on
you? You let a New Haven wolf touch you, bitch?”
All of Don’s muscles tensed in
anticipation. His jaws couldn’t wait to feel Clive’s neck underneath it.
“I think you’ve forgotten, Ricky.
You’re my fucking bitch and you’ll only fuck whoever I tell you to.”
Clive was still a few meters from
him, but Don leaped, teeth snapping and claws extended. His human half caved in
to the instincts of his beast, and his beast caved in to its wrath. Sudden
fright crossed Clive’s face. He took a terrified step backwards, his skin
rippling with the change, but Don was on him in seconds.
He collided with the repugnant
outsider, his claws sinking and raking across flesh. The shifter beneath him
howled in pain, the pain disrupting his concentration and his attempted shift.
Don locked his powerful jaws around Clive’s neck and blood sprayed everywhere.
Within seconds Clive’s limbs stopped failing uselessly. He didn’t deserve the
quick death, but Don wasn’t cruel.
Amber eyes peered from the bushes,
but only one large reddish wolf was brave enough to trot to him. Derrick. Don wasn’t surprised. He
must’ve looked out of control in his fury. A friendly rumble came from Derrick.
Don only swatted the big red with his paw as if to say. “It’s over.”
Shifting back to human form, Derrick
bent over the corpse to examine it. One large hand ruffled Don’s ears. Don
snarled, but Derrick only laughed.
“We’ll take care of the rest. You
go back to your vegan mate,” Derrick teased.
Don howled his thanks and ran back
towards the direction of New Haven where his mate awaited him.
****
“Where did you go?” Ricky’s
demanding voice pierced his cloud of self-satisfaction.
The Omega stood in front of him,
wearing only one of his cotton shirts, looking disheveled but very much awake.
Don froze in the doorway. He was
nude and still covered in blood.
“Oh my God, what happened? Are you
hurt?” The little Omega was suddenly a flurry of movement around him, panic and
worry on his face. Don had to grab hold of his wrists to calm him down.
“Ricky, I’m fine. Just headed out
to take care of a little problem,” Don explained.
It only occurred to him how the
other wolf might take him killing his mate the wrong way. Unease filled him and
Don held his breath, certain Ricky would catch Clive’s scent on him in a matter
of seconds. Expecting an outburst, he steeled himself, but Ricky only flung
himself against him. Tightly wrapping his arms around Don, the Omega buried his
head into his chest.
“Don’t ever worry me like that
again, asshole,” Ricky croaked weakly, and then Don felt his body suddenly
tense.
A long silence passed before Ricky
spoke again, “Why do you have Clive’s scent all over you, and is that my shirt
tied around your neck?”
The Omega parted from him and Don
suddenly missed his warmth. Not just his warmth, but Don was itching to finally
claim his mate the proper way. It took all of his self-preservation to prevent
himself from simply bending Ricky over the kitchen counter to fuck him hours
ago, and both he and his wolf could no longer wait. The great white beast
inside him howled, thumping its tail impatiently. Time to claim our mate, why aren’t we
claiming our mate? Don could imagine it asking.
“Talk first, then fuck later,” Don
muttered, unaware he said the words out loud.
“What?” Ricky sounded indignant.
The Omega actually shoved him away
and began bearing down on him like a little poodle attempting to scare off a
German Shepard. He jabbed a threatening finger into Don’s chest.
“Talk first and fuck later? What
the hell, Don. I was asking you a damn question and you’re going to answer it.”
Don grabbed his wrists again,
feeling Ricky’s pulse jump at the mere contact. The other man swallowed
nervously.
“You’re making demands on me now,
little Omega?”
“Yeah,” Ricky managed, fixing a
glare at him. “You think you look threatening, do you, with a
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