Taken by the Alpha by Laxmi Hariharan

Author:Laxmi Hariharan [Hariharan, Laxmi]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: 13 Suns
Published: 2019-08-08T05:00:00+00:00

24

Lucy

When I come to it is to the thud of his heart under my cheek. I slide my fingers over warm skin. Turn my face and bury my nose in the light smattering of hair on his chest.

The scent of his sweat and musk of his arousal turns me on, and it also strangely soothes me. I feel protected and cherished, and the still thinking part of my mind warns me I am falling into a place from which there is no return. I try to move only to find there is a heavy weight around my waist. It’s his arm, which is massive enough to hold me down.

It feels so right that I know it’s wrong.

Not like this.

All my life I’ve spent fighting that core inside me, the part that was intrinsically omega that needed to be tamed, subdued, knotted, and bred. And in one stroke he…this alpha, the most monstrous of all in the city, has done just that. And I had encouraged him. The faint recollection of giving him what he wanted, of calling him by his name tumbles over me.

My cheeks flush.

That is more intimate than anything else we’ve done.

And it shouldn’t be.

I’d called him by his name, that’s all. We all have one. Then why does it feel like I have broken a pact with myself? That I have gone back on the promise made to my clan, that I have betrayed myself by doing that?

I wriggle against the massive chest of the alpha, and he doesn’t let go. Big surprise.

He folds his other arm around me and purrs. The sound is low, and soft, and flows over my skin. Its soothing in a way it shouldn’t be. He rubs my back as if trying to pacify me. He rests his chin on my head, and I have this insane need to bury myself in his chest, to surround myself with his warmth and his heat, to draw that shroud of protectiveness over me and let it consume me. I squeeze my eyes shut, not sure why I feel the need to cry. It’s only my life that will never be the same. A sob catches in my throat. My shoulders shudder as I try to bite my lips, try to consume every last depressing emotion that wells up. What is happening to me?

The giant purrs once more, and the sound instantly sinks into my blood.

The tension drips out of me, and my shoulders sag. No, no. I don’t want that to happen.

I don’t want him to be able to manipulate me such that even my grief is something that is not my own.

I want to rage at him and tell him that.

Instead, I let the tears flow down my cheeks. The warmth pools on his chest, and he must feel it, for he firms his hold on me.

“You are upset at how you responded to me.” His breath raises the hair on my head. “Don’t be.”

He runs his palm from the nape of my neck down to my hips and back up again.

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