Marked by the Alphas

Chapter 20: Chapter 20

Kane POV

Alice smiles seductively at me and Axel as she lies down naked on the bed. It took a lot of begging and pleading to convince her to give us another chance.

I lay beside her, and Axel does the same on her other side.

“I’m sorry about earlier,” I murmur, softly dragging my finger from her throat, down between her breasts and towards her hips.

“So am I,” Axel kisses her neck. “It was a wild morning, and things got a little out of control.”

“But now we’re all yours,” I sniff her neck, familiarising myself with her sweet scent, and it suddenly strikes me how glad I am that we had sex with Elara in her bed and not in mine. I seriously doubt I would be able to go through with this if Elara’s scent were still lingering here.

I remove the memories of Elara with force, concentrating on Alice’s neck and dropping my fangs. I close my eyes, hovering above Alice’s jugular. fгeewёbnoѵel.cσm

Once we fully claim Alice, she will go into heat almost immediately afterwards, since biologically, our bodies will all be primed and focused on mating and producing. It was extremely rare for a she-wolf not to become pregnant within the first few weeks after being claimed. With Alice in heat, Elara will no longer be lingering in my mind.

“Are you ready, my love?” I breathe into Alice’s neck, lightly scraping my fangs against her soft skin.

“More than ready,” she nods. “Please, Kane. Claim me.”

She wraps a hand around the back of my neck, pulling my head closer, and I can feel her doing the same to Axel as she arches her back.

“Same time,” Axel says to me.

“Now,” I reply.

I steel myself for this momentous moment we have been waiting for so long. We sink our teeth into her neck, and ... it is nothing like I expected. Where are the fireworks and immediate orgasm? Or some sort of transcendent epiphany from the heavens.

I am turned on and hard – finally – and I can sense that Axel and Alice are, too. To say I am disappointed is an understatement. And why the fuck can I not get Elara out of my head? Am I doomed to compare every sexual experience to hers now?

For crying out loud, this is our claiming, and all I can think about is how Alice does not react like I imagine Elara would. How she does not smell like Elara. How the scent of her arousal right now does not make me want to rip through heaven and hell and anything in between so I can bury my cock between her thighs.

It just...The feeling make me feel that I’m totally a asshole. But what the hell am I supposed to do when it’s come down to this?

Alice’s blood fills my mouth, and it takes everything to force myself to swallow the sickeningly sweet fluid. And Axel is feeling the same. I pray to the Goddess that Alice cannot sense our disappointment.

Maybe this is normal, and how it should be. Maybe I expected too much because we were waiting for it for so long.

Then guilt starts taking over. Alice does not deserve half my attention, just because I am conflicted. So, to make up for it, I slide a hand over her breast and tweak her nipple the way I know she likes it between my thumb and forefinger, pulling slightly as the rest of my hand cups her breast. I tighten my grip on the back of her neck and suck harder, hoping my actions will be construed as need and not, well, me trying too hard.

“Once she goes into heat, it’ll be different,” Axel says to me.

I gulp down her blood, and a pang of sadness shoots through my body at my sudden realisation that this will be the last time Axel and I can communicate like this. Alice will now be a part of us, and the mate bond will allow her to mind link with us, but not our wolves. However, the days of Axel and my private jokes and moments will no longer be private. And it will be a huge adjustment since it has always been just the two of us since birth.

“Stop it,” Axel growls.

“Stop what?” I pause, hoping Alice will not notice.

“Stop with your melodramatic, depressing thoughts,” he huffs.

Well, at least that was something Alice would never be part of—my brother’s ability to sense everything about me and my feelings.

Axel POV

Oh, for fuck’s sake! Kane needs to get his shit together. This is never going to work if he is going to be some maudlin motherfucker throughout the whole thing.

I pull away from Alice, lick her wounds to clean them up, and flip her over onto her stomach. Sliding my hand underneath her hips, I pull them up, so her ass was in the air, something I know Kane always enjoys. He was definitely an ass man.

His eyes darken a bit as soon as her round ass is in the air, and he reaches out to trail his fingertips along her skin and up her back.

“Who do you want to bite first?” I ask, lightly slapping one of her ass cheeks before cupping it and rubbing the sting away.

“You.” She turns her head to look at me, her eyes glossy with arousal as she lowers her gaze to stare at my cock.

“How about you ride my cock while you do it?” I suggest smiling.

She nods eagerly and scrambles to her knees. I sit against the headboard, and she immediately straddles my lap, lowering herself onto me with a delightful moan.

She closes her eyes as she starts riding me with a desperation I have never felt from her before ... and then her teeth are in my neck.

The feeling is hard to describe, but something has definitely shifted.

Her mouth is still on my neck, and I suddenly, I do not need to work to keep my cock hard. I grip her hips and ground into her, my seed spilling inside of her before I even realise what is happening.

She grins victoriously at me, climbs off and straddles Kane, sinking her fangs sinking into his neck. The moment he experienced the same thing I did, I felt it radiate into me.

I watch them fuck, watch as he spills inside her. Calm settles over the room, the aura shifting from the shitshow it has been just moments before. freeweɓnovel.cøm

This feels right.

Thank fuck for that loophole.