Alphas for the Holidays

by Mandy M. Roth

  And then they were kissing. He took her mouth. Tasted her. Teased her. Tormented himself. Stroked her tongue with his, fed her desire with his.

  He crushed her closer. With a sigh of surrender, she slid her arms up and around his neck and arched her body into his, her breasts swelled and started to ache, just like her pussy. Logan’s arms slipped around her waist and gathered her tighter against him, giving her breasts what they’d been screaming for. As her breasts nestled against the hard planes of his chest the aching eased. The relief was instant and over just as quickly. Her sensitized nipples began to tighten even more. She groaned and rubbed herself against him.

  “Mate,” he growled. “Tell me you will be my mate, Katie.”

  “If—”

  “No ifs, Katie. No, let’s-wait-and-see-what-happens. You are the woman I want. You are the woman who was born to be mine. Only mine.” Katie heard the rumble of the wolf, felt the strength of the animal somehow joining with the man as they waited for her answer.

  Her brown eyes searched his and forever after he would be grateful that she saw what she needed to see.

  “I want so very much to be your mate, Logan. So very much. But more than that, I love you.”

  “Oh, baby.” Logan wasn’t surprised to feel the wetness behind his eyelids. This morning he’d feared he’d have to say goodbye to her. Not for forever, but until he could convince her she was his. He and his wolf had spent the day cut apart with pain. Pain that disappeared as soon as she said she loved him.

  “I love you, Katie Wilson, and I will be forever grateful that fate gave me you.” He willed her to believe. Believe in him. He gave her the words she needed. But he didn’t just tell her. He showed her, capturing her mouth in a deep kiss that had her heart soaring and her blood pumping in seconds. “You won’t regret this. I will love you for a thousand years and then a thousand more.”

  Katie laughed, her tears drying up fast. “I knew I shouldn’t have let you watch that movie. Now you’re getting all cheesy on me.”

  He laughed with her and she realized that her life with Logan would be filled with many more moments exactly like this one. Filled with love and laughter and happiness.

  Like magnets against steel, their bodies drew together, and Katie was instantly overwhelmed with the rubbing of his cock nestled in the vee of her legs right against her hungry pussy. He anchored her wrists above her head with one of his.

  “So damn pretty.” When she heard him speak, she realized he had pulled up her top, baring her breasts, the large hills of pale, plump flesh, his for the taking. Her nipples were already hard and ready. He kneaded her breasts with his free hand as he knelt over her. His face was dark and fierce, the tender lover of the morning hours gone.

  He nipped and licked at her breasts, teasing and torturing her. She arched and moved in and out of his touch. Finally, he took her nipple in his mouth, drawing it deep inside. She gasped, feeling the erotic tug through her entire body. It settled at the juncture of her thighs, making her pussy clench in rhythm to his suckling. He stroked her breasts, her ribs, over her belly. Like a hungry man, he feasted on every inch of her luscious flesh. He devoured her, first one nipple, and then the next. His passionate touch reddened the pale mounds. His inner wolf growled in satisfaction as the marks appeared on her skin.

  He released her flesh with a wet pop. “You are my mate and I am going to take you. Do you understand?”

  “Yes,” she almost screamed at him. “God, yes.”

  His warm lips savored the soft skin beneath her ear, then kissed the throb of her heart where it pulsed wildly at the base of her throat. He licked the almost alabaster skin before gently nipping it with his half-distended fangs. His wolf was ready to taste the wild sweetness of her blood. One hard muscled thigh parted hers. He moved his hand down her torso, sliding a firm hand over her stomach “Sssh, baby. You’re beautiful.” He chided her involuntary indrawn gasp when he touched her there, placing a gentle nip of reprimand on the soft skin before moving lower.

  He cupped her pussy, his fingers sliding through the crisp triangle of curls. Something fierce and desperate and raw erupted between them and Katie realized it was his wolf, riding to the surface on their passion.

  Two fingers thrust inside her and she almost jackknifed off the bed. “Oh, baby, you’re so tight.”

  “I feel so empty, Logan.” Her body arched against him, silently begging for more.

  “I know, baby, I know.” He parted her needy flesh with the head of his cock and slipped inside her. He filled her slowly, sweetly, making them both groan at the sensation of him taking her. He made her shiver, his possession raising goosebumps on her flesh, with each long slide of his cock. He set a slow pace, letting the pressure build gradually, ignoring her groans of want, of her need for him to go faster, to fuck her harder.

  He planted his fists on either side of her head as he fucked her. “I’ve waited for you my whole life, Katie. My whole life,” he whispered against her lips. The rough passion of his voice was as thrilling as the hard possession of his body. A great groan escaped him as he bottomed out inside her and shudders racked her body as she found her release, her pussy clenching around his throbbing cock. Minutes passed before she stilled. He kissed her gently and she realized he hadn’t found his satisfaction. Sanity finally cut through the thick cloud of passion muddling her mind. “Logan.”

  He pulled her to him, but she eluded his grasp. “My turn.”

  “Katie, no.” His wolf whined at the delay in their mating and the man wanted to join in. He needed her. He needed her so damn bad. Then he saw her face and knew he’d give her anything she wanted. Always.

  She pushed him backward until he was stretched out on his back. She knelt beside him and he didn’t know if he could stand just lying there and not touching her. She smiled, then slowly lowered her head towards his cock. Her hair fell forward forming a veil between them until he gathered the thick mass in his hand and held it back. There was no way in hell he was missing this.

  Instead of taking him in her mouth, she kissed his stomach, licking along the curved lines of muscles before moving downward, lingering at his navel as he had hers. Her fingers brushed through the hair that surrounded his hungry cock.

  His hand tightened on the back of his head. “Touch me, Katie. Now.”

  She smiled at the growl in his voice and he vowed to make her pay for that later. Her hand encircled the base of his cock and he knew what was coming. Even so, he was unprepared for the heat of her mouth as he disappeared inside. He held himself still by sheer force of will. He wanted to thrust up into her mouth, make her take him as deep and as hard as she could.

  As if she sensed what he wanted, she took more of him inside her mouth. Then she was teasing him, alternating between bobbing her head up and down and taking him deep in one smooth glide. Every time she did it, he went a little deeper until he was bumping the back of her throat. He wanted her to take him deeper.

  “More.” He ordered. She turned her head slightly and looked at him. He knew exactly what she saw, a wolf on the edge of losing control. Her tongue flicked along the crown of his head as she stared at him. Then it was pressing against his slit and his control flew out the window.

  “Take me down your damn throat.” His hips bucked and he felt the head of his cock moving past the opening of her throat. Every time he thrust upwards, he went a little further until he knew she had taken him as far as she could. She’d braced herself against his thighs when he’d started to move, but didn’t try to break his hold. He would have let her go in an instant, but he was so damn glad she didn’t want to stop.

  Again and again she took him, until she was swallowing at the end of every thrust, the muscles in her throat caressing his cockhead. Another thrust and then he was growling, “Katie, baby, I’m about to come.”

  She didn’t stop, but moved faster, no longer needing his guiding hand to give him what he wanted. His ass cheeks tightened and he felt himself swell. Then he was on the ver
ge of releasing his seed down her throat and he—

  “Oh shit.”

  He lifted her from him, moving her up his body until her knees were astride him.

  “Logan, what’s—”

  That’s as far as she got before he was inside her, short bursts of cum coating her insides as he lowered her onto his cock. When he pushed her down hard, she realized what had happened. His knot had started to form. She was like a puppet in his hands as he moved her, trying to stuff himself inside her as he continued to come. His hands moved from the firm grip they had on her hips to cup her ass. His hands spread her thighs apart until he had stretched her pussy wide. With a sharp thrust, they were bound together. She gasped and her eyes met his as his knot fully formed.

  “Okay, baby?” he panted. His hips still moved in short thrusts as though he couldn’t help himself. She felt that same incredible need to move. She sat up straight and started to rock back and forth.

  Each time she did, the center of his swollen flesh touched something inside her that ignited sparks of fire in her blood. With each forward movement, her clit dragged along their joined flesh. Energy shot through her. She’d never felt so free, so open, so downright alive.

  “So good, so good,” he said, closing his eyes and throwing his head back. The tendons in his neck bunched and she had the uncontrollable urge to lick him. Before she could stop herself, she did. Her mouth sucked in the flesh of his throat and she was biting him.

  “Katie!”

  His hands tangled in her hair and he pulled her away. She gasped when she saw his teeth had elongated. His eyes were swirling masses of gold, the normal brown color obliterated.

  “I need to mate you.”

  They stared at each other for long moments. As soon as she nodded, he went into action. A groan escaped his throat, an eruption of sound, followed by an eruption of movement. He made her whimper when he lifted her off of him. In seconds, he had her flipped over, on her hands and knees in front of him, her ass up in the air, ready for his possession. He bent over her, his cock, still holding part of the knot, pressed against the slit of her pussy. “There’s no turning back after this.”

  “I know.” She pushed back against him. He moved with her, positioning her beneath him.

  The head of his cock nudged against her entrance and his hands were hard points of steel on her hips. She looked over her shoulder at him, her long brown hair spread across her back and across the covers. Her eyes were the darkest he had ever seen them, darkened with passion. Love.

  She smiled at him and took another piece of his heart with her. “Make me yours.”

  Logan broke into a sweat as he eased himself inside Katie, his knot had subsided considerably, but there was still a hard ring in the middle of it. He fucked her slowly at first, thrusting inside, then pulling out until the ring was almost free, stretching the entrance of her pussy. In again, then out. His intent was to start out slow and easy, making it last, giving her slow and tender, something to remember when she thought of their mating in the future.

  As he did, he felt the small tremors inside her that indicated that she was about to find her release. He stroked a little faster, fucked her a little harder. In minutes she was pushing back against him seeking his cock. He cupped the cheeks of her ass and pulled the two white globes apart. The move exposed her brown puckered hole. Gathering some of the juices spilling from her body, he used his thumb to rub them against the stretched hole. He watched as his cock sank into her and her ass started to clench around his thumb.

  “Do you need to come?” he asked, pressing his thumb further into her opening.

  “Yes!” she screamed, her voice muffled by the pillow beneath her head.

  The thrusts of his cock turned hard and long as Logan finally removed the restraints that had held the animal in place and the man in control. He loved the feel of her ass as he brought it slamming back against him in time to his thrusts so he could go as deep as possible. Faster and faster he pistoned in and out. The shattering feeling that swept over him was indescribable. He was being lifted higher and higher, wondering if he would ever be the same again once he fell back down to earth.

  She was sobbing, her face pressed against the covers as he fucked her. He knew the sounds she made were from pleasure. What she didn’t know was that pleasure was about to increase a thousand fold. He felt himself swell inside her, but continued to move in and out. The knot caught against her walls and pulled at them, making him moan. He felt the pressure build inside him and knew the next step was inevitable.

  Claim. Mate, his wolf commanded.

  Damn straight.

  As they neared the peak, he dropped forward, gathering her to him. He buried his face in her neck, knowing he was beyond anything he had ever felt in his life. His strokes slowed, but deepened as he placed his mouth on her shoulder.

  “I love you, mate,” he whispered as he slid his fangs into the tender flesh where her neck met her shoulder. Blood poured down his throat and he drank greedily, joining them together for all of eternity. It seemed as if the world spun around him as he claimed his mate.

  She moaned deeply as she came again, her pussy clenching at his dick. His knot formed completely as he emptied himself inside her receptive body. They hadn’t spoken of children, but he knew the time wasn’t right this weekend.

  That didn’t stop him from imagining planting his seed inside her. The thought made his balls draw up and he was spurting inside her again. His teeth retracted and he unlocked his mouth from her shoulder. He licked the wound close, proud to know she would, from this day forward, carry his mark for all the world to see.

  Falling to the side, he drew her into his arms, gathering her against him. Her body still rippled with sensation, and he felt as though she were stroking him over and over. They were both hot and covered in a fine layer of love sweat as his brother Hunter called the perspiration you wore after a fast and furious fuck.

  Unable to stop himself, his hand touched her breasts, tweaking her nipples as she continued to shudder in his arms. He grimaced, thinking he wouldn’t be able to wait until his knot went completely down before taking her again. He wondered if she knew just what she was getting into, mating with a wolf who would be horny for the rest of his life.

  They lay in the aftermath of their loving, their arms wrapped around each other. Logan kept touching her, anywhere he could. Eventually, his knot did recede enough to allow him to pull away. They both groaned when they separated. He continued to hold her in his arms, this time face to face.

  “I can just see you with a baby on the way. Your belly swollen with my seed.”

  She punched him in the arm. “Cocky much?”

  “You tell me,” he grinned as he covered her fist with his, slowly pushing the fingers apart before easing her hand down his body and over the hard ridge of his dick.

  Katie’s laugh was cut short by Logan’s mouth as he claimed hers.

  “I love you so much.’

  “I love you too, baby. Always and forever.”

  “Always and forever.” She echoed the sentiment before pulling his head back down to hers for another one of his heart stopping, panty wetting kisses.

  SIX WEEKS LATER…

  Katie stood in the waiting area of a military airport in Chicago, Illinois. She’d tried to get Logan to leave her behind when he went to greet his brother but he had insisted. She’d met his other brother, Jarod, and decided Sara, his mate, had a long road ahead of her to bring that wolf to heel. But, seeing the smiles they exchanged, maybe they would both have some fun while she did.

  The other woman with them was Hunter’s mate. She had heard all about the McCall siblings from Logan’s mother, Alice. Logan really was a homebody when time and responsibility allowed. She enjoyed the other couple’s company very much. They were like the set of parents she’d never had.

  She felt a set of steel arms surround her and she surrendered to her mate’s touch. It still amazed her that he—and fate—had decided they woul
d be the perfect match. And she had to agree. He was everything she’d ever wanted, but more importantly, everything she ever needed. She’d been worried at first, afraid she couldn’t give him what he wanted or needed. Those worries had faded as she’d witnessed the happiness radiating from him day after day, simply because she was in his life.

  That happiness went ditto for her.

  “Hunter is going to kill me and Jarod when he finds out we kept Julie’s pregnancy from him. Will you protect me, baby?”

  “As if you’d need the help.” While Hunter might have been the biggest of the three wolf brothers, Jarod and Logan were no slouches in the strength department. “And, I kind of agree with him. You should have told him.”

  “Oh, you have a lot to learn about wolves and their pregnant mates.”

  Her attention wandered to the plane touching down. Soon, his brother would walk into the building and there would be chaos. Julie was so happy she was bouncing on her feet. Katie had already heard Jarod and Logan scolding her to keep calm.

  She bit her lip, wondering when she should tell him she hadn’t gotten her birth control prescription refilled and it was the right time of the month to conceive. They really hadn’t talked about when they wanted to start a family, just that they wanted one.

  “Logan, do you think we might go up to your cabin this weekend, after you’ve spent some time with Hunter?”

  He immediately turned his attention back to her and she realized he’d picked up on her apprehension. “Sure, anything you want.”

  She turned in his arms, until she could see his eyes. “Anything?”

  His eyes darkened, gold swirling with the brown. “Yeah, baby, anything.” His voice was a low rumble and she felt his wolf just below the surface. The animal came out more and more—especially when he thought sex was involved.

  What she had in mind definitely involved sex. And lots of it. “Can we make a baby?”

  Logan let out a low growl that had Jarod instinctively grabbing his mate and Julie and putting the women behind him.