I was doing that. Oh, I was so fucking doing that.

“You have the right idea, Ry,” Ben said, and I heard a smirk in the words seconds before I felt a hand on my ribs and his mouth close over one nipple.

And the scratch of Avery’s beard was at the other one. The whine which ripped out of me had all the Alphas purring in response. But I still couldn’t move. Couldn’t breathe. Every combination I couldn’t think of had happened in this nest, but nothing with all five of them.

I was a live wire waiting to explode, and it was so much sensation from so many directions, my brain short-circuited and shut off.

Kade’s hand curled under my throat, holding me so he could fuck deeper into my mouth, matching stroke for stroke with Luke, driving into my pussy. The three mouths beneath me, licking and sucking, grazing me with their teeth, I erupted.

There wasn’t one place the orgasm started—it felt like it came from everywhere and didn’t stop. I screamed around Kade’s cock, and the sound made every single one of them intensify. I came apart under lips, teeth, tongue, and cock. It didn’t stop.

This felt like the grand finale of a firework show, where everything was exploding at once and it was so fucking beautiful but you also couldn’t tell what was what.

Kade moaned, the sound setting me off again, another ripple of all that pleasure while my mouth filled with the hot richness of his cum. He wasn’t knotted, but he didn’t pull away, the presence of his cock forcing me to swallow, and god I wanted it.

My body shuddered, hands and legs shaking and weak from all the pleasure. Luke drove himself hard and deep, coming with a shout and knotting himself so deep I wasn’t sure he’d ever get out. Waves upon waves upon waves, and I couldn’t hold myself upright anymore.

Avery moved out of the way so I could collapse, Luke coming with me and holding me to his chest. There was still pleasure, but there was also sudden, sharp clarity and a cooling in my mind.

It had been the grand finale—the orgasm to end all orgasms, and the one to end the heat. It was over. Emotion rushed up so quickly I could barely hold it back. “Can I have a blanket, please?”

Kade handed me one, and I buried my face in it before the tears came. Deep, wracking sobs I couldn’t stop and couldn’t control. But it wasn’t entirely out of the ordinary for the comedown to affect me this way, even when I struggled through my heats by myself.

“Esme?” Luke asked.

I shook my head. “I’m fine.”

“That doesn’t sound fine.”