LOGINThe full moon assembly arrived under a sky the color of bruised steel.
The entire pack gathered in the great clearing behind the house, ranking wolves, elders, younger fighters, the whole structure of Blackwood pressed into a rough circle. Torches burned at the edges. Marcus stood at my right. Elias stood at my left, dressed in simple black, wrists bare, head high. The scent of him was a constant pull under my skin. I had spent the last nine days buried in him, or rather, having him buried in me. Mornings started with his mouth on my nipples or his tongue in my ass. Afternoons ended with his cock down my throat or splitting me open over the desk in my study. Nights were longer. Raw. Messy. He fucked me until I forgot every careful wall I had built since the war, until the only name I remembered how to say was his. Now the pack waited for answers. I stepped forward into the center of the circle. The murmur of voices died. “Nine days ago I purchased an omega at the regional auction,” I said, voice carrying cleanly across the clearing. “You have all heard the rumors. You have all drawn your conclusions. I am here to end them.” I turned my head and looked at Elias. He met my gaze without flinching. “Elias is mine. Not as a political statement. Not as a temporary arrangement. He is my chosen partner. Any wolf who cannot accept that is free to leave Blackwood territory by dawn. Those who stay will treat him with the same respect you give me. That is not a request.” Silence stretched. Then Marcus stepped forward and bared his throat in the old way. One by one the ranking wolves followed. The message was clear enough. The scandal would not disappear overnight, but the pack would hold. When the assembly finally dispersed, Elias walked beside me back to the house without a word. The second the door of my rooms locked behind us, he shoved me against it and kissed me hard enough to bruise. “You claimed me in front of them,” he said against my mouth. “I did.” “Then get on the bed. I want to claim you back.” I stripped while he watched. When I was naked he pointed at the mattress. “On your back. Legs spread. I want to see everything.” I obeyed. Elias undressed slowly, letting me look. His cock was already hard, thick, long, the head flushed dark. He climbed onto the bed and straddled my chest first, feeding that length between my lips. I sucked him greedily, taking him as deep as I could, tongue working the underside while he rocked into my mouth. The taste of him flooded me. Spit ran down my chin. He held my head in place and fucked my throat in shallow thrusts until my eyes watered, then pulled out with a wet sound and moved lower. His mouth found my nipples again. He sucked one, then the other, hard and wet, until both peaks were tight and glistening and so sensitive that every brush of air made me twitch. Then he kept going down, pushing my thighs wide, and buried his face between my cheeks. The first drag of his tongue over my hole made me arch off the bed. He ate me open with filthy, thorough focus, tongue pushing inside, lips sucking, the wet sounds loud in the quiet room. My cock lay hard and leaking against my stomach. I reached for it and he caught my wrist, pinning it to the sheets. “Not yet.” When he finally lifted his head, my rim was wet and twitching. Elias slicked his cock with oil, lined up, and pushed in raw. The thick head stretched me in one long, relentless slide. I felt every inch of him forcing me open until his hips were flush against me and I was full to the point of aching. He started fucking me immediately, deep, hard strokes that shook the bed. The wet slap of skin on skin filled the room. He leaned down and sucked my left nipple into his mouth again while he drove into me, tongue and teeth working the peak in time with his hips. The dual sensation short-circuited every thought in my head. “Look at you,” he rasped against my chest. “Alpha of the pack. Claimed me in front of everyone. And now you’re taking my cock like you were made for it.” I could only moan. Every thrust dragged over my prostate. My cock bounced between us, untouched and dripping. Elias shifted the angle and pounded harder. The pressure built until I was shaking, thighs locked around his waist, sounds spilling out of me with every breath. “Come,” he ordered. I shattered. The orgasm ripped through me so hard my vision whited out. I painted my own chest and stomach while his cock kept moving through the clench of my body. Elias followed a few thrusts later, burying himself to the hilt and flooding me with pulse after pulse of hot release until it overflowed and slipped down onto the sheets. He stayed locked inside me, forehead pressed to mine, both of us breathing hard. One of his hands stroked absently along my side. The other curled under my neck, holding me in place. “Your beta,” he said quietly. “The one who died. You loved him.” “Yes.” “And this?” I turned my head and kissed him, slow, deep, tasting of everything we had just done. “This is different,” I said against his mouth. “This is mine. You’re mine. And I’m done hiding it.” Elias’s smile was slow and dark and full of promise. He rolled his hips once, still hard, still buried, and the residual sensitivity made me gasp. “Good,” he murmured. “Because the night is still young. And I plan to remind you exactly who owns this ass until the sun comes up.” He started moving again, slower this time, deeper, every stroke deliberate. I wrapped my legs around him and held on, already aching, already open, already his. The pack had accepted the claim. Inside, under the full weight of him, I finally stopped running from what I had always needed. And Elias made sure I felt every inch of it.Chapter 1 The hotel in Lethbridge smelled like industrial carpet cleaner and old ice. Tyler Reed dropped his duffel on the narrow bed and stared at the schedule taped to the wall. Tomorrow night’s game against the Lethbridge Storm. Against him. Jake Harlan. The other twenty-year-old “can’t-miss” prospect. The one every hockey forum loved to pit against him in endless comment wars. Reed vs. Harlan. Speed vs. power. East vs. West. Fans had been screaming for a head-to-head for two seasons. Tomorrow they would finally get it. Tyler’s team had booked the entire second floor of the lodge. Apparently the Storm had booked the third. Same building. Same shitty continental breakfast. Same thin walls. He stripped out of his travel sweats, grabbed his toiletry bag, and headed for the bathroom at the end of the hall. The team manager had said the private baths were limited, so the shared ones on each floor were first-come. Tyler didn’t care. He just wanted the hot water to beat the travel sti
The full moon assembly arrived under a sky the color of bruised steel. The entire pack gathered in the great clearing behind the house, ranking wolves, elders, younger fighters, the whole structure of Blackwood pressed into a rough circle. Torches burned at the edges. Marcus stood at my right. Elias stood at my left, dressed in simple black, wrists bare, head high. The scent of him was a constant pull under my skin. I had spent the last nine days buried in him, or rather, having him buried in me. Mornings started with his mouth on my nipples or his tongue in my ass. Afternoons ended with his cock down my throat or splitting me open over the desk in my study. Nights were longer. Raw. Messy. He fucked me until I forgot every careful wall I had built since the war, until the only name I remembered how to say was his. Now the pack waited for answers. I stepped forward into the center of the circle. The murmur of voices died. “Nine days ago I purchased an omega at the regional auction
The council meeting lasted three hours and solved nothing.I stood at the head of the table in fresh clothes that still smelled faintly of Elias underneath the soap, and listened to the same arguments circle the room like vultures. Scandal. Optics. The northern packs were already sending formal inquiries. A male omega purchased by a male alpha in open auction was unprecedented in living memory. Rumors were spreading that I had taken him as a political slight, or worse, that I had taken him because I preferred him that way.Marcus stayed silent at my right shoulder. The older council members did not.“A public claiming is the only way to quiet this,” one of them said finally. “Present him as your intended Luna. Make the bond visible. Anything less and the other packs will smell weakness.”I kept my face blank. “He is not a Luna in the traditional sense.”“Then what is he?”The question hung in the air. I thought of Elias’s tongue in my ass that morning. The way he had held me open and
I woke to the wet heat of Elias’s mouth around my nipple.For a second I thought I was still dreaming, the kind of dream I had not allowed myself in four years. Then his teeth scraped the sensitive peak and my eyes snapped open. Gray morning light filtered through the heavy curtains. Elias was stretched over me, dark hair falling into his eyes, lips wrapped around my left nipple while his tongue flicked and sucked with deliberate, filthy focus.My cock jerked hard against his stomach.“Morning,” he murmured against my skin, voice rough with sleep. He switched to the other nipple, sucking it into his mouth until it tightened into a stiff point. His hand slid down and wrapped around my shaft, stroking once, slow and tight. “You sleep deep when you’re full of me.”I was still slick between my cheeks from the night before. His release had dried on my thighs. The memory of him staying buried inside me while I drifted off made my hole clench around nothing.“Elias…”“Quiet.” He bit down jus
The drive back to Blackwood territory was silent except for the low growl of the engine and the occasional shift of Elias’s body in the passenger seat. He had cleaned up with the same calm efficiency he had used to wreck me against the wall, but the scent of what we had done still clung to both of us. My own release dried on the wall of that annex room. His was still a faint, slick reminder between my thighs every time I adjusted in the seat.I kept both hands on the wheel and my eyes on the road. If I looked at him too long I was going to pull over and demand he open me up again on the side of the highway.The pack house came into view just after dusk. Lights glowed in the lower windows. My second, Marcus, was already waiting on the front steps with two other ranking wolves. Their postures stiffened when I stepped out of the car and Elias unfolded himself from the other side, taller than most omegas, shoulders broad, that same unreadable half-smile on his mouth.Marcus’s nostrils fla
I never meant to buy him.The auction hall smelled of polished wood, expensive cologne, and the sharp, sweet scent of unclaimed omegas. Rows of high-backed chairs filled with pack leaders and their seconds stretched out in front of the raised platform. Female omegas stood under soft lights, heads bowed, wrists bound in silk that looked delicate and cost more than most wolves made in a year. Male alphas leaned forward in their seats, assessing hips and scent and the quiet promise of a future Luna.I was supposed to be one of them.Four years of carefully avoiding the subject. Four years of telling the council I was still mourning, still not ready, still searching for the right match. The truth was simpler and more dangerous: I had no interest in a female omega. I never had. The only person who had ever known that was buried under a white stone marker on the eastern ridge, a beta who had died with my name on his lips and my marks still fading on his throat.I needed to be fucked. Needed







