Posing for the Omega (For the Alpha #2)(40)

I woke with the vague dream fading into the deepest part of my mind. Like a fast squirrel I couldn’t seem to chase it into the places it wanted to hide in. There had been talking, between two wolves about something I couldn’t remember… something that happened? I groaned loudly as my head throbbed a painful beat in time with my heart. Forget about the dream - What had happened to me? I cracked my eyes open, Oh rabies that hurt so bad. I went to roll and hissed at the pain in my back that caused my head to throb harder.

“Easy don’t roll too much.”

“Koda?” My heart raced and my head began to pound even worse. It was all coming back in a rush, the memories vomiting into my brain like the unwanted filth it was. Koda and Alloy had been hurt, Zora had killed one of the luperci alphas. I looked around quickly and realized with relief I was in my own den. Koda and Alloy were both curled next to me on my bed furs. Alloy was asleep by the obvious rise and fall of his chest and I could see the stitches along his side that went all the way up to his chest.

“Alloy, is he ok? Are you?” I tried to move again, to touch them and reassure myself but another sharp surge in my back made me stay still. Oh mother were my pups ok? I rested my hands over my belly feeling for some sign that they weren’t hurt during the fight. A kick and some shifting told me all was well inside, but it didn’t alleviate a third of my stress.

“Calm down hideous. Everyone is ok. Alloy fell asleep a little bit ago. You’ve been asleep since last night. It’s already mid day.” Koda licked at my arm, soothing some of my anxieties.

“What happened? How did the luperci get you?” I submerged my hand into his thick black fur, grounding myself with the silky content. He was here and he was ok.

“I was looking for you. When I couldn’t find you I asked Naga and she’d said you’d run off towards the river to bath. I went into the woods and I was hit in the back and that’s all I remember.” Koda whined low in his throat as he looked at his sleeping mate. “I woke up when Byrin and Rwen started moving us, I was confused and Alloy was hurt it took the two of them to settle me down. They brought us to the alphas den to keep an eye on us.”

“Keep an eye on us?” Where was Zora? After what had happened I needed to see him. I still didn’t understand what had happened to him after he’d killed the luperci, the strange red eyes.

“Yeah, apparently Svara is a healer of some type for her kind. She stitched up Alloy and has kept waking me up, said it was to make sure ‘my fucking brain didn’t turn off’ or something like that.” Koda sighed and closed his eyes. “She said you were ok, just a bruised back and a wound she stitched up.”

Ok, all of that was good. Everything was ok. Another wave of exhaustion pressed into me and my eyes started to droop as I continued to clutch at my litter mates fur. I wanted to see my alpha, feel him wrapped around until everything was safe again.

Also maybe I could sleep through given birth too, cause I wasn’t looking forward to that.





I didn’t sleep through giving birth. Nope my belly was still as swollen as ever as I stared at it from my bed furs. Koda and Alloy were gone and I was alone in my den as far as I could tell. How long had I been asleep for? I shifted around and noticed my back didn’t hurt as bad as it had the last time I’d been awake. Everything was a thick gooey mess in my head. Koda and Alloy were ok, I remembered that vaguely from when I woke up. Had he told me where Zora was? Had he said Svara was the one to stitch our wounds? Why was she untied? She’d been there with Naga at the ravine…. “UGH… Moose farts.”

“You are awake.”

The strong voice of my alpha soaked into me like a balm and I turned my head to see him jogging quickly towards me. His four form was as beautiful as ever, and the sight of him whole and sane was better than any amount of yummy squirrels. “What happened?” I wiggled trying to sit up and cringed and the pain it caused me.

“Easy little one. A few more days and you won’t be so sore.” Zora moved quickly to stand over me nosing his way up my thigh and belly, over my side where my stitches were and to my throat where he licked soothing paths to my jaw. His earthy scent surrounded me like it had so many times in the past, but this time I needed it to physically relax into the furs beneath me. How had I been so stupid? Why didn’t I think before I went into the woods alone?

“Alpha I’m sorry.” The words stuck on a sob as I clutched his beautiful ash fur. “I didn’t think, I just didn’t want to smell like pee.” I buried me nose in his throat, breathing in more of him as tears burned my eyes.

“Tell me what happened.” Zora pulled back out of my grasp, his black eyes hard as he sat beside me. In that moment he was my alpha looking for answers, not my mate looking for comfort.

“I-I peed myself in front of Naga and Svara, they both started to laugh so I ran into the woods to wash myself. I must have been there longer than I thought because the sun started to set.” My insides quivered as I remembered the emotions from that moment again. Fear, pain, confusion, anxiety. “The luperci found me at the water. He had Koda and he said - I took something. It will be more fun to make you watch, instead of finding it later.” My hands ached to touch Zora as he continued to watch me stoically, instead I laid them on my belly feeling our pups move around inside me.