Page 1 of The Alpha's Temptation

CHAPTER 1

LIVIA

“Don’t say a fucking word,”Alpha Caelan growled into my ear, his huge hand pressed over my mouth to muffle my moans. Streaks of silver moonlight glimmered across the stone in the courtyard, just outside his office window. He pushed himself into me. “Not a word.”

I whimpered and peered up at him, brows furrowed together.

Lycos, he is so big!

His muscles swelled underneath the light, his jaw chiseled. With everyone else, his eyes were usually dull, dreary, and heavy with the weight of our entire pack. But with me, late at night when everyone else was supposed to be asleep, they were a blazing gold.

Everything about this was so wrong.

He was twice my age, my dad’s best friend, and the alpha of my pack…

“Caelan,” I murmured against his hand.

After thrusting me against the window, he growled into my ear, “I said, ‘Not a word.’”

My pussy tightened around him. He continued pumping in and out of me, his thrusts quickening. I curled my fingersaround the windowsill and squeezed my eyes closed, the pressure building higher and higher inside me.

Not a soul in our pack suspected that I had begun sneaking into his office to see him, not like this. No, I made sure that everyone thought I hated him—because I did. For the most part. Until he touched me like he was made for me.

“You’ve been avoiding me all week,” he snarled into my ear, pumping faster.

“My dad?—”

Before I could say another word, his other hand was on my clit. He smacked it, then rubbed the sensitive little bud before slapping it again as a punishment for going directly against his orders.

“Your father can never know about us,” Alpha Caelan murmured against my bare neck, his lips trailing ever so slightly against my skin. “Do you understand me?”

I pressed my back flat against the wood, heart racing so loudly that I could hear it in my ears, and nodded, lost in the pleasure that surged through my body. Dad’s most trusted friend was inside me.

Pumping in and out. Telling me to keep quiet.Using me.

Lycos, what a rush!

My pussy tightened around him, and I dug my fingernails into his muscular shoulders. The flickering light from the torches in his office danced over our skin, casting wavering shadows on the walls. I really shouldn’t be here; Dad was in the next room.

“This fucking pussy…” he growled into my ear, my legs now resting in the crooks of his elbows. He pushed himself into me again, so agonizingly slowly, gliding his canines up the column of my neck. “…Fuck, you’re always so tight.”

The scent of bone broth drifted through my nose from the packhouse kitchen, just a few doors down. Caelan’s cooks werepreparing meals for our travel to the Capital tomorrow, and here I was being absolutely ruined by him.

My head lolled back, and I moaned softly into his hand.

I should’ve kept quiet. I really should’ve. But I couldn’t.

Hell, being here was reckless, especially the night before we left for the Capital and the royal wedding. I hadn’t packed yet, I had to be up in three hours, and I’d promised Dad that I’d be on my best behavior for the event.

But I couldn’t stop myself.

Not when Caelan asked me to come to his office tonight. He never asked!

His canines brushed against my neck, and for the first time since I met him several months ago, I thought my mate was finally going to claim me. It had been over seven full moons without a mark, going into heat and locking myself in my room so no other wolf would take me.

Pure fucking torture, and he had somehow stayed sane throughout it all.

“Please,” I whispered, clamping down around him. “Please, I need it.”

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