Page 13 of Fall of the Alpha

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THE ALPHA’S PET

Alek

Alone with two strange Alphas and a pouting Omega, Alek’s instincts were torn. He wanted to demand to know what was happening with Bella, yet all of his focus was arrested by the strange trio. He felt protective of the Omega, without even knowing her, yet she clearly didn’t feel she needed any protection. If anything, she’d been derisive of his concern for her.

He didn’t know why he kept being surprised when things in the Territories were not as the Zones had claimed. Perhaps because he only thought they would tell so many lies.

“Sit,” Cora said imperiously, gesturing at the couch. As much as he wanted to resist, when Trace added his own dark stare to Cora’s, Alek found himself moving almost against his will. While part of him wanted to challenge the Alphas, he only had so much willpower. “What is your name?”

“Alek.” He sat down on the couch as Cora sat across from him. Behind him, he could hear Trace moving, and all the hairs on the nape of his neck stood at attention. “Are you going to introduce everyone as well?” It didn’t matter that he already knew their names; that hadn’t been a real introduction. While he might have sat down as she’d ordered, the fight wasn’t entirely gone out of him.

Cora’s lips quirked in amusement, her dark eyes studying him.

“Cora. Trace. And that’s Aria. Aria dear, sit next to Alek, please. It will help calm him.”

Still pouting, Aria flounced over to sit beside him.

Despite the waves of antagonism rolling off her, Cora was correct—as soon as Aria sat down next to Alek, her sweet scent filled his nose, and something inside him relaxed. He didn’t know why. Still watching him intently, Cora nodded in satisfaction. He didn’t like how she was able to manipulate his emotions, but he also couldn’t figure out how to stop it. And even if he could stop her, there was the big Alpha prowling behind him who he couldn’t forget about.

He was entirely at their mercy.

Which should have made him more anxious, but with Aria sitting next to him… none of his instincts were working correctly. It wasn’t just her presence, her scent, which was a distraction to him. There was something about her that made him feel like he couldn’t be aggressive. Even though he wanted to.

“You should know that you are in danger,” Cora said calmly after a long moment. “If you want, we can get you out of here. You can come to our territory.” Beside him, Aria shifted. Alek couldn’t see her expression because he was focused on Cora, but he got the sense she was unhappy about the invitation being issued. He didn’t know what her problem with him was, but compared to a strange Alpha telling him that he was in danger and offering him refuge, it was hardly important.

“I won’t be in danger in your territory?”

The smile Cora flashed him was hardly reassuring since it didn’t reach her eyes.

“You’ll be in less. I cannot promise complete safety.”

“Why can’t I go back to the Zones?”

Behind him, there was a soft snort of derision. Alek ignored the other Alpha. It was a valid question.

“If that’s what you want, we may be able to arrange it.” Cora tapped her finger against her full lower lip. For some reason, the movement stirred something within Alek. “But do you truly want to? Knowing what you now know? Feeling what you feel?”

Feeling fully himself was what she meant. Feeling fully alive. It was terrifying, yet freeing. He’d also already discovered how those instincts could be used against him. His ass clenched at the memory he’d been working so hard to suppress—what the Wolf had felt like behind him, inside him. The way his own body had driven him into Bella over and over again.

The memory made his cock rise.

Alek shifted uncomfortably, trying to hide his slowly growing bulge. Aria shifted next to him, and her scent didn’t help him at all, though it did make his cock ache in an entirely different way. More toward the base than before.

“What about Bella?”

“Forget about her. She’s never going back.” Trace’s voice was deep, the statement definitive, and it made Alek’s hackles rise.

“Why?” He twisted in his seat to glare a challenge at the Alpha, despite the way his stomach turned over.

“I would be very surprised if Malachi lets her go,” Cora said, and Alek’s head flipped back around to face her.

“Malachi?”

“You know him as the Wolf.” She smiled at him again, and this time, it was a true smile. “Don’t worry. He will not harm her. But I do not think he’ll let her go, either.”

“Because she’s Paldon’s daughter?” He still wasn’t sure he believed it. The leader of Zone One had a secret daughter? Who he’d allowed to go into the Territories? Yet Cora and the others seemed so sure… Bella hadn’t protested when she’d been named, though she also hadn’t been herself.

“Among other reasons. You need to forget her. There’s nothing you can do to help her now… if she even wants your help.” Cora tilted her head at him. “You need to decide what you want. If you want to return to the Zones, we can help. I do not think you’ll be much safer there, but it is your decision. Or you may come with us to Riversong Territory.”

“And if I want to stay here… with Bella?” The idea of leaving her behind was unfathomable. She hadn’t asked for this any more than he had.

“I would not advise that.”

“Why? You just said the Wolf would not harm us.”

The smile on Cora’s lips disappeared, and she gave him a hard look that questioned his intelligence.

“No, I said Malachi would not harm Bella. You, on the other hand…”

“Why would he hurt me?”

“Because your father killed his mate.”

Bella

Moaning, Bella moved her hips upward to meet the Wolf’s thrusts. She clawed at his chest wildly when he didn’t move hard enough, fast enough. She needed him deeper inside her, but instead of giving her what she wanted, he took her wrists in his hands and pinned them down on either side of her head. Writhing, she cried out in protest, her pussy clenching around him as she sobbed with need.

His head lowered to her breasts, taking a swollen nipple between his lips and sucking hard as he moved with steady, rhythmic strokes that drove her wild. She wrapped her legs around the backs of his thighs, urging him onward. He switched breasts, tormenting her other nipple the way he had the first while she begged and writhed beneath him.

The thick bulge of his knot began to press at her, and her body screamed out with the need to feel it inside her. Crying out, she drove herself up against him as best she could, her inner muscles rejoicing when the knot pushed inside her and began to thicken, pressing against her inner walls as they spasmed around it.

“Please!”

Bella sobbed as her climax slammed into her, wreaking havoc across her body as the pure pleasure swamped her. Rolling waves of ecstasy wracked her senses, stealing away her sight and breath as hot liquid filled her. The knot pulsed inside her, pressing against her walls, making her feel as if she was utterly engorged with his cock.

His mouth covered hers, drinking in her cries, his tongue invading her the same way his cock had. The buds of her nipples rubbed against the wiry hairs of his chest, stimulating the small nubs and adding to the tumult of pleasure curling through her. He rocked against her as the last pulses of his cum spurted within her.

Moaning, Bella went limp beneath him, her pussy still squeezing him spasmodically. Bracing himself on his elbows, he lifted his lips from hers, looking down at her and studying.

“What… oh… what is happening?” It wasn’t the question she was originally going to ask, but just as she’d started to speak, the cramping need had pulsed through her again.

“Your first heat, pet.” There was sympathy in the Wolf’s green eyes as he looked down at her. “It will not be easy because you were on the suppressors for so long.”

That was an understatement. She cried out again as another cramp twisted her insides, eased only when the Wolf rocked against her, rubbing himself against her clit. The little spasm of pleasure pushed away the painful twinges, leaving her panting as her arousal began to stir again.

“Don’t worry, Pet,” the Wolf whispered in her ear, rocking against her, so his knot pulled at her body. It hurt, but it felt so good, and as another gush of fluid poured into her, the cramps faded even further. “I’ll take care of you.”