The Alpha King (Kingdom of Askara #1)(30)

Luca took the glass away and gently swiped at Kit’s face to dry it with his warm hand. “How do you feel?” Kit could hear the worry lace Luca’s words and wondered what was wrong. He had just had the most amazing sex of his life. If it was possible to pass out from happiness he had just done so. Was that what it was? Did Luca think he was hurt—or worse, too fragile?

“That was incredible.” He let the awe suffuse his words. He heard the amused rumble from Luca.

“Baby. I—” Luca stopped, and alarm shot through Kit. He sat up quickly, ignoring the burn in his ass, nearly wrenching himself from Luca’s arms.

“You didn’t enjoy it?” He’d been too selfish. Luca had pleasured Kit. He should— The chuckle made him look up and focus on Luca’s face.

“Are you kidding me?” Luca said dryly. One eyebrow lifted in amusement. Kit blushed. He could feel the heat prickle his skin. “C’mere.” Luca lifted his arm, and Kit was happy to oblige. “What I was going to say,” Luca started sternly, “was to check you are all right, unhurt.” Kit opened his mouth, only to be silenced by Luca’s finger across his lips. “And don’t give me the you were made for me speech.” Kit stared in fascination as pink flushed Luca’s neck and crept higher. “I knotted you,” he explained. “Knotting is, was...only something that usually happens between werewolves, and only males and females. It’s a biological function designed to ensure the female becomes pregnant.” Luca’s cheeks were stained a dark red now. “I’m not certain it didn’t happen when I found you in the wolf camp either. Sam thought you were in heat and that is also only something that happens with female omegas.”

“You tried to make me pregnant?” Kit asked, torn between confusion and awe.

Luca smiled incredulously. “I can’t, obviously, but my wolf doesn’t know that, apparently.”

“Does that mean it will happen again?” Kit asked, desperately trying to stop the huge grin.

Luca’s eyes glittered and he hummed in satisfaction. “You enjoyed that, did you?” He looked smug and Kit giggled.

“It was incredible,” Kit answered honestly. “Just don’t expect me to walk anytime soon.”

“Did you feel strange either time?”

Kit nodded. “When Gareth touched me, before you rescued me. I’d forgotten someone said they thought I was sick, and I was so hot. One of the gammas touched my skin and it hurt so much.”

“Like I said, it’s usual, but only with females. My mother, to my great embarrassment, told me what mating an omega was like. I knew about the knotting, but not the effect on an omega. They can go into an intense heat, and it can be really painful if anyone other than their Alpha touches them.” Kit remembered what the touch of the gamma on his face was like and grimaced. “I’m stunned, but I can’t help liking the idea,” Luca added.

Kit groaned. It was so...Alpha of him.

“It never happens in any other omegas except females It may be, I suppose, because you are a pure omega. Gabriel is the one to ask.”

“Really?” Kit had no intention of humiliating himself like that.

Luca chuckled. “Five minutes, then I’m going to help you bathe.”

Kit lay and relaxed, then something occurred to him. “The horse,” he nudged Luca.

“Never ever do that to me again,” Luca said fervently. “You came within inches of being seriously hurt.” His arms tightened. “What if I was unable to heal you?”

“What were you doing?” Kit asked, avoiding what he assumed was a rhetorical question.

“Riding,” Luca said, a trifle sarcastically. “The horse was a gift from Nial. He is one of the few wolves that has the temperament to breed horses, and we were going to patrol.”

“I dreamed you had an accident,” Kit tried to explain.

“I’m a good rider.” Luca sounded like he was trying to soothe.

“No. No, I don’t mean that. I had a vision. You were in the woods and something happened to spook the horse. You fell. It was serious.” He’d been dead, but Kit didn’t want to sound weird. “I got the impression it was deliberate.”

“I don’t think horses are that clever,” Luca said dryly.

Kit thumped his arm. “That’s not what I mean, and you know it. Please be careful.”

Luca dropped a kiss onto the top of Kit’s head and got out of bed. Kit sighed. He didn’t think Luca was going to take his warning seriously, but Kit was convinced someone had tried to kill their King.





Chapter Ten





If Kit was told to rest one more time he was going to scream. Not that he minded it whenever Luca was near, as rest time usually turned into something else, but he couldn’t spend the next hundred years or so lounging around waiting for his Alpha. In fact, Luca was so busy that the amount of time they had spent together in the last ten days after Luca had rescued him from Gareth had been confined to nights only, and Luca had been so exhausted the last two he had simply dropped into bed. Kit had been overjoyed to have him all to himself, but after bathing and massaging his Alpha, Luca had dropped asleep. Both mornings Kit had been woken early and they had enjoyed a very pleasurable, if brief hour before Sam had arrived and Luca had to go do Alpha things.