"Leo, I can't read, my head is killing me. I need you…"

"Should I bring you something for the pain?"

"I don't need that." A pause. He could hear his heavy breathing. "Are you far? Should I come get you?"

Every alarm in his body fired at once. The alcohol fog cleared.

"Wait..I'm coming. Don't go out, Jad. Please."

"Okay, I'll wait. But hurry, I feel like I'm losing my mind." He heard the gasps over the phone and every hair on the back of his neck stood up.

Part of him said don't go. His mind had already dismissed that option — especially when Jared spoke to him like that.

He sent a quick message to the others — emergency, leaving — and got out.

He got there fast. For a fraction of a second he thought about stopping at a pharmacy for an inhibitor, then remembered ultra-dominants needed prescription-grade ones. He entered the building with steady steps, took the elevator up with his heart slamming against his ribs, palms damp with nerves. When he reached the door and went to enter the code, it opened before he could.

Jared. Wearing only briefs that left nothing to the imagination. The forest scent hit him immediately, stronger than last time.

A hand closed around his wrist and pulled him into a chest that was burning. All that skin, radiating heat. The scent flooded his senses and he had to open his mouth just to breathe. Jared brought his lips to his ear and bit it. Leo shuddered, pushed him inside, got the door closed behind them.

Jared's voice wrapped around him again. Everything about him was hypnotic.

"I was going to come find you but then I felt you." He whispered it against Leo's ear. Leo laughed quietly, nervously.

"How were you going to go out in your underwear?" He had to work to finish the sentence.

Burning lips on his neck. Whatever was left of his common sense was disappearing fast.

He felt the hard press of Jared's erection against his stomach through the thin fabric. Already wet.

"I had to find you…" Jared whispered, covering him completely, pressing him back against the door. "I had to see you again."

Leo's blood ran cold. Jared in rut and he remembered him.

When he eased him back slightly, Jared's eyes were completely eclipsed, dark, blown wide, consuming him. His lips sought Leo's again, no force behind it. Different from the first time. Leo brought his hand down and wrapped it slowly, firmly, around Jared's length watching his face. Jared moaned instantly, hips rolling forward, grinding desperately into that hand. Leo felt a faint tremor move through him. Jared said his name between gasps, buried his nose in Leo's hair as the scent intensified and a warm dampness spread against Leo's palm.

Still stroking him, fighting the wave of want tearing through his body, Leo whispered:

"Jad, who did this to you?"

"You," Jared answered. No hesitation.

Leo's legs nearly gave out.

Jared's hands were already pulling off his clothes, fast, certain. He buried his face in Leo's neck and licked him like someone savoring something — slow, thorough — biting along his skin until he reached his earlobe. His breath burned through Leo's skin and spread through him entirely.

"Here or in bed?" The urgency in his voice was barely contained. He pushed his briefs down and freed himself, hot and slick, while his long fingers slipped inside Leo's underwear and found their way between his thighs.

Leo moaned and chose the bed.

Jared lifted him easily with one arm, fingers still moving inside him, while his other hand fisted in Leo's hair and pulled him into a deep kiss. Leo felt the pressure of his scent flooding every sense, every nerve ending responding. He lost himself in those kisses, in the tongue that explored every corner of his mouth and sucked his own, in his own gasps and moans rising to meet Jared's touch. A delicious tension coiled low and deep, demanding more.

Jared's voice, rough with want:

"I've been dreaming about everything I want to do to you." He moved his fingers in that tight heat and added: "I'm going to take you apart until you're screaming."

Leo would have preferred that to stay metaphorical. It didn't. He tried to object and gave up immediately, overwhelmed by a pleasure so deep it tore a moan out of him. He could barely focus. Every inch of him felt tuned to that tongue — soft and burning. An internal tension made him press for more.

"Ja… Jad… please…"

The blonde didn't make him wait. Leo arched violently. It wasn't enough.

"More… deeper… I need… more…"

Leo heard the wet, obscene sound of it, looked down to find those dark eyes gleaming in the dim room, Jared's face buried between his thighs, his right hand moving in rhythm.

Leo closed his eyes as the climax built, bit his lip against the violent shuddering moving through both of them. His hips rolled forward instinctively, his entire body demanding more but Jared had other plans, pulling back to tease again.

Leo's eyes snapped open. The next wave was close — electric, building fast. His hips jerked hard as he tried to hold back the sounds tearing out of him. He thought he would lose his mind. This couldn't be human. His body was soaked. Jared sat up and kissed him on the mouth, licking his lips like an animal after its best meal. Leo pulled him in by the back of the neck, pressing every inch of himself against him, chasing contact. Jared kissed him and flooded him with his scent until everything inside Leo shook.

Jared bit his lip, pulled back slightly, and smiled.

"Where do you want it?"

Leo's voice broke.

"Here… here…"

Those dark eyes blazed as he pressed inside.

"I need your pheromones…" Jared growled against the tight, overwhelming heat of him. "Let me feel them…"

Leo felt the inner walls of his body contract, his hips trembling slightly, words failing, breath gone, every limb shaking through wave after wave of intense release. He'd forgotten. The size of him. How completely he filled him hollowing out every thought, pushing him to the edge of madness. Leo didn't know what he was doing anymore. He just kissed him and moaned his name.

"Leo… I'm going to—" Jared whispered, lips moving across his chest.

In the delirium of pleasure, Jared's rhythm increased sending currents of pain and pleasure tearing through his body. Leo shuddered as an electric charge ran up his spine and spread through his limbs. He arched violently, feeling him so deep. His stomach, his chest — soaked. Jared sought his lips desperately.

Something began to grow inside him.

An alarm rang through his entire body. The waves of pleasure dimmed as something uncomfortable forced its way deeper.

No, no, no. He knew what this was. Even in absolute ruin, he knew. His mind screamed it at him. This couldn't happen. He tried to pull free. Useless.

Jared looked at him with dark eyes and smiled. He licked his neck while Leo moved helplessly beneath him.

That rough, honeyed voice in his ear cut through the fear for a few seconds.

"Almost there…" He licked his neck again, bit the earlobe. "Easy… just a little more…"

Leo remembered what the doctor had told him. He reached for Jared's arm, his strength was gone, his vision blurring as the pressure inside him grew and the pain pulled tears from his eyes.

"No… Jad… you're going to—"

Jared sucked his lips and kissed him deep. Then his eyes, his cheeks, his jaw, his ears.

His rough voice dropped to a whisper.

"Finally, you're going to be mine…"

Something inside Leo tore. The breath left his body. Desperate, he grabbed Jared's arm and bit down despite having nothing left.

Jared pulled his arm away without effort and with eyes full of want whispered:

"If you want to bite me, do it here. The jugular."

Leo thought it would kill him. But the pain was unbearable and without hesitating he bit down hard into his neck, tearing skin. He tasted blood. At that instant Jared shuddered, grabbed his hair and urged him to bite again. Leo sank his teeth in and something inside his own body tore completely open, pulling a cry out of him. The alpha's body shook. Leo collapsed back, eyes squeezed shut, fire burning through him from the inside.

Jared looked at him. Leaned in. Licked his face.

"It's done…" He kept kissing him all over his face, that warm tongue soothing him.

Jared smiled and said softly:

"Our baby… one with your beautiful violet eyes…"

Leo looked at him, confused but the next wave of pleasure hit and he moaned and for a few seconds everything went dark.

He couldn't feel his body anymore. He was sunk in a circle of want where pleasure and pain shook him in equal measure. He dug his hands into the blonde's skin moaning his name — wanting to wake from that torture and never wanting it to end.

Jared covered him in kisses, licked every inch of him, and whispered over and over that he was his.