Fated To the Alpha by Jessica Hall
Chapter 265: Marabella POV
Upon feeling someone move and hearing Kyan gr0@n, I was roused awake as he tucked me closer to him, burying his face into my neck. As he slowly rolled me toward him, I was enveloped in his heady fragrance as the warmness of him seeped into my skin. Jonah, in turn, pulls him closer. His arm lay across Kyan’s waist, his hand resting on my lower back.
“I feel like s**t,” Kyan gr0@ned against my chest. I blinked, wondering what time it was because the sun was already pretty high in the sky, from what I could tell through the light filtering into the room between the cracks in the blinds.
Jonah tugs Kyan closer, and Kyan lifts his head, looking down at Jonah’s muscular arm pulling him closer. I chuckle, and Kyan grips his wrist, raising his arm before sighing and placing it back down. As Kyan turned back to face me, he looked down at me, squashed against him.
His hand moved to my cheek, and he cupped it with his hand before dropping his head back onto my chest, burying his face in my b***s, his hand resting on the side of my face and shoulder. I ran my fingers through his hair, messaging his scalp, and I could feel his breath on my skin when he finally looked up again.
He stares at me. “I’m sorry, Ella. If I could take it back, I would,” Kyan murmurs, his thumb stroking over my bottom lip softly as he hovers above me.
“D**n, those words must have tasted so salty on your tongue,” Jonah laughed behind him, and Kyan clicked his tongue and turned his head to glare at him before he chuckled softly.
“That en you have best be for Ella and not me,” Kyan retorts.
“What?” Jonah says before his eyes widen; he jumps back, falling off the bed with a thud. I snicker at him before Jonah stands up, his hands covering his c*rotc*h awkwardly. Not that he was able to conceal that huge thing. Jonah clears his throat awkwardly, his face flaming with embarra*s*sment.
“F*g Kaif,” Jonah mutters with a growl.
“Please don’t,” Kyan says, and Jonah’s face reddens even more. “No, I didn’t…” Kyan raises an eyebrow at him. Which only makes Jonah’s warm cheeks redder. Jonah clears his throat, coughing. “I will, um… go take care of this,” Jonah says, rushing off into the bathroom and shutting the door.
I laugh at Jonah’s quick departure, and Kyan shakes his head, staring at the door where Jonah disappeared before looking back down at me. “Next time, you can be piggy in the middle,” Kyan laughs, and I smile, just happy to see he is okay after last night.
“I never should have rejected you, Ella. Though I am glad that you have Jonah, but if we,” he stops mid-sentence and sighs and shakes his head.
Kyan chews his lip, “If we… I mean… if you want…?” he sighs, dropping his head before trying again, and I could see the tinge to his cheeks like he had no idea what he was trying to ask for. The flicker of consciousness from Kora within me makes my heart beat faster as she presses forward with me. Peering at our mate.
“D**n, must be salty tasting,” Kora laughs. “So cute, look at him stuttering,” Kora snickers, and I bite the inside of my lip, trying not to laugh at her words while watching Kyan try to spit out those words. He wasn’t usually someone who struggled with words. He had a bad habit of using them as weapons.
“I say go cave dweller style, just mark him and make him your b***h,” Kora says, growling and shaking her head, urging me to claim our mate. She didn’t care if he rejected us; she wanted him anyway, and so did I. Him leaving me didn’t change that. “Just give him a big old love bite,” she laughs.
I rolled my eyes at her before turning my attention back to Kyan, who was still stumbling over his words. With a sigh, I grip his shoulders and yank him closer, pressing my lips to his. His words cut off from whatever gibberish he was speaking or trying to speak.
His shock only lasted moments before he kissed me back, his breath hitching as he heaved in a shaky breath before his tongue f0rced between my lips, tangling with mine as his lips dominated my mouth, tasting every inch and making me tug him closer. I felt something w*et touch my cheek as his arm went under my back, pulling me on top of him, so I was straddling his lap.
Kyan sits up, his hands grabbing, his fingers digging into my flesh as he kisses me. His hands roam over my body before one of his hands escapes inside my shirt, going to my bre@st, palming and squeezing it, and I pull away, hearing Jonah’s voice coming from the bathroom.
“You are not helping my situation in here. Hello, stop doing whatever you are doing, or I will end up rubbing the d**n skin off it.” Jonah calls, making me laugh, and I look at the bathroom door over my shoulder.
Kyan chuckles, and I turn back to him, his eyes all bloodshot, tear tracks bleed down his cheeks. I wipe them away, and he smiles sadly, looking at the ceiling as if he was embarra*s*sed to be caught looking so vulnerable.
“I don’t deserve you or Jonah,” Kyan breathes out, pressing his forehead against mine.
“Says you,” I tell him, running my fingers through his hair before grabbing a handful and jerking his head to the side and sinking my teeth into his neck. His blood spilled into my mouth and coated my tongue.
His emotions flooded into me as the bond stretched and merged with Jonah’s, expanding and making room for him, too. How it should have been all along. His regret and guilt, shock, and sadness mixed with happiness all bleed into me at once.
Kyan clutches me closer; his grip is tight, like he thought I would disappear at any moment. I pull my teeth from his neck before running my tongue over it and sealing the mark.
I vaguely heard the bathroom door open when I marked him before feeling the bed dip behind him; Looking up to see Jonah with a towel around his waist. He climbed on the bed behind Kyan. His hair was still w*et as he crawled over to Kyan as Kyan dropped his head against my chest.
Jonah leans over, kissing my lips softly over Kyan’s shoulder before settling behind Kyan, his legs going either side of Kyan’s. Jonah pulled his lips from mine and sank his teeth into Kyan’s neck over my mark.
Kyan jumps when Jonah’s teeth pierce his skin before pulling them out and sealing it with his saliva as he runs his tongue over it, and Kyan shivers at the sensation. “Welcome home,” Jonah tells him before wrapping his arms around us both and squashing Kyan between us.
I feel their bond snap into place and the warmth coming from within Kyan when Kaif presses forward. And Kyan indeed felt like he was home or at least had one for the first time in ages like he finally belonged somewhere and that place was with us.
I felt his body ripple against mine and his eyes flickered to the darkness that was Kaif. “Just so we are all clear, no donutting. I will not be touching your donut, and you will d*e before you ever touch mine. Are we clear? We are mates, just not those sorts of mates. We are, what is the term… friends but with NO benefits,” Kaif says, making me snort as Jonah climbs off the bed to dry himself.
“Wow, you have a way with words,” I laughed.
“Thank you, love; I have no issue touching your donut, though,” Kaif says, and I pull a face at him.
“Yeah, not happening,” I mutter.
“That’s what she thinks,” Jonah chuckles, and Kaif laughs while I raise an eyebrow at Jonah. I feel Kyan return as his hands trail up my side, peeling my shirt off before tugging it off over my head.
The feel of his warm hand traveling over my skin to the side of my bre@st makes me shiver. The sparks I missed return, making my n*s harden. Kyan pulls me closer, lifting me higher, his lips wrapping around the hard bud as he flicks it with his tongue.
I sigh, gripping his hair, enjoying the warmth of his touch and the feel of his hot mouth on my body when I feel hands grab my hair and tug my head back before Jonah’s lips mold around mine, his tongue invades my mouth playing with mine.
Their touch lit a fire under my skin as sparks rushed everywhere. Kyan’s lips move higher, and Jonah lets me go, leaving me breathless as Kyan runs his tongue over Jonah’s mark on my neck. The sensation makes me M0@n before he kisses the spot, and I feel his lips part, his canines raking over it.
My eyes fall, closing when he sinks them into my flesh. Sparks raced over me everywhere, and goosebumps rose on my skin, my toes curling, and I gasped as ple@sure coursed through me.
That feeling was followed by weightlessness as it crashes into me, and I blink as he pulls his teeth from my neck, blinking up at the ceiling as the room starts to grow darker. My body felt like it was liquifying, and Kyan’s fingers gripped the back of my neck as I had no control over it as it lulled to the side.
He turns my face toward his. His tongue traced the seam of my lips before he pecks them. “I love you, Ella,” he whispers softly against my lips before kissing me tenderly. I blink at him to see him smile softly as darkness steals my vision.