Page 3 of Alpha Talk

“You don’t understand,” he said, tossing his hands in the air and looking a lot younger than he actually was.

Shifters didn’t age like mortals of old but if we had wisdom to show from age it usually showed behind our eyes. Coil hadn’t reached any level of wisdom I could discern there.

“Explain it to me because what I’m hearing is Sidney owes you sex and that’s not true.”

“He picked me, though! Out of all the men in the Other World he picked me, Micah,” he groaned.

“Yeah, he did and you picked him too.”

“I’ve done the therapy. I’ve done the wooing! I just want to get fucking laid!” he growled.

I fought off the urge to rub the bridge of my nose and ask him what happened that his hands magically stopped working when he met his mate. Sure, Cody and I hadn’t waited long but if we had met under different circumstances, I liked to think we would’ve had a courtship.

“The end all be all of relationships isn’t sex and penetration isn’t the end all be all of sex,” I told him. “I understand you’re frustrated. I understand that you’re feeling rejected but…”

“Exactly!” he shouted over what I attempted to tell him.

“What’s Sidney feeling about it all and would you be okay if anyone else made him feel that way?” I asked Coil.

“No but ---”

“But what?” I asked, the urge to square up to him tickling the back of my neck.

My wolf could totally take this guy. Hell, I could’ve taken him with my prosthetic locked up in a vault. He was a pup. A horny, hormonal pup who was going to cause a lot of damage if he didn’t check himself. Where did this entitlement come from?

“He’s mine. He’s my other half. Heshouldwant me.”

“And he probably does. He wants you but he doesn’t want to have a baby yet and that’s fair. You have options. You stick to non-penetration or get a vasectomy. If those don’t work, let him top you.”

Coil’s face turned red. Sometimes you had to embarrass some of these guys to get them to pay attention.

“If you want to get laid and you want your claiming vows that last one works and no one gets pregnant,” I shrugged, tucking my hands into my coat pockets. “Seriously, think about it and if it’s a no from the get go think about how Sidney would respond to that. How you’d hope he’d respond to a boundary.”

He took a few steps closer to me and my wolf stood up inside his inner sanctum. I didn’t want to fight Coil. Fighting with the guys from Alpha Talk defeated the purpose of keeping them from violence but sometimes shit happened. He leaned in close and took a deep breath.

“Are you going to kiss me, Coil?” I laughed, trying to break the tension.

“No, I need to ask you a question and I don’t want everyone else to hear me,” he whispered.

“No, you can’t have a kiss,” I teased him but didn’t like people I didn’t know that well getting close to my face. It was too much like waking up tied to a bed and getting kissed by Creon. Sure, I did my best not to hold it against him anymore, but PTSD was a bitch.

“Is that allowed?” he asked.

“What? Him topping you?” I asked, not bothering to lower my voice because the other alphas didn’t bother to stick around to eavesdrop on Coil. They heard most of what he had to say in group over the last few months. They all knew he was horny and not getting what he insisted was his birthright.

“Yeah,” Coil nodded and glanced around.

“Coil, you’re a grown up. You can ask sex questions. You can within sanity, consent, and want to do just about whatever you want in the bedroom as long as your partner is down for it.”

“I mean, does it even work?”

“Yes, Coil. Betas and alphas have bottomed probably since the dawn of time. Historically, everyone was as horny as you are. They expressed that in different ways but talk to Sidney and buysome lube. If that fixes the problem for now, you can thank me by not turning into some cave-alpha dragging your mate around by the scruff.”

“I’d never--- I wouldn’t make him do anything,” Coil crossed his arms.

“Begging and trying to wear someone down for a yes is making them, Coil. Just keep that in mind, friend, and keep going to couples’ therapy. I think you still need it.”

He sighed and rolled his eyes as he headed outside. It wasn’t the best one on one that I had with one of the alphas from the support groups but I prayed to Frost and the Crow King that Coil took what I said to heart. Everyone thought having a true-mate was easy and sometimes it was. Loving them was usually easy because you loved them before you ever met them. Making the relationship work took time, effort, and compromise. Not every omega wanted a thousand kids. Not every alpha wanted to start a family straight away. I hated that the path to ‘true-mate’ happiness was presented as something written in stone.

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