“New Mexico!” Jake spluttered. “Rather him than me. I can’t imagine living anywhere but here in New York.”
Kelan nearly choked on his drink.
“What do you mean? I can’t stay here forever, Jake. At some point, you’re going to have to come back to Texas with me.”
“Excuse me?”
“Well, yeah. I’m the alpha of my pack back in Texas, and it’s not like I can ask the entire pack to move here. You’re going to have to move to Texas.”
Chapter Three
Jake glared at Kelan. He couldn’t believe the man’s audacity. They’d only known each other for twenty-four hours and yet Kelan expected him to up stakes and move to God only knew where in Texas? Like that was going to happen.
“I’m not moving anywhere.”
“You don’t have much of a choice. I told you, I can’t move here.”
“I wasn’t asking you to.”
“What the hell is that supposed to mean?”
“Look, I told you I was prepared to see where this goes, but if you thought that meant I’d be quitting my job and moving to Texas with you after only knowing you for a day, you can think again.”
Kelan lowered his eyes and stared at his drink.
“Oh my God, you did think that, didn’t you?” Jake fumed. “You selfish son of a bitch! What? Is your career more important than mine?”
“Being pack alpha isn’t a career choice. It’s who I am.”
Jake sighed. He was tired of fighting with Kelan, but he couldn’t see any way this was going to work out. They were two very different people from very different lives, and never the twain shall meet.
“There will be a way around this. We just have to find a compromise.”
“Please tell me you’re not proposing a long-distance relationship,” Jake scoffed.
“Hell, no. I have no intention of being separated from you for long periods. I couldn’t stand that. How could I protect you?”
“Protect me?” Jake spluttered. “Protect me from what? There was no price on my head last time I checked. What the hell?”
Kelan had the good grace to look embarrassed. Jake sat staring at the man, waiting for him to answer. Eventually Kelan lifted his head and met Jake’s eyes.
“Uh yeah, about that. I’m an alpha wolf, Jake. I don’t think you really understand what that entails. I don’t like being jealous or over-protective, but unfortunately that’s who I am. I want to protect you. It makes me feel good to know that I can. It’s my job to keep you safe.”
Jake sighed. “I don’t need protecting. I’m a grown man. I can look after myself.”
Kelan put his drink down on the coffee table and shifted closer to his mate. He cupped Jake’s face in his hands and placed a chaste kiss on Jake’s lips.
“I know that, but you have to understand, I want to look after you. It’s important to me.”
“Maybe we’ll have to agree to disagree on this one,” Jake said with a smirk.
Kelan grinned and took Jake’s drink out of his hands, placing it down next to his own.
“I can live with that, for now.”
Kelan slanted his mouth over Jake’s and pushed his tongue inside. Jake didn’t fight him, just opened right up, his arms sliding around Kelan’s neck, pulling the man closer. Kelan seemed surprised when Jake pushed him back on the sofa and straddled his legs, seating himself in his lap. He sucked on Kelan’s bottom lip, biting it teasingly before plunging his tongue inside Kelan’s mouth. He was sure Kelan never gave up control in the bedroom but, if he wanted to be with Jake, he was going to have to learn to do just that. At least some of the time.
“I want to fuck you,” Jake panted, releasing Kelan’s mouth and licking a path down his neck.
Kelan stilled.
Jake set to work sucking up a mark on Kelan’s neck. He didn’t know how the alpha would feel about Jake marking him, but he had a strong desire to let the world know that Kelan was off-limits. The wolf still hadn’t responded to his request. Jake was sure Kelan would be struggling with his dominant side, but Jake would not back down. If Kelan wanted him as a partner, then that partnership had to be equal. Jake would accept nothing less.
“Okay.”
Jake stopped what he was doing and sat back on Kelan’s lap. Had he heard Kelan correctly?
“Excuse me?”
“You heard me. I said okay. If you want to fuck me, fuck me.”
“Just like that, no arguments? I really thought you’d give me shit over this.”
“I’ll be honest with you, Jake, it’s been a long time since I let anyone do that to me. I like to be in control, you know? But you’re my mate. I want to share everything with you.”
Jake was at a loss for words. He was touched that Kelan trusted him enough to want to be with him in that way. Even though Jake always topped, he was used to twinks that expected it, asked him for it, even. He knew how difficult a decision that must have been for Kelan—it would be for him, too. When you’d fought hard your entire life to gain control, relinquishing it was never easy. Kelan seemed better able to compromise than Jake had expected him to be. Maybe things could work out between them after all.
He captured Kelan’s mouth again, kissing him hard. Within minutes both men were panting, their cocks hard and aching. Kelan lifted Jake off his lap and got up. He pulled Jake up and led him to the bedroom.
Once inside, both men began removing their clothes. When Jake was naked, he lay down on the bed and began stroking his cock, admiring Kelan’s firm, muscular body and golden skin that was revealed when his pants and briefs were removed.
Kelan lay down on the bed next to Jake and grinned.
“Well, I’m all yours,” he said, watching Jake’s hand slide up and down his hard shaft.
Jake reached into the drawer in the nightstand beside him, pulled out a bottle of lube and tossed it onto the bed. Kelan had begun stroking his cock in earnest, his other hand busy squeezing and rolling his balls. Jake groaned—he was quite sure he could come just from watching Kelan jacking off. The sight was incredibly erotic.
He placed his hand on top of Kelan’s, stilling the wolf’s hand.
“Not so fast,” Jake said. “Tonight, you’re all mine.”
Kelan threw his head back on the pillow and groaned.
“Please, Jake, you’re killing me.”
Jake chuckled and grabbed both of Kelan’s hands, placing them above the wolf’s head. He straddled Kelan’s lap, leant down and planted a kiss on his lips.
“Keep them there,” he breathed, grinning against Kelan’s mouth.
“You’re pushing it,” Kelan said, but there was a trace of amusement on his face and he didn’t resist—in fact, he grabbed hold of the bedpost behind him. “I guess I deserved that one.”
Jake shifted down Kelan’s body a little until their hard cocks came into contact. Kelan shivered when Jake took both of them in his hand and began stroking them simultaneously. Both men were leaking pre-cum, so Jake swiped his thumb over the heads, spreading it down the shafts to lubricate his path.
Jake picked up the pace until Kelan was panting, his eyes falling shut and his knuckles white from the pressure of his grip on the bed post. Jake was salivating at the sight of Kelan’s cock leaking in his hand. He desperately wanted to taste it. He released their cocks, lifted himself off Kelan’s legs and scooted down on the bed until Kelan’s cock was in front of his face.
Jake licked around the crown of Kelan’s cock, capturing the drop of pre-cum, tasting Kelan’s delicious, spicy essence. He groaned as the flavour invaded his senses, driving him wild with passion and need. With a smile on his face, he opened his mouth and slid his lips over the head of Kelan’s cock, soliciting a moan from Kelan, who still had his eyes squeezed shut.
As Kelan’s huge cock slid into his mouth, he opened the back of his throat and swallowed Kelan’s length in one smooth and fluid movement. Kelan arched his back off the bed, his eyes popping open as he stared down at his mate in astonish
ment. “Fuck Jake! How? Oh God, good, so good.”
Jake smiled around the cock in his mouth. He knew he gave great head even though he didn’t do it very often. He was delighted with Kelan’s response—it was exactly what he had been hoping for. He hollowed his cheeks, sucking Kelan’s dick hard on the way up before sliding back down to the base again. With each suck, Kelan grunted loudly, his hips moving off the bed, forcing his length further into Jake’s mouth.
“Fuck Jake, gonna shoot,” Kelan panted. “Don’t stop, please don’t stop.”
When Jake looked up, Kelan’s eyes were wide, desperate, pleading with him to make him come. Jake would have loved nothing more than for Kelan to empty his load in his mouth, but he wasn’t ready for Kelan to come yet.
Jake’s own cock was hard to the point of being painful, and leaking pre-cum onto his sheets. He knew he had to stop. He wanted to be buried balls-deep in Kelan’s ass before he let the bigger man come. He pulled off Kelan’s cock and squeezed the base hard with his hand. He grinned at Kelan wickedly.
“Not yet, you don’t. You don’t come until I say you can.”
Kelan growled. It was a low, deep sound that excited Jake even more. He wanted Kelan to growl like that when he was plunging his cock in and out of the man’s ass.
“You’re torturing me, Jake.”
Jake chuckled in reply and buried his face against Kelan’s balls, inhaling the incredible, musky aroma. He licked and sucked at the soft skin, nipping it lightly with his teeth then blowing on it to cool it.
Jake opened the bottle of lube and squeezed some onto his fingers as he licked a path down to Kelan’s waiting hole. He circled it once before plunging his tongue inside Kelan’s ass. Kelan groaned.
“Jake, please.”
Jake was elated to have been able to make the big, strong wolf beg. Kelan’s legs trembled as Jake fucked his ass with his tongue, pushing it inside almost forcefully then pulling back and licking around the tight ring of muscle.
Jake replaced his tongue with a finger, teasing around the outside before slipping it inside.
“Jake!”
Jake slid his finger further until it was buried all the way inside Kelan’s ass. He stilled it for a moment to give Kelan time to get used to the foreign sensation, then began slowly moving it in and out. He picked up the pace when Kelan began panting and grunting and moving his hips to meet Jake’s thrusts.
There was no way Jake could mistake the look of ecstasy on Kelan’s face for anything other than what it was. With that in mind, he added a second finger and moved them in and out together in unison. Spurred on by Kelan’s moans, he curled his finger until he found…
“Holy fuck, Jake! Yes!”
“That feel good?” Jake panted, more turned on than he could remember being.
“God yes. Again.”
Jake continued to work his fingers in and out, scissoring them sporadically and grazing over Kelan’s sweet spot on every other pass. By this point, Jake had started thrusting his aching cock against the mattress in time with the movement of his fingers in Kelan’s ass. He hoped Kelan was stretched enough to take him, because he couldn’t wait any longer.
He removed his fingers and applied a generous helping of lube to his cock. The temptation to stroke himself until he came was great. His wet, sticky fingers sliding over his cock felt incredible. Kelan reached down and grabbed hold of his own legs, pulling them up towards his chest, further exposing his tight hole to Jake. That was enough of an invitation for him to let go of his cock and lean forward over Kelan’s body.
“You ready for me?”
“Fuck me.”
Jake didn’t need telling twice. He grabbed his cock and positioned it at Kelan’s hole. Jake pushed forward slowly and the head of his cock slipped through the tight muscles in Kelan’s ass, meeting little resistance. Jake hissed at the initial penetration. Kelan felt amazing wrapped around him. He was hotter and tighter than he ever would have imagined. Jake closed his eyes and held his breath as he slipped the rest of the way inside.
“Jake, look at me,” Kelan panted.
Jake obeyed Kelan’s command at once. He’d never thought of himself as the type of person who liked to be told what to do, but in that moment he knew he would do anything for Kelan. It gave him immense pleasure to please the man. Kelan’s eyes were filled with want, but it was the trust he found on Kelan’s face that blew him away.
Jake pulled out and groaned as the muscles in Kelan’s ass fought to keep him inside.
“You feel so good, Kelan. So hot.”
“Do it, fuck me.”
Jake grabbed Kelan’s legs and thrust back inside, spurred on by Kelan’s request. He started to set a rhythm, pushing in hard then pulling almost all the way out before thrusting in again. Kelan’s breathing was becoming shallow, his moans and grunts louder with every movement of Jake’s hips.
Jake slid his hand under Kelan’s ass and lifted his hips, changing the angle slightly on his next thrust to hit Kelan’s prostate. As much as he loved being inside Kelan, he tried to concentrate on Kelan’s pleasure more than his own. He knew he’d found the spot when Kelan arched his back and cried out Jake’s name.
“Jake! Oh god, yes! There!”
Jake thrust in again and again, each time hitting Kelan’s prostate. Kelan was trembling beneath him, eyes wide and desperate.
“Harder!” Kelan demanded.
Jake grunted and gave Kelan what he asked for. He pounded into Kelan’s ass, bringing himself that much closer to release with every stroke. Kelan met every one of Jake’s thrusts, bucking against him, pulling his cock deeper inside until Jake thought he would go insane with desire and the need to come.
Kelan was lost. Lost to the pleasure and lost to himself. He had been fucked before but it had been almost ten years since the last time. Although he’d been born an alpha wolf, his more dominant tendencies had developed later. They had become more prominent still when Kelan had taken over the pack after his father had died a couple of years ago. Since then, he’d found it almost impossible to submit to anyone. He didn’t have that problem with Jake.
Kelan’s eyes and teeth shifted to their wolf form and all his senses seemed to heighten. He could feel Jake everywhere. Jake’s cock filled him, taking him hard and fast until he couldn’t take any more. He howled out his release, his engorged cock spilling its seed between them without a single touch to it.
Jake let out a low, primal groan. While Kelan shuddered through his climax, his ass squeezed tightly around Jake’s cock, bringing on his own release. He thrust one last time and yelled out Kelan’s name, gripping his hips tightly as his balls emptied their contents deep inside Kelan’s ass.
Kelan grinned when Jake’s body gave out and he collapsed on top of him in a heap. Jake’s neck was tilted to the side and, before Kelan even realised what he was doing, a deep, rasping growl tore from his throat and he sank his teeth into the exposed skin and drew out Jake’s blood. Jake cried out above him. Kelan wasn’t sure if it was from pleasure or pain, but when he felt Jake’s cock twitch in his ass as though trying to refill, he guessed it was mainly from pleasure.
Kelan couldn’t help himself. His only thought had been to claim Jake, mark him as his. He knew he should have warned Jake first, but his head had been still fuzzy from the force of his orgasm and he hadn’t been capable of thought at all, let alone rational thought.
As he pulled Jake’s blood into his mouth, his wolf was howling within, happy and contented to finally have claimed his mate. After a few moments, Kelan pulled his teeth out of Jake’s neck and swiped over the wound with his tongue to seal it.
Now that Jake was marked, any werewolf with an ounce of self-preservation wouldn’t dare go near the man. Jake would smell like Kelan now, too. Kelan could already smell their scents mingling together—and it pleased him no end. But now he had to face his mate. He was sure Jake would be pissed off with him.
Kelan laid back on the pillow and gently stroked Jake’s head.
Jake looked up at him, eyes filled with tears. Wonder and confusion warred with each other for supremacy on Jake’s face. Kelan felt his words stick in his throat.
“You claimed me,” Jake said quietly.
Kelan nodded—he could hardly deny it, although he was surprised Jake knew what that meant.
“Yes.”
“Thank you,” Jake whispered then his head fell forward and he promptly fell asleep, a soft snore rumbling against Kelan’s chest. Kelan closed his eyes, offering a small prayer of thanks to whomever was listening. Jake wasn’t pissed off with him at all—in fact, Jake was…grateful? Kelan wondered dimly about that as he wrapped his arms tightly around his mate and drifted off into oblivion, Jake’s softening cock still buried deep inside his ass.
Chapter Four
Kelan woke up with a huge smile on his face. He felt blindly around for Jake but it only took him a few seconds to realise he was alone in bed. He used his heightened sense of smell to locate Jake in the apartment. Jake’s scent hit him immediately—maybe in the kitchen? He breathed in his mate’s essence deeply to double-check, when another smell hit him so hard the hackles rose on the back of his neck and his teeth and eyes simultaneously shifted to their wolf form.
He could smell blood. Jake’s blood.
Kelan flung the covers off and dived out of bed. He didn’t bother putting any clothes on, just ran into the living room, his heart beating furiously in his chest.
“Jake!”
“I’m in here!” Jake called back.
Kelan rushed into the kitchen and stopped short just inside the door. Jake was standing by the kitchen sink, a blood-soaked towel wrapped around his hand. Jake’s face was as white as snow.
“What the hell happened?” Kelan asked, walking to Jake’s side. “Jesus, I could smell blood and I… I was so worried Jake, I thought…”
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