15. Chapter Fourteen
Chapter Fourteen
Hal
Briar moved above me, his pale skin almost translucent in the glow from the full moon.
He was beautiful; his frail chest pushed forward, his pink nipples two pointed rosebuds, his head tipped back in ecstasy.
Having him like this, outside of his heat, was everything.
There was no rush. We moved like one being, the urgency now gone, replaced by an intimacy I’d longed for my entire life.
Briar’s fingers dug into my thighs as he rode me toward my climax.
He’d only been able to take my cockhead, his body back to normal now that he wasn’t in heat.
He’d insisted he could take more of me and that his body would adjust if I just gave him my entire length, but there was no hurry.
I liked the idea of Briar being so tiny and tight that he couldn’t take all of me in one go.
It made me feel protective of him, like it was up to me to take care of him as his alpha. Like I knew what was best for Briar.
“More,” he moaned, his small cock bobbing up and down as he moved.
It was so pink and pretty, beads of precum shimmering on the head like precious pearls.
Gods, I was the luckiest alpha in the world.
I grabbed his hips and thrust inside him, careful not to breach him further.
“Please,” he whined. “More. I can take more. Please, Hal.”
“You’re not ready,” I growled, fucking him in slow, shallow thrusts.
“I am!” he protested, dropping his head to scowl at me. “I thought it was mine. My cock.” Fuck, he was like a feral animal, emerging from hibernation, ready to raid the forest.
I chuckled. “It is yours, sweetness, but I don’t want to hurt you. You are so small, and I’m too big for you.” He pouted, grinding down on my cock as he tried to seat himself completely. I tightened my hold on him, then flipped him around.
“Who’s your alpha?” I gritted. He struggled underneath me, but I saw the answer in his eyes and felt it in the way he clenched around me.
“You are,” he gasped, his thighs falling to the sides as he surrendered to me entirely.
“So you’ll do as I say, knowing I’ll always take care of you?”
Briar’s green eyes swam with intoxication, his tight hole rippling around my length, massaging it.
His small cock throbbed between us. He nodded frantically.
I knew this was a big deal to Briar because he’d been told what to do his entire life.
He’d never had a say in his own fate. Submitting to someone he barely knew wasn’t easy, but he was mine as much as I was his.
I’d do anything he asked of me, but I’d never hurt him or take him for granted.
Besides, no one had ever loved him the way I did. I was sure of it.
“Soon,” I cooed, licking his neck as I grasped his cock in my hand. “Soon I’ll fill you completely, and your body will mold itself around my cock.”
“Yes!” he whimpered, thrusting in and out of my fist.
“Soon you’ll own me completely, sweetness.” He already did, body and soul.
“Ahhhh!” he screamed as his climax tore through him. His cock pulsed between us, and the air filled with the scent of his sweet essence. “Hal!” He clung to me, desperate for the touch he’d been denied for so long.
“I’m here,” I croaked, peppering kisses along his chin. “I’ll always be here, Briar.”
Tears trailed down his crimson cheeks, his eyelashes fluttering with delight. In a flash, his small hand flew to my throat, squeezing it fiercely. “Promise me.”
“I promise,” I growled as I found my own release inside him. Briar hummed with contentment as I filled him with my seed, my orgasm outdrawn and powerful.
“Feels so good,” he slurred. “Makes me feel so safe. Your cum.”
“You are safe, sweet Briar. Always. Now sleep.” I couldn’t knot him outside his heats, but I longed to do so. I’d sleep with him all night, safely locked against me, safe from harm. “Soon,” I murmured against his beating heart. “Soon.”
I woke to something whispering along my chin, like grass in the wind, soft and tickling.
“Tired,” I mumbled, turning on my side.
“You’re awake?” A bright voice sounded behind me.
“No,” I groaned, pulling the blanket up over my shoulders.
“How can you talk if you aren’t awake?” the naughtiest omega in the kingdom teased me. Snaking his arm around my waist, Briar carded his fingers through my belly hair before his hand slid lower, wrapping around my cock. I was already hardening. Just the sound of his voice was enough.
Briar chuckled. “Part of you is wide awake at least. Good thing it’s my favorite part.” He pumped my length, biting my shoulder.
In a flash, I had Briar on his back, his eyes wide and huge, filled with mischief. “Your favorite part?” I growled. “Really?”
“Yes,” he gasped, laughing. “My new best friend.”
“You little…” I started tickling him, and he squirmed underneath me, squealing. I clamped my hand over his mouth. “Shhh, you’re gonna wake the entire palace.”
“Then fuck me already, and I won’t.” He raised a challenging eyebrow at me, and I secretly loved this bratty side of Briar. It meant he felt safe enough to be himself with me. I had a feeling not many, if any at all, saw this side of him. I hoped not. It was mine.
“Again? But aren’t you sore?”
He shook his head, licking his lips. “Not the least bit, just very, very wet.” His hand slid down his body, disappearing between his thighs, only for his fingers to come away, drenched in omega juices.
“Look, Hal. It’s an entire ocean down there.
” He blinked innocently as he held his slick-soaked fingers in front of my lips. “Hungry?”
Gods. My chest bloomed with adoration for this wonderful being. He was everything I’d ever dreamed of and more. Sweet, dirty, and delightful. I leaned in and closed my mouth around his fingers, his divine taste exploding on my tongue. I hummed with contentment, and Briar giggled adorably.
“Good?”
“Divine.”
He grabbed my hand and led it to his hole, the rim soft and ready for me. “See? So wet, Alpha.” He batted his long, luscious eyelashes. “An entire ocean for you to dive into.”
“You little incubus…” I groaned, plunging a fat finger inside him. He clenched around me greedily, his eyes falling shut in bliss.
“Alpha,” he begged. “Please. I need you so much. I’m so empty without you.”
“Briar.” I was powerless. All I could do was fuck my omega again. And again. Pulling my finger from his hole, he whined with displeasure until I stuffed him with my cock, giving him a little more this time.
And that’s how I woke, hours later, when the sun caressed my face, my cock still nestled inside Briar’s snugness.
“Hal?” There was a hint of uncertainty in Briar’s voice.
“Yes, sweetness.” I leaned in and kissed his temple.
“I’m… I’m sorry if I was too much last night. If I was too needy.” My heart broke at his words. Is that what he thought?
Framing his face with my hands, I gazed down at him. “Never apologize for needing me, Briar. You are my omega, and you can need me as much as you want. Night or day, whatever you want, I’m yours. I’m your alpha, and it is my responsibility to keep you happy and content. You understand?”
Tears pooled in Briar’s eyes. “Yes,” he whispered. “I just…”
“What?”
“I’m not used to having someone just for me. Someone who cares so much.” His gaze flickered.
“Neither am I, sweetness.” I brushed my lips against his, and he hummed against me.
“But we’ll learn together, won’t we? What it’s like not to be alone anymore.
” Briar nodded, more tears appearing in his eyes.
I kissed them away, tasting his sadness.
“No more tears, silly omega. Our life is going to be so good from now on.” A smile bloomed across Briar’s lovely face. “Say it, sweetness.”
“Our life is going to be so good from now on.”
“And we’re starting today.” I eased away from him, pulling him with me as my cock slid from his hole. “What do you want to do today?”
He frowned at me, brushing his wild curls out of his eyes. “I think… I think I want to move.”
“Move?!”
Briar giggled. “Into my father’s old rooms. They’re mine now. They’re much more spacious than this, but oh so gloomy and boring.”
I nodded. “Whatever you want, sweetness.”
He beamed at me as he stood in front of me in all his naked glory, my marks scattered across his body, the mark on his thigh still there from when I bit him during his heat.
Pride filled my chest. Briar was truly mine.
“I want to make it our home,” he said. “Bright, happy colors and lively patterns. Flowers everywhere.” His eyes sparked, and his excitement was so contagious that laughter bubbled in my chest.
“We should do that. I’d love to build a home with you.” I paused, weighing my words carefully. “But I also think you should talk to Seb and Elias.”
“About what?”
I pulled him against me, resting my forehead against his. “About the curse.” As I’d expected, he froze in my arms.
“Hal, no! I can’t.” He pulled away from me, blinking up at me.
“Briar,” I sighed.
He shook his head, curls flying. “I’m not doing it, Hal! You might be my alpha, but I won’t. They’ll just judge me. Or pity me.” I doubted he truly meant that. Seb and Elias weren’t the types to judge, and I truly couldn’t imagine them pitying him either. Compassion, yes, but never pity.
I held out my arms, and he immediately came to me, letting me embrace him.
“Sweetness, some things are hard to face, painful even, but we cannot hide from them. If we do, we give away our power. And you are powerful, strong.” He didn’t say anything, just held me tighter.
“Trust your friends, Briar. Trust me. No one will judge you or think any less of you. On the contrary. Seb and Elias love and respect you, and if you tell them, they’ll be able to help you. ”
He sniffled. “That’s not fair,” he pouted.
“What?” I tried to hide my smile, but he was just too cute as he stood there, scowling in my arms.
“To play the trust card. When you know I trust you with my life.”
I sucked in a breath. “Briar…”
“I’m scared,” he admitted.
“I know. Things that matter are scary.”
“That’s easy for you to say. You’re an alpha.”
“So? Alphas get scared, too.”
“They do?” His eyes filled with wonder.
I nodded. “Of course.”
“Of what? What are you scared of, Hal?”
My chest squeezed. The truth was, there was only one thing that scared me. “Of ever losing you, Briar.”
He leaped into my arms, making us crash onto the bed. “You won’t ever lose me, Hal. Not ever.” I prayed to all the gods that he was right, because I didn’t think I could survive losing him, now that I’d finally found him. I hugged him back, locking my body around his.
“I know I don’t have anything to offer you, Briar,” I murmured against his neck. “But I’ll always be there for you. I promise.”
“You’re offering me the only thing I want, Hal. You,” he sniffled. “That’s all I want.”
“You have me.”
He pulled away from me. “Will you come with me? When I tell Seb and Elias?”
“Of course!”
He smiled carefully. “Then you can tell Seb, too.”
I frowned at him. “Tell him what?”
“That you don’t want to continue as a royal advisor.”
“Briar… What makes you think that—”
“I know you, Hal, and I know that kind of work makes you miserable. Your adventurous tasks with Gus make you smile so wide with longing whenever you tell me the stories. You love being outdoors. You love animals. Wouldn’t you rather be working with Adrian at the stables?
” His words stunned me. The way he saw right through me, all the way inside my soul.
“I love being with you and working beside you, but it would be selfish of me not to let you be just as happy as you’ve made me. ”
“I am happy!” I rushed out.
He nodded solemnly. “I know, but I still want you to be fulfilled in your daily work, and I don’t think being a royal advisor does that.
” He was right. I hated it. I missed the farm and the animals.
I would never leave the palace because Briar and Gus were here, but I did miss working outside with my hands, with animals.
“I guess it’s only fair.”
“What?”
“That I’m honest with Seb if I ask you to be.” I winced. I had to admit I was still a little scared of Seb. I took Briar’s hand in mine. “Will you at least make sure I have a proper burial if he kills me?”
“Seb?!” Briar snorted. “He won’t kill you,” he giggled. Briar flexed his thin arms. “He’ll have to go through me first!”
“Uhhhhh,” I shuddered, kissing him. “My fierce little omega.”