I could see that Dominick looked appeased with my answer, but I was still thinking.

Dominick wants more.

It was the first thing he had asked of me, and of course, as his Alpha, there was no reason why I could not provide. I had been surprised for a moment that he could talk so eloquently to voice his needs, and I wondered if he was just really relaxed from the hot tub and beer. Either way, I had a feeling our little exchange had changed things between us for the better from now on, so I could only be glad for it.

Now, though, after hearing his side of things, I was thinking back.

I remembered my thoughts on him when I first saw him, especially with his indifferent expression. He really hadn't looked like he cared for much, I had even thought he was a snobbish, spoiled little brat of an Omega, and I couldn’t help feeling sorry for that unfair evaluation of him.

Shit.

Our first night together. I had known he was feeling out of sorts, but I hadn't held enough patience or tried to meet him half way. Instead, I’d started some awkward conversation, created the perfect excuse for the two of us to run away from each other for a few minutes, and let my impatience get the better of me in the end. Thinking about how that had probably been his first time with an Alpha—hell, with anybody—and the way I had acted, I felt very regretful of my previous actions. In that moment, I hadn't been a very good Alpha to my Omega. I should probably consider myself lucky he was still planning on giving things a try. But, as I was slowly growing to realize, it was just how Dominick was.

He might seem cold on the outside, at first, but he was actually warm hearted. He could act entitled at times, but he was never unreasonable. Thinking properly, I realized he could also be super empathetic and sympathetic.

In a lot of ways, he had been mistreated by his pack. They hadn't treated him well emotionally or physically, but they had pretty much kept him caged, for the sake of the pack, and in the end had to leave the pack where he’d been sheltered most of his life. On the day of our wedding, during the celebration, I hadn't seen any of his family so much as go near him, even on the next day when we were planning to leave, and from our interactions, I didn’t think he even disliked them for it. He had the personality to cheer for the underdog while still having the best wishes at heart for others. Even for me, the Alpha that he should have been determined to hate simply because of what I represented.

The pack selling him away to the highest bidder, even if the person was a stranger. I wasn’t sure what my pack had orchestrated with Dominick’s pack, but I was sure the deal was a mutually satisfactory one.

“I think it’s about time that we got out,” I said after a long while had passed. I was still lost in thought as I hoisted myself out of the tub. Most of the beer was still there, the last one I’d opened was still unfinished, but after what Dominick said, I no longer wanted more.

“Do we have to leave?” Dominick asked, sounding quite mournful.

I hummed and reached for his hand. “Soaking in water for too long really isn’t good for the skin, so it would be best for right now. If you like it that much, we’ll definitely come back later, okay?”

He looked reluctant, but not long after I did, he left the tub as well. I would go back to drain it and seal it again, but right then, I felt like I needed to put some distance between me and Dominick. I was actually quite turned on by Dominick’s request, and it was a wonder to me how I had reacted to it that way with all the thoughts going around in my mind.

The thought behind the reaction was pretty simple, though. No man had ever said they wanted more of my love, affection, and intimate touch. They’d never wanted me, just my Alpha skills in bed.

I went to the bedroom to get a change of clothes, looking through my closet for a pair of jeans and a t-shirt. By the time Dominick walked into the room behind me, I was walking into the bathroom for some privacy. I got dressed quickly, then left. Dominick was still there, holding his clothes to his chest and shivering a little. I hesitated, then moved closer to him and raised my hand. He watched me cautiously, and I ruffled his hair awkwardly, then dropped my hand and turned away.

“Get a towel from the bathroom and wrap it around yourself,” I called over my shoulder. “When you’re dry and warm enough, put on some clothes and come down. I’ll make lunch for us.”

I left the bedroom without giving him another glance and rushed downstairs. My hand tingled where I’d touched his hair, and I folded my hand and ignored the sensation. Once I made it to the kitchen, I pulled a bunch of stuff from the fridge to prepare to cook.

It had been a while since I actually cooked something to eat. It was actually way healthier for a shifter to cook a meal than order take-out, especially of the greasy kind. Too much of that stuff could make a shifter sick a lot faster than a human. But while I knew how to cook, because I’d mostly lived by myself since I was eighteen, I’d mostly eaten food out. There was a restaurant run by a pack member, though, so I usually just ate there and trusted that whatever they made wouldn’t hurt another shifter.

The new house, however, was a bit of a distance from there, and they didn’t exactly deliver. It wasn’t convenient to drive up every day to pick up a meal for two. I could only hope Dominick knew how to cook for the days I was going to be busy.

Just as I was thinking that, the kitchen door opened and I looked up to see Dominick peeking his head in. It hadn't been that long, aside from putting all the ingredients on the counter and picking out a few pans to cook with, I’d just barely started cutting up the veggies.

“Are you okay?” I asked.

He nodded slowly, walking inside the kitchen. He had changed his outfit into a pair of dark jeans, a white t-shirt and a gray hoodie over it, zipped almost all the way up. He didn’t look like he was still shivering.

“I dried up quickly and put on some warmer clothes. I wanted to see if you need any help with lunch?”

I arched an eyebrow. “You know how to cook?”

“Uh, a bit, yeah. Though I mostly just helped in the kitchen, but I saw others cooking all the time. I can at least help out, right? I didn’t know you could cook, either.”

“Yeah. I live alone, so…I learned.” I dropped my head with a frown, looking around. “How good are you at cutting things?” I asked.

“Not too good, not too bad? What do you need?”

He came closer, rolling back his sleeves as he came to stand beside me and looked around at everything.

“Then, wash and cut these up for me. Make the cuts as small as you can. If you get tired or something, just let me know and I’ll take over.”

Dominick nodded, but he had this determined look on his face that made me think he wouldn’t be asking for any help. I left him to it, shooting glances at him every so often, as I pulled open the fridge and removed some meat. It was a chicken, and I cut the meat off the bones and then into strips and set them aside. The dark meat I cut into smaller pieces. Because I wasn’t sure if one bird was enough, I looked in the fridge to see if there was another one. I’d stocked up on a lot of food that could last us weeks before I made the drive down to Juneau, and I found another full chicken quickly. I gave it the same treatment as the first one, then threw the bones away.

Then I started the fire, and once Dominick was done with the cutting, I directed him to drop the vegetables in the pan to fry, then added the tiny pieces of chicken I’d cut up. In a separate pan, I poured some oil and added the larger strips of chicken. As I cooked, Dominick cleared up the counter then washed his hands in the sink. He stayed by the counter, watching me while I cooked.

Not long after, I had everything ready for us, and served up two plates. The kitchen area was separated from the rest of the room by an island, and on the other side was a table set up with four chairs. We sat down and silently began to eat. I glanced out the corner of my eye at him, but Dominick didn’t look like he wanted to say anything. I frowned, but ate quietly.

Once we were done, I carried the plates to the sink and washed up. Then, I turned to look at Dominick. He was still seated, but had turned to face me, and I imagined the look on my face was complicated.

“You can keep looking around the place if you want,” I said, waving a hand around. “Um, besides the living room and bedroom, no other room has any plans so far, but besides the study, you can plan out any other room, if you want. Or, if there’s something you’d like to add somewhere or want taken out, let me know and we can talk about it. Or you could also go up to the room and put your stuff up in the closet. If you need anything else, the town isn’t that far and there’s a mall, I can take you whenever you need to go.”

After that long speech, Dominick nodded, and got up to leave the kitchen. As soon as he was out of sight, my body slumped against the counter.

The back of the kitchen was made up of sliding glass walls, just like the room upstairs, and they led to the back patio. I stepped out, leaving the doors open in case Dominick came looking for me and wondered where I’d gone. Out back, there was another door that led into a private studio. This was where I practiced my skills without holding back. With one wall made entirely of glass and facing toward the forest, it was my favorite place in the house, and pretty much where I’d slept while the place was finalizing construction.

When the place was originally built, this room was the first one to be finished, and plenty of times, when I wanted to get out of my little apartment or be away from other members of the pack, I would go to that room and let myself go.

Practicing mixed martial arts, besides being a good way of learning control, brought me a sort of peace. When I was practicing, I felt peaceful, especially when I didn’t have to hold myself back because of prying eyes. By then, I had known the moves perfectly so that I could do them without thinking.

The walls were in a brown shade slightly lighter than the floor and ceiling, and I had mats laid around the room. I stood in the middle, and started moving my body into familiar poses and positions. Only this time, my mind wasn’t nearly as calm, and I couldn’t quiet down my thoughts.

In the end, not half an hour had passed, and I had to stop because I felt too frustrated. I was surprised at myself, because this was the first time it had ever happened to me.

Just like that, Dominick and I each spent the rest of the day mostly away from each other, each lost in their own thoughts. We got back together for dinner, and he helped me cook again, then we ate and I stayed behind for a drink while he went to get ready for bed.

Intimate… Dominick wanted more intimacy from me. I knew what that meant, and it wasn’t that I couldn’t give it to him. But I had never been intimate with anyone before. Usually, with the Omegas that approached me, we fucked and that was it. If I wasn’t even interested, I left them alone. But, I couldn’t keep treating Dominick like he was just some other Omega.

With a sigh, I stood up. I went around locking the place up, then went slowly up the stairs. In the bedroom, Dominick had already gotten into one side of the bed, the side that faced the glass walls, and curled himself under the sheets. I took off my t-shirt and pulled off my jeans, leaving only the boxer briefs underneath, then I slid into the other side of the bed.

I was still swirling with emotions and thoughts from earlier, and I lay on my side and looked at Dominick’s form under the blanket. He was breathing slow and even, and I couldn’t tell if he had fallen asleep yet, or not.

After a long moment of just lying there staring, I ended up reaching out for him in the dark. I paused my hand just before I touched him, then gently stroked down his back. I tried to make my approach this time more tender, moving my hand from his back and loosely holding onto his arm.

“Dominick?” I called quietly, feeling extremely awkward. “Are you still awake?”

He didn’t move or say anything, but just when I was about to pull away, one of his hands caught mine. I went completely still, and after another moment, Dominick slowly rolled around and looked up at me. Pretty much all of him except the top of his head was covered, and he blinked his eye up at me as he held my hand in both of his and squeezed it.

I took in a deep breath, ignoring it when it shook a little, and pulled my hand out of his so I could reach up and cup his cheek.

“Dominick,” I murmured. “Come here?”

It was a request instead of a command this time. He hesitated a moment, then squirmed closer to me under the sheets. I wrapped an arm around him, bringing him closer until he had his chest on top of mine. Holding the back of his head lightly, I lifted up and pressed my lips against his softly.

I’d never ‘made love’ or had intimae sex, but I wanted to give that type of intimacy to Dominick. Dominick tentatively responded to the kiss, and I took it as encouragement.

I had my arms around him and gently ran my hands up and down his back. As his body relaxed from the kiss, I reached for the edge of his t-shirt and pulled it up. We broke the kiss just long enough to pull it off and toss it to the side, and then I was kissing him again. I ran my hands up the length of his spine, one hand holding onto the nape of his neck, as the other slid back down. I hesitated a little, before slipping that hand down the back of his sleep pants to cup one of his ass cheeks.

Dominick let out a low whine, pulling away from the kiss to bury his face in my chest. I didn’t mind, rolling us gently so we were lying on our sides, and I placed kisses all over the side of his face, down the length of his neck, over his bare shoulder. Dominick’s breathing and heartbeat were slowly rising, and I pressed our bodies together, so he could feel my already fast beating heart against his chest.

“Dominick,” I breathed against his cheek. “Do you want this, or do you want me to stop?”

There was no answer for a long moment, and I practically had my heart beating hard in my throat. If he rejected me here, I wasn’t sure how to move forward. I was worried for nothing, though. Dominick slowly wrapped his own arms around me, nodding his head against my chest.

I huffed a short laugh in relief, my lips curving up in a smile. Then I reversed our situation from before, so that Dominick was the one lying back on the bed and I was partially on top of him. I slanted my mouth over his, licking his lip until he parted them for me, then deepened the kiss. I could feel Dominick’s fingers dig into my back, and I took that as more encouragement.

Without breaking off the kiss, I pushed at his pants to get them off, tugging my own down my legs and kicking them off. I felt Dominick wiggling, hopefully doing the same. Then I pulled away from his lips to make my way down his body, leaving nips and licks here and there. I paused at his chest to lick at his nipples, my chest rumbling in satisfaction at the pleased gasps and moans Dominick made, then slipped lower. His cock was hard, and I caught it in my fist to steady it, then lowered my mouth over the head.

Dominick made a strangled sound as I sucked on the head of his cock. I’d never done this before, but I’d had it done to me plenty of times, and I tried to bring the knowledge up in my mind. He was nowhere near as big as me, something I was glad for, and I lowered my head, taking more and more of him inside my mouth. I breathed through my nose, and pressed down until my nose was tickled by his pubic hairs. The head of his cock was just past my throat, and I swallowed carefully around it, then pulled back up the shaft, my lips tight around his girth as I sucked hard. Dominick whimpered above me, one of his hands landing in my hair, the other on my shoulder.

The touch was tentative, but I could guess what he wanted. I lightly tapped the hand he had on my shoulder, then tapped on his hip with my other hand, so show him he could do as he pleased. After a few seconds, his hand tightened in my hair, and he rocked his hips up slowly. His body trembled as he sucked in a shaky breath, and made the same move again. I caught his hips, helping him move, bobbing my head slightly as I sucked on his length, occasionally swirling my tongue against the head.

When he had a steady rhythm going, one of my hands went between his legs. I palmed his balls, rolled them in my hand and tugged on them, then went a little lower. I ran a finger over his hole, and his whole body went still for a moment, then he shuddered.

“John!”

Dominick’s voice, when he called my name, sounded desperate. His hole clenched, then some slick leaked out of him. I coated my finger in it, then slowly pushed it inside. Dominick resumed the movements of his hips, thrusting his cock even faster into my mouth. It was a little hard to keep it up and thrust my finger inside him at the same time, but I didn’t want to stop. I added a second finger, his body accepting me easily, and searched as I rubbed my fingers against his walls.

I knew I had what I wanted when Dominick’s body went still again as he let out a strangled shout, then picked up the movements again. I fucked him with my fingers, pegging that spot inside him that had him going wild every time. His body went still a final time, then his cock spasmed in my mouth, and in the next moment, he was spurting come down my throat. I swallowed it all down, gently rubbing that spot inside him until he was spent.

His body quivered as I pulled away from him, and I rose up on my knees to look down at him. He had his hands laid down on either side of his head as he panted and looked up at me.

“Sweet,” I murmured, licking my lips.

I’d heard the taste of come was supposed to be bitter, and I wondered if it was something to do with his body’s constitution. I leaned over him to press my mouth to his in a kiss. He hesitated a bit when I licked his lips, but he did part them for me, and I shared his taste with him. When I didn’t think I could hold myself back anymore, I pulled away and sat back on my heels. I looked down at my crotch, where my cock stood tall and proud, the head an angry red.

Dominick probably followed my line of sight, and I noticed when his hand moved toward me. I stiffened my back, my breath hitching in my throat as he wrapped his small, soft hand around my shaft and stroked lightly. My fists clenched on my knees, and all I could do was watch as he continued to stroke me. But when he went to move his body, I held him down with a hand on his chest. His hand around my cock stopped moving and loosened a bit, and I bit back the request that he continue.

“You…too?”

I looked up to find Dominick watching me. His whole face was flushed, and I wondered if that was from the orgasm, or from something else. I figured what he meant by me too, and I shook my head slowly as I held his gaze. A blowjob wasn’t exactly what I wanted right then.

“I want to take you, Dominick. Is that okay?”

He looked at me intently, then nodded once. Letting out a breath of relief, I picked up one of the large pillows and set it on the bed, then rolled Dominick over and settled the pillow under his hips. Before he could settle on it, I wrapped an arm around him and took his cock in my hand. His body shivered and he made a rough noise in his throat as he gently stroked him back to hardness. Then I let him lay his hips on the pillow, making sure he was comfortable before I moved behind him.

Dominick pulled another, smaller pillow and pulled it into his arms, laying his head on it sideways and looked up at me over his shoulder. I leaned down to press a kiss too his chin.

“Let me know if anything feels uncomfortable, okay?”

I watched until he nodded, then looked down at his body. I spread his knees a little with mine, then lowered my body on top of his back. His crack was drenched in his slick, and I rubbed my cock in his crack, then spread the slick all over me with my hand. Bracing against the bed with one fist to the side of Dominick’s body, I held onto my cock with the other hand to position my cock at his hole. I pushed forward slowly, watching as his body slowly swallowed me in. To the hilt. Then I braced down with my other fist, and waited for a moment, before pulling my hips back, sliding slowly out of him. A shiver when up his spine and he made a sound. I glanced up, but he didn’t look uncomfortable. His eyes were closed and his mouth was pared as he breathed, the flush deepening on his face.

My movements were slow at first, as if trying to make up for our first time. There was no resistance from his body at all, and after a few slow, deep thrusts, I lowered down on my forearms, and moved just a little bit faster. Dominick made another, higher pitched sound, and I looked over at him again. His hands were clenching hard into the pillow, and I ducked my head down to press kisses all over his shoulder blades, then licked at the small marks I’d left on his neck. Finally, I bit down a little, tightening my teeth to leave a mark, then pulled away and licked over it as well.

“Good?” I asked, watching his face closely.

He had his forehead furrowed, and for a moment when he made no reaction, I wondered if he’d heard me. Then, he nodded a little, and I dropped another kiss at the nape of his neck.

Warm and tender…

This was what he needed, wasn’t it?

I sped up my movements little by little, angling my hips to find just the right spot. I moved my weight to one of my forearms, and slid my other hand under his tummy, using it to raise his hips a little higher as I circled my hips. When Dominick let out a loud, high pitched moan, I stilled a moment, then repeated the motions.

He came alive under me, from just lying there and taking it, he started to writhe, his hips wriggling back to meet mine, his spine arching and stretching out, his teeth biting into the pillow to muffle some of his sounds. I bit down on the back of his neck in light punishment.

“Don’t cover your mouth, Dominick. I want to hear you.”

He let out a whine, then went back to lying with the side of his head pressed against the bed.

I was growing close, and by the increasing volume of his moans, I knew Dominick was right on the edge himself. I moved even faster, a little harder, feeling sweat drip down my forehead and down my spine. I was getting closer…and closer…and then I was over the edge, letting out a growl as I pressed my hips to Dominick’s ass and came inside him, making jerky little thrusts with my hips. I felt Dominick’s walls tighten around me, and he let out a long whine as he came, his own hips jerking against the pillow. I still had a hand under him, and I felt some of his come hit my hand.

Then, something happened that had my eyes widening.

Dominick gasped loudly, and tried to twist his head so he could look back at me.

“What the hell is that?” he asked, sounding breathless.

I cursed and held still. “My knot,” I said apologetically. “Shit, Dominick, I’m sorry. Does it hurt? I didn’t mean for it to happen.”

“It doesn’t always happen?” he asked in between pants, lying back and looking at me.

My ears were burning as I pressed my lips flat together. “… No,” I admitted. “Usually, I have a bit more control. When an Omega’s in heat, it’ll sometimes happen, but I’ve never been with an Omega in heat before.”

I was pretty sure, even then, I would be able to hold myself back, but there was no guarantee. I’d heard storied from other Alphas, but this was the first time I was knotting without meaning to. I sighed, pressed my chest against Dominick’s back, and pressed a kiss of apology at his nape.

“I guess…you’re a bit special,” I murmured. What I didn’t say, was that he was special to me, and in case he didn’t get it, I added more kisses over his shoulder.

“So…what now?” he asked quietly.

“Now…we have a bit of fun. There are Omegas that desire knotting out of their heat cycle where their bodies demand it. Do you want to know why?”

If he rejected me, I would have to stay still until my knot went down and we separated. But after the slightest hesitation, Dominick nodded his head. I could feel my chest grow warm that he had that kind of trust in me already.

“Okay,” I let out a slow breath. “This can be dangerous, so if you feel any discomfort at all, let me know, Dominick. Nod your head so I know you heard me.”

He nodded his head quickly.

I dropped my forehead on his nape and closed my eyes.

The reason why this was dangerous for most Omegas might not hold true for Dominick, because he was special. His body was reacting like an Omega already in heat, so he was slicked up and his muscles properly relaxed. Slowly, I started rocking my hips. I couldn’t pull out completely with my knot inside him, not without tearing him up, but I could rub my knot against his rim. A few Omegas I’d been with before had been into this kind of play, but without proper preparation and a lot of lube, it could hurt.

Dominick’s body was taut under me, and he let out little whines and whimpers and moans as I rocked my hips against his. He was plenty lubed up, from his body’s slick and my own come, so it shouldn’t have hurt. I kept my movements careful, though, my own body shuddering in pleasure with every move. I angled my hips so the tip of my cock kept rubbing on the spot inside him that brought him the most pleasure.

When he started writhing under me again, I pressed him down with my own body, keeping him as still as possible so he wouldn’t hurt himself with any unnecessary movements. His body stilled under me as he came once more, my own spine going stiff as his walls practically strangled me. I spurt more come inside him, and because it didn’t leak thanks to the knot, Dominick was probably feeling a little full. He squirmed, those sexy sounds still coming from his lips.

The knot wasn’t going down yet, so after a bit of rest, I continued rocking my hips. Dominick let out a whimper, probably getting a little tired. Before, I only made him come once and it had been enough for him to pass out, and he’d come three times already. He didn’t tell me to stop, though, so I didn’t.

I kept pressing kisses to his skin when I remembered to. That night, I let out more cum than I’d ever produced in my life, and by the time the knot finally went down and my cock and come slid out of Dominick’s body, he was on the verge of passing out. I just barely managed to get up to find something to clean us both up, then pulled Dominick into my arms, and we slept while wrapped around each other.