Dominant Enemies… and mates

The Encounter

{ Kingsley }

[ 11 years old ]

"What's wrong, honey?" my mom asks as I crawl into their bed in the middle of the night because I don't know what else to do. I feel horrible, I think I'm dying, "God, you're boiling."

My mom gasps in fear and moves to turn on her lamp to look at me. I can only moan and squish my body against my mother’s trying to feel better.

And it works a little, her scent and the pounding of her chest against my face starts to make me feel better.

'She's a good Alpha Mother,' says my wolf inside of me, speaking for the first time.

For a couple of years now I can sense things he feels and I can faintly hear some of his thoughts but nothing concrete until this moment, so I gasp and look at my worried mothers with wide eyes.

"He spoke directly to me," I tell them and I don't have to specify because my mother immediately knows who I’m talking about.

"He’s okay, love," she tells my mom with a smile to calm her down, "I think he's connecting with his wolf for the first time. He's probably having his first shift."

"Oh," my mom blurts out with big eyes full of excitement, her fear forgotten, "Does your body hurt, do you feel warm inside?"

"Yes, I feel like that," I whimper, but I don't feel so worried anymore because they are both smiling as they look at me, "I'll be fine, right?"

"Yes, baby, don't be afraid," my mother tells me and starts stroking my arm, "Let him out. Let him take control of your body. Don't fight it because the more you fight it the more it's going to hurt. It's going to be okay, I promise."

My alpha mother is the person I trust the most in the world, she always knows everything, she can do anything and she is in control of everything, all the time. My mom is like a superheroine and I will have trust in whatever she tells me, so I take a big deep breath and force myself to let go of my body and stop having it so tense.

'You can come out, wolf,' I think and at that very moment I can feel the first change in my body and it makes me let out a horrible whimper because something in my back snaps.

But I don't have time to keep thinking about it because the rest of my bones make the same sound and before I can realize it, I feel different.

Completely different.

My body feels lighter for some reason or maybe it's because my legs are stronger. I get excited about the difference and I can feel myself start to shake with happiness, especially when my mothers squeal and celebrate with excitement.

I jump on them and let out a happy whimper because I can’t stop it.

But suddenly all my wolf wants is to go see Laurent. He wants to see him so badly that I can't fight the feeling and I run to the door that I thankfully left wide open.

I can hear my mother get up and follow me.

"What do you want, King?" She asks, confused, but obviously I can't answer so I just walk down the stairs waiting for her to follow me and when I get to the front door, I point to it with my white paw, "Where do you want to go? No."

No? What does she mean ‘no’? She has to obey.

I growl and bang on the door harder, looking up at her. My mother is looking at me with her arms crossed as my omega mom comes downstairs to watch what's going on. When they still don’t do what I want, I let out a warning growl from my throat.

"He wants to go see that boy again," my mom says from the stairs, "You want to go see Laurent, don't you?"

Hearing his name makes my body spiral out of control again. I whimper and spin around my mother unable to contain myself.

Of course I want to see him. I always want to see him.

"It's too late, Kingsley, you can't go now," my mother says, but I don't give up. I groan and bang on the door and whirl around her tirelessly until she lets out a groan and pulls out her phone to talk to someone for a few seconds, "Okay, King. I'll take you there."

"Really, Erika? That damn boy does nothing but bully King! I don't understand what the hell is wrong with him, or why King suddenly wants to go see him, but it just doesn't seem right."

"Daniel says they're still awake and don't mind us going. I don't understand either, but there must be some reason and if his wolf is as demanding as human Kingsley, I'm sure he won't stop until he gets what he wants."

As soon as my mom agrees and my mother opens the door, I run out with my new extra strong body towards my Alpha's house, ignoring my mother's warning behind me.

I don't care about anything but seeing him and being with him. I want to be with him forever. He is mine. He is my alpha.

And he has to know that I want him as much as he wants me.

{ Laurent }

[ 12 years old ]

My alpha father left me in charge of my cousins while they go out to settle some business. I take my job very seriously as I always do when I am named the official babysitter.

It’s always me, obviously.

I get up from the floor where I was playing with Alex and Rio and stand in the doorway with my hands on my waist as I watch my cousins, making sure that nothing happens to them while we’re alone.

"Laurie, come on," Rio complains, "We’re just playing, you don't have to get up. Nothing will happen if we stay alone for a while."

"I won't risk it," I reply and stand firmly where I am, just watching.

I am the oldest, so I have to take care of everyone, even Rio and Alex although they’re only one year younger than me. Hannah is eight. My little sister is seven just like Phoenix, even though Phoenix likes to pretend he's just as big as us, so he's sitting beside Alex. But little Francia is just as tiny as her omega dad, my uncle Andy, and she’s only five years old so she needs extra protection.

I don't even have to spend much time watching the little ones because my parents return to the house just a minute after they left... followed by other people and a white wolf that comes running up to me.

I'm startled at first when he collides with my body, but it only takes me a second to realize who it is.

The scent immediately makes it obvious.

"King?" I ask, dropping to my knees and trying to stop his body to look at his face, but King doesn't stop moving, licking and scenting me, wagging his tail like crazy.

God, in wolf form he smells even nicer. Sweeter.

"Laurie, Kinglsey shifted for the first time and wanted to come see you," my dad says. All four adults are watching us like we're something weird. Kingsley going crazy on me while I’m hugging him and scenting him back, unable to stop.

I don't need my dad to explain anything to me. My wolf doesn't need explanations either, he just takes control of my body and makes me push King slightly to shift.

"Laurent!" my omega dad shouts in annoyance as my clothes end up destroyed once again, but I literally don't care one bit.

I've waited years for this moment, to have my precious King in his wolf form come to me for the first time. I have missed him so much. It's been weeks since Laurie has let me go out to play with him and it's been killing me inside. But not anymore.

I circle around my beautiful Kingsley, scenting him for the first time in my true form and I howl with satisfaction because today more than ever he smells like mine. My wolf. Mine to protect, to love, to cherish, to adore, forever. I can't stop circling him and my playful love drops onto his back to show me his submission.

'I love you' I say as I meet his eyes and I can see Kingsley pause in confusion.

'I love you too, Alpha' he communicates back to me and I howl once more.

"What the hell is going on here?" my omega dad asks, reminding me of their presence, but not making me take my eyes off King, "Daniel?"

"I have no idea," my alpha father replies, "Erika... do you know?"

"Nope, we're both just as lost as you are," Kingsley's alpha mother replies.

I don't care what the humans think. All I care about is being with King, so I run to the back door to leave the house hoping he will follow me and when he does and we reach the yard, I communicate to him to lie down with me.

And so we stay that way for a long time, lying in my yard together, my nose buried in his white fur breathing in his scent.

"Alpha, I need you to leave," my father says some time later, appearing in front of us. I stand up and move into an attack stance, growling from my throat to warn him not to dare approach my King, "Alpha, I'm not in the mood for this. I've given you plenty of time, but it's too late now."

I don't mind one bit. We can sleep here. The weather is nice and we are safe in this place. There's no need to move.

"Enough!" he shouts and fück, I can't do anything but drop my eyes and my head. My father rarely subdues me, but I always hate it when he does, "Give me Laurie back, right now."

I growl again but in defeat this time, because the human takes control of me.

"Here, baby," my daddy says approaching me with a towel to cover my naked body, "Let's go to sleep, it's too late now. King has to get back home with his moms."

I lower my gaze to King's wolf and my stomach sinks with a feeling I can't describe. His eyes are redish and his fur is the most stricking white I've ever seen in my life. He is an albino wolf, just like his human.

He's beautiful and the last thing I want to do is leave, but King's moms come up to him and try to get him to come back, so I have no choice but to follow my dad into the living room where my cousins are, looking confused.

"Come on guys, it's time for bed," my dad says, "The big ones come with me, little ones stay here."

Alex, Rio and Phoenix get up to follow us, but my dad stops and looks at Phoenix wearily until my cousin accepts defeat and returns to his place with the rest of the little ones, sitting with his arms crossed.

When we all get to my room, my dad lets out a tired sigh as the twins sit on my bed and I rummage through my closet for some clothes.

We are all silent.

"Are you going to explain to us what happened?" Rio asks suddenly, breaking the silence, "Uncle Oliver, can you tell us what that was?"

"No, not really," my dad replies, glaring at me as I finish putting on sleeping pants and a shirt, "Have you been talking to King, Laurie? I thought we had an agreement."

"No, we haven't talked in a month," I admit, looking down. That's a good and bad thing. Good because I obviously love not having to spend time with that jerk... but bad because my wolf misses him every day. But the last time I talked to King we ended up yelling nasty things at each other and we were both sent to the principal's office to talk to our parents. Since then we all agreed that we weren't going to talk anymore, "Seriously, Daddy."

"Okay," he agrees and sighs again, "Please boys, don't stay up all night, I'm not in the mood to put up with Robbie tomorrow complaining because you have dark circles under your eyes, okay?"

"Okay, Uncle Oli," the twins agree at the same time and my dad nods, giving me one last look that I can't quite identify before leaving the room.

"Dude, what the fück?"

"What happened?"

"Why did Kingsley come to visit you?"

"Why did you stay with him for so long? You wouldn't let anyone near you, you growled and howled, it was fücking weird."

"Guys, stop it," I whine, bringing my hands up to my face to cover it, "I don't know what happened, okay? My wolf took over completely, I have no idea what happened. Don't ask me."

"How often does that happen? How often does Kingsley come to see you like that?" Alex asks with narrowed eyes, not taking no for an answer.

"Never, that's never happened before," I admit. Although I don't tell them about how my wolf goes to visit him at least once a week... well, except for this past month. For some reason lately I've been able to control him a little more, "I'm tired and it's late, please, we need to sleep."

The twins groan, but they agree and we all lay down on my bed to sleep. This time I choose to sleep on the side of the wall even though it’s the least desirable place for everyone because whoever sleeps there ends up squashed against the wall all night, but this time I don't care.

I turn my back to Rio looking at the wall, taking deep breaths and trying to stop thinking about King, but I can't.

I'm starting to get worried about this situation with him, especially because even our parents don't know what it's about and they are worried.

My dad has never admitted before that he doesn't know something, he's always wanted to be an all-powerful being in my eyes and he really is, that's why it's so strange to hear him say he doesn't know what's going on.

I'm worried, but... Fück, I really want to go see King again.