Page 77 of Knot Only For One Night

“It’s up to Esper whether she wants to live this life or not,” Neven says, voice still steady and somber. I purr at the sound of my lead alpha agreeing with me.

Thank goodness.

If it was up to Reed, they’d all walk away from me all in the name of “protecting me,” but when has that ever worked? It doesn’t in classic vampire movies, or in my fantasy novels.

And it won’t work here, in real life, either.

“That’s settled then,” I say, reaching my hand back and waving my beta and lead alpha over. “Now how are we all gonna fit on this bed?”

CHAPTER 26

ESPER

“Asher,” I mumble, shaking my giant alpha on the bed. He’s the one I’ve spent the least time with and yet he’s settled so deep in my chest. Reed is on the bed, cuddling the pillow I replaced my body with. Soren ended up on the floor, reaching up and holding my hand until his arm went numb. Neven is asleep in the desk chair, holding another pillow tight to his chest.

I shake Asher’s leg and he leans down, eyes still closed, and grabs my hand trying to pull me to him.

“Come with me, please, Alpha,” I say, trying to pull back. The nickname works and has him opening his eyes. “Come get breakfast with me.”

The idea of feeding his omega must be appealing since he’s jumping down from the bed as if he weren’t half asleep two seconds ago. Careful not to knock me over or make a sound, he grabs his black hoodie, sliding it on and taking my hand again.

“You’re hungry?”

“Very,” I say, nodding my head. He stops in the bathroom really quickly to freshen up and we are off again. Asher has a healing cut on his eyebrow, but otherwise his bruises don’t look monstrous to the normal eye.

To me, though, my alpha is still hurt.

I took Neven’s t-shirt, a pair of my leggings, and Soren's hoodie to wear. My need to be surrounded by their scents outweighs the discomfort of wearing their extremely dirty clothes. I wish I had something of Reed’s, but I couldn't fit more clothes on without overheating.

With my heat coming up, my skin has been a constant simmering heat, slowly getting hotter with each passing day. When I caught Reed’s and Asher’s scent in the hallway the other day, my omega completely took over. I would have never had the guts to join that party on my own.

I’m so glad I did though. I do my best not to let my eyes drag down Asher’s sweatpants. God, he was huge. Thicker than Reed but not quite as long, and gosh, I’ve never seen so many dicks in my life.

And I’m not mad about it.

At all.

I cough, shoving away the horny thoughts trying to change my mind on food as Asher steps out of the bathroom.

“Where do you wanna go?”

Asher’s tall. So damned tall, they all are. He leans his head down a bit to talk, and I never knew how hot that could be.

“I need extra hands, the dining hall closes soon,” I say and he chuckles.

“You sure you wanna eat there?”

“Do you have a car? I don’t think we could carry so much food on a bike,” I say, and he uses our hand holding to turn us around.

“That’s what backpacks are for.”

“My boots!” I say, looking down at my feet. Normally Neven or Reed has my riding gear since I’ve only ridden with them, meaning I don’t have my gear with me.

Asher pauses in the middle of the hallway and looks down at my sneakers. He bends down and presses on the tops of them.

“You got boots, Moonlight?” I nod and change into my work-inspired style boots and he presses down on them again nodding his satisfaction. “I’ll still go slow. We’ll be safe.” Then we’re jetting off to the parking lot.

They all parked their bikes in one parking spot. Seeing all of them together, Reed’s red one amongst their black ones. All different styles and yet so clearly part of a group…of a Pack…