The Alpha King

CHAPTER SEVEN

I never understood the proper meaning of curiosity killed the cat...until now.

I stared into Luke's eyes which bore into mine failing to hide the amusement clearly written in them, mortified did not even begin to cover my current state of mind. Luke had caught me in his room red-handed hugging and smelling his shirt, and it didn't exactly help that I was standing only a few feet from him.

"I believe I asked you a question love." He said taking a step towards me, and I automatically backed away.

"I-I-I w-was just, l-l-looking for the g-garden." I whimpered under his intense gaze.

Well, there goes your last shred of dignity, I thought.

"The garden is on the other side of the mansion." He said coolly, putting on his crooked smile as he watched me closely.

"Is that really what you were looking for when you came all this way?" He inquired softly taunting me as he came close, much too close for my liking and my hands pressed against his chest to stop him coming any closer.

He growled lowly pressing his body to mine until my hands were feeble and weak against both our chests, I tried to back away but I came in contact with the wall. I was trapped. Great.

"I-I swear, J-J-Jason s-said-" I clumsily panicked trying to regain my composure while uprightly avoiding his gaze, he was pressed up against me and if I dared look up his mouth would be right next to mine and I couldn't promise to not jump him so I lowered my gaze and tried to steady my shaky feelings.

"Why don't you tell me the whole story right from the start while I busy myself staring at all that skin your showing?" He said staring at the space in my neck my dress had failed to hide. I swallowed inwardly and began my babbling.

"W-well I w-was sort of bored." I started before stopping abruptly when his fingers came in contact with my jawline.

"Carry on then"." He said chuckling

"J-Jason and A-Angeline w-were eating." I continued

A small kiss to my neck.

"I asked for the g-garden a-and-"

A kiss to the base of my throat.

At this point, my heart was pounding like a drum and my treacherous body was shivering in delight.

"J-Jason directed me h-here b-but I-"

A kiss to the edge of my collarbone trailing dangerously close to where my mark would be.

"I-I somehow g-got lost."

A kiss inches away from where the mark would be

I stopped as my breathing hitched as he lingered over the spot, I could feel his warm breath on the spot and my whole body shuddered in anticipation.

"I don't know." He finally said pulling away.

"What!" I growled at him, I was far too frustrated to care about my actions.

"I really shouldn't be taking advantage of you like this." He said sighing dramatically.

"You're not taking advantage of me." I half screamed at him, and then realisation dawned on me.

Oh. Oh. Oh. Here I was now pretty much begging him for a kiss. Way to go Sophie.

He chuckled once.

"You might want to stop there." His voice called out no longer playful.

I was however slightly agitated from all his teasing.

Before I could realise my grave mistake his lips were clamped shut on mine and his hands found their way down to my hips and gripped on tightly.

His lips were soft with the promise to dull the aching sensation in the pit of my stomach as I tried and failed to win control over the kiss, I gently teased him with my tongue.

He simply moved to my neck and clamped his mouth shut around my vulnerable skin and I cried out arching myself closer to his mouth and he slowly nipped at the spot and sucked on it, he continued grazing his teeth over it and I would no doubt have begged him to mark me if I could speak.

He finally dropped me on my two feet and I wobbled as my head kept on spinning in a trance-like way.

"If you want to leave with no mark on your neck then now would be the time to go." I heard a voice that barely sounded like Luke get out with gritted teeth.

I nodded my head vigorously, the reminder feeling like a cold bucket of water thrown at me and bringing me back to my senses. I turned around and started walking towards the doors

"And Sophie?" He called just as I reached the door.

"Yes?" I croaked a response.

"Make sure there isn't a next time, otherwise... You'll be face down with that pretty little dress of yours up." He said casually.

I nodded my head and made a dash out of the room to conceal my embarrassment but one thing I couldn't conceal was my messy hair, swollen lips, and flushed face as I sprinted to find Jason.

It took a long while to finally find them as he had finished eating and left the kitchen with Angeline. He was hanging out in a game room large enough to satisfy dozens of teenage boys frantically pressing his control pad deep in concentration. He was SO dead.

"JASON!" I screamed angrily at him.

He was sprawled out on some beanbags with Angeline next to him playing GTA like a teenage gaming addict.

He turned around to look at me and couldn't help grinning like the Cheshire cat.

"What?" He pouted like a spoilt baby.

"Don't even try that with me." I said as angry as I could but his baby face was just hilarious.

"Aah...I see you found the garden." He stated his voice dripping with sarcasm, made me fall into Luke's hands on purpose.

I mean is everyone conniving with Anne to speed up this mating process or what

"How could you Jason?" I asked him scowling in his direction.

"Don't act like you’re not happy about it." He said trying his hardest to keep a straight face

"You reek of him." He finished laughing as he pretended to sniff the air and gag.

"Yeah and I wonder whom we have to thank for that." I muttered under my breath.

Jason rolled his eyes and carried on with his game as he killed random innocent people for no particular reasons.

"You know, my friend Molly is coming round tonight for movie night, you should really join us." She said smiling slightly at the end.

"Cool." I said, it would be good to take my mind of Luke for a while.

"Ooh, so, you girls going to have pillow fights and watch chick flicks and talk about boooys." Jason cut in with his childish voice.

"Throw him in the pool?" Angeline asked jerking her head towards Jason.

"Throw him in the pool." I nodded in agreement with her, as we both sauntered towards a terrified-looking Jason.

Hours later…

My name is salmon; like the fish, first name Susie

I was fourteen years old when I was murdered

On December 6 1973.

I was here for a moment, and then I was gone,

I wish you all a long and happy life.

We all huddled closer together crying hysterically as the credits rolled down the screen, how could a movie be so heart-wrenching, I felt as if my whole life needed to be reconsidered and started all over again.

"Ice cream?" Angeline said her eyes red and puffy.

"Oh what's the point?" I replied as new sobs formed on our throats and we all wailed in despair.

Molly was sprawled on the floor a few feet away from me, she was Angeline's human best friend and she knew we were werewolves and kept it a secret. She was the one who recommended that we watch The Lovely Bones. We all regretted the decision now.

"She was so young, so innocent....so fragile." Molly added a bit dramatically, she was clearly taking this harder than the rest of us.

"The night is still young; we can watch some-" I was cut short by Jason barging into the room.

He looked us over and burst out laughing like a possessed hyena.

"Let me guess? The Lovely Bones?" he said smirking at Molly.

"What? You got a problem with it?" I yelled defensively

He held his hands up to surrender

"No...no just a little old school if you ask me." He says putting on a bored tone

"You got something better?" Molly said eyeing him up and down.

"Well some of the boys are coming over for some real fun and I was wondering if you guys weren't too busy with your grandma's meeting; you could come hang with us." He said shrugging his shoulders.

I rolled my eyes at him ignoring his grandmas meeting comment.

"No thanks but were good and what's in it for you anyway?" Molly cut in quickly.

"Oh come on you lazy bums, you guys need to know what real fun looks like." He said staring molly straight in the eye.

"We'll be happy to come down and hang with you boring much but I swear of were not entertained it’s another trip to the pool for you mister." I finished smirking at him.

He glared back and huffed.

"Fine." He said stomping out the room as we all burst out laughing.

"Switch of the TV." Angeline muttered quietly

Molly did so as we all decided to go down early to help Jason get the house ready for his mates coming over, we were bored anyway.

The first thing I noticed when I got downstairs was how neat and tidy the whole place was, Jason had done a really good job.

"Where's everybody?" I asked looking around at the empty game room that was usually occupied by dozens of boys and the kitchen for once wasn't filled with hungry wolves

"They've gone home." Jake replied as he grabbed various snacks and we stood impressed as he arranged them into a fancy array at the centre of the floor.

Not long after we had all settled down on the couches did the doorbell ring and in came a handful of boys I'd seen earlier on in the morning.

They nodded their head in greeting as they all came and sat around the floor.

Molly and Angeline had them all talking and cracking jokes before I knew it and I cowardly sat in the background feeling like a nervous wreck, what if they didn't like me.

"This better than you little association going on up there?" Jason asked adding me to the conversation and throwing me his usual smirk.

I merely scoffed at him.

"Not even close." I replied smirking.

"How about a little game then?" He said and everyone came to attention.

"I won't be playing strip poker." I said firmly, everyone laughed at this and Jason fake sighed in disappointment.

"I was thinking of keeping things basic you know, a little dare game." he casually said running his hands through his hair.

I rolled my eyes at his cool attitude.

"Sounds good, we're in for it." Molly said and Angeline nodded her head in agreement. It seemed harmless and simple enough so I joined everyone else and agreed.

Turns out it was a big mistake as I realised the number of things that could go wrong when Jason finished stating the rules.

1.) No dare was too much

2.) A forfeit meant running around the compound naked.

3.) We were to choose who gave us dares.

I groaned inwardly, what on earth did I get myself into.

The first round was pretty easy and was a laugh, we had to give a guy a makeover and paint his nails. We made sure to take pictures without him knowing.

The second round was the funniest by far, Jason made the stupid mistake of choosing me to dare him and we laughed for a long time after I gave him a dare.

"It must really suck how am playing you by your own rules." I teased as he was reluctant to do it.

"You just watch me." Jason said determinedly taking off towards the elderly’s home.

We trudged behind Jason keeping our distance as Jason entered into the house. All the old and elderly had decided to stay up for a chat and were now sat in the living room making small talk about the good old days.

We all stared wide-eyed stifling laughs as Jason walked in and they all looked towards him with respect since he was the beta.

Jason walked around the room trying to act normal and soon started pretending there was an itch in his pants that he couldn't get, the ladies looking after the elderlies stared worriedly at him as we were barely managing to muffle our laughter, this was until of course he stopped in a place where everyone could see him and said in a loud voice.

"Oh my giddy aunt, these crabs really itch', once his sentence was complete we all Burst out laughing uncontrollably the look of shock on everyone's faces as some of the ladies just smirked in his direction.

All was going well for him until an old woman made her way to him and said, "Let me see dear." I recognised her as the old retired pack doctor as she adjusted her glasses staring at Jason's pants.

At this point, half of the boys were on the floor laughing so hard and we watched as Jason stammered an apology before running out of the room. We took it as our cue to leave because no one could handle a very angry Jason.

So here I sat directly opposite Jason who looked like he would kill me any minute and although I tried my very best not to laugh, the occasional slip-ups did not go unnoticed by him.

"Your turn Sophie" Angeline called as everyone waited for me to choose whom to dare me, Jason was a straight no.

"What's wrong Sophie? Can't handle a little heat?" He said taunting me childishly but I wouldn't be as stupid as him. I choose a quiet looking, harmless boy that sat next to Jason and I watched as his face lit up like a kid on Christmas morning.

Yes, you know when I said he was harmless? Yeah scratch that he was definitely a team Jason.

"Give me a minute to confer with the boys." He said sounding like an ancient.

Jason smirked at me as all the boys huddled together whispering quietly and I could tell they were most likely planning my death. I looked to Angeline for help but she just grinned and rubbed her hands together excitedly. Molly, on the other hand, was mercilessly sabotaging the few remaining packs of crisps.

"Your dare is quite simple." Jason finally started when all the boys turned around facing me all with a different look in their eyes, ranging from sympathy to joy to worry to sadness, they did not have something good planned for me.

"You see Alpha is one of our good buddy's and we can count on him to keep anything for us, we trust him really well." one of the guys continued

"Where are you going with this?" I asked slightly suspicious and narrowing my eyes at them.

"You need to sneak into the alphas private room and steal a condom from his bottom bedside drawer unnoticed." Jason said smiling slightly at the end.

This was what I had not wanted, something that caused me to see Luke after the embarrassing encounter in his office, Jason had me, and he knew it.

"Tick tock tick tock time waits for no man - or woman." Jason said getting me irritated by the minute.

"Fine I’ll do it, but it’s a truce between me and you after that," I said and he nodded his head solemnly.

I made my way towards the wing which the queen and Luke slept, this was definitely suicide, what if something went wrong and-

Weird scenarios started conjuring in my head of the queen catching me with a condom or Luke walking in on me but I firmly assured myself that would not happen would still be in his study and the queen should be in the nursery or something, singing the children to sleep.

I came upon Luke’s bedroom door and took a deep breath before pushing the door and letting myself in. The room reeked of power, lots and lots of power and the style of the room gave a clear warning not to mess with its owner.

A king-sized bed graced the centre of the room with curtains around it, my first instinct was to jump onto the bed and wrap myself in the warm scented smell of my mate but I had already done that today and where did it get me?

'Between his legs,' My wolf, Bethany, chirped quietly and I wanted to smack her.

My eyes zeroed in on the cream bedside drawer that I could barely make out in the dark, I walked towards it but I made sure to turn the light on first.

At this point, my whole body was shaking in fear, here I was in Luke's private bedroom trying to steal a condom for crying out loud what has my life turned into.

Wasting no more time I slowly opened the drawer and found it had only a handful of fancy Trojan condoms, I refused to notice the fact that the smallest size there was large, as I snatched one and made a dash for the door.

A door to the side of the room opened and I realised that it could only be Luke, I would be in deep s**t later on but Jason couldn't beat me like this. I heard a deep growl but I still defiantly reached for the doorknob.

"Stop!" said a voice laced with so much authority a shiver ran down my spine, my feet were planted to the ground and I there was no hope of movement from me.

I was forced to turn around and look at him when I realised that was what he wanted me to do. So there I stood the colour of tomato soup as I held a condom in my hand right in front of Luke, but that wasn't the reason why I was blushing.

He stood there with only a white fluffy towel wrapped around his waist, water dripping down his bronzed masculine chest tempting me to just jump him, his hair damp from the shower he just had curly and laying limply on his head his piercing gaze not oblivious to the fact that I was now staring intently at his prominent v-line.

The low growl that escaped his soft pink lips cause me to wake out of my frozen state and reach for the door handle to try and get my ass out of there for what I was worth.

But try as I might the door wouldn't budge, and then it dawned on me just as the power went out living me in total darkness with the s*x bomb at the other side of the room, the boys didn't count on me completing this dare at all, they had planned this well enough and I swear the power going out was no accident, they knew well enough that he would be in his room taking a shower and I stupidly, stupidly got lured into his room to be locked here with him. I sincerely hope Jason has a death wish as one thing became very clear to me.

I was locked in Luke's room in total blackness with a half-naked, unhappy Luke with a condom in hand and no one who would dare come to my rescue.

I began to say my last prayers.