Page 22 of Fall of the Alpha

“Fully myself… you mean unable to control myself?”

Aria smiled at him.

“Didn’t it feel good?” Her tongue flicked out, licking her lips. “I still remember when I was thrown out of Zone Three. They meant it as a punishment for daring to reject the Beta chosen as my mate. But I didn’t want to be his mate. I wanted to choose my own mate.”

At her words, Alek’s gaze flicked to Cora and Trace.

“They wanted me, but I had a choice.” She cocked her head at him. “Have you ever really had a choice? Were you able to live the way you wanted to, do the things you wanted to? I was not. I was expected to be a good, proper Beta and marry the male my parents chose for me.”

Alek

Aria was hitting closer to the truth than Alek was comfortable admitting out loud.

After all, hadn’t he always been pushed this way and that by his father? He’d been introduced to Liana, and that had been that. Yes, he liked her, and yes, he enjoyed spending time with her, but it had also felt like there could be something more… yet their families pushing them together had felt too big to fight. He hadn’t had a good reason to pull away.

If he tried, how would his father react? How would his mother?

Everyone had assumed he and Liana would end up together.

He’d hardly thought of her since being separated from her. She wasn’t here, so she was out of his mind.

That was hardly how he wanted to feel about the female he spent the rest of his life with. Yet here he was, not knowing if his family would still accept him if he didn’t. Here he was, sittingnext to a sweet-scented Omega, feeling far more relaxed than he should and not particularly wanting to leave.

If anything, he wanted to nestle into the couch with her, curl up around her, and just breathe in her scent. He felt more content at the idea than he had at any of the time he’d spent with Liana in the past months.

What did that tell him?

Cora got to her feet, distracting him. A smile curved her lips, flashing her white teeth at him in a way that made his groin tighten.

“You’ve already seen what it means to be with an Omega and an Alpha male,” she said, walking toward him. “Let me show you what it means to be with an Alpha female.”

His tightening groin went from intrigued to fully erect immediately.

15

SUBMITTING TO THE ALPHA

Alek

The Alpha female in front of him was both intimidating and sexy as hell. Cora looked down at him where he was sitting on the couch, Aria at his side with her hand still entwined with his.

“You want… me?” Alek could hardly believe it. He was sure that Aria was both Cora and Trace’s Omega. What did she want with him?

“I want to show you everything that’s possible in the territories.” Her smile widened. “And I must admit to a certain amount of curiosity. I’ve never been with a Sigma before.”

He might have been insulted if he didn’t feel the same way about her. The curiosity rising up in him was overwhelming, as was the instinct to… submit. It was the same instinct that had made his body feel so strange when the Wolf had trapped Alek beneath him.

Beside him, Aria suddenly let go of his hand and slid away. He glanced over to see her being pulled to her feet by Trace. The big Alpha bent his head down, nuzzling her, breathing in her scent, and the low rumble of his growl filled the air. Ariamoaned, arching back against him, and the sweet perfume of her arousal intensified, affecting Alek even more.

“Don’t you want to know what it’s like?” Cora asked, leaning forward and putting her hands down on either side of Alek.

He was a big male, he’d always been a big male, yet somehow, she made him feel strangely small at that moment. Not in a bad way, just… vulnerable, but without the hint of violence that the Wolf’s actions had carried.

“Yes.” The word was out of his mouth before he could think about it, before he could second-guess himself, before he could wonder what kind of madness had overtaken him. His instincts were screaming at him to submit to her, to let her have her way with him, and the fight had gone out of him.

Another moan from the side, where Aria and Trace were, but Alek didn’t get a chance to look over and see what they were doing because Cora was suddenly straddling his lap, her lips descending to his. Alek moaned as a wave of heat washed over him, through him, sending a strange sensation through his gut. It was both like and unlike when the Wolf had begun to slide into him from behind—an aching need that demanded to be eased, yet felt good, too.

His mouth opened to hers, and her tongue slid aggressively against his.

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