The Alpha Between Us

Chapter 10

Chapter 10

The past couple of hours had been pure torture.

Kai would not stop staring at me. Every time I moved, I felt those icy green eyes burning into my back like he was trying to set my skin on fire. I refused to look at him. I couldn’t. Not after what we’d done this morning — not after he’d knotted me so deep in my own bed while Leah was just down the hall making tea like the perfect, trusting best friend she’d always been.

My thick thighs kept pressing together under the loose pants I’d thrown on, trying to stop the constant trickle of slick soaking into my underwear. It was useless. Every time Kai’s Alpha scent drifted across the room — that deep woodsmoke and musk that made my head spin — my p***y clenched and leaked like it was in heat.

I stayed glued to Leah’s side on the couch, the sandstone center table pulled close between us while she wrote down everything we needed to buy at the Plaza for the pack event. She was smiling, humming softly, completely unaware that her best friend’s cunt was still sore and dripping from her boyfriend’s c**k.

Heavy footsteps echoed from the hallway. Kai appeared in front of us, looking unfairly sharp in a fitted blue shirt tucked into black woolen pants. The fabric stretched across his broad chest and powerful thighs. Leah’s face lit up the second she saw him. She looked so proud — so in love — and the sight made my stomach twist with fresh guilt.

The more I watched her look at him like that, the more I hated myself.

This has to stop. Today. I have to end it.

Kai and Leah exchanged a few low words, soft chuckles passing between them. Then Leah playfully smacked his shoulder.

“No, you don’t want them eating you alive when they see this,” she laughed. “Take it off. I’ll go get the appropriate wear.”

She held out her hand. Kai slipped off his wristwatch and gave it to her. She stood up, still smiling, and disappeared down the hallway toward their room.

The second her footsteps faded, the air in the living room changed.

A looming shadow fell over me.

Please don’t be him. Please don’t—

“You won’t look at me,” Kai’s deep, guttural voice rumbled above me. “You won’t speak to me. How long do you plan to keep this up, Alexia?”

My heart slammed against my ribs. The floor felt unsteady even though I was sitting down. I kept my eyes glued to the shopping list on the table, thighs squeezed tight, praying he couldn’t smell how wet I was getting just from his voice.

“Damn it, Alexia. Look at me.”

His thumb slid under my jaw, firm but not rough, tilting my face up until I had no choice but to meet those piercing green eyes.

The second our gazes locked, every wall I’d tried to build crumbled.

He was so close I could see the faint stubble along his sharp jaw, the way his shirt clung to the hard lines of his body. He looked like sin wrapped in expensive fabric. My cheeks burned. My lashes fluttered. Slick flooded out of me so fast I was terrified it would show through my pants.

“Your heart’s racing,” he murmured, voice low enough that only I could hear. “Your lips are red. Your cheeks are flushed. You’re stirring inside, pretty girl. You want to touch me. Feel how hard I am for you right now. Stop fighting it.”

“K-Kai, please…” My voice came out small, pleading. “Don’t make this harder than it already is.”

He leaned in until his breath brushed my ear. “You’re not making it easy either. You can’t resist me. You gave me the green light that first night, and now you want to run? Nah. I’d rather f**k you until you can’t even think about finding another mate.”

My breath hitched. A fresh wave of slick soaked my panties.

He pulled back just as the bedroom door clicked open again. Leah’s footsteps approached.

Kai’s eyes stayed locked on mine for one more burning second.

“I wanna f**k you later today, Alexia,” he said quietly, the words sliding straight between my legs. Then he turned smoothly to greet Leah like nothing had happened.

I sat frozen on the couch long after he walked away, heart hammering, p***y throbbing, guilt and need twisting together so tightly I could barely breathe.

Once, I had been the one obsessed with him. Now he was obsessed with me.

And I had no idea how to stop it.

An hour later, the three of us were loading the last of the wrapped gifts and supplies into the back of the black SUV. My arms ached from carrying boxes, but the physical work was nothing compared to the war happening inside my body. Every time Kai brushed past me to grab something, his scent wrapped around me like a chokehold. I kept my distance, staying close to Leah, smiling when she smiled, laughing when she laughed — pretending I wasn’t leaking down my thighs from the memory of his knot stretching me open this morning.

By the time everything was packed, Leah slid into the driver’s seat and I took the passenger side. Kai was staying behind to handle a few pack calls before meeting us at the Plaza later.

Leah turned the music down low as we pulled out of the driveway. Her knuckles were tight on the steering wheel.

“You know,” she said after a few minutes of silence, glancing over at me, “I asked you to come with me because I’ve got a question.”

My stomach dropped.

“Oh?” I tried to sound casual. “What’s up?”

She hesitated, then asked softly, “It’s about Kai. Alexia… do you think he has eyes for someone else?”

There wasn’t a single ounce of accusation in her voice. Just quiet curiosity. Trust. The same trust she’d always had in me since college.

My blood ran cold.

I forced a laugh that sounded too high. “What? No. Why would you even ask that?”

Leah shrugged, eyes back on the road. “I don’t know. He’s just been… different lately. More intense. I thought maybe I was imagining it.”

I stared out the window, heart pounding so hard I was sure she could hear it. My p***y was still wet from Kai’s words in the living room. His c*m from this morning was still inside me, slowly leaking out every time I shifted in the seat.

She has no idea.

She trusts me completely.

I swallowed hard and managed to say, “He loves you, Leah. You’re his everything.”

She smiled softly, the way she always did when she talked about him. “Yeah. I know. I’m probably just being paranoid.”

The rest of the drive passed in a blur of guilt and fear.

Because I knew the truth.

Kai didn’t just have eyes for someone else.

He had his hands, his mouth, his c**k, and his knot buried deep inside someone else every chance he got.

And that someone else was me.

Shit.