I was sitting on the back porch staring up at the stars with Osana, the pack’s doctor who was actually a fox shifter that had moved in with them a few years back. I’d spent the day getting familiar with everyone, introductions all around. The place was bustling, even without the few who weren’t here.

There was Tate, of course, and his mate Kyle, who was the sweetest guy ever, and their daughter Scarlet who was almost six years old and filled with energy.

Then there was Chrissie and Martin, who both looked like they stepped off a runway in Paris or Milan or something.

There was Aiden, a total bad boy with shaggy rock star hair, tattoos and a motorcycle, and his omega, Billy, who was absolutely adorable with short hair and beautiful blue eyes.

Then there was Peter, an omega with four pups of his own, and Timmy, who had three. They’d come to the pack with their children, and with no alphas of their own, took care of their children together, with the help of the rest of the pack, of course.

And then there was Carlos, a close friend of Seth’s. He was Hispanic, very good looking and kind of a pretty boy, but the kind of pretty boy that looked like he could kick your ass if you actually called him pretty. He’d come here with Seth apparently, but my head was whirling with everyone’s pasts and histories, and I thought it best for the time being to just get settled in and deal with getting to know everyone better later. After all, I wasn’t going anywhere.

“This place was Tate’s father’s at one point,” Osana told me as she sipped her tea. I had my own glass sitting on the side table next to me, another of Tate’s projects. “When he formed this pack, he started fixing it up with everyone. Took a lot of work, but it was worth it.”

“It’s beautiful,” I told her, and I meant it. The place really was magical, sitting at the top of a slope, right at the base of a mountain with a large back yard before the tree line. There was Tate’s barn, the main lodge and the addition being added on, and the only sounds were the sounds of nature. Nothing could have been further from the life I’d been living with Kade, in crappy buildings, in the backs of trucks, moving from stop to stop, never a moment to rest or enjoy life.

“I can’t wait for your pregnancy,” Osana said with a sly grin that made me blush. “Oh, I’d bet Seth has a bun in your oven in no time.”

“You think so?” I replied shyly.

“If he’s anything like the other alphas around here, which I think he is, I’d put money on you being pregnant by morning!”

Osana laughed, her mane of golden red curls bouncing as she turned and patted me on the hand.

“What’s so funny?” I heard Seth’s voice behind me and turned to see him stepping up the steps. “My ears are tingling.”

“Okay, I admit it,” Osana smiled. “We were talking about you.”

“Only good things I hope,” Seth replied, reaching out and taking me by the hand. He pulled me to my feet and started to lead me inside.

“What’d I tell you!?” Osana giggled as Seth pulled me into the lodge. “No time!”

I smiled to myself as Seth led me through the living room where most of the pack was. I could feel their eyes on me as he took me down the hallway that lead to the addition, and the hushed whispers behind me.

Yeah, they know what’s going on, I thought to myself. But I wasn’t embarrassed. In fact, I was so excited my entire body was tingling, and when he brought me into our bedroom and closed the door behind us, I was ready to jump out of my skin.

I moved to turn to face him, but he stopped me, placing his hands on my hips and holding me there. I felt his bulge against my ass, pressing between my cheeks as he leaned down and smelled my neck, inhaling deeply until his lungs were filled with my scent.

His breath against my skin excited me even more, and I felt my dick starting to grow as his hands began to explore my body. His fingertips slipped under my shirt and I lifted my arms as he pulled it over my head.

I was hot for him, and thanks to my heat, felt my slick starting for him as my body begged for him to enter me.

“You’re so beautiful,” he whispered in my ear.

Beautiful…

Even now, when he was about to take me, he was sweet – almost poetic.

My alpha has a heart of gold.

I turned to face him, slowly undoing the buttons of his shirt. When it fell aside, I found myself marveling at his chiseled body underneath. Seriously, it shouldn’t be possible for an alpha to be so unbelievably built, but there he was in front of me – mine. My fated mate.

I reached for the button on his pants, but I didn’t have a chance to even start taking them off. His arms were around me and the next thing I knew I was on the bed, face down, with my pants at my knees.

“Oh!” I gasped as his hands locked around my thighs. Moving up slowly, he grasped my ass and spread me open, and for just a second I was frozen, self-conscious beyond all belief. But then, he did something that washed all that away.

With a moan, Seth pressed his tongue against my ass. The sensation was like a shock that ran up my spine to my neck, causing my head to tilt back as a gasp leapt from my lips.

“Oh my God!”

My hands tightened on the sheets as he lapped hungrily at my juices, running his hands up and down my ass and back. My dick hardened beneath me and I had to lift my hips from the bed to make room. Pre-cum oozed from the tip, coating my lower abs as my fate mate ate my ass like it was the sweetest thing in the world.

“Fuck, yes!” Seth growled, spanking my ass hard. The sensation lit me on fire. Seconds ago he was soothing, romantic and poetic, and now his primal side was coming out, and I knew it wasn’t long before he took me.

Straightening up, Seth yanked my pants the rest of the way off and tossed them aside. With his hands, he spread my legs wide and I felt the tip of his cock as it pressed against my balls, then moved up, tracing a line up my body until it came to rest on my tight little hole, which was wet with my juices and his spit, ready to accept what he gave me.

“You’re already so hard,” I marveled, turning to look back at him over my shoulder. “I haven’t even sucked you.”

“You don’t have to, baby,” he told me. “That sweet ass is enough to get me going. Now you ready to take this?”

The truth was, I knew I wasn’t ready, but I wanted it – badly – so I lied.

“Yes,” I told him. “I’m ready.”

“Here it comes,” he growled, thrusting his hips forward.

The sensation of being filled up was unlike anything I could have ever imagined. A brief flare of pain lit up within me but then the pleasure took over and I felt my mind go dim as my body took the reins – as Seth took the reins.

As he pushed deeper, I really appreciated his size. I’d gagged on his dick when I’d tried to deep-throat him, but this was something else. I felt like he was stretching my soul as he started to fuck me, and the combination of that and his luscious scent had me losing my mind.

“I can’t – I can’t believe it!” I gasped, twisting and trying to get a better look at his cock going in and out of me. Again, he spanked me, harder this time, causing me to buck off the bed. But his strong hands pressed me back down, and that’s when he really started to fuck me.

“You sexy fucking omega!” He growled, seizing me with his grip like a vise. His strength and dominance had my body crying out for him, my juices flowing and my soul on fire. It was beyond anything I had ever imagined. From the second I’d smelled his scent, this moment had been in my mind, and now that I was here experiencing it, I could barely even think.

And as Seth buried his cock in me, growled then flipped me over on my back, I knew I hadn’t even begun to experience all that he had to give me.