The Wilder Alpha (4 page)

She whimpered under his touches as they became rough squeezing and kneading. His member pressed harder into her. Her hips rolled against him, eliciting a pleased, vibrating growl from Jay. He bucked his hips up, his sole desire to feel her clench around him entirely.

Red-hot hormones erased all thoughts of their allegiances. Kristi arched her back as her claws razed down his shirt. The very tips tore through the fabric, leaving red scratches on his torso. The gentleness was driving Jay crazy. Pheromones rushed his nose, adding hot pressure in his lungs. His heart heaved and he swallowed moans and groans. He needed to feel her flush against him, naked and writhing.

Before he could think, Jay’s hands grabbed Kristi by her waist and he switched their positions. She gasped and stared up at him with wide, yellow eyes. Her toes curled into the dirt beneath her as her fingers looped into the waistband of his pants.

Jay raised himself to his knees, staring down at her. Her dark hair fanned out behind her, like a halo. With every deep breath, her chest rose and fell in an enticing rhythm. Jay leaned forward, catching one of her nipples in his mouth. His tongue swirled around the hardened bead. She whimpered and moaned beneath him, her fingers clawing at the back of his shoulders. She wiggled and shifted beneath him. While he gently sucked on her tit, his hands slipped down to her pants.

As Jay’s fingers went beneath the waistband, he made two discoveries. Thankfully, she sported elastic band pajama pants, easy to pull down and remove. Even more praiseworthy, Kristi was commando beneath the pants. Jay could smell her heat as he inched her pants down lower and lower. His lips descended southward, farther and farther with each inch of exposed flesh.

Kristi held her breath, biting her bottom lip as he nipped and suckled his way down her body. Heat coiled tighter and tighter in her core, threatening to explode with his every touch. Light moans and groans lit between begrudging vocal cords and stubborn lips.

Jay swallowed his own reverent moan as her scent hit him full in the face. The heat inside him reached boiling point. He inhaled her sexual musk, his fingers twitching at her hips. His cock twitched in delight.

His eyes darted to her face, a smirk on his lips. She watched him, biting her bottom lip with flush nipping across her cheeks. Jay flicked his tongue out between her lower lips, cleaving between them. Her juices touched his tongue, compounding the heat in his groin. Kristi gasped and arched against the ground, her fingers digging into Jay’s hair. Insurmountable pleasure flickered over her whole body. She clenched her eyes shut and a moan pealed from her throat. Her reaction drew him closer to crumbling under his hunger.

A sudden cold forced Kristi to open her eyes, catching the sight of Jay tearing off his ragged shirt. His muscles rippled and gently shifted beneath his skin. Desire stirred in her, as he threw his shirt over his shoulder. She held her breath as he undid his pants.

His cock slid against her pussy. His hard heat tingled all the way through her skin, into her bones. Kristi’s teeth sunk deeper into her lip, her hips bucking up for his attention. Jay’s lips twitched into a crooked grin as he surveyed her.

Desires clawed through Jay and his fingers dug into her hips. He lowered himself over her, bringing his mouth to her ear. His lips worked along her lobe, massaging her ear. She whimpered under him, bucking her hips again. His cock hovered right outside her slit, tempting her with immense heat. With every movement Kristi made, Jay had to restrain himself.

“If we share pain, do we share pleasure, Kristi?” Jay murmured into her ear, enjoying how she sharply inhaled as his breath played over her ear.

Her heart thrummed in her chest, her nerves shuddered. She hadn’t thought about that.

There was no time to dwell on the possibility. Jay took her momentary distraction and slammed into her. Heat and thickness and hardness cleaved through her. Pleasure sparked at the edge of her senses, before it ate up all her thoughts. Her hands crooked against his back, her legs wrapped around his torso. Her thighs clenched tightly against him.

Supple, malleable heat enveloped Jay, deteriorating his thoughts. The tingles crawled through his groin and up his body. Desire sunk into his bones, flooding his body with pleasant prickles and tightness. He slammed in and out of Kristi, the friction wet and searing and satisfying. Grunts and moans left his lips as her claws raked down his back.

Kristi gasped and writhed beneath his thrusts, her mind a mess of hormones and pleasure. Moans careened from her throat, echoing around the cavern. She couldn’t remember the last time she felt such intensity, such heat. Chances were, she never felt like this before. Anyone she had an inkling of interest hadn’t been her Mate.

The pleasure rebounded and ricocheted between the two, heat consuming them both as pressure clamped on their cores. Kristi’s gasps and Jay’s grunts echoed around them, filling the air like pheromones and heat. Sweat trickled down Jay’s back and he admired the gentle sheen that coated Kristi’s skin.

Tension knotted through Kristi’s body, tighter and tighter. Her arms and legs curled around Jay as the cavern melted away from her thoughts. She bounced and rolled her hips against his, meeting his rhythm and his pace. The pressure and heat built up in her, until she felt as if she’d melt if release didn’t come soon.

Her claws dug into Jay’s shoulders, raking across his flesh. The pain seeped into his body, giving his pleasure a sharpened edge. Her throat stung from ragged breathlessness.

“Jay!” she gasped, the pleasure inside her knotting tightly. Pressure crackled through her body, followed quickly by intense heat. She moaned loudly, bordering on a howl of pleasure, as her body rollicked beneath him.

He bade his pleasure off, despite her convulsing pussy and the slickness on his overjoyed dick. His thoughts fluttered and splintered under the force of pleasure that roiled through him, throbbing in time to Kristi’s moans and shudders. His fingers dug into her hips, raising her up slightly as he thrust in and out harder, deeper, faster.

Kristi keened beneath him, smaller tremors licking over her body. Her mind was a flurry of pleasure and whimpers, not sure how much more she could take under him. She blindly muttered his name repeatedly, breathy and desperate. The gasps pushed Jay closer to his edge. He wanted this to last as long as possible, but she sharply whimpered again, her body seizing and kinking tightly around his. Her inner walls rippled around his cock and he couldn’t hold back.

Jay groaned, Kristi’s name on his lips, as he slammed himself as hard as he could into her. Pleasure sparked in his head and at the corners of his vision as release bowled him over. At the same time, Kristi let out a breathy mewl. His body shuddered as liquid heat filled her. Another quake overtook her body, before the heat completely melted into her spent, aching body.
Jay’s cock continued to pulse and throb inside of Kristi, as her walls pulsed against him. He groaned, lowering himself atop her allowing the two to lie there, enjoying the last traces of afterglow while their lower stomachs throbbed from exertion.

Kristi gently ran her fingertips through Jay’s hair, chuckling as he pressed his scalp against her strokes. Pleased grunts resonated out of his throat, the vibrations sifting into her. As the hormones dissipated, for the moment satisfied, her regular thoughts struck her synapses. Her nose flared, smelling nothing but dirt, sex, and sweat.

She pushed herself upright, with force, displacing Jay’s body atop hers. In the prisoner’s cavern, time was difficult to keep track of thanks to the alchemical lights. She ignored the emptiness and her body’s dissent as Jay climbed off her. Kristi had other things on her mind. Getting to her feet, she quickly retrieved her pants, tugging them on.

Concern dotted Jay’s brow as he watched his Mate get dressed. “Was I that bad?”

“I relieved the prior guards of their duties.” Kristi didn’t meet Jay’s gaze. All the worries flooded back into her. If they were caught, it would be the end of him. – maybe even her. She wasn’t quite sure how much disobedience Alpha Gavin would swallow from her, especially if he was interested in her as more than a second-in-command. She shoved her shirt on over her head as she continued, “The next round will be here soon.”

“Why’d you do that?” Jay’s head listed to the side, but he didn’t budge.

Kristi still refused to look at Jay. A blush bit at her cheeks as he continued to stare at her. “I couldn’t risk anyone eavesdropping on us.”

He grunted in understanding, but a slight grin twisted at his lips.
Then why not use silent howling?

Kristi didn’t reply and still didn’t look at him. Jay’s gut instinct – or was it a sort of Mate empathy – knew the answer. That didn’t mean he didn’t want to hear it from Kristi’s own mouth. “You were hoping for se –”

“Get dressed,” she bit out, the blush flaring over her face. In frustration, she chucked Jay’s torn shirt at his head.

He caught it with ease. His pleased grin never faltered as he got to his feet, shrugging on his shirt.

In the split second when Jay wasn’t watching her, Kristi dared to glance at him. His back was turned to her, giving her a pleasant view of his backside. She bit her lip, stuffing her hormones into a tiny mental box. Scars laced his back, accompanied by the long red marks her claws had left just moments prior. Jay hissed as the fabric slipped over his injuries, but he didn’t mutter a complaint.

She continued to watch him as he pulled on his underwear – an asinine human contraption that domesticated wolves wore – and his pants. As she watched him, fondness and attraction bubbled in her thoughts, but were quickly popped as propriety to her pack jabbed into her head. This revelation was bad. She shouldn’t steep in affection for him or even allow it to simmer. She should have killed him when he gave her that option. Even that thought, as pragmatic as it was, sent a painful throb through her chest.

She turned to leave, but Jay’s hand on her elbow stopped her. “Hey, you leaving without saying goodbye?”

Kristi stopped and sighed. She turned to him, a serious frown on her lips. “They’ll be suspicious if they smell you on me.”

“Too late for that, isn’t it?” He laughed, his insufferable grin making warmth puddle inside her stomach. He didn’t give her a chance to dissent. He leaned down, pecking her gently on the lips. Then he leaned back and released her from his grip.

She stared up at him, an unreadable emotion flickering in her yellow eyes. She averted her gaze as a blush clawed across her cheeks. Fluttering warmth and a fond grin tugged at her lips, but she packed it all away. She made a beeline for the exit before Jay could worsen the situation. She forced a somber expression to her lips as she hauled the boulder out of the way.

Jay returned to the floor, leaning back against the far wall. He watched Kristi as she left, satisfaction lolling through his thoughts. The smile on his lips was a permanent fixture. It remained in place even as the lights dimmed and the room was swallowed up with darkness.

However, the darkness brought a nasty taste with it. Kristi had immense standing in her pack since she had been allowed to dismiss his prior guards. His tongue flicked out over his lips, where he could still taste her. His stomach clenched as a battle between desire and duty grappled in his mind.

Kristi could be his ticket to freedom, whether she wanted to help him or not. He swallowed down the lump that formed in his throat. He forced himself to relax and curl up on the ground. Despite his efforts, the sour thoughts continued to swirl around his mind.

So much for enjoying the warm, delightful afterglow.

CHAPTER SEVEN

After a quick shower and an extremely short nap – cut short by Alpha Gavin’s silent howl – Kristi found herself standing in front of her leader. His cavern felt bigger and colder than ever. Anxiety tugged at her thoughts as Gavin circled her. He hadn’t said anything upon her entrance. He had immediately gone to revolving around her. Every so often, she thought she heard him sniff loudly or make a displeased grunt. She couldn’t bear to turn her gaze toward him. Did he smell Jay on her? Did he simply
know
? Her stomach lurched as he leered at her.

“Have you successfully questioned our prisoner, Beta Kristi?”

Kristi shook her head, her eyes refusing to rise from the ground. “He refuses to talk, sir.”

“I see.” Kristi could hear the frown in Alpha Gavin’s voice. He paused on his fifth rotation around her, near her left side. The alpha attempted to keep his tone light and conversational, “Despite your little friendly starvation tactic?”

“Yes, sir.” Kristi swallowed, nodding her head.

“Care to elaborate why?” Alpha Gavin’s voice was cold and detached.

“My own carelessness,” murmured Kristi as she dared to turn her gaze toward her superior’s face. His expression was neutral, his eyes narrowed. Kristi shook her anxieties away and steeled herself. More than anything, she needed her resolve, even if it
were
crumbling. “He swiped food out of my hand while I was dangling it before him.”

“Just like that?” Alpha Gavin’s eyebrows furrowed, a light flickered in his green eyes. His head listed to the side a little, as if he had heard Kristi wrong.

“Yes, sir.” She nodded her head, resisting the urge to nibble on the inside of her cheek. Kristi shifted her footing as silence encapsulated the two of them. Alpha Gavin’s unreadable stare made a lump of lead form in her stomach. She wasn’t sure what her alpha would do. He had always been kind to her, but that was on the condition of her loyalty. Now, she lied and hid important developments from him. Her stomach tangled up with her own disappointment in herself.

“Well, if my Beta is incapable of getting this domesticated mutt to speak,” Alpha Gavin commenced circling around Kristi, “Perhaps Selene or I will take over.”

“No!” Kristi gasped, jolting a little. Thankfully, Alpha Gavin was behind her and unable to see the look of dread and desperation that crossed her features. Both Alphas were merciless in their pursuit for information. Something inside her prickled at the very thought of Selene being left alone with Jay. Kristi turned, hoping her wide-eyed expression conveyed sincerity, “Please, give me another chance, sir. I’ll make him talk.”

Alpha Gavin stared down his nose at her while his lips twitched further into a frown. Kristi thought she could see various emotions igniting behind his eyes: disappointment, uncertainty, distaste, and – somehow – hope. She swallowed, her voice low and crackling, “One more chance, please, Alpha Gavin.”

He listed his head to the side, narrowing his eyes to small slits. His green gaze flickered between his long, dark lashes. Alpha Gavin looked about ready to lunge for her jugular. Kristi resisted the urge to stumble back or touch her throat.

“One more day,” growled Alpha Gavin as he held up his long index finger. His bloodstained claw curved elegantly from his fingertip. “After that, Selene and I will proceed as we see fit.”

Relief sparked through Kristi’s thoughts and a smile split across her lips. She bowed deeply to her alpha. Her hair curtained her face, hiding the delight on her features. With a tone more somber than she felt, Kristi breathed, “Thank you, Alpha Gavin.”

She turned on her heel before he could change her mind. Scripted words flew about her head as the daunting task swelled before her. Could she get Jay to betray Goldbridge now? Uncertainty pitted her heart. Kristi shook the worries away, though they lingered close to her thoughts. Surely, she thought, any Mate of hers would come to a full understanding of the situation.