The Omega and his Luna mate

Chapter 23: Lets…just…relax

It had been about a month of us being together and so far she had only let me kiss her about five times in private, she never let me show her affection in front of the others.

I don’t know why because whenever she saw me topless she’d grow flustered and stare at my body like she wanted to climb it.

I decided I didn’t care today.

I found her in the kitchen with Andrea. She was making herself some coffee, the smell filled the room while sunlight streamed through the windows, turning the dark wood counters golden.

Reika was pouring some into a mug when I walked up behind her, slid my hands onto her hips, and kissed her cheek.

“Morning beautiful,” I grinned.

She tried moving away.

I wasn’t having it.

I placed my hands on either side of the counter, trapping her between my arms.

“What’s wrong?” I asked.

“Nothing.”

The way she avoided my eyes told me otherwise.

“Reika.”

She sighed.

“I’m a Luna, I can’t be seen acting like some lovestruck teenager,” she whispered.

“Why not?”

“Because being female and leading a pack without an alpha is hard enough. If I start acting all soft and affectionate in public, I’ll lose even more respect.”

I frowned. “Darling, this pack loves you.”

She opened her mouth to argue, but I cut her off.

“Besides, they’re all female apart from me and Tommy. Who exactly are you trying to impress?”

Andrea snorted from across the kitchen.

“Will you stop being so tough all the time and just kiss your poor man already?”

Reika laughed bashfully. Shaking her head, she leaned forward and kissed me softly on the lips.

It was supposed to be brief.

Unfortunately for her, I had other ideas.

I deepened the kiss, pulling her closer, I claimed her tongue with mine, making our mouths open and close against one another.

When I pulled back she was adorably breathless.

“You’re a really good kisser,” she smiled.

“Mm, I could kiss you even better somewhere else,” I flirted and then grew worried she was going to pass out with how hot and flustered she became.

“Behave,” she barely whispered.

“Okay,” I murmured.

I leaned down and kissed her softly along her jaw and neck, open mouthed kisses. I kissed my way down to her collarbone and when her breath hitched I pulled back.

“I’ll behave,” I grinned.

I moved away and saw her almost whimper before she tried to hide her reaction.

“So who are we hunting today?” I asked.

I pretended not to see her pouting when I walked away, I knew she’d die of shame if she thought anyone saw it.

After composing herself, she said, “we have a couple of werewolves to deal with.”

“What did they do?”

“It’s more like what haven’t they done. They’re twins and evil motherf.uckers, they like to do everything together.”

“Sounds creepy already.”

“It gets worse. They’ve assaulted women together, they’ve started fights with other wereanimals in the streets for no reason, they steal. The list goes on.”

“Okay,” I shrugged. “Can’t we just kill them?”

Andrea nearly choked on her coffee.

Reika rolled her eyes.

“No. The council deal with them.”

“Shame.”

“And try not to lose control like you did last time.”

I winced.

“Yeah, yeah.”

As she walked past me, her fingers brushed across my chest.

I watched her walk away.

God, I was lucky.

I had my breakfast and headed up to my room to change.

I swapped my jeans for grey sweatpants and pulled on a fitted white vest top.

The sweatpants were so much easier to fight and run in then jeans.

Next, I pulled my black combat boots.

Comfortable, durable, and capable of kicking someone’s teeth in if necessary.

A solid investment.

I didn’t need to do much to my hair, it was shaved short around the sides and was longer on top, it already looked messy and tousled, falling into my eyes so I went downstairs.

I grabbed a water bottle from the fridge.

When I turned around, Reika was staring at me.

“What?” I asked.

Her eyes narrowed.

“Do you have to wear that vest top and have your hair like that?”

“Sorry, you don’t like it?” I asked.

Her gaze dropped to my chest before quickly flicking away.

“I like it too much.”

A grin spread across my face.

“Oh?”

“I won’t be able to concentrate with you around me.”

I laughed.

“Welcome to my world darling, it’s like that for me too everytime I’m beside you.”

She rolled her eyes, but a small smile tugged at her lips.

Only then did I notice she’d started wearing a little makeup for me recently.

Nothing dramatic, just enough to enhance what was already there.

I stepped closer and gently stroked her cheek.

“You know you don’t need to start wearing makeup for me, right? You are so f.ucking beautiful already.”

She smiled and shrugged.

“I wanted to make an effort.”

“You don’t have to. Plus I prefer you not wearing makeup, it hides your beautiful skin.”

“My beautiful skin?” She laughed.

“Yes, I love your black skin and the little moon crescents, it looks like someone blew moon dust all over you, it reminds me of the night sky and the stars on a cloudless night.”

“You can be really romantic and poetic with your words sometimes, you know that?” She grinned.

“I aim to please, my lady,” I teased.

She shoved me playfully and then, grabbing my shirt she pulled me in and kissed me.

“Mmm, don’t stop,” I grinned when she pulled away.

“Behave,” she laughed and walked out the house leaving me to catch up.

“Want to run in wolf form?” I asked when I caught up to her.

“Ok,” she grinned and ran off to go shift.

I’d been making sure she went to her therapy sessions and then with the money the council had given her I’d encouraged her to get the other women to get therapy for their trauma too.

I’d noticed a big change in them. They’d all stopped flinching every time me or Tommy came near and they weren’t as nervous around men outside anymore either. It seemed to really be helping, they still had their bad days, the trauma wasn’t gone, it never worked that way, but overall they all seemed much happier.

Reika ran over to me when I was finished shifting and we both play fought and ran for a while. The only annoying thing was having to carry our clothes in our mouths.

If we wanted to play fight we had to stop, put the clothes down and not run off too far. Nothing ruined a dramatic wolf chase quite like having to stop and make sure your trousers hadn’t been left three miles behind.

Reika ran off ahead and I followed her to see she had found a rabbit. She crouched down low and slowly, carefully, she stalked through the undergrowth.

The rabbit remained unaware while eating the grass.

When Reika was close enough she waited a few seconds and then ran and pounced on it. She caught it and killed it quickly so it didn’t suffer and then she carried it back towards me.

It had been a while since we’d eaten raw meat, our wolf side never let us forget, the longer we went without it the more angry and agitated we became. We would start to lose more control of our wolf side if we weren’t careful.

As my Luna I stayed away and let her eat first, and when she was done she nudged the remainder toward me so I could eat the rest. It wasn’t much but it would keep the wolf calm for now.

Afterward we carried on through the forest before eventually reaching the town outskirts and shifting back.

I followed Reika’s lead as we walked along the street. Another werewolf passed us by in their wolf form. It was normal for us but if a human saw that they’d probably have a heart attack.

Apparently the twins had last been seen at a strip club.

We headed inside and Reika faltered.

“I’ve got you darling.” I slipped my hand into hers and she relaxed and smiled.

It wasn’t as busy as last time. A few dancers moved lazily across the stage while staff prepared for the evening rush.

As we walked past the dancers on stage, I noticed Reika looking at me suspiciously.

“What?” I asked.

She arched an eyebrow. “You don’t want to stand here drooling like last time?”

I looked up at the sexy women on stage and back to her and shook my head. “Nope, I only want you.”

I lifted our hands up and kissed the back of hers and she smiled warmly at me.

We searched the crowds but they weren’t here anymore so we left.

We searched the whole town, bars, shops, side streets, and every place trouble usually gathered, but we couldn’t find these twins anywhere.

We were reaching the end of town when I saw two men walking in the distance. They were heading away from town and towards the more open grassy area where I knew a narrow river cut through the landscape.

I pointed.

“What about them two, they look similar, both blonde, same height.”

Reika followed my gaze before pulling out her phone and checking the information she’d been given by the council.

A second later she nodded.

“Yep, that’s them.”

We took afterthem.

By the time we caught up with them, I was breathless and gasping. Running in wolf form for so long had clearly tired me out.

I was bent over panting when Reika stepped in front of the twins.

They looked from her to me in confusion.

I waved a hand at them and breathlessly said, “don’t…worry…about…me…guys.” I gave a thumbs up.

Rieka rolled her eyes and took over.

“We need to bring you in to the council.”

The brothers looked her over slowly.

The one closest to her frowned. “What happened to your face?”

She kept her eyes cool and cold. “A werewolf thought he could sell me off. He’s dead now, and that’s all you need to know.”

“It’s such a shame, you’re a werewolf we would have loved to f***k you.”

His gaze lingered on her scars.

“But we don’t f***k ugly females.”

“Good,” Reika replied coldly. “Because I don’t want you either.”

The second twin laughed.

“The point is we’d make you want it.”

Every muscle in my body tightened.

Reika remained completely unfazed.

“I highly doubt you could make me want it.”

“We would force you to want it, force you to moan and not scream.”

I stepped towards them but Reika discreetly placed the back of her hand against my chest stopping me.

A warning.

Not now.

Not yet.

“That’s why we need to bring you to the council.”

They looked at her for a second, exchanged a glance with one another and then they both ran.

“Left ones yours!” Reika shouted.

She was already sprinting after the other one before I could answer.

For a second panic hit me.

I hated being separated from her, I was worried I’d lose her again, but she was my Luna so I did as she asked and chased the other guy.

He ran like a pro and like his life depended on it.

I was panting when he kept climbing over high fences and walls, he vaulted over a fifth one.

“Can’t you just…” I gasped.

“…f.ucking stop now…”

Another breath.

“…f.uck me.”

I didn’t even jump the last wall, I sort of just rolled over it and collapsed to the floor. Then I forced myself back up.

I kept running and managed to grab him sending us both crashing to the floor.

I lay there for a moment, sprawled across him and breathless.

“Let’s just…” I panted.

“…lay here for a sec, yeah?”

Th twin looked entirely too amused.

“You know, I like men too,” he said underneath me.

I nodded. “Ah, do you? Cool.”

“Yeah, I’d f***k you so good.”

Ok, I quickly climbed off the guy.

“Sorry. I’m taken.”

“I won’t tell them.”

“Dude I’m not interested.”

He was freaking me out, I had no problem with his preference but it brought back memories of my old pack. It hadn’t been often but once or twice I’d had a male pack member want me.

I’d managed to convince Zack not to let them have s**x with me but I still had to please them through oral s**x or let them do it to me.

I was very much a straight man and it had been really hard to do, receiving was a little easier but giving it was the hardest part and this guy just creeped me out, there was something really off about him and it triggered.

He tried groping me and I just lost it.

I punched him in the face so hard it knocked him clean out.

Whoops.

Reika had told me to control myself, she was definitely going to be annoyed.

I picked him up and carried him back.

Fortunately, I found Reika halfway there.

Her twin was handcuffed and glaring.

Mine was unconscious.

She looked from me to him and then back to me.

“Adam, I told you to control yourself,” she sighed.

“I know. Sorry.”

“What happened?”

I rubbed the back of my neck.

“He just started saying stuff and I, I don’t know, I’m sorry.”

The handcuffed twin laughed.

“He told you he’s into men didn’t he.”

“f***k off, I don’t care about him being gay.”

“Yeah, but I bet he said he wanted to f***k you and then tried touching you.”

Reika’s eyes softened towards me and she gave my hand a reassuring squeeze.

The simple gesture settled something inside me.

“How do you know all that? Was he just pretending?” I asked.

“No, he likes both male and females but he especially gets touchy feely towards the pretty ones.”

Reika pushed him roughly forward and snapped, “enough talking, let’s go.”

“Jealous?” He taunted her.

She ignored him.

“If you put a bag over your head we will f***k you.”

She kicked the back of his legs making him fall to his knees and put a sharp blade against his neck.

Her eyes were cold enough to freeze blood.

“Shut the f***k up you disgusting creature.”

She dug the blade in hard enough to make him bleed and when he was quiet she let him up again.

She stood and pulled him back to his feet.

“You’re so hot when you get all dominant,” I whispered to her.

“Adam,” she warned but I saw a hint of a smile on her lips.

We gave them over to the council and I noticed they had a new bodyguard. A male wereleopard this time and he didn’t react to us at all.

When we were outside, I groaned.

“Can we stay at the motel again, I’m f.ucking exhausted.”

Reika studied me for a moment before nodding.

“Okay, come on.”

As we started walking, she glanced over at me.

“You didn’t have enough raw meat, that’s why you’re more tired than usual, tomorrow we will hunt something bigger.”

“Okay.” I took her hand and she laced her fingers through mine.

Reika tried getting seperate rooms again but they only had the one double bed left and we had to take that.

I headed into the shower first and took my time.

I absolutely gave myself a hand job too or I’d be all over Rieka.

When I was done I cleaned up and pulled on my sweatpants, I didn’t think Reika would want me naked in her bed.

I stayed topless and when I came out of the bathroom she was staring at me, my wet body and wet tousled hair.

“Are you ok?” I asked.

She grew all flustered and mumbled, “yes, of course.” She rushed past me and into the shower locking the bathroom door behind her.

I jumped in the bed and sighed in contentment, it felt good to finally relax.

When she came back out she was wearing her tank top and jeans.

“You don’t need to wear the jeans to bed Rieka, I’m your mate now and I promise I won’t touch you until you want me to ok?”

She was a little hesitant and then said, “you’re right, I’m being silly. Sorry, I’m not used to being with anyone since my mate and we never got to the stage of sharing a bed.”

She got in the bed first and took her jeans off under the covers and put them on the floor beside her.

We were laying and just talking about nothing in particular and when she was relaxed I gently ran my fingers through her hair.

“I love your hair, I love the braids you have running through it.”

She smiled. “I grew up in a family of warriors, we all had the braids running through, it was just tradition.”

“Where are you parents now?” I asked.

Her gaze dropped.

“Humans killed them when they first found out about our kind, you remember how brutal it was back then?”

I nodded.

“I never thought I’d see the day when humans would start dating us and accepting us. I’m sorry about your parents.”

“What about yours?” She asked.

I stared at the ceiling for a moment.

“They died fighting another pack that wanted to take over Zack’s.”

“I’m sorry too,” she whispered, and stroked my cheek.

I leaned in and kissed her.

We kissed for a while and my hand slid to her waist pulling her in against me. She moaned softly against my lips, our mouths opening and closing, our tongues dancing against one another.

I wanted to do more and she wasn’t pulling away but I’d respect her and wait until she asked for more.

With all my will I broke away from the kiss leaving her breathless and looking disappointed.

I could smell how wet she was for me but I didn’t say anything. She cuddled in against my chest and I held her with both of us falling asleep frustrated.