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-"

other slides down to my waist, teasing the waistband of my shorts.His lips ignite a fire within

his neck and he carries me

apart and climbing on top of me while not

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

twirls in my mouth, his hands exploring

small gasp escapes my lips when he cups one of my breasts, molding it to the shape of his hand over and over again like a stress

over his head, my eyes mesmerized

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

timid nature never fails to make

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

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

he reaches the clasp of my bra, but he swallows hard and undoes it, my breasts spilling out of

chest and I reach for his jeans, unbuttoning them and

breaks and Zane hurriedly removes our clothes until there's a small pile

settles in between my legs, his hands resting on either side

other, our tongues meeting for an

hands travel along his shoulders and up his neck as he pours his heart

he murmurs when we pull apart to

as his lips travel down my neck to

"I’m yours."

his voice lowering

"Y-you’re m-mine."

I moan, his mouth wrapping around one of my curling as the

the more he bites and licks my breasts.I rock my hips against his growing member, Zane groaning

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

want to be

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

to the pleasure as they brush over my sensitive flesh every time he

needing him

my entrance and, in a swift thrust, fills me up with his length, my walls welcoming his

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

a spot that makes me see stars behind my

gasp, Zane groaning as he hits the same spot

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

animalistic taking over as he picks up the speed of

roll back as I moan incoherently at him to keep going.My back arches as I feel myself

flutter open, a tiny whine begging him

little more so I can fall apart beneath

is no longer

quite tell but it sends a warm tingle down

the sweet taste of his love

again, but he keeps his thrusts painfully

between kisses, but he only moves slower than

he pulls away a little, taking both of my hands and interlocking my fingers with each other so that one

head and pinning them against the mattress while his free arm wraps around my thigh to pull my legs further apart against my neck

around his girth, eager

and need, my legs quickly turning to jelly the harder

and

time he pulls out of me, my body craving

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

my brain as I shatter completely.He

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

his breath slow and sharp as he peppers open

worshiping me as

"Zane..."

moan, rocking my

my ears and when our eyes meet,

I whimper, a smug look

stomach, pushing squeezing and slapping my cheeks

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

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