Posing for the Omega (For the Alpha #2)(13)

He let out another content rumble, the sound vibrating against my body as he pressed against me. “I know my little one. Remember always that I love you too.” He nudged me towards the forest again. “Now, let us go.”

I groaned happily and followed him into the treeline not even slightly afraid to enter the woods with him at my side. I should be terrified, because I knew what was watching us, waiting for us, and yet I wasn’t. Not with Zora there. I had to trust him, let him protect me and the pack like he was supposed to.

“I’m not little.” I retorted without any real heat in my voice. I was pretty happy that he’d referred to me as little, even though it was only when I was in my other forms.

Zora chuckled. “You are compared to me.”

Yeah in my other two forms, but I wasn’t in this one. In my middle form I dwarfed him and everyone else in the pack. “I’m not little in my true form.” True form? Was this my true form? When had I accepted that this was the best form for me to be in?

“You are my omega Ira. To me you are little and precious no matter what shape you are in. Do not doubt that I find your middle form beautiful. I appreciate it more than any other form you could take.”

We continued to walk towards the pond, the sounds of the woods drowning out anything nefarious. I receded into my mind until I couldn’t notice anything but my alpha. In that moment I could let everything fall away as I pondered how I’d gotten here with this wolf. How could he think that I was most beautiful in this form? I was nothing like him in when I was like this, to every other wolf I was intimidating and ugly because I was different. Everything about me should repel him like it did the others, but yet he loved me because I was different. What made Zora see me differently?“Why? Why am I so beautiful to you?”

Zora stopped and looked at me his expression softening as his black eyes stared deep into my searching gaze. “Because Ira, we are the—”

A flash of red fur crashed into Zora, violently rolling him along the pathway in a flurry of teeth and claws. Barking out in confusion I sprang forward and grabbed for the massive body, its shape similar to mine. It dawned on my as I pulled roughly at the monsters sides that It was a luperci. Growling I sank my claws into the luperci’s sides and pulled it away from my alpha whose wolf fangs were already buried in the attackers arm. Roaring savagely the red luperci slashed aiming for my mates face trying to dislodge his fangs. Zora released just quick enough to avoid the powerful rake of claws by only a meer few inches. I struggled as the monster twisted in my arms attempting to free it’s sides from my talons penetrating it’s sides. My mind raced as I held on with an awkward grip, not daring to let the creature attack my mate again. Where had it come from? Why was it alone? I gripped tighter trying to hold the other luperci back but I felt my talons slipping free with each pulse of blood that coated them.

“Ira let go!” Zora barked from the ground, his teeth bared in a savage snarl as he got to his paws.

“No, I have to protect you!” I couldn’t let this creature hurt him, it was my fault it was here. I shouldn’t have let him take us into the woods, I thought as my grip loosened even more.

The luperci struggled against my claws, flailing around madly as it snarled and twisted around in my grasp to push me away with a well placed kick.

Instinct made me curl up to protect my belly as I fell, keeping my pups safe from any damage as my back slammed suddenly into a nearby tree, jarring every bone in my body. Yelping loudly, I started to pant through the burning pain as I lay there completely overwhelmed at the base of the oak. I looked up at the massive beast, its attention already focused on my alpha as it took a defensive stance. Panic made my heart ratchet up in my chest about to burst from behind my breastbone. Zora couldn’t take this monsters on, he would die trying to protect me. I hadn’t been able to protect him. I was going to be like Vey, and for what? Because I was to afraid to tell him the truth? “Z-zora...run” I shouted, begging whatever deity there was out there, that I wouldn’t have to watch my mate die.

My alpha’s black eyes burned as he looked past the red luperci to where I lay on the ground. There was a fury - a blood lust - I hadn’t seen before in his eyes. A vicious deep sound burst out of Zora, filling the forest in a massive cacophony. It wasn’t a sound I’ve ever heard him make before, or any wolf. I watched as my alpha shifted. His limbs grew longer and bigger than I’ve ever seen before. His muzzle, his back, his whole body reformed into a massive angry monster before my eyes. Zora stretched and twisted and in seconds he was something familiar to me - he was something he wasn’t supposed to be.

My alpha was a luperci.

Massive and monstrous he grabbed the smaller luperci by the throat and slammed it into the nearest tree holding it off the ground easily. The smaller wolf struggled, digging its claws into Zora’s massive arm, trying to dislodge his grip. Alpha growled but didn’t budge as he held the wolf prisoner against the tree.

I couldn’t breathe, I couldn’t even think past the reel going over and over in my head like a bad memory. He...was like me. He was like me. He was like me.

“You dare touch my mate? Speak female.” Zora roared as he shoved the red luperci into the tree hard before dropping it to the ground. Coughing, the female luperci looked up with angry yellow eyes, her breathing violent as she stared up at my alpha. “I-i d-didn’t m-mean—” She wheezed trying to get her breath back through her damaged windpipe.