The Alpha’s Heir
Chapter 3

*** Preston ***

After spending a couple of hours worrying about what that crazy woman said, I see reason. Amber can fight the allegations. They say that widows can become crazy when they lose their mate. I am not going to hold much store in what that stupid woman threatened but first thing tomorrow I will go and let Aiden know what happened.

A great idea of how to bolster Amber comes to me. Last year, she made a request for us to try bondage. She likes to push our boundaries. However, since we have officially mated and marked each other, there has been a whole different level of intimacy between us. It is gentler, more loving, and tender, but I know she still likes all that kinky stuff too.

This time, I will initiate it. She dressed up as Wonder Woman for me one time and I loved it. I will dress up as a fireman for her and I am going to do all kinds of filthy stuff I have held back from doing with her. One time she did tell me that she found the fireman’s uniform s3xy and would love a fireman’s lift. I just want her to slide down my pole!

My Red still likes to act like she is as tough as old boots, but I know her like no-one else does. This trial has really got to her and then her own trial is just around the corner. To top it off, she wants to connect with her mother, and so far she hasn’t been able to locate her.

A good de-stress is just what my baby needs, and it is going to start with a strip tease from a horny fireman.

She loves the dress-up and role play. Although, at this moment in time I think I love it more than her. Not particularly the dressing up as such, but her reaction to it. The way she excitedly drops to her knees and deepthroats me makes me wonder what else would turn her on?

A seductive strip tease especially for her goes too far and she svcks my c0ck until I blow. Afterwards I pick her up, and carry her over my shoulder in a traditional fireman’s lift to our bedroom. My desire to take my time and really work her up into a frenzy is at odds with my yearning to be balls deep inside her.

“Please, Preston, don’t torture me anymore. Please!” She is begging, becoming wetter and wetter as she pleads for me to let her come. She likes being tortured, she likes to beg for it.

“Tell me how you want it, tell me what to do.” She flips me over and straddles me, sliding down my c0ck just as I fantasised about.

“Frig me Preston, rub my cl!t until I come all over you,” she demands and, Goddess be damned, my c0ck becomes even harder.

Her pvssy is wet and warm against my hand, and Amber m***s as I run my fingers over her sensitive cl!t . Amber grinds on me and I pinch her cl!t, extracting a squeal from her, a squeal of pain and delight all at the same time. Then I flick my fingertips lightly over the tip of her cl!t until I feel her wetness coat my hand, and she spasms as she throws her head back.

“Yes, yes, Preston. Yes, like that. Just. Like. That.” She shouts as I thrust my h!ps up to meet her demands. As her climax takes over her body, I quicken my pace and I come again too, which causes little shockwaves to continue to ravage Amber’s delicate little folds and cl!t.

Afterwards, I let her sleep. I wrap her up in a sheet while I get some food and drink for us. She’ll be ravenous when she wakes in a little while.

The crazy widow interrupts my thoughts as soon as I’m away from my mate. I can’t get any peace from her and her threats against my Red. First thing tomorrow morning, I need to talk to Aiden about this before I lose my mind.

The more I try to blank the crazy widow out, the more intrusive the thoughts become, until my heart is hammering away erratically and I am frantically searching for air to fill my lungs.

My terror increases for Amber; I can’t lose her, not now. Not after everything we have been through and when we are just on the cusp of our own bliss.

There is so much I want from a long life with her. It starts with a Mating Ceremony and a human wedding. We both want a couple of pups and a family. No matter what, I only want it with Amber.

Amber will flip when I tell her everything the widow said to me, but I don’t have any choice. Keeping this from her would almost certainly come back and bite me on my as*s.

I climb back into bed with Amber after placing a bottle of water at her bedside. She is warm and snuggly, reminding me of a little cat.

I whisper against her beautiful head of red curls. “I love you, Amber Goldrick, and I would protect you with my life. I would give my life and happiness for yours. But first, I am going to fight tooth and nail for what is ours, for what I have been dreaming for all this time.”

Filled with resolve to fight for what is mine, I plan my fight for Amber. My fight for us.

*** Aiden ***

Eva is a nervous wreck, and I am trying everything to get her to settle down but she is worrying about tomorrow now that the trial for Ellis has been postponed.

“I should have spoken to him earlier, Aiden. I am such a weakling. I hate being scared. I want to be brave and powerful,” she says sadly.

No matter what I tell her, she will not accept that she isn’t in the wrong and that she has gone above and beyond to help Ellis despite him being a stubborn little shit. Despite him being the one who hurt her.

“Eva, sweetheart, you have done everything you can. Please just… come here and sit with me.” I open my arms to her but she continues to hesitate.

She’s all wound up and filled with unnecessary guilt.

“Would you like me to call one of the Elders and ask to speak to them again on your behalf?” She shakes her head at me.

“Sorry, Aidy, I just hate feeling helpless.” She sits on my lap without further instructions, making me smile. She has come a very long way in six weeks, my little Shortie. “I don’t want them to kill him, I wouldn’t be able to live with myself.”

Well, I can’t settle for that. “If they sentence him to death after he has changed his plea, accepted responsibility, apologised and agreed to complete the rehabilitation, then I will step in as Alpha and overrule them.” She relaxes against my hand as I stroke circles on her back, holding back a g***n of contentment when the mate bond tingles spark throughout my body.

“Thank you, Aiden. I know what he did was wrong, but jeez, he is only a young boy. I felt protective of him.” I smile at her and her willingness to admit she has a tender heart.

“That’s your Luna senses starting to kick in, Eva. Our pack members are like our children and it’s our duty to protect them.” She smiles at me and rests her head on my shoulder.

Summer is asleep in her bed, worn out from her day of fun and exploring, and the night is ours for now.

“We still need to discuss our Gamma situation, Eva. Did you give it some thought?”

She rolls her eyes at me and I raise my eyebrows at her. “Is it really necessary, Aidy? We have gotten this far without one.”

I hold my laugh. What she doesn’t know is that nearly every wolf under Beta Preston and Delta Billy has taken a turn guarding her and she has been completely oblivious.

“Every Luna needs a Gamma wolf, sweetheart; we have been over this. You could get pregnant at any time now and I need to know you are all safe if I am not here.”

She is so resistant to the idea of a Gamma wolf. I had hoped we could put this all behind us and concentrate on her getting a Gamma, shifting and us having a Mating Ceremony and her officially becoming Luna. I am getting nowhere with any of the above.

“Okay, I will meet with the wolves you have suggested, but I want the final choice, Aiden. This person is going to be present for a lot of my life, so it best be someone nice.” I nod and relent to her choosing, but internally I smile at her wanting someone ‘nice’. I want someone ferocious, someone who will kill to protect her.

“The final choice will be yours; I promise. Thank you for agreeing to meet them.” She k!sses me softly on my lips before making her way down to her mark on my neck. She svcks and n!ps at it, flooding me with carnal need.

“Oh, I almost forgot!” She jumps off my la*p taking away her s3xy round as*s and her teasing lips off my neck. “I would like to try and shift again.”

F**k. Me and Eva. In the woods. Naked. And I must concentrate on coaxing out her wolf when all I want to do is bury myself deep inside her.

*** Salma ***

I am being frog marched out of my own club by my husband. I tell him to stop, to wait, but Ale has a right bee in his bonnet.

“Salma. Please, mi amor, just listen to me just this once and I promise I will never ask anything of you ever again. I need to get you away from here. Now. We have to move now.” I listen to him because my normally placid and calm Alejandro is worried about something.

Within four minutes, which is no exaggeration because I checked the CCTV afterwards, Ale had parked his car, marched into my club, convinced me to get out and drove us both away.

“Alejandro Suarez, you have two minutes to explain to me what the f**k is going on or I swear to f*****g god, I will make earrings out of your bollocks.” I squeeze his crotch as he drives, so he understands I will cause him pain.

“F*****g hell, Sal, we’ll never get a baby if you chop my balls off, give me a minute.” I move my hand; I do want a baby after all. “I am taking you to my parents’ house, and my father is trying to arrange a meeting between us and the family Dominga belongs to. We have to be very careful, Sal. Whoever poisoned your papa has been able to get very close to us without detection. I am trying to protect you.”

My first instinct is to attack. I want to attack Ale for insisting on protecting me. Do I look like a fair maiden? Do I need rescuing? Then I think of choking Dominga the stupid whore for starting all this. I could easily entwine my fingers around her throat and squeeze the life from her.

“Before you start ranting at me that you don’t need protecting, Salma Morales, your papa probably thought the same thing and he’s now dust in a box on your Mami’s mantlepiece, so spare me the s3xist remarks. I f*****g love you and if any bastard wants to harm what is mine I will burn the fvcker alive. Understand?”

F**k! I have never been so turned on in my whole entire life!

“Pull over now!” I shout at him, and give him his due, he pulls into the layby we were about to pass. I quickly push the lever, moving his chair all the way back into a lying position and I straddle him. “That was so f*****g hot, Ale!”

Crashing my juicy lips over his, my tongue darts into his mouth and passion quickly ignites and spreads throughout me. Ale growls in approval, his hands automatically skim over my tight skirt and search for the bottom of my blouse. He pulls it free from my wa!st band and lays his rough, warm hands on my back.

I m**n into his mouth; I love the way he touches me. I love how his words get me ar0used into a stupor even when they annoy me.

“No, stop, Sal. I need to get to my parents now. I am being deadly serious. Someone has been following us.” He tells me as he springs my boobs out of my bra and pinches my left n!pple, groaning as it puckers at him and his touch. “You are too godd*mn s3xy for your own good, woman!”

I laugh at him as I slide off him and sit back on the passenger seat, and he g****s in displeasure. “You told me to stop Ale, make your mind up.” He gives me a cheeky grin.

“Would you do anything I asked you to do, Chula? Only for me?” Yearning shoots directly to my core.

“All you have to do to replace out is ask Alejandro… tell me, tell your wife what you want her to do.” He svcks in air through his teeth.

“You are going to svck me off while I drive us to my parents’ house.” I lean over and unzip his trousers and help his thick c0ck escape.

“Drive, then. When you start to drive, I will polish you off.” His pupils dilate, and there is a slight flush to his face. He wants to take control and so I will let him.

“F**k, Sal,” he says through gritted teeth as we hurtle along a country road. I have my head in his lap and his c0ck in my mouth. I look at him through my eyelashes and love that he is gripping the steering wheel like his life depends on it. Yes Ale, f**k Sal. That’s what I want.

“Chula, stop, I don’t want to come in your mouth.” I can feel the power of his 0rgasm building, his c0ck goes even harder and the veins more prominent and the head is a deep purple now.

“Where then?” I ask him in mock innocence as I sit up and push my boobs together.

“You are driving me crazy, Chula. Just wait until later.” Promises, promises, I think to myself as I sit back in my seat with my legs wide open. I pull my lace knickers to one side and stroke myself. The breeze against my s3x, Ale looking so hot and bothered, and the thrill of doing this outside while Ale is driving made me wetter and more turned on by the second.

We come to another layby and Ale pulls in again. This time he lies my seat back until it’s almost completely flat and climbs over on top of me. “I’m going to f**k you now, but when we get home it’s all going to be about you.”

He plunges into my depth, and I cry out at his invasion, both in pleasure and pain, but when I feel him backing off, I wrap my legs around him. I need him. I just need this.

“Don’t stop, Ale, don’t stop.”

He grabs my face as he ploughs into me. “I am never going to stop, you are mine, and that will never ever stop.”

I cling to him as I feel him unloading and I laugh as he grunts and g****s. I feel alive, I feel loved.

“How the hell do you do that to me, Chula? I lost control!”

I just smile at him. We both know who is really in charge here.

*** Eva ***

We have an Omega named Mrs Moore who helps about the place and sits with Summer when Aiden and I are both needed. She is a lovely woman, a similar age to my own mother but a lot warmer and more trustworthy. Mrs Moore comes to watch Summer while Aiden takes me to the forest to try and shift again.

We approach and I already know the drill. We have tried this a couple of dozen times already, but I have struggled to visualise what it is to shift. I take my clothes off, but Aiden stops and laughs, catching me and holding me close.

“Do you remember the first few times I brought you here and you made me hold a towel up in case anyone could see you?” I blush when I realise anyone could be watching me right now, but I had forgotten.

“It seems like years ago, but it’s been a little over six weeks since we moved in. I think you’ve made an exhibitionist out of me,” I tell him through my shy grin.

“You must have always been one, Shortie, you just needed coaxing out of your shell, a bit like your wolf does now.” Lina yelps in my head and I am still taken by surprise by it.

Come on, Lina, today is the day you get to have a run and mate with Roman. You want that, right?

She doesn’t answer me but I am undeterred. I am desperate to see my own wolf form and for Aiden to reap the reward for all his patience and persistence.

“Right, Eva, remember what we talked about. Close your eyes, relax your shoulders and visualise Lina emerging. I’m here with you, baby.”

I follow his instructions but Lina whimpers, she is frightened and it’s too much for her. I reassure her that it’s okay, but disappointment pools in my chest. I don’t want to be disheartened, but I am. How can I officially become Luna without my wolf, how can Aiden and I complete the Mating Ceremony he has begged me for if I cannot shift? Why can’t I shift?

“Eva, what if I shift first and Roman was here instead of me? Do you think Lina might like that better?” I shrug. I don’t know anymore. Lina feels further away than ever, and I am starting to believe that I will never shift.

The cracking of Aiden’s bones as he shifts brings me out of my useless pondering, and my heart leaps as Roman bounds over to me. I press my lips to the top of his head right between his ears in hope that Lina will want to do the same.

She purrs and chirrups when she smells Roman and that feels good. They are starting to connect through me as a vessel, but I hope I don’t have to wait much longer to give Roman the mate he deserves.

Roman is such a sweetheart. Right now, he has surrounded me like a cloak, shielding my nakedness from the night air. He rubs the side of his face against my neck, sending tingles of delight throughout my body, and I use this opportunity to encourage Lina.

He has to make do with my body, what little use he has for it, until you emerge, Lina. He is so excited about finally meeting you, don’t you want to meet him?

I wait for a minute for her reply. Of course, I do, but if he really wants me and loves me, he will wait until I am ready. I am not ready to present myself yet. Please understand.

I talk to Roman and tell him how much I have enjoyed spending time with him, but I ask for Aiden to come back now. Roman answers with a l!ck on my cheek and then I hear and see my mate shift back.

“What happened, Eva?” I cuddle into him, tears threatening to engulf me and, even though he is also naked, his embrace is warm and comforting.

“She told me she isn’t ready yet. We have to wait.” He k!sses my head to reassure me, but if I am frustrated, surely, he is too.

“Then we will wait. I will wait forever. You and Lina are worth waiting for.”

*** Melanie ***

The past few weeks have been hard, being alone and pregnant. However, seeing my sons more frequently has been a blessing and Ryan’s parents, Mr and Mrs Jefferson, have kept in touch with me.

I think they are eager to meet their grandchild, the last gift Ryan left us. It’s a girl. I had a scan just a few days ago to confirm it and I cried the whole night afterwards.

I always wanted a little girl. I want a little best friend and someone to share the more feminine things in life with. My sons are amazing, and they are very much loved and wanted, but there are only so many times I can talk about cars and trains and football.

Ryan left me scars and insecurities, he took the best years of my life and treated me appallingly. And yet, he might have also bestowed the best gift in the world on me too.

My ex-partner came by my home to collect our sons from their visit with me and he knew without me telling him that I was pregnant again. He has been supportive and for a moment, I thought I felt a spark between us, but he quickly backed off and confirmed he had met someone new and he was asking her to marry him.

I smiled and hugged him and told him I was happy for him. Disappointment is my only friend now, but I deserve to be alone. I broke up my family to be with Ryan and they moved on without me. I have to svck it up and accept that Ifvcked up.

I leave a couple of messages for Eva, asking her to call me back. I want to share with her that Summer will be getting a little half-sister, thanks to them both sharing Ryan as their biological father.

I hope Eva returns my call soon. Despite everything that went down between us, she is the only person who understands what Ryan was like and we have an unfortunate shared experience at the hands of someone who should have loved us. At this moment, she feels like my only friend.

Sitting on the floor of my spare bedroom, I am trying in vain to set up the baby’s new crib but I am hopeless at DIY and my little girl would be anything but safe in the monstrosity I have made, even though I have followed the instructions to a tee. I just can’t do this on my own.

I call Mr Jefferson, Ryan’s father, who said he would help me out if I needed it, but his number just rings out too.

“I know I said it was just you and me, kid, but for the love of God, there must be someone out there I can talk to and lean on?” I shout to an empty room, all hope starting to fade, when, suddenly, my phone lights up.

Eva is calling. She is returning my call after all.

“Hi, sorry it’s taken a while to get back to you, we had some issues to deal with, you know, with Aiden’s business,” she explains sheepishly, and although I don’t know the ins and outs of Aiden’s business, I know he must be very affluent and important from the way he carries himself, the cars he drives and the way he treats Eva and Summer.

“That’s okay, I was just calling to check in on you and Summer and to let you both know that it’s a girl.” Her pause puts me off my stride. I think I should have handled this more tactfully. After all, the baby in question was conceived during Eva’s marriage to Ryan. Her dead husband is my baby’s father. “Eva, I’ve just realised how insensitive that was. I apologise. I just meant so we could tell Summer.”

“No, that’s okay. I was just a bit shocked. It makes it more real, I suppose. Congratulations, I am glad everything is going well.” She’s going to hang up, but I really need someone to talk to.

“Eva, I need a friend. I have no right to ask you after what I did to you, but I really, really need a friend. Is there any chance you could come for coffee one day or I could come and see you?”

“I’ll try and come and see you soon. I will bring Summer. She will love feeling your bump and hopefully she will get to feel a few kicks too. It’s important that our girls bond.”

Eva says goodbye and I cry again when she does. I am making such a mess of things.

I give up on the crib, I will hire someone to come and build it for me. Right now, I need to work on building myself up, my little girl needs a strong mummy and in my current state, I am going to be as much use as a wet paper bag.

It’s time to stop wallowing. It’s time to pull up my big girl knickers and stop being a mess. I have a little girl on the way, and I need to show her what it means to be a strong, independent woman and to do that, I have to become one. No more crying over stupid things, no more guilt or feeling inadequate.

I deserve better and my baby definitely does too.

*** Aiden ***

Eva was upset after last night, and her phone call this morning also knocked her off her stride. I brought my exquisite mate here to live with me so I could look after her, and I am failing.

The next knock she must endure is the conclusion to Ellis’ trial. She is a tightly wound bundle of nerves right now. I need to get her away from the pack house and the territory for a little while. It must be stifling her.

Preston tries to link me a few times, but I ask that he speaks to me later unless it’s a matter of life and death. He grumbles at me, but I have the trial and my mate to deal with. Plus, our scouts are returning today and they have news about the last known location of my mother. When they called ahead, my bowels felt like they had turned to ice. Why am I so nervous? I just want answers. I just want the truth.

Our sunshine girl wakes up early this morning. She climbs up into our bed and giggles when I tickle her feet. I love that little girl with all my heart. She used to call me Teddy Bear, but over the past week or so it’s begun to change, and of her own accord she started calling me Daddy Bear instead. I have never felt as honoured or as proud. I discussed it with Eva, because I didn’t want her to be upset and I didn’t want to do anything that would be disrespectful.

Eva’s face lit up when I told her what Summer had called me and then quickly filled with concern. “Are you okay with that, Aiden, or do you want me to tell her to stop?”

I can’t believe she’s even asking me. “I love it, Eva, I just wanted to give you the heads up in case you didn’t like it. You know I want to adopt her and raise her with our other pups. You know I love her.”

“Ryan never let her, he never let her call him Dad or Daddy or anything. It always made me sad. She loves you like her daddy, and you do everything that a daddy should for his little girl. She obviously feels comfortable calling you it.” Her eyes fill with tears, but she looks happy.

“Why are you crying, sweetheart?” I ask her as I hold her to me. My girl is overcome with emotion following our conversation.

“You’ll never know how much it means to me that Summer has you in her life. Thank you, Aiden, thank you for stepping up and loving her like you do.” My sweet girl, I wouldn’t have it any other way.

“She makes it so easy, Shortie. She is so incredibly cute and full of joy.” She smiles now.

“That’s why I named her Summer Joy. She was supposed to be born in the autumn, but she came early, and she is the joy in my life.”

That was when we finally established that Summer is a werewolf too. She wasn’t premature when she was born, Eva obviously had a werewolf pregnancy, which is shorter than a human one.

“Come on, sunshine girl, I will take you to the creche today while mummy finishes getting ready.” Summer giggles in delight as I carry her on my shoulders. Eva quickly k!sses her goodbye and tells me she will meet me in the foyer of the pack house in fifteen minutes.

I drop Summer off and go back to meet Eva. Together, we walk to the Chambers of Justice for, hopefully, the final time.

“You are quiet today, Shortie, is everything okay?” I know she’s nervous, but she seems really subdued now.

“I’m just thinking, that’s all. I’ll be glad when this is over.” She places her head against my chest and fills me with tingles and yearning and warmth and love. “How about you, Aiden? I know you’ve got a lot on your plate too. Don’t keep it from me, I want to be here for you too.”

“We’ll talk about my worries after this bloody trial. I might have to leave the territory for a few days.” Her shock-filled eyes meet mine. “We can talk properly later, right now we have to deal with this shit show.” She gives me a thin smile as we are called into the Chambers.

The head of the panel stands. “We postponed this trial yesterday as the defendant, Ellis Devine, former Gamma, has decided to change his plea. Please rise.”

Ellis stands up. “I, Ellis Devine, Former Gamma, wish to plead guilty to all charges.” There is a collective gasp and talking in the gallery nearby before the head of the panel calls for order.

“Former Gamma Ellis, we will accept your guilty plea on the condition that you make a full apology to the future Luna and your Alpha for your actions. You will be required to go back to the position of Gamma-in-Training once you have completed a compulsory six-month rehabilitation course. If any of these conditions are not met, you will be ousted and declared a Rogue. Do you agree?”

Ellis holds his hand up to the Moon Goddess Scripture as he says, “I agree.”

It’s over. It’s finally over. Eva, still holding my hand, tries to hug me and I laugh at her wrapping us up in knots.

“I am glad that’s over with, although it’s only two weeks until Amber’s trial starts.” I try to get Eva prepared for what is to come. Amber will be tried at the Silver Shore as a neutral territory to both of us, The Onyx River, and the complaining pack, The Moon Stone. Dread fills me every time I think of her trial.

We make our way back to my office and when I get there, Delta Billy informs me that one of the scout wolves has returned. He sends him to my office to give me my messages.

After observing the usual greetings, I ask him what he had discovered.

“Your mother was registered with a pack in Scotland. We did not get a confirmed sighting, but we believe she is now mated to a Scottish Alpha Laird.