Loading...It all started over a letter. A simple piece of paper with a college header addressed from far, faraway. A letter from some fancy professor that would change everything Dane knew. It meant that Kobe was leaving soon and there was nothing Dane could about it, the letter proof of his best friend’s decision to go to school.
Pushing the document back under Kobe’s bed—without bothering to read the rest—Dane continued vacuuming their shared room with a dangerous grip on the household appliance.
Dane wasn’t applying to college. He was never good in school, but mainly because he knew he’d just end up a Beta anyways. What had he expected? Kobe was everything he wasn’t, smart, good looking, and popular in the pack. The blonde belonged at the fancy Lupe College on the West coast. A big, dumb lug of a best friend couldn’t hold him back from a real future. Dane sighed and turned off the vacuum. His grief over losing the only person who understood him took a step back for the anger that was rising out of nowhere. He had to get out of here before he did something stupid.
Once the room was clean to Kobe’s mother’s specifications, Dane showered and shaved in the small adjoining bathroom before Kobe got back from helping the older males. Dane wanted to be gone before he had to face his best friend. He wasn’t in the mood to hear Kobe chatter away about the summer projects or hear him laugh. The pack was building a fishing dock down at the lake for obvious reasons, as well as something for the young to jump off of in the summer.
This place was more like a family resort than a compound and all the happy, fluffy crap made Dane bitter. His father had been killed in a Beta challenge when Dane was ten. After that, his mother wasn’t really up for the job of handling her own child. Therefore the Alpha had taken him in, offering him a real home when his mother vanished into thin air. They knew she wasn’t coming back.
It sounded ideal, but it was absolute torture to live in someone’s home as if you were their family knowing that you weren’t theirs at all. Even worse was to know that you were in love with the Alpha’s son—your best friend—but you couldn’t touch the future leader of the pack. Kobe was straight and Dane knew being with another man would be frowned upon by the others.
So he just existed amongst them. The big, muscled, dumbass living in a pen of beautifully content creatures was the story of Dane’s life.
He threw on some clean clothes, grabbed his dad’s old rucksack from under his bed, and headed out. The only thing he really owned in life was the old red truck that had been his fathers. It wasn’t much as it was rusted here and there, the seats had seen better days, but it was his. When he drove it, Dane felt a connection to the father that he barely knew. He’d even kept the picture of his mom that was shoved in the rearview mirror. The truck was his family.
“Dane!” He heard a familiar voice shout. Quickly, Dan started the ignition—his escape roared to life.
Glancing out the window, Dane cringed at the sight of the lean male running towards the truck. The lightest blue eyes he’d ever seen, white blonde hair glinted in the dying sun. Fuck, Dane shuddered at the guy’s beauty. Men shouldn’t look that way, he scowled.
“I have to be somewhere, Kobe. Don’t wait up,” Dane shouted out the window and backed up to avoid any further conversation. If he stuck around, he’d just end up more pissed off, spouting off things he didn’t want to ever admit.
“Dane, hey wait!” Kobe frowned. He stopped running. What the hell was eating him lately, the Alpha’s son pondered. They were best friends, but recently there was a wall up between them. Kobe couldn’t for the life of him figure out what was going on. He missed Dane terribly and ever since the big ass had decided to start ignoring him. Kobe had tried busying himself with the pack summer projects.
Was that what Dane was upset about, Kobe hanging out with the older males, excluding him? Well hell, Dane was stronger than any of them put together. If he wanted to hang, the guys would love it. But Kobe had a feeling that wasn’t the problem. Maybe he’d figured out how Kobe felt…
Kobe took a step forward when Dane didn’t make a move to drive off just yet.
“Hey, sexy,” Lana laughed, coming out of nowhere to put an arm around him.
In the truck, Dane growled under his breath. From the rearview mirror he watched Lana with her arms around Kobe. His best friend looked on his direction, but seeing that female with her hands on Kobe was more than Dane could handle, and he slammed on the gas—leaving a trail of dust in his wake.
Raising a brow, Lana shook her head. “You two are so clueless it makes me sick. I may like girls, but I still know a thing or two about boys, and you’re all dumb as a box of rocks.”
She flicked Kobe’s ear with her blue fingernails. “Earth to Kobe, hello?”
“Why does he do that? What did I do to him to make him that angry?” Kobe turned to Lana who pouted, a small sigh of frustration.
“It’s because he likes you too much that he’s angry.”
“That doesn’t make any sense. How could he like me too much? We’re practically bonded for crying out loud. He’s like my brother Lana.”
“Brother?” She snorted. “Do me a favor and don’t ever tell him that.”
Kobe screwed up his brows in confusion. “What? Why?”
“Like I said, you’re so clueless.” Lana kissed Kobe’s cheek then turned around with a flip of her bright red bob. “Later pup.”
“Hold up, Lana! What do you mean?”
She threw him a small wave, swishing her way back into the house.
Kobe stood there and felt his stomach twisting with grief as he watched Dane’s truck become smaller and smaller down the main road—eventually disappearing into nothing.
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Two nights later, Dane slipped into the bedroom as quietly as he could. One of the older males had given him enough Southern Comfort to kill a horse, and he was having a hard time walking, let alone being silent about it. He walked right into the bathroom door and hissed as pain bloomed across his forehead.
“Fuck,” he whispered, reaching out blindly to steady himself. So much for drinking his troubles away, Dane thought. This was so much worse.
Not sure what he was doing, he spotted the bed and stripped his clothes off as best he could. Proud that he hadn’t fallen to the floor when his jeans trapped his ankles, Dane climbed into bed and wrapped his large body around the warm mound of pillows under his chest. Damn these pillows smelled good, Dane smiled and inhaled—burying his nose deep within their softness, nuzzling as close as he could.
The next thing he knew a loud alarm was going off—his phone on the floor telling him to wake up—and his eyes fluttered open. Light assaulted his irises. Dane turned into the pillow to avoid going blind. Man his head hurt and his mouth tasted like…yeah gross. When he felt a small arm tighten around his waist and heard a groan of protest somewhere near his chest, Dane stiffened. No, no, no, he thought madly. Please no.
Reluctantly, Dan looked down and felt his life slip away in horror. Kobe’s face was pressed into his chest and his naked body was pressed…everywhere. Dane was already hard against Kobe’s stomach—the erection of shame a sure sign that he had to get the hell out of here. He had to leave this place to spare Kobe any embarrassment or grief. If someone found out about this or his love for the Alpha’s son, Kobe’s status would most likely be ruined and he’d be an outcast. His best friend had to go to college, had to make something of himself. He couldn’t ruin that for Kobe, no matter how much the thought of leaving hurt.
Very slowly, Dane slipped out from under Kobe’s embrace and got dressed. He turned off his alarm, packed up his rucksack with a few essentials, and put the wad of cash left over from his last job at the bottom before tying it up tight. The time came when he finally stood over Kobe’s sleeping form and a tear ran down his face.
Quietly, he knelt beside the bed and kissed Kobe’s cheek. “I’m sorry I have to leave you because, shit, I want nothing more than to stay with you forever. But I love you enough to know what’s right and you’re better than me. You’ve always been better than me Kobe, and maybe now…maybe now you’ll realize it. I love you, Kobe. Maybe one day you’ll forgive me.”
Realizing he was crying, Dane sniffled into his jacket sleeve and wiped his face. He gave Kobe one last look before he turned and left the main house—he passed all the unassuming pack members going about their morning, passed a small group of children playing in the hall, passed his people that he would never see again.
Walking to his truck, his feet had suddenly turned to stone, heavy and sluggish. His body knew what he was doing was wrong, his wolf was screaming inside to stop this, but he had to leave here. He couldn’t sit by anymore and watch Kobe become this beautiful man, this Alpha who would take a female—this man that would have young and eventually leave him behind. The idea tore Dane up inside and his wolf had to agree on that, but then the damn beast started howling again. Quiet on the outside, loud as hell on the inside—Dane couldn’t satisfy his wolf no matter how hard he tried.
“We have to go,” Dane whispered, looking back at the house one last time. “You know we can’t stay. I am so sorry.”
He ran a hand over his truck as if to memorize the dirty grit that covered the half-ass paint job. His family, he was really leaving them behind.
“And where are you off to this early?” Lana walked out of the tree line in mesh shorts and trainers, fresh from a morning run.
Dane kept his growl of fury for the female under wraps, his red rimmed eyes lowered. “Out.”
“If you keep running, it’ll only get worse Dane. Even I can feel your wolf about ready to snap. I know I’m not much to you, but you can talk to me if you want. Sometimes it’s better to get it all out.” Lana shrugged and took a step closer.
Dane turned his now yellow eyes over his shoulder, a slow spin of his body as his chest heaved with a pervading anger. “And why would I want to talk to you? You’re nothing more than a slut, a slut who only wants Kobe because he’ll be Alpha one day. Making plans to raise your status already? Trying to take him from…”
He couldn’t say it, she would know then. She would tell the Alpha and the others, ruin Kobe forever. Instead Dane bared his teeth with a lip rippling growl. His nails grew on his fingers, tearing into his backpack that he clung to. His body began to tighten, his muscles defining in a formidable way.
“Whoa. What? Hold up there big guy. First off I am not a slut and…”
“Enough!” Dane roared with a step towards the female. Lana’s eyes widened, her trainers backing up over the growl in fear. Her wolf was present in her mind, trying to calm her, but even the beast within was frightened.
“Holy shit,” Lana whispered and went to her knees—her head immediately falling low to him. She was shaking, her fingers digging into the dirt. Lana couldn’t look at him. She knew if she did that he would…
Dane didn’t even ask what the fuck her problem was. All he cared about was that she had shut her damn mouth. The anger didn’t break as he looked down on her shaking form. His wolf was in a mood that he’d never felt before. Scared of what he would do to Lana—even if he didn’t really care for her—Dane took off at a dead run into the woods.
As much as it hurt to leave his truck without a final goodbye, he knew he couldn’t drive it around with registered plates and escape being found by the pack. With a rage that scared even him, Dane kept running. Tears blurred his vision. His wolf guided him around the thick trees and over the fallen logs. Scents, colors, and sounds became nothing more than static to Dane as he felt his wolf’s heart breaking. At the moment, the beast had no choice, but to give in to the boy. They were leaving their pack, the boy they loved, and everything they knew behind.
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“Kobe, wake up! C’mon son, get up!”
Large hands shook Kobe out of his perfect slumber. Startled, his eyes shot open. His dad and mom were directly above him and in the doorway was a terrified looking Lana. Immediately Kobe thought of Dane. They would never wake him up this early if it wasn’t important. To Kobe, Dane was the most important person in the world. With a quick glance to the other side of the room, he noted his best friend’s empty bed. The rucksack that Dan always kept right under his bed was gone.
“Dane…” he whispered.
“Son, did you talk to him at all this morning? Did he say where he was going?” The Alpha looked down at his son with their shared light blue eyes. His gaze flicked to his mate, Kobe’s mother out of concern.
“No, I haven’t talked to him in a long time dad. He’s been weird lately.”
Kobe kept the sheets around his body, not because he was nude, but because he fought his hands not to pull the cotton to his nose and inhale with a stricken cry. The Alpha’s son was barely containing himself in the bed as it was—his wolf crying out in desperation. He somehow knew Dane was gone, leaving him. The beast inside howled, bring him back. Come back to me Dane.
“Get dressed. You need to be up if he calls. I can feel him still in the area and his wolf his is pissed at him. The damn thing woke me up with the bond. We need to find him before he…” The Alpha shook his head and sighed before standing up.
“Before he what?” Kobe straightened. His mom put a hand on his shoulder.
“Honey this morning when Lana tried to approach him, he almost ripped her head off at the mention of…” She looked to Kobe’s father for support.
“Well he should know, Kelly. He hasn’t seemed to notice for the last nine years.” The Alpha threw his hands up, pacing the room. His bare arms flexed, then relaxed in thought.
“Oh for crying out loud Kobe, are you fucking blind?” Lana stomped into the room with wide eyes. “He isolates himself from the others because he knows he’s different, stronger, and he thinks way too damn much. Downplays how smart he is because he doesn’t let anyone near enough to tell him otherwise. Sound familiar?” She gestured to Kobe’s dad and the Alpha looked guilty as charged.
“There’s the fact that you two are in love with each other. Jesus! How hard is that to say! I mentioned you this morning as he was leaving and he called me a slut who only wanted you for Madam Alpha status. Can you believe that shit? Oh he did though. About jumped me and made me submit. I am the daughter of the head Beta, Kobe. The only person that can make me submit is…the Alpha.”
Lana softened her voice as she watched Kobe absorb what he was being told. The blonde turned towards the window and searched the woods with an unholy need. He’d known it was Dane last night in his bed and he had craved the touch more than he was able to describe. Even if Dane had been drunk, Kobe couldn’t say no. Now, Dane was out there all alone, raging mad, confused.
As he admitted his feelings to himself, how much he really loved Dane, Kobe silently let the tears fall. “Why would he leave me then?”
“Because he doesn’t think he’s good enough for you. He thinks that I’ll rip him to pieces for loving you,” The Alpha said. He sat on the bed and combed his son’s hair away from his face. “But truth is Kobe, me and your mom have always known. How could we not?” His mom snorted and Kobe suddenly got antsy or rather his wolf did.
“Dane acted just like your father did around me. He’s always walking circles with you, watching you, protecting you when you don’t even see him. When it comes to the actual talking part, they don’t know how to follow through.” Kobe’s mom rubbed a hand over her mate’s back.
“I can follow through just fine.” The Alpha growled, but it wasn’t aggressive. It was the teasing growl he used just for Kelly.
Lana rolled her eyes. “Can we get back to the part where Dane is missing?”
“Okay, can I have a minute to get dressed? Then I’m coming with you.” Kobe swallowed, looking his father in the eye.
“Son, you can’t come with us. If he’s transitioning, and I think that’s what’s happening, then his wolf will snap. Make you submit on the spot. You know what I’m sayin?” The Alpha pulled his lips tight, looked around as if embarrassed.
“So I have to submit, big deal? Now get out…please.” He rephrased. The man that sat across from might be his dad, but he was also his Alpha, and you didn’t tell an Alpha what to do.
“What your father means honey is that Dane will make you submit. Not as in on your knees before your leader, but as in submit to your mate. He won’t care about anything or anyone around when he does either. Do you want that?” His mother gently explained and Kobe felt his face flush hot.
Mate? Submit and mate? The thought of Dane rubbing against his naked body and those powerful jaws locked onto his shoulder made Kobe hard under the sheets. Oh God, the nights that he had gone off into the woods just to touch his cock at the thought. What the real thing would be like? Now he had the chance to find out and with the guy he loved no less. Fuck, Dane…where did you go?
Looking to Lana who was waiting patiently in the corner, he sighed. His father cleared his throat behind him.
“How long until they bring him back?” Kobe crossed his arms.
“It could be an hour or he could prove to be a little harder to bring in than we thought. A day at the most,” The Alpha replied. “Just try and relax, Kobe. We’ll bring him back son. You have my word.”
Kobe nodded and let his head fall forward to hide the tears that came back. Where are you Dane?
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Dane’s head was spinning, his breath coming harder and harder. His chest felt like it was going to explode—as if his wolf would leap right out it. Any minute now he was going to shift and for some reason, Dane knew this time was going to be different. Everything in his body ached and screamed in pain until finally he couldn’t push on. He knew he wasn’t out of pack lands yet, but he was far enough away for now. Slinging his pack off his back, he tore his shirt off, howling to his knees in agony. It was as if he was shifting for the first time, only worse. The pain so bad, tears rolled down his cheeks.
The sun was sifting through the tops of the trees—filtering in small bits of light here and there as Dane fell over, shaking violently. His wolf was charging in his head, growling its anger for leaving home, pissed that its mate had been abandoned. Mate, Dane thought in confusion before another ripple rendered him thoughtless.
The wolf was wanted out and it wasn’t taking no for an answer. The beast was stronger than Dane at the moment. He didn’t have a choice as his body obeyed the creature’s demands. Dane screamed, his back bowed as he heard the bones shifting under his skin. His nails lengthened, pushing through his fingers, a cry on his lips.
Hair erupted on his hands, flowing up his arms in a blanket of thick fur.
His pants busted at the seams as his thighs thickened with hard muscle. Tufts of grey poked out of the breaking denim. With the last of his humanoid strength, Dane kicked off his boots and roared as his beast took over completely.
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The other were close, the large grey wolf sniffed in the air and scented the Lupe pack coming for him. He was stronger now, stronger than all of them. They would not take his mate from him. The others would not separate them. He and his mate would be together whether this pack liked it or not. He would kill them to get back to his mate. Let them come, he growled, baring his sharp canines.
Like leaves blowing in on the wind, six wolves slowly crept out of the trees and surrounded the large grey wolf in the middle of the clearing. The biggest one with the glossy black coat stepped forward with a warning growl. It was not a threat, it was a demand for obedience. Even with his new found strength, the grey wolf suddenly thought twice about going against the black wolf—the Alpha.
This was his leader, his guardian, the man that had basically raised him. Be that as it may, no Alpha would tolerate two males as mates. It just wasn’t done. He would have to take his mate and run.
Sensing the wolf behind him, a smaller Beta that was getting too close, the grey wolf turned around—growling, his razor sharp teeth bared, his eyes blazing with a fiery yellow. The smaller brown wolf yelped and put his head down low to the ground in submission. That’s right, the grey wolf snapped his muzzle with a loud crack, be afraid. All the other wolves started to back up, their circle growing wider. The large black wolf roared, forcing the lone creature in the middle to turn, to face his Alpha again.
You will not separate us. He is mine, the grey wolf thought to his Alpha who snorted and shook his muzzle. He is mine! The grey wolf challenged again.
The black wolf’s eyes shifted from yellow to light blue—their true human color. If you can shift back, then you are worthy of him, the Alpha pushed into the other male’s head.
That’s ridiculous, the grey wolf huffed, only an Alpha can shift back and forth between human and wolf at will. Others would have to at least wait an hour before the wolf would let them change back. You know I can’t, the grey wolf snapped, you laugh at me?
Have you tried pup? Those blue eyes stared at him.
Looking around at the other wolves who all had their heads lowered to the ground, the lone wolf tried to understand what it all meant. They were submitting, to him though? In thought, the grey wolf pictured himself human and felt a ripple cross his body quickly. Confused at rapid fizzle over his skin, he opened his eyes. Dane looked down at his naked body in shock.
“This isn’t possible! I’m the son of a Beta. I’m not an Alpha,” Dane said, shaking his head in disbelief. His human body felt stronger though, his wolf obedient, but still crying for his mate, he felt like…
Power shifted in the air. Seconds later his Alpha stood there in human form, naked as the day he was born. “Whoever told you that was mistaken Dane, because I too am the son of a Beta. You are an Alpha Dane and I know you feel it inside of you.”
Dane thought of his mother and the way she insisted that he could never be an Alpha when he was younger. He’d always looked up to the leader of the pack, the large muscled Lupe that ruled them all. Dane had always told his mother he would be Alpha one day. But she had scolded him for his childish dreams.
Was she really trying to keep him out of the spotlight for his own safety? Did she not want to risk Dane being challenged and killed just like father—a Beta that was not challenged nearly as much as an Alpha of the pack. Is that why she left? Because she knew Dane would be stronger than the rest eventually? That she would have no choice, but to watch him possibly die like her mate?
“She knew didn’t she, my mom?” Dane felt the tears again and the Alpha nodded.
“That’s why she left you in my care Dane, because she couldn’t handle seeing you in any danger. She wasn’t a bad person. The loss of a mate does things to you that you couldn’t imagine. She loved you Dane. She just didn’t love herself anymore without him.” The Alpha took a few steps forward and put a hand on Dane’s shoulder. “I love my son too, Dane and that’s why you’re going to come back home, and make him happy. I don’t like seeing him like that…”
“What’s wrong? What’s happened?” Dane’s eyes narrowed and he growled.
“He misses his mate.” Those four words brought Dane to his knees and he wept at the feet of his own Alpha in gratitude. The simple statement was the acceptance he had needed all along. The acceptance he never thought he would have. Kobe was his to love now, forever.
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Kobe paced the floor of the cabin’s one room, glancing at the door every few seconds. He could feel the Betas nearby, his father, and his hands were starting to sweat at what was about to happen. Something had shifted in the group since they had left and Kobe could almost taste the power of two full grown Alphas in the woods.
Dane, Kobe salivated. He tried to sit on the bed, but found staying still too uncomfortable. His wolf was about out of his mind and the bond was growing stronger between him and Dane as the level of need rose. He’d never known this kind of torture before—being so close, yet so far away, so in need he was going nuts.
Suddenly flushed with heat, Kobe pulled his shirt off and fanned his face before pushing his hair out of his eyes. He needed to open a window before he suffocated. Lifting the glass up, the air rushing over him, Kobe realized his mistake quickly—the scent of his male traveled on the breeze, bringing him to his knees.
He gripped the table and accidentally tipped the vase of flowers off the surface—a simple decoration that had his inner romantic had insisted on. The vase shattered to the floor, lilies spilling to the wood below, but Kobe was unconcerned with the mess as he writhed in his jeans. They had to come off before he soaked right through them. Sweat bloomed over his skin, his breath harsh to his ears. His wolf was on the brink of something, but Kobe couldn’t understand—he and his beast were both too far gone to communicate with each other.
Unzipping his jeans with shaking hands, Kobe tried his best not rip the damn pants off his body and shimmed out of them. The cool wood of the floor relieved him for a moment before the fever took over again. His hand slipped into his briefs, found his aching cock. God what was happening, Kobe moaned. He felt the wolves leaving the area and he almost screamed for help. His panic was short lived when he felt a force of nature coming full speed towards the cabin. The scent coming through the window became the air he breathed, thick, overwhelming to his body.
“Oh God,” Kobe squeezed his dick, pulling his briefs below his balls in some attempt to extinguish the heat overpowering his loins.
The door cracked open and Dane stood there with a growl on his lips. His short brown hair was soaked with sweat like had just shifted. His muscles gleamed with the same salty moisture—the lines of his body beyond powerful. The massive Alpha took the entire length of the room in three steps and pulled his mate from the floor by the hips. A ferocious noise boiling up from his throat, his yellow eyes locked on tearful blue ones, Dane placed Kobe on the wooden four poster bed and ripped the briefs from his body.
His body covered Kobe’s burning skin, seeking out his mate’s mouth with his tongue. Kobe’s legs wrapped around Dane’s tight ass and everything else was lost. There wasn’t any fear of what they were doing. There wasn’t some long drawn out talk. They were mates and they were going to make it official. The details would come later.
Kissing turned to petting and soon the breathing in the room was so loud, Dane couldn’t think. His cock ached so bad he didn’t think twice about lifting up onto his knees and pulling Kobe by the hair to his erection. Kobe didn’t miss a beat, licking the sweat from his Alpha’s dick.
“More,” Dane growled, pushing Kobe’s mouth down onto his length, pulling him back up—showing him how he liked it. Kobe’s hands found his mate’s hips and he moaned at the pleasure between them. He lived to please the man he sucked, his body a mere extension of the bond they were creating. The air around them hummed with power and pricked at Kobe’s skin. He was in another world that only involved submitting to the man above him. Pain, pleasure, whatever Dane wanted, Kobe was lost in it.
Dane felt the power thrumming through him, the love pouring off of Kobe in waves. The smaller male was getting off on pleasuring him. The small groans around his cock pleased his beast to no end. Dane combed his fingers through Kobe’s hair, anchored them tight as he began to thrust into his mate’s mouth slowly.
In turn, Kobe’s hands ran up and down Dane’s muscled thighs, up to his ass—wandering and learning the large body under his fingers. Taking his mate deeper, the blonde coughed a little at the unfamiliar intrusion so far down his throat, but relaxed as Dane’s grip softened, fingers gently massaged his scalp in reassurance.
The look of complete submission on Kobe’s face was too much for Dane and he pulled out of the male’s mouth.
“On your back.” Dane barely comprehended his own voice as he pushed his mate down onto the bed. Kobe moaned as Dane’s hands ran down body, brushed over his erection then down to his waiting ass.
“My mate…” Kobe groaned. His eyes rolled up as Dane lowered his face to Kobe’s ass, inhaling his scent.
“Mine,” Dane growled. He watched as Kobe took his own dick in his hand, fluid ran over thin fingers, working his length madly.
“Yes! Yours,” Kobe cried. A full body shudder took over. Dane’s tongue began to bathe his entrance with a rumble vibrating against the blonde’s skin. “Yes, yes, yes…” the smaller male chanted, his cock leaking, ready to take things further.
Neither boy had a clue what they were doing. Purely attuned to the need between them, they went on instinct. Dane’s wolf was crying for release inside of his mate and it didn’t take much for him to put two and two together. Rising on his knees, the future Alpha flexed his muscles for his mate and pushed at the back of Kobe’s legs—knees pressed into the blonde’s upper body, ass spread for the Alpha’s eyes only.
“This is all mine; you, this, all of it. Do you understand, my mate?” Yellow eyes looked right into Kobe. He moaned his reply, baring his neck to Dane.
Lining up his dick to the warmth of Kobe’s ass, Dane pushed inside and listened to his male cry out—the sound filling the cabin, the smell of his sex so intense, Dane lost it. The sheets were thrown off the bed. He grabbed onto Kobe’s slender hips. The first thrust sent the bed slamming into the wall and Kobe gave out a strangled scream. His hands flew out to the headboard behind him. It was mind blowing. The feeling of Dane filling him was like heaven made flesh—hot and pulsing inside his ass as he was pushed to his limit.
Locking eyes with his mate, Dane rammed home again and again. He molded his body to Kobe’s chest, made sure his skin rubbed against his mate’s cock. He wanted to feel more of his boy, more of that sweaty heat, to get more of that fucking smell. God, it was unlike anything he’d ever known. His tongue lapped up the sweat across Kobe’s nipple as he continued to thrust into his mate with a fierce rhythm. His wolf was howling in his head, his teeth extended into canines. Dane’s heart about to burst with the love he felt for Kobe.
Kobe looked into his mate’s yellow eyes, panting as his body was filled and stretched by his lover. Never would anyone else touch him like this. Not that he had ever wanted anyone else, but his best friend turned mate. This was it for Kobe. Dane was all he would ever need. Threading his fingers into Dane’s hair, the blue eyed male brought his mate’s head to his untouched neck and moaned as the thrusts got deeper—that thick cock sliding over all the right places.
Dane’s neck tilted to Kobe’s mouth on the other side. The blonde inhaled his mate’s own scent mingling with the powerful wolf underneath. Their wolves greeted each other on a level that surpassed intimate and that was when Dane’s mouth drew back an inch before capturing Kobe’s neck within his jaws.
The young Alpha’s teeth sank home and Kobe shuddered uncontrollably, the bite of his mate claiming him like an orgasm to his bloodstream—the feeling shocking his nerves from head to toe. Kobe’s wolf swept over him. His eyes turned an autumn gold. His teeth lengthened and struck at the sweat soaked skin of Dane’s neck—locking the two of them together as they came in unison.
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Dane parked his truck in front of the cabin and got out. Cracking his back, he picked up the groceries from the truck bed, and brought them inside. Rock music blared from the small set of speakers Kobe had brought out to the compound’s guest cabin last week and Dane looked around for his mate. Setting down the groceries, he walked quietly out to the back porch to find Kobe shirtless and hanging clothes out on the line.
With a grin, Dane growled and pounced, making Kobe drop the towel to the ground. Pushing him into the grass, Dane straddled Kobe’s ass with a grin.
The blonde laughed, wiggling to turn over. Once he was on his back, Kobe reached up. Dane’s face in his hands, he brought those lips down for a scorching kiss.
A flick of his tongue over Dan’s mouth, Kobe smiled. “What took you so long?”
“I couldn’t find the right shampoo, body-wash combo crap you use. I can’t believe you use that frilly shit.”
“You love the smell,” Kobe replied seductively. He ran his hands over his bared neck then through his hair to tease his mate.
Dane leaned down, trailing his noise with a deep inhale from Kobe’s neck to his scalp. “Honey,” he whispered. “Vanilla and you.”
Kobe laughed again, wrapping his legs around his mate’s nice tight ass. “See? Wasn’t the search worth it?”
“Yeah, now as my reward…” Dane sucked on Kobe’s neck. “I get to wash this little body thoroughly.”
“I see no problem with that reward.” With a gasp, Kobe laughed. Dane rose with him still attached and marched into the house.
“Love you,” Dane murmured gently as he pulled open the shower door in the corner and kissed Kobe slowly. His fingers fumbled with the knobs until he got the temperature just right.
“Love you back,” Kobe whispered against his mate’s lips.
That was when Dane pushed him under the water, clothes and all. He shrieked as cold water froze him to the bone, soaked him right through. Dane backed up, laughing his ass off, tears pricking his eyes.
“That’s what you get for making me search the fancy pants aisle for over forty five minutes!” Dane fell over laughing as Kobe stepped out of the shower looking like a wet cat with a scowl. “Oh fuck…oh look at you.”
“Let’s see how funny it is when you sleep on the porch tonight,” Kobe hissed and narrowed his eyes. “And no, I won’t be joining you.”
“Ah come on baby. It was just a joke,” Dane pouted then frowned as Kobe shucked off his wet jeans, utterly pissed, and got into bed—rolling away from Dane’s eyes. “Kobe, I’m sorry it was just a joke. Please don’t be angry with me. Please, baby…”
Dane became distraught as he rounded the bed to plead his way back into this mate’s good graces. He didn’t want to sleep outside or away from Kobe and his wolf was about freak at the thought. His mate alone and unprotected, no way.
“Kobe, I’m sorry. I didn’t know you would be so angry. Shit, let me get you a towel. I’m just sorry…”
Kobe kept his eyes shut until he felt how upset Dane was getting then cracked a smile. “Gotcha!” He sat up and laughed.
Dane sighed in relief and then narrowed his eyes at his mate. “That wasn’t very funny.”
“Oh yeah it was. I think you’ll remember this next time you try and pull a stunt like that. Throwing your mate in a glacial shower next time equals lonely porch floor. Ah, get up here you big baby. I think you’ve been tortured enough.” Kobe grinned and flipped back the covers.
Dane undressed and slipped underneath the blankets. He wrapped himself around Kobe and sighed. “That really wasn’t funny.”
“Yes it was.” Kobe giggled into Dane’s neck, squealed as his mate rolled on top of him. “Okay. Okay I give!”
“Nah, I think it’s my turn for torture now.” Dane grinned and Kobe’s eyes widened playfully.
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It all started with a college letter. One that Kobe’s teacher had given him as a suggestion, but the blonde had crumpled and threw under his bed because he would never have survived without Dane for that long. Kobe was never leaving anywhere without Dane, he knew that from the beginning, and now thanks to that stupid letter offering a simple college tour, he never would. Dane was his home and Kobe was all Dane had ever needed.
THE END