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-"

of my neck and pushing me into him while the other slides down to

around his neck and he carries

my legs apart and climbing on top of me while not

to protect me from any harm, how muscular his arms are from all the hard labor he must have done during his

as his tongue twirls in my mouth, his hands exploring every curve of

breasts, molding it to the shape of his hand over and over again like a

his shirt over his head, my eyes

room illuminates

fails to make brave

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

emitting sparks against my skin as he traces the intricate design of the flowers and the

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

chest and I reach for his jeans, unbuttoning them and pulling down the

breasts breaks and Zane hurriedly removes our clothes until there's

on either side of my head as he

against each other, our tongues meeting for

his neck as

pull apart

travel down

"I’m yours."

again, his voice lowering almost

"Y-you’re m-mine."

my curling as the heat builds up in my

craving his the more he bites and licks my breasts.I rock my

me yours," I whisper against his ear when I can take the heat no

want to

my n****e and slides his hand along my thigh, his fingers squeezing my bare ass and pressing me harder against him so that

beard hairs prickle my breasts but add to the pleasure as they brush over my sensitive flesh every time he sucks and licks my

needing him

himself up against my entrance and, in a swift thrust, fills

his c**k out slowly and pushing it all the way in in deliberate

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

Zane groaning as he hits the

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

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

him to keep going.My back arches as I feel myself come closer to the edge, my hands reaching for the headboard when he suddenly slows down

eyes flutter open, a tiny whine begging him for just a little

I can

meet, I realize Zane is no longer in control, but neither is Grayson, something else taking

but it sends a warm tingle down my spine to my

taste of his love and the savory dominance

within me again, but he keeps his thrusts

kisses, but

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

while his free arm wraps around my

I tighten my walls around his girth, eager to feel every perfect inch

pounds into me with hunger and need, my legs quickly turning to jelly the

curling and uncurling as I gasp for

pulls out of me, my body craving

time grabbing onto the sides of my throat and squeezing in

as I shatter completely.He pumps relentlessly as I

seed spurting inside me brings sweet relief as I breathe

the last drop of his c*m, his

slides along my neck, savoring me, worshiping me as the need once again builds up in my

"Zane..."

moan, rocking my hips

meet, his brown irises turn golden, Grayson smirking

I whimper, a smug look washing over his

on my stomach, pushing squeezing and slapping my cheeks as

his hands up my inner thigh, teasing my still weeping folds with

with my c*m and