The Silent Alpha

***Talia*** 

"Wh-what if...I mark y-you?" Zane asks timidly, his voice low and soft.

My heart feels as though it might pound out of my chest as a silence falls between us.

He wants me to bear his mark? Now? I stare at him, wondering why he would bring up marking now of all times? Zane seems to understand my confusion and smiles sheepishly at me.

"T-this is w-war, Ta-Talia," he says quietly, a warm tingle traveling down my spine when he says my name.

"A-and if some-something happens t-to me-me...then I-I want to go out kn-knowing my ma-mate wore my mark p-proudly..."

"Zane..." I sigh tiredly, pinching the bridge of my nose and closing my eyes as I think of an answer.

"You know how I feel about marking."

"I-l do," he replies........

"B-but so do y-you." I groan in frustration, thinking back to the day he explained his mark to me.

It was a beautiful speech and I loved hearing him tell me I meant more to him than I had initially thought...

but I had already made this mistake before.

I had fallen for pretty words and jumped into a marriage with a wolf after a couple of nursing my broken heart.

With every passing day, the wall around my heart crumbles, Zane making me believe that perhaps a wolf can love a simple human, but I am afraid and I do not know how to stop being afraid.

"I-I am not h-him," he murmurs, cupping my cheeks and pulling me in for a tender kiss.

Tiny sparks ripple across my face like little waves of pleasure, my body molding against his.

"I-I love you," he whispers, his lips grazing mine as he speaks.

It is the second time he has said it, but my breath still hitches in my throat at his confession.

I, however, cannot bring myself to repeat those words to him because it would make them real and I would be unable to deny him any longer.

"I-l am not h-him," he repeats, his thumbs wiping the tears gathering in my eyes.

"I know that," I whimper, Zane shaking his head at me.

"Do y-you?" he asks, the pain evident in his warm eyes.

"B-because it doe- it doesn’t fe-feel that way." I don’t know how to respond and my silence seems to make him anxious.

"D-do y-ou still love h-him?" He asks, his eyes unable to meet mine.

"A-am I...am I-I not...Do y-you still think about h-him..?"

"I don’t love him," I shake my head adamantly, appalled he would think that.

"I stopped loving Christian the day Kota was I was his wife of two years after all and I thought we would always be together.Those types of feelings don’t go away overnight.Those dreams die hard.But that all changed the moment I held Kota in my arms.Christian destroyed my trust and whatever possibility there was of us ever being a family died the day he slept with my sister.And I will never forgive him for that.I will never love him again.Never."

Zane weighs my words carefully, as if deciding if I meant them.

"I do think about Christian every day though," I add, Zane looking down at me in shock and I quickly try to explain myself.

"I think about all the lies he fed me to keep me by his side...all the pain I felt while being his Luna.He is a constant reminder that I should be careful with my heart and who I give it to."

"I-It’s safe with m-me," Zane blurts out and I smile at him.

"I...am trying to believe you," I reply quietly through a small smile.

"I am trying to believe you are different.That your words are real and not some fantasy you are trying to feed me, so I'll fall for you.But then I remember all the beautiful poems Christian used to tell me, all the picnics under the moonlight, all of our beautiful mornings after a night of passion, all of the little things he did in the beginning that made me believe we would last forever.I remember these things every time I feel myself getting comfortable with you...and then the pain comes crashing down on me all over again.There is a constant war waging in my head thoughts away.I try to remember how happy you make Kota whenever a bad thought enters my head.It’s just hard sometimes, " I admit.

"But I will keep trying...Because I want to be happy with you.I want to love you so much.I do....I-"

him while the other slides down to my waist, teasing the waistband of my shorts.His lips ignite a fire within me, my skin burning with pleasure as he lifts

arms snake around his neck and he carries me to the

the soft mattress, spreading my legs apart and climbing on top of

protect

in my mouth, his hands

to the shape of his hand over and over again like a

his shirt over his

room illuminates his

to make

watch him as he struggles to figure out his next move and I pull my shirt over my head to give him a

for a moment, his fingers emitting sparks against my skin as he

tremor in his hands as he reaches the clasp of my bra, but he swallows hard and undoes it, my

he admires my bare chest and I reach

removes our

on either

other, our tongues meeting for an

shoulders and up his neck as he

pull

whisper as his lips travel down my neck to my collar

"I’m yours."

again, his voice lowering

"Y-you’re m-mine."

of my curling as the

and licks my breasts.I rock my hips against his growing member, Zane groaning into my

I whisper against his ear when I can take the heat

to

growls softly as he suckles on my n****e and slides his hand along my thigh, his fingers squeezing my bare ass and pressing me

they brush over my sensitive flesh every time

him now more than

thrust, fills me up with his length, my walls welcoming his girth in a warm

whimper as he starts to move, pulling his c**k out slowly and pushing it all the way in in

sways with his rhythm, his tip hitting a spot that makes me see

Zane groaning as he hits the

"Ah....Ah...0h god!"

growls in response, something animalistic taking over as he picks up the speed of his

eyes roll back as I moan incoherently at him to keep going.My back arches as I feel myself come closer to the edge, my hands reaching

whine

so I can fall apart beneath

eyes meet, I realize Zane is no longer in control, but neither is

can’t quite tell but it sends a warm tingle down my spine to

lips once again collide with mine, the sweet taste of his love and the savory dominance of his lust

fire within me again, but he

between kisses, but he only moves slower

fingers with each other so that one hand grips my knuckles while the fingers on

pushing my clasped hands above my head and pinning them against the mattress while his free

I tighten my walls around his girth, eager to

and need, my legs quickly turning to jelly the harder and

and uncurling as

nectar slowly spills out each time he pulls out of me,

lets go of my leg, this time grabbing onto the sides of my throat and

light flooding my brain as I shatter completely.He pumps relentlessly

sweet relief as I breathe heavily, attempting to gather myself once

his c*m, his breath slow and sharp as he peppers open

along my neck, savoring me, worshiping me as the need

"Zane..."

my hips against

meet, his brown irises turn golden, Grayson smirking back at

whimper, a smug look

me over on my stomach, pushing

up when Grayson slides his hands up my inner thigh, teasing my still

finger between my lips, lubricating himself with my c*m and drawing figure eights around