Endless (Clarity Coast Omegaverse Book 1)

Cade’s hoodie and a set of boy shorts weren’t something I was in the habit of wearing around, but what the hell. I lived here now, and I wanted to be comfy and surrounded by scents I loved.

I wasn’t loopy anymore. Just relaxed. Staring into the flickering flames of a fire pit I hadn’t noticed when I was outside yesterday. Tucked into a camping chair, the sea breeze ruffled my hair as the sun began to set. This was…

Well, it was perfect. I couldn’t quite wrap my head around it, or what Ellie said yesterday. The guys had cooked dinner, and I was pleasantly content. They talked about s’mores, but I would be happy just sitting here forever.

“I have a question,” I announced.

Joel chuckled. “Hopefully we’ll have an answer.”

“Why did you pick St. James for a pack name?” I looked over at Rowan. “You have some kind of secret superpower I don’t know about?”

“No.” He smirked. “Honestly we just tried all our names, and we liked that one the best. We didn’t want to pick something that wasn’t one of our names. It didn’t feel right.”

I nodded. “Fair. I do like it, I was just curious.”

“As the pack’s newest member, I’m glad you like it. And I hope you like these too.” Rowan put a box on my lap. “These are the special ones.”

I grinned up at him and flipped open the lid, eyeing the little chocolate seashells. “Oooh, they’re pretty. And how long do these take to kick in?”

“You won’t feel a thing for at least two hours.”

“Perfect.” I popped one in my mouth that looked like a nautilus shell before giving him the box back. If I kept it, I would want more of his delicious chocolate. But if I ate more of these I would be so high I wouldn’t know up from down. One was enough.

The door behind us shut loudly. “Baby girl, have I got something for you.”

I tipped my face up to Hawk’s as he appeared at my side. “Oh?”

Not saying a word, he handed me his phone, the screen already open to⁠—

My whole body froze. It was me. In that first photo Janet had shown me. Back arched, eyes heated because I was watching Hawk watch me. It had been edited, the colors tweaked, an added softness overlaying the picture.

I scrolled through them, unable to believe I was the woman in the pictures. Because she was hot. When I got to the pictures of me and Hawk, perfume exploded outward around me. His smile while I curled around him on the end of the bed. The way he looked at the camera with such fucking sureness. Him knowing and being sure about me was written in every single frame.

The photos of us—tastefully—naked nearly put me on the floor. Hawk had an incredible ass, and I looked so taken with him…

And he’d told me even though I didn’t understand it yet. About Alphas wanting to practice giving me orgasms. About taking pictures with everyone together. Exactly what he’d told me. No lies, and he’d already decided.

Hawk kissed below my ear. “You’re fucking beautiful, you know that?”

“It barely looks like me. They’re incredible.”

“They look exactly like you. I’m gonna have some printed for the house.”

My jaw dropped. “We can’t hang those.”

“We absolutely can. And when we do the next photoshoot with everyone, we’ll make sure you have at least one picture with everyone.”

Rowan raised an eyebrow, gaze bouncing between us. “Do we get to see?”

“I already sent the link to the gallery to the group chat. The new one.”

I frowned. “New one?”

One side of his mouth pulled up into a grin. He pulled my phone out of his back pocket—must have found it wherever I left it—and handed it to me. “The new one with you in it, baby girl.”

“Oh.” I took the phone from him slowly. The little things were the ones that made this real. A group chat. For our pack.

The rest of the guys already had their phones out, looking at the photos wide eyed and with more than one obvious erection. But Hawk knelt in front of me and made me set my phone down before he took my hands.

His expression gave me butterflies, but I also couldn’t tell what he would do, so I cleared my throat. “Is this the part where you tell me you’re about to throw me over the cliff to my death?”

“No.” He laughed. “Not off a cliff, and definitely not to your death. But I’m going to say something and it might freak you out.”

“Then don’t say it.”

Hawk squeezed my hands. “I have to. Because I’ve been wanting to say it for days, and it’s going to kill me if I don’t.”

My stomach twisted with nerves. “Okay.”

He leaned forward and tugged me closer, voice quiet so it was just for us. “I love you. Am in love with you. You already know we want you, and I hope that it goes without saying that we love you. Cade already told you as much. But I need you to hear me say it. More than one of us has been waiting.”

Mind starting to spin, he didn’t let me think.

“And before that gorgeous mind of yours has time to come up with reasons for it not to be true, give me a chance to calm those fears. You are my Omega. Biology paired us together. But biology can’t force love on people. It can help it go faster,” he grinned. “But it’s not as simple as that. You’re beautiful. You’re kind. You care so deeply about the people in your life that you’ll put them first in almost everything. I haven’t known you for long, and there’s not a single thing about you that makes me hesitate or question. I am fucking in love with you, and I am with you. End of story.”

Tears blurred the world in front of me faster than I could blink them back. I fumbled, reaching for him and needing him closer than he was. I couldn’t see through my tears, but my lips found his anyway. Every single thing I felt but was terrified to say, I poured into the kiss. My soul was still damaged from the last time I let someone love it, but I felt the love from these men. All of them, even if they hadn’t all said it yet, and neither had I.

Hawk pulled back, barely, lips still pressed against mine. “Do you believe me, baby girl?”

I nodded, still not finished kissing him.

But he moved out of reach, showing me what I hadn’t noticed. The rest of them—my pack, my Alphas and my Beta—had converged while I was wrapped up in kisses and confessions.

Vaughn tugged me up out of my seat, phone falling by the wayside, and into his arms. “Hawk stole my thunder. I was gonna make you a s’more and tell you I loved you more than chocolate. But this will work too. I love you, sweetheart. I love you, and I’m not taking it back.” He laughed, and I laughed with him. “And I’m going to teach you how to swim. My heart couldn’t take it if you got swept away.”

Choking on a laugh, I buried my face in his chest. “Only swept away by you?”

“Only by us.”

Vaughn spun me away from him and into Rowan’s waiting arms. The height difference between us made it nearly comical to stand side by side. Especially when I wasn’t wearing heels, but the way he enveloped me felt safe. The way he held space for me to surrender made me feel protected. And everything else made me feel loved.

He smiled gently. “Do I need to make a speech, little flower? Because I will.”

I shook my head. “Not a speech, no.”

Rowan wasn’t silent, but he was quieter than the rest of them. His words were always intentional. I didn’t need words on words on words—I only wanted the ones he needed to give me.

Taking one hand, the other falling to the small of my back, Rowan held me as if we danced. “You’re it for me, little flower,” he bent down to whisper. “And I’ll always be the place you can come to when you need to let go. I’ll never let you fall.”

“You guys are going to make me have a swollen face for tomorrow’s rehearsal dinner,” I sobbed into his shirt.

Rowan’s purr roared to life inside his chest, soothing all my worries and every tense bone I had in my body. It was too much, and yet, it was everything I’d ever wanted.

Hands drifted up my arms, and Rowan released me to melt back into the scent of bourbon cooled with the freshness of cardamom. He was a drink I wanted to down over and over again.

He fully wrapped himself around me, burying his face in my hair. “You are my priority, Isolde.”

I gasped, realizing what he’d said the other day. He’d told me he loved me without me knowing. They all had, in their own way.

“I love you too,” I managed. “All of you.”

How could I not? Everything they said about me was the same way I felt about them. They smoothed out the hard edges of my scars and filled in the empty spaces I’d never noticed. They cared for me effortlessly, and when I was with them, it was easier to breathe.

I was never going to change my mind.

The thought clanged through me like a silent bell.

I was never going to change my mind.

Ellie’s words rang through me, winding their way down into my heart. We knew. Did we have to wait?

Using the sleeves on Cade’s hoodie, I dried my eyes. He watched me carefully. They all did.

“What’s that look on your face, princess?”

Vaughn laughed. “I didn’t think your scent could get any sweeter, and you just proved me wrong.”

Swallowing, I looked around at all of them. I was nervous. Not about the result, but whether they’d want this so soon. “I think I’m ready to jump.”

Joel rocked me back and forth where he still held me. “What do you mean?”

“When Ellie brought me out here yesterday, she told me she was okay with whatever happened. No matter what. Even if we wanted to make things permanent. She wouldn’t think I was stealing her thunder or anything.”

The air went breathless and tight between the six of us, nothing but the rustle of the breeze and the low crackle of the fire.

They all stared in awe, but the silence was too much, so I kept going. “If you don’t want to do it so quickly, I get that. We can do a big ceremony with it if you want. Or we can do it now with a ceremony later. I just know I’m not going to change my mind and I don’t want to wait to feel you simply because some people might think it’s too fast.”

Hawk came to me so quickly he nearly stumbled, cupping my face and kissing me. He was purring. The air was suddenly filled with it. “I’ve never wanted anything more in my life,” he said, pulling the hoodie over my head and glancing at me. “Do you want to go to the nest, or?”

I laughed, suddenly in the middle of a tangle of limbs as they touched me. Hugged me. Kissed me. The hoodie I’d been wearing ended up spread on the ground, a makeshift blanket of all our clothes.

“We’ll do whatever you want, sweetheart.” Vaughn rolled himself over me. “Ceremony. No ceremony. A ceremony every fucking weekend. But I’m not letting another day go by without you being mine.” He searched my face. “Are you sure?”

“I’m sure.”

His smile took my breath away. “Then we’re going to bite you first, fuck you after, and I don’t know if we’ll ever want to stop.”

“That’s the whole point, right?” I smirked. “Forever?”

“Forever,” he agreed. His mouth dropped to my skin, lips skating along my collarbone to the edge of my shoulder. I didn’t have time to wonder what it would feel like. Vaughn bit down, and the pain made me arch, and then it was nothing because I was drowning in Vaughn. His wild playfulness and the dark, feral part of him that liked to chase and take. The love he spoke to me rang true, and more than anything else, feeling that told me this was right.

Perfect.

“Woah.”

Vaughn’s pupils were blown wide where he looked at me. “That’s about the only word there is, huh?”

“Yeah.”

Cade was in my line of vision. I reached for his hand and pulled him toward me. My gut knew he needed to be next—needed him to know he wasn’t going to be last because he was a Beta. He wasn’t a fucking afterthought. “Where?”

One hand came up to cradle my face, and I leaned into his touch. “Where what?”

“Where do you want me to bite you?”

He pulled my face to his with deliberate intention, taking my lips in a sinful kiss that had heat dropping through me and showed me exactly what I was in for later. “I’ll wear your bite with pride no matter where you choose to put it, princess. I’m yours.”

“Do you care if it shows?”

“I’d love that, actually.”

I didn’t second guess. My instinct drove me, and I bit where his neck met his shoulder, our bond springing into existence in the same way Vaughn’s and mine had. But Cade felt different. He felt like him. Steady and controlled, and so deep I shuddered to feel all of him. The way he looked at me. Saw me. Loved me. I knew this was a moment where it was okay. “I love you, Sir.”

Cade’s eyes flared. Not with anger, but with desire. I felt how the words hit him and how they struck true. This wasn’t a joke and it wasn’t teasing. I loved the very heart of him.

He kissed me one more time. “Go get bitten by your other Alphas before I go get some rope to tie you down with.”

I didn’t have to go far. Hawk’s arm circled my waist, pulling me back against him. “Any preference, baby girl?”

“No.” All I wanted was him.

Teeth pierced my neck, nearly identical to where I’d bitten Cade. Hawk’s sweetness filled my chest—settled next to the others. His teasing and the way he cared. The way he liked to watch me. Not only during sex, he liked me in his sights because I made him happy. He loved me. Holy shit. It was all so much.

How didn’t I know?

“Because you weren’t looking,” he whispered quietly. “Now you never have to.”

It was Joel’s turn, hair bright as a flame in the dying sunlight. “I think part of me knew.” He caught a stray piece of my hair flying in the wind. “When I answered the phone that night. People have found us before, and I never kept talking. Always hung up. With you, I couldn’t. Some part of me knew you were ours before we even met you, Isolde. I felt with everything in me, that if I hung up the phone, I’d regret it forever. I’m so glad I was right.”

“Me too.”

My Alpha gave me a mark matching Vaughn’s on my other shoulder. The easy, breathless comfort of him snapped into place through our bond. The Alpha who liked to fuck my body into pleasure when I couldn’t even feel it, and make sure I was cared for no matter what. He kissed my forehead, and I got teary all over again.

The only one left was Rowan. He had me on my back in a second, body covering mine, giving me his warmth and his strength. “You’re mine,” he murmured against my lips. “Body and soul.”

“And you’re mine.”

Rowan’s bite was the twin to Hawk’s on the other side of my neck. The power sinking through me into our connection stole what little I had left. There was no question of surrendering to him because he hadn’t lied. He would never let me fall. It simply wasn’t an option.

“Rowan.”

“Hold on, little flower. We’re about to show you everything.”

Knocking my legs apart, he sank into me in one stroke. His pleasure echoed in me and mine echoed back, and oh fuck this would change everything. I was already climbing to the impossible peak of pleasure, and it would only get easier. Not just because they wanted to practice with me and shower me with orgasms like rain, but they could feel what I felt and what got me closer.

My first orgasm blew through me like a golden wave, and it wasn’t the last. They didn’t knot me, not able to wait for them to go down fast enough to suit them.

It didn’t matter. Our pack was a tangle of pleasure. I tasted every one of them, got filled up over and over, was taken to the edge and over more times than I remembered ever being able to while not in heat.

We disappeared into each other, and by the time we were nearly finished, spent, panting, and satisfied, the sun had set, and I was floating for another reason too. Rowan’s chocolate had me floating delightfully, and nothing in the world could be bad right now.

I was knotted on Joel’s cock, sprawled on his chest, and Hawk was behind me, not quite finished. Joel turned to the side to help him as he fucked me, hand finding my clit, working it the way he could now feel drove me crazy. “One more, baby girl. Give me one more.”

Exhaustion ran heavy in my veins. I whined before I spoke. “I don’t know if I can.”

“You can.” He breathed the words into my neck. “Come on our cocks like the good girl you are.”

Hawk licked over his mark on my neck, sending a new wave of heat rolling through me and carrying me with it. I writhed between them, my voice locked away behind the force of everything.

Groaning into my neck, Hawk came with me, knotting my ass. I moaned, the feeling of two knots still too much and just enough. Someone’s hand stroked my ankle, reminding me we were all here. Tangled together. I felt all of them in me now, and nothing had ever been more right.

The fire still burned, and I drew patterns on Joel’s skin with my fingers. My mind was high and drifty. “Can we have a fire on the beach?” I asked. “I’ve always wanted to.”

“We absolutely can.”

I wasn’t even sure who said it, and I didn’t care.

Tomorrow was going to be a hell of a day. I giggled, thinking about the chaos this would cause. Everyone who mattered wouldn’t care, and those who might weren’t worth my time.

They felt the direction of my thoughts. Hawk rolled over from behind me and kissed my spine. The smile in his voice was obvious. “So who’s going to tell Beau?”

“Oh, I’m going to tell him,” I said, smiling at my plan. “And I won’t have to say a fucking word.”