Page 32 of His Impossible Elf Mate
After he had enough of the brushing, he shifted and kissed me soundly until I was desperate to have him. “Please,” I begged as he reached for my cock.
Making quick work of my clothes, Axel prepped me to take him. I was grateful I remembered the oil with the relaxant, as it had been some time since I had been on the receiving end of my encounters. All the times with Axel before had been with me fucking him.
His cock stretched me well and I panted under him as we made love with the stars shining above us.
The moon shone on our union, it almost felt like a blessing. We were meant to be, Axel and I. Two souls intertwined regardless of our species. We belonged together.
We lay on what remained of my clothes after, breathless but sated, arms around each other.
“Thank you, Teárlach. I needed this.” His voice was clogged with heavy emotion.
“Of course, dear one. You are my heart and I know when you ache. We will get through this, I promise.” I brought his hand to my mouth so I could kiss his knuckles, sealing my vow.
“I believe you.”
Tension
Axel
Despite the hard work T put into pulling my mind away from all the goings on in the pack, the bond between Hiroshi and his two mates continued to play on my mind. I couldn’t help but ask why Tate and Asher had been given the gift they’d received.
Some of it was jealousy. I wanted to be able to have a family of my own, a mate who loved me. While I had Teárlach and knew beyond doubt he adored me, we could never be mates in the sense shifters were.
I was also on guard. Blake’s words circled through my head. Kade had great instincts. If he thought T was hiding something, then he was. I was watchful for hints and, aside from the preferential treatment his people gave him, there was nothing that set alarm bells off. He was important to the military; he was older than the others, and though Ívarr was technically the leader, it was natural the others would look to T for guidance since he was tasked with the security of the elves whilst they were in Sweetwater.
Still, I watched my lover, waiting for the secrets to unveil themselves. I was careful to guard my heart from falling any harder, as difficult as that was. We spent as much time together as we could, considering how increasingly busy we were. T seemed to spend any free moment at the clinic pouring over the research when he wasn’t patrolling our lands, climbing into the trees to make the area easily defensible from aerial attacks, a possibility now that the Northarbor Aviary was causing issues for us.
My senses told me he was hiding something, yet I felt like nothing he could tell me aside from already being married, which I’d immediately dismissed, would actually matter. Whatever he was hiding hadn’t prevented him from being in Sweetwater with me for months. Whatever it was, we could get past it.
A couple of weeks passed since our date under the stars, during which time Roan and his former mates had moved into their new home next to our Alpha Pair. It wasn’t all smooth sailing for them. I had to discipline enforcers for their behavior towards the omegas. Tate had been so overcome he had fainted, potentially putting his baby at risk.
The truth was, we knew so little about how the pregnancy would progress that anything could bring about a loss. Babies were so precious to a pack. We had to do anything we could to make sure Tate made it to term. Hiroshi too. The healer omega was carrying twins, even more precarious of a situation.
I’d ordered the troublesome enforcers to dig out the corners for new warding spells as punishment. They had to do it in human form because I knew some wolves just liked to dig. Chase had been a nightmare about it, often digging up Mom’s flower beds to hide something he thought was precious. Usually something like a toy figure or a shiny stone.
Of course, they whined the entire time, claiming they’d done nothing wrong. How the omegas couldn’t be bonded because that’s not how it worked and other bullshit. It got to the point where I was just so sick of their shit I decided to give them a lesson in manners. With my fists. Then I didn’t let Hiroshi heal them. Aldrin had to, all the while, they listened to a lecture about respecting omegas regardless of their mating status. How they deserve to be treated like people, not just things ruled by hormones.
Handing Blake a list of enforcers to watch didn’t make me happy, but I did enjoy how each enforcer flinched whenever I got close.
“What did you do to them, dear one?” Teárlach asked as he met me for lunch in my office one late January afternoon.
Blake had helped the local coven find a missing demon. Turned out one of their own was not only a witch, he was half demon! He’d found his fated mate, only for that mate to be kidnapped. Something about witches and contracts.
Either way, Basil, fucking terrible name for a person, by the way. Well, he was the same dick who gave Jared potions to try to impregnate Hiroshi. Back when he was forced to go through some of his heat with him. That bastard, Basil, had the demon, Toth.
Basil got away, but Blake now had a lead on a potential new partner for our cider making business, since Toth had an orchard of these fancy apples.
He and Dakota were going through the legalities of how the deal would work if it went ahead. They wanted it all organized for when Cody and Toth were ready to discuss it, so they could get moving as quickly as possible. The demons faced a lot of discrimination, a fact which worried Blake since it was such a good opportunity to improve the brewery.
With them tucked away, there wasn’t all that much for me to do. The elves helped with a lot of the security around the babies. Kade even had a new nanny, Cryabell, who watched the triplets so Kade could do his council duties.
Cryabell… I didn’t like her. It had nothing, okay, everything, to do with her hogging the babies and not letting me in to hug them whenever I wanted. She kept saying things like schedules and self soothing, which was bullshit, FYI. Babies who stopped crying hadn’t soothed themselves. They’d just learned no one was coming, and I hated that idea for my niblings.
So, okay, I’d argued against that tactic, and won because Kade loved those babies more than anythingand couldn’t stand the idea of them suffering when all they wanted was love.
Now Cryabell was being difficult, not letting me see them when I knew I wouldn’t wake them. Planning to get her fired was wrong, wasn’t it?
“Hmm?” I answered distractedly. The elf nanny would have to wait.
