by Odessa Lynne
Kem pursed his lips, and Gerald was sure it was the first time he’d ever seen that expression on Kem’s face.
“It was his dick, right? You never said.”
“Wentarki is right,” Tanis said, dropping out of the wolves’ language. “Leisikei isn’t your mate until you’ve mated. I’ll give you the pleasures of a proper mating, and you’ll submit to me as your mate and alpha.”
For some reason, that just pissed Gerald off and he rounded on Tanis. “No, you just want your chance to pound my ass. Think I’m gonna pass on this, big guy, thanks anyway. My future mate will wake up soon enough. I’ll let him be the one to break me in this season.”
A low rumble rose from Tanis’s chest. The hair on Gerald’s arms stood on end. Softly, Tanis said, “Submit, human.”
Gerald looked desperately at Kem.
Kem’s unreadable expression gave him no hope at all. Kem stepped back and Gerald actually felt a shivery tingle go through him as the barrier stopped working.
“Submission is the way to forgiveness,” Kem said. “Submit to your mate.”
“I thought sexual submission to an alpha was a reward, not a demand? Didn’t someone tell me that? How’s this make any sense? He’s not my mate.” As soon as he realized Kem wasn’t going to answer, he directed his words at Tanis. “You’re not my mate. You said it yourself.”
Tanis reached for the fastening of his trousers. “Submit to me on behalf of your mate, human.”
“The name’s—”
Teeth flashed.
Gerald stumbled back before he could stop himself. In the next instant, he had wolf up in his face, Tanis’s hand wrapped around the back of his neck, and claws pricking his skin uncomfortably close to his spine.
Hot breath touched his cheek, lips so close they tickled. “Submit, human, or fight.”
Gerald had to wonder what it said about him that his dick was so hard it was trying to burst out of his pants. He huffed out a shaky breath. “Fuck it. I’m so messed up.”
Tanis wanted submission? Gerald mashed his mouth against Tanis’s firm, warm lips, and grabbed himself a handful of hard alien dick.
Chapter 6
Gerald didn’t close his eyes, so he got a spectacular view of Tanis’s brilliant eyes as the pupils dilated. The hand at his neck flexed painfully tight for one brief moment before Tanis regained control and relaxed his grip while simultaneously catching Gerald’s wrist.
Gerald looped his arm around Tanis’s shoulders and held on while Tanis took over the kiss, plunging his tongue deep into Gerald’s open, willing mouth.
A whimper worked its way out of Gerald’s throat, needy, rough.
God, he really liked to kiss. He could kiss that mouth for a month and not regret a second of it.
Too bad Tanis wasn’t the wolf he was supposed to be mating, because Gerald might not be that comfortable with Tanis, but his arrogant demands sure did stiffen up Gerald’s dick.
The crunch of leaves behind him reminded him abruptly that they weren’t alone in the woods.
Tanis didn’t give him the opportunity to find out where the sound came from—one moment he was standing in front of Tanis and the next, Tanis had taken him to the ground in one swift move.
He gasped at the sudden, unexpected impact with the ground, but by the time he’d sucked in a breath, Tanis had already come down on top of him and claimed his mouth again.
He breathed hard through his nose and managed to twist his head around to look for Kem, but Kem was gone. Only the three other wolves remained, Gerald’s new mate and the two wolves standing guard over him.
But Gerald’s new mate was no longer unconscious, his hot eyes instead fixed on Gerald and Tanis.
Tanis shifted over Gerald, his mouth going to Gerald’s neck. Gerald groaned and raised his chin. He’d done this often enough to know the wolves had a thing for throats.
Hot breath heated the skin over Gerald’s larynx, and teeth scraped along the column of his throat as he swallowed thickly, still unable to take his eyes off whatever was going on with his future mate.
One of the two wolves had straddled his future mate’s chest and was reaching for his bleeding and torn face with dark-tipped claws and long fingers. Shock coursed through Gerald when he realized with sudden clarity he was staring at a female wolf petting his future mate, speaking softly to him, while the other wolf bent and started biting at—
Claws dragged along Gerald’s ribcage under the soft, worn fabric of his favorite blue t-shirt, and Gerald’s attention faltered as his whole body shuddered with Tanis’s touch.
“God,” he choked out.
Tanis raised his head, growling, eyes fierce and bright. “Don’t call out to this God of yours. Call out to me. I’m your alpha, not this God.”
Gerald blinked up at Tanis with heavy-lidded eyes, pushing his lower body closer to Tanis. He thrust his fingers into Tanis’s hair, but Tanis rose to his knees and grabbed Gerald’s hands.
Gerald frowned, but before he could ask or argue, Tanis flipped him over.
Gerald’s face smushed into a pile of leaves, his breath leaving him in a muffled ummph.
“Hey,” he mumbled, only to feel a sudden firm tug between his shoulders and hear the sound of fabric tearing. “Hey!”
Cool air wafted over his back. He tried to push up on his arms, but a heavy hand pushed him to the forest floor.
“Submit!”
A shiver coursed through Gerald and he immediately stopped what he was doing. “Sure, sure,” he said. “I submit. Got it.”
Tanis’s heavy weight stretched over Gerald and then a wet lick traveled up the length of Gerald’s spine, from just above the waistband of his low-riding trousers to the base of his neck.
Goose bumps rose on his skin, and he shuddered hard. “God—”
Tanis growled fierce and loud and wrapped his hand around the front of Gerald’s throat. Claws tickled Gerald’s skin.
“Shit, sorry. Sorry. Tanis.”
“Again.”
Gerald moistened his dry mouth. “Tanis. I got it. Tanis.”
“Call me Alpha.”
Gerald’s dick jerked in his pants. “Alpha.”
“Now call me mate.”
“Mate.”
A commotion at the edge of Gerald’s vision distracted him. Something was going on with the other wolves, but with Tanis holding him by the throat, he couldn’t twist his head far enough to see.
“Your submission deserves a reward. Your mate will be proud of your strength.”
Gerald wasn’t sure he had any idea what Tanis was talking about. He had a wolf on his back, claws at his throat, and he didn’t particularly feel all that strong at that moment.
The thing was, Gerald had fucked a lot of wolves. But he’d never had a wolf at his back like this. For the wolves, it meant something very specific when one male took another from behind—something to do with allowing unfettered access to their spines and the trust that came with that.
He hadn’t realized just how vulnerable he would feel to end up in this position, because, well, he’d never actually ended up in this position before—not with a wolf.
Tanis started kissing his way down Gerald’s spine.
“That’s—uh, oh, God,” he groaned, then immediately felt sharp teeth biting into the flesh at his hip. “Uh, fuck, Tanis. I mean Tanis—”
A growled huff of breath raised the tiny hairs on Gerald’s skin. “Leisikei watches.”
Gerald still couldn’t move his head, but Tanis turned it for him, and Gerald’s eyes collided with those of his future mate.
The wolves were holding him upright, back to chest, and even though he struggled, his struggles were too weak to free himself from their tight hold.
Surprisingly, it was the female wolf that sat behind him, her arms under his, her forearms holding his shoulders back and her hands clasped behind his neck in a way that made it almost impossible for him to get any kind of leverage at all with his arms.
The male
continuously rubbed his face across the other’s bared stomach and chest, seeming not to care at all about the gashes stretching across all that beautiful flesh.
The wolves were so inhumanly attractive, it stole Gerald’s breath every time he saw one of them undressed.
And those eyes, they pierced Gerald with a hot fire that spoke of jealousy and rage and sent misgiving sparking along every nerve Gerald had.
Tanis released his hold on Gerald’s throat and moved down Gerald’s body. Gerald had no time to prepare himself—he’d had no thought about what Tanis might be planning.
Tanis yanked Gerald’s trousers down over his ass, and Gerald’s fingers curled as his body jostled, his nails digging into the dirt. He tried to put one knee under him, thinking it might make it easier for his trousers to come off, but all he did was open his crack for the hot, wet tongue that thrust itself between his ass cheeks, swiping over his hole and making his whole body jerk.
“Oh fuck,” he groaned, mashing his face into the leaves again and almost sucking in a mouthful of dirt with his quickly indrawn breath. “Oh fuck.”
Talk about a reward.
Nobody, and Gerald meant nobody, could eat out an ass like a wolf. They didn’t seem to have any of the hang ups many humans had about it, and their tongues had a bold strength that no human tongue had.
Gerald groaned again as Tanis started to lick him open in earnest.
Tanis gripped Gerald’s hips, the tips of his claws biting almost painfully into Gerald’s skin. He hauled Gerald to his knees, his face never leaving Gerald’s crack.
Gerald couldn’t keep his eyes open or his mouth shut. Embarrassing, desperate sounds escaped his throat, and when Tanis thrust his tongue into Gerald’s hole, Gerald cried out, sending little flecks of deadfall swirling in the air to land on his cheeks and nose. Several bits even stuck to his lips.
The fuck if he cared.
His dick pulsed with blood and he was so close to coming his balls felt on the verge of an explosion. He managed to get his hand down the front of his half-on, half-off pants and the tangle that his underwear had become and started jerking his cock.
There was a reason he’d never once turned down an offer of sex from any of the wolves. There’d even been that one time—
Tanis’s mouth left Gerald’s spit-slick hole and he reared back on his knees, letting out an alpha roar that sent the few crows that had braved the trees after the fight cawing raucously and flying into the air.
The warm shock of semen hitting the crack of Gerald’s ass startled his eyes open, and he came in the underwear still tangled around his dick, his long whimper lost in his throat.
He was still breathing heavy when the coolness of lube hit his overheated asshole. He yelped, made a grab behind him with his free hand, but missed Tanis’s arm completely.
He’d almost forgotten how he needed to keep Tanis away from his asshole until he’d taken care of lubricating himself. It’d been three years since he’d fucked during the heat season. Wolves had plenty of self-control outside of the season, but during? Too risky by far.
As he made another attempt to grab Tanis’s hand, Tanis shoved Gerald’s arm away.
“Submit!” Tanis roared, sending Gerald’s heart pounding and the fiery burn of adrenaline rushing through him.
“Your claws,” Gerald said on a gasp, struggling to get to his knees.
Tanis shoved him to the ground again. A twig snapped under Gerald’s chest and the sharp, dry edge of a leaf twinged his cheek.
“Okay, okay, okay,” Gerald said.
Gerald wasn’t sure what Tanis did, but he felt a pressure against his hole that pressed inward and then released and then another, and he felt the slick slide of—
Tanis’s cock. He was using his cock to smear the lube around Gerald’s hole and press it inside the rim of Gerald’s anus.
Gerald let out a shaky breath, relief making him weak.
Then Tanis pushed inside, and Gerald gasped at the unbelievable stretch.
Holy mother of—
Tanis had an enormous penis, large even for the wolves. Gerald ought to fucking know. He exhaled through gritted teeth, trying to shift into the inexorable glide, his breath hitching in a near sob as Tanis stretched Gerald’s asshole wide.
He needed to catch his breath—he needed that cock out of his ass—he needed Tanis to move his hips and thrust inside him again. Because holy mother of God, that was a tight fit.
He whimpered against the pressure, then a sound caught his attention. He looked over at the wolves.
His future mate’s eyes were burning a hole through him.
Gerald wasn’t sure why he did it, but he flopped his arm up near his face and raised his fingers and gave the guy a two fingered wave, as if to say, Hey, pal, having a good time here, how’s it going?
The wolf’s nostrils flared wide and the sharp points of his eyeteeth became visible beneath the curl of his upper lip and he struggled to break away from the arms holding him tight. The other male turned his head, his eyes zeroing in on Gerald with a glassy, hot stare that skittered down Gerald’s spine.
Then Tanis thrust into Gerald’s ass again, heavy and sure, and Gerald let his eyes close as that thick alien cock filled him so full he could feel it in his throat.
None of this had been his idea. If the wolves had a problem with their own laws, they’d have to figure it out without his help. Tanis had demanded Gerald submit and Gerald had done what was expected of him—and it wasn’t his fault his new mate didn’t seem so open to the idea.
There was nothing Gerald could do about it but take it in the ass like a good little beta.
At that thought, his cock twitched back to life, and he groaned.
Tanis fell forward onto his hands, caging Gerald beneath him, his fingers scrabbling on the ground by Gerald’s head, his claws piercing the leaves with a sharp crackle. His hips moved and his cock jolted deep inside Gerald, the stretch making Gerald’s hole tingle.
Sweat tickled Gerald’s back and ass, and he breathed deep of the earthy scent beneath him.
Tanis pumped in and out of Gerald with powerful force and the dark, twisting pleasure making its way through Gerald grew by leaps and bounds, until he was panting. He shuddered with every thrust, and his dick pulsed in time with the slide of Tanis’s cock over his prostate, pressure building in his balls again, too soon really to be comfortable but happening all the same.
Tanis turned his head into the back of Gerald’s arm, then harder into the crease, sniffing deeply, most likely chasing the irresistible lure of Gerald’s human scent.
A rumble vibrated through Tanis’s chest and into Gerald’s spine.
Gerald wasn’t shocked when he felt the hot splash of semen deep in his ass, and he wasn’t shocked when his eyes opened and he caught his future mate staring his way, still.
He wasn’t shocked when Tanis growled and folded his arm around Gerald’s middle and jerked him up to his knees.
He gasped at the jolt as he came down hard on Tanis’s enormous dick, his legs spreading around Tanis’s strong thighs, his boots making his ankles twist not quite painfully under him and his pants making a tearing sound as the crotch gave way somewhere around Gerald’s knees.
Tanis closed his hand around Gerald’s dick and began to jerk him off, and Gerald’s head fell back, his throat working furiously as he tried desperately to move into the motion of Tanis’s hand while he rode Tanis’s fat dick.
No, Gerald wasn’t shocked by any of it.
Then Tanis bit down on the side of Gerald’s neck with teeth so sharp Gerald felt the bite all the way into his balls, and he had to admit, that shocked the hell out of him.
Chapter 7
Gerald might not have come if he hadn’t already been so close, but he shouted out a strangled yell and came so hard his vision grayed at the edges.
Tanis released Gerald’s dick and slammed his hand down on the ground beside them with a fierce growl in the wolves’ language, his hips slappin
g Gerald’s ass as he came again—quick and hard, the way wolves did.
Gerald’s heart pounded with reckless fury and his whole body shook with minute tremors, and he rested there, stunned, Tanis’s arm tight across his belly, not sure what had happened, not sure why his mate-to-be had gone into a frenzy, trying to break away from the hold of his fellow wolves, his answering roar lost in the roar of blood in Gerald’s ears.
Tanis raised his head and roared across the distance between them and the others, and whatever he said in the wolves’ language was lost to the ringing in Gerald’s ears.
The wolves wrestled Gerald’s new mate to the forest floor, holding him down while they kept taking quick, apprehensive glances in Gerald’s direction. Or was that it at all? To look so human-like, their faces were so damn hard to read without context.
Whatever was happening with the others, Tanis no longer seemed to care. He nuzzled at the side of Gerald’s neck, his breathing shallow and fast, while a slow trickle of blood made its way down Gerald’s collarbone and into the gaping collar of his t-shirt.
Gerald reached up and swiped his knuckles through the blood. The sleeve of his ruined t-shirt slipped off his shoulder to hang on the inside of his elbow. He tried to move, to straighten, and all he got for his trouble was a harsh growl against his skin.
He resettled on Tanis’s lap, Tanis’s thick cock still hot and hard inside him, his own cock softening between his thighs. Two orgasms in less than half an hour wasn’t that unusual for him, but there wasn’t likely to be another one for a good long while.
Lethargy started to seep into his bones, his body’s needs satisfied and his ass hot after being so thoroughly fucked.
And then Tanis started moving again and Gerald had that moment of stark realization: this wasn’t just a fuck to mark a mating, this was heat season and he had an alpha wolf under him.
Ready or not, he was taking another ride on Tanis’s big fat alien dick.
Tanis had just started to rut into Gerald again when movement in the direction of the wolves startled Gerald, making him jerk. Tanis just hauled him tighter against his chest and dragged the points of his teeth along Gerald’s collarbone.
