Omega (Alpha & Omega #1)

{Chapter Twenty Five}

"If you do not tell us to leave," Keon warned, "you are not allowed to regret what happens."

I shivered. I had a choice, and of course I wouldn't regret whatever I chose. They always gave me that choice, and I'd always told them to go. They listened every time. They'd listen if I told them to go now too.

But I didn't. For some reason, I remained silent.

"Phoenix." Cayson's voice was strained. "Please."

Please what? Tell them to go? Tell them to get out of that shower and leave? Or did they want me to stay silent? To allow them to do as they wished?

I chewed on my bottom lip.

Keon touched my spine with his index finger and bent down. "Three."

I turned my head to see his expression. He looked pained also, like even counting down and giving me the option to go was hurting him.

"Two."

I raised an eyebrow.

"Phoenix." The warning came from Cayson.

I didn't move.

"One." Keon narrowed his glowing green eyes.

They gave me a few more silent seconds where they waited for the countdown to sink in. Then...

"Go to the bed," Cayson said.

"I'll get your sheets wet," I said.

Keon smirked, but didn't say anything. Cayson raised an eyebrow, waiting for me to listen to his instructions.

I sighed and turned, exiting the shower and leaving the bathroom without looking back.

I wondered what the hell I thought I was doing, but stamped down any more thoughts. Thinking was making me nervous, and I was already shaking enough as it was without adding more nerves to the mix.

I shook out water from my hair, and by the time I wiped off the mass majority of water from my body, the bathroom door opened.

I turned.

They both stood in the doorway, eyes slightly narrowed. They had towels around their hips, hanging low enough for me to make out the majority of the muscle in the shape of a V.

The bedroom light was off, and the light behind the two of them put most of their front in shadow. Except for the glowing eyes of two predators staring down their prey.

Cayson moved first, leaving Keon at the door. He reached me in five strides and pressed his hot body up against mine. His hand moved around me, grasped one of my ass cheeks, and he pulled my groin to his.

His body was hard, and he was either holstering some huge weapon under that towel or he was incredibly turned on.

I hadn't looked at them fully in the bathroom. I kept my eyes forward or up, never looking down their bodies.

He licked the sensitive area of my neck where my pulse beat triple the times it did normally. When my hands flew up to his shoulders, he nipped at it and my knees went weak.

His free hand moved up my body, leaving goosebumps on my flesh as it went. Gentle hands tangled in my hair and pulled my head back, and he ran his tongue slowly - so, so slowly - up my throat to my jaw.

I let out a breath I hadn't realized I'd been holding.

Keon was suddenly beside me, and Cayson turned me in his arms to face his brother. He moved my arms behind me and grasped both wrists in one hand as his other moved up to wrap around my throat.