The Alpha’s Fated Mate (4 page)

CHAPTER SEVEN

Seth

I was surprised at the ease with which we settled into our life together. After a kiss that’d curled my toes and straightened my cock, we’d been interrupted by Hayden, one of the six alphas. He’d eyed us speculatively before I’d made my escape with mussed hair and a flushed face, promising to return later when Wyatt demanded the promise from me.

I’d gone back home and picked up the things I knew I’d be needing—my toothbrush, my clothes—those I could have probably left behind to be packed later knowing the rapid rate I was going to start growing very soon. I’d just finished filling up my second duffle bag when Wyatt had appeared on my doorstep. The look in his eyes and the smile he flashed me had me instantly aware that he wasn’t there to help me pack. Or at least that there would be a very long delay before we got to it.

“Shouldn’t we wait until later tonight?” I squeaked as he entered and kicked the door closed behind him. He stalked up to me, backing me towards the wall with every long-legged, determined stride.

“Now why would we do that?” he asked as I hit the wall and let out a soft exhale. “I can smell you everywhere,” he growled as he nuzzled against the curve of my neck, deeply inhaling my scent. The brush of his nose and the wet nip of his teeth made me moan and I knew my protesting was all for show. I was hard as rock and fuck, I needed him in me
right now.

I tore at his pants, ripping open his fly as he crushed his mouth against mine and did the same to me. I opened willingly for him as his tongue licked across the seam of my lips and delved inside to tangled alongside mine. He slid his fingers over the tip of my copiously leaking cock as he freed it and slicked his fingers up with my pre-cum. I hissed and bit down on the tip of his tongue as he reached behind me and nudged at my hole.

His fingers slid into the tight opening and began to pump and stroke against the softening, hot walls as he prepared my ass. I cried out, moaning as he crooked his fingers and brushed over my prostate. He did it again and I knew I was going to come before he even got in me if he kept it up.

I pulled my mouth off his and pushed at him so I could spin around in his arms. I shoved at my jeans, pushing them down to my knees as I bent forward and braced myself against the wall.

“I can’t wait, please, Wyatt. I need you to fuck me,” I panted desperately. I didn’t need to tell him twice.

I groaned as he pushed his cock into me, forcing me wide open as he speared into me, impaling me on his cock up to the hilt.

“Damn, I’ve missed this,” Wyatt hissed as he rocked against me, enjoying the tight heat of my body clamping down on him. His hands cupped my ass, massaging the firm globes as he leaned forward and pressed a kiss to the back of my head. I felt my heart tug at the gentle gesture and then he was pulling back.

He fucked me long and slow. Each pull back was coupled with a slow, steady slide forward as he made me feel every inch of him in me. I felt my body yielding to his, surrendering to the steady drive of his body into mine as I rocked against him.

“Do you like the feel of me in you, love? Did you miss this? Miss me?” he asked softly, his breathe hot against my ear.

“
Yes,
” I moaned as he angled up and brushed over my prostate. I stretched up onto my tiptoes as pleasure speared through me adding to the inferno licking at my blood.

“Tell me,” Wyatt demanded as he pulled back and thrust forward, harder than before. His stokes were getting rougher, quicker, but just as deep as his rhythm picked up. I knew he was getting close, as close as I was to coming.

“I missed it. I missed your cock in me…fucking me…making me go crazy…I—” I gasped as he pulled back and slammed forward. He would have smashed me into the wall if he hadn’t been holding me against him, pulling me towards him with every forward drive of his hips against mine. “
I missed you!
” I cried as he thrust into me with all of his strength and then I felt his cock jerk and begin to pulse as he came, emptying stream after stream of his thick hot cum into my body.

His climax pulled me into mine and I bucked against him and curled my hands into the wall as I came hard, painting the wall with white streaks of my release.

Afterwards he’d gently pulled from my body and lifted me into his arms as he headed towards the bathroom. I had no idea how he knew where it was but he found it on first try and we’d spent the next hour soaping and fucking in my bathtub under the spray of the showerhead. We really should have cleaned the cum off the walls first. But we learnt from our mistake and after the second time when he’d pushed me up against the wall and fucked me again, we’d cleaned up immediately.

Currently, I was in his bathroom getting ready for bed when I looked down. I felt warmth bubble up through me at the sight of my toothbrush next to his at the sink and the knowledge of my clothing sitting alongside his in the wardrobe. When Wyatt had asked me to come live with him for the sake of convenience I’d realized right then that he would probably never love me like I did him. I loved him the way Gabby loved Kenneth, the way a wolf loved their destined half. But the love between destined mates was mutual, there even if you tried to fight it, and I knew without a doubt that Wyatt didn’t feel that way about me.

I wondered if it was possible to have a soulmate who was soulmates with someone else, because surely that was what was happening. Gabby had told me the knowledge of a fated mate was instantaneous, that you knew right away you had met the one who would complete you. I’d felt that way about Wyatt, but had he truly felt the same way about me I knew without a doubt he wouldn’t deny it. Denying your mate was like denying yourself, never letting yourself feel whole and complete. No, Wyatt didn’t see me as his fated mate.

The thought made me maudlin and I wondered if my pregnancy hormones were starting to kick in because I wanted to cry. I pushed it down and raised my chin. No, I wouldn’t do it. There was no point in crying. I’d always wished to have Wyatt and now I had him, I would be happy with that. Maybe in time he could grow to love me—it would never be as deep as what I felt for him but it would be something—and even if that didn’t happen I knew he would love our children.

I looked up into the mirror as I sensed him come into the bedroom. He was walking into the bathroom moments later. He came up behind me and wrapped his arms around my waist. I shivered as he pressed his hands gently against my stomach and looked at me in the mirror.

“I can’t believe you have a piece of me and you growing inside of you,” he said softly. The gentleness I loved seeing in his sinful black eyes reflected back at me on the clear glass.

“The pup is going to be lucky to have you as his father,” I said. I smiled as he pulled my hand over my stomach as rested it against the hard muscle. He laid his on top of it.

“Pups. We alphas breed in litters,” he chuckled. “And
they
will be lucky to have the both of us. Not as lucky as we are to have them though.”

“No, not as lucky,” I echoed softly. He turned me in his arms and brushed his lips across mine. The kiss was gentle but no less heated than the dozens he’d already given me today.

“I was thinking,” he said as he pulled back.

“Mmm?”

He released me and stepped back. I watched, nearly swallowing my tongue as he pulled off his clothing piece by piece. “Before you get as big as a hillside, we should go for a run.” He grinned and tugged me along with him out of the bathroom. The double doors were open in the bedroom and the scent of the night drifted in, ruffling the sheer curtains. I inhaled deeply and felt my wolf paced restlessly inside of me, it wanted to go for a run.

“A run does sound good,” I said as my wolf yipped in agreement. I grinned and quickly shucked off my loose sleeping pants.

“Good, I’ve been looking forward to a chase all week, little wolf,” Wyatt said as he flashed his white teeth at me and began stalking towards me.

I backed away towards the doors, laughing as he advanced predatorily. His grin was already wolfish. Spinning around, I felt my body lengthen and my bones pop and rearrange themselves as I shifted and landed on all fours. I let out a bark—
come and get me!
—as I dashed towards the forest surrounding the packlands.

I laughed as I heard Wyatt’s answering growl. I streaked towards the cluster of trees, swerving and winding through their thick and skinny trunks as the pads of my feet flew over the soft ground. The scent of summer was all around us as I reveled in the night air brushing through my brown fur and all my instincts sharpened and came alive. I watched as a hare darted across the way in front of me, scared by the two large predators racing through their home. I could smell the scent of the owl in the tree as I leapt over the fallen branch just below its perch.

I heard Wyatt close behind me, not even trying to be quiet as he closed the distance between us. I laughed, spurring myself on faster as I tried to prolong the chase. I couldn’t remember having had so much fun as I ran under the light of the moon. I felt my breath leave my chest in a
whoosh
as Wyatt’s heavy body landed on top of mine. I tried to wriggle out from beneath him, brown wolf trapped by blond, but he bit down on my scruff, subduing me. I froze beneath him, lowering onto my haunches until I felt him growl warningly and release me, then I shot up and rolled us over until he was pinned beneath me. I yipped at him, biting the tip of his ear playfully as a growl rumbled deep in his powerful chest.

I felt myself shifting back as he suddenly bucked up and flipped me onto my back. His soft fur became sleek, taut skin as he pinned my arms above me, and blanketed my body with his heat. I moaned as his bare, hard cock rubbed against mine.

“Submit to me, little wolf,” he growled. His voice was still between beast and human, the rough coarseness of it sending spikes of heat down to my aching cock. 

I arched up into him and raised my head to snap my teeth playfully at him. “Make me,” I taunted as I wriggled in his hold. I wasn’t going to make this easy for him.

“Oh it’s going to be my pleasure to,” he grinned, and then I was too hard to care how easy I was as he kissed me.

CHAPTER EIGHT

Wyatt

“You need to eat more, you’re eating for six now,” I said as I pushed more meat onto his plate.

My little wolf grimaced and gave me a look of disbelief. “No way am I having five pups,” he said but he picked up his fork and continued to work on the extra food I’d piled onto his plate. He was two months along now and looked more like he was seven. He was due to give birth in three months and I couldn’t wait for it to get here fast enough. Everyday a new worry piled onto the mountain I already had of them. I’d known the risks when I’d made the decision to breed, every wolf did, but as I watched Seth swell with our pups I wondered if I’d really thought this through. Oh, there was no fucking way I would have let him get rid of the pregnancy, but I could have prepared more, ensured I had a contingency plan for any and everything that happened.

I’d never been such a worrier until I had a mate as big as my pile of fears.

“You heard what Seamus said, he heard five heartbeats,” I reminded him as I reached forward and wiped the spot of sauce at the corner of his mouth. Automatically I brought it up to my mouth and licked it clean.

“That—uh, he—” Seth swallowed as heat bloomed in his cheeks and I watched as his eyes darkened into a gunmetal gray as they followed my movement. I sent him a heated smile and his cheeks went even redder. Beneath the table my cock was rock hard and pressing against my fly. I gave it a squeeze hoping to ease the ache. Once we were done with dinner I’d take him to bed, lick every inch of him, and make him say my name until he was begging me to let him come.

“You were saying?” I asked. I didn’t even try to conceal my amusement at his flustered, glazed expression. 

He cleared his throat and narrowed his eyes at me. “I
was
saying that Seamus was wrong. He has to be. Because no way am I giving birth to five pups. I’m not going to fit through the door at the end of five months as it is. If I’m having five pups then I’m going to get even bigger and that’s not happening,” he said stubbornly as he stabbed at a grilled tomato.

I chuckled. “I’m not seeing any problem with that. That way I can keep you in bed and you won’t be able to escape like you keep doing.”

“If I didn’t escape we’d never leave the bedroom! And besides, if I get any bigger you’ll be the one wanting to escape the bedroom.” His forehead was puckered and the soft, grudging way he said the last statement made me pause.

“Seth—love—look at me.” He looked like he wasn’t going to do so but then he lifted his head and I saw the worry clear in his eyes. I reached out and curled his hand in mine. I brought it up to my mouth and pressed a kiss to the back of it before nipping at the tip of his index finger. “I’m not going to get disgusted with you when—”

“
If—”

“When,
you get bigger than you already are. I’ll still want to bend you over or tie you to my bed until you’re begging and whimpering.”

The smile he sent me squeezed at my heart. “Even though I already can’t even touch my toes?” he asked with a small chuckle. He sucked in a breath as I brought his thumb into my mouth and curled my tongue around it, sucking the pad along the flat of my tongue before releasing it with a nip.

“Even when you break my chairs by sitting on it.” I dodged as he flung a pea at me.

“I’m going to sit on your lap everyday for the next two months,” he growled menacingly.

I laughed. “My cock will hold you to that promise.”

****

“Hey, you’re still up? Can’t sleep?” I asked as I felt Seth toss restlessly next to me. I snaked my arm around him and pulled him to me, his body curving perfectly in front of mine. 

He wriggled his tight, delicious ass against me as he tried to get comfortable. He finally settled before I came over his back from his actions. He was quiet for a moment before nodding his head.

I pressed a kiss to the back of his soft hair. “Is something on your mind? Want to tell me about it?” I asked. This had been happening more as of late. We’d be doing something or having a conversation and he’d get a sad, faraway look until I roused him from it. I wondered if it had anything to do with the wolf he’d been in love with. Was he thinking about how he wished he was having that guy’s pups? Regretting that the family he was making wasn’t with him? Acid bubbled in my stomach the more I wondered about it and I didn’t know how to get him to talk to me about his worries without not wanting to hear about the other wolf and wanting to hunt him down and tear him apart.

These last two months with Seth had brought me more happiness and frustration than I’d ever had in my life and I knew it was only to get better and worse when the pups came. Waking up every morning to him beside me and catching sight of him waddling around the house during the day before spending the night with him in my arms brought me peace and contentment like never before. Every day I cared for him deeper and everyday I found myself falling a bit more in love with his sweet smiles, his sigh of frustration when he realized he couldn’t bend down without clutching onto something, the small noises he made when he slept soundly in my arms.

I was in love with him, my sweet little omega. And the knowledge that he was in love with someone else cut me deeper than I would have thought possible. I didn’t want to make him feel obliged to return my feelings so I hadn’t told him but I tried to show him as much as possible. It seemed it wasn’t enough though. I understood now how hard it would be to give up on someone you loved. I loved Seth and I couldn’t imagine giving him up, not even if I ever met the wolf who was meant to have been my fated mate. I didn’t want anyone but him.

I held him tighter to me, careful of his growing stomach, and inhaled his scent. At least he was here with me now, and soon our family of two would grow. I knew he would love our children unconditionally, all first five of them, and I hoped that in time he would come to feel the same way about me. It seemed like a trick of fate though, to make me an alpha. I was stronger, faster and more determined than my other packmates and yet I couldn’t get what I so desperately wanted. First my fated one, and now the love of my life.

“It’s nothing,” Seth finally answered with a small sigh. “I’m just thinking about the pups.” I could tell by the tone of his voice that they weren’t the only ones on his mind but I didn’t press it. It would just hurt the both of us for him to speak about it. He wriggled and looked at me over his shoulder. “Do you think everything’s going to be okay? I know the risks involved but if we’re really going to have five…”

“Hey, it’s going to all right, I’m not going to let anything happen to you or the pups,” I promised as I turned him around to face me. It was harder for me to hug him with his swollen belly between us but if the pups could hear, I wanted them to know it too. “Seamus is a good doctor, one of the best were-doctors in the state, and I have another coming in closer to the birth. Trust me, nothing’s going to happen that we don’t want it to.” I pushed back the lock of brown hair that had fallen over his eye and caressed his cheek. “You know how important you and the pups are to me. How important they are to the pack.”

His eyes were still clouded and an unreadable emotion flashed in his eyes before he hid it. He closed his eyes and nodded before opening them again. They were steady when they looked at me. “Okay, I trust you, Wyatt.”

I smiled and pressed a kiss to his forehead. “Good, now you need to get some sleep. They’ll be enough sleepless nights when the pups are born.”

“All those alpha abilities are sure going to come in handy in the next three months,” Seth said with a small chuckle as he turned back onto his side and wriggled against me. He did it purposefully knowing how much it tempted me.

I slid my hand down his side and moved it forward to wrap around his hardening cock. “Let’s see if I can get in some practice with my dominating abilities first.”