The Dark Alpha's Sweet Mate

3 Longing for his mate.

They were moving again. The plane ride had been long and excruciating. Now, they were on home soil, and making their way to wherever. Maverick never knew where they ended up. The eighteen-wheeler truck jerked, shaking the trailer he was in. The motion jostled him on the stretcher Dr Noble strapped him on after his mission. The mission he barely survived.

Fuck… he had so many holes in his body he didn’t even know how he was still alive.

Maverick clenched his jaw as pain slashed through him as his wounds opened again. He breathed through the pain as the truck picked up speed and moved on steadily. He stared at the top of the steel container that the doctor kept him in. The container was empty except for the stretcher and him. The doctor still kept him under lock and key even though they were not at the lab anymore, and he knew he wouldn’t run even if he wanted to, because he had the most important thing in his life.

His mate.

Maverick closed his eyes as his wolf growled deep inside him. He got agitated every time he thought of what Noble might have done to his mate. He didn’t know where Noble was keeping her. But he told him that he would keep her safe as long as he did what he wanted.

His wolf’s agitation grew. He prowled within him longing for his mate. He didn’t understand why she wasn’t with them. One minute she was there, and then the next she was gone.

Maverick hissed as he remembered the moment he woke up in that room, and she wasn’t there. It had all felt like a dream. Like he didn’t meet the most beautiful female in the world, and she was his mate. But he knew it wasn’t a dream, because he could still taste her kisses, and her blood on his tongue. He knew she was real. And he claimed her as his mate.

But Noble took her away from him, right after he mated her.

Rage filled him, and he wanted to murder the doctor. 

His wolf surged, pushing up. Maverick held him at bay, calming himself down. It wouldn’t be good for him if his wolf took over his body. He was in so much pain. He didn’t think he would survive that.

His wolf wasn’t the same anymore. He didn’t know what Dr Noble did to him. As much as his experiments enhanced his abilities, they also f****d him up. He wasn’t exactly a werewolf anymore. He didn’t know what he was. He had all these abilities that sometimes didn’t make any sense to him. But the worst thing was what he did to his wolf. His wolf was f****d up.

Maverick felt his fingernails extend into claws, and his canines elongate into razor-sharp teeth that went beyond his lower lip. He couldn’t turn into his wolf anymore. It was like his wolf was stuck within him. And he was half man, half wolf, like a rogue. He didn’t understand his wolf’s thoughts anymore either. It was like he had a stranger living inside him. He hasn’t turned into whatever it was that lived inside him, because he didn’t know what might come out of him.

But whatever it was, it was strong. Stronger than anything he ever imagined. And he had accelerated healing. Though it took a minute to kick in. It was like his body needed some time to figure out the path it needed to take in order to start healing.

Maverick sighed, enduring the pain. It will be gone soon.      

He closed his eyes, and thought about the first moment he saw her… his mate. He has relived this moment a million times. It was the best moment of his life. A miracle that came into his life after a long time of torture and pain.

Maverick didn’t even know how he ended up in Noble’s lab. He was the alpha of a small pack, the Blackash pack. He didn’t bother with other packs. He lived his life in solitude, and he liked it that way. Then one night an alpha showed up on his doorstep. He was hurt and needed help. Maverick didn’t turn him away, even though he avoided bringing in new werewolves into his pack. The alpha stayed with them for a few days until he was healed. On the day that he left, he promised to come and repay Maverick for his kindness. But that very night. Maverick woke up in a cage, with Noble staring down at him.

He didn’t know how he got there.

And that was the beginning of the worst time of his life. He was tortured and experimented on day and night. Maverick prayed for death so many times he was surprised that God refused to answer him.

But he did answer him by bringing her into his life. Now, he wanted to live. He had to find her again.

Mate, Maverick whispered to the empty container.

That’s what he said to her the minute his wolf screamed in his mind. He didn’t understand him half of the time. But that, he understood. The feelings that surged through him at the sight of her were unmistakable.

She was his.

He didn’t even think. As if he was pulled by something he couldn’t control, he closed the gap between them. For a second she looked like she was about to push him away as he wrapped his arms around her, and pulled her to him. But she melted into him, placing her cheek to his chest. Her nails dug into his back. Maverick groaned as desire surged within him. His c**k hardened in his pants, and all he could think about was claiming her for his own.

He knew he couldn’t pass up the opportunity. He couldn’t leave that room without claiming her. He had to leave his mark on her. One thing he learned from living in the labs for so long was that nothing happened without a reason. There was a reason why Noble put them in the same room together.

And Maverick was going to take what was his.  

“Mate,” he mumbled, breathing in her scent. She whimpered into his chest, sending a shiver down his spine. She was submitting to him so beautifully, she was driving his wolf wild. He pulled away and stared at her.

“You are mine,” he declared. She nodded, going to her toes and placing her lips to his. Maverick froze as her soft lips glided over his. She flicked her tongue against his lips, and he opened for her. A zap of electricity went through him as she deepened the kiss. He marvelled at the kiss, loving that she was claiming him too.

He picked her up, and walked to the bed. He placed her gently on it while kissing her neck. She arched into him, moaning so sweetly. She was so responsive to his touch, something that didn’t happen to him before when he was the alpha of the Blackash pack. The females of his pack didn’t understand him much. And he hardly made an effort to understand them. s*x was awkward and a chore.

But right now, he couldn’t wait to be inside her.  

His claws ripped her clothes away, leaving her naked. He stared down at her, taking in her glorious body. He ran his hand down her body, cupping her breasts. Her n*****s hardened and he leaned down to flick his tongue over one. She gasped, sinking her fingers into his hair, holding him there. Maverick groaned, sucking her n****e deeper into his mouth. His hand continued its journey down her body until he came to her p***y.

She moaned as he played with her folds. He rubbed her clit gently with his thumb, and she opened her thighs wide for him.

He groaned, wanting to do more. He wanted to kiss her harder, to lick and suck so many parts of her body, but he knew he couldn’t waste time. Noble's men could budge in there at any minute.

Maverick pulled off his clothes, and settled between her thighs. She stared up at him. For a minute he thought he saw fear in her eyes, but it was gone. She wrapped her arms around his neck, and pulled him closer. She kissed him harder and deeper. Her one hand tunnelled between them and she closed her hand round his c**k.

“f**k, baby,” he groaned as pleasure shot through him. She spread her thighs wider, and placed his c**k at her entrance. Wetness and heat surrounded him as he slowly entered her. She moaned, clutching him close.

Maverick pulled back, and then f****d into her over and over. Pleasure consumed him. And he felt something ripple within him. He felt his canines elongate, and his whole body became so sensitive – it was like another part of him just emerged out of nowhere.

Wyrd, he called to his wolf as he felt his presence more than he should. But he was different somehow.

As if he was in a daze, Maverick pulled out of her, and turned her over to her stomach. He pulled her to her hands and knees. His teeth sank into her shoulder the same time as he pushed into her again. She screamed, and shivered beneath him. He growled, pushing her down into the mattress. He moved faster, f*****g into her hard and rough.

Her body shook, and he felt the moment her orgasm hit. The walls of her p***y squeezed tight around him. He roared as he came hard deep inside her.

He dropped onto the bed next to her, breathing hard. His canines receded, and his claws went back to their length. He pulled her into his arms. And held her tight.

He should have held on to her tighter. But it wouldn’t have mattered. Noble has his ways of knocking him out. And doing whatever he wanted with him.

He just didn’t think he would take her away from him so soon. Not after they were mated. He didn’t even know her name. Or where she was from.

He knew nothing about her.

Maverick hoped that he would be able to fix that soon. If he kept doing what Noble wanted, maybe he would bring her to him one day.

He felt the truck slow down and make a turn. It slowly came to a stop. Maverick opened his eyes, wondering where they were. They haven’t been back to the lab since they left a month ago.

His heart leaped at the thought of being back there, even though he didn’t know that his mate was there. His desire to see her filled him. He waited impatiently. They seemed to take their sweet time moving around the truck. He could hear them as clearly as if they were standing right there in the steel container. That was one of his abilities. He could hear a pin drop to the ground. As werewolf, his hearing was amazing. But now it is extreme.

“You think that was an ambush?” one of Noble's security guys asked.

“I don’t know. They wouldn’t give us the wrong intel. The alpha is very valuable, and he came at a cost. They wouldn’t destroy such an asset. But I will find out what happened back there. The mission wasn’t supposed to go like that,” Noble said.

“Yeah. I know. It was a simple extraction situation. But it turned into a blood bath. I wonder what went wrong. Is it like at the lab? Do you think they are closing the book on us?”

What happened at the lab? Maverick asked himself. His heart hammered in his chest as he thought of his mate.

Was she still there?

 He waited for them to say more about the lab.  

“I don’t know,” Noble said with a sigh. “Let’s get him out of there. I’ll figure everything out when I am less tired.”  

The trailer doors were opened. He heard the heavy sound of footsteps coming towards the container. Bright light came through the doors, blinding him. Maverick blinked the brightness away. He lifted his head, and stared at Noble.

He came to a stop next to the stretcher. He stared down at him.

“You haven’t healed yet,” he said, displeasure clear in his voice. He ran his finger over the bullet holes that were slowly oozing blood. He wasn’t bleeding as badly as before. “What the f**k am I going to do with you?”

Maverick growled. He wasn’t a damn machine. He was hurt more than the other times. His body needed a moment to readjust.

“Move him,” he said, stepping out of the way. The men in black stepped forward and rolled the stretcher out of the trailer. Maverick looked around him. All he saw were trees. He couldn’t figure out where he was. But it looked like they were in the middle of nowhere.

The men pushed him to another container. This one was bigger, and it looked like a mini-lab. They pushed him to the back of the container and left.

Noble came and stood over him again. He had his white coat on now.

“You have to do better next time if you want to see her,” he threatened. Maverick stared at him, not reacting to his taunt. “You won’t see her again if you don’t perform to the best of your ability.”

He moved around the mini-lab. He put an IV in his right arm, and pumped some drugs into his body.

“Sleep and heal. We have more to do,” he said. And then walked away from him. He heard him move around the lab as the drugs took hold of him. And then there was silence.