Page 39 of Rise of the Alpha

“We should play truth or dare!” she squeals in delight as she claps her hands together. I look at her baffled. Where does she get this shit? No one says anything, we all stare at her silently. “What? Are you worried you won’t be able to handle playing with me, boys?” she quips, and Jude cackles.

“I’ll play,” Jude says as he catches his breath. Magnolia just nods in agreement.

“What about you, noodle rat, you wanna play?” she asks while looking at Zeke. This causes Jude to fall out of his chair, laughing, and Zeke quirks a smile at her brazen mouth.

“Yeah, sassy witch, I’ll play,” comes from him gruffly. But what surprises me is that he didn’t come back at her with something worse.

Wylla then snaps her gaze to mine. “Come on, Fido, we’re waiting on you.” I have to say her term of endearment is growing on me.

“Fine, Magnolia, truth or dare?”

She worries her bottom lip between her teeth before whispering, “Truth.”

“Is it true that if you weren’t terrified of the Exodus Alpha and your Dad, you would date someone in this room?” I ask. The guys’ and Wylla’s eyes snap to me, and I’m definitely getting some glares and some what-the-fuck looks, but I want to know the answer. Deep down, I’m sure they do too.

“Yes,” she says, and I just nod at her answer, not wanting to push her any further. “So now it’s my turn to pick someone, right?” she asks quickly, no doubt to keep us from asking anything further about her response.

“Fucking hell! You’ve never played before, Magz?” Wylla asks, her tone laced with shock. Magnolia shakes her head and giggles. Damn, that sound has me hardening again.

“No, but I get the gist of it. So I get to ask, right?” she asks again. Wylla nods, and Magnolia wastes no time. “Wylla, truth or dare?”

“Dare.”

“Hmm. I dare you to kiss one of the guys.” She laughs, and my eyes bug out of my head as I look at her. She wouldn't dare Wylla to do something bold unless the beer loosened her up. Wylla stands up and straightens her outfit as she moves to the center of the room. She freezes there for a second, looking at each of us guys, then she moves toward me.

“I want to try something,” she says as she gets to me and leans down, pressing her lips against mine. She moves her tongue against the seam of my lips, and I open for her, allowing her entry. Sliding her tongue in my mouth, we deepen the kiss, fighting for dominance. I can feel my cock growing hard with this kiss. This shouldn’t happen with anyone but my mate.What the fuck is happening?

A small growl from the side of us has me gently pushing Wylla away. We both look over to where the sound is coming from and see a confused and slightly hurt look on Magnolia’s face. “I guess maybe you do wanna date someone in this room, huh, Magz? Maybe your mate or someone else?” Wylla purrs as she settles back into her spot next to me.

Magnolia quickly recovers, putting a smile on her face as she flips Wylla off before quieting down so Wylla can pick her victim. This girl has to be more than tipsy at this point. She’s acting way more fun and free than she has ever before in front of us. Minus the night at the mixer, when we were dancing, but she was with Wylla that night mainly.

“Jude, truth or dare?”

“Dare, babe, there ain’t no way I’d pick truth after the show I just saw the last dare get,” he teases.

“I dare you to kiss Magz.” Magnolia gasps but turns her gaze to Jude next to her. Jude leans in and sucks her bottom lip into his mouth. I growl and quickly receive a hard punch to the arm. Snapping my attention to the little witch who just hit me, she’s giving me a death glare, so I take that as my ‘stop fucking growling, you just kissed me’ lecture. Groaning has my attention, so I refocus on my best friend and mate kissing. She whimpers slightly as they kiss, which has Jude breaking the kiss, and he chuckles.

“Well, Z man, you’re the only one left, so truth or dare?” Jude asks.

“Truth,” Z says, which shocks the shit out of me. I thought for sure with all his issues with his ferret, he’d pick dare.

“Chicken shit!” Jude yells. “But fine, if you could be any shifter, what would you be?” Goddess above, Jude would ask the one question that would cause the most issues. No one else would ever ask Zeke that because he has enough self-doubt about his shifted form.

Zeke winces as Jude finishes his truth. “Um, I’d be a dragon; they’re powerful and most feared.”

The room is quiet as we sit in awkward silence. I'm sure like me, nobody really knows what to say after that. Deciding I have to say something, I just hope I don’t make an ass out of myself. “Zee–” I’m cut off by an angry gray-haired wolf.

“No! I like you just how you are, and you shouldn’t be ashamed of it. I know I’m not ashamed to be close with you knowing what you are,” she scolds. At some point, she stood up and is in front of Zeke, shaking her finger at him like an angry school teacher.

Zeke’s eyes are wide in shock that she’s so upset with his choice of words. He says nothing, staring at her in admiration. Me? I fell in love with her the moment I saw her and knew she was my mate. Now? I fall for her even more. I fucking hope we can figure out her pack and dad situation because I need this girl more than air.

Taking a quick look around the room, I see I’m not the only one feeling that way. Zeke and Jude are both staring at her with pure heat in their eyes. All of us are waiting for the other to make a move. Hell, for her to make a move. Wylla stands suddenly and claps. “Well, it’s been fun, fellas, but it’s time to say goodbye.” She grabs Magnolia’s hand and pulls her, rushing from the room.

“What the fuck?” Jude barks out at her just as they reach the door. Wylla whips around and smirks at him with a shit-eating grin.

“Calm down, sexcubus, it’s late and we have class tomorrow, ya know.” She gives us a wink and opens the door, pushing a giggling Magnolia out the door.

What the fuck? I think all three of us were just cock blocked by a necromancer. Isn’t she supposed to raise bones, not kill them?Ha! I just made a necromancer sex joke.I suppose it’s a good thing she dragged my mate from this room. I was ready to ravage her, and Goddess knows she’s not ready for that. I can’t wait for this spell to be done, so she knows who her mates are and that it’s not anyone from her pack back home. I’m as sure of that as I am of my next breath. Until then, I just have to be patient and play it cool.

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