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I was perhaps tired of meeting Alphas who hated themselves, but I wasn’t done with that lesson in my life apparently, for here was one before me and my mouth went dry and my throat choked with want for him.
Maybe it was pheromones, or some combination of his generosity in doing things for me and the kids. Maybe it was my pregnancy hormones. I had no clue; I simply knew I wanted him. The urge came on stronger the more I allowed myself to feel it.
“Maybe I should just go,” he said, his voice almost a whisper. He started to stand.
“Mathias, wait.” My heart was hammering in my chest. I lifted my hand to his and grasped it. “Before you leave I want you to do one more thing for me.”
His eyebrows quirked up.
I stood and turned to face him, still holding his hand. “You’ve already done so much for me. I have no right to ask for even more.”
As I spoke I could see his face change. As if he wanted to do whatever I asked. As if he were compelled.
I knew Alphas. Somewhat. I knew their protective instincts, when awakened, could be stronger impulses than sex drives. If that urge was focused on one Omega for a time period, even a few days they would yearn to see to that Omega’s needs.
Drayden had had it while we were courting, but once he knocked me up and had gotten his family and me as the live-in maid to take care of them, he focused on his career and our bond never fully formed.
“Ask,” was all Mathias said, eyes locked on mine, not looking away.
“Kiss me. Just once. That’s all.”That’s all? I couldn’t believe I’d said that. I wanted so much more. But I had to see. Were we compatible? If the kiss tanked and was only lips on lips, just a gesture, I’d know. If it made my blood rush, I’d know something else.
“You are making sure,” he said. It was not a question.
I shrugged. “I want you to.”
He gave me a slow blink. Languid. Sexy as hell. Then he did something not even Drayden had ever done. He put one hand on my cheek and the other behind my neck, held my face in place, and leaned in.
The sensation of being held steady, of being controlled like that, made me dizzy before his lips brushed mine.
When the fullness of his mouth rested against mine, warm and tentative, a surge of heat shot through me. My whole body suffused with a kind of fever I’d longed to feel again, and hadn’t in years.
My arms were limp at my sides, but now I brought them up. Before I touched his sides, before I turned this tentative gesture into a full embrace, I asked myself one single question.
What if this is only for tonight? Can you handle it?
My body said yes. My mind was a little slower to agree, but I made a pact with myself to enjoy this man, and if nothing came of it, it would be a sweet memory and nothing more.
We stood together for longer than I thought he would be willing to. With his strange hesitancy, and his closed up emotional demeanor, I thought he’d pull away pretty quickly.
His palms moved from my head down to my shoulders, the fingers gripping at the cloth of my shirt. They tightened and I could feel his nails scraping through the cloth. My skin shivered all the way down my arms which were wrapped around his waist and pressing.
He was solid and warm, but also like hugging stone, the muscles rigid and curved in all the right places. All Alpha. Damn if I couldn’t help but be completely into him when just three days ago I had thought he was an ass.
I wasn’t a small Omega, but I had to keep my head turned up to him to continue the kiss. His grip increased and just when I thought he would move his lips to encase mine, he pulled back, exhaling and turning his head. His eyes were closed, his mouth open just a quarter inch.
My cock had warmed and risen in my pants. I so wanted to adjust myself but I didn’t dare move.
Mathias was an Alpha with problems. I didn’t care. I wanted to know him better because over the last couple days I could see he had a big heart. Someone or something had crushed it along the way. His father probably.
Alphas with father problems were a dime a dozen. Yes, I thought to myself. If this went further, or was only for tonight, I could handle it.
Chapter Thirteen
Mathias
I’d never gotten so hard so fast for an Omega outside the burn than I was now with Saber. Nameless, faceless encounters in dark rooms at brothels or adult parties didn’t faze me. But this—this hadstuffopening up inside me I’d never felt before.
I wanted it. Because of that, I had something here to lose. This feeling. This warmth. This household with a family that was so different from what I had been used to my whole life.
