The Alphas and the Elemental

Building Trust

ASTRO

Both of my boys have been super attentive all night. I am more confident in my feelings towards Asher. I mean he has waited for me, and I know that the way I react to him is more than just the mate bond.

With Archer, I do love him and I want him so fu.cking much, but I have to keep reminding myself that he hurt me, and that he has lost my trust.

I am standing with my fellow elementals, watching my boys chat with friends and family. Archer scans the room searching for something. I am tense, wondering who he is looking for, until his eyes land on me and he smiles with relief.

I tentatively smiled back at him, goddess he is so fu.cking sexy, they both are, and I am finding it really hard not to just forgive him and let the two of them ravish me.

The night was almost over and I didn't know what to do. They are mine and I am more than ready to be marked and mated, but am I ready to go that far with Arch? But the thought of completing the mating with just Asher makes me uneasy.

I still have not kissed Archer, at least not properly, and he has not pushed either, although the longing in his eyes has almost broken my resolve a few times.

The problem is that I am holding myself back from Ash too. I don't want to hurt Archer by being overly handsy with his brother, but I am then hurting Ash because I can feel how much he wants me, this is such a stupid situation.

"Penny for your thoughts? Although I think I can guess most of them." Liv smirked at me and I sighed, "I am just so confused, of course I want to go and wrap myself around them, screaming 'take me!' but I am still hurt."

Lily wraps her arm around me, and Liv takes my hand. I felt a hand on each of my shoulders and turned to look at Theo and Jasper, "for what it's worth, Archer has really changed since your birthday, he hasn't been to any parties, and he stays away from she-wolves. It broke him that he hurt you."

I Smile at Jasper. His mum, Jasmin, was killed in the attack on Miller and he was adopted by aunt Sara and uncle Jake. All of the elemental children that stayed at Ravens Perch became like siblings, they all live on the same street and, like myself and Lily, have a bond stronger than most siblings, they are all also training to be in Aunt Stars Elite squad.

Liv chuckles, "you should have seen him tell Leanne to fu.ck off, it was so funny. I mean I know he got with her over Christmas but he regretted it the next day."

Theo snorts, "there is no way he was able to do anything other than pass out that night, not after the amount he drank. we all got wasted that night, after the rogue attack, we needed to let off steam."

I remember that night, Archer had rang me really late. He was very drunk and very sad. They had lost several warriors during an attack on an allied pack, including two of their friends.

We talked for hours. While he was crying about his friends, he was so drunk he kept passing out. I had heard a girl's voice before the call had been disconnected.

Theo looked me dead in the eye, "Astro, I am telling you, he would not touch that sl.ut with someone else di.ck, no matter how drunk he was, I mean uncle Ace had dated her mum for a while back in the day. The next day he couldn't remember anything, but he had woken up naked in one of the empty warrior houses. He was freaking out and he was acting really odd, not just hungover odd either."

Jasper was nodding, "yeah, uncle Ash had him tested for drug use, but I never heard about the results. I wouldn't put it past her though. All night, her and her friends kept trying to give drinks to all of the future-ranked guys. They all kept refusing, so I tried to take one but Mary 'accidently' dropped the cup."

Well, that was a lot of information. Did Leanne drug Archer? remembering that phone call, there was no way he was fit for anything. I met his eyes across the room, I smiled as he started to make his way over to me. Pulling me into his chest, I sighed as his scent surrounded me, he leaned in and whispered in my ear.

"What's going on, mikrós lýkos? You looked upset." I wrapped my arms around his waist and buried my face deeper into him. I have always loved his nickname for me, 'little wolf'. He heard uncle Leander call me it when we were very little and has called me his mikrós lýkos, ever since. "I'm fine Arch, just thinking."

He cupped my cheeks and lifted my face to look at him, "beautiful, I think we need to talk, will you come for a walk with me?" I nodded and he placed a kiss on my nose, before grabbing my hand and leading me into the garden.

He leads me away from the pack house and we take a seat by the lake next to their house. He is quiet, like he is trying to work out how to start, our fingers are linked and his thumb is rubbing circles on the back of my hand, causing tremors of pleasure to run threw my body.

"My love, I am so sorry, I have ruined this day for us, Ash and I have been waiting for this day for as long as I can remember. You have been the love of our lives since we were little. There has never been another girl for us."

I lift an eyebrow at him and he chuckles, "I know that I have not been a saint, but I have also not been with as many girls as people think. I am just not as strong as my brother at resisting the urge, especially when I am emotional. You were always the one I wanted though."

I looked at him, "I always understood why you went with girls, Arch, I mean my brother fu.cks anything that moves. Male wolves, especially Alpha blooded ones, have a huge s*x drive and that never bothered me. I am hurt because you tried to use me to scratch an itch. You stole my first kiss, and made me feel like the whole world had lit up, and then dropped me and fu.cked Anastasia Karagiannis.

He turned to me and cupped my face, "I never slept with her. Yes, I flirted with her, but as soon as you and Ash left, I dropped her and slept on the beach. I am sorry for stealing your first kiss, but I am not sorry about kissing you, I have never felt anything like that in my life, it was like I came home."

Kissing the tip of my nose and leaning against my forehead, "as soon as I did it, I knew I had fu.cked up, I was so pi.ssed off at Ash and he just wouldn't get off my back, then you were in front of us trying to get us to stop arguing and I couldn't stop myself."

Tears are running down my face. Using the pads of his thumbs, he wipes them away. "I am so sorry mikrós lýkos, but please don't punish Ash for my behavior. I can understand that it will take time for you to trust me, but I will take a step back so that the two of you can get closer. I don't want to be responsible for damaging your bond."

Goddess, I can feel myself letting go of my anger. Why did I not let him explain before? I am so stupid. He is willing to step away so that I can complete the bond with Ash, but I don't want that.

I grab the back of his head and crash my lips into his, his whole body stiffens for a moment, then with a growl he lifts me onto his lap and deepens the kiss.

His tongue swipes across my bottom lip and I eagerly open and allow him entry, my fingers tangled in his hair, trying to pull him closer.

One of his hands is in my hair, holding my head in place, while his other hand moves down my back to my hip, his fingers digging into my ample ass.

I sense someone joining us, and open-mouthed kisses are peppered across my shoulder, before latching onto my neck, sucking and licking at the tender spot where my shoulder meets my neck.

I pulled back from Archer's lips and turned to claim Asher's kiss. Both of my boys groan, Archer sucks on his own marking spot on the other side of my neck and I am in bliss.

The smell of my arousal causes them both to shudder. "Fu.ck baby-girl, you smell so good, you are testing my control," Asher whispers against my lips.

Archer stiffens under me and groans, "our mums are looking for us, we should get back to the party." He places one of his hands under my thighs and an arm around my back and lifts me into his arms.

"I can walk agápi mou, (my love)" he chuckles and kisses my forehead, "I am not letting you go now, mikrós lýkos, I am never letting you go again."

Asher is grinning like he has won the lotto, "thank the goddess you two have made up." he holds my hand while Archer carries me back to the pack house.

I snuggle into Archer's neck, everything is going to be alright. I just hope that the information I have found out about aunt Star's origins will not send us into a spiral.