Chapter 9-- The Alpha King

Dean POV

I’ve heard my share of bad jokes, but this had to be the worst of them. I looked at the petite girl clutching the pillow to her chest in an attempt to cover herself. This had to be a joke from the moon goddess or my wolf was fucking with me. The girl with mystical eyes looked like she was going to shake out of her skin in the beginning but now she stared me down like a lioness.
She scooted up the bed the sheer movement of her thighs allowed the sweet scent of her lust to seep into the air.
“What do you want?” Her voice quaked.
I settled on the edge of the bed. I didn’t want her to be scared of me. Damn, I wanted to touch her, taste her. I wanted her lips between my teeth.
“Layla?” That’s what I heard Gabe call her when he tackled her earlier.
“Ye-yeah?”
I’d never known the mate bond to manifest with so much power. I grumbled and climbed on the bed. My cock was thick with need it was uncomfortable. I expected her to run but the girl with purple eyes stared at me, watching me cautiously.
She smelt so good. I wanted to bury my face between her legs. I had to stop myself or I’d moan.
“I know how you feel,” I said softly. “I feel the same.”
“Doesn’t look it.”
If only she knew the turmoil inside me. We both needed relief but there was a lot holding me back. I held her soft cheek and pulled her close, her lips parted but she didn’t fight me. I held her gaze. I’d never seen eyes so otherworldly.
My hand travelled up her leg and moved into her inner thigh. My cock throbbed I moved closer to her entrance and felt the heat.
“Don’t,” she whispered.
“You’re hot.” My hand was like ice on her heated flesh. I couldn’t contain my lust my fingers brushed against her clit.
Layla shut her eyes, moving closer to my fingers.
“Mine,” my wolf growled. “Our mate.”
My thumb pressed on her soft clit.
“Open your eyes,” I ordered.
I wanted to see the pleasure in her eyes. I sensed the battle in her limbs but the mate bond was strong even though I couldn’t feel her wolf within. Layla opened my command. She ground her hips into my fingers. I teased her opening with my tips. She was so wet it would be easy to slip inside and fuck her senseless.
“So fucking wet,” I breathed out.
She looked away and panted. Her hard nipples cried out to be touched. They begged to be between my teeth.
“Ours,” my wolf growled.
I massaged her breast. They weren’t large or small just a beautiful in-between. I took her nipple between my teeth and bit down. She cried out and tried to squeeze me between her legs.
“Keep them open,” I demanded.
She spread them and I stroked her clit faster and pressed her clit faster. This wasn’t enough. I needed to be inside her but I couldn’t let the monster inside me claim this innocent young girl. I had to find pleasure in sucking her breasts.
“I think… I’m going to….”
She gasped out. Her body trembled, she clutched the seat and arched her back and I knew her orgasm had wrecked her body while I was as solid as steel. I pulled back and pushed my hair out of my face.
“Better?” I asked.
She sucked in her bottom lip. I wanted to claim those full lips.
“Yeah… I don’t get it.”
“There’s a lot of things I don’t get.”
“What?” Her brows dipped.
“Like I don’t know what to do with you.”
I saw her swallow. That probably wasn’t the best choice of words. There was an age gap between us. I was pushing thirty already and she couldn’t be more than nineteen.
The door burst open. Fuck, Gabe. My younger brother stormed in.
My eyes darted to the woman curled on my bed. My wolf didn’t like the fact that she was naked and my brother could see everything that now belonged to me.
“Ours,” My wolf growled.
Unwittingly, I stepped in front of Layla, blocking Gabe’s view of her.
“Something wrong little brother?” I smirked.
Gabe hated being reminded he was four years younger than me.
“What the fuck do you think you're doing, huh?"
Layla slipped under the covers to hide herself from Gabe. Gabe knew what we had done. The scent of her pleasure was thick in the air. I shoved my brother out of the room and closed the door behind us.
“Have I overstepped on your territory?” I raised a brow.
“Fuck you, Dean. She’s a spy.”
“Spy?” A spy? This was a fucking joke.
“She’s working with the Dare pack.”
Fuck.
“How are you sure? When did you find out?”
“Look, we’re not—”
“Then don’t call her a spy when you’re not sure she is one.” I spat.
“One night’s got you defending her? What the fuck is wrong with you?”
My brother and I were close I knew what jealousy sounded like in his tone.
“I haven’t slept with her yet Gabe,” I blasted.
He stared at the door. Desire flashed quickly in his eyes.
My wolf growled. “Ours.”
He didn’t want anyone touching or even looking at our mate.
“She’s your mate, isn’t she?”
I lifted a shoulder.
“Fuck, after all this time?”
“You need evidence, Gabe.”
“She didn’t shift, she’s in some shit.”
“No, she’s mine and no one touches what’s mine.”
It was more than protecting her from charges they had no evidence about. Gabe was an Alpha wolf almost as dominant as me. It was about him keeping himself away from my mate.
“She walked into a Locus Lake Dean. None of those appeared in my pack before. She should have been killed, but she didn’t. Suddenly she appears and the Dare hybrids start moving in. It isn’t a coincidence.”
“It’s not enough!” I barked.
I couldn’t believe I planned on keeping her. I had ruled for so long without a mate. To make matters difficult she was young. This wasn’t how I imagined meeting my fated mate.
“She has amnesia.” Gabe dropped a bomb.
“What?”
“This just keeps getting better and better.”
“Oh, I’m not done. She can’t shift.”

***
I closed the door behind me. Layla wasn’t curled up on the bed anymore, she was trying to escape through the window. I shook my head. I crossed the room and scooped her up with one arm.
“No, you don’t.”
Was she really going to jump out of a two-story house with a bedsheet around her? I tossed her on the bed. She sat up instantly. I snatched her arms and pinned them over her head. Her eyes filled with bewilderment as my body glued her to the bed.
She pulled her lips and I smirked. Her eyes changed with her moon. Now that she wanted to kill me they were dark purple.
I chuckled.
“What’s so funny?” She demanded.
“You are. I’ve never come across a woman that would rather fall out of a window to her death than stay in the same room as me and after what we did too.”
She pulled her lips into a pressed smile. “Well, I’m a girl tired of being a prisoner. I’ll take the chance with the window and risk my life.”
She wiggled but I pressed my body harder against hers. She gasped and my chest tightened. She was gorgeous. Her purple eyes found mine and remained there. Maybe she didn’t have a wolf but he could feel the bond. Touching her wasn’t enough I needed to fuck her, deep and hard.
I wanted to be between her legs and bask in her lust. A soft moan escaped her lips. Her soft curves moved gently against me. I shut my eyes and groaned. I pressed my erection against her belly and watched her eyes grow. Our noses bumped. I expected her to fight but she melted.
“You want me, don’t you?” my lips hovered over her pink lips.
“N-no,” she whispered.
“I can feel it, beautiful.”
“How?” she asked.
“Because you’re special to me. You’re my mate.”