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-"

the other slides down to my waist, teasing the waistband of my

and he carries me to

mattress, spreading my legs apart and climbing on top of

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

in my mouth, his

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

tug his shirt over his head, my eyes mesmerized by

room is dark but the moonlight spilling into the room illuminates his face and I see the hint of

never fails to make brave enough to show me his

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

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

of my bra, but he swallows hard and undoes it, my

core as he admires my bare chest and I reach

hurriedly removes our

once again settles in between my legs, his hands resting on either side of my head

against each other, our tongues meeting for an erotic dance that leaves my

his shoulders and up his neck

murmurs when we pull apart to catch

travel down my neck

"I’m yours."

his

"Y-you’re m-mine."

wrapping around one of my curling as the heat builds up in my

hook around his naked thighs, my body craving his the more he bites and licks my breasts.I rock my hips

yours," I whisper against his ear when I can take the heat

want to

along my thigh, his fingers squeezing my bare ass and pressing me harder against him

breasts but add to the pleasure as they

pant, needing him now

limit, Zane lines himself up against my entrance and, in a swift thrust, fills me up with his

move, pulling his c**k

a spot that makes me see stars behind

Zane groaning as he

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

only growls in response, something animalistic taking over as

as I moan incoherently at 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

eyes flutter open, a tiny whine begging him for just

more so I can fall

is no longer in control, but

it sends a warm tingle down my spine to my

lips once again collide with mine, the sweet taste of his love and the savory dominance of his lust a delicious combination on my

the fire within me again, but he keeps

but he only moves

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

...wish for," he murmurs, pushing my clasped hands above my head and pinning them against the mattress while his free arm wraps around my thigh to pull

walls around his girth, eager to feel

with hunger and need, my legs

my toes curling and uncurling as I

each time he pulls out of me, my body craving his,

grabbing onto the sides of my throat

I shatter completely.He

inside me brings sweet relief as I breathe heavily, attempting to gather myself

with the last drop of his c*m, his breath slow and

slides along my neck, savoring me, worshiping me

"Zane..."

my hips against

my ears and when our eyes meet, his brown irises turn golden, Grayson smirking

smug look washing

no time rolling me over on my stomach, pushing squeezing and

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

with my c*m and