I woke up somewhere around mid-afternoon, judging by the amount of sunlight filtering in the window. Blinking my eyes, I looked around the simple room. Spare but clean, it smelled of Liam. That smooth sweet smell of caramel with its rich bourbon undertones made me feel like I had finally found home.

Aside from the large bed with its plain wooden frame with a slotted headboard and matching footboard, there wasn't much other furniture in the room. There was a long dresser that sat opposite the bed. A lone wooden chair sat next to the open closet, and two nightstands stood on either side of the bed. All of the furniture was solid pine, stained in a color that reminded me of weathered walnuts.

Even though I was a former soldier and underground hacker extraordinaire, I was pretty sure that I could have brought more life to this room. Seriously. The bed was covered in a drab olive blanket that had been worn out from years of use, scratchy white sheets that had gone gray from age, and a few lumpy pillows. The white walls met a floor that was covered in dingy brown shag carpeting.

The single window was covered by a broken mini blind with three bent slats in the middle. The edges were poking back into the room, letting the bright light of day push through to form a spotlight shining in my eyes.

I didn't have much of a chance to wonder where Liam was, because the door opened just then. The burst of his scent preceded him, followed by the heavenly aroma of food on the tray in his hands.

Sitting up, I looked over at him with a welcoming smile. "Hey, you didn't mention the room service this morning. I might have left earlier if I'd known this part." Suddenly realizing that I was butt naked, I pulled the thin bed coverings up over my hips.

Liam grinned and came over to settle the tray across my lap, its little metal legs framing my legs as it rested over my thighs. My stomach growled loudly while I was admiring the perfectly toasted grilled cheese sandwich that accompanied a big bowl of what smelled like homemade tomato soup. A big cup of coffee and a bowl of orange slices balanced out the meal.

I squinted up at the sweet alpha as I wrapped my hands around the big mug of java. "Where's your lunch? Am I eating alone?"

Liam settled onto the bed beside me. "I can keep you company, but I'm afraid I ate an hour ago. You were sleeping so soundly that I hated to bother you. I only brought this up now because I figured you'd be waking soon. Did you sleep well?"

I shrugged and took a sip of coffee. "Honestly? I have no idea. I was passed out cold. I'm pretty sure that a bomb could have gone off and I wouldn't have noticed. What about you? Did I hog your bed? I've never bunked with anyone, so I'm probably a bed hog."

With a grin, Liam reached over to his nightstand and retrieved my glass. "Missing anything, Frankie? Before I could respond, he was sliding them onto my face.

"Wow, that's so much better. Wait. Did you clean my glasses?" I looked over to see him blushing with a soft smile. Oh, my goddess. Seriously? Was there anything hotter than a gorgeous alpha that fucking blushed?

"They were dirty, so I cleaned them for you. It wasn't a problem. I also brought your bags up from the car. They're sitting in the closet for now. I figured that you could decide where you want them, but I hated to leave your things unguarded in the Jeep.”

I swallowed the bite I'd taken from the world's most perfect grilled cheese. "Thank you, Liam. You've thought of everything. Be careful, you'll spoil me."

I'd meant to tease, but he looked at me seriously. "I would love to spoil you, Frankie. I think that it's past time that you were the center of someone's world. I'm just glad that I get to be the alpha who does it."

I quirked a brow and went for another taste of the surprisingly good tomato soup. Rich and hearty, the flavors of basil and thyme married beautiful with the earthy tomatoes. A sprinkling of fresh shredded Parmesan was spread over its surface so that I got a bit with each bite.

"What happened to the whole walking beside me, not putting the omega on a pedestal thing?" I teased.

"I can walk beside you while still appreciating you and showing you how much you mean to me, Frankie. Now eat. I want you to enjoy the food while it's hot." He watched avidly as I took another bite of the sandwich.

I'd like to say that I was a demure omega, but fuck that. I inhaled that awesome soup and scarfed down the sandwich like I hadn't eaten in a week. After I'd tucked the hot stuff away, I slowed down a little to eat the fruit. I tilted my head back with the first bite, lowering the orange slice into my mouth and sucking the juice out of it.

The orange was the perfect blend of sweet and tart, its juices exploding in my mouth with each bite. I was licking the juice from my lips when I heard Liam swallow hard. I realized with a touch of chagrin that I was probably putting on quite the show for the alpha. Oops. Sorry, not sorry? I hadn't intended it, but now that I saw the alpha was enjoying it? I decided to prolong the meal and tease him a little bit.

The next segment, I brushed over my lips slowly before nipping the tip between my front teeth. I slowly sucked on it, before carefully feeding it into my mouth one precious bit at a time. I did it with the next two slices just the same way. I reached for the final slice, and just as I tipped my head back, a hand came down around my wrist.

I looked over to see Liam smirking at me, his eyes blown wide with lust. He bent over my hand, taking the slice between his lips. He turned to me then, the slice hanging out halfway from his mouth. Leaning into me, his face tilted as he came closer. With a knowing grin, I met him halfway and closed my lips over the orange that was hanging from his mouth.

Our lips barely brushed against each other, just long enough for me to bite half of the orange segment off and lean back against the headboard with a smirk as I chewed my prize. Liam crawled over to me, then leaned over the tray and licked the juice from my lips. After he'd slowly licked my lips clean, he sat back and motioned to the tray.

"You all done now, tease? Or did you have plans for the coffee too?"

I looked at the coffee speculatively, then back at him. "Nah, not really. I mean, I could let you dip your nuts in there if you want and lick them clean? It's probably cool enough. But coffee is a little too sacred for funny business."

"Agreed. So drink up before I decide to try your idea." He was smiling innocently, but I had a feeling that it was a front. Yeah, the way he watched as I tilted the cup up to drain it dry? Oh, he was totally imagining what I'd described.

After I set the cup on the tray, he took the whole set-up from me and carried it over to the dresser. Then he stopped to check the lock on the door before quickly stripping and climbing into bed beside me.

"Scoot down, I want to snuggle now that there's a chance you'll actually remember it happening. You were out cold last night. I want to hold you now that we're both awake. It will make me a lot less creepy."

"I mean, you did just admit to sleep cuddling with my naked body while I was passed out cold. That it a wee bit high on the creep-o-meter, right?" I bit back a smile as I removed my glasses again and set them on the nightstand before I scooted down and settled back against his chest. Liam spooned up behind me, his arms locking around me as he sniffed along the nape of my neck.

"In my defense, you're the one who stripped down before you climbed in bed last night. I would have been fine in boxers and a t-shirt." He spoke against my ear, sending a current of electricity down my spine from the tease of his moving lips.

I vaguely remembered that now that he said it. "Still. You needed to strip down for a little cuddle time? And that's not creepy as fuck?"

He lips curved into a smile against my neck. "Not at all. That's me being a good host. If I were clothed and you weren't, you wouldn't feel at ease. This is me, the consummate innkeeper, going the extra mile for a good guest experience."

I snorted out a laugh. "Wow, a good guest experience, huh? And here I thought you were ramping up for a good old fashioned snugglefuck."

There was a laugh in his voice as he asked: "Do I want to know what that is, or should I allow my brain to remain unwarped?"

"Please. Like you're not as warped as the rest of us." I moved back a little, closing any gaps between our two bodies as I pressed my back into his chest. "Okay, where were we? Oh, yes. Snugglefuck. That would best be defined as easing from the classic snuggle, moving into a little bit of steamy foreplay, and finishing off with a rough, hot fucking. You know the kind where you try to plow me through the mattress? That kind. So there you have it. Sweet snuggles leading to a hard fuck? That's a snugglefuck."

The sound of his deep laugh washed over me while his hands began to traverse my body. He felt me up slowly, taking the time to explore. He stopped to tug on a nipple, before running his hand slowly over my muscled abdomen. That deft hand explored my front, while his lips and tongue tasted the skin of my neck, my ear, and down over my omega-gland.

When Liam's hand closed around my cock, I whimpered involuntarily, the need for him hitting me all at once. I'd never been with an alpha before, let alone the alpha meant solely for me. Any fumbling I'd had with other men had been limited to a few stolen moments between soldiers, lonely and a world away from the lives we knew back home. And those men were humans. The resemblance between them and Liam ended there. It was more than night and day. There was nothing similar at all.

It was as if this man were indeed made for me. His hands and lips knew instinctively how to tease a response from me, how and where to touch me, and when to move on. This was more than a sensual afternoon romp. This was heaven on earth.

I caught the scent of my slick in the air, a rare experience for me. The only other time in my life that I'd had my slick was when I'd been away from a pharmacy and my heat had hit. Normally, I used a heat blocker that dampened the hormones, keeping them in a nice little box that I didn't need to unpack. It was just easier that way. I'd had a human friend with bennies at the time, but his lack of an alpha's knot hadn't managed to fool my body into a relief. That had been a long weekend of hell.

But now? Now my channel felt slick and my body was begging to take a knot for the first time. I knew that other species were occasionally able to knot briefly with unfated mates, but not us wolves. Our alphas could only knot with a fated-mate. This meant that my union with Liam would be a truly be a first time experience for me.

My head rolled back into his broad shoulder with a gasp as he stroked my peen with sure, firm strokes. On each downward stroke, his thick thumb would rub over the slit of my leaking dickhead. His left hand came up from under me to massage my chest and play with my nipple while he stroked. When Liam's whispered a teasing scrape of teeth over my omega-gland, I nearly lost my grip on sanity.

I was ready to beg, plead, offer anything in return for his knot in my ass when that familiar flash of electricity began to hum in my veins. My back arched back further and my abs tightened as I prepared to cover his hand with a hot load of my cum. But right as I was thisclose to finishing, his hand still and moved away to rest on my hip.

Sputtering out something that sounded less than a whine yet more than a whimper, I cried. "Why-y-y?"

His voice rasped against my ear as Liam thrust his hips forward to wedge the length of an iron-hard cock between my cheeks. "Because I didn't mean to get you there so fast, babe. When you shoot, I want you to see more than stars. I want you to see fucking galaxies. This is our first time together, it needs to be right. But also, I have an important question before we proceed."

I was still hanging on by a thread, my cock so engorged that an accidental brush with the sheet might make me blow. "What? Tell me. What is it, Liam?" I gasped out my words, needing to get the talking done so that he would just fuck me already.

"Are we going all the way?" His voice trembled with nervous uncertainty.

"What? Is this high school? What the fuck? Of course we're fucking!" I wasn't exactly all that rational at the moment, a fact that was embarrassing but true.

He chuckled again. "Really? I should edge you a few more times for that comment. But no, babe. I meant, are we going all the way with a claim? Are you willing to accept me as your mate?"

I huffed out a breath. "Oh." Yeah. Oh. That topic hadn't really been discussed yet, had it. "If you want my gut reaction before you brought me to the edge of sanity and left me hanging with a swollen dick and an empty ass? I would have said yes. But now? I think you're gonna have to earn it."

Liam laughed lightly. "I'm sorry, babe. I just didn't want to get into the heat of the moment and lose my head. I wanted to have an understanding first."

I twisted slightly so that I could turn to see his face. "Liam. I know this is weird for both of us. We're like, familiar strangers, for lack of a better terminology. We don't know each other, yet we don't know anyone better than each other, right? It's like, well, when you touched me? It was as if a missing piece of my soul popped back into place."

Liam smiled gently. He leaned forward to kiss along my shoulder before speaking. "I agree. And while I don't know you yet, I also don't know how I've ever lived without you."

I gave a half smile and closed my eyes for a moment. "Here's the thing, Liam. I don't go into situations half-cocked." I rolled my eyes when he gave the expected snicker to my poorly planned words. "Anyway. If I hadn't already expected to be Loki to your Thor, I wouldn't have come home with you. So, yes. I will be your mate. I accept your claim, alpha. Now fucking knot me already."

"Umm, Frankie? You do realize that Thor and Loki are brothers, right? That's a little gross, don't you think?"

"Hush. They're adopted brothers, not related by blood. For fuck’s sake, Loki is an ice giant, not an Asgardian. You believe whatever you want, but I know that Loki is taking that big hammer of Thor's every chance he can get."

Liam rolled me over onto my stomach so that he was laying over my back with me pinned under his weight. He rubbed his cock along my crack as he dropped a cornball line. "I've got a hammer for you, if you're interested."

I chuckled. "Really? You're still riding that lightning bolt? I would have thought you'd move on to Hulk Smash or even switch over to DC Universe and accuse me of being your Kryptonite."

"Put your hands over your head, wolf. I want them where I can see them."

"Ooh, yes, Daddy! I'm liking where this is going." I put my hand over my head, getting more turned on by the second.

"Grip the rails of the head board, get a comfortable hold." Hearing his words, I gripped the headboard rails.

Keeping his body stretched over mine, his weight pinning me in place, Liam's hand slid down between to rub between my cheeks. His thick fingers glided through my slick, one long finger pushing inside my rim as I lifted up against his seeking digit. Teeth nipped at my shoulder and along my nape as another finger joined the first.

I heard myself grunting with pleasure as I rocked my ass up against him. "More, alpha. Please, I need more." I groaned and pleaded, need making me wanton.

Liam locked his legs between my thighs, shoving my legs wider apart. His fingers pulled out, leaving me feeling empty as his weight shifted. Lifting his hips just enough to guide his cock toward my slick-wet hole and line it up for entry, my alpha gasped my name as he thrust into me with one smooth glide.

Gripping hard on the bed frame, I grit my teeth against the burning pain from his girth. Fully embedded within me, Liam stilled his body while I accepted him being inside of mine. When the tension in my shoulders began to dissipate, Liam nipped my earlobe before whispering into my ear. "Are you ready for more?"

I nodded urgently, jerking my ass against him in a silent plea for more. Liam lifted his torso up a little and braced himself on his forearms while he began rocking in and out of my channel.

My entire body felt overheated with fire shooting through my veins. "Fuck, yes! Give it to me, Liam." Now that I was feeling nothing but pleasure, I flexed my muscles and worked my ass against each thrust with a matching jerk of my hips. My alpha was moving faster now, humping into me.

I couldn't lift my hips enough to get any real friction against my aching dick, but it didn't matter because I wasn't lasting much longer anyway. With every thrust, I felt that alpha knot growing at the base of his cock. It was ballooning out a little more each time he passed through the tight ring of muscle at my entrance.

Grunting against my ear, his entire body pounded against the length of mine as he rode me fast and hard. I was pretty sure that Liam actually was trying to fuck me through the mattress with the way he was slamming in and out between my walls. I felt my canines elongate with the need to bite down as my need for release sped up my spine in a tingling rush.

"Alpha! I'm...I'm..."

Sweat coated my back, whether mine or his I couldn't tell you. Liam grabbed my right hand, almost growling as he spoke. "Let go of the bed, I need you to turn for me."

Releasing the bars, I felt him pull out one last time as he flipped me over. Pushing my knees up and out to sides, Liam gripped my hips to adjust his angle before he shoved right back into my hole. Speeding up quickly to his previous tempo, it was almost as if he hadn't ever slowed down or stopped at all.

His cock was ramming into me now with even bursts of speed, pounding through my walls with that ever growing knot. I looked into Liam's pretty emerald green eyes. The possessive arousal in them was all it took to have short bursts of cum shoot from my dick like a geyser.

Almost without warning, the knot fully inflated and a burst of hot seed filled my channel. His teeth sunk into my neck, piercing the flesh of my omega-gland to mark me as his own. At the same time, I sunk my elongated canines into his alpha-gland, tearing through the flesh with a visceral satisfaction of ownership. This man was mine. Mate. Mine. My alpha.

All at once, the world took a surreal turn as we took a step out of reality. It was as if we'd switched bodies in some sort of 'Freaky Friday' event. I felt like it was my knot wedged inside my channel, being hugged by the clenching walls as the dregs of my seed were milked from my pipes.

At the same time, I was the receptacle, being filled with that load of my alpha's seed. It was as if the missing piece of my soul that I'd felt click into place already with Liam was now being cemented into place.

Once the world righted itself, we both pulled our teeth free and licked each other's new claim scars free of blood. Liam lifted up to brace on his forearms and grin into my face.

"Holy shit, babe. I'm sorry if I got a little too alpha there. I have no idea what came over me. It was like I was possessed by a horny alpha fuck that wanted to impale you on my cock."

I blinked at him as a lazy grin spread over my face. "I mean, I kinda am though? You know, impaled on your mighty hammer? Or did we settle on lightning bolt? Remind me. I'm just a forgetful little omega."

Liam snorted. "Yeah. Okay. Seriously, though. That wasn't too much?"

I rubbed his stubbled cheek with my palm, smiling as his whiskers tickled me. "Liam? I served in the military. Remember? I'm not a young omega in the first flush of manhood. I'm a fucking grown ass man who knows how to protect himself if necessary. Also, I'm not exactly a delicate little twink. Trust me when I say that nothing happened that I didn't want, okay?"

Leaning closer, Liam kissed me. His lips brushed gently up and down over my lips before slitting into place and kissing me finally. As his tongue swept into my mouth and slid across mine, I began to giggle.

Liam pulled back and looked at me with a curious smile. "Care to share with the rest of the class?"

"I just realized as our tongues touched that it was our first real kiss, and we've already had sex! Your knot is literally stuck in my ass, but we're just now sharing our first fucking kiss. Tell me that's not funny!" I giggled and gasped for air while Liam just watched me with an affectionate grin.

After I chilled out a bit, Liam rolled us to our sides where we would both be more comfortable. His knot wouldn't be tugging at my hole, and my hole wouldn't be pulling on his knot. It took a few minutes of wriggling and finagling, but we finally found a comfortable position with our legs intertwined.

We laid there for the longest time, giggling and laughing while we talked and got to know even more about each other. I hadn't ever planned on having an alpha, but I was thankful for the one that had fallen in my lap. Or, actually stepped in front of my out of control car. Whatever. Semantics. What mattered was that he was mine, and I was his.