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Ezra looks toward the spring. “Me too.”

Theo rests his forearms on his knees. “What do you want?”

I look at Theo first. “I choose you.”

His breath stops.

I turn to Ezra. “I choose you too.”

Ezra’s eyes shine in the candlelight.

Then I look at both of them. “I choose my pack.”

Theo takes my hand. Ezra takes the other.

Theo rubs his thumb across my palm. “I choose you, Pepper.” His gaze shifts to Ezra. “And I choose the life we’re making.”

Ezra’s smile trembles. He looks at Theo. “I choose you without needing the boy you were to save me.”

Theo closes his eyes for one beat.

When he opens them, Ezra turns to me. “And I choose you without disappearing into what you need.”

I bring his hand to my mouth. “You never have to.” The spring moves against the bank. I look at our joined hands. “I think love is the road we keep taking home.”

Theo lifts my fingers to his lips. Ezra leans across the blanket and kisses me. The kiss begins gently. I pull him closer by the front of his shirt. Theo’s hand slides along my back, steadying me as I rise onto my knees.

Ezra tastes like strawberries and cider. Theo kisses the side of my throat. My body responds to both men at once. Heat curls through me. Not the wild edge of a heat cycle or the desperate need to hang on. It’s desire and wanting, simple and enormous.

I turn toward Theo and kiss him. Ezra moves behind me, palms sliding over my waist. Theo deepens the kiss as Ezra presses his mouth to my shoulder.

I reach back and pull Ezra closer. “Both of you.”

Theo’s eyes go dark. Ezra’s breath catches. They move together. We shed clothes between kisses and laughter, leaving them in careless piles beside the blankets. Theo catches me when my ankle makes me wobble. Ezra kisses the place beneath my ear while Theo lowers me into the pillows. The stars turn overhead. Their hands move over me with familiar hunger and new wonder.

Ezra remains warm beneath my palms. Theo remains steady above me. I pull them together. Their kiss begins over my shoulder, then deepens when I thread my fingers into both their hair. Watching them choose each other makes something bright unfold in my chest.

They return to me together. The blankets shift beneath us. Candlelight slides across skin.

"You smell so sweet tonight. I can’t wait to taste you again,” Ezra says before he wraps his arm around my waist and yanks me closer to him, burying his nose between my legs. His tongue circles my clit, and my scent explodes in the air.

Theo makes a slow, sensual sound as he palms his cock while he watches us. “One of the best things about this new life is seeing him between your legs.”

I let loose an embarrassed whimper, but his words hit a needy place deep inside. I suck in a lungful of my pack, chest heaving, as Ezra tongues me.

Theo folds himself around my back and plants kisses up my neck. “Going to place my bite here.” He noses my throat before nipping at my scent gland.

Another sound escapes. "Yes," I moan.

Theo cups my breasts, rolling my nipples until I’m unable to control my sounds. His hand travels from my breasts and across my belly until he joins Ezra in taking me apart.

"Such a good little omega, so wet for your pack,” Theo says, voice husky with need.

Ezra flicks his tongue then sucks my clit into his mouth. My back arches, a silent scream escaping as my orgasm thunders through me. Theo holds my chin and takes my mouth in a savoring kiss that keeps the pleasure pulsing through me.

"Yes," I cry into Theo’s mouth as Ezra fucks me with his tongue.

“I love how you grind that sweet little pussy on our beta’s face. Such a good omega.”