Marked: Her Beta Chapter 9

Chapter 9:

Oliver just stared at me in shock. I didn't know how to deal with the look as I'd never felt anything like it with anyone else. My nerves began to shoot through me rapidly causing my heart to race, my breaths to shorten ever so slightly, and my bottom lip to fall between my teeth. Oliver hadn't moved since the words had left my lips and I was becoming scared that he didn't feel the same for me.

I was about to pull away and out of his arms to run and hide away so that I could cry in peace when I was suddenly laying down on the bed with Oliver kneeling over me. My eyes were wide as I stared up at him. The look in his eyes showed that he was in awe of what I'd said.

"That's the best thing that I have ever heard in my entire life." Oliver whispered as his eyes flicked between mine. I could feel my body begin to relax. "I wasn't ever gonna let you leave without a fight, but now there's no way I'll ever let you leave. I'll lock you up in this room if you ever think about it."

My body had relaxed completely under him as he stated his undeniable claim over me verbally. A smile was slowly crawling over my lips as he'd spoke, but the minute the last word left his lips, my lips were against his again as the mate bond sent powerful electricity between the two of us. Oliver responded immediately to the kiss, completely taking over from my instigation.

We broke apart for air, panting heavily as our eyes slowly opened to gaze into the others. Oliver leaned in as he began to place electrically charged kisses across my jaw and down my neck. I couldn't breathe steadily with him kissing me, I could feel the animal inside of me push to be marked as Oliver's.

Oliver continued to kiss one particular place between my neck and my collarbone, knowing that that was the place that he would place his claiming mark. I placed my hands against his chest and pushed slightly until he moved up away from my neck. I lightly pushed Oliver over onto his back as I began to straddle him. I lightly pecked his lips before doing the same to him. I placed light butterfly-wing soft kisses across his angular jaw and down his warm neck slowly. I could hear his breath hitch as his hands moved to hold my waist and his pulse picked up, the slight thump of his pulse beating quickly against my lips as I kissed his neck.

I moved down to the exact spot that I knew would hold my claiming mark on him and where his would lay upon me. I didn't hesitate before pushing my sharpened canines into his skin. The hiss of slight pain slipped from Oliver's lips as his hands tightened their grip upon my waist. But I could feel as the bite became more pleasant for him, the pleased groan slipping airily through his lips. I moved my mouth away from his neck, sitting up slightly to move my hair to one side before Oliver flipped us back over to our original position on the bed. I tilted my head up more to show him what I wanted. It took less than a second for him to bite into my neck as I had done to him.

The pain was there as I'd expected after hearing Oliver when I'd bitten him, but it soon became hyperly sensitive to pleasurable electricity from Oliver. An airy moan leaving my lips before Oliver pulled back to look at me. "I know that I want to be with you, and I'm not going to wait for someone to attack us to realize that they could hurt you by claiming me as you are only meant to." I whispered airily as I looked into his bright eyes. He just smiled lightly at me. "And I wanted to make sure those other girls know that you're not up for grabs anymore, you're mine and I will attack if they try anything." I continue honestly and determinedly. Oliver just began to laugh in response.

I just smiled back at him before placing my hand on his cheek, tracing his cheekbone with thumb. His laughter softly faded as he looked down into my eyes, a smile still on his face before he leaned down slowly and kissed me softly. My arms found their way circled around his neck as Oliver held himself off of me with his forearms. The electricity felt like a steady flow of pleasurable pinpricks as we just continued to slowly make-out on the bed.

"Oliver, I wanted to run—Wow, sorry I didn't mean to interrupt your personal time with your mate." Vane responded with his turned away after he'd walked into our room without a knock. I could see that he was embarrassed to have walked in on our private moment. But I could also see something else in his eyes. "Especially when I can't seem to get any with my mate." Vane whispered lowly to himself. I could hear him because of my heightened senses, but Oliver didn't seem to.

"It is perfectly fine, Vane. I actually have to go talk to someone right now about something important." I said before moving from under Oliver and towards the door. I could tell Oliver was scowling because his brother had interrupted our moment. I just smiled at his annoyance. A sudden thought occurred to me, I asked, "Vane, when is your birthday?"

He looked shocked that I'd ask such a question. "Today actually. Why do you want to know?" He asked curiously. I just smiled and shook my head. Audra has been avoiding Vane for the past few days because she's nervous about later today.

"It's nothing to worry about right now. You'll know soon enough." I said aloud with a knowing smile on my face. I looked over at Oliver, whom looked just as confused as his older brother. "Audra has a special gift for Vane because it's his 23rd birthday and she's ready." I informed Oliver through our newly formed link. A look of recognition and surprise appeared upon his face. I just smiled in return before walking out of the room and down the hall to where I could hear Audra's heavy beating heart.

I walked into the room to see the worried woman pacing back and forth from one side of the room to the other. She didn't realize that I was standing in the doorway watching her mutter to herself about what she should do and what she shouldn't.

"You're going to wear a hole in the floor with all your pacing. And you're going to kill that alpha with all the worrying he's doing for you." I spoke after a minute. Audra's head immediately snapped up to look at me.

"He's really that upset?" She asked worriedly.

I sighed as I looked at her. She was fidgeting with her fingers as she waited for my answer. "You've been avoiding him for the last few days and he has no idea why. I can see that he believes that he's done something to upset you from the look in his eyes. He doesn't know that you're trying to plan out his special birthday gift. All he knows is that you're avoiding him." I answered honestly.

"I just don't know what to do. I mean what if he doesn't want to talk to me and I'm sitting here waiting for him for hours on end?" She spoke worriedly.

"I am going to walk back to my room and tell your concerned alpha mate that you need to speak with him, he will more than likely run here immediately. You are going to kiss him the minute he walks through this door. You are going to lightly push him against the door and you're going to lock it and kiss him again. Then you are going to tell your alpha of a mate that you are ready and you're not going to change your mind. And finally you're going to kiss him again." I instructed her seriously.

"Thank you." She whispered with relief beginning to spread through her. She smiled at me and nodded her head. "And congrats on the marking." She spoke as I walked out of the room. I just smiled as I made my way back to my room with Oliver.

I walked in to see that Vane and Oliver were still talking. Vane immediately looked at me when Oliver jumped up from the bed as I walked into the room. Oliver was by my side within seconds, his arms circled around my waist as his head rested on my shoulder near the mark he'd given me. I slightly shivered as his breath brushed it.

"Vane, happy twenty-third birthday." I said with a smile. Oliver subconsciously tightens his hold around my waist for a mere second in happiness that I'm so accepting of not only his alpha, but his older brother. Vane smiles at me in appreciation. "By the way, Audra asked me to come and tell you that she needs to speak with you right away." I say as Vane's eyes widen and he bolts from our room.

Oliver chuckles as he slowly turns side-to-side with me in his arms. I rest my arms across his and smile at the warm feeling that creeps from the tips of my toes up to the very top of my head. "If I'm honest, I think I would have run faster just to get to you. I know I would, especially if you'd not been avoiding me the way Audra was doing with Vane." He whispered against my skin. I laugh lightly at the image of him doing that.

I feel a smirk work its way upon my face as an idea enters my mind. "The difference would be that I'd time it perfectly so that you'd be walking in while I'm changing, and I'd be sure to wear my best underwear that day. I'd have it so that you'd walk in right as I'm taking my shirt off, having already taken my pants off first, and I'd turn upon hearing you open the door. I'd smile and tilt my head slowly to the side since that seems to affect you so much. I'd then slowly walk closer to you, all the while having my head still slightly tilted. I'd place my hands high on your biceps and look into your eyes, and I'd wait for you to make the next move." I envision as I float the image in my head to him.

I felt as Oliver tensed behind me, a slight shake going through him as he listened to me. His harsh breathes brushing across my neck, shoulder, and claiming mark. His hands had fisted my shirt tightly at my sides as he tried to calm himself from the image filtering in his head. I probably wasn't helping as my hands have been slowly drawing circles and swirls across his arms.

"Why must you test my self-control, Lili?" He asked despairingly as he struggles to stop thinking of the image I'd sent him. My hands immediately stopped and I'd tensed in his arms. I feel as Oliver relaxes slightly as he senses my change in mood. "What, what is it? Is something wrong?" He asks me as he turns me around to see the worry that covers his face.

"You called me Lili." I state quietly. He looks at me confused before nodding his head in agreement even though he's still confused. "All throughout my childhood I would get small flashes of what my biological father was thinking. I didn't know anything of it until I realized that he was thinking about my mom holding a little baby girl in her arms. He was imagining what it would be like to find my mom and start a family with her." I state as I recall all the times I'd gotten brief images from my father. I could still remember the overwhelming feeling of warmth he would get from thinking about it; the images always made me wish to meet him. "He always wished to name his baby girl Lili because he knew she would be as delicate and beautiful as the flower. I just never paid much attention to it because I thought it was only the mere moments that he actually regretted leaving us when in truth it was really that he wanted us, my mom just ran away." I smile slightly.

Oliver just circles his arms around me once again with a smile. "I'm sure your mom was just terrified. But the upside is that you know that your father truly wants you and your mother. You know that he will have the chance to call you by the sweet name of Lili because it's your name. And he'll love you because it's impossible not to love you instantly. Trust me, it happened to me the minute you fell into my arms." He reassures me. I just smile warmly at the thought. He moves back to look down at my face with a smile. He's about to speak when Elliot burst into our room, a muttered 'seriously' coming from Oliver's lips.

"I understand that the two of you are off in la-la land like every mate tends to be when their together, but you should know that Adam and I have had to block off this entire floor from anyone coming near it." He speaks with a smirk and an amused tone. We look at him curiously when I suddenly hear the clear sound of heavy breathing, bed springs moving, pleasurable moans, whispered 'I love you's, and headboard bangs as if they've been magnified with a bullhorn. One of the things I hate about my heightened senses is that I don't know how to lessen the level of my senses when I come in contact with a situation where I don't want to hear, smell, or see what is going on. In this case, I really wish I couldn't hear the sounds of Vane and Audra so magnifying.

I look at Oliver to see that he is trying immensely to block out the sounds of his older brother and mate-in-law. My attention returns to Elliot, whom looks quite uncomfortable with everything going on. I grab onto Oliver's hand and begin to drag us out of our room, down the hall and away from the Alpha/Beta wing of the pack house, the wing only for the Alpha and Beta families to reside within. I stopped when we got to the staircase.

Oliver looked at and shivered in what seemed to be disgust, but I could also see that he was happy for his brother and mate-in-law. He looked down at me and shook his head. "Why do you look slightly curious?" He asked. Elliot looked back at us and gave me a look as if to say 'please tell me you aren't curious about what they're doing'. I just ignored him and looked back at Oliver.

"What's on the lower floors of the Alpha/Beta wing?" I ask. Oliver looks surprised that I'd ask that question, but smiles nonetheless. He pulls me with him back down the hall, though we move quicker this time, and to the other end of the wing where another staircase resides. He pulls us down the stairs and onto the second floor.

"This is the floor that is technically for you and I, as it is the Beta floor, but my brother told me just to take what's our room right now instead because Audra has always been to hesitant to sleep with him. So he has always figured that he wouldn't need that room, but it looks as if you and I should start moving our stuff down here to our floor." Oliver explains with a smile. I smile as I look at the wing that belongs to the both of us, and I think about the fact that I really like the sound of that, ours. "An added bonus is that you and I won't hear anything that my brother and his mate are doing in their bedroom. We can hear the floor, but not their bedroom. I think they forgot to shut the door and that's why we could hear them so well, and I'm too scared to go back up and close the door for them." He says shivering again.

"If this is our floor, then what are all the other bedrooms for?" I ask curiously as Oliver swings our hands back and forth slowly.

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