I didn’t get to enjoy it for very long though, because almost immediately, I fell asleep, totally exhausted.
*****
If I’d thought that I’d wake to find my heat was over, I was greatly mistaken.
The alpha’s knot must have gone down while we slept, because when I woke, he was gone. I felt a twinge of regret (he was kind of nice, even if he was an alpha), then relief (alphas were scary), then outright panic as I felt the start of another wave of the heat. Where was my alpha???????
Almost as if he had sensed my panic, the alpha appeared at the cave’s entrance. In one hand, he was holding a couple of water bottles and in the other arm, he cradled a large leaf holding a couple of handfuls of berries I didn’t recognize.
“Here, drink this. You must be dehydrated,” he said, handing me one of the water bottles. I recognized it as one of my own, which he must have taken and refilled somewhere. The water was fresh and cool, slithering down my parched throat in a soothing stream. A thin layer of water sloshed along the inside as I dropped the bottle on the ground. I hadn’t realized how thirsty I was. The alpha placed the other bottle beside the mat.
“That’s for later, you have to stay hydrated,” he said. “Now, eat some of these, you need to keep your strength up.”
I looked doubtfully at the blue and purple spheres.
“What are they?” I asked suspiciously.
“They’re wild berries. I don’t know what they’re called, but they’re safe to eat. They’re good for you.”
When I still looked reluctant, he picked one up and popped it in his mouth and swallowed.
“I lived in the wild a few months, I promise they’re safe. They don’t taste like much, but they’re full of goodness. You’re going to need them. It’s not over yet and you need to refuel your body.”
I could feel the flush of heat take over my body as it got ready for another round. I groaned, in dread.
“It’s okay.” The alpha sat beside me, putting a comforting arm around my shoulders. “This next wave won’t be so bad because we’ll get started sooner, okay? Just eat while you can.”
He picked up a berry and fed it to me. So close to him, I found it hard to worry about anything. He made me feel warm inside, relaxed. I swallowed the berry. He fed me another. And another. Obediently, I ate everything he offered me. When there was still a handful left, he put the leaf with its berries down to the side.
“You can finish those later. You’re about to get hit with a wave.”
I don’t know what he saw that warned him, but he was right. A moment later a massive cramp spasmed inside me and I crouched over groaning. Heat flooded my body again, my heart rate went crazy, and I began to sweat profusely. I felt acutely anxious. My slick, which hadn’t ever completely stopped flowing, started to gush, and my tunnel ached, wanting. I couldn’t go through this again.
“Alpha!” I wailed, panicking.
“It’s okay, I’m here.” He soothed, running a hand down my back and over my ass cheeks, the callouses scratching lightly over my trembling skin. Everywhere he touched, the fine hairs tingled.
“I… I’m losing control again,” I whimpered, hating it. Hating the loss of control, hating that I was so desperate for his cock, acting so sluttily and speaking so rudely.
“It’s normal,” he murmured, reassuringly. A large finger gently tweaked a sweaty lock of hair away from my face. “Nothing you’re doing or saying is anything but normal for a heat. Just relax and go with it. I’ll take care of you.”
And he did. For the rest of the night, he took care of me. He fucked me hard, and he knotted me time and again as the waves hit me one after the other during the night. But as he’d promised, none were as bad as the first time, when I’d waited too long to be taken by an alpha.
Between waves, he looked after me, pressing me to drink the water and feeding me the remainder of the berries, holding me when I slept.
Sometime in the early hours of the morning, after a particularly vigorous fucking, an explosive orgasm and another fabulous knotting, I felt different, and I understood with a confusing mix of relief and disappointment, that my heat had broken. We lay down one more time on the sweat and slick soaked mat, and the last thing I heard before falling asleep, were the gentle snores of the very exhausted alpha locked tightly to me. He’d been magnificent. Hewasmagnificent. What a shame a pathetic little omega like me couldn’t keep a magnificent alpha like that. I fell asleep curled into the protective shield of his body, a little bit happy, a little bit sad.
Chapter 03
AGELIUS
It was daylight when I woke. My whole body ached in a thoroughly pleasing way, and I felt deeply satisfied and content. Those good feelings only lasted a brief minute however, as I suddenly became aware of a glaring absence. My omega had gone.
This was unacceptable. Where was he? Had he just stepped outside the cave to relieve himself, or had he left for good? My wolf bristled at that last thought. My omega needed to stay close to me so I could protect him.
I shook my head, trying to clear away these possessive thoughts. When had I started thinking of him asmyomega, and not justanomega? I didn’t understand why I was like this. Possessiveness was unlike me. I was normally very easy-going. I knew I had no right to expect anything of the omega – any omega, much less a total stranger, though after passing a heat together we could hardly be considered strangers now. If there was anything I’d learnt while living in Talius’ pack, it was that omegas were not possessions. They had every right to beindependent. They could make their own choices.But,my wolf whined,he should choose us. We can look after him.
Maybe he doesn’t want us to look after him, I told myself. After all, if he’d chosen – even foolishly – to try and pass his heat unassisted, maybe he didn’t want an alpha at all.Anyalpha.
