Chapter 48

• ALPHA ZACHARY
• The warm water that pooled around me in the bathhouse did nothing to ease my tense muscles as it always does. I've always been a sucker for warm baths because of how they loosen all of the knots in every corner in my body. The feeling of it on my skin makes me spend hours doing nothing but just sit alone and, naked inside of the wooden tub while staring into open space. If anything, today, it only made my skin crawl and made my muscles harden the more. And as much as it made me feel that way, I wanted to remain there till whenever since being there was my only and temporary escape from the woman who was waiting for patiently on our bed. My woman. And my mate, whom I'm to defile today is on our bed , waiting for me to consummate our union yet I wasn't even elated one bit to share a bed with her not to talk of becoming one with her. The traditional coronation ended hours ago and Ilvira has officially become my Luna. The pack accepted her just the way they accepted me after I won the duel weeks ago and became the Alpha of this pack regardless of who I was. The love and adoration they seemed to have for her in such little span of time only made me feel more guilty than I already was and I stalled her to this very moment in the name of Alpha duties I needed to attend to. Now, I had no excuse anymore. "Get it together Zach, I thought we talked about this," Leave it to Serge to come into my head when I'm not in the mood. The wolf was born go make things harder for me and never easy. "We never talked about anything." I rose out of the water and climbed out of the tub while the water dripped down my naked body as I went in search of a towel to put around my body. "You must have forgotten. I told you that once you take our mate, you'll forget the maid. It's as simple as that. Stop keeping that woman waiting. It's unfair for her to bear the brunt of your infidelity." I said nothing, finally finding a clean towel among the lot and wrapping it around my waist and leaving my chest and legs bare. It was pointless to argue with Serge and so I began to walk towards the bathhouse door,to get out of here and get to my mate. "Wait...is that...is that what you're scared of? My God Zachary, you don't want to forget that maid?" My hand paused on the door knob at Serge's words. I sighed, pulling a stray of wet hair back on my head. If he put it that way, it makes me feel like the big jerk I was. But no matter how he puts it or how I think of it, I was still a jerk because I couldn't stop thinking about her anyway. "Stay out of my business tonight Serge," I mind-linked my reply before opening the door and walking to my Chambers at the end of the Hallway where my mate was waiting for me. I could tell Serge was fuming. "It's not your business if she's OUR mate, do I need to...." I pushed him and his words to the back of my mind and blocked our link. I knew he wouldn't stop talking and I couldn't deal with that and also making love to my mate. I took a slight pause by my door and stared hard at the door knob as if it would burn me if I put my hands on it. Or maybe it was what I would meet inside that I dreaded so much. I breathed in and out, telling myself in my head that this was my responsibility as a pack leader and a mate to Ilvira. After the little pep talk to myself, I turned the doorknob, daring the door open and taking a step in. Ilvira's back was turned to me but she turned the rest her body swiftly around when she heard me come in. A bright yet nervous smile played on her lips as she stared at me. The candle lights gave her brown eyes a glow that stood out atop her fair skinned face. Her eyes fell from my face and to the exposed parts of my body and I saw her throat bob just as those brown eyes darkened with hunger. Her hand seemed to grip the robe tied around her body tightly as she stood there, uncertainty marring her features. She was naked under the flimsy piece of clothing as the yellow lights made her clothed breasts seem even perkier than the last time I saw them. I closed the distance between us slowly without taking my eyes off her. I had to make it look as convincing as I could that I was really drawn to her and not doing this just because I had to. Stopping in front of her, I let my hand leave my sides and crawl up her body, skimming her hips with my hand, up to her stomach that sucked in when I touched them and to her breast where my hand stopped just as she sucked in another harsh breath, letting it out and letting it fan my face when I pressed my hands on the perky mound in front of me. She smelled of lavender and the smell made me want to sniff around her the more. My eyes left her breast to peer into hers and she was already looking at me, entranced and seemingly unable to look away. Ilvira released a soft sigh when two of my fingers circled around the bud on her breast. It hardened against them as I pulled at it. Her eyes closed at the motion with which I rolled them. "Alpha..." She moaned softly. Maybe it was because I was trying too hard to feel or maybe because I was still a man regardless of who I really wanted or just maybe it was because of the mate bond between us, the softness of her moan made me harden before I could stop myself. It made me want to hear her moan out again. I tugged at her bud again and she whimpered slightly. My other hand snuck into the robe and crawled up her warm and naked skin, intrigued at how soft it felt against my callused hand. Ilvira felt fragile in my hands so much that I feared I would break her and not only because she hasn't been defiled yet but because of how badly I wanted another woman. What would she do if she ever finds out? I let another moan of hers drive the thoughts away as I let my hand grip her thighs, keeping it dangerously close to what lay in-between both soft pounds of flesh. She was totally bare down there and I knew it even before grazed my fingers on it slightly. Ilvira's legs seemed to sway because of the little touch and she grabbed me hard by the sides like she would fall. "Alpha..." she whimpered again, eyes still closed. Breathing, harsh. "Do you want me to touch you down there... again?" I whispered. Her brown eyes met mine as she opened them slightly. "Tell me Ilvira...where do you want me to touch you?" Her eyes ran around their sockets as she opened and closed her mouth even as my fingers still rubbed her very hard bud on her breast while the other hand was stationed on her thighs, waiting for her to say the word. "T--there," she stuttered. I didn't move. "Where Ilvira? Here?" I gripped her thighs hard. She shook her head, gasping slightly. "I want you to use your words Ilvira." "No." "Then... where?" Slowly,she brought her own hands down her body, into the robe, on top of mine that was still gripping her waist before guiding it towards her center where she pressed it on the bare flesh there. It was my turn to suck in a harsh breath because at the same time as she did that, her arousal hit my nostrils. I sucked its rawness in. "Here. Touch me here." She said , looking at directly into my eyes. The uncertainty and whatever it was I was in there was gone in a whiff. I couldn't deny how beautiful she was in that moment. Too beautiful to resist. "How do you want me to touch you there?" My hand was still there with hers still on top of it. "Anyhow...anyhow it takes you to make me cry your name." I felt myself jerk in-between my legs. Ilvira was a seductress...no doubt. She might be uncertain about things but she knows just what to say and do and she was mine. I have this beautiful woman in my arms and she's all that should matter to me. She was all that would matter to me–tonight. "You won't only cry my name tonight Ilvira. I'll make you scream it." I knew the instant heat pulled in between her thighs because I smelt it. "Goodness..." I croaked. She moved her hand away from mine and placed it on my chest, letting her hands feel the hard muscles of it. My hand that was at her center inched closer as I pressed two fingers on her. Ilvira whimpered. "You're wet...so wet and I haven't even started yet." I let the two fingers wander into her, using them to part her folds and dipping another finger into her. She moaned softly, gripping my shoulders for balance. I rubbed my thumb on the numb while I let the other fingers part her wet folds enough for me to smoothly drive both my fingers and myself in when I later take her upon my bed. I rubbed and pinched hard at the numb and she let out a loud moan that she tried to muffle on my shoulders. I stopped. "Don't. Let me hear it." I began to move my fingers again, rubbing and parting. Rubbing and parting till she became a moaning mess in my hands and then sharply, I dug a long finger into her. Ilvira's loud moan cut through the silence of the room that was occasionally broken by her soft sighs before. I curled the finger inside of her to reach her walls as far as I could before I began to pump in and out of her. Her moans turned rapid with each calculated stroke inside of her. The harder I dug it in, the louder her moans that were nothing but music to my ears. My mind slightly drifted to that night...the night with the maid. Her soft mo-- "Alpha!" I already added another finger, further stretching her as her wetness dripped all around my fingers. I didn't know when I dug the second finger in but I assumed it was because of the direction my thoughts was going. I took it out on Ilvira. My pumps into her became as rapid as her moans. I dug my fingers into her wetness, watching as her face twisted in pleasure while she held on to me for dear life. I could tell he legs were barely keeping her up and she was this close to losing it totally. "G-od... Alpha." She whimpered. She was close. Her insides were starting to tighten around my fingers that it made it so hard to pull in and out. My strokes into her turned fast and swift, aiding her towards her release that seemed like it would completely rock her world. "I'm going to-–it's going to–I'm..." Ilvira stuttered miserably but I didn't stop. One last pump of my fingers into her and her body tensed before she came crumbling down. Her body shook terribly against mine as a loud cry erupted from her. I made no attempt to stop her from announcing to the world that I was pleasuring my mate. My fingers kept drilling into her even as she poured all of her was essence down on it, to the floor while she shuddered in my arms. Her cries slowly dwindled, turning into soft whimpers and cries as she held on tightly to me. Her legs gave way when she tried to move and I was quick to grab her before she could fall to the ground. She came down from her high soon enough but her body still shook. I moved my hand to brush her stray hair, wet with sweat away from her face. It wasn't just her sweat that made her face wet. Tears clouded her eyes as she looked on with an unfocused gaze into mine. I made the towel wrapped around me fall to the floor. "I'm going to have you now...the way I want. On that bed. Do you think you can take me Ilvira?" I asked, grabbing her hand and bringing it to the hard length in-between my legs. Her warm and soft hand touched it. Her eyes went wide and her her breath caught. "Can you?" I made her wrap her hand around the thickness of it and she gripped it, curling her fingers around it, unable to even keep the small things fully wrapped around me. "I--I can." She wasn't sure. I could see it. But I was past caring anyway. I needed release from a lot of things and if I could give her pleasure, she could return it as well. I said nothing and just tipped my head to take her lips into mine. Biting down at it hungrily and backing her up towards the bed. I kissed her like my life depended on it and she tried desperately to match my pace. She fell to the bed and I climbed up with her, tearing the robe off her body while still kissing her hard. I spread her legs before settling inbetween them. I nudged at her center, preparing her for what's to come and then, I pushed into Ilvira. Once. Twice. Fast. Then...hard. ***************************************************** When I finished minutes after, Two thoughts bothered me. One, sinking into Ilvira felt so good yet it felt like something was lacking. And two, Serge was wrong. Making love to my mate didn't make me forget the maid. And maybe that explains why I was currently out of my Chambers on the way to the kitchen, after draining my mate out that she fell asleep almost immediately and I sneaked out of bed to catch a glimpse of another woman. Pathetic, I know. And it's because I already knew that, that I wanted to kill the maid for saying it to me. It didn't hurt much until she said it with bitterness in her tone. . Yet I was still going in search of her. I told her to stay far away from me and she did. She hasn't served me my food ever since she came and it made me wonder if she was really avoiding me. It's funny how I told her to stay away from me and still expect to see her come in with the other kitchen maids to serve my food. She never came. Just a peek at her tonight. Just a peek at how she's doing and I'll head back to my Chambers to tend to my mate. The Kitchen light was out when I got there and I looked around for traces of her or anyone in the dark. There was no one in sight. I shook my head my foolishness. I was a fool to think she'd be here. What was I thinking? I turned to go back in the direction I came through but stopped when a figure approached me. I'd recognize the scent and figure anywhere. "Alpha? What are you doing here? Do you need something?" I merely walked past my Beta who was questioning me and I heard him follow. "I was just taking a walk." I said curtly. If he believed me or not, he didn't say anything and just followed behind me. "The kitchen maids retire as soon as the Alpha retires too." Was all he said. I stopped and turned to look at him ,trying to figure him out and his reason for telling me that. Did he know something? It was hard to read Alan. It was all part of his Beta training it's in times like this that I hate not being able to see through him. "I was just taking a walk." I pointed out again. Whatever it was running through his mind, it had to stop. He merely nodded and stepped ahead of me, leading the way back to my Chambers. I looked behind me for a short moment, a sad feeling pricking at my heart. I guess I won't see Haera again for days.