“You’re going to get yourself hurt like this,” he breathed, and his voice was wrecked.
“Then teach me,” I shot back, and it came out raw.
Daniel made a sound that was half laugh, half growl. He dipped his head, forehead nearly touching mine, and rolled his hips with purpose. The friction turned brutal, hot enough to make my thoughts blur. My cock strained painfully against the fabric, slickness gathering, everything too tight and not nearly enough.
I could feel his restraint slipping. His breathing changed, ragged and uneven. His hips stuttered once, then again, like his body was taking over and his mind could not catch up.
“Fuck,” Daniel breathed, and it sounded desperate. It sounded like he hated how much he wanted this.
He moved again, firmer, grinding into me, and the heat spiraled through my gut so fast it almost made me dizzy. His eyes stayed locked on mine, pupils blown wide. He wasn’t looking away. He wasn’t pretending.
He wanted me to see him lose it.
He wanted me to know I did that.
His cock twitched hard against mine, and his face tightened like he was fighting a war inside his own skin.
Then he broke.
A bitten-off sound tore from him, rough and filthy, and warmth bloomed between us as he came, spilling in his pants like a teenager, like a man who’d been starving too long and finally got a taste of what he craved.
The shock of it went straight through me.
The knowledge that I’d made Daniel lose control, made the Alpha come with the whole pack watching, detonated something inside my chest.
I came hard, sudden, pleasure ripping through me so violently my back arched off the dirt. My hands fisted in his shirt, gripping him like I could anchor myself to something solid while the world tried to white out.
For a few seconds there was nothing but the harsh slide of breath in and out of us. The tremor running through his body. The pulsing aftershocks in mine. The sticky, humiliating proof of what we’d done pressed between us.
Then reality slammed back in.
Daniel went utterly still.
So did I.
Daniel moved first, rolling off me with movements that looked almost natural, like we'd just been sparring and nothing else. But his face was flushed, his pupils still blown, andI watched him school his expression into something neutral despite the visible evidence of what had just happened.
I sat up slowly, grateful that the position hid the wet spot on my pants, and tried to remember how to form words.
The pack had gone silent. Not shocked silent—more like deliberately-not-seeing silent. The kind of polite blindness that said they knew exactly what had happened but were choosing to pretend they hadn't witnessed their Alpha dry-humping a human in the training ring.
Evan stood frozen at the edge of the ring, his expression carefully blank, but I saw the moment he caught Nate's eye. Saw something pass between them—communication I couldn't read but that made Nate bite back a smile.
“Good,” Daniel said, and his voice came out only slightly strained. “You held your own. We'll work on endurance next time.”
The double meaning wasn't lost on anyone.
He offered me a hand up, and I took it because refusing would have been more obvious. His palm was warm, calloused, and when he pulled me to my feet, the motion brought us close again. Close enough that I could see his throat work as he swallowed, could see the fine tremor in his hand before he released mine.
Then he turned to the pack, voice carrying that Alpha authority that made everyone snap to attention. “Alright. Back to work. Jonah, Sienna, you're up. Full contact sparring. The rest of you, formation drills.”
The pack moved like they hadn't just witnessed something that changed everything, and I stumbled toward the water station with legs that didn't quite want to hold me, trying to process what the fuck had just happened.
Nate appeared at my elbow, pressing a water bottle into my hands, his expression carefully neutral except for the laughter dancing in his eyes.
“Don't,” I warned.
“Wasn't going to say anything.” But his grin said otherwise. “You need a minute? Maybe a shower? Some alone time to reflect on your life choices?”
