Claimed For Their Pleasure (Omega Prey #6) - L.V. Lane Page 0,6

lower lip to stifle the sounds as my pussy gushes a flood of stickiness.

Chest heaving, I still. This is the second time that has happened, and I have drenched my nightgown. Heat fills my cheeks. This is assuredly not normal. Maybe something is wrong with me?

I shuffle around, pushing my head out of the covers. I’m tired but also sad, for neither Brandon nor Gage will be mine. How can they be?

Amid these troubling thoughts, I drift into sleep.

CHAPTER TWO

Five years earlier…

Brandon

“I THINK WE should take his pants,” Fen says.

“What? Are you crazy? Why would we take his pants?” I ask, scowling at the lad who has been my best friend my whole life.

Fen is an Alpha, and the younger brother of our clan king.

It is natural for a Beta shifter to find an Alpha to latch. I bonded with Fen when he was but a lad, and I, a pup. I would follow Fen to the ends of the world if he asked me to.

Most often, I follow him into trouble that does not start out with that intent.

I suspect today might be one such day.

We lay in the cover of the thick ferns carpeting the forest floor, scoping out our quarry.

“He stole our fucking buck,” Fen says. “I say we steal his pants… and the buck.”

“How the fuck will we take the buck?” I ask. “It is big and we will not carry it far. Even supposing Gage was not twenty paces away from it.”

Gage.

We have gotten up to mischief with the Alpha from the Lyon clan for as long back as I can remember. Fen is convinced Gage has been poaching deer from our lands. Maybe he has. Maybe he hasn’t. Fen has never let the truth of a matter interrupt his plans for mischief.

Gage is in the stream washing off. His clothing rests on a nearby rock. A short distance away, his horse crops the lush grass. On the forest floor beside the horse is a plump buck and the rest of Gage’s things.

“I’ll bring the horses,” Fen says. “Your wolf can snatch his pants off that rock. He will chase after you. While he chases you, I will take the buck.”

“That is a reasonable plan,” I say. “But if Gage gets a hold of you, he will put a beating on you. After, Jack will beat you again when we get home for causing trouble with their clan.”

“He stole our fucking buck,” Fen repeats.

“Fine,” I say. “I will go and steal his pants. But don’t blame me if this does not go to plan.”

It does not go to plan. Mischief with Fen rarely does.

I shift, I snatch Gage’s pants. The huge Alpha roars and shakes his fist at me, but he does not give chase.

Fen aborts. I run on for a mile or so before catching up with him and the horses.

Dropping Gage’s pants to the floor, I shift.

“That did not go so well,” Fen says.

Shaking my head at him, I grin.

“Do you think he recognized your wolf?” Fen asks as I shuck into my pants.

I pause. “I doubt it. What makes you say that?”

“Nothing,” Fen says too casually for my liking. “Pity about the buck.”

We ride home, and I forget all about Gage and his buck.

“Gage is here,” Fen hisses.

My head snaps around. I am in the Ralston clan hall where a sweet lass is asking me to take her to the barn.

The lass scurries off.

“He was looking pissed when he was talking to Glen,” Fen says.

Glen is second in command to our king, Jack.

Both Jack and Glen have berated the pair of us more times than I can count for our mischief.

“Fuck!” I say. “Do you think Gage will tell Glen that I stole his pants?”

“No,” Fen says. “More likely, he will just thump you.”

My eyes widen as this comment sinks in.

“Mutt!”

I turn, realizing this was a bad idea the moment Gage’s fist connects.

Pain explodes. It feels like my eyeball has exploded in the socket. I stagger a step back before landing on my ass.

“Fuck!” Fen’s voice is ripe with stress.

I squint and blink as an enraged Gage descends upon me. Dragging me from the floor, he punches me again. I only stagger this time before locking my knees.

“Dumb fucking whelp,” Gage growls. “Did it not cross your mind that I might have more than one pair of pants? Did you not think that I might recognize your mangy pelt? Take what is mine again, and I will skin you and use your