Lining my thick cock up with his entrance, I pushed my way in, holding his hips still with one hand. I never understood when I heard people say that their partner was their home until the moment I was fully seated inside of him. I was home. It sucked that it had to be a temporary one.
I stayed there for a few seconds letting him adjust to my girth before I began thrusting in and out of him. He pushed back, seeking more. The two of us moved in tandem, the motions getting harder…faster…less rhythmic as our arousals grew. It took all that I had not to come, and I refused to before he did.
I didn’t need to wait long. His fingers curled around the comforter as his breaths became heavy and fast. I reached under him and grabbed his cock. I jerked it twice before he cried, his cum coating my hand, my own orgasm taking that as a sign it was time to explode.
A moan escaped my lips as my cum spurt into him, my knot growing and sealing the two of us together. And that was when I did the jerk move… I pulled out before my knot was too big and we were locked together. I wanted that, the two of us, to truly become one in that smidgeon of time, but my wolf was getting pushy, wanting me to keep this omega, to mark him as ours.
Even if we were dating and not one and done, this was not the time for that. You couldn’t just mate a human without explaining things. You could, but that was a dick move if I ever saw one.
None of that mattered though because this was it. This was all I could have. I’d agreed to Father’s deal. It was time to let him go.
I grabbed my pants and pulled them on. Never did I think I would be this asshole, but here I was.
“That was amazing.” I wasn’t lying. “I wish it…”
“Could be more. Yeah, me too, but you know… I’m engaged.”
I had no reason to be so upset. It wasn’t as if I wasn’t committed already, too. But gods this sucked.
We got dressed in silence, neither of us saying much more. What was there to say?
“Well, the hour is almost up.” He kissed the side of my cheek. “Thanks.” And out he went, taking a piece of my heart with him.
If things were different, I’d have chased him down, begged him to stay—to choose me. But they weren’t different. And it sucked.
I stayed in the room until our hour was just about up, not trusting my wolf not to take over and hunt this omega down.
Just once, I’d like my life not to suck. Just fucking once.
Chapter 13
This can’t be happening.
Heston
Tears streamed over my cheeks, and I brushed them away with the back of my hand. My chest heaved with gut-wrenching sobs as I opened the car door and slumped in the driver’s seat. Putting my head on the steering wheel, I howled and waved a mental fist at fate for being so cruel.
You’ve given me enough bad luck for ten life times? Stop!
Father leaving us; Dad’s illness; Father’s death; cutting me out of the will; having to beg Sebastian for money, entering an arranged marriage with a stranger; and now falling for a guy I met and slept with on the same day. I didn’t add “and fell in love with” because while my heart was shouting “Yes” my head was shaking, saying, “That can’t be.”
Trawling back through my memories, I recalled, in the heat of passion, him mumbling and calling me Hess. He knew my name or part of it. While panting, I’d asked his but only caught “Dev” as he pounded into me.
And I had to think about Dad! Everything revolved around him, and I’d sold any chance at happiness by agreeing to the shammarriage. But I’d do it ten times over if he could have the operation.
I lifted my head, my vision blurry through the tears. I didn’t love Roy, nor he me. We hadn’t even met! What if after the ceremony, we maybe lived in the same building but separate apartments, and I attend functions as his husband? Rich people went to a lot of fancy dinners, charity events and award ceremonies, didn’t they?
But the rest of the time we could live separate lives. Maybe… I gripped the steering wheel while leaning my chin on the frayed leather… Perhaps Dev and I could still see one another.
No, damn it. I shoved a fist in my mouth. He was engaged to someone and… and… he couldn’t betray them.
“What?” I yelled, slumping further down in the seat. “He’s already cheated, and they aren’t married yet.” This was so fucked up. I sent a silent apology to his fiancé into the universe.
I’d never wanted to be “the other man.” My conscience was clear regarding Roy. I hadn’t strayed from my relationship as I didn’t have one yet. But Dev had withme!
That got me thinking. What sort of person cheated and did I want to have anything to do with them?
“Ahhhh!” I shoved the key in the ignition, except I didn’t and dropped it instead. Scrabbling around the dirty floor at my feet, I cursed my luck, fate and Dev’s fiancé.
