by Adrian Blue
Taken by the Alpha Wolves
By
Adrian Blue
© Copyright 2016, Adrian Blue, All Rights Reserved
Chapter One
“There she goes,” Lauren said. “Lucky bitch.”
Susan looked up from her plate to see the other woman smirking across the room. She followed her gaze to the back corner of the large meeting hall, where Janet was being hustled away by two massive Alphas. Susan smiled and went back to her food.
“Jealous?” she asked.
“Nope.” Lauren leaned back in her chair and glanced around. “Happy and hoping we all end up in the same boat.”
“Hmm.”
Susan scanned the Alpha pairs around them. A great deal of the muscular men were wolf-shifters. Their sense of smell was legendary. She had read a news story about an Alpha pair that found their mate ten miles downriver on a camping trip. She sighed. Some people got to avoid the trouble of attending The Hunt.
“Attention everyone!” the overhead system called. “We will begin in half an hour. If you have not located your mate or mates, please proceed to the appropriate shelter.”
Lauren muttered from across the table.
“What?”
“I said, why can’t our Alphas show up already,” Lauren repeated.
Susan secretly wondered the same thing. With the powerful noses all around them, surely their Alphas would have found them if they were in attendance. Given, there was always the possibility that their mates were not there. They could be running through the forest all night for no reason at all.
“Freaking tradition,” Lauren sighed.
Susan nodded her agreement. She looked at the sea of handsome faces and felt a twinge of sadness. On the one hand, she had become comfortable in her single life. She had a job, a house, a cat. She was not as lonely as some. On the other hand, it became harder every year to distract herself from the happy families she saw.
Every week, she passed Alphas with their mates at the grocery store. The women were always smiling and their Alphas doted on them, responding to their needs before they even asked. It was idyllic and, despite her reserved nature, she craved the closeness and passion that could only exist in a mated relationship.
“Ten minute warning!” the system announced.
“Come on, Susan.” Lauren rose from her chair and scooped up her plate. “If we’re late, we’ll never hear the end of it.” She smirked and mimicked, “You’re slowing down progress!”
Susan huffed a quiet laugh. “Right.”
The crowd around them shifted toward the open front doors. The Alphas surrounding her dwarfed her petite body, and she felt a shiver of excitement. One day, she would meet her Alphas and they would keep her safe and loved in their powerful arms. She glanced at the men and women around her. Most of them would be paired by morning.
“Move it, girlfriend,” Lauren called from ahead of her.
Susan hurried after her friend, falling into the flood of women headed toward the smaller shelter house. She was surprised by how many people were still unmated. She knew some Alphas held tight to tradition, believing a proper mating had to take place during a Hunt.
As the thought entered her mind, she glanced back over her shoulder at the Alphas filing into the large shelter house. Her mates could be somewhere in that varied bunch of men. As she watched, several of them glanced in her direction. A particularly handsome blond Alpha met her gaze.
He stared until the Alpha beside him whispered something in his ear. Both of them gave her a quick once over. The other Alpha was equally blond. She could see his pale blue eyes from all the way across the clearing. Together, the Alphas made a striking pair.
“Susan!”
Susan jerked out of her staring when Lauren grabbed her elbow and towed her into the building.
“We have to get a locker,” Lauren urged.
Susan glanced around the large open room. It was set up like a gym locker room. Every wall was covered in gray lockers, and benches spanned the length of each wall. Most of the other women had already selected a locker and started to strip. Susan let Lauren tug her over to the wall across from the door.
“Let it all hang out,” Lauren said with a grin and a full body wiggle.
Susan shook her head at her antics. “You’re ridiculous.”
“Meh.” Lauren shed her shirt and hung it up in the locker. “Beats the alternative.”
“Which is?” Susan asked, unbuttoning her own blouse and unhooking her bra.
“Being nervous.”
Susan nodded her agreement.
She hung her shirt and bra up on the hook opposite Lauren’s and wiggled out of her shirt. Years of going to the gym had desensitized her to stripping in front of other women. Being scantily clad in front of so many unmated Alphas was going to be much more nerve-wracking. She folded her skirt and lay it on top of her heels in the bottom on the locker.
“Last thing,” Lauren muttered.
Susan glanced over to see Lauren hesitating on her own panties. They looked at each other.
“Count of three?” Lauren asked.
Susan nodded.
“One.” Susan gripped the waistband of her lacy panties.
“Two.” Lauren wiggled her eyebrows flirtatiously.
“Three,” Susan laughed.
They dropped their panties at the same time. Susan folded hers and tucked them into the folds of her skirt. Lauren tossed hers in the bottom of the locker and slammed the door.
“I’m hoping not to need them after this,” Lauren explained.
Susan laughed. “Ever?”
Lauren gave her a saucy wink. “Only if I’m lucky.”
Susan looked around to see all of the other women were already naked. She saw various levels of nervousness on the surrounding faces. She wondered what her own face looked like. Susan did not appear anxious, but it was difficult to see behind her cheerful attitude.
The doors opened and a woman in a pantsuit entered. She scanned the room with a bright smile.
“Ladies, please try not to be uneasy. Soon, this will all be behind you and you will be happily mated.”
“Or stuck coming back again next year,” Lauren muttered under her breath.
Susan suppressed a smirk.
“Just remember to watch out for snakes in the forest,” the woman continued. “We sprayed for bugs this year.”
“Good lord,” Lauren whispered. “What kind of nightmare was it before that?”
Susan snorted in amusement and several women glanced her way. She blinked innocently.
“Please use the space given to you,” the woman advised. “And don’t bunch up. It’ll bring too many mates close together, and the Alphas can get a little aggressive if too many other Alphas are nearby.”
Susan rubbed her arm nervously. Now that the time had come, she was feeling far less prepared. She was in good shape physically, and could easily run for miles, but in the dark and alone it seemed much more daunting.
“Please take your ceremonial robe from the crate by the door,” the woman said.
Susan looked at Lauren and the two of them exchanged nervous smiles. They slipped into the stream of women headed for the doors. When she got to the box, Lauren grabbed two of the loose robes and handed one to her. Susan pulled it over her head and sighed. It was far too big, hanging off one shoulder and skimming near her knees.
“Sexy, right?”
Susan glanced over to see Lauren standing with her hands on her hips, looking down at herself. She was a few inches taller and shapelier, so her robe hit at her upper thighs. It was still too loose to show much of her curves, but she was not drowning in fabric like Susan.
“Very,” Susan deadpanned.
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br /> Chapter Two
The pine needles were soft under her bare feet and crunched softly with each step. The night was warm and comfortable and heavily pine-scented. It smelled like a car air freshener had exploded. Susan peered into the darkness around her.
She had not seen anyone for a while. She was not sure how long she had been out in the forest, but the moon had travelled a good distance across the sky. After running for what felt like hours, she had fallen into a comfortable pace. She wanted to be sporting, but not impossible to catch.
Somewhere in the dark forest, she hoped her Alphas were searching for her. They could already be tracking her. It was impossible to know. Alphas moved with speed and stealth, and in the darkness they would be all but invisible.
Suddenly, there was a howl from somewhere ahead of her. Susan stopped in her tracks and waited to see if it would come again. It did. From behind her. Even knowing there were no actual wolves on the Hunt grounds, she still felt a chill go down her spine. She turned left and quickened her pace to a run.
Another howl split the air, closer than before. Susan’s heart pounded in anticipation. Two Alpha wolves were hunting her. There could be only one reason why. She smiled and ran faster.
The forest was a blur of shadows as she ran. The howls stopped, replaced by playful yips and growls as her Alphas closed in. She glanced over her shoulder to see two full-shift wolves chasing her. Their eyes glowed in the moonlight, gazes never leaving her.
They were gaining quickly, but she knew they could have already overtaken her if they wanted to. It was a game. Susan grinned at the playfulness of it. She scanned the forest in front of her for the perfect place to stop.
As she crested a slight hill, there was a small, grassy clearing. Susan headed for it. The moment her feet touched the grass, she spun to face the two Alphas. They paused at the edge of the clearing. Susan took a couple steps back and they followed her onto the grass.
“I’m Susan,” she murmured.
The two Alphas glanced at each other. The next moment, they had shifted into their human forms. Two gorgeous, blond Alphas stared back at her. The very same she had seen back at the Hunt lodge. They were even more striking up close.
“We know,” one of them said. “We met your friend Lauren.”
Susan’s eyebrows shot up. “She told you where I was?”
“General direction,” the other Alpha said. “I believe she was on the verge of being mated.”
Wow. Both of her friends had already found their happy ever after. Susan looked over the two Alphas. They were both a little over six feet tall and built strong. One had pale eyes, the other golden brown. They both looked her over just as carefully as she was studying them.
“Stephen,” the one with brown eyes said. The scruff on his jaw rasped when he rubbed his face nervously.
Susan melted. “Hi, Stephen.”
He returned her smile with a boyish grin. “Hello, Susan.”
The blue-eyed Alpha nudged him out of the way. “And I’m Anthony,” he said.
Susan looked back and forth between their eager faces. “How many times have you been to the Hunt?”
Her Alphas glanced at each other and let out twin sighs.
“This is our fifth year,” Anthony said. “We were starting to think it would never happen for us.”
Susan drifted closer to them. She could feel their honest distress at the thought of never meeting her.
“But it did,” she said.
They both nodded.
And her body was already onboard with the idea of mating. If she was honest, the moment she saw them outside the hunt lodge she knew there was something about them. Being under their gaze had made all the dormant parts of her light up. She felt desired in a way she never had been before.
Susan watched her Alphas discreetly sniff in her direction. They went still at the scent of her growing arousal.
“Five years is a long time to wait,” she murmured, backing away from them.
They followed.
“Would have waited five hundred,” Anthony said, a growl leaking into his voice.
Susan shivered in anticipation. She shrugged her shoulders and her dress slipped down to reveal one creamy breast. Stephen licked his lips. Her nipples hardened at their hungry stares. Susan slowly raised her hand to cup her naked breast.
She knew their hands would feel far better than her own. Her body would sing for them. She closed her eyes and swiped her thumb over her hard nipple. The shot of pleasure went straight between her legs. Her thighs trembled as the first drops of wetness slipped out of her.
Susan felt warm breath on her nipple and opened her eyes. Stephen and Anthony were less than a foot from her, Stephen kneeling to watch her fingers stroke over her nipple.
“May I?” he asked, staring at her like a starving man.
Susan nodded wordlessly. She cried out at the first swipe of his tongue on the sensitive bud. Her head fell back in rapture as he gently suckled, cradling her breast in one large hand. She heard a loud rip and then her dress was slipping down over her hips to the ground.
Susan blinked her eyes open to see Anthony lower himself to one knee beside Stephen. He nuzzled the underside of her other breast and kissed down over her ribs. Stephen pulled off her nipple with a pop. Susan gasped as the cooler night air chilled the wet bud. She shivered in pleasure.
She could feel her wetness leaking down her thighs. Her core clenched, hungry to be filled. Susan clutched at Stephen’s head, as he moved across to lap at her other nipple. The little shocks of pleasure made her thighs tremble. Anthony gently spread her legs and parted her wet folds with his tongue. The first touch to her swollen clit made her cry out.
“You taste so good,” Anthony rumbled.
He circled her nub with his tongue, teasing over it until her legs threatened to collapse. She whimpered their names, needing more. Stephen sucked at her nipple, gently pinching the other. Susan gasped for breath as the pleasure in her body grew. Helpless cries fell from her lips, as Anthony’s lips closed around her swollen clit and sucked.
“Yes!” she cried. “Please!”
One of Anthony’s thick fingers slipped inside her and her body went tense. She shook through a devastating orgasm. Her legs gave out and her Alphas had to catch her. Susan could not stop moaning, even when she was in Anthony’s arms, her legs wrapped around his waist.
Her body craved them, all that they could give her. Even with the tremors still shaking her body, she hungered for them. Susan wiggled her hips and Anthony’s thick cock rubbed against her thigh. He ducked his head and smothered a groan in her hair.
“Mate me,” she whispered.
He tipped her chin up to scan her face. His pale eyes were soft, even darkened by his hunger for her. He seemed to find what he was looking for, because he gave her a small smile and nodded.
Chapter Three
Anthony’s hand cradled the back of her head and his arm cushioned her back, as he pressed her to the tree trunk. Susan panted, squeezing her thighs around him as he slowly began to sink into her wet heat. Her body stretched around him perfectly and she moaned his name.
Stephen leaned in to kiss the gasp from her lips at Anthony’s first hard thrust. Anthony set a fast rhythm, as Stephen licked into her mouth. He cupped her face, kissing her lips and cheeks and murmuring endearments in her ear.
“So beautiful, mate.” His wet lips dragged down her throat. “Going to make you so happy.”
“I am,” Susan gasped.
Anthony ground his hips into her and her breath hitched.
“Please, Anthony!” she begged. “Please!”
He snapped his hips forward and back, plunging in and out of her tight body. His thick cock massaged her inner walls and she squeezed her eyes closed at how good it felt. He was so deep inside her. She wanted to come on his cock. She wanted to feel his heat pouring into her.
Her body wound tighter and tighter with each thrust. Stephen’s hand slipped down to stroke ove
r her swollen clit and she jerked her hips into the new layer of pleasure. Her body felt like it was on fire for her Alphas. She could feel her peak approaching and she tossed her head.
“Come for us, beautiful,” Stephen murmured in her ear. He smoothed her sweaty hair back from her face. “Let us have it.”
Susan met his warm, brown eyes and shattered. She cried out and her body pulsed over and over. Anthony groaned his pleasure and she felt his heat flooding into her until it dripped down her thighs. She clung to Anthony’s shoulders as his teeth sank into her neck. Stephen whispered praises between kisses to her panting mouth.
When Anthony finally slipped out of her, she moaned at the loss. Stephen immediately took his place. He kissed the unmarked side of her neck like a promise and slid into her. Susan gasped at the size of him. He was thicker, where Anthony was longer, and it was a whole new kind of pleasure.
Susan let out a ragged moan when he was all the way inside her. She weakly turned her head to kiss Anthony’s hungry lips. He kissed her forcefully, nipping at her lips. It was the exact opposite of Stephen’s sweet passion, but both styles made her melt.
Stephen slowly pulled his hips back and slid back into her. He strokes were long and leisurely, like he had all the time in the world. Susan arched her back to entice him, but he just smiled. Every muscle in his powerful body was perfectly controlled, as he gave her pleasure at his own pace.
Her body was so wet and open for him, it squelched with each slow thrust. She would have been embarrassed in any other situation, but with her Alphas it made her feel proud. It was impossible for them to miss how much she wanted them. How much she craved their touch.
“Stephen!” she moaned.
“What is it, sweetheart?” He ground his hips into hers, making her body spasm. “Tell me what you want.”
Anthony licked over his mating bite, and the bolt of pleasure made her clamp down on the thickness inside her.
Susan whined, jerking her hips into Stephen’s. Her eyes grew wet from the ecstasy of it. Stephen ran the tip of one finger through her wet folds to tease around her clit.
“Let me come!” she begged.
