Not Your Typical Alpha

08 | Know Your Place

*Winter*

It had been hours since Rei went to meet with the rest of the alphas, and I was bored out of my mind. I couldn’t wait to flirt with a few alphas, but they wouldn’t hurry up and finish that meeting.

I was currently speaking with one of the luna’s youngest daughters, who hadn’t stopped bragging about how perfect her mate was. She said she couldn’t wait to be the luna of his pack, and I couldn’t help myself from rolling my eyes at her. I mean, what a dumb bītch!

She could be so much more than that, but whatever. That’s her business, anyway.

She reminded me a lot of my sister... Which also reminded me… where the hell was Summer anyway? She always did this shīt.

“Sum, where the hell did you go? You left me with all these fūckers,” I snarled at her through mind link.

“I’m at the library. Did you know they have a three-story library?” she squealed back, forcing me to roll my eyes.

“I swear you are a grandma. I don’t know where I went wrong in my corruption of you.”

“Hey beautiful,” Oliver shouted to grab my attention over the chatting nearby as he walked towards me.

A mouthwatering scent hit me unexpectedly, but before I could look for the scent’s owner, Oliver wrapped his arms around my waist as his lips descended to mine. Just as quickly as his lips touched mine, he was flying.

What in the actual f**k?

I was shocked out of my mind but was suddenly distracted by the overpowering scent. It smelled like… what was it… mahogany? It turned out that the owner of the scent was the same fūcker that threw Oliver a few feet away from me.

“Are you freaking nuts?” I hissed at him, my body shaking in anger.

Yeah, what a great way to find your mate, right? Not!

I was pissed but was also tempted to fully check him out because he was sexy as hell. Goddess. I couldn’t concentrate anymore. Why was I mad again?

My mate was buff, over six feet tall, brown hair, blue eyes, god of a man. My eyes roamed his body hungrily as I memorized every inch of his tanned skin. The tattoos that peaked through the neckline of his hunter green dress shirt made him look even sexier, and f**k me, I’m wetter than Niagara Falls.

“MINE!” He growled back, breaking me from my thorough inspection and my hungry thoughts.

Before I knew it, the fūcker had his canines bared and piercing them into my neck just as quickly.

No. He. Fūcking. Didn’t!

I fought against his grip, but he sank them further, fully marking me. My body trembled in both anger and desire with each second that he held me, his breath caressing my skin. I felt his warm tongue seal the mark, bringing me to whimper at his touch.

The sensation made my knees feel weak, but I wasn’t going to show the asshole any weakness. Never!

“You asshole!” I screeched as I punched him right across the face and watched as he turned back with a huge grin as he wiped the blood off his lips. Fūcking psycho! But why was my pūssy throbbing at the sight?

“That’s just a reminder of who you belong to,” he growled at me again like a madman.

“I belong to no one,” I growled back because f**k him and the nerve he had.

“Don’t fight it, baby. You are MINE.” He replied calmly, his aura screāming power the longer I stood before him. Maybe he was an alpha?

Whatever he was didn’t matter at the end of the day because he couldn’t make me submit. Unfortunately, for him, since I was his mate.

Before I could respond, Oliver tackled him, and they started throwing punches at each other. Well, f**k…

I tried mind linking Reina, but I couldn’t get through to her, making me slightly panic. Shīt!

I did the only thing I could think of and jumped on my mate’s back, scratching at his chest, desperately needing to stop the fight. Not too hard because I didn’t want to hurt him though. Well, not too much anyway. Though I shouldn’t care but that was what this goddess damned mate bond did to werewolves.

“EVERYONE STOP!” Someone growled with authority, forcing everyone to freeze on their spot.

Whoever it was, was definitely a powerful alpha, since we all couldn’t help but bare our necks in submission.

My mate dropped Oliver and stood straight with me still on his back as my legs remained wrapped around his waist. I didn’t even attempt to hop off since he had a deadly grip on my lower thighs.

“EXPLAIN YOURSELF, BETA APOLLO,” The man growled at him.

Fūck, a beta? How? Sure, he felt more powerful. And Apollo? That sounded hot as f**k.

I felt aroused just by the sound of his name, but just as my body heated with desire, I heard Apollo groan, clearly smelling it too.

“Mate,” he replied calmly as his hold on me tightened.

“f**k,” the man whispered under his breath. Obviously, as werewolves, we heard what he said anyway, and I couldn’t help but giggle. “Alpha, can we borrow your office?” The man asked one of the alphas that had just joined us.

“Sure, just follow one of my warriors,” the hosting alphas replied as one of his warriors walked quickly through the glass doors.

I attempted to unwrap my legs from Apollo, but he pulled them tighter around his waist, making my lips slightly tug upward. And what did I do, you ask? Well, I rode my mate like a pony all the way to the office while I unhooked one arm from his shoulder to pull down the back of my skirt that kept riding up and showing my ass.

Oliver kept growling lowly at us on our way inside the pack house. As soon as we walked into the office, the warrior moved to walk back out, giving us some privacy. “The alpha said to take all the time that you need.” He informed the man who clearly seemed like Apollo’s alpha.

He nodded and the warrior shut the door. Reina accompanied us to the office but hadn’t said anything until the door was closed.

“Put her fūcking down now!” she growled at him as he looked over at his alpha, waiting for his response. As soon as he nodded, Apollo let go of my thighs and delicately placed me on the floor.

And when I looked back up at Reina, she looked livid.

*Apollo*

So many things were going through my head. I didn’t regret for an instant marking my mate, since she was everything that I’d ever wanted. But now I had two pissed-off alphas in front of me.

A very shocking factor was that Alpha Stone, Alex’s mate, was also my mate’s alpha.

“What the f**k happened?” She growled at me again.

“This fūcker was all over my mate.” I replied, baring my canines at the asshole who was looking at me with disgust.

“Well, of course he was, since he is my beta’s boyfriend,” She all but laughed as she emphasized the beta and boyfriend part.

I didn’t know which one shocked me more. A female beta? Just fūcking great! Or the boyfriend part? f**k no!

“If she is his mate, boyfriend or not, he can’t lay a hand on her.” Alex informed her, defending me with a tick in his jaw.

“Did she accept him?” Alpha Stone asked us as her eyes shifted towards my mate before they grew wide as they zoned in on her neck. f**k! I’m a dead wolf now. RIP, Polo.

“Did you allow that mark, Winter?” She questioned my mate, making my ears perk up.

Winter? What a beautiful name.

I looked over at her just as she shook her head, informing her alpha that I in fact did not receive the okay to mark her. I slowly turned back towards Alpha Stone and Alex, finding him with an amused smile, which didn’t even surprise me, honestly.

“YOU FŪCKING MARKED HER WITHOUT PERMISSION?” Her low snarl made me gulp instantly. I didn’t submit to anyone other than Alex because he was more powerful and my alpha, but her aura forced me to lower my head.

Before I could respond, my mate moved in front of me, blocking me from her alpha’s rage. “I got this, Reina.” She stated in a low voice that was kind of scary if you asked me. I don’t know who I was more afraid of at the moment.

“Winter will have our ass for sure.” Cole chuckled as if he weren’t part of me.

“Thanks for the pep talk, asshole.” I replied to my wolf.

Winter turned around and started punching me, her speed stunning me. The punches weren’t delicate girly punches either, as I expected. Some were harder than some of our warriors’ attacks were. Through the punches, I looked over at Reina and Alex, finding them both smiling as they watched me get my ass kicked by a female… and my mate.

Out of nowhere, Winter stopped punching me and extended her hand to help me get back up. How she stopped herself mid ass beating, was to my complete surprise. I got up and she suddenly slapped me in the face, making me groan and hard as hell, clearly finding a new kink.

I deserved that anyway, not that I regretted any decision I had made today. I turned to face her and found her smiling innocently back at me.

At that moment, I realized I’d take thousands of ass beatings if I could see her smile like that again. She leaned in and gave me a kiss on the cheek, surprising me yet again.

Um—maybe she was crazy?

I really don’t care because I’ll f**k her crazy ass no matter what.

I was lost in love when the asshole suddenly growled lowly. “Please give us a few minutes, Oliver.” Reina told him as he breathed heavily before he nodded and walked out of the office, leaving us four alone.

“Who would have thought that we would both be mated to assholes?” Reina asked my mate with a teasing laugh, making me purse my lips. Assholes? Not likely.

“So, this is the hunk from last night?” Winter asked her, pointing at Alex as she laughed with Reina.

“Yeah. I’m her mate,” he answered for her, pulling Reina by the waist and into his chest, but she pushed him away.

“Let’s get something straight. I’m an alpha and she is a beta, and it will continue being that way, okay?” She told us calmly, forcing me to swallow back the low growl. The f**k it will.

“You are my mate, and she is my beta’s mate, and you will both know your place.” He growled back at her, making her glare at him.

“We will not. We can just reject you both.” She hissed louder, her fists shaking at her sides.

I pulled Winter by the arm and looked at her in the eyes. “Give me a chance, please!” I begged her, my eyes boring into her blue/green ones.

Who would have thought? Me. Begging a female. Not that I even cared who I used to be. I would beg her until I had her completely and even after that. She was mine!

Reina and Alex continued growling and arguing at each other as Winter looked at me with a conflicted look.

“Please! I won’t say I regret marking you, but it was a moment of fear and anger. I promise to never force anything on you again, and we will go at your own pace too. Please!” She nodded slowly, allowing me to sigh in relief.

I fished my phone out of my pocket and handed it to her. She quickly dialed her number and saved it before I immediately called the number, making sure she wasn’t bullshītting me because she looked exactly like someone who would do that. When her pocket started vibrating, I relaxed a bit further.

At least we could talk and get to know each other. Maybe then I could convince her to move in with me.

Since she was marked, it was going to make it very difficult to be away from each other. If I was marked too, it would be impossible, and she would be leaving with me right now. I smiled at her and pulled her into a hug, taking in her scent. f**k, everything about her relaxes me.

I released her before looking over to see Reina and Alex, who both seemed ready to go into a full-on war with each other.

“We will give you two a moment,” Winter told them with wide eyes as her hand wrapped around mine before pulling me outside with her.