The Alpha’s Fated Mate (3 page)

CHAPTER FOUR

Wyatt

I felt him shiver in my arms, as he heard the command in my voice. My harsh whisper was dressed as a request but we both knew it for the order it was.

Seth made a whimpering noise, a sound of surrender, and I felt my wolf growl in approval.

“I want that too,” he said against my neck before straightening back up.

I squeezed his ass and nudged at his rim with my cock before I released his earlobe and let him do so. I let go of one of his cheeks to grab a couple of pillows behind me and pushed them beneath my head so I could get a better view.

The look he gave me was shy but heated and had my cock twitching as he lifted himself onto his knees above me. He suspended himself over my hard cock then reached a hand back behind himself.

I hissed as he wrapped his hand around me and I noticed how his fingers couldn’t meet around my girth. He slowly lowered himself onto me and teased his hole with the blunt head. “That’s it, love, take my cock into your body.” My hands slid up to his lean hips, curling over the sharp bones as I held him lightly. I didn’t want to guide him—I wanted to see him to do this all on his own.

Fuck, he looked so damn hot above me, his pale body already covered in a light sheen of sweat. I wanted to reach up and pull one of those flat, shell-pink nipples into my mouth and tease him with my teeth and tongue. I wanted to cup my hands back on his ass and pull him forward and take his cock back into my mouth. But there would be time enough for that later. We had the whole evening and I intended to thoroughly enjoy every minute of it.

He bit down on his lower lip reminding me how soft and plump it had felt between my own teeth and slowly dropped his body over my cock. I felt the head breech the first ring of muscle—still tight even after his first merciless fucking—as it opened him up again.

I groaned and fought the urge to slam up into him as he took me into his slick body inch by torturous inch.

Those gray eyes of his were nearly swallowed up by black, his pupils blown with desire as he looked down at me and sank down to the hilt. Then he started to move.

“Wyatt,” he moaned as he dragged his ass up my cock and sank back down, rocking with each movement.

My hands kneaded into his hips and sweat beaded on my brow as I watched him undulate on me, his body riding on my cock as he impaled himself over and over.

“That’s it, love, work yourself on my cock.” Unable to resist I slid my hands up his sides and reached for his nipples. They were hard and puckered in my fingers as I pinched and rolled then, making him arch towards me with every upward stroke of his ass around my cock. His mouth had fallen open and breathy pants fell from between them as he bounced on my lap.

Fuck! I’m going to come just from the sight of him.

I surged forward and gripped his ass as I closed my mouth over his turgid nipple and sucked it between my teeth. I nipped at it, sucking hard on the distended nub before laving at it soothingly. I did the same to the other one before releasing it and reached up. I bit at his lower lip, catching it between my teeth and pulling his mouth against mine so I could kiss him hard. He moaned into my mouth as I slammed him down on my cock and fucked him with fast, hard upward pumps of my hips. I knew I should slow down, take it nice and teasingly slow this time but the hunger clawing at my body wasn’t even close to sated yet and I had to have him, had to mark him again.

I slammed into him again and again, pulling his body down to meet every one of my punishing upward thrusts. His fingers clawed into my back, holding on and driving my hunger deeper.

Seth ripped his mouth off mine and peppered rough kisses along my jaw before leaning back to once again pull his lower lip between his teeth and squeeze his eyes shut.

I growled at the action, as my cock got impossibly harder.

“Please, oh fuck, please…! Oh fuck…want to…going to—!” His words cut off with a harsh, shaky inhale as I gripped his cock hard.

“Open your eyes, wolf,” I demanded. My voice was rough, more beast than human as I bared my teeth and growled warningly. “Open your eyes and look at me. Who am I? Say my name, say my name and I’ll let you come.”

He forced his eyes open and those wet dark gray eyes locked onto me, glazed and unfocused with desire. “
Wyatt, Wyatt! …Please, let me come, please…Wyatt!”

I released him and lifted him up till the head of my cock teased his softened entrance before slamming him mercilessly back down to the hilt. I watched through narrowed eyes as he threw his head back and screamed my name as his cock twitched and erupted, shooting his release high between us.

I fucked him through his climax, his ass spasming and clenching down onto my cock, trying to milk me as I milked every last drop out of him. The convulsions got tighter and then he was pulling me right along with him as I came, filling his body and once again, making sure everyone who came near his ass would know that it belonged to me.

I cradled him to me as he fell limply against my chest, his damp hair plastered to his face and his cum sticking our bodies together. I could feel my load push at his anal walls, trying to seep out around my cock plugging up his ass. I ground my hips against his, making the both of us moan as I rolled us onto his back.

I leaned down and closed my eyes, drawing fistfuls of air into my lungs as I rested my forehead against his. He flinched and chuckled as droplets of sweat rolled down from my temples to land on his cheeks. His hot breath fanned against my face and I could hear the rapid pounding of his heart as I leaned back and opened my eyes to find his already opened and watching me. He smiled shyly at having caught staring.

I grinned and brushed my lips over his wanting to brand him with my touch.

I rocked my hips against his and watched as his ridiculously long lashes fluttered down with a breathy moan then swept back up.

“That was incredible.” His voice was soft, barely above a whisper and I felt something swell in me at the wonder in his voice.

I rubbed my nose against his and smiled. “That was only the prelude.”

CHAPTER FIVE

Seth

“Are you sure you’re going to be okay? I think you should go see a doctor. Maybe you’ve got a twenty-four hour bug or something,” Gabby said worriedly beside me as she rubbed my back.

I opened my mouth to tell her werewolves didn’t get twenty-four hour bugs and that this had been happening way longer than twenty-four hours when I felt the bile raise up again. I dropped my head back over the toilet bowl and emptied the contents of my already emptied stomach. How could water hurt so much coming up?

“Here, take this,” Gabby said as she handed me a damp washcloth.

I took it from her gratefully and wiped my face and mouth with it before pulling down the lid of the seat and flushing away the last five excruciating minutes. I sighed as I laid my cheek against the cool porcelain cover and closed my eyes. Gratefully, I relinquished the washcloth as Gabby tugged it from my weak fingers. There was a wet splat as I pictured her flinging it into the bathtub behind her and then her cool fingers were against my forehead, feeling my temperature and sweeping back the strands of my damp hair.

A few blissful quiet minutes ticked by as I felt my stomach slowly settle. I wasn’t inclined to leave the toilet just yet though and shifted my cheek so it rested on another cool section of the lid.

Gabby’s fingers stroked against my cheek before coming away. “I need to say something and I really think you should hear me out,” she said softly.

I heard something in her voice that made me crack open one eye and look at her. Worry was plastered all over her face, her blue eyes swimming with concern and stubbornness.

“I’m not going to like what you have to say, am I?” The question was rhetorical. I knew right away I wasn’t going to like it.

“You’re going to listen regardless because you know how worried I am about you.”

I lifted my head off the lid and tried to give her a reassuring smile. I’m sure it came out more drained and wan. “I know, Gab. I’m sorry for worrying you. I’m sure this is nothing. I probably ate something bad.”
Three days ago
. I winced and seeing her sitting determinedly on the cold tile of my bathroom floor I got to my feet and reach down to help her stand as well. She was due in a week and looked as big as a barn. I was smart enough not to tell her that though. “Let’s head into the living room. You shouldn’t be sitting on cold tiles and Kenneth would kill me if he knew. You can tell me whatever you need to say on the couch,” I interjected firmly as she opened her mouth to protest.

We headed into the living room and I left her on the couch as I went and rinsed out my mouth before coming back to take a seat next to her.

“Hey, it can’t be that bad,” I said with a soft smile as I saw her expression. “So what do you want to tell me?”

“I think you’re pregnant.” She winced at the blurted out words that dropped like two-ton rocks between us.

“It’s impossible.” I shook my head and refused to even contemplate what she was saying.

She reached out and took my hand in hers. She gave it a squeeze and wouldn’t let me take it back. “Think about it. You told me you slept with Wyatt and you said he didn’t use protection. That was a week ago. I knew I was pregnant three days after it happened. Your scent has changed and you haven’t stopped throwing up. I think you’re carrying his pups.”

I opened my mouth to disagree, the denial was vehement but it got stuck in my throat. No, it couldn’t be. It was known that male wolves could get pregnant but it was rare and it only happened with an alpha.
Oh shit.
Alpha sperm was known for its potency and due to our shorter gestation of five months we could usually tell if we were pregnant the day after it happened.

I swallowed and felt myself begin to shake.

“No, I can’t…it wasn’t supposed to happen.” That night with Wyatt had been a one-night stand. An amazing, unforgettable, no one will ever compare again in my life experience, but a one off nonetheless. I’d known it when I’d woken up curled against his back, my entire body stiff and tender but sated and replete. I’d known it when I gently detangled myself from him and slipped out of bed not wanting to wake him. When I’d hastily gotten dressed and taken one last look at him, his tanned skin dark against the snowy white, stained sheets and his face soft with sleep. I’d known when I’d left that hotel room and came back home and wouldn’t let myself shower because I didn’t want to wash his scent off me.

I’d finally stepped into the shower as dusk fell, knowing that in an hour Wyatt would visit his chosen wolf and bond with her. I’d felt my heart break as I cried hot tears beneath the spray of water.

“Maybe he knew it was a possibility,” Gabby said gently as she moved next to me and laid her cheek against my shaking shoulder. Her hand rubbed up and down my arm trying to soothe the chill of my skin. She leaned back and looked up at me. “Maybe that’s why he never bonded that night. Because he knew that you might be carrying his litter.”

I shook my head sharply and pushed off the couch. I was careful not to jostle her as I did so. This shaking, terrifying realization in me wasn’t Gabby’s fault. It was mine for drinking so much that night and taking up Wyatt’s sudden heart-attack inducing offer. But I couldn’t blame myself either. I’d wanted it for so long and it had been even more than I’d ever imagined.

I paced in front of the couch as I pushed a shaky hand through my hair and swallowed down the roiling bubbling up once again in my stomach. “It’s not what he wanted. I know—
we all know
—he wanted a mate fit for an alpha. He wouldn’t want an omega carrying his bloodline, his offspring.”

“Will you get rid of it then?”

I froze and felt revulsion flood through me. “No! No, I would never—!” I stopped and dragged in a deep breath trying to calm the shaking. I forced my clenched hands to relax. “No, if I’m pregnant, then I want to keep them.” A smile broke out over my face, as I suddenly fully comprehended what was happening. Happiness and love, so deeply felt that it immediately took root, sprung up, engulfing me in warmth. “I want my pups.”

Gabby beamed and pushed off the couch to give me a fierce hug. “I’ll go to the pharmacy and pick up a pregnancy kit—though they’re going to think it’s weird because it’s more than obvious I’m pregnant—and then you can do the whole pee on a stick thing. I can even make us some celebratory grilled cheese sandwiches after if you think you can keep it down. Might make mine with a side of steak.”

I laughed and hugged her as tightly as was safe with a five-month pregnant she-wolf before letting her go. “Thanks, Gabby.”

Her smile was watery as she picked up her keys and headed for the door. “You’re going to make one hell of a parent, Seth.”

CHAPTER SIX

Wyatt

I blinked several times and realized I’d been staring blankly at the ledger for the better part of an hour. Sighing, I dropped my pen and turned to stare out at the large windows behind me. They were open and I could hear the distance sounds of chattering and children laughing. Sunshine poured into my backyard and my eyes widened as I saw a handful of pups cavorting over the grass. I blinked and then they were gone like winter mist. It must have been a trick of the light.

I turned back to the paperwork scattered across my desk and sighed at the realization I was behind as hell in everything. Since that night at the hotel with Seth I hadn’t been able to think of much else. I’d look at numbers and see the way he’d bite his lip and arch up into my touch. I’d listen as one of the other alphas relayed some information he wanted me to know and I’d hear the little omega’s whimpers he made when I thrust into him at that exact angle.

After I’d woken up alone in that hotel bed, the room empty and the only thing remaining of his presence the smell of our combined scent in the air and the imprint in the pillow beside me, I’d known that I had to leave everything we’d done in that
room in the room
as I left. I had to get back and prepare for the bonding that night but when the time came I couldn’t move from my house. I couldn’t get myself to walk over to Rose’s and tell her I’d chosen her as my mate. All I could think about was Seth, and how I wanted to drag him over to my house, tie him to my bed and not let him out until the next full moon.

The other alphas hadn’t said anything about me postponing the bonding when I’d met with them the next morning and I knew they weren’t blaming me. We all knew what needed to happen and a week’s delay wasn’t going to change what we had to do. As long as I didn’t delay it for another week, they would give me the reprieve.

I sighed. Tonight, tonight I would go to Rose and bond with her.

I stilled, my instincts on high alert even before the knock at the office door came. “Come in,” I called. I didn’t need to see him enter to know it was him.
He’s come back to me.
I felt my body tug towards the door, an insistent urge to go to him come over me, but I fought against it. I tried not to react even as my wolf panted at the sight and scent of him, but then I saw his paleness, the gaunt exhaustion on his face.

I jumped out of my chair and moved towards him. My skin tingled and heat flushed up my arm as I reached for him and guided him to one of the plush leather seats in front of my desk.

“Thanks,” he said softly as he sank down. I felt my body drink up the sound of his voice and the hesitant smile he gave me.

I leaned against my desk and surveyed him. The little omega didn’t look too well. Worry ate sharply at me as I ran my eyes over him. “Something’s wrong. You’ve lost a lot of weight and you’ve got no color in your face.”

He ducked his head and turned his face away, biting on his lip nervously.

I swallowed down a groan and shifted, willing my cock to stay soft. It was already half-hard at the sight of him, even if he did look like death warmed over.

“Tell me what’s wrong, Seth,” I urged gently.

He seemed to struggle with something in himself and I wanted to wrap him in my arms and rub my cheek against his hair, tell him it was okay, whatever it was. Was he here because the wolf he had feelings found out about our night together? Had he found out and condemned the omega? The thought had rage searing through me, and I heard a faint crack as my fingers curled crushingly into the edge of my desk. I forced myself to relax my grip as I watched his narrow shoulders straighten and he turned to face me determinedly.

“I’m pregnant.”

Whatever I’d expected him to tell me, that sure as fuck wasn’t it. I felt shock reel through me as my jaw dropped and I stared at him in disbelief.

He titled his chin up stubbornly and didn’t look away.

It can’t be…
I swept my eyes carefully down his thin frame and inhaled. My eyes widened as I noted the change in his scent and fully registered why my body was so drawn to his, wanted to protect it so badly. He was pregnant, we’d mated. 

“Mine?” My voice was barely above a whisper as the reality of it started sinking in.

His smooth forehead puckered as he glowered at me. “Of course it’s yours. I don’t make it a habit of sleeping around with alphas.” Because it was generally known that only an alpha could impregnate a male wolf.

I burst out in laughter as I reached down and pulled him to me. He was stiff in my arms at first, resistant, but then he slowly began to soften and finally nuzzled his face against my chest as I dropped my chin atop his head and inhaled deeply.

“You’re pregnant. With my pups,” I said softly, wonder filling my voice as I held him tighter to me. This wasn’t how I expected it to happen but as joy filled me, I realized that I was glad fate had had other ideas. Even if it hadn’t given me my destined mate, it had given me a wolf I was genuinely fond of and could even grow to love. And the gods knew that our bodies were more than compatible. I felt myself hardening against him and knew that what had landed in my lap was more than I could have hoped for in my situation. “I want you to move in with me.”

I relaxed my hold on him as I felt him push against me and lean back to lock those gray eyes on mine. He frowned and I had the urge to kiss away the lines and then kiss my way down his body. His lithe, little body that was going to steadily grow ripe with our pups in the next five months.

“Move in?” he asked.

I grinned down at him. “It’ll be more convenient that way.”

“Convenient?” he echoed. His voice took on a strange hollow quality as he stiffened in my arms.

“A lot more convenient,” I said as I rocked my hips against his. I was satisfied to find he was as hard as I was. “I want to in my bed, Seth, and I want to be able to take care of you and see to your needs during the pregnancy.”

I watched as his expression softened and he gave me a sweet smile. If I’d been made of ice I would have melted at the potent shyness, heat and happiness all mixed up in the curve of his full lips.

“Okay,” he said softly.

“You’ll move in? Today?”

He laughed and the sound went straight down to my cock before sending a resounding swirl of warmth up to my chest.

“I’m not sure that’s going to be possible. I don’t have much but enough that it’ll take more than an afternoon packing it all up.”

“Just grab the necessities. I can get some other wolves to help with the packing later. The furniture you can leave in the house if you want. I know a couple who are wanting their own place before the she-wolf murders her mother-in-law.” I reached up to smooth a lock of brown hair away from the corner of his eyes. “I want you sharing my bed tonight, little wolf. You’re mine now, no one else’s but mine.”