s it, take it, you greedy little slut. My cock in your mouth, his cock splitting your ass open.”
Kai’s pace increased, his thrusts becoming harder, less controlled.His fingers dug bruises into Ben’s hips. “Mine,” he grunted with each drive inward.“Ours.Fated. Mate.”
The dual stimulation, the overwhelming fullness, the savage scent of their mingled sweat and sex, pushed Ben to the edge. His own cock, trapped and neglected beneath him, dribbled onto the furs. Pleasure coiled, tighter and tighter, a spring about to snap.Leo came first. With a raw, shout, he shoved himself as deep as Ben’s throat would allow and pulsed, hot and bitter, down his gullet. Ben had no choice but to swallow, the act triggering his own climax. It ripped through him, blinding and silent, his body seizing as he spilled untouched onto the fur below.
The convulsing clench of Ben’s orgasm around his cock tore Kai’s release from him. He buried himself to the root, his body bowing over Ben’s back as he emptied himself in hot, pumping spurts inside him.
For a long moment, there was only the sound of ragged breathing and the distant birdsong.Leo slipped from Ben’s mouth. Kai slowly pulled out, a gush of their combined release following. Ben collapsed forward, his face pressed into the furs that now smelled only of sex and satisfaction.
Leo dropped down beside him, pulling Ben’s limp body half onto his chest. Kai stretched out on Ben’s other side, his hand possessively stroking the curve of Ben’s ass. The frantic heat had eased, banked for now, but Ben could feel it simmering still beneath his skin, a promise of more to come.
“Holy shit,” Leo breathed, his voice wrecked.
Kai said nothing, just continued his slow, claiming touch. He leaned over and licked a stripe up the side of Ben’s neck, tasting salt.Ben shivered, the new sensitivity already returning.
The sun climbed higher, baking the clearing.The heat, it seemed, was far from over. It had only just begun.