Chapter 20 The Worst Proposal To Ever Exist #2
They repeated this again, until Titan finally caught Mathlin on the same side.
“Aha!” Titan said.
“You found me!” Mathlin cried.
With the same exaggerated steps, Titan chased Mathlin around Vigil, tossing his head so his flowers scattered petals everywhere.
“What the actual fuck,” Vigil said.
They ignored him. Titan slowed to a stop and whipped around, wriggling his shoulders. “Omega,” he sang sonorously.
Mathlin clutched his chest. “Who are you, again?”
“I am the alphalest alpha of these lands,” Titan boomed. “And today I am proposing to you!”
With a flourish, Titan sank down on one knee.
Mathlin flailed, flinging his cupcakes aside. Maybe they hit someone. Titan spat out his flowers.
“Where’s the ring?” said someone in the crowd.
“Alas, my arms have been slain,” Titan announced. “I can’t hold up a ring for you, my fair omega. But something else of mine is presenting the ring proudly.”
Mathlin looked at the box resting against Titan’s bulge. “Oh! A cock ring!”
Titan shook his head with great sadness. “Unfortunately, the ring is smaller than that.”
Mathlin heaved a sob. “No!”
Ever so slightly, Titan’s lips twitched up at the corner.
Then he inhaled deeply. “My omega, fairest in the land. Will you not accept my hand in marriage?”
Mathlin fell to his knees in the grass. Several guests watched as he reached for Titan’s crotch... and carefully took the velvet box in his hands. “Let me see your ring first,” Mathlin announced. “Sometimes rings are too tight and they don’t fit.”
“This will fit,” Titan rumbled—with that alpha voice again, the one that kindled heat in Mathlin’s body. “I made it big enough.”
That was a lie: Mathlin was the one who had made the ring, but no one needed to know that.
He opened the velvet box and gasped, pulling out the ring: a scrunched-up piece of aluminum foil twisted into a circle.
Mathlin slid it onto his ring finger and swooned. “My finger went in!”
“You can pull it out and put it back in again,” Titan said solemnly. “As many times as you want. It will always fit.”
Mathlin snorted. So did Vigil, who was still standing nearby.
Loudly, Titan asked, “Does this mean you will marry me, fair omega?”
“Yes!” Mathlin cried. “I will eat you out of house and home!”
“And I will eat you out,” Titan said.
“Gods, this is so bad,” Vigil muttered. “Please end my suffering.”
Titan and Mathlin exchanged a look. Mathlin had a bright idea, suddenly. He leaned in, sticking out his tongue and flapping it wildly.
To his credit, Titan mirrored him without batting an eyelid.
When they were close enough, Titan’s tongue flapped against Mathlin’s.
Then their lips sealed together, and Titan’s tongue slowed to a sensual slide, thrusting into Mathlin’s mouth like an alpha claiming his territory.
Mathlin gasped, his body waking up again.
This wasn’t how he had envisioned their second kiss. But Titan fitted their mouths so sweetly together that all of Mathlin’s thoughts fled his mind. His insides burned.
“Yeah, okay, that’s enough,” Vigil said. “I’m leaving.”
Mathlin knew the kiss had to end; this was just an act. But proposal kisses were special, right? Yeah. This could—should—go on for longer. Their tongues tangled. Titan’s breath puffed against his cheek, and low rumbling sounds escaped his chest.
Mathlin wanted to stay there forever, sinking into Titan’s sheer presence.
“Congrats,” Titan said into his mouth, sliding his tongue in like he was pushing his cock into Mathlin. “You’ve won the award for the most cringey proposal in the world.”
Mathlin giggled. “You won it too. I bet it’s worse than anything that pickup line author could’ve written.”
“The Butler Brothers might fight you on that. Or they might start worshipping you like a god.”
“Oh no,” Mathlin groaned.
Grass rustled nearby. Mathlin turned, only to squeak when he realized they were surrounded by Titan’s brothers.
He pulled away from Titan reluctantly, his lips still tingling. “Um? I can explain.”
“That was fucking insane,” Gavric said, his face bright with amusement.
“I hope that wasn’t your actual proposal,” Ottis said.
Titan shook his head. “You guys know I have better taste than that, right?”
Mathlin gasped. “How could you? That was the most tasteful proposal ever!”
“It was the most flavorful proposal ever,” Titan said, nipping Mathlin’s throat. Mathlin’s heart skipped. “Did Everdin show up?”
“She didn’t. But you can be sure that someone’s informing her right now.” Crush waved his phone. “Your proposal exploded the group chat.”
“I need to bleach my brain,” Vigil said. “This counts under ‘Things I can’t unsee.’ Fuck. This party should’ve come with a warning.”
“It was a once-in-a-lifetime event,” Mathlin said primly. “You will never witness anything so creative again.”
Titan laughed.
Because Yasmin’s guests were still watching them, Mathlin climbed onto Titan’s lap, purring when Titan nuzzled his ear and down the side of his neck.
“Bite him!” one of the guests yelled. “It doesn’t count unless you bite him!”
Titan inhaled slowly. “Math...?”
“Yes,” Mathlin said. He stopped breathing, waiting anxiously to see what Titan would do.
Titan’s gaze darkened. He tipped his head and nuzzled Mathlin’s throat, pressing a soft kiss there. Then he parted his lips, giving Mathlin’s pulse point a sinful, open-mouthed kiss.
It wasn’t like any kiss Titan had given him before. Titan sucked lightly on him, his tongue flicking against Mathlin’s skin. Every new touch sent a tendril of heat coiling between Mathlin’s legs.
“I didn’t know a kiss could be this filthy,” Mathlin squeaked.
Titan grinned against his neck. “Yeah?”
And he sealed his lips over that spot, sucking like he was trying to leave a love bite. Mathlin tried not to writhe. Surely a mating bite didn’t involve this much pleasure, but who was Mathlin to turn it down?
He jerked when sharp teeth nicked his skin. Only then did Mathlin remember that Titan was a wolf. These teeth were Titan’s most powerful weapon, pressed against the vulnerable flesh of Mathlin’s throat.
He was completely at Titan’s mercy. And he wanted so badly to be bitten.
“Please,” Mathlin whispered.
Titan growled and dragged his soft lips further down, sinking his teeth into the crook of Mathlin’s neck, right where he was sensitive.
He didn’t break skin. He didn’t leave a bonding mark. Electricity jolted through Mathlin anyway, punching the breath out of him. Suddenly, all Mathlin knew was the rising heat in his body. His insides turned heavy. His mouth watered. Need surged through his veins, and his cock thickened.
Most damnably of all, his hole grew wet, getting ready for his alpha to stretch him deep inside.
“Math,” Titan rumbled. “Your scent changed.”
“I know,” Mathlin whimpered, digging his fingers into Titan’s shirt. When had his nails turned into claws? “Titan. Alpha.”
Titan’s eyes widened. “Math—”
Mathlin’s claws sank through Titan’s shirt and hooked into his skin. Titan hissed. Between Mathlin’s legs, the alpha’s bulge swelled.
It was so big. And so hard. Mathlin rocked against it, shuddering when pleasure hummed through his body. Titan blew out a sharp breath.
“Yeah, you guys have to get out of here,” Crush said.