1. Alpha Alex's Luna
Less than twenty-four hours ago, she was crying in her omega quarters, wondering what would happen to her life and her future. She had felt helpless, with her life spiralling out of control and no sight of the happiness that she craved.
Now, she was standing here in the Alpha suite, wondering how to fill the New Kurt Luna’s wardrobe so that she had appropriate outfits for when she visited their allied packs. She reflexively ran her hand along the left side of her neck, smiling to herself.
Alex’s mating mark was still a bit raw, but surprisingly, it didn’t hurt. The skin where he had punctured her with his large teeth was simply more sensitive than the other areas.
She turned to look at herself in the full-length mirror as if to check if she had changed somehow. She was still wearing the same exquisite dress that she had worn to the feast, and it was very different from her usual wardrobe. Mia had picked it out.
The whole day had felt like a dream she never even dared to dream.
She, Chloe, an omega, was the royal-blooded Alpha Alex’s Luna. It even sounded ridiculous when said as a sentence.
With one single decision, her Alpha had given her everything she ever wanted and more. Her Alpha Alex.
“Alex,” she spoke the word aloud in her soft voice to test how it felt on her lips. She hadn’t said it since he marked her as they rushed to the pack hall, and he paraded her around with so much pride that it made her blush.
She was finally marked and had found a forever mate who went above and beyond to just have her. It still felt surreal and unreal at the same time.
Did that really happen?
A pair of strong arms wrapped around her middle as she felt him before she came out of her daydream to see him in the mirror.
Chloe smiled widely and closed her eyes as he leaned over and placed a kiss on the left side of her neck. Just that kiss was making her want him.
“You shouldn’t have left,” he complained grumpily in his gruff voice as he placed wet kisses on her neck.
Chloe grinned at that. He hadn’t wanted her to leave when the prince had asked her to, but she had insisted that she didn’t mind.
“Any official pack business should be discussed with the Alpha and the Luna, both being present. Even if it’s the Prince discussing it.” He was trying to sound upset but failing miserably. His kisses were so soft and loving. Chloe opened her eyes to watch him in the mirror as he bent down over her, letting his hands glide over her body. She still couldn’t believe that he was hers and she was his.
She turned in his embrace to face him as she placed her hands on his chest. Her eyes fell on the small mating mark she had given him just under his ear on the left side of his neck as she touched his raw skin with tentative fingers.
They were each other’s. Forever!
The urge to touch him surged through her, and she started unbuttoning his shirt with her small hands as his gaze moved from her face to her fingers.
“I left because it seemed like Prince Maxmillian wanted to talk to his friend and not the Alpha of New Kurt,” she continued as she kept exposing him to her. As she placed her palms on his now accessible chest, she felt him gasp. “And now that I have you to myself forever, it was only fair to let him have a bit of your time.”
They were new to feeling the sensations that their marking had stirred up in them. It was overwhelming to feel someone so intimately and have your whole body react to their slightest touch.
She leaned and placed a soft kiss on his chest as Alex moaned. Chloe smiled as she moved along his chest to continue kissing him. She loved what she could do to him, and she loved how doing this felt on her lips.
Her arms wrapped around his waist, the only part where she could go around his massive muscles, and she pushed her body against his.
“What are you doing to me, Chloe?” he pulled her body tight against his and rolled his head forward with a groan. “I don’t want to leave you. I want to stay right here, making love to you every single night,” he mumbled in a pained voice.
She stopped and looked up at him, puzzled.
“What do you mean? Why would you have to leave me?” She couldn’t stop the worry from making it into her voice. Had the Prince not accepted their union?
Alex sighed heavily, picked her up effortlessly, and Chloe wrapped her legs around him as he sat on the small seat against the wall.
He looked exhausted as he ran his hands over his face and cracked his neck from side to side in frustration. Then he looked into Chloe’s eyes as he broke the news to her.
“After we returned from the war, Max had wanted me to become his ambassador. But I turned him down because I wanted to come here to settle my pack instead.”
He didn’t look happy about it. Chloe touched his face to soothe him. She wanted to comfort him because his distress was somehow deeply affecting her too. He continued in the low, defeated voice she did not like hearing from him.
“I’m not very fond of diplomatic discussions while soldiers are dying in the conflict zone. Besides, most packs still consider me unworthy of being an Alpha. But now that I refused not one, but two royal candidates, to take an omega as a Luna, Max is twisting my arm.”
Chloe frowned. “What do you mean?”
Alex sighed heavily. “He will only accept our union if I become his ambassador.” Chloe was shocked. He was such good friends with the Prince that the thought of repercussions had never crossed her mind.
“Otherwise, I will be forced to reject you or get banished. I don’t think he really minds you as a Luna, but he has been waiting for the first chance to get me to accept the position.” Then he smiled weakly. “He never had any leverage over me ……till now. He knows I will always pick you.”
Chloe’s heart soared at his words, and tears stung her eyes.
Alex gave a dry smile. “I guess it’s for the best anyway. We didn’t manage to get anyone to trade with us today. An ambassador position will make us open to further interactions with other packs.”
It broke Chloe’s heart to see him being manipulated because of her, and the fact that he was taking it so well made it worse. All the trades had fallen through because they didn’t have any assets except Chloe, the omega, and the Luna title. And she had stolen both those assets from her loving pack and Alpha.
“I’m so sorry,” she started, but Alex interrupted her.
“Chloe..” he stroked her legs as she sat in his lap, straddling him with eyes lowered in guilt. “I didn’t say that to make you feel bad. I would do anything to keep you.”
Then he bent down to look at her eyes “Especially after you made such a sight of yourself squirming and writhing under me last night.”
Chloe smiled as she bit her lower lip sheepishly. Somehow, she wasn’t embarrassed about how much she had enjoyed his lovemaking the night before.
But she changed the topic nevertheless. “Where do you have to go?”
Now Alex scowled. “Everywhere. After I take you to all of the Kingdom’s allied packs to introduce us, I have to leave for the non-allied packs to work out how to make them join us. I’ll have to be gone all the time. Max will provide me with palace guards, but I want to take some of our own for my peace of mind.”
Chloe wrapped her hands around his neck and nodded, “It’s okay. We’ll be fine here. I’ll take care of everything.”
“You realise that things are going to be harder now. For appearances' sake, Max has to act like he is upset. There will be no more help from the palace. You won’t have anyone to train you for Luna’s duties, and all that we have had in the past will be gone too. There will be no palace workers, no omegas, no grants.” He was making sure she understood what they had ahead of them, but as usual, Chloe was prepared.
“And……no Marcus,” she added with a sly smile as she gave him her best seductive look and ran a finger down his chest.
Alex grunted and pulled her in for a deep kiss. “Don’t take that horrid wolf’s name,” he muttered through the kiss.
Chloe giggled at his jealous outburst. The love she felt for him in the moment was beyond anything she had felt in her life for anyone. He had changed her life for the better and his own for the worse by choosing her. And she never wanted him to suffer because of it.
She pulled away to whisper her promise to him. “Don’t worry, Alex. I’ll never let you or anyone at New Kurt regret the decision to make me your Luna. I promise you, I’ll be the most spectacular Luna anyone has ever seen”
Alex watched her determined little face and smiled. “My puny little mate, to me you already are.”
With that, he stood up holding his beautiful Luna in his arms and made his way to their bed to show her just how amazing he thought she was.
