DOG TEETH | A/B/O au/alpha Harry (x omega reader)
HeyyyâŚâŚ. (â˘3â˘) This was intended to come up on Halloween but thenâŚ.. you knowâŚ. lifeâŚ. So consider this my 2025 Halloween contribution LOL. Anyways, WOO I know ABO isnât everyoneâs thing, but some of you guys were asking for this one, so figured Iâd finally put it up. This was originally posted onto patreon in September of 2024 (and the ending on this was actually an extra I decided to just sew on because it just carried on from the OG one shot), so itâs technically been around for 5ever, but itâs also technically never been seen in full on tumblr. Just a heads up, if youâve been around 5ever (*kiss*) Iâm sure youâve seen me bounce around different writing styles, so you already know, but this one is pretty different(!) from the usual stuff ((but fitting for this plot imo)) ((The usual being Rosemary, TDIAG, Fetish, etc)) and itâs definitely more 2024-kinktober adjacent in terms of style. Also, it's kind of animal-y in terms of ABO universe. I remember writing this listening to It Will Come Back on a perpetual loop and I don't like werewolves so THIS WAS OUTSIDE OF THE BOX FOR ME BACK IN THE DAY OKAY TITZ OUT
CONTENT/WARNINGS: ABO au, smelling feelings(?) lolol, BITING to bond/mate (gore warning: descriptions of bite marks and blood), knotting, harassment (NOT Harry), violence (bar fight), FMC is conflicted, dom/sub dynamics, oral (m to f), p-in-v, multiple orgasms/overstim, praise kink! and (light) degradation (it's playful), thumbs-up aftercare
WC: 10K
Comatose spills like syrup behind your eyelids, where shapeless light dances ahead as a fizzing gradient.Â
Itâs almost cinematicâ the border of a muted palette in a lens, under a wispy, static filter. The yellowy orange of the lamp on the nightstand, eclipsed by a shadow when you knock your forehead forward against something damp, something firm with the doughy plush of a little give.Â
Higher, you nose along (sandalwood, sweat, something sharp that spikes your senses like the heady stab of a retiring starvation rebounding) into a nook where the top of your skull can perfectly slot.
Itâs in this penumbraâ the in-between of your rattling ribcage, eyes heavyâ that you consider how exhausted you are. Itâs reminiscent of that muzzy, warm feeling, watching the hilt of a melting sun sink into the leveled horizon. How worn and strainedâ
You breathe with the even tempo of a thump under your palm, planted onto something cold and wet. Let logic fizz with the metrical respiration against your ear (the way the thud swells under your hand), and wallow in the sticky pool of an ache you can nearly feel behind your navel. You feel⌠unfathomably dispersed; diffused all over. Stinging in the sockets of your joints, along your thawed sinews, taut to the wire. You sense the brunt of it in your lower body, a smarting twinge that scatters itself along your quadriceps, your hamstrings.Â
You shift on your shins, where theyâre split wide around a warm bulk that obstructs you from clasping your knees together, andâ Oh.Â
The movement gets your breath stuck to the back of your throatâ the way it cudgels some soft, sensitive spot inside of youâ and works the mass under your temple into a ragged hiss. But you donât pay any mind to that, not when your feel your rim smart as the thickness inside of you throbsâ
You tuck your cheek to sweaty skin and mewl. Itâs a wanton sound, out of your own mouth, that lulls you more awake, battering the dispersed flinders of your logic and nearly wheedling you from the molasses-like depths.
Until you feel the heated coast of a hand against your nape. Heavy, squeezing (if you werenât drenched in an opiate pool of pheromones and the receding pinnacle of a heatâ you have yet to acknowledgeâ youâd note it as a clear-cut mating idiosyncrasy).
(Mated.)
Instead, it gets you paralyzed. Docile, malleable, melty like youâll ooze apart into a sopping puddle under his grip when he presses his chin to the crest of your cheekboneâ abrading, sandpaper stubble you find comfort in against your soft skin, like the cozy scrape of a wool blanketâ and tells you to hush, now.Â
If you were more cognizant, youâd probably be startled by the ease with which the rumbleâ like the yawn over a cliffside before it collapses, vibrating under youâ beneath your splayed fingers shepherds you back into the smoggy haze of nirvana. The undiluted, absolute sense of security you feel, even just trying to piece the fractured pieces back together.Â
Thereâs a mellow comfort in the raw cologne of a satisfied alphaâ this alpha (yours, hisses a reedy thing at the back of your head)â dried fruits and wood sap, curled tobacco leaves, the sweet smoothing of vanilla that ghosts your lungs. Lingers, perfuming the air, where you can make out the vinous aroma of your own slick. The mesh tangling in your nose.
You roll your hips.Â
A sharp sound brews behind your teeth, leaks out through the gap when you part them. The way it ripples up your spine makes your shoulders wobbleâ heâs got his knot inside of you. You realize it now, the way the sting radiates from the way youâre split on his fat cock, the way his cum seeps out of you, coats your ass and the hirsute smattering of skin at his lap.Â
âMm, you donât learn, do you sweetheart?â Harry purrs, and rights you with a hand on your hip that pins you in place. âStay still for me.â
You ball your fists, scrabbling against his abs for purchase, and blink up at him through the smog. Itâs a hazeâ a blur of sweat-slick skin in denuded peach glowing gold, ridges in sepia, the bleary edges of his ivory teeth stained pink, blood red in the crevicesâ
The ruptured splatter of your cosmos, your entire world and everything youâve ever known, or been, or intended to be, in dust across your skin, the pads of his thumbs along the hollows of your cheeks when your jaw falls wide and your molars unlatch at the too-full.
His eyes are midnight craters, pupils drowning the eroded bands of his irises like hungry ink. On the outskirts, you see the woods. Smell petrichor in the undertone of his musk when you breathe deep, the kind you used to find in your grandmaâs yard on the fringes of the wet forest.
You see it, too. The multicolored canopy of a taiga; pine, spruce, tamarack. The gold-flaking of autumnally emerging, yellowed larch, swallowed out by that ebbing hunger you feel is, progressively, eating you whole, too.Â
Too full, you want to whine, too muchâ
âNice and still,â he coos, gaze unwavering, barely over a whisper. His face creases, then eases, lax, like it hits a raw, lightning-sharp nerve to remember, ââŚpumped you so full.â
The admission (the reminder) draws a long keen out of you, makes your chest feel tight. Wildfire licking up your veins when you clench and slump forward, tucking into him, shoulder blades prying wide. Helplessly, you rock your hips.
And heâ you can taste the salt on his skin, between his pecs, against your mouth when you press too close and breathe, lick out at your lips. Feel the swell of his chest, the way his knot pulses, stuffed up into you to the root of his cock, hear the way a caustic sound gets caught behind his teeth when you hold your breath and constrict, eyes screwed.Â
âFuck. Still,â he orders, like heâs scolding you (you hear the grunt in the hollow of his chest, where your hairline kisses his sternum) but the heady elixir of a scentâ want, in sultry rebirthâ betrays him. Even when you feel him spread his fingers across the top of your thigh and instruct, âStay still.â
Itâs a demand. The kind you canât shrug off, coated in intoxicant alpha ambrosia. That decibelâ that note; the authoritarian lilt, of a stern alpha nudging you back into line, seeps under your skin until youâre vibrating with the urge to please. Please, pleaseâ
You donât realize youâre saying it until you feel his hand press between your shoulder blades, and then notch over one of your shoulders, wrenching you flush to his front with the other arm circled around your waist.Â
He shushes you, all sweat-slick skin and the sugary scent of acquiescence, letting you unspool yourself in his lap. Tells you just like that, now, pet. Iâve got you. Easy, baby. Sweet, little omega.
It comes back to you in pieces. In warm amber and burnt umber. His thumb tucked to the dent, one side of the Rorschach dimples at the base of your spine, the other crawling up your damp back to fondle at your damp nape.Â
The way he strung you out over foreign sheets that reek like harmonized honey and the raw earth, now. His mouth on every square inch of your skin, pulsing, radiating heat, the fog of an insatiable fever under your skin when he battered his cock in with his lips suckling at your jugular.Â
Your throat stings something awful, and when you turn your cheek and let him thumb at the side, you feel your blood sing in the circuitry under his fingerprint.Â
Dread should froth in the gap between your ribs. Brew in your tummy, spike behind your skull to blink the sleepy mirage of a warm peace from your eyes. Inflate in the stretch of skin between your shoulder blades.
Where heâs clipped your wings.Â
(Just wanna take another bite.)
You should recoil at the muted pink on his teeth and flinch at the way his forefinger grazes the open wound beside your even pulsepoint. Bonding is a soul tieâ a forever. You were always warned to stay away from dog teeth.Â
Always had an affinity for taking mutts home, you, even if they growled and bit.
Youâve always had a distinct vocation for the unconventional.Â
Felt this deep-rooted necessity to keep shattered things close; pick them up off the concrete in their splintered pieces, cradle them in your palm off their dust-coated shelves. Cosset insentient objects like a baby, untouched for years, with a soft hand. Glue serrated edges back together, sew gaping dry rot shut in crumbly stitching.Â
Youâd collect it off antique store sills; find a new, broken thing to coast your fingers over and clean up (your own, personal, philanthropic undertaking)â find the stuff that needed it most. An old, battered music box covered in soot with a missing gear. Grimy, hundred-year-old, porcelain faces youâd clean with a damp washcloth. An aged, moth-eaten wedding dress youâd repurpose and restore.
When you were a kid, you used to hoard strays off your street.Â
You used to name them by the months of the year, bait them with scraps of lunchmeat out of your sandwich. Lug them by the ratty collar up the steps of the porch (always double your size, clambering beside you, knocking the potted plants outside over). It drove your mother madâ donât you know, those things are wild, theyâre wild and theyâre sick, and we donât have the space, theyâre dangerousâ
(Youâre a life path number 2â star-crossed altruistâ and you never quite learned how to curb that nagging urge to save.)
But everything deserves a soft touch, doesnât it? The broken, battered things that life has turned its back on, maybe more.
Youâre no good at self-preservation, not when youâre chasing the high of a self-indulgent humanity, pouring energy into charity cases of plastic, ceramic, flesh. Scraping by, half the time, by the skin of your teeth.
Retrospect reminds you of human fallacy. That he must have sensed it, right under your nose.Â
You donât have any business reeling in a man like that (just like those hungry dogs; August that tore your arm open)â the lone one on a stool at the fringe of the bar, with his scarred knuckles wrapped around a chipped glass of amber liquor. You find him in a pub on the outskirts of town, the only one left open at this time of night when you bar hop with your friend, looking for a phone to call a cab.Â
His eyes are worn emeralds mounted in white. Shiny, sharp, listing, red-rimmed at the corners. The pink webbing in the corners seems carved straight from a searing lavascape (it accredits the molten heat that rolls off when you catch his eye).
Heâs not a talker, and maybe thatâs what lures you in like a fish. Always finding traces of obligation in the burbling silence, you. Youâ need to fix, and he is the kind of dilapidated mystique your fingers itch to graze. The longer you stare, the more you recognize that heâs a fractured bulk that wonât fit on your shelf (donât you know; wild, and sick, and dangerous), but you still sidle up two stools down with your half-nursed vodka cran when your friend goes to the bathroom. Like heâll fit with your figurines and the framed polaroid of you in the yard, girdled by mutts you rehomedâ a perfect fixer-upper that you haul up off the the end of a driveway to repurpose, roaming on the outskirts of the suburbs in your Chevy.
Alpha. Itâs a heavy scent that you taste at the back of your throat with the proximity, almost instant. Potent, it barrels into you, peeling apart in the inches of the space between. Itâs soporific when you breathe it out, like the buzz of holding nicotine in your lungs after taking a drag from a cigaretteâ reminds you of the smoggy slowness in your head, the weight of your skull resting on your shoulders after long, sun-drenched hours wading the pool.
Thereâs a pang in your stomachâ you cross your legs.Â
Heâs not a piece of broken china you should be chasingâ you watch the subtle way his nostrils flare with the new distance. He has to scent you (black fig, honeysuckle, green melon, grapes). The sugar-sweet omega in between the new notes that perfume the air around him.Â
In the undertow of stale cigarette smoke and weathered, leather barstools (the musk of wet floorboards and spilled malt), you smell the heady tang when you bring the rim of your glass to your mouth. Unmistakable and sharp; want.
Oh, how many trinkets youâve cut your fingertips gluing back together.
You make friends with him. Friendsâ a facsimile of companionship, you think, with the way his eyes roam you, wordlessly, like heâs dissecting you down to the raw core. You talk with your eyes, a lot.Â
You return alone and take the same seat every time. Itâs a slow dance; takes days, weeks. Youâre pleasantly surprised to find him in the same spot when you visit at the same hour, same day of the week, all by his lonesome (pitiful, reallyâ but you fix, thatâs your niche).
Itâs not to say that you donât watch women latch onto his arm, dripping sickly sweet when they anchor themselves to a bicep, liquid courage in their veins. Alluring, bolder than you.
Youâve always had patience in the pursuit of your predilections.
He never takes them home, shrugging off handsy remoras in stilettos that try to stick.
He speaks more when you gingerly accept the shot he buys, motioning with his index and middle fingers at the barkeepâ what you get is straight, pellucid liquor that makes the bridge of your nose crinkle when you hold the glass between your fingers. You stare down at it, want to tell him you donât drink straight liquorâ havenât knocked back a shot since the tumulus of your messy college days, a time spent taking swigs out of the bottle at the end of the week with your head over a porcelain bowl the entirety of the following day.Â
It bleeds out of you as some hesitant demurral that wobbles on its own flimsy principle when the bartender sets a shot glass in front of you, and one in front of him. Reluctance that you muzzle between your teethâ âOh. You donât have toââ when you meet his gaze across the countertop.Â
The wordless contact you make feels like something thatâs melting. Unambiguously smolderingâ liquid fire, the oozing treacle of a longing beneath the surface.Â
âYâbeen staring at me for weeks,â he tells youâ it makes your cheeks flame and your lips seal. He ducks his chin and motions out with his glass, and you stare at his scarred knuckles. Pink, shiny cicatrix stretched taut over bone. A dark ringlet flops over his forehead, âFigured one of us had to buy the drink.â
Youâve just been too shy to ask, you read, wry, unspoken. Heâs taunting you. Youâre a creep, wading the shallow pool of a convoluted push and pull with a tattered old, dog collar wedged in your fist.
His mouth quirks. It doesnât reach his eyes.
You take the shot, hoarse when you thank him. It burns all through your chest, simmers in your face. You donât think youâll ever get used to the heat.Â
The thing with those strays is that they found a home with you. Little kid leading them up off the street into a bed of furs by a fire, brushing the ticks out of their matted coats. Youâ some equinox in the fragile scope of an existence (cruel, all theyâve ever known, really). And in the stretch where some shape or form of an abandonment has crammed up every crevice, to find something that sticksâ
Well. Theyâd stick back to that, too. And every dog safeguards its territory.Â
(Itâs only fair that I buy you a drink, too, sugar-sweet in the shadow beneath your batting lashes; âŚYou donât want to buy me a drink; And whyâs that?; Liquid fire, molten heat, rich in sultry omen, You donât want to start that with me, sweetheart; And what would that be?
A wry smile. The kind that makes your chest tight, lungs stalling, chasing the magnetic yank. Then⌠Iâd have to buy you another drink, back, wouldnât I?)
(Donât you know, Iâll come back?)
The man that approaches you isnât your type.Â
Too⌠polished.Â
(Too cleanâ you donât need to fixâ)
He wears his hubris like an enamel (hardshell, protecting the ego under the surface thatâs scored by hairline fractures), shining like the smarmy ridges of his bared, smiling teeth. It clots in your nose when he leans close, forearms braced on the bartopâ the suffocating stench of an over-spritzed cologne clinging to his collar. It blankets his real odor, a nauseating blend of tea tree and licorice.
He wanders along the slope of your shoulder, chin tucked to face you, with glaucous blue; a muddy, unsaturated color that almost foreshadows whatâll be the interaction between you with its vibrance alone. With his hand like this, heâs got two fingers crooked out, and he scrapes the back of them against your naked arm, as if to get your attention.Â
Your eyes flash.Â
âWhatâs,â when he leans closer, you sense the pungent miasma of a lingering want in the plume of him drawing near, âa pretty thing like you doing, sitting at the bar all alone?âÂ
Youâre good at redirection. Self-preservation when the danger comes in the form of a hungry, sharp maw⌠nowadaysâŚ
(Veneers, pursed lips, an unfaltering gaze tucked into a skull where an itch scrapes into the other side of the boneâ hindsight would make you crane your neck and laugh deliriously.)
Youâre good at smiling taut, feigning delicate and dumb to assure the crackling rift in their self-worth. You know how to say no in a tone that sounds like sorry. Know how to placate enough.
Only now, you canât force the corners of your mouth to stretch into a beamâ canât be polite, not with the subtle ache of a fever youâve felt simmering under your neckline since before you stepped foot into the bar. Grating, like itâs bubbling your marrow, frictioning your muscles into a dry fireâ and his stench makes your temples ache.Â
The broken stray youâve been tailing has gone off to the bathroom in the secluded hallway on the other end of the pub, and you stare at the empty stool on the corner.
âOh, Iâm not interested,â you lob over your shoulder, fingers curled in a clipped drum over the wooden counter.Â
Sorry clings to the tip of your tongueâ you donât say that. What do you have to be sorry about?
It doesnât really surprise you that he doesnât immediately leave. He hovers in your periphery (parasitic, festering on the blunt tail end of your rejection, mulling, gears grinding in preparation, you knowâ you know his type), and you list your eyes to the beams on the ceiling and bring your glass to your mouth, wrist quaking.
But the way he slinks closer, pasting a sticky hand onto the small of your back (lingering over your tailbone) makes you grow rigid under his arm. You turn andâ
The shortage of the space between you, suddenly, makes you startle, chin jutting when you tip back in the stool to peel his wandering hand off. Up close, the dull powder blue sparkles when he sniffs.
âSure you are,â he counters, lips ticking, âReeking like you are? Youâre just begging for it, arenât you?âÂ
You scowl, feel your pulse down to your fingertips, the way your heart sits at the base of your throat when you reach back and manually wrench his hand off your hip. âFuck off.â
His smarmy mouth molds. And you donât get why he doesnât just giveâ just giveâ âYouâre a wily thing. Come on. Why donât we take a ride, just you and me?â
When his hand settles on your thigh, instead, fingertips pressing against the hem of the dress thatâs notched itself mid-thigh, you sling the remnants of your drink at him.
Itâs a last minute defense mechanism, infused with the quiver that lingers in your arm when you tip the glass and throw, dousing his face, the lapsing, jagged line of hair that his forehead meets, the pungent ribs of the collar on his dress-shirt (two buttons undone, sleeves rolled to the elbow). He flinches, face creased, eyes screwing. You watch the way your margarita dribbles over his lips, the way tequila seeps into the gap between his grimacing teeth. The way he licks it off, fists balled against the sockets of his eyes.Â
Ice cubes rattle off onto the floorboards, land beside his overpriced dress shoes, toes wet. You swallow, jaw set when he clambers back, knuckling at his red-rimmed gaze.
You think, maybe, heâs going to laugh. Or cry. Your shoulders shake.
âYouââ he sputters, words caked with sardonic vitriol, âYou stupid, little bitch.â
It happens too quickly for you to wallow in the way your stomach churns. At the way he grapples for your arm, fingers viciousâ a slate of watercolors blurring, edges (one move, the next) bleeding at the spike of an iron-like, foul-smelling adrenaline between you that makes your bones buzz. The thick of his fingers mangling into your tricep, the glower writ large in the fold between his eyebrows, the way he keels back, suddenly, hand falteringâ
You blink. Behind you, Harry cradles him by the dry seam of his shirt.Â
You think his buttons might pop free in the squeeze of his fist. He ducks close, and the swell of his chest is an even rollâ uniform, pacific.Â
But his knuckles stretch chalk-white. Scarred skin over bone.Â
âSay that again?â he murmurs, airy (thunderous, lacerated under the surface), barely over a whisper, drenched in a sense of faux calm. It makes your chest tight.Â
You canât make out his face, not with the way his chin is twisted, tipped down, but you imagine a storm, there. A grizzled overcast that wilts the sun behind its bristles before a thunderbolt tears at the sky. You picture it under his thick, dark lashesâ a typhoon shredding the canopy in the bands of his irises, lightning on his teeth, a windstorm over his brow bone, the downturned corners of his mouth. A blizzard congealing his features; a tornado resting along the back of his tongue, electricity aching in his wrist.Â
Some brutal impulse heâs been tucking behind his ribs. Harboring in his shoulder.
And heâs just⌠big, you think in that moment.Â
Big in a way you didnât initially note with the way he slouched over a pint, slotted behind the corner of the bar. Tall, broad, all bulk in the flexing, muscly structure of his arm, where you can see the cut of muscle at the back. Big hands, big, taut knuckles. Towering, loomingâ a mountainside, all stone. Bleeding heat against your juddering knee that courses to your underbelly.Â
The other guy cocks his chin up, huffs. Licks out at his top lip, chest rocking upâ his wet mouth carves into a sneer.Â
âIs that your dumb, frigid cunt, then?â
Harry doesnât say anything. You watch the subtle ascent of his shoulders (milk-white knuckles), and then heâs lugging him forward and walking him by the peeling sutures at the shoulder of his button-down. In their strained exit, he manages to shuffle the guy into a hightop and knocks over a chair. The legs screech, and youâ
Only pick up, âLetâs take a walk, mm? Jusâ you and me,â caustic and low.
You slam a wad of cash onto the counter and desert the stool to tail them. Heâs manhandling him to the back, long legs moving, soles falling purposeful, deserting too quick for you to keep upâ
By the time you ram your shoulder against the back door, lungs swelling with the gust of petrichor-soaked air, Harryâs already pummeling him into the wet concrete.Â
You see it traced in the blue glow of moonlight, kissing his skin along the ridges when he cocks his fist back. The firm bulk of his knees, split, straddling, the way his back heaves and his shoulder rolls to connect his knuckles in a sticky, sopping blow; a nauseating crackle of bone meeting boneâ meeting bone, againâ
You watch, helplessly, tethered to this, here, moment in time, the macabre wet sound, impact after impact (soles pinned to the asphalt as the door clangs behind you).Â
The alleyway is still drenched after the torrent that dribbled down the windows, rattled up over the dingy ceiling, dirty rain water trickling down the rifts in the brick when you glue your hand to the wall to stabilize yourself. And the man under him is bleeding into the craggy, shimmering puddle beside him.Â
And heâs not fighting back is the thingâ canâtâ rasping gusts of air between his teeth, gurgling when Harry sits back, heft of his shoulders bobbing, sucking in gaspsâ he grunts and hits him againâÂ
It rattles you down to your marrow.
âStopâ stop,â you launch off the wall to yank at his shoulderâ tummy seething at the bulwark of firm muscle your quivering fingers find underneathâ âYouâre going to kill himââ
He rolls his shoulder out from under your fingers, brushing you off, scraping out at him, the cotton of his shirt, like some petulant form of rebuttal, hissing breaths in between his teeth. He pulls his arm back for his fist to collide againâ
(Because thatâs the thing with these wild dogs. Theyâre wild, and sick, and dangerous. Undomesticated, working off their own, primeval accord.)
You dig your knuckles against your lips (your stomach twists), and you canât look at the face under him, the blood-smeared swell of a cheekbone, the red, jagged crook of a broken nose. You canât stomach it, and you still feel like youâre simmering all the way down from under your collarbones. Blistering, warm from the base of your throat.
The man bleeding into the gravel wheezes. Says something that mirrors an orison through his split lips; a please. Itâs the stifled cry you make into your hand that makes Harry pause. He sits back, shoulders climbing, descending, and finallyâ
You stare, stunned, through the shimmering film thatâs made a dew across your eyes, when Harry hunches over him, spine curved, and rumbles (dogmatic, predominate, commanding), âSay youâre sorry.â
The man below him twists his head, a jarring, weak motion. His temple kisses the gritty, wet tar. You hold your breath, and Harryâ
Exhales. He leans closer (all dominion, unchained powerâ the killshot of a raging beast imposing his sheer strength to clamber to the top), waiting. In the silence, you can see the way the man under himâ a pulpy, knurled mess of liquid crimsonâ breathes. You half-expect him to crane his head back and spit fuck youâ half expect Harry to grapple him by the fringe (slicked backâ wasâ now, an unkempt, crunchy mess) and knock his crown back into the cement.
Instead, his apology makes your bones feel brittle. Makes your joints feel meltedâ a weak, garbled slur thatâs only midway coherent, the kind that sticks to the back of his throat. It makes the heat simmer, scorch, the way Harry hovers. Waits, nearly vibrating. Centers his hand and gives him a benign pat against the side of his bruised face. Two. Good lad. Good boy.Â
It reminds you of incipient autumn, receding dog daysâ August (untameable). Harry, this way; the sfumato of a moon-washed night against the sparkling asphalt, all hard ridges. Another manâs blood coagulated along the long lifeline denting in his palm when he takes his hand back.
Thereâs a tight knot inside of you. Wadded, unraveling, and you donât even recognize that this dreadâ frightâ is a surface-level superimposition over the thick fog thatâs been brewing along your joints, at your jugular, in the pit of your belly.Â
And thisâ you donât acknowledgeâ all alpha, reeking dark, all bloodlusting thew (potency caking your sinuses with the scent of your honorâ the defense of itâ sopping on the asphalt) is like two fingers plucking at the flimsy, free end of the bow and tugging.Â
Harry rocks onto his knees, and then the sole of his foot. Drags the other guy up when he rises, grunting, who slumps and swings on his feet when heâs stood back upâ a marred rendition of the seemingly expensive, untouchable man he was, just minutes before. Soaked in blood, wobbling on the stems of his legs. Broken (and the irony, you think wryly, is that he more closely resembles something youâd put your hands on, now).
âMâglad we could,â Harry mumbles, chin ducked, dripping derisive hyperbole off his even, low toneâ rich in the cadence of an unscathed, ruling beast, ââŚcome to an agreement, hm?â
Blueâ blurred in secreted, wet redâ rides the corner of its crackled socket. His shoulders shake (he wants to say somethingâ you see it in the pink flash of his teethâ âŚwonât) and he sags against the brick.Â
Harry plants his palm against the back of his shoulder in a wallop that sends him stumbling into a step forward. âWalk it off.â
And he does. Forms some battered proxy of a scowl under the saturated bruising and hobbles, fingers scraping at the brick (too scared to show face back at the bar, youâre sure).
You clench the threadbare collar between your balled fingers.Â
(So, what? Weâll buy each other drinks; Fâthatâs what you want; You donât want that?; I donât want you to start something you wonât finish; âŚYou think I canât finish my drinks?)
(You know better.)
His apartment is a noxious catalyst. A battered two-room (one bath, one bed/lounge/kitchenette) in a destitute fragment on the fringe of town, miles out. You donât expect any different from a man with gashed knuckles, the kind that has a barstool that practically belongs to him.
It reeks of him; a dehydrated orchard, honeyed smoke. The wet aftermath of a forest fire, spice, sweatâ
Every nook, every crevice, is a subterfuge on the boil in your veins.
Thereâs chasing a new, battered project, and then thereâs this. Kismet in the mimesis of teeth along your bobbing throat.
You, always making friends with mangy dogs.Â
Youâre not sure how it happensâ the blur of a simmering fever down to your bones, twinging under your skin, your fingers on him, and then his head cocked to the crook of your throat, the tip of his nose along your collarbone. Burrowing under your ear. The wet, molten want that seeps over you in the way he says, tongue slick against your skin, âYouâre in heat.â
Itâs not a questionâ not even a recognition, really. A reminder, you fathom feebly from under the wool-thick blanket of the haze. You think, through the clouded mist that clots from the base of your skull, he must have known.Â
(Must have known, must have knownâ)
And what can you do but mewl and paw? You finger at the front of his shirt, scrape at the stitching (the same way you dug in earlier, heart rate rising at the merciless brutality under the bridge of your nose).Â
All you can feel besides the molten roll of lava across your arteries, the unyielding fever (calefaction worsening from the tip of his nose bumping your earlobe, his teeth on it), is the way every nerve ending sings under his hands. The wantâ no, need, vibrating under his fingertips.Â
Sweet, dizzy omega. Frantic for the way that the blunt of his nails digs into the knob of your knee. Itâs a primitive tormentâ good judgment in throesâ that bridges the gap between delirium and logic.Â
(You stopped hoarding strays and offering haven between your ribs when they started nipping.)
Right, reasoned, cogent; you anchor yourself to the bubbling froth, palm pressed to his jaw, keeping him close to that sensitive sweet spot where your saccharine scent is saturated. The tip of his tongue lingers at the origin.Â
Itâs incongruent with the lesson you learned with broken skin in kidhood.Â
(You remember when he warned you; starting things you couldnât finish. See it throughâ)
The sentiment youâve cradled in the space between your collarbones seeps out in the way your fingers tangle into the short bed of curls at the nape of his neck. The undomesticated (wild in your spuming bloodstream, riling every nerve ending to kindle in the fireâ a twisted paradox) urge to be owned. Claimed. Mated. See it throughâ
He cradles your wet gasp against the flats of his teeth, the gap between. Your tongue slinks out sloppily, lashes fluttering, and you bask in the way he brushes his own against it.Â
Itâs no jejune delicacy of a first kiss.Â
The tentative, eggshell-daintiness of brushing lipsâ no, itâs all tongue, teeth, sloppy, slick. Your head tipping back with the fingers he snares into the hair at the base of your skull, the fist he wrenches your crown back by. Spit smearing against the corner of your mouth. Humid aphrodisia that settles in the trench of your tummy when he grips you under your jaw, thumb and middle finger denting into the fleshy margins of your hot cheeks. He smears his tongue against yours again.
Itâs thisâ possessive, hungeringâ a triumph youâve been chasing from that prepubescent past time. Giving home, in longing, the pooling bliss of your mettle finally melting apart under the way he pants into your mouth.Â
Nasty, nasty manâ the kind you barely know, the kind you shouldnât let suck on your tongue, never mind in the turbulent window of an incipient heat thatâll make your bones feel like theyâre rotting in their sockets.
âYeah, thatâs it,â you make out the crook of a smile in his words (lewd, coarse), liquified yearning, your eyes half-mast, âFilthy, little omega. Never imagined youâd be such a needy thing.â
Itâs vertiginous. Feral. Makes your world spin on its axis, because this exigency, swallowing youâ need, need, need, fuckâ is an all consuming rapture (when he sticks his fingers into your mouthâ a bunched dyad, middle and forefingerâ prying your head back with the heel of his palm still under your aching jaw).
âSweet, littleââ you vaguely hear over the spindrift of blood in your earsâ you donât even recognize the wanton hum you grant him, tongue outâ something that dies on his teeth, gets mottled by a growl (it stems from his chest, reverberates through the palm you still have on him, rocks your fizzing marrow).Â
Thereâs no gentle dubiety (you donât expect it from him, anyhow) when he pins you, limbs out, on the bed two steps from the front door. Your needâ that same, unbroken longing that pulsates in your jointsâ spills a mist over the aftermath (clothes peeling away, your heart stuttering in its caging, your nipples between his teeth).Â
Up until the point where he nestles himself between your thighs, splayed, flat on his abdomen at the foot of the mattress.Â
You watch him with a lust-ridden hypervigilance. Like this, with your thighs split, you can smell yourself from the headboard. Your leaking slick. It makes you desperate, gets your face crinkling, forehead scored in lines as your hips cant up.Â
And Harry plants his hand onto your tummy, under your navel. So big (cleaned as best as managed, knuckles bruised, split where aged scar tissue was battered back into gashing). The stark size of his hand against your soft underbellyâ the way his thumb to his pinky, the shape, sits so perfectly between the verges of your pelvic bone, pressing you flat to the sheetsâ only makes you squirm more.
âEasy,â Harry purrs. Easy, girlâ a luring croon in a dominion-rich tone that makes every atom in your body sing. If the fire rippling across your circuitry wasnât drawing you into a delirium, surely youâd wear a frown at the smile over his mouthâ the mocking.Â
Even still, you think, itâd falter at the way he ducks his chin to stipple kisses to your mons, the faint dusting of curling hair there, eyes flickering up. The electric charge in his soft-spoken echo (instruction, gentle), âEasy, baby.â The, âIâll take care of you, sweetheart.â His thumb prying you open, eyes winding, that clots your lungs.
You expected this man to be a liquefied charge (dark eyes, pupils eating at the irises with each whiff he took of you, even in the flimsy sanctity of a public bar)â all directive, a taunt to your green ambitions (eager, wet behind the ears, he nearly told youâ donât buy me a drink, donât wheedle in). But you never expected him to make you beg.Â
âTell me what you want,â still rings in your ears when Harry peels you apart with his thumbs, gaze downcast, pink tongue behind the seal of his lips.Â
You whimper. Like this, you feel like your skull is clogged by cotton. Clotted up, dumb, fucked dumb on the fingers he stuffed into your weeping seamâ longer, bugger than your own,, stretching you taut with three in preparation (you canât fathom the way his cock will bludgeon into you). And with his thumbs prying your lips apart, the way he bares your dripping slit and your clit, makes you feel like youâre drowning. Muzzy. Addled under the way he puckers his lips and blowsâ
The whimper suffusing from the back of your throat stutters into a pitiful staccato. A brooding sob in the making that he rights by smearing his thumb against your clit, digging his fingers into the smattering of wiry curls over it (a wave of pleasure-pain ripples up the knobs of your spine, and you arch, mewling).Â
âYouâre a big girl,â he reasons, encouragesâ no, a searing mandate off his tongue that makes something rattle in your chest, âYou can use your words.âÂ
âYour cock,â you murmur. Whine. It doesnât sound like you in your earsâ just some whittled version of youâ when you paw at the sheets, dig the tips of your fingers in. âWant your cock.âÂ
âWant my cock?â Harry purrs, a miming of your desperation refurbished into something stronger, and ducks forward to drag his tongue, featherlight, along your clit.Â
At the pleasure that speckles along every nerve-ending, you crane your neck. Arch off the bed, windborne in the storm tearing up your resolveâ
âIs that all you want?â he beckons and tucks your clit between his lips.Â
By the time he finally, finally gives you what you need, feeding the unsatiated appetite that claws at your insides, youâre a sloppy mess.Â
A broken shell of the woman you were, fever under your collar, when you ambled past his doorway. All mottled in nips across the landscape of your thighs, the plush there smarting from the scrape of his teethâ never quite breaking skinâ pulled apart into cumming, again and again. On his fingers, against his tongue, drenching his chin in tacky slick that you taste when he kisses you again.Â
Heâs thick. Fat in his palm, wrist twisting over his cockhead, where he blurts a glob of precumâ a rivulet he smears into his own skin, throbbing in the seal it peeks through, and the sight makes spit puddle under your tongue.Â
Your thighs split wider off instinct. It makes his mouth quirk.Â
He pulls you off the sheets by your nape, lets you clamber onto your knees and paw at his cock (basal instinct, hands working blindlyâ and something inside of your lurches at the shape of it between your fingers).Â
By the time youâre hovering over his lap, his cock aimed up to the rim of your cunt, the only thing lapsing a sensible hesitancy is your heat. The char in your underbelly, the charcoal in his gaze when he steers you over him with a hand at your hip.Â
Sinking on his cock isnât a smooth maneuver. It doesnât come with an inherent ease, despite the slick thatâs begun to pool in the smattering of dark, curly hair over the root, trickling down the insides of your thighs. The mushroomed ridges of his cockhead nudge your slit taut, stretch, probe, and even stillâ
When his tip finally pries its way into you, the stretch stings. Your thighs quakeâ a soft gasp tears its way out from between your teeth, and he centers your wobbling frame with his hands against the cinching of your waist, jaw clenched.Â
You feel the way his cock throbs, even only seated on the tip.Â
And by the time youâve seated yourself on the thick of him, soaking in the achy stretch, the too-full way he stuffs you, plugs you up, heâs all gritting sounds. Battered, roily growls that nip at you, grunts when he shifts, pulses against your spongy walls squeezing at him.Â
You crane your neck, hands braced back on the muscly firmness of his thighs, let him cradle you by the throat and steer you back.Â
âI want you to ride,â Harry ordersâ an edict that globs in the cotton stuffing your brainâ your lips wobble, you grindâ
âWant youââ Harry instructs, coaxing you up by the flesh of your ass in his handful, pulling you back (it causes a high sound to spill from your mouth), âto bounce on my cock. Can you do that for me?â
Despite the gentle note to his request (command, you know it to be), itâs direction. Dictates in the way he pulls your arms over his shoulders, lets you squeeze at his deltoids and brace.Â
Slowly, you inch up on your haunches, on his lap, and roll back. The heat simmering under your skin has no repose, and the way his head cudgels some unfathomably deep, sensitive, soft spot inside of you with the motion plants crescents into his skin in the shape of your nails.
Itâs pure bliss. Liquid, hot, cinders in your belly, a fire that spumes from his gaze when he watches you, muted aside from the muzzled grunts you pry from his lips with the way your hips sway. You chase the noises you can pry. Bear down and clench. Good omega, best omega, need to beâ
And the stretch is kerosene along your skin, under it. The angle, when you tilt back and brace back against his thighs to give him the sordid view of your pussy swallowing his cock, feeds that itch to be good. It lobs into that spot inside, again and again, and feels like liquified Nirvana along your baby-blue veins. Your DNA unravelingâ your meager resolve disentangling into mere pieces, parts, fractures, at his whim. To be resculpted. Remade, into something new. Better.Â
It starts to ache. Burns along your quadriceps, your knees. The straining sinew at the insides of your thighs. You gnaw into your lip, and rock over him. You donât complain, because you need to please, despite the sting in your tired muscles, your panging plica.Â
He cradles you by the hips, eventually. Must sense the sour tang of your threadbare desperation that perfumes the air between you, rolling off in waves as you bounce, the way you resort to little grinds to the root that stab up behind your navel. That is, if the way you whine, lachrymose eyes shrouded under your lashes, isnât enough.Â
âAlright,â he placates, and flexes his hips up. Itâs enough to straighten your spine. Make your burning thighs thawâ you wobble on your shins, and he presses his hands into your hips, splays his fingers against the plush of your ass and rocks you forward, back. âAlright. Youâre a good girl. Good, little omega.â
The praise, finally, makes your chest spill. Full. Full, everywhereâ want, needâ
He fixes your arms back onto the breadth of his shoulders. Huffs against your lips, coaxes you to sit up, andâ
When he knocks his hips up and jars that spot inside of you again, a shudder wracks your shoulders. His breath sticks to the back of his throat. Seeps as a hungry click.
âYeah?â Harry grunts. âThere?â
So he does it again. And again, and again. He takes, and takes, and takes. And you give. Give, and want, hips pinned by the way he pummels up into you. Plunging, slick, the wet squelch of his base meeting your cunt ringing in your ears, drawing you taut, ecstasy searing along your spine.Â
âGood, little omega,â he purrs againâ a moniker you steal off his teeth and lock behind your ribsâ grunting when he pumps up into you, harder, harder, palm latched over your jaw.
Holding his gaze feels like a form of cruel, raw overstimulation, but youâve no other choice when he hammers up into you and pries your mouth on a silent cry.
âSweet, little thing. Takinâ me so well.â
And the want (urge, need) rolls in your guts the harder he stabs up. Youâ need to fix, and keep, and heâ
âClaim me,â you whine, eyes shedding their dew, sparkling like live coal seated in your skull. Your lips wobble. âClaim me.â
The coaxâ whether itâs the statement itself, the quivering note in your voice, or the mixtureâ burnishes something feral across his gaze.Â
(Wild forest, you chase it.)
It knots along his brow bone, settles in the unsmiling edges of his lips, in the way he pulls you closer, like he wants to mesh skinâ
You whimper. His hips slow into a gentle rock (the rolling tide).
âShh,â he smudges his thumb across your mouth (the parted seam, knocks against the flat of a tooth), then migrates, wet, to the sensitive little stretch of skin between your chin and your lower lip when you rock over his lap.Â
(Donât startâ)
But you donât let it settle. Chase it, chase it, brows notched, heart hammeringâÂ
And you bait. Lure. Craning your chin, making his thumb slip. Bare your throat to him. An unignorable bait, given the circumstances.
He bites.
Your methodical formula resonates as a sharp resolve that shimmers in his eyesâ byproduct of a keen, a whisper, melting into the ridges of his teeth with your mouth, your lashes fluttering; âPlease, pleaseâ Harryâ yours, wanna be.âÂ
And Harry finally, finally nips. His tongue laves over your throat, your frantic pulsepoint, and then his teeth notch. Bite. It breaks the skin. Spills a rapture like no other inside of you. Frothingâ the milk-white of Heavenâs towering gate stretching wide open, searing in your muscles. You freeze in the limbo between a euphoria that staggers across every synapse, reanimating the unwound coils of your DNA, and thisâ hereâ perfect momentâ
A burning fever that your heat doesnât contend.Â
Thereâs blood along his teeth. His full, pink mouth stained rubescent with it when he makes a mangled, gritty soundâ a blurry vista of pink, cerise, and skin that you canât quite make out from beneath the sheen that glazes your eyes.Â
And then itâs his knot, plugging you full. Stretching your rim taut, wider to encompass him (this part of him, all for you), and your body bends to his will (you, all for him, his). Pumping you full of heat, ribbon after ribbon, locking you in place to slump in his lap with half-mast eyes. You press your cheek into the sweat that coats his pectorals. Bask in the smog.Â
With your ear against his chestâ the even thud that sways you back into haven of that lingering comatoseâ you recognize that he didnât use the kind of demand thatâd cudgel the foundation of your autonomy (order, stringent decree with no room to disobey). The cadence of an alpha, that youâ your pieces, scattered in the agonyâ wouldnât hesitate to bow to.Â
Not once, not until he instructed that you stay still in the aftermath. Only looking out for your best interestsâ altruistâ
You take a deep breath. You never learn, and you wear the shape of his dog teeth in a serrated wound against your throat. Like the same, bloodstained, ratty collar youâve been carrying for the friendly stray, wound onto you, instead.
The one-bath has a tub.Â
You wouldnât expect to find anything more than a free standing shower behind the door, but he sits you down into a bathtub.Â
Itâs nearly concerning how unused it seems. Unblemished, lily white porcelain where youâd anticipate, maybe, rings of gunge staining the walls. Gritty sand against your tailbone. Streaks of dirt run-off to the drain, beneath you.
Itâs clean. He cleans it; the melange of chemicals under the sink, beside the bottle of suds he takes out, feels like an anomaly, and you tuck the detail onto the shelf where youâve been harboring his fractures like an incomplete collection of puzzle pieces.
You wouldnât expect a man who reeks of sex and omens, a man who's got demons under his skin that ripple in eskers (waiting to burst, buzzing in his shoulders), to have a soft touch about him.Â
To cradle you in his hands like youâre this gentle, breakable thing. A little butterfly cupped in his hands. He holds you by your arms with his long, rough fingers, and sidles you back against him as the foamy water sways. The stark contrast (like bleeding watercolor from one contrasting hue to another) almost feels unfitting.Â
With every broken piece youâve picked up, the bridge youâve built feels brittle, suturing land masses (one to the otherâthis), with wicker. If you were less intoxicated by his peppery musk and the lavender-scented soap lapping at your skin, youâd worry more about the overpass crumbling under you.Â
You trace your thumb around the split gashes between his knuckles, the paper-thin nicks across the bones. Remember what he did only a few, short hours prior in that wet alleyway. That this is the same man that watched you from the other end of the glass like a hungry dog. Practically warned you, for weeksâ subtle, omen hardly over a gentle, brassy whisper, thick with liquor and wantâ to just stay away.Â
Donât start with me, sweetheart.
Then, it felt like calling his bluff. An aphrodisiac in the pools of his eyes, shimmering in the gloam. Glinting like a shard of glass in the water. A tease.Â
An empty threat you chased, wanted to pick apart in your fingers; those broken pieces you were collecting in your pocket.
But youâll see it for what it is, now, firsthand.Â
Youâll stare at it in the mirror. Find the hollows of his teeth, punctured and maimed like a grotesque love declaration (and it is, just that), and later, the soft, lighter patches of scars, as it heals, never quite all the way.Â
Despite the nonchalance, the way he didnât jump at the opportunity to tail your breadcrumbs to the stoop, heâs a man that follows through on his word. The unspoken promise stings at your neck, radiates down your shoulder when you turn your cheek against his prickly scruff.
The headspace is still a blur of sentiments youâll have to sift through later. But you crane your neck back against his shoulder and feel the rumble of his lungs behind you. The even thump of his heart humming between your shoulder blades, and he kisses the corner of your eye when you tuck into him. In a way, you feel like youâre drowning. Youâve bit off more than you can chew again, and youâre just forced to swallow.
But youâve never felt more at peace.Â
The sense of belongingâ you, you to him, him to you, himâ in every sense of the word. And you know itâs the incipient, honey-sweet burgeons of a bond spitting into the flood of serotonin, dopamine. Syrup-slick, and cloyingâ the sentiments of a fresh, ancient mating mechanism. All down to the cut and dried, evolutionary phenomena born off your biological, ancestral branches.Â
But it feelsâ so much more. Like youâre whole.Â
Your heart feels like itâs wobbling in its cage. Bursting.Â
âShush,â Harry murmurs, like he feels it. Like he can smell itâ the desperate, overwhelming zeal perfuming the airâ because he probably can. He tucks a strand of hair behind your ear, off your sweaty forehead, and presses his mouth to your ear when he tells you, âJust stay like this, hm? Just like this. Iâve got you.â
Every muscle burns, every limb feels like the flowering border of a splotchy bruise. You know why. Contemplating still feels like wading a wetland (maybe worse, now), but you know you started purring somewhere along his knot softening up, so he fucked you again. And again. And again, until you were stupid and pliant on his cock, scraping red lines across his chest and stifling yowls behind your teeth.Â
(He tucked your head to the side, pinned your temple to the sheets, and stared down at the bite, tar-like pupils swallowing the bands of the woods. Stifled his gruff swear against your throat when he stuck his tongue out and slid it over the wound.)
Itâs somewhere in the middle of the night, now. Your internal clock feels shot. You take a deep breath, smell his notes between the foam (feel his coarse stubble against your temple)â
It feels white-hot all over, under your skin, and you know part of it is because every breath you take is another wave of humidity sticking to your lungs. That youâre cocooned in hot water, in his arms, in a room that feels stuffy enough to make your insides sweat.Â
His hand settles across your tummy, beneath the water, and the soap bares a polynya wide enough to see. When you peekâ
His hand is huge. Enormous. You know. You knew, but the reminder, seeing it in live action against a backdrop thatâs not speckled with sex and primordial hunger that clouds the detailsâ
Itâll probably rock you harder when youâre more sober. Less⌠vulnerable. Light-headed.
Itâs an innocent motion. Meant to comfort. Pull you close, those same seedlings of an inexplicable compulsion (possess, protect) spilling in his bloodstream the same way your own urges do.Â
And despite that, the first thing it makes you think of is the way that hand had cupped over your pussy. The heel of his palm to your mons, pressed tight to the hood of your clit, his middle and ring fingers crooking so the tips could massage at your slick, spent rim after the first round. Finger-fuck the cum he spilled back in. It swallowed you whole. Pried your thighs apart.Â
A wicked heat ripples across the space under his hand. You hear Harry sniff, his chin still tucked to you, tip of his nose still in your hair. Your lashes flutter.Â
That heat froths when he makes a sound behind you, rattling your bones, the stagnant water, and takes your cartilage between his teeth. You roll your head back.Â
âTrying to have another go, are you?â he coos, blunts of his teeth still lodged over the shell of your ear. His voice is thick. Hot.Â
Thereâs enough space between your arching spine and his front to evade the fat shape of his cock hardening, but youâre sure that if you scooted back far enoughâ
The water nearly sloshes over the lip of the basin when he lugs you back. The sound that comes out of you is unrecognizable to your own ears. With one hand against your tummy, swelling on every breath, and the other arm wrapped (constricting) around your shoulders, the space between, fingers notched around your arm, you feel wholly coddled. Swaddled in muscle. Thereâs a dangerous comfort you find in the lack of escape.Â
His teeth arenât locked over you anymore, but he presses his cheek to your wet hair (where heâd swiped his wet hand to brush it back), and taunts, âIâm trying taking care of you, and youâre being slutty. Are you a slutty omega?â
If you werenât drunk on the fumes, didnât smell the indisputable sharpness of a heady interest off him (if you didnât feel his cock at half mast against the small of your back), the words would score you. Stab. Hurt.
But you do. And they donât. You whimper.
âYouâre a greedy slut?â he asks again, but his tone is light. Airy. Feels like heâs mocking you andâ
You wriggle. Itch, under his unyielding embrace. The water ripples.Â
When he tells you, easyâ easy, sweetheart, (the croon for a wild animal), it feels like an echo of the same instruction he gave earlier. Only now, itâs less charred. Softer (less of a purr from the maw of a starving beast, and more of a redirection). He hesitates. You like the game, the cat and mouse, the dog and dog, but you sense the apprehensionâ the way he hadnât anticipated youâd spool so tightâ before he says the words.
âIâm taking care of you,â Harry tells you, holding you close, resolute (despite the way you can feel him, thick and heavy, between the dimples at the base of your spine, and you frown).Â
Itâs a denial. An unbending bulwark in resolve, cut in the flesh of a man that tore your throat open with his teeth and fucked you so deep that phosphenes erupted behind your quivering eyelids. You arch your back, as little as you can, and he tucks his chin over your shoulder.Â
âAnd youâre going to be a good omega for me, and let me do that. Arenât you?â
The words feel like a treacle seeping across your porous bones. They make you stiff. Then, liquified. Malleable. Obedient. The crash of an alphaâs lilt feels like the sea pulling you out. Your lashes flutter again. The plume of humid air kissing your skin feels as tacky as his voice along your eardrums. He noses along your temple and hums.Â
The words are murmured against the crest of your cheek, and they donât feel heavy, but you crumble under the undeniable order that seams them together. âWhen I ask you a question, I expect an answer.â
It makes your spine straighten out. You swallow. You havenât formed any words around the nooks of your mouth besides please and yes in hoursâ in what feels like daysâ and your tongue feels like itâs caught on the roof. Useless.Â
âYes,â you tell him, and it sounds weak. So brittle, like that bridge between nuances, and it hits you that youâre tired. Youâre so tired.
Youâre worn, and sapped, and every atom feels like itâs smarting. You feel like youâd splinter if he tried to tuck the rigid head of his cock back into you again right now. And you wonder if itâs the bond that has him sensing your limits before youâre even aware, or a blind alignment of his character.   Â
âJust relax, mm?â Harry coos, and lathers a coat of warm foam across your shoulder, âItâs time to relax.âÂ
It feels like the kind of redirection given to a kid, and youâd be embarrassed by the way it soothes you if the soporific lull of bliss wasnât swaying you out from land. And itâs so gentle, and soft, and out of character to what youâve gathered that itâs nearly uneasy. Wrong. You tell yourself itâs the bond. Itâs the bond.Â
The bond. When your heat ebbs and youâre not swaddled in his scent, youâll think back on your choices in an uncomfortable hysteria.Â
You donât know this man. Not even how old he is, not anything besides his name and the name of his drink, because you chased, and chased, and never listened, and now, youâre his mateâ
(Untethered infinity, a collar in the shape of teeth and shared blood, feels like itâs searing when he draws a wet finger around it.)Â
But it feels weightless. He shushes you again and lathers the other shoulder until you feel the roots of a contusion crackle and burst.Â
And your collection finally, finally feels complete.















