Queen Of The Alpha
Chapter 33

Layan was possessive. Much more than he appeared to be. He was like a child with his first toy and he couldn’t help it. He was an alpha, but most of all he was an alpha.

So…

That he would walk out into the courtyard and replace the she-wolf who supposedly declared him hers because fate dictated it, sitting astride his beta. And incidentally, leaning over this one was not the most pleasing image for him.

And of course.

The beast inside him came out and he did nothing to stop it.

-PRISCILA” he growled possessively, so loudly that the windows of the castle shook.

The named one, who had her back to him in passing, straightened slightly and looked over her shoulder. There was an unusual twinkle in her eyes and her smile didn’t seem so false.

-Layan,” she showed even more of her white teeth, where her fangs were very pronounced.

Kei, below her, raised her head a bit and it was then that Layan could better visualize the situation by cooling her mind a bit. Yes, the she-wolf was sitting on top of him, but her hands were digging her claws into his forearm and he was defending his chest with one hand while the other was maneuvering to get her off of him. Both had so many scratches on their bodies and bruises that they looked like they had been falling off a cliff.

He closed his eyes and ran his hand over his face. He had misread their positions. They weren’t…intimate. It was simply training and knowing that training from his beta it was normal for them to be like this. He understood what the guard who had come for him had told him.

-He sighed and his shoulders slumped, “How the hell did they get that way? He didn’t know why, but somehow he felt relief and that was when he reacted.

Was that jealousy? He pursed his lips at this. So far Priscilla had seemed like a snot stuck to his body all the damn time, including his sleeping hours. But just the thought that she would be by someone’s side was like every cell in his body throbbed with a demand for her.

He felt an itch on his fangs. The mark on the she-wolf’s neck called to him and just the thought of burying them to the base made him salivate.

And then what…

-Priscilla, with a near black eye, b***d trickling from the edge of her busted l*p and a very dark mark on her neck, asked him when she noticed that he had frozen with a blank stare.

But she received no answer. Instead she was lifted up and a foot ended up buried in her stomach and thrown four metres away. The sound caused her to let out a high-pitched whimper that roused the wolf from his lately accustomed internal ramblings.

-Kei- he reprimanded the beta. The wolf wasn’t even restraining himself from striking Priscilla, “You want to kill her. She’s a she-wolf, not the brutes you train.

He came down the stairs and almost ran to her who lay panting on the floor with her eyes closed. There was a tightness in his chest. He had always seen her with total grandeur, she hadn’t even said anything when her sister had bitten her.

Yes she had cried, but in her own words, she had faked it.

-Priscilla,” he knelt down beside her with a frown. Perhaps it would have been better to strengthen her first before handing her the beast of his beta on a platter.

-Alpha, I think you’re misunderstanding something, again,” Kei sat still, shaking the leaves out of her blonde hair that had grown to brush the nape of her neck and combed back, though it was now a total mess, “she’s the one who was hurting me.

Layan’s eyes focused on him and then on Priscilla, whose eyes were squeezed shut.

-Are you playing games with me? You’re the beta of my pack. Only I am above you. Not even my commander can handle you. You can tell me how the hell a pup can beat you up,” he sounded skeptical.

Kei raised an eyebrow, not at his words but at the arms reaching nimbly towards the alpha’s neck. And those same arms wrapped around Layan’s neck and soon had him lying on the ground, so fast he didn’t see it coming. Let alone the weight on his h**s and his lips being sealed.

Priscilla was kissing him. But…

Not romantically.

-He heard her murmur against his lips and their gazes met.

And Layan shivered. He lifted his hand, placed it on top of her head and pressed down, deepening the k**s. He opened her mouth with his tongue and let his fluids join with Priscilla’s, doing what she’d asked. Healing her, but maybe something more.

Kei was still there, sitting up. He was dodging her gaze on them but still felt it necessary to stake out the ground.

For Layan, being insecure didn’t suit him and he needed to work with a clear head without having to think about his supposed future mate being courted by some wolf.

He squeezed her slender waist down feeling the body on top of him take on strength. Her saliva did know how to do the job, at least internally. For the outside he would either lick it off or have s*x with her to heal them quickly. For the moment he would have to settle for speeding up the healing process.

When he released her head, Priscilla pulled away from him, leaving a trickle of saliva that joined both lips, and he thought she was going to say something about what had happened. But he was totally wrong.

Instead of getting the expected attention, she simply smiled, and despite the state of her body she got up and ran in the direction of Kei who was already waiting for her on his feet. And again they started throwing punches back and forth.

Layan could see firsthand how she quickly learned from Kei’s movements even when she was hit. And she was hitting back twice as hard. He already understood the beta’s words. Priscilla was by no means a weak wolf.

Train her?

Why the hell hadn’t Hades or Nebraska told her they had something as lethal as a daughter?

Now he feared that if he seriously bothered her he might lose a limb. The very thought of this made him grunt and stand up replaceing some trouble inside his trousers. At some point when they were kissing he had felt a little better than fine and that was evidence by the e******n he was sporting.

Really, in a situation like this?

He exhaled sharply and pulled away from the two wolves. Neither noticed when the alpha left them. They were more engrossed in their own fight. One that would last quite a while.

It was getting dark. Layan put his things down on his desk and crumpled up the letter from his Commander. He had finished his work at the borders and needed to rest for a few days so he had asked for leave. He wouldn’t refuse. Victore was someone who had shown what he was worth.

He stood up and stretched his bones and looked out the window of his office. The view was expansive, and from there he could define in the distance where Kei and Priscilla had once stood. They were gone, though.

-At least it looks like they got tired of beating each other up. Beasts,” he smiled slightly, remembering the gleam in Priscilla’s eyes.

If it weren’t for the fact that he knew she couldn’t feel anything, he could tell she was having fun. But she had said it herself, she had no emotions. And that was a shame.

A fleeting thought of what the she-wolf’s real smile would look like crossed his mind and he bit his fingernail. What the hell had happened in the last few hours that he was thinking about her every minute? He’d even had to use her image in order to free himself like a pubescent wolf in the bathroom. He swore he wouldn’t be embarrassed about it but it was difficult.

He walked to his room, clearing his mind. His life couldn’t revolve around the she-wolf. No, no and n…

Why the hell was she the first thing he saw when he walked into his room?

Priscilla was literally lying like a sack on the couch, face down. Her hair was a ruined tangle covering her face. Her body was bruised beyond belief, with scratches everywhere. His clothes were in tatters.

But in spite of all that, he was breathing calmly, and on his lips, which were barely visible, there was a small smile.

One that seemed… real.

Without being able to help himself, he approached her, fascinated by the beautiful curve of her lips, and he softly kissed them with his fingers.

-ayan,” her voice came out mushy five seconds after she felt the wolf’s touch and scent.

-He straightened up, breaking the contact and putting his hands in his trouser pockets, lest he take them somewhere else.

-Hmm,” she nodded, brushing her hair out of her face so she could focus on him out of the corner of her eye, “I just sat up for a moment, but my eyes were so heavy,” her voice was barely a whisper.

-You and Kei didn’t hold back,” he tilted his head.

-It was… funny.

And those words made him turn pale.