Summer's Alpha

by K. S. Martin

  “Come on it’s time for pie.” Jackson says and waves at Kelly to come with us. “They will vote and then Larry will come out to get us when they are finished.” Kelly hurries to catch up. Earl’s eyes follow her the whole way, of course.

  “I think Earl is interested in me.” Kelly whispers once we are in a booth in the restaurant. I nearly burst out laughing.

  “Really Kelly, what gave you that idea?” She smirks at me. Jackson orders us all a slice of cherry pie. He knows that I like blueberry.

  “They’re out, don’t start.” He tells me when the server walks away. “You weren’t listening again. I swear Summer, sometimes I think you have attention deficit disorder.” I stick my tongue out and he gives me a lopsided grin. I want him. Everything south of my belt buckle clenches. Kelly’s eyes get wide.

  “What?” I ask my gape mouthed sister.

  “What are you waiting for? Mate him.” She whispers. I narrow my eyes at her. “Just do it Summer. It will only hurt for a second. Just tell him not to bite you until you climax though. Frank just leaned over and bit me before we left home that day. It hurt for hours. He didn’t tend the wound, he just let me suffer.” I tried not to pity her but it was hard. “At least you love Jackson and at least you’ll be in a bed. Frank pulled over at a truck stop and bent me over the seat then left me to clean up while he went inside for a cup of coffee.” I let her talk. She needed to get it out of her system. “No matter what this vote is, when you get home, take care of it.” I nodded. Jackson watched us but didn’t say anything. The pie came at the same time that Larry came out of the back.

  “Congratulations Jackson and Summer, you are the new alphas of the East View pack. Kelly, you’ve also been accepted as a pack member. We went ahead and voted on that too. Earl recommended you. We want to get more new members so if you know anyone else?” I nodded.

  “I have another sister, she’s mated to the beta of our old pack, but you never know they may want a fresh start.” Larry nodded.

  “There are a lot of young wolves in my pack that would love to leave. I’ll call some of them later and see if we can get some members from there. The people here are all kind of old and my pup will need playmates.” Kelly said brightly.

  “Bring your plates and come back to the meeting. Everyone is having blueberry pie and ice cream.” I made a face at Jackson. He grabbed my dessert plate and took it with him. I know that I am not going to get it back because his favorite is cherry. I don’t care because they have blueberry inside, and they have ice cream. I am an ice cream junkie.

  Earl came for Kelly as soon as we stepped back inside. Everyone congratulated Jackson. When we sat, I finally got the piece of blueberry pie that I wanted. I was exhausted by the end of the meeting.

  I let Jackson carry me piggy back up the stairs to our apartment. “No more pie for you.” He dumped me off his back onto the bed.

  “Jackson! Did you just call me fat?” He grinned at me and stripped his shirt off then threw it at me. It smelled good and turned my insides to mush, but I didn’t tell him that. I held it to my face and watched him. He unbuttoned his jeans and kicked his shoes off.

  “Nope, I never said fat but you aren’t as little as you were the last time I carried you like that. Remember the chicken fights at the pond a couple of summers ago?” I did. We were the champions. Nobody could knock me off Jackson’s shoulders. I bit my lip and pulled my shirt over my head. He watched me with amber eyes. I stepped out of my shoes and kicked them over by the dresser.

  “Kelly said that you shouldn’t bite me until I come. She also said that you have to tend the wound or it will hurt.” He nodded and licked his lips. God that was sexy, when did he get so sexy, and where did his pants go. He was standing there in black briefs again. Why does he only have black underwear? Mine are all different colors. I drop my jeans and unfasten my bra. His eyes are pulsing amber now. He looks like that because of me, because I am turning him on. My breath is heavy when I get into the bed. Jackson’s eyes don’t leave mine until his lips are on my mouth. He’s joined me in the bed now. I’m glad that it is so small tonight. I’m still in my panties but he’s pulling them down. “Jackson?” He grunts. “I love you.” He stops and looks at me.

  “I’ve waited my whole life for you to say that.” His mouth crushes mine now. His tongue is exploring mine and his hands feel so good on my skin. Everywhere he touches me feels like it lights up, as if I’m glowing from the inside out. His tongue is on my nipple now, he suckles it into his mouth, and I nearly explode. We’re really doing this! My fingers trace over the muscles in his back. It’s bumpy and they’re moving like something wild is under his warm, smooth, skin. His fingers are inside of me and I’m not sure how I feel about that. It’s so… foreign. “You’re so wet Summer, so wet for me.” Jackson is kissing my belly and working his way south. I’m not sure what he’s up to but I don’t want him to stop. Jackson’s tongue is working over my clitoris and my body is reacting. I feel the climax coming. Everything is heavy and quickening. I can’t help the moan that escapes me and I can no longer hold still. My body bucks and writhes as the orgasm crashes over me in wave after wave of delicious pleasure. I can feel his eyes on me and I look down over my chest and belly at him. So sexy. He’s licking me, licking a trail over my skin that kisses and nips interrupt but those amber eyes don’t look away. They’re entrancing. “I want you Summer.” I nod. He’s between my legs and I can feel how hard, how huge he is. I push his underwear down with my hands. I want to touch him. His skin is hot under my fingers. He’s big and I’m not sure that this is going to work out after all. He can sense my fear. “Don’t worry.”

  “Jackson it’s too…”

  “It’s not, its fine, I promise. I love you. I won’t hurt you.” I nod again. His erection is pressing against my entrance and I bite my lip. “Are you ready?” I nod and squeeze my eyes shut but he doesn’t move. “Why do you look like that?” He’s concentrating. That wrinkle between his eyebrows is deep like when he’s studying something or figuring it out.

  “It’s going to hurt. Kel said so, but I’m ready.” I squeeze my eyes shut again and he laughs. Warm, humid puffs of air caress the skin under my ear. He kisses me there, sucks on my earlobe, and then nibbles. I relax because it feels nice. Jackson eases into me then. I don’t have time to brace myself but I don’t need to, Kel was wrong, it doesn’t hurt at all. I wrap my legs around him to give him a better angle. Jackson moans, I think he likes that I did that. He pulls out slowly then slides back into me, further this time and I feel the nip of pain that Kel mentioned. It wasn’t bad. Frank was probably not as easy about it as Jackson was. His lips are leaving a moist trail over my cheek to my mouth and I kiss him back. We should’ve been doing this for a long time. I love kissing him. His tongue explores my mouth and I moan. Jackson is filling me now, I feel like I’m going to break in half, he’s stretching me. I hold my breath and wait for it to ease.

  “Breathe Summer.” He growls against my neck. I take a breath and he eases in and out of me. “I love you Summer.” His tongue trails across my lips and I open for him. Jackson’s tongue is twisting with mine and my heart feels like it may just pound its way out of my chest. He moves in and out, in and out and oh my God! Jackson turns his hips a little and everything south of my navel clenches hard on him. My core is trying to hold on, to milk him, to grab him. He moans softly and tingles light their way over my nerves. I love that I am making him feel good and the way he is making me feel is spectacular. My womb clenches and I shiver. Jackson nips my ear and another moan escapes me. Jackson is mouthing the mating muscle now and I stretch up to taste his. I can feel his heart pounding in his chest or is that mine? Jackson’s still moving as slowly as before and it is now driving me crazy. I want something to happen. I feel like I am on the edge of something and if just one thing could shift or change I know that I will fall right over the edge of…wonderful. “Come for me Summer.” I feel Jackson’s fingers press against my clitoris and I go. Every cell, eve
ry nerve, every part of me lights up and pleasure surges through me. It washes over me in waves and I feel his bite but it doesn’t hurt. Jackson is licking it now and that makes me climax again. I hear him chuckle, “Mine”. He’s shifted position again and I can tell he’s really close to climax when I finally remember that I have to make him mine too. I shift closer and mouth the thick muscle that runs from his neck to his shoulder. “Oh yes Summer, make me yours.” He murmurs against my ear. I gasp and I feel him smile. His skin is salty, warm, and delicious. I can feel another orgasm working its way around my center. In the dreams, he murmurs in my ear like that and it always makes me come in the dream. He’s figured it out. Nobody ever called Jackson Reynolds stupid. “You feel so good Summer. I love being inside of you.” His voice against my ear sends me over again and I can tell he’s pleased. “Make me your mate Summer, you have to bite me sweetheart. I promise we’ll do this again. Don’t think it’s the end just because you mark me.” I do it then, I sink my elongated canines into him and he roars his climax. I tend his wound. Kelly said that it hurt more if you didn’t and I don’t want to cause him pain. Jackson’s sighs against my throat and he kisses me there. “You’re amazing.” He says.

  “Better than Melanie?” I ask and grin.

  “Who?” I laugh because even though I’m no expert, I think that was damn good. “Just think it will only get better. They always say sex is better when you know each other better.”

  “How much better could we know each other?” I’m tracing a pattern on his shoulder with my fingertip. The tremors that were quaking through me have stopped now and he pulls out of me. He rolls to the side and pulls me with him my back to his front. “I mean really.” I say. “We’ve known each other since we were two.”

  “When we get to know each other’s bodies better, for instance, half an hour ago I didn’t know that if I said things with my mouth against your ear,” his lips were moving against my ear now. “That it turned you on.” I trembled all over. “There are probably a lot of little things that turn you on and I plan on finding every single one of them.” I smiled. “And when you wrapped your legs around me, you found out that it turned me on.”

  “Yeah.” I said softly. “Jackson?” I turned around to face him. “I really do love you and I trust you.” He nodded. “This is for real right? You didn’t just do this to get the alpha position. You did this because…”

  “I did this because I love you Summer. I told you, I go where you go. If you don’t want to stay here and you would rather go home, we’ll go.” I shook my head. “Okay then, now for the serious stuff.” I furrowed my eyebrows. “How do you feel about pups?” I bit my lip. Pups? Was he serious? We just mated five minutes ago. Oh, we just mated.

  “Do you think I’m…?” Jackson smiled and leaned over to kiss my cheek.

  “No Summer I don’t, I meant do you want pups? Someday? And how many? Kelly’s right, her pup will need a playmate. There weren’t any at the meeting. We need to get some. It’s just not a pack without a bunch of pups running around causing trouble. We can’t do it anymore.” Jackson looked down at me and grinned. “They put us in charge.” He whispered conspiratorially. I giggled.

  “I know. Can you believe it? Jackson, seriously, you have to be the alpha now. You are the leader of this pack. You’ll have to take care of all the pack business. The bills, the arguments, and all of the other crap that goes with it, it’s on you.” He nodded.

  “It’s on you too Summer, you’re my mate and that means it’s on you too.”

  “Yeah, okay first order of business for the alpha’s of the East View pack…”

  “Is to go get my damn truck.” He gave me his sad puppy face. “Then we get Tim and his new mate to come here, so our kids have a variety of cousins to play with.” I nod. My eyes are having trouble staying open. Jackson pulls me close and holds me against him. I rest my head on his chest and listen to his heartbeat. It lulls me to sleep.

  I wake to warm kisses trailing over my shoulder and down my arm. He kisses my fingers one by one and looks up to see me watching him. His eyes are pulsing amber. “You were dreaming again and it’s too early for breakfast.” I nibble my lip. You would think that I wouldn’t have that dream after what we just did. “What happens in the dream?” He’s nibbling on my wrist. “Tell me.”

  “I’m not sure which one I had, I don’t remember.”

  “Tell me anyway.” I know my cheeks flush because my whole face feels like it’s on fire. I shake my head. “We’re mates now. No more lying, no more evading the truth, we share everything. Tell me what happens in the dream and maybe I can make your dream come true.” He nips my thumb and I gasp. I feel my core getting wet again, readying for him. I swallow hard and take a few deep breaths.

  “We’re both sweaty, out of breath and naked.”

  “Good start.” He sucks on my finger and I tremble. I close my eyes before going on because mate or not, he’s still Jackson and I’m still Summer, this is embarrassing.

  “You have me pushed against a wall and you’re against my back. I can feel your body against my back, you’re pressing into me, and it’s turning me on. You lean against me and you say right in my ear, ‘I’m going to bury myself so deep inside you Summer that you won’t know where you end and I begin.’ Then I come in the dream and sometimes for real.”

  “In your sleep?” I nod. “That’s hot.” I can’t help the smile that breaks out on my face. He thinks it’s sexy and I think it’s embarrassing. “What’s the other one, you said there are two.

  “In the other one, I’m using my tongue on you. I think the first one is a wish and the second one is more of an instructional video.” Jackson laughs.

  Chapter 7

  “Autumn?” I say into Shirley’s store phone.

  “Summer? Is that you? Where are you? Are you okay? Is Jackson with you? He’s been missing for days. His parents are losing it.”

  “Shh, chill dude.” I laugh. “It’s me, I’m in East View. I’m fine and Jackson is fine. Please tell his parents he’s fine. He said that you mated with Tim. Do you want to come here and join our pack? No pressure but Jackson needs a beta because we’re the alphas here now.”

  “You are huh?” That was my dad’s voice. “When were you going to let me know that you were alive Summer? I’ve been worried sick. Your sister and Frank are missing too; do you know anything about that?” He sounded reasonably calm and not nearly as angry as I knew that he was.

  “Daddy? How are you?” I’m surprised and I stall trying to figure out what to say to him. My stupid sister must have let him sneak up on her.

  “Just fine, I have two daughters missing, a missing pack member, a son that won’t come out of the woods, a disobedient daughter that decided it was a good idea to mate a beta that I didn’t approve of and apparently a daughter that is orchestrating the whole thing from East View!” There it was. There was the anger that I expected. His voice boomed by the time he said ‘East View.’ I jerked the phone away from my ear. That hurt. Jackson looked up and smirked. He’d told me to wait until later to call that my dad was probably still at home but I wouldn’t listen. Always trust your alpha. I grimaced and put the phone back to my ear.

  “Okay daddy yes, I did all of that but keep in mind that you backed me into a corner.” I stay perfectly calm because I am the female alpha of East View pack. He is no longer in charge of me. “I did not want to be treated like livestock. I love Jackson, period. Just so you are in the loop, Jackson is the current alpha of the East View pack, and I am his mate.” I heard the growl, it was familiar, and if I were at home, I would be backing down the hall to my bedroom right now. Shirley was beside me at the counter. She sensed that I was nervous and brought me a cup of tea. Yep, tea cures everything in Shirley’s world. I sip the jasmine green tea, its good. Jackson is on the couch speaking to Larry about pack business and my job was to get more members. “Kelly is here with me. She and Frank were passing through town.” I turn the wand on the blinds because th
e sun is starting to shine brightly in the window and is blinding me. “He’d just finished beating her up again when she finally decided that she’d had enough. Kelly put a letter opener in Frank’s heart. Frank is dead. Kelly is staying with me just so you know. She is pregnant.” I heard him smile. “You should also know that this is her fourth pregnancy and that Frank beat the last three pups, your grandchildren, out of her.” He didn’t say anything but I heard a low angry growl rumble. I told you before that he beat her and you wouldn’t listen. I didn’t want that for myself and I don’t want it for Kelly. I’m sorry if I disobeyed daddy but I felt that it was necessary to my safety and my survival.” I swallowed and paused. He said nothing. That was a power play; he was trying to make me nervous. I wasn’t falling for that one. I took a deep cleansing breath and let it out. I put all business in my non-emotional voice. “I wanted to speak to you anyway daddy about an alliance with the East View pack. Would it interest you?”