I helped him get my bra off, but he didn’t pull back immediately just to look at me. He took his time, kissing my neck and shoulder before seeing my breasts, and I loved the look in his eyes.

Leaning down, he brushed his mouth over the top of one and then the other, groaning as my scent filled the room. It was heat perfume now, and my jeans were soaking wet with slick and arousal. The only thing which was keeping me from falling into the heat this very second was the bone deep knowledge the nest wasn’t ready. Once it was? I was gone.

“Since there are five of us, how do you feel about double penetration?”

“Fuck,” the word was a moan, mind filling with images of me pinned between Avery and someone else, knotted in both places. I was going to spontaneously combust before any of them were inside me. “Good. I feel good about it. Get me in the bath, Avery. I’m coherent enough to tell you if I don’t like something, but if you don’t put me in that water right now I’m going to explode.”

“Yes, ma’am.”

Lifting me off the counter, he stripped off my shoes, socks, jeans, and underwear with quick efficiency and lifted me into the water. I didn’t even have time to think about the fact that I was naked with him, because he was stripping too, and I was staring at the rest of him.

His cock was just as hard as I’d imagined and oh, my, fuck, it was thick. The beginnings of a knot were forming at the base, and all I could see and feel was an inferno. The water in the bath was cool, and it was a damn good thing.

“What are you doing?” I asked as he stepped closer. Pain drove me towards the edge of the bath and toward him. I was so close. “If you get in here with me—”

“You’re okay, baby girl. They’re working fast.” He stepped into the water and sat down behind me, skin on skin, and I nearly fainted. He was warmer than the water, and I couldn’t fucking breathe.

His cock was pressed against my back between us, and I wiggled for it. I need it in me. “Not yet.” The order was firm. “I’m going to help you. And don’t for one second think the others don’t want to be in here. But you’re seconds away from blazing like a phoenix, and one Alpha scent is about as much as you can handle right now.”

“Doesn’t it hurt?” I asked, aiming to make him take me. Every instinct needed this Alpha. “You could take me now. No one would mind, I’m sure. Knot me right here in the bath.”