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My mouth was still hanging open from him cutting me off, and my cheeks flared hotter even as my core gave a traitorous clench. I couldn’t help that my biology made me react to dominance, especially from an alpha.
A verynakedalpha.
My eyes went wide when he stalked toward me, closing the space between us. Air left my lungs in a rush as I tried to back away, but I barely made it two steps before he caught my elbow and stopped me.
He dragged me forward, though I tried to fight his pull. My strength was nothing compared to his, and he didn’t seem to even notice my struggle to get away.
My core clenched again, and the first trace of slick seeped from my core, making me clench my knees together and pray he didn’t smell it.
Stopping beside the bedding I’d slept on, his grip moved to my nape, his fingers wrapping almost all the way around to the front of my throat. A squeak of fear escaped as my body went stiff, but when he exerted pressure on the back of my neck, I had no choice but to fold and take a seat on the furs.
“Sit.”
The monster released my neck, and I flinched when his other hand moved in front of me. Panting as I waited for the pain of a blow, I finally peeled open eyelids I had clenched shut to see him holding out what looked like a wild onion.
“You need to eat something. Humans can’t go long without food.”
When I hesitated to take the onion, he let out a soft growl. I jerked in reaction and reached out to take the plant, clump of dirt clinging to its roots and all, just to get him to back up.
He returned to his place across the fire once I’d accepted the food. I didn’t want to eat the onion, but my stomach gave a rumble, reminding me I hadn’t put anything in it since my late lunch the day before.
“Umm, thank you, but I can’t eat an onion without cleaning it first.”
Would it be too much if I said I preferred them cooked?
I looked around for my water bottle before I realized I must have left it beside the stream when I ran from the storm. The monster’s brows pinched, but he passed me a clay jug that sloshed before looking away to watch the pup as it gnawed on a hunk of meat he tossed to it.
I didn’t know what to think of his manhandling me, or the way my body responded to it, and I wasn’t ready to try pushing him further. Having him with me was seeming like a better idea than having to worry that he was following me.
When he stood from his crouch I couldn’t keep from jerking back, another undignified noise escaping my lips before I could swallow it. He winced before glancing at me and letting out a short purr that he cut off before my muscles completely uncoiled, and if I didn’t know better, I might have thought the monster was embarrassed.
Somehow that made him less scary.
He reached for the pup who’d finished the food he’d been given, turning to carry it to the entrance of the cave. It seemed odd for the monster to have a pet, although it almost made sense if he was going to train it to hunt with him. Though he’d manhandled me, he was gentle with the pup, and I had always believed you could tell a lot about a person from the way they treated animals. He might look like one himself, but he’d certainly proved his intelligence, and I couldn’t help my growing curiosity about the monster who’d decided I was now his charge.
Chapter Seven
De’drik
Ihadn’t meant to scare the omega, but I wasn’t going to let her wander off on her own again. She was smart not to trust an alpha she didn’t know, especially one who looked like me, but there was no way my instincts would let me leave her before I knew she was safe. I could understand her fear, she was an omega lost in the woods with a strange male, but she was safer with me. There were predators in the forest, and she had no way of protecting herself.
I still didn’t understand how an omega had been allowed to wander the woods without someone to watch over her. Did her family not care if she was taken?
I had to fight back another growl at the thought. The more I learned of humans, the less I liked them. I was sure there were those who weren’t as bad as the ones I’d heard stories of recently, but they seemed to be fewer in number than the ones who needed removed from this world.
Shrugging off the irritation, I turned my attention back to the omega once Wulf was dealt with.
“What should I call you? I assume you’d prefer something other than Little Omega.”
The female shivered as her eyes locked on mine, and my lips tipped up at the way her body reacted to me. She might be lost and confused, but omega biology worked against her when she was faced with an alpha.
Her pink tongue slipped out to wet her lips before she answered, and my ridges bunched, stirring with interest.
Was it really possible to press my shaft through that small opening? The others claimed to have done it, and human teeth were blunt, but her mouth seemed so small.
And her other opening would be even smaller.
I had to pull my thoughts away from that path as her gaze dropped to my shaft before darting down to her own lap. I hadn’t bothered with the loin cloth Mel’cam now insisted be worn when with the clan, and my arousal clearly made her uncomfortable, no matter that I could scent a trace of slick in the air as well.
