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Robin kissed Victor's neck, his hands around Victor's body. He needed to feel Victor close, feel his loving touch.
"Kiss me," Robin whispered, raising his chin.
Victor gave a gentle peck on RObin's lower lip. Licked the seam of his lips before pushing his tongue inside and kissing him thoroughly.
"Your heat's near," Victor whispered, pulling away and meeting Robin's gaze.
"I know," Robin said. "I might get it in a day or two."
"We shouldn't…"
"We definitely should," Robin said, cutting Victor off. "It's the perfect timing. We can still do it without you kn***ing me."
"I am not sure if I have that much control," Victor husked. "It's better if we abstain until your heat is over."
Robin pouted his lips in annoyance. "I don't want to wait that long. I think we are going to be alright tonight."
"Shh…" Victor said, placing a finger on Robin's lips. "Close your eyes."
"Victor.." Robin whined.
"Uh huh…close."
Robin closed his eyes against his will. He put his hands inside Robin's pants.
"Robin," Victor whispered right in his ears.
"Hmm.." Robin answered.
"I am not going to assist you this time during your heat. You will have to take care of it yourself."
Robin opened his eyes. "Why?"
"Because I won't be able to hold back. I was weak last time, starved and wounded. I am at my full capacity right now. Full-blooded, healthy. My need is more acute, my pheromones are higher in concentration. I don't think it would be safe for me to stay around you during your heat."
"What if I am not able to handle it myself?"
"You will. Moreover, it won't be as bad this time. Arthur will give you suppressants. Kyle can take you to buy supplies you will need during your heat. Your heat shouldn't last more than a day this time."
"If that's what you want," Robin sighed.
Victor put a finger under Robin's chin. "It's what is safest."
"Okay." Robin's okay came out as a hiccup when Victor took him in his hands.
Victor chuckled at his reaction.
"I am going to make you feel good."
"Mmm…" Robin moaned.
Victor did make him feel good like he promised. Taking care of him thoroughly.
"Go to sleep now, love," Victor whispered in Robin's ear when the theos of passion died down.
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Robin was talking to Kyle about how he managed his heat the next morning while preparing breakfast.
"My heats are not as intense as it used to be before Nina was born," Kyle explained. "You get used to it with time. I can function normally, it doesn't bother me as much."
"You don't have to lock yourself in your room?" Robin asked with wide eyes.
"Not anymore."
"What about the Alphas who are around you? Aren't they affected by your pheromones?"
"I don't think it affects Rody. I mean he can tell I am heat but it doesn't drive him mad or give him a hard-on or something."
"What about Arthur?"
Kyle bit his lip. "Arthur is an Omega Specialist. He had to deal with omegas in heat all the time. My heat shouldn't affect him. But then I have never seen him around when I am in heat."
"What are you girls talking about?" Arthur interrupted, walking in the kitchen to grab juice from the fridge.
"I am going to see what Nina is up to," Kyle said, turning around and leaving.
"So you made up with my brother?" Arthur asked, biting into an apple. For someone as fit as him he sure seemed to eat a lot.
Robin looked at him. "None of your concern."
"Is it my concern because I don't want to see my brother hurt?"
"I would never hurt Victor intentionally."
Arthur sniffed the air. "You are going into heat."
"Yeah, so? Do you have a problem?"
"I asked you to take birth control pills. You wouldn't have gone into heat if you took those."
"I don't want to take any pills."
"So you would rather torture my brother."
"Torture your brother?" Robin huffed, folding his arms. "How am I torturing your brother if he is the one insisting on abstinence."
"Maybe he doesn't want to get you pregnant," Arthur yelled.
"It's between me and him. We don't want your input into how we conduct ourselves so you can kindly fuck off."
Arthur gritted his teeth so hard he might have cracked a few of them. "I hate that you are Harold's blood. But I love my brother and I can't see him miserable. This is free advice so..take it or leave it…let him claim you like an Alpha claims his omega. He thinks he can be a bigger person by letting you go. The only reason you are not pregnant yet is because he thinks he is going to die in the war. That fucking bastard thinks more about the people he loves than he thinks about himself. Give him something to tether on. Something that will solidify the bond between the two of you. Make him stop thinking about letting you go."
"How do you know he is thinking about letting me go?" Robin asked, his lips quivering.
Arthur leaned towards Robin. "He has a savior complex. Jonathan had one as well. I couldn't do anything for Jonathan but I am not making the same mistake for Victor."
Arthur didn't look like a man who showed his emotions a lot. But at that moment Robin could see he was as affected by the death of his family members as everybody else.
"I can help you," Arthur said.
"Help me with what?" Robin asked with a frown.
"Ruin my brother's plan to abstain," Arthur said with a smirk.
"And how will you do that?"
"How will I do that you ask," Arthur said, looking at the ceiling. "Mmm…"
"Give me your hand, let's sit at the couch together."
"Look at me," Arthur said, his face stiff with concentration. "Do I make you nervous, Robin?"
"Fuck no. You make me angry."
"Great." He leaned forward, his face only inches away from Robin's as Arthur placed a finger under Robin's chin and raised his head.
"Don't look but Victor is sitting by the pool, watching us," Arthus whispered. Robin's knee-jerk reaction was to look in that direction but Arthur grabbed his face and prevented him from doing so.
"Are you trying to make him jealous?" Robin asked.
"Maybe," Arthur chuckled. His lips almost touching Robin's lips.
"It's not going to work. He knows you are doing this to get a reaction out of him."
"If my brother wasn't smitten in love he would have known my act but the thing is…" Arthur didn't get to finish his sentence before a sudden push had his face planted on the hardwood floor.
"What the fuck are you doing?" Victor yelled at his brother.
Arthur sat up and pretended to look puzzled. "Don't let your unclaimed mate roam around in the house spreading his heat pheromones."
"Keep your filthy hands away from my mate or I will break them, I swear to god," Victor roared.
"I will but someone has to give the poor man company during this time of the month," Arthur yelled.
Robin wished Arthur would stop. He was afraid all this taunting would push Victor over the edge and he would do something drastic like choke the life out of his own brother. But Arthur's words seemed to hit a nerve. Victor looked almost guilty.
Victor took Robin's wrist and pulled him towards the house.
"Where are you taking me?" Robin asked.
"To your room," Victor answered without looking back.
"But I wanted to get some fresh air," Robin protested.
"I will take you to the beach later," Victor said.
Victor locked the room once they got inside. He turned to Robin, his eyes intense as he asked, "Do you still want me to help you with your heat?"
"Why does it matter?" Robin asked.
"Because I am going to help you, Robin. I am going to help you real well."