The Merciless Alpha(erotica)

I felt horrible for him. “It was a death sentence, we both knew it, but our wolves didn’t care. At twenty weeks, she started a fever, and six hours later she and my son were gone. I killed her, it broke me. I shifted and ran into the mountains, I went completely feral. Two years I wandered the mountains alone, until one spring night I was walking along a cliff. I laid at the edge, my eyes watching the stars and the rising moon, and I heard a voice. It was a voice unlike any other, and it came from inside my head, not from outside. She told me to shift, and my wolf complied immediately. I stood up, turned around, and immediately dropped to my knees when I saw her. She was beautiful, ethereal, covered with the barest of silk, her long hair shining in the moonlight.”

“You saw our Goddess,” I whispered.

“Yes. I was impertinent enough to ask her the question that had haunted me since this started. Why. Why were our mates being taken from us in such a way, our babies killed, before they had a chance at life. Her answer shook me to the core.” He took another drink. “She said it was because she cursed us to this fate. She made it happen, our own Goddess poured out her wrath on the wombs of our women, the cruelest of all possible judgments. She used our own wolves to ensure our punishment.”

I couldn’t believe it. “Why? Why curse her own creation? What have we done?”

“I asked the same thing. She told me how she created us to be social, she created mates to ensure Packs would develop bonds and ensure genetic diversity. Instead of waiting, instead of traveling to new Packs and creating ties of friendship, instead of honoring the mates she gave us, we became selfish, impatient and aggressive. We took what we wanted, when we wanted it. Choice mates became the norm, Packs went to war with each other, and she had enough of it.”

My mind was reeling, and in a way, I was relieved. I had never been able to figure out how it could be so widespread when it first appeared, unlike how epidemics behaved. I didn’t see how I couldn’t stop it or save anyone, and now I knew why. It never was me.Contentt bel0ngs to N0ve/lDrâ/ma.O(r)g!

Snake pulled me in, he could sense how I was feeling. “So how do we remove the curse?”

“We can’t, not just yet. Every female who goes into heat with her mate will get pregnant, and every pregnant female will die. Eventually, there will be only one woman left, our Promised One. She holds the fate of our entire race in her hands. If she finds and mates her destined mate, the curse will be broken. If not… if she dies, if she is force or choice mated, if she never finds him, it’s all over. We die out, slowly and alone.”

“Wait, how do I fit into this?”

“You are the Blessed One, the mother of the Last Shewolf. Luna told me that you were in danger, that you would need protection, that your daughter would need it even more. She asked me if I was willing to do this. I swore a vow to my Goddess that I would protect you, and her, with my life.”

“And all of us have taken that same vow,” Uriel said as he stood up behind his President. “We have forsaken mates, Packs and all previous bonds to become your personal guard. It is our honor to protect you.”

I looked around, every member of the Knights of the Moon had dropped to a knee, fist over their heart, bowing their head to me. “Rise, please… I’m not someone to be worshipped. I’m a person, just like you.”

They all stood, and Maalik turned to me, handing me my Eve back. “You don’t understand your own importance, Doctor Hardigan. You are the mother of the Last Shewolf, you are the most important person in our world until she comes of age.”

I looked down at my baby, the realization hitting me. “I’m just the second-to-last shewolf,” I said to myself. “I’m doomed as well.”

Snake’s POV

Vivian was tired, and the news from the Knights was more than she could handle right now. I didn’t like the depression that was setting in. “Come on,” I said, “Let’s get you some rest. We’ll talk more tomorrow.”

“All right.” I walked her through all the people, all of them loved her and were there for her, but none knew what to say at this point. How do you tell someone their Goddess has cursed them? What do you say to someone who just found out her entire race depends on her infant daughter? I could see the confusion in their eyes, I felt the same. Hands reached for her, lending her comfort as we went to the stairs.

I opened the door to our room, and she walked over to the crib by our bed and place the sleeping Eve there. I pulled my boots off in the chair, followed by my shirt and jeans. I watched the tear fall down her face in the dim light coming through our window, and it broke my heart. I walked up behind her, pulling her back into my chest. “Nothing has changed about how I feel about you, or about our daughter,” I whispered into her ear. “Come on, let’s get you ready for bed.”

“I’m so tired of it all,” she said as I moved her to sit on the edge of the bed.

“Let me take care of you,” I said as I pulled a boot off. I removed her socks, her shirt and her bra before pulling her up so I could get her jeans and panties. Both of us naked, I led her into our bathroom and into the shower. She was still crying as I guided her under the spray. I grabbed the shampoo, it was a natural product with very little scent; her nose didn’t like the strong perfumes of human products. I turned her to face the spray as I worked the shampoo into her dark hair. She calmed as I groomed her, she said it was a werewolf thing, being taken care of like this soothed and reassured her animal side.

“I never was me,” she whispered. “All these years I blamed myself, that if I was just faster, if I’d done something different, I could have saved those women and their babies.”

“No,” I said as I turned her to rinse her hair out. “None of this is your fault, nothing you tried could fight against the curse.”

“Why me?” I picked up the washcloth and got it soapy. “I’m nothing special. I didn’t wait for my true mate, I gave up and fucked my bodyguard when I was lonely. I was raped and mated. I gave up any chance at a child by marrying a human. Is that why she picked me? Does Luna hate me so much she cursed me with this knowledge of my fate?”

I pulled her into my chest, washing her back as she sobbed into my shoulder. “I don’t think that is it at all,” I said. “I think she looked at you and decided to bless you with our child.”

“Why?”

“Because you care, because you tried, because you loved Eve from the moment she was in your arms,” I said. “You are a good person, a good wolf. Someone had to have the responsibility to raise the hope of your race. She chose you.” I ran the cloth over her breasts and down her flat stomach, earning a moan. I kept going, working the cloth over her tanned legs. She turned so I could get her back.

“My turn,” she said as she rinsed off. She worked the shampoo through my hair, then started to wash my neck and shoulders. “I don’t regret being with you,” she said as the water beat into my chest. “With no fated mate, I picked, and you are my pick.” Her hands moved down my back, going all the way to my ankles before I turned and put my head under the shower to rinse. I closed my eyes, feeling her fingers caress my body before she took my dick in her hand, gently cleaning it. I responded to her touch, I couldn’t have NOT responded to her as she soaped up my balls.

“I don’t regret a thing either,” I told her as she caressed my length with both hands.

“I need you,” she said. “I need you to love me.”

I pulled her in for a kiss. “Let’s rinse off and get you to bed,” I said. I dried her off and we quickly went through our bedtime routine. I led her to the bed, pulling back the covers and laying her down. “Let me make love to you,” I said.

“I’m tired, my head is spinning, and I just found out I’m cursed. I’m not up for your usual three hours of athletic sex.”

“Then just lie back.” I crawled onto the bed, straddling her on my hands and knees as I kissed her deeply. Despite her fatigue, she moaned in my mouth and responded. “Beautiful,” I said as I broke the kiss and looked into her eyes. Moving down her neck to her breasts, I paid homage to both before my tongue dragged down to her navel. Her legs spread, her excitement growing by the moment, I could smell her arousal strongly before I moved down. Tasting her was one of my favorite things, and I indulged myself in her. She gripped my hair, moving me to where she wanted my tongue, as I lapped at her essence over and over. Her movements became more urgent as she built to her peak, and I knew exactly how to tip her over the edge. Sucking hard on her swollen clit, I pushed a well-lubricated finger into her rear end. Two flicks of the tongue and she broke hard.

If it was the rodeo, I didn’t come close to seven seconds before I was bucked off. I sat back on my knees, watching my love as the orgasm continued to roll over her. My face was soaked in her essence, and her juices were soaking the bed. I watched until she finally relaxed, then leaned forward and kissed her again. “I’ll be back,” I said.

I went into the bathroom, getting the water hot before I soaked a washcloth. I’d only been gone a minute, but when I returned she was snoring softly. I gently cleaned her up, then pulled the sheets up to cover her while I went back to the bathroom. I got back into bed, she said something in her sleep and rolled into my side for the night.

Viper’s POV

I watched my daughter go up the stairs with Snake, my heart breaking for her with every step. Today had been a shock for all of us; we went from using her as bait to finding out a whole Pack was sworn to protect her. I didn’t trust male werewolves around her after her rape, but these men felt different. I trusted them, I just hoped that trust wasn’t misplaced.

I pulled Gabriel and his leaders over to a table, Hammer and Tiny joining us. A prospect ran over and made sure we had beers, then Kelly came over and sat in my lap. I looked at the three men. “You haven’t explained yet how you found her,” I said.

“I felt Eve when she was born,” he said. “It’s weird; I have a bond with her, Luna must have done something after I had the dream. It’s a pull; it’s not specific, but it was enough to tell me she was here. It affects my wolf kind of like the mating pull did when we were separated. It took us weeks of travel to figure out you were in St. Paul.”