Page 4 of The Alpha's Mates

He scrambled backward, proving that they weren’t trying to hurt me. He could have easily out maneuvered me and snapped my neck. It angered me even further that they were toying with me like this. My pride was the only thing I had. I was strong, and a leader in my own right, and for these assholes to challenge me this way was them trying to take that from me. I couldn’t allow it.

I realized my mistake as soon as the heavy weight came down over my back. Sharp teeth sliding around the scruff of my neck as a wolf bore me down to the ground weren’t even needed for me to understand that I’d just left myself vulnerable to attack. I may be an alpha female, but I still wasn’t used to fighting well trained wolf shifters.

Grunting under the weight, I sank to my belly and froze. Not that I had much choice. The heavy weight was pinning me to theground. Teeth had sliced through my fur and into the muscle at the back of my neck. Pain radiated through my mind, forcing me not to squirm. I didn’t need to look—not that I could turn my head with his maw around me, controlling me—to know it was Soren.

His jaws tightened—causing me to whimper—as he pinned me to the ground. A growl sounded, the vibrations rolling around in my head. There was no ignoring it while he was this close to me. My muscles relaxed below him. He’d won. I was finished. All I could do was wait to see what they’d do with me.

Flashes zipped past as his wolves barrelled into the tunnel around us. I’d done all I could. It was up to Emma to keep them safe now.

CHAPTER 3

Reese

Iwaited, pinned beneath Soren’s bulky weight, to know what lay in store for me. Would he snap my neck and be done with it?

Another growl sounded and I gritted my teeth. He didn’t need to use words. His growls resonated inside of me, vibrating throughout my entire body, telling me what he wanted from me. He wanted me to shift.

Fuck that.

Shifting with a wolf’s teeth locked around my nape was a death sentence. I tried to hold out, barely managing. Then two more growls once again joined his and I knew I’d lost. They were working together against me, and my body—for some unknown reason—was complying.

My gasp was loud as I felt the power wash over me, tingling, as my wolf form melted away. He must have felt it too because in the seconds it took me to shift to human form, he did the same.

My breasts were squashed flat, sticks and other debris digging into my skin. A huge hand wrapped around my throat from behind and I sucked in a shuddering breath. His hand tightened more, forcing me to hold it in for a beat before he released it, allowing me to exhale. He was showing me that I was only breathing because he allowed it.

Message received, dickhead.

“Do you have a death wish, Little One?”

I snorted at that. I wasn’t little. My body was made as an alpha’s was. Or what I’d always imagined a female alpha’s was supposed to be. While omegas were small and petite, and even beta females were dwarfed by me, I had been an Amazon amongst my father’s pack. My wolf was even bigger. That didn’t seem to matter with these three however, as they were easily double my size.

“Speak,” the third man barked at me, irritated that I wasn’t answering his leader. I hadn’t realized that all three of them had shifted. The other two were circled around me, barring me from the eyes of their fellow pack mates as much as they could. I started to avert my gaze because there was junk as far as the eye could see. They didn’t seem to care that they were naked.

I wasn’t going to give them the respect of being bashful if they didn’t care. If they were going to let it hang out, I’d take a nice long look. My eyes widened as I realized that Atlas was as proportionate as a man his size should be. My jaw dropped as I stared at the massive length between his legs. Goddess, that was intimidating.

A growl came from the only one whose name I didn’t know, forcing my gaze back to him. I studied him. He was just as gorgeous as his cadre mates. Muscular, though he had more of a runner’s build than the other two, and damn he was pretty with his light brown hair and pale blue eyes, but I wasn’t about to letany of them know how they were affecting me. “Caught up in little man syndrome, I see.”

His eyes narrowed and a snarl ripped through the air. This one had a temper. It didn’t matter that my observation was wrong. He may be smaller than the other two, but he was anything but little. Reality didn’t matter when I was just trying to piss him off.

“Testing Calder isn’t a good idea, Pet,” the hulking mountain told me with a chuckle.

“Youwillanswer my questions,” Soren ordered, his hand tightening on my throat again.

I didn’t know what it was. Why these males spoke to some dark part of me I hadn’t known existed. I felt the urge to test them. As one would of potential mates. But that couldn’t be right. My father had taken great pleasure in explaining how no males would ever want me as a mate. How could they when I was a freak of nature? An alpha female—defective.

Another growl sounded and heat pooled low in my belly. The feeling was so foreign, at least in connection with a male, that I panicked.

Struggling beneath him, I ignored the hand on my throat, and tried to buck him off. He was too heavy and soon I was panting into the leaves littering the ground, exhausted.

“You finished?” he crooned in my ear. His moves were exaggerated as he sniffed the air. “Though I enjoyed the feel of your ass rubbing against my cock, I hope you figured out that it’s pointless to fight me.”

Embarrassment flooded me as I realized he could smell my arousal. I didn’t like being forced to submit. Didn’t want to be reacting to him this way. On top of it all, his light, teasing tone made me angry. This may not be serious to him, but it was to me.

I had no intention of obeying Soren, but I was too tired to keep fighting for now. Sharp teeth once again settled over theback of my neck and mortification swept over me as I felt myself growing wetter. No alpha had ever managed to wring a drop of arousal from my body. Soren didn’t seem to be even trying and I was gushing for him. My nipples were hard and poking into the ground where I lay. Heat was roiling in my belly. All from his dominating position and the feel of his sharp canines on my skin.

To bite me in human form would irrevocably tie me to him and his cadre. I knew he wouldn’t do that, but there was a tiny piece of me that wished he would. I mentally bitch slapped that little voice. I didn’t need mates. All I wanted was freedom. I hadn’t even wanted a pack, but had felt an obligation to protect those weaker than myself.Look where it landed me.Naked and pinned by a shifter twice my size while he rubbed his body all over mine.

The feel of something thick rising against my ass made my eyes widen. Despite my own kind not wanting me, I wasn’t a virgin. I’d found myself a drunken alpha to rid me of my pesky virginity—and to see what the hype was all about. That’s all it was, hype. It hadn’t been worth the hassle. But because of that encounter, I knew exactly what was poking my ass.

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