Chapter 17 Denounced #3
“No, it was not,” Jared forced out. “But—”
“Under our laws, the marriage between Felix and the Omega is legitimate regardless if he was a stand-in. By our rules, everything that happens under marriage applies to them. By that same law, if the marriage wasn’t annulled, then Hunter Redrow assaulted his brother’s mate.
He should have waited for the Omega to be handed over legally before staking his claim. Wouldn’t you say so?”
Jared nodded. “Indeed so.”
“You can’t do this!” Hunter cried over his second. “This isn’t how you said it would go! Why are they siding with him?”
Silence punctuated the feeble end of his petulant whine. I could scarcely believe this was the same wolf that had seemed so cool and confident before, who had thought he could force everyone else to serve his whims.
“I’ve seen enough,” Mooneater said in disgust. “Alpha, this is a family matter, so deal with it.”
I expected him to rise to his feet after that declaration, but instead the head of the council just leaned back in his chair and observed. It would seem that Hunter’s humiliation was going to be just as public as mine.
I dared a glance at my husband. Surely he must be feeling torn between his mate and his brother. Surely he must be wondering if there was a way to offer his brother clemency.
But I was wrong. In his eyes, I didn’t see a shred of mercy. There was only cold, bitter calculation.
“Brother!” Hunter stumbled towards us, nearly tripping in his desperation as he rushed to Felix.
“You can’t possibly believe the word of this Omega over me.
He invited me to his room last night! He was just playing coy and trying to drive us apart, that’s why he pretended to fight back when you showed up! ”
Felix’s fingers twitched, and for a moment, I thought he was really going to strike his brother. But then he managed to control his temper, if only barely.
“Get out of my sight,” he ground out, his teeth clenched tight and his eyes clenched even tighter.
“You are no brother of mine and no Beta of this pack. I want you gone, Hunter, tonight, taken to the furthest reaches of Redrow land and far away from me. And if you ever threaten Monte again, then I shall have you exiled for the rest of your life on pain of death.”
It was at that moment that I realized that Hunter had still been clinging to a feeble strand of hope.
He’d still thought, somewhere deep down, that his brother would pick him if it came down to it.
And when he was confronted with the horrible truth, with the way his brother’s face was twisted in a cold, disdainful mask, Hunter was forced to finally accept reality.
He blanched, his face turning a whiter shade than I’d thought possible as disbelief filled his eyes. I halfway expected him to throw up on the spot, but I didn’t get a chance to find out. Felix pulled me into his protective embrace, and he began to walk.
At first, I thought we were fleeing, but then my husband bent down and whispered in my ear.
“They’ll get rowdy after this, arguing and eating and drinking until the sun comes up. If we stay any longer, then we would surely get dragged into the middle of it and forced to listen for interminable hours while they toast our success and damn the memory of my foolish brother.”
“Oh,” I squeaked. “And you… don’t want to hear that?”
He shook his head in the negative.
Which made perfect sense. Who would want to hear everyone else picking at wounds and mocking one’s family member, even if they had done terrible things? I tried to imagine how I would react if Nena committed a crime as foul as Hunter and if I had to pass judgment like Felix. It was unimaginable.
But then Felix flashed me a penetrating look and pulled me even closer against him. “Of course I don’t want to participate in that foolishness. Not when I could be making up for lost time with you.”
He bent over and planted a kiss on my lips, shocking me straight to my core.
This time, my squeak was completely incoherent.
I allowed myself to be swept along, pulled free from the socializing whirlpool that was forming behind us, just as Felix had predicted.
The wolves had rushed from their seats and were congregating in smaller groups, where there was shouting, laughter, and at least half a dozen arguments already underway.
Amidst it all, I thought I caught a glimpse of Hunter being dragged away by Jared.
I tightened my grip on Felix and was awestruck once again by just how much more there was to this Alpha than met the eye.
My senses remained too muddled until we exited the council chamber, but as soon as we stepped out into the dark corridor, I found the courage I’d been looking for.
I pulled on Felix, forcing him to stop. It took less effort than I was expecting, and I belatedly realized that it had always been that easy. Felix had simply refused to listen to my wishes before, but now that he was finally being honest, he was ready to kneel at the slightest touch.
That gave me the last push I needed to take his face between my palms and pull him down for a deep, reverent kiss.
It was a reward, but hardly just a reward.
It was for him and for me, for us and everything we’d just fought for.
I didn’t want to have all our intimacy relegated to the bedroom and moments of uninhibited passion.
I didn’t want Felix to just think that I saw him as an object of desire.
I needed him to understand that I wanted him there, here, and everywhere.
I wanted to cherish him through the good times and the bad, and I wouldn’t rest until he understood that our marriage vows may have been hollow at the time they were spoken, but they were still binding, and I wasn’t going to rest until I’d made them true.
Of course, all those thoughts vanished from my head the instant that Felix recovered and began to kiss me back.
He turned that fairly chaste declaration of love and respect into a hungry demand for more.
I was satisfied with just holding his face, but his hands demanded more.
He wanted to hold me closer, to cup my ass, to crush our bodies together until we became one.
When we stopped, it certainly wasn’t because I managed to push him away.
It was only Felix’s sense of decorum that brought things to a halt, and even then, I didn’t resist at all when he took me by the hand and pulled me along.
He didn’t even need to clutch tightly to make me follow.
The tenderness of his affection was all he needed to make me follow to the ends of the earth.
The entire journey to the pack house was a blur, and I remembered nothing at all of the ride home.
One instant, we were kissing outside the council chambers.
The next, Felix was tossing me down onto the mattress in his bedroom, looming over me like an intoxicatingly dangerous predator.
He didn’t even bother to completely remove his tie, he just loosened it and bent down to begin his unholy feast.
“Wait, what are you doing? Felix? Felix!”
But he wasn’t listening. With deft fingers, he unbuttoned my pants, and then he was tugging the waistband down before I could stop him. He wasn’t going to stop until he’d managed to free me, and this perspective was far more mortifying than I’d imagined in my fantasies.
I had to cover my face as Felix freed my cock, unable to bear the shame and excitement that were threatening to boil over.
“So beautiful,” he murmured, his hot breath fanning my sensitive skin. “My Monte. My perfect Monte.”
My cock twitched.
“Felix, you can’t—”
Oh. But he could. He proved that right then and there when he took me within his mouth.
All of a sudden, every sensation was amplified a hundred times over.
The heat of his breath turned into the molten caress of his mouth.
Glistening wetness on the tip turned into the aching suction between his lips as he swallowed down my length.
His tongue was merciless, punishing me just as thoroughly here as everywhere else.
Felix had always known exactly how to make me do exactly what he wanted, and never had that been quite so evident.
My fingers ran through his hair as he fucked me with his mouth, worshipping and torturing me in equal measure.
It may have begun as quiet reverence, but Felix couldn’t help himself.
I could feel his burning need, not for his own pleasure, but to feel the gushing proof of my own feelings down his throat.
“Felix, that’s too much,” I croaked, tears stinging my eyes as one hand still tried to cover my face, but even that touch had begun to feel stimulating, and my own fingers plunged into my mouth.
“You’re going to cum?” Felix growled as he pulled away, a strand of saliva running down from his mouth to the tip of my glistening cock.
I nodded, hoping and fearing that he would show mercy. However, I was completely unprepared when Felix grabbed me by the hips and roughly rolled me over until I was face down. With a savage jerk he pulled my hips up, leaving my ass hanging in the air.
For a terrifying, wonderful moment, I thought he was going to fill me. In a sense, he gave me exactly that, but nothing could have prepared me for the wet, perverse sensation that plunged straight into me.
It wasn’t his penis. That much, I understood, but I couldn’t make the next connection.
My mind refused to process what was happening as he lapped at me, his hands gripping the cheeks of my ass and spreading me wide.
His hot breath bathed the underside of my balls, and I could feel myself teetering on the precipice of a mind-blowing orgasm.
I was going to cum without Felix touching my cock. I was going to cum just from the sensation of his tongue savagely pleasuring my aching asshole.
I knew the sounds I made were shameful, but I didn’t care. It didn’t matter if the entire pack house could hear me, not as long as Felix didn’t stop.
“More,” I begged. “I need it, Felix. I’m almost…”
And then words were beyond me. However, when Felix pulled his tongue away and deprived me of the release that I so desperately craved, I whined in protest.
“What are you doing?”
Felix flashed a teasing grin. He was enjoying this, making me go mad from want. But I had the power to take what I wanted.
Felix could stop pleasuring me, but he couldn’t stop me from stealing that pleasure for myself. I spun around and pounced on him, shoving him down onto his back. He offered no resistance whatsoever when I climbed on top of him.
“Oh, look at you,” he smiled. I returned with a mocking smirk as my fingers worked his pants open, then freed his stiff cock. How did he even manage to keep that in?
Only when I lowered myself on his cock and slowly began to work myself down did I realize that maybe he had intended this all along. And when I looked down into his eyes and saw his appreciation for his new vantage point, I knew that I’d been played like a fiddle.
“Damn you,” I hissed, and my Alpha hummed in approval.
But it was impossible to care about such trivialities when he was stretching me out to glorious new dimensions. “I love you,” I gasped as I found myself fully seated on his length. “Fuck, I love you.”
A growl built in Felix’s throat as his hands settled on my hips. “You’re gonna be regretting those words in a moment.”
My heart lurched. “Wh-what do you mean?”
“I mean that if you say that shit now,” he purred as he lifted me up several inches, then violently thrust upward to impale me again.
“Then you’re gonna feel like a damn idiot when you have to find fitting words for the best orgasm of your life, Monte.
Save it for when I make you cum your fucking brains out. ”
“Felix,” I moaned, but got no further. All it took was one savage thrust to make me forget language and the need for air.
The world beyond this bed faded into a blur, and rightfully so.
All that mattered was bouncing on my Alpha’s cock and letting him prove his love over and over and over again.