The Alphas

LORELAI

The twins had gone to sleep over an hour ago, and I should have too. I was exhausted.

But I couldn’t get what Beenie had said out of my mind.

The vampires were coming; that was inevitable. But the pregnancy thing? That was nerve-racking.

I snuggled into Derik’s side while he played with a strand of my hair. Kai was curled into my back, and Brax was between my legs, like normal. Except it didn’t feel normal. It felt like there was an elephant in the room that none of us wanted to bring up first.

I sure as hell didn’t.

Another baby? We already had two that we could barely keep safe. It hadn’t been long enough, surely. But I was a wolf, and had been for a while now, maybe not full but partially. Maybe that meant I should’ve been using protection before now?

It was too late anyway. Beenie had said the vampires were coming soon, in the next few days. She knew because the wolves in the infirmary were still getting better in her vision. That meant the unborn child she saw was currently nestled deep inside me.

My hand went to my stomach, and I chewed my lip, staring at the wall on the other side of the room. Derik let out a sigh, and Kai held me tighter. Brax pressed a kiss to my thigh, and I swallowed.

I loved them. They loved me. But I was young, and having another child seemed terrifying. The twins were a constant worry, a constant weakness for our enemies to exploit.

“They’re also a reason to fight, beautiful. Maybe that is why we have been given this gift,” Derik murmured.

I smiled against him, closing my eyes. He always seemed to have that optimism tucked away for me, coming out when I needed it most.

“I can still shift. Is that normal? Would it hurt the baby?” I asked softly.

Kai shook his head against me. “Not this early. Later, it will be impossible. Your body will tell you when you need to stop. You’ll age while you’re pregnant and not shifting too. And the first shift afterward will ache,” he explained, not hiding anything from me.

He was good at that, telling me exactly what I needed to know without sugar-coating anything. I needed that. He kissed my spine, then my neck.

“I’m scared,” I whispered after a while.

Brax sat up, looking at me as I despaired. “We’d be worried if you weren’t, Spitfire.”

“So you’re all scared too?”

Brax nodded. They all did.

“You think the idea of losing you or the twins weighs nothing in our minds?” Brax raised a brow.

I shook my head. “No. But now that I’m carrying, I can’t go into this with the same mindset. Before, I was willing to do whatever it took to keep you and the twins safe, whether I made it out or not. Now, I can’t bargain with my own mortality in exchange for the ones I love.”

My alphas went silent, their anger palpable. It steamed the room, and I grimaced, hiding my face in Derik’s chest.

“I don’t mean I was going to,” I said, then looked at them, sitting up properly. “I just mean that I didn’t mean as much to myself as the rest of you did. But now, I have to protect myself too.”

Kai scoffed. “Then welcome to the family, Pup.”

Kai grinned and kissed my stomach. I rolled my eyes but accepted Kai’s head in my lap, brushing through his tangles of hair with my fingers, straightening them out.

“When the vampires come, we’ll be ready, and we won’t let them take any of us, understood?” Derik said firmly.

I nodded, leaning my head on his shoulder. “How can we be ready enough?” I sighed.

“We can do everything to keep our pack safe. Your border around the top of the wall will help. The weapons from your mother will help; they’ll go pick up the supplies tomorrow. The wolves are training tonight, patrolling within the city. Our scouts are retreating to the city.” Derik listed off the things we were doing to prepare, but there was a sinking feeling inside me that it just wasn’t going to be that easy. The vampires wouldn’t attack unless they believed they could win this time. Maybe they could.

I closed my eyes, my fingers still going through Kai’s hair, my head still on Derik’s shoulder when Brax’s lips pressed softly to mine.

My eyes opened slightly in surprise. Then they fluttered closed again, my body responding to his mouth on mine. I kissed him back, my tongue sliding along his, my thighs widening so he could move into me.

His knee pressed against my pussy, and I sighed into the kiss, trying and failing not to grind myself against him. He pressed harder, the friction on my clit sending heat searing through my doubt.

I knew what he was doing. He was distracting me from overthinking, from spiraling. It was working.

I leaned into his kiss as Derik’s hand moved up my shirt, cupping my breast before tugging at the nipple through my nightgown. I moaned as it lit my core on fire, the heat making my breaths harsh against Brax’s mouth.

Kai’s face nuzzled into my neck then, his lips licking over my neck a second before his bite was on me. I cried out, gripping Brax’s arms as he held my face. His lips never left mine, teasing my body with promise.

Kai and Derik did the same, caressing the skin they found wherever they found it while Brax explored my mouth.

It was intoxicating the way they could make me feel so many things at once. Separately, they were addictive and gave me pleasure that made my body hum. But together? It was an explosion.

I grinded against Brax’s leg again, needing more friction there. He got the hint and dipped his finger between us, ruffling my nightgown up to reach my wet center. His thumb pressed against my clit before he circled it.

I gasped, my fingernails biting into his skin as I bucked. The overwhelming pleasure took me over, made me move so I could have more of my Alphas. If this was going to be one of our last nights without a vampire to kill, then I was going to make the most of it.

I broke from the hold my Alphas had on me, pushing Brax back. He went to his back easily, grinning up at me. His eyes were full of heat, his lips swollen from my kisses. It made me desperate for him.

I ripped off my nightgown and moved his legs apart. He never wore clothes, so it was easy access to his rigid cock. It was throbbing with thick veins and a leaking tip. I licked my lips, gripping the base.

Brax sucked in a breath at my tight grasp, but I gave him no time to say whatever teasing comment he was about to say. I brought my mouth down on his cock.

He groaned, one leg coming up, bending as his hand went straight to my hair. He gripped it as tightly as I was gripping his cock. I moved fast on him, desperate to make him as overwhelmed with pleasure as I was.

I moaned, making him vibrate with it at the back of my throat. He held my head, pushing me faster. I took him in, my eyes watering as I tried to take the entire length. It was not something I could do.

I was a luna, not a magician. And these alpha cocks were way more than even my deep throat could handle. But that didn’t stop a girl from trying.

I had him at the back of my throat, sucking him. My tongue teased the veins along his length when pleasure exploded between my legs.

I gasped, popping off Brax’s cock as the sound turned to a moan.

Derik’s mouth was between my thighs, feasting on my pussy as if it were his last meal. Maybe it was. I was just glad to be on the menu.

He stroked my pussy, his strong tongue flicking against my clit over and over again. It sent my body spiraling into overdrive. My entire body shook as I tried to breathe through what he was doing to me.

Brax tugged my hair. “You okay, Spitfire?” he asked with a smirk, breathing as hard as I was.

I nodded, looking back at his dick before going back to tasting him. I matched my pulls with Derik’s strokes on my pussy, the rhythm unrelenting.

Brax cursed and groaned. I moaned and gasped. It was a symphony of the best kind.

And then Kai joined in.

The only warning he gave me was a slap across the ass before he spread my cheeks.

He slammed into me from behind. I choked on Brax’s cock as I was momentarily disoriented by ecstasy.

I came instantly.

My body exploded, clenching as Derik’s tongue, Kai’s cock, and Brax’s taste pushed me over the edge with a scream. The pleasure rolled and rolled, the orgasm strung out by the fact that none of the Alphas stopped moving against me.

Kai fucked me in the ass, Derik worked my pussy, and I claimed Brax. It was messy, hot, and the best fucking feeling in the world.

I felt invincible. From vampires, from despair, from guilt and fear. None of it could touch me when my body was so full of alpha. They took over everything inside me, leaving no room for anything else.

I closed my eyes, picking up the pace until I felt Brax’s cock swell. His groans became as urgent as his hips. He bucked against my mouth as Kai stroked me faster. Derik’s mouth moved to the same pulse.

And then it hit me again. The wave that stole every other bodily function that didn’t involve pleasure. Brax came with me, his cock shooting his seed down my throat as he growled. The bed creaked with us as his hips moved at the same pace as mine.

The euphoria passed, and Brax collapsed back on the bed, letting go of my hair as he sighed. But I couldn’t relax. I still had Kai fucking me, Derik beneath me. I still felt the storm, riding it endlessly.

Kai pulled me back up to him so I was sitting on Derik’s face as Kai pounded against me. I stretched back into him, clenching my eyes shut as I was bounced on him.

Then Derik moved. Kai lifted me enough so Derik could slide up to me. I thought he was going to let me taste him too, but instead, he lined his thick tip up with my entrance.

His lips were shiny with the evidence of my orgasms. He didn’t seem to care as he licked his mouth. He looked down between us, rubbing himself between my folds, slickening himself before thrusting inside me.

I sucked in a breath, holding onto him tightly as he started moving in rhythm with Kai. But this was a different rhythm. They didn’t move at the same time. Derik filled me, then Kai, and they kept going so I was always full.

My body ached, my pussy throbbed, the heat burned. But I wanted it all.

I moaned and grabbed at them, grinding my hips against the thrusts they gave me. I didn’t care that my legs were wide, accepting both my Alphas inside me. I didn’t care that I was stretched to my absolute limit.

I only cared that when they tumbled off that ledge, they took me with them.

Kai’s grunts became harsher as he bucked, his cock swelling inside me. I rolled my hips, poking my ass in his direction as the orgasm built inside. His grip on my shoulder tightened a second before he roared.

His release came with it, the bed shaking, groaning with us, the noise echoing. I started to fall, my stomach tightening with the need. It pushed Derik over the edge with us.

He grabbed my face, pulling my face to his, kissing me harshly. I moaned against him as our bodies shuddered and fell together. They filled me with precise strokes that released their cum inside me then stilled, slamming that final thrust to the hilt.

It sent me into overdrive, my orgasm wiping me out of this realm. Could I get any higher? I didn’t think so. The explosion went off so damn bright, I fell into Derik. He caught me, holding me as I spasmed in his arms. Kai pulled out of me, collapsing back on the bed.

He made a mumbling sound that I was pretty sure was him cursing as Derik slowly lowered us to the bed. We lay next to Brax who turned his face to us, his hand behind his head.

“As long as we’re together, Luna, the vamps can’t touch us. We’re too connected,” Brax whispered.

I might not have believed him before, but after feeling what I felt when we were together, how could I not believe it? We were connected. The realm had done that. No way they gave us what we had just to take it away.

My eyelids closed as I lay draped over Derik.

I fell asleep there, content and sure of the future. Like we could really win this war.

That hope came crashing down around me when howls ripped through the air outside. My eyes flung open and I ripped the bed linen off the bed to wrap around my body. I burst out the doors onto the patio, my Alphas right there with me.

“What is it?” I asked the pack link. “Are we under attack?”

Galen was the one who responded. “No, Lorelai. But the humans are.”