From Alpha to Omega

by Cilla B Anthony

  “Are you planning to sit there all day and pout?” Cade teased in an attempt to lighten the mood.

  How he answered the next question would be tricky, if he teased back, he knew that Cade would be suspicious about his change in attitude, but if he was as surly as he had been before then that would only serve to keep them apart.

  He needed Cade to trust him, to let his guard down so when he answered, he wasn’t pleasant, but neither was he hostile. He was pleased with himself when he managed as watery “No.”

  “Good,” Cade smiled and leaned in to kiss Brogan’s forehead.

  “I’m not a child,” Brogan protested as he wiped the kiss from his skin.

  “Then stop acting like one. I told you that today we began working on our bond and that going to be with…”

  “Oh, is this where you rape me again?” Brogan snapped and tried to push Cade away, but the little bastard was too strong.

  “You can paint this any way you want, but I never raped you. You were my mate and I claimed you. We are going to work on our bond, and I told you when you and I fuck again, it will be at your request. Since you want to be treated as an adult, I was going to give you the option of doing this before dinner or after.”

  Brogan looked into Cade’s face and saw the determination there and realized that he was not going to get out of this, that he was going to have to go through this bonding shit. He had done research and everything he found was that the fastest way to cement the bond was to fuck and Cade just told him that they weren’t going to, so he was at a loss as to how his Alpha was going to accomplish this.

  “Brogan,” Cade called his name sternly. “If you don’t decide, I will.”

  “Now.”

  “Wonderful,” Cade smiled.

  The way Cade grinned at his answer you’d have thought that Brogan had gifted him with a million dollars, but he hoped that Cade didn’t think that Brogan was doing this now because he wanted to because that wasn’t the case; he just wanted to get this over with.

  Stepping back and reaching out his hand, Cade said, “let’s go to my room.”

  Brogan scrunched up his face and asked, “What’s wrong with here?”

  “It smells like her,” he responded before moving towards the door. “If you’re not in my room in five minutes, I’ll come and get you.”

  As Cade closed the door Brogan panicked a little, he didn’t want this, once they started this process, he was going to buy into this Omega shit and lose who he was and he didn’t want that. But he couldn’t get out of this.

  There was a time that he would have laughed at the thought of being sca... cautious with someone as little as Cade but the asshole had proven several times that he could handle himself no matter how much bigger his opponent was. According to his father he had Jason on his knees and Jason was bigger than Brogan.

  Not wanting a confrontation, Brogan stood up and walked down the hall to his fate.

  When he entered the bedroom, Cade was removing his shirt and Brogan gasped. He told himself that it was because he was offended that Cade was being presumptive instead of because he was pleased at what he saw.

  Cade was beautiful.

  That was the first thing he noticed about him in the parking lot at Henry’s and that hasn’t changed, but what was new, was Brogan’s reaction to what was under those clothes. There were muscles and goddamned freckles, and God help him he wanted to taste the one right next to his right nipple.

  His mouth was watering at the thought, but his brain was screaming for him to run out of the room, but his legs didn’t get the message and he stood there staring at the perfection that was Cade Cooper.

  “I-I thought you said that there would be no sex,” he accused once he was able to make his mouth work.

  “There won’t be sex, unless you’re asking,” Cade jokingly teased.

  “N-no,” Brogan stuttered. He would have liked to have denied that with more confidence, but the sight of Cade’s naked torso made him feel things he hadn’t since the night they met.

  His breathing was shallow, his skin was tight, and his traitorous hole was twitching and beginning to leak. Was Cade going to take this as him asking, because he so wanted to get on his knees and present himself to his Alpha.

  The first time Cade had taken him he really didn’t remember it well because of his heat and the change his body was going through, but those times afterwards? Brogan remember them all. He remembered how that hard cock felt sliding in his channel and the feel of that knot sinking inside him and locking them together.

  He whined at the sense memory and wanted Cade to throw him on the bed and fuck him senseless.

  “Brogan,” Cade husked. “Is this you asking?”

  With his senses overtaken by the strong smell of musk and the heavy beating of his heart and skin that suddenly seemed too tight to be his, Brogan almost gave in and said yes.

  Almost.

  “No,” he whispered half hoping that Cade would take the choice from him, but he had to be a fucking man of his word and leave Brogan hard, desperate and wanting.

  He could see that Cade was struggling with is answer; the flared nostrils and pink cheeks had Brogan screaming in his head, take me.

  “I need you to undress,” Cade told him, making his breathing speed up a little more. “there has to be skin to skin contact to strengthen our bond.”

  Brogan had forgotten about the bonding exercises once Cade had stripped down to his underwear. As he tried to speak, the sight of Cade’s freckled skin left Brogan speechless.

  He should have chosen after dinner and then they’d be over this part and he would be more relaxed and perhaps with a belly full of food Cade’s inclination would be more towards sleep than sex.

  “All you have to do is ask,” Cade reminded him.

  Brogan could tell that Cade was taking his hesitation as a sign that he wanted more from him, and at this moment, Brogan did but he was not going to be some textbook Omega and let the goddamned delicious scent of an Alpha sidetrack him.

  “No, I’m good,” Brogan lied as he began to undress.

  Once he was down to his boxers, Brogan crawled onto the bed and took the position of the little spoon, but that wasn’t as embarrassing as the wet spot on the back of his boxers that was growing larger the longer he lay next to Cade.

  The point of them laying here was to bond, but Brogan kept trying to move away from Cade because the longer he lay there the more slick oozed from his hole and when Cade pulled him closer, he could feel that huge cock that seemed to settle right in between his cheeks, making his hole twitch begging to be filled.

  “Stop being so fucking stubborn and put us both out of our misery.” Cade growled into his ear.

  Right now, he really didn’t have a good answer as to why he wouldn’t let them have this, but he also knew that he would regret it if he let Cade fuck him. He was trying to think of a believable lie when he felt Cade’s had slide over his hip bone and under his boxers and stopping when he had Brogan’s cock in his hand.

  “Let me at least do this for you,” he asked as he gave the organ a tug.

  “Please,” Brogan sobbed unable to resist any longer.

  The first stroke on his dick felt so good that Brogan wanted to cry. He’d thought that because he no longer had a knot that his cock wouldn’t provide him this kind of pleasure but dear God this felt wonderful. Of course, it helped that Cade knew what he was doing.

  With the second stroke Cade flicked his thumb over the mushroom head and gathered the precome there and used it as lubrication for his hand. When he tried to gather some of Brogan’s slick, Brogan tensed up and Cade focused on making Brogan come.

  He wasn’t sure if it was because of Cade’s skills or because it had been so long since his Alpha touched him, but soon Brogan was coming so hard that his time he did cry.

  He didn’t reciprocate, he couldn’t and keep his promise to himself, but Cade didn’t seem to mind because after working Brogan through the aftershocks
of his orgasm, he pulled Brogan into his body where they both fell asleep. As Brogan dozed off, he told himself that this would not happen again, but the next night it did.

  The next time they had cuddling time Brogan didn’t even pretend that he didn’t want to be touched but he was practically panting by the time they reached home. When he came home from work, he went into his bedroom that now smelled less like Lara and more like him. He wanted to change into sleep pants so that once this was over, he could dress and leave as soon as possible. It would allow him to still pretend that he didn’t want what was happening.

  As he undressed Brogan caught a glimpse of himself in the mirror and noticed how his body had changed. He still had the muscles he’s worked so hard for, but they were softer, not as bulky. As he removed his pants, he noticed that his boxers made for Alphas with extra-large cocks didn’t fit as snugly as they used to. Because they didn’t fill out the same, so he cautiously pulled them down for closer inspection.

  The first thing he noticed was the darker skin where his knot had been, it was loose and from what he’d read it would firm up and he wouldn’t even notice that it had been there. That might be true later, but right now that loose skin served as a reminder for what he’d lost and made it easier for him not to give in to the temptation of letting Cade fuck him.

  For the first time since his change Brogan allowed is fingers to acquaint themselves with his new body. He still loved having his cock stimulated, but now his body craved being filled and that’s where he derived his greatest pleasure. As his hand moved past his shrunken ball sac, he felt the new opening at his perineum. It wasn’t really an opening and wouldn’t be fully until he gave birth.

  Right now, it was sealed and Brogan planned to keep it that way and the best way to achieve that was to not let Cade do anything other than cuddle him when they had their bonding time.

  Despite his resolve, at their third bonding session Brogan let Cade play with his hole and he knew he was in over his head. When his father called him, he told him desperately, “I’ll do whatever it takes to get away from Cade, just tell me when and where.”

  Chapter 12

  With the office in a flurry with three major charity functions they were working on, Brogan and his father were unable to carry out their plan to get him away from Cade. They needed to hurry though because while he was waiting, he found himself softening towards others and when Amanda came for her first home visit, he was not quite the model Omega, but he behaved well enough that the woman was singing Cade’s praises.

  When she came to visit, he played the Omega very well. He made lunch showing off the garden that Lara planted (but Amanda didn’t need to know that) and new recipes he’d found online. He was so convincing that he was beginning to believe the persona he’d fabricated for Amanda.

  There were times when he had to forcibly make himself being more Alpha like. He was an Alpha and he was not going to let some cuddling and a few orgasms change who he was. And he made himself remember that. Brogan had to remember that Cade was the enemy and had taken his identity away and he was not going to give in because the man gave a good hand job.

  Without the threat of Amanda’s visit becoming a daily event, Brogan immersed himself into his job. While it did not give him the same thrill as tracking down and signing up huge account, he had no idea how much work went on behind the scenes.

  He’d spent years mocking Benji and the Omegas who worked under him and accused them of sponging when they really did the hard work. The Alphas in the front office may sign the stars, but it was the worker bees in the back room who kept them there. As Paige had told him on his first day, the tournaments didn’t just pop up like magic.

  The more he worked with them, the less hostile his co-workers became and the others in the office were warming up to Brogan as well. He might even go so far as to call Jamie a friend, but he still had a long way to go before the tight knit group really accepted him. He really shouldn’t care whether he was accepted or not because soon he would be gone.

  When he got back from Florida he was going to be with his father and would never see them again and the thought of that made him a little sad.

  Brogan and the other Omegas had put a lot of work into the tennis camp in Florida and he wanted to see it to the end, so he and Richard made plans to meet up when they returned to South Carolina. When his father accused him of trying to delay, Brogan wanted to make sure that this job was done correctly because eventually he would be going back to work, and he was going to need to show that he had some kind of experience.

  If he ran before the job was finished future employers would just see him as an Omega who couldn’t stand the grind of working every day and left when it became too much. He ignored the fact that Sports Related might not give him a reference, let alone a good one.

  Cade always seem to be a confident man, Brogan secretly called him Napoleon because of the way he strutted around, so it surprised him when his cocksure Alpha was scared of flying. Brogan smiled to himself as he calmed Cade down during the flight. He even managed to convince himself that the only reason he held his mate’s hand throughout the flight was because the man was scared.

  Once they arrived in Florida, Brogan was too busy to dwell on the plans he and his father and made. There was a lot to do to make sure that everything was set up and people arrived on time. This was even more eye opening than the work he and the others did at the office.

  He and Benji had just delivered media packages to the recipient’s hotels rooms and was now back on site helping the others make sure their banners were hung correctly. Normally he was assigned to work with Jaime since the two of them got along better than Brogan and the others, but Jaime and Tate’s flight had been delayed and he wouldn’t get in until later.

  Working in silence, Brogan and Benji only spoke when it absolutely necessary and they answered one another in clipped sentences and near grunts. This was another reason Brogan was glad he was getting out of Cade’s life. If he didn’t, he would spend it in solitude because the myth of the loving and forgiving Omega was a goddamned lie. There was nothing loving or forgiving about Benji or Paige. The pair of them held onto a grudge longer than anyone Brogan had ever met before.

  This was going to be another good thing about being with his father; he wouldn’t have to deal with those prickly bitches ever again. He’d rather live in solitude than have to deal with their condescending attitudes every day.

  The banners were almost up when he heard his name called.

  “Brogan fucking Ford,” a voice he recognized as belonging to Jaden Matthews called out as he walked towards Brogan sipping from a Starbucks cup. “What have you done so shitty that you’re working with the Omegas instead of schmoozing some big named athlete such as myself? Are you trying to score some pussy?” When Benji gave a grunt of distaste, Jaden took a sip of his coffee and said, “or some ass.” Which irritated Benji even more.

  Brogan stood there in shock trying to think of something to say. He hadn’t thought that he would see anyone today but then he remembered that Jaden’s girlfriend was going to be practicing on this court in about fifteen minutes.

  He was going to tell Jaden the truth when the aroma from the cup of coffee Jaden was holding hit his nose and made him instantly nauseous. Instead of trading insults with Jaden, Brogan was too busy running to the trashcan in the corner next to the wall from the locker rooms.

  Most of the time he forgot about the pregnancy and then there would be a smell, usually coffee, that made him remember with a bout of morning sickness after.

  Once his stomach was empty of the great lunch he’d shared earlier with Cade, Brogan took the bottle of water that Jaden managed to find somewhere.

  “Man, I don’t think that I’ve ever had that reaction to my ugly mug,” Jaden teased. “Are you okay?”

  “Yeah, Brogan are you okay? Benji asked. “Do you need to get out of this heat? Your stubborn ass should have said something, because I can get some of the Alphas on
the volunteer staff to help with this.”

  “Sorry,” Brogan apologized as he ran his hand through his disheveled hair “it’s the coffee; for some reason the smell bothers me.”

  The expected quip from Jaden didn’t come, and when Brogan glanced at the other man he saw why. He was staring at his Omega mark in disbelief.

  “You’re an Omega?” he asked in an almost whisper.

  “A pregnant one who should go lie down,” Benji said in an almost protective manner. “Cade is going to be pissed if you don’t take care of yourself.”

  The sickness was passing but this feeling of embarrassment wasn’t. He knew that he couldn’t hide who he was, but he’d rather it not be made a huge production each time an old friend - no acquaintance found out about his new status.