by Susi Hawke
If she wasn't afraid of them at this age, I figured that maybe I wouldn't have to worry as much when she was a teenager and the other kids started sniffing around her. Thank Fenris that was a good ten years off though.
Once I had them both tucked in for their naps, I poked my head into our room to check on my mate. He was laying bed reading, when I sheepishly caught his eye. Aries raised a brow, but merely patted the mattress next to him.
I walked over and pulled off my shoes before laying down beside my mate and pulling him over to spoon up against me. He was wearing just a pair of old sweats, with no shirt on.
Apparently pregnancy made him run hot, which was awesome for me, because that meant that I got to see his muscular chest and cute baby belly as much as I wanted. It was hard to keep my eyes and hands off him, to be honest.
“How come you're all alone in here? I thought for sure that one of your friends would be hanging out and bashing all of us stupid alphas about now.”
“Oh, hush. I sent them away because I knew it was about nap time, and I was hoping for some cuddle time with the Nutter Daddy.”
“I hope she doesn't stop calling me that any time soon. Have you noticed how much clearer her speech is getting?”
“Yeah, it's amazing. I don't think we'll need to worry about that speech specialist recommendation from Doc, if she keeps improving so well. I try to correct her whenever she says a sound wrong, even though I hate to do it.”
I cuddled him closer, kissing his shoulder as I wrapped my arm around his waist and cradled his big baby belly with my hand. “You just don't want to be the bad guy. Admit it, you'd rather make me be the one to piss her off, while you get to be the sweet little Daddy Guy.”
He giggled. “Well, she finally accepts me, somewhat anyway. I don't want to screw that up, you know? But, at the same time, I want to do right by her.”
“Yeah. I get it, babe. Parenthood sucks. You know what else sucks?”
“I'm hoping you'll say that you do, because I can't seem to find my own dick these days, let alone be able to properly stroke it when you're not around to help me with it.”
I lowered my hand to cup his crotch, kissing his neck as I whispered: “I'm always happy to give you a hand.” kiss. “Or a mouth.” kiss. “Or even a knot,” I sucked over his claim mark then, making him squirm as he pushed his ass back and rubbed up against my crotch. “And if I'm not around, just holler. I'll come running every time, if it means that I get to be handsy with my mate.”
“Micah. You're starting to piss me off, babe.”
I jerked my head up, alarmed. “What did I do? I can fix it. Just tell me.”
Pushing his ass up firmly against my stiff cock, Aries said: “It's nothing you did, it's what you aren't doing.”
“What do I need to be doing?”
“Me.”
Oh. OH! “Now that I can definitely fix.” I pushed the elastic waist of his sweatpants down, and reached my hand inside to stroke his length. “What would you like me to do first, sweet-cheeks? You're the boss today, so name it.”
I watched the blush coloring his cheek as I leaned over him, kissing his jaw and licking my way down along his neck.
“How long do you think we have?”
“The pups are worn out. I had them outside playing all morning. So at least another hour and a half, I would guess.”
“Lock the doors?”
“You got it.” I gave his cock one quick tug, and kissed his claim mark, then got up and quickly went over to lock both the adjoining door to the pups room, and the door to the hall.
Once I knew that we had complete privacy, I stripped off my shirt and slowly stalked towards my mate, who was eyeing my body like a slab of raw meat, as my clothes quickly went flying.
I went back over to the bed, and pulled his pants off with one firm yank, before crawling back up and dropping down carefully onto the bed next to him. Aries was laying on his side, facing away from me, while arching his back and pushing that ass towards me.
“Tell me what you want, baby.” I ran a finger slowly down his spine and across the crack of his tight, juicy ass.
“I want your knot, and I don't want to waste any time with foreplay. I just want you to take me hard, rough, and fast.”
“Fuuuck. Are you even hearing yourself right now?”
He turned his head to look back at me over his shoulder, with a sexy little smirk on his pouty lips. “Do you have a problem with that, mate?”
“Yeah. Because you're gonna make me nut before I even get my dick wet.”
“Then get in there, big boy. Tick-tock, time's a wasting.” Reaching down, the brat pulled grabbed his ass cheek, spreading it open just enough for me to see the slick already shining from his hole.
I pushed up against him, rubbing my hard cock between his cheeks while I bent my head down and nipped at his claim mark. “So, no foreplay, no teasing?”
“None of that shit right now. Just fuck me, alpha.”
Reaching down to grab my cock, I kept nipping and licking his mark while I lined myself up with his hole. I reached both hands up and grabbed his hips, thrusting right past his rim and sinking inside of him with one quick pump of my hips. I paused for a moment, to let us both adjust, and waited for his nod to continue.
“I said to take me, alpha. Now, quit waiting and fuck me already. What's a man gotta do to get laid around here?”
Chuckling, I started thrusting slow and steady, until I got my rhythm going, then I wrapped my arm around around his waist over the baby belly. Pulling him against me and locking him in place with my right arm, while my left hand was firmly grabbing his hip from underneath, I pounded into him. He writhed and panted, as I quickly picked up speed.
The only sounds in the room were those of our sweaty flesh slapping together and our quiet pants and gasps. My knot was already swelling up, and I was having a harder time pulling out with each down stroke.
Moving my hand from his waist, I pushed his shoulders forward, holding his upper body away with from me the flat of my hand as I arched backwards and thrusted with shallow rocks of my hips, now that my knot was truly good and stuck inside his rim.
“Need. Help?” I gasped out, wondering if he needed a hand on his cock to tip him over the edge.
Shaking his head furiously, he panted: “Just. Don't. Stop.”
My left hand gripped his hip tighter, while I still kept his shoulders pushed forward with my right hand. I tilted my hips up slightly to better hit that little bundle of nerves inside his ass, while I kept humping into him with a furious pace.
“Yes, alpha, yes!” He gasped out in a whisper, his scent filling the room as ropes of cum started squirting out and shooting over the mattress in front of him.
I rode that ass hard through his orgasm, it was his ass clenching around my cock that finally pushed me over the edge. I dipped my head to rest my forehead between his sweaty shoulder blades, while my own release filled his ass with hot liquid as I climaxed.
“Holy shit, babe,” my mate panted, as I came back to reality after a few moments of sheer bliss. “That was fucking hot.”
Pulling his shoulders up against my chest, I wriggled around settling us in, until we were both comfortable while we waited for my knot to go back down.
“Yeah, it was! But I didn't hurt you, did I? That wasn't too rough?”
“No, baby. Doc said that this was perfectly safe, remember?”
“I know, I just, well, damn. That was some pretty hard pounding that you wanted there.”
“Yeah, I've been really horny lately. I had a window here where I didn't feel like puking, so I wanted to take advantage of it. And you. I always want to take advantage of you.” He giggled then, making me grin at what an adorably sexy man that I had for a mate.
This was my favorite part of sex now, well, aside from the actual fucking. I got to cuddle my man, and have him all to myself, for as long as it took for my knot to relax. These times of intimacy were precious to me, I couldn't even fa
thom how I ever could have lived without this man at my side.
“Am I allowed to ask how much you puked after I left earlier?”
Aries sighed. “I'm sorry, Micah. I know how much you care about me, and that you worry. Not because of the whole alpha thing, but because you really love me. I get that. I just hate talking about being sick, especially right after I get done with a bout of it. You caught me at a bad time this morning, babe. I hate myself when I get all prickly with you.” He swiped at tears and muttered “damn hormones” under his breath.”
“Hey, now,” I wrapped my arm that was under him around his waist, while I stroked his belly with my top hand. “Don't feel bad, baby. I know this has been a shitty pregnancy for you, and I hate seeing you beat yourself up for being honest with me. If I'm being a douche-bag, just tell me. I can take it.”
“No, it's not you. Well, sometimes it is? But you can't help it. I just hate that I'm feeling like this, when this should be a happy time for us! We're having a baby together, our own pup. And I can't even enjoy the process.”
“First of all, fuck the process. Our happy time will be when we get to meet the little one, that's the whole point of pregnancies, right? To get a healthy baby? Everything else is just life. Second of all, we have our own pups already. Sara and Dylan are every bit as much mine, as they are yours. I thought you knew that? This baby is an addition to our family, but it's not any more important than the little guys that we already have, okay?”
“Oh, fuck, now you're gonna make me cry again,” he said, as he poked an elbow back against my gut.
“Oof. Watch those bony elbows, omega. Or else.” I growled playfully in his ear, hugging him closer against me, as I inhaled his scent.
“Or what?”
“Or, I'm gonna have to bend you over and redden that little smart ass.”
“Good luck with that one, when I've got a beach ball sticking out of the front of me.”
“Oh, I have a long memory, babe. I'll wait until I can stretch you over my lap again, and then I'll paddle your butt until it glows.”
“Then what will you do?”
“Then? Why that's when I get to kiss it and make it all better,” I said as I nipped his earlobe.
“I love you, Micah.”
“I love you, too, Aries. Now let's take a nap. My mate wore me out.”
“That sounds good. I like that plan.”
“Me too, babe.”
We ended up taking a long nap. When we woke up, I pulled on my clothes and helped my mate get into his own pants again, before I went to see about our pups. I felt like a shitty parent, taking a nap while my pups were off on their own.
I opened the adjoining door though, and found Sy sitting there playing with blocks with my pups and little Brianne. Leaning against the door frame, I smiled fondly as I watched while Sara patiently showed Brianne how to stack the blocks properly.
The kid was a true alpha, through and through. Sy's baby was only about ten months old, so she had no interest in doing anything other than gnawing on the blocks at this point, but Sara seemed determined to help her half sister learn to stack them anyway.
“Hey, there. Did you guys have a nice nap?” Sy smirked up at me, with knowing eyes.
“Yeah. We didn't mean to sleep so long. I'm sorry if we put you out.”
“No, it's okay. Sara came and found me when you guys didn't answer her knock,” he answered kindly. “Did Aries finally get some rest?”
“Yeah, he was out like a log. He's awake now, if you wanna go in?”
He nodded and got up from the floor. I saw him start to hesitate, looking at Brianne, but I quickly said: “Go ahead, I'll watch your little one, you go hang out with Aries. He's getting sick of being stuck in bed.”
“I'm right here, you know. You don't need to talk about me like I'm not in the same damned room,” Aries said, his voice carrying across the room from the bed behind me. I looked over my shoulder at him and grinned, as Sy pushed past me and went to curl up at the foot our bed and visit with my mate.
“You want me to shut the door, so you can have some privacy?”
“No, thanks though, baby. But I want the pups to be able to come see me if they want to.”
“Alright, well, the offer is there.” I walked into the kids room and got down on the floor to play with my pups. While Sara had me helping her with the tower, I noticed Dylan get up and pick up a book, before he carried it into our bedroom to have his daddy read it to him. I smiled, knowing how much that would mean to my mate, and focused on stacking the blocks with Sara, while Brianne busily chewed on one and watched us play.
Sometime during the night, Aries woke me and insistently urged me to get up and go get the Doc. I blinked my eyes at him, not understanding what was happening, when I realized that our bed was soaked. His water had broke while we slept.
Oh, shit! I jumped as I realized that, HIS WATER HAD BROKE! I started to run for the door, when I heard Aries dryly comment behind me: “Babe, you might wanna consider putting some pants on before you go knocking at another man's door in the middle of the night.”
Right. Pants. I looked around the room in confusion, temporarily forgetting where I could locate pants. Aries rolled his eyes and merely pointed at the pile of clothes on the floor that I'd shucked off earlier when I went to bed.
Embarrassed, I went over and pulled on my pants. I threw the shirt over my head and was struggling with the arms, while I fumbled with the doorknob and then went down the hall to knock on Doc's door.
While I waited for him to answer, the door of the room next to his popped open, and Jake's aunt stepped out. “Let me guess, your mate is finally ready to deliver?”
I nodded my head, as Doc opened his door, his medical bag in hand.
“It is that time?” he asked me calmly, with a raised brow.
“Yeah, Aries' water broke while we were sleeping.”
“Okay. You go downstairs. I will come to find you when the baby is here.”
I nodded reluctantly, firmly aware of his 'no alphas' rule for the delivery. I watched him walk down to our room, my fists clenched at the inability to be there for my mate right now.
A small hand gripped my arm, and I heard Aunt Cat say: “Come with me, we'll go downstairs and have a nice cup of tea. I can tell you all about my books, and the various research that goes into writing them. You wouldn't believe the interesting gadgets that I have picked up since I started writing my stories!”
The door across the hall flew open, and Kai came rushing out. “No! Don't you dare scare him right now, Auntie! Jake's coming out to keep him company. I'm gonna go get Sy and see what we can do to help Doc with Aries.”
“Oh, nonsense! A big, strapping alpha like Micah here isn't going to be scared of a little, old beta wolf like me! Honestly, I don't know where you boys get your ideas.”
Jake came strolling out, sending Kai off with a swat to his butt as he flashed me a lazy grin and said: “It's okay, man. Just don't ask her about cock cages and you'll be just fine with my aunt here.”
“Cock, what now?” I asked reluctantly, after I found my tongue.
“Oh, they're the neatest little devices! I actually have one in my office if you want to see it!”
“No!” Jake said quickly, as he put an arm around his aunt and steered her toward the stairs. “Come on, Micah. I have a deck of cards in my office. I'll grab them for us, and Aunt Cat can teach you some slap jack, instead of scaring you into never wanting to have sex again.”
I looked back longingly over my shoulder towards the open door to our room, but I followed my Alpha and his kooky little aunt down the stairs instead. As much I wanted to be with my mate, I knew that I needed to do as I was asked and just let him do his thing, while I made myself scarce for the duration.
Jake and his aunt stayed with me all night, playing cards and keeping me calm, while Aries delivered the newest member of our little family. After the first hour, I was cracking up from Aunt Cat's jokes and innuendos. Jake kep
t warning me not to encourage her, but I seriously thought that the little crackerjack was probably the most awesome old lady that I'd ever met.
As I saw the sky lighting with the sunrise of a new day, Kai came bouncing into the doorway and chirped happily: “Come back upstairs now, Micah. It's time to meet your new pup.”
Dropping my cards, I jumped from the table and dashed through the doorway, stopping long enough to give Kai a quick hug. I could hear Jake chuckling behind me as I shouted “Thanks!” to the room behind me, dashing up the stairs and down the hall to our room.
I skidded to a stop when I came through our door, and saw Aries sitting back against a mound of pillows, cradling a newborn babe. He looked up at me with a beatific smile, as I went around the bed to crawl up beside them. My eyes were blurry with tears as I looked down at the precious angel in my mate's arms.
“Hey, Nutter Daddy.” Aries said softly. “Meet Linus, our newest son.”
I reached out to stroke a trembling finger down Linus' petal soft cheek, tears freely falling now. “Hey there, Linus. I'm your Papa. It's about time you came out to meet us.”
Aries snorted. “Good luck with the whole Papa thing. Sara's never gonna let that fly. I'm pretty sure she's sticking with the whole Nutter Daddy thing permanently. Especially if she ever finds out how much it bugs you.”
I chuckled through my happy tears, leaning in to press a kiss to my mate's lips. “Honestly? Our pups can call me anything they want, as long as they're here and remember to call me something, you know?”
“I'm pretty sure I'm the poster child for knowing what it feels like to want your pups to know you and remember you.”
“Aries, you're one omega that's I'll always remember.”
“I know, babe. I know.”
We kissed again, before breaking apart to smile down at our pup. It was amazing, how much I already loved the little guy who had just joined our family. My amazing little Linus.
The adjoining door flew open sometime later, as our older pups came flying in and hopped up on the bed.
“See, Dywan! I towed you that I cud sme-wuh the baby!” Sara announced triumphantly as Dylan crawled up over our legs and snuggled in between us to see his new little brother.
