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-"

and pushing me into him while the other slides down to my waist, teasing the waistband of

his neck and he

mattress, spreading my legs apart and climbing on top of me while not crushing me under his massive

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

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

breasts, molding it to the shape of his

over

room illuminates

to make brave enough to show me his

out his next move and I pull my shirt over my

fingers emitting sparks against my skin as he traces the

the clasp of my bra, but he swallows hard and undoes

my bare chest and I reach for his jeans, unbuttoning them

spell of my breasts breaks and Zane hurriedly removes our clothes until there's a small pile

resting on either side of my

our tongues meeting for an erotic

up his neck as he

murmurs when we pull apart

his lips travel down my neck to my collar

"I’m yours."

again, his voice

"Y-you’re m-mine."

mouth wrapping around one of my curling as the

licks my breasts.I rock my

yours," I whisper against his ear

want to

his fingers squeezing my bare ass and pressing me

breasts but add to the pleasure as they brush over my sensitive flesh every

I pant, needing him now more than

swift thrust,

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

sways with his rhythm, his tip hitting a spot

gasp, Zane groaning as he hits the same

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

something animalistic taking over 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

tiny whine begging him for just a little

so I can

meet, I realize Zane is no longer

but it sends

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

me again, but he keeps

kisses, but

my hands and interlocking my fingers with each other

head and pinning them against the mattress while his free arm wraps around

he grunts when I tighten my walls around his girth, eager to feel every perfect

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

curling and uncurling as I

spills out each time he pulls

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

and light flooding my brain as I

me brings sweet relief as I breathe heavily, attempting to

falls on my shoulder with the last drop of his c*m, his breath slow and sharp as he peppers open mouth kisses on

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

"Zane..."

moan, rocking my

meet, his brown irises turn golden, Grayson smirking

I whimper, a smug

no time rolling me over on my stomach, pushing squeezing and slapping my cheeks as I

hands up my inner thigh, teasing my

my lips, lubricating himself with my c*m