Page 2 of The Alpha's Temptation

No matter how much I pleaded with him, I knew that he wouldn’t mark me. Life was too complicated with Dad being Caelan’s beta, with the looming war with the Whispering Pines Pack, with rogues attacking those closest to Caelan to hurt him.

He didn’t want me in the middle of it. At least, that’s what he told me.

“I need a fucking taste of you,” he murmured.

Caelan walked with me in his strong arms all the way across the room and deposited me on his desk. After placing my legs on his shoulders, he dropped to his knees and tugged my ass to the edge of the table, peppering wet kisses up my inner thighs.

I inhaled sharply and tried to pull my legs together, but he wasn’t having it. He forced them apart and placed his mouth onmy pussy, sliding his tongue up my slit to my clit. My fingers curled around the edge of the desk.

He lapped at my clit, eating it a little more possessively than usual tonight.

“What’ve you been doing with Chase?” he asked.

My eyes widened. Chase? Where had he seen me with him?

“You belong to me,” he growled, staring up at me from his knees. “Me.”

Was Alpha Caelan jealous? My lips curled into a smirk.Good.

From the moment Mom died and Dad brought me back to his pack, Caelan and I had hated each other. It had been a constant push and pull, a constant back and forth, a constant love-hate relationship.

And I was done with it.

He’d either mark me or I would have toforcehim to. And if I had to use Chase or any other wolf to do that, then I would.

“A strong alpha would mark his mate,” I taunted. “He’d mark her with no regrets.”

A ferocious snarl left his mouth, the mere sound vibrating my clit. I dragged my knees closer to my chest, my toes curling on his shoulders. I stared down at him, meeting the intensity in his eyes.

“Don’t be a little bra?—”

“Don’t pretend you’re the only one with something to lose,” I said. “Mark me.”

Though he had scars from battles older than me, Caelan was… between my legs with his canines on my skin and his restraint so fragile. And me? I would do anything to break him. The longer we let this go on, the thinner and thinner his restraint became.

“You’re mine,” he growled. “Don’t let me see you with Chase again.” He buried his face between my legs, eating and eatingand eating until my entire body was tingling. “You’re mine. All mine.”

His? Is that what he thinks?

“Say it,” he ordered. “Say you’re mine.”

Caelan wanted obedience, something he knew I’d never give him willingly. That’s what everyone in our pack did, especially if he used his alpha command on them. They couldn’t resist, but I could.

That command had never worked on me, and he loathed it.

“If there’s no mark on my neck,” I said, curling my fingers into his hair and pulling his mouth back down on my clit, “then I’m not yours.”

“Don’t be a fucking brat.”

“Anyone can take me, claim me,” I moaned softly. “I’m not yours.”

“Livia.”

“Alpha.”

Before I knew it, his hand snapped around my neck and his mouth was on my throat, his teeth grazing my skin. “You’re going to get me killed.”

Was that all I had to do? Tell him that I’d find someone else? That–

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