Refusing my Alpha mate
Chapter 37

Arthur

I went up the stairs with Clair and went straight to my room, I opened it, went in with her, and kicked the door behind me. While I smelled her sweet scent, the scent that drove me crazy, the smell that made me lose my senses, that made me adore her. And at the moment it also made my dick rock hard pressing against my pants.

I placed Clair carefully on the bed and for a few seconds I stayed on top of her, with my arms resting on the side of her head, my body pinning her to the bed, and my eyes locked on her gaze, she was soft and the touch of her skin in mine it was something I couldn't describe.

It took us so long to finally be together that I would take all the time I needed to enjoy her. I kissed her lips slowly, and then I moved down to her neck, and I could hear her moaning softly at my touch.

Clair was wearing a dress and my fingers went to her back, slowly pulling the zipper. Then I hooked the straps around my fingers and pulled them down, slowly, inch by inch, and my mouth followed the fabric, with every inch of skin I exposed, I kissed, and Clair moaned lightly with each breath, leaving me completely in ecstasy, more than making myself feel, I loved making her feel all that. I finished taking off her dress, and looked at her white skin with black lingerie, the contrast made her even more irresistible.

It was like I never got enough of her.

Clair was my drug, and I was completely addicted, I slowly pulled her bra, just to the point of exposing her pink nipples, and she even opened the clasp in the back and threw the piece to the side, this time I dragged my teeth lightly across between her nipple, making Clair scream, and leaving my legs feeling soft. My fingers hooked into the waistband of her panties and I pulled them down as slowly as I could, teasing her and feeling my nostrils being flooded with the sweet smell of her arousal.

Her hands went to the hem of my shirt, pulling the piece up and making me help her take it off too, it was as if every touch of the fabric was too much for my skin, I needed the touch of her skin on mine, and only that.

Clair was my redemption, she was my soulmate, and I only found my peace while our bodies were glued together as if we were one.

She then squeezed my dick still over my pants, making waves of pleasure run through my entire body and my eyes closed slightly to feel it all, then she opened my pants and pulled them down all at once. She held my dick with both hands and positioned it at her slippery and ready entrance.

Ready for me.

But it was when she pushed her hips forward that I completely lost control, I entered her inch by inch, she was tight and warm, and the moans she let out mixed with mine in the silent night, and it was as if all that it was too much to bear.

The layers of pleasure overlapped and my eyes held hers until she closed them as she threw her head back and let out a moan from the back of her throat. I cascaded my hands down her body, lightly touching her soft skin and making her shiver, but it was when my fingers went to her clitoris that she gasped, I kept the thrusts while stimulating her, and with each breath she took it became a moan, and her moans drove me crazy, I couldn't hold out much longer.

"Alpha." The scream came from the back of her throat along with a hoarse moan, at the same time that I felt her walls contract around me, and that was the final straw for me to cum too. We had sex three more times after that, it was as if she couldn't get enough, it was as if we both wanted to make up for all the delay that night, but after a while, we soon fell asleep.

Waking up with Clair by my side knowing that she really wasn't going anywhere was something I wanted so badly, but for so long felt impossible.

Seeing her small body stretch made me pull her back into my embrace and the perfect fit of our bodies made me hard again, and I almost felt like just not getting out of that bed today. I kissed the thin skin of her neck as she turned to kiss my lips subtly.

"Good morning, Alpha." She told me and I exhaled hearing her call me Alpha again.

"Good morning, Alpha," I responded and brought a smile to her face.

"Let's go? We have a big day ahead of us." She told me, getting up hurriedly, and I was starting to get used to the fact that she had energy, a lot of energy.

We had breakfast with John, Renne, Monica, and my mother, and it was wonderful how natural it was to have her there with me, with my family, as if it had always been like this. And even though the atmosphere was different from the wake, it was still light, it was still good.

We organized ourselves and got ready, I wore my black suit and a black shirt, Clair put on a tight black dress and tied her red hair in a bun, she put on light makeup, and as always she looked stunning, but seeing her getting ready with me there, as if it were normal, made me realize how natural it was for us to be together.

We went down to greet people, and it was still strange to introduce her to the people in my Pack as my mate, it was something that seemed so distant before and now it was so real that it seemed like it had been happening for a long time.

All the Alphas in the region gathered to say goodbye to my father, and as everyone was at the last meeting of Clair's Pack, no one thought it strange that she was by my side, after having publicly withdrawn my rejection.

We agreed to publicize our mating ceremony after the wake, to do things calmly, but my desire was to scream for everyone to hear right then and there, that Clair was mine, finally mine.

And I was hers, entirely hers.

Saying goodbye to my father hurt me, but it was something I had prepared for beforehand, and even though I would obviously miss him a lot, the day was marked by remembering all the good he did, and that was really beautiful to see.

At the time of the ceremonies, I took the silver dagger, more carefully this time, and my mother reached for my father's wolf lock of fur and I cut the entire lock with a single movement, releasing his now cut fur over the top of his body, and now he and his wolf would rest in peace.

We closed the coffin, and John and I joined my 4 uncles, we were the 6 men who carried the coffin to the pyre. My mother walked behind us with a candle, but I had forgotten to take the balloon.

I didn't need to say anything, as soon as we positioned the coffin on the pyre, I turned to look for the balloon, but Clair was already walking towards me with it in her hands. I smiled through the tears I was shedding, and she held the balloon while I took the candle from my mother's hands to light it, and then she handed it to me.

Holding the lit balloon in one hand, and the candle in the other, I lit the pyre with my father's coffin, and soon the fire took over. I slowly released the balloon and watched it rise through the sky, while my mother held one of my hands, and Clair the other.

We watched together as the balloon rose, so high until we could no longer see the little golden flame of fire in it, so high it was in the sky, with the moon, where my father was now.

I wiped the tears that ran down my face, and we also watched the fire burn the coffin inside the pyre, but after a while the three of us turned and went back to the rest of the people, and the feeling of duty accomplished, of having given a dignified farewell to my father, it filled me completely.

He was honored.

After that, we served dinner, for the closest people who wanted to stay, and at a certain point I was at one of the drinking stations, pouring two glasses of whiskey, one for myself and one for Clair, when David and Monica approached to served drinks too, I heard loud and clear in Clair's head that she wanted to talk to them now, I just handed her the glass, and smiled giving her a short wave to speak.

"We'd really like to talk to you." She started saying and taking a sip of whiskey.

"Yes, Alpha," David said pouring Monica a martini first.

"I don't know if you noticed, but we're going to take over together, this week we'll send the statement to the Council." Clair started to say and David frowned as he poured himself a shot of whiskey as well.

"But how are you going to do that?" David asked genuinely trying to understand.

"Two Alphas," Clair said now, raising the glass of whiskey towards me, and I found her glass with mine clinking and smiling. "But that's not the detail, the detail is that my Pack no longer has Betas." She said and sighed, this was very recent for everyone actually. "And Monica's parents were retiring soon, Arthur thought we would invite you to be our Betas…" She finished saying and David slowly absorbed her words. His lips opened in astonishment while Monica opened a smile, the widest I've ever seen her smile, and I smiled too, I couldn't believe that everything I had only thought about in my most optimistic thoughts was happening.

"It's an honor, but...I...I don't know if we're capable..." David said in the purest and most genuine innocence, and at that moment I had to respond.

"Yes you are, Monica has trained her whole life for this, her parents are incredible Betas and she will be too. And you..." I started laughing before finishing. "I need to tell you that at first, I thought you were a pain in the ass, but today I see that you were just doing your job and caring for and protecting Clair. You are a great friend, David, you are someone trustworthy that we can count on, and that is the real role of a Beta, someone we can count on to care, protect, and trust." He didn't expect it, it was obvious in his eyes that he didn't count on it. "And in fact, you already did this role with Clair." I finished by shrugging my shoulders and taking another sip of the whiskey.

David turned to Monica and she was still smiling, and then in a gesture very like her, Mo waved her hands in the air excitedly as she said.

"Come on David, just accept it." She said to her companion.

"And the guard, how will it be?" David asked as his gaze went from Clair to me.

"We're going to need to go through a guard union, things would change anyway, and you could still have control over the guard administration without any problems," I answered him, and I saw David's face light up.

"We accept, then," David said reaching out his hand to me, but I pushed him to the side as I opened my arms to welcome him in a hug, slapping him twice on the back.

There we had our Betas too.

Next chapter, we have the ceremony and more emotions...

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