Chapter 125 – Owned by the Alphas Novel Free by Jen Cooper

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“Mom.”

I grinned, and she spun to me. She gasped as she looked over me before she enclosed me in her arms.

I held her so fucking tightly, hating how long it’d been since I had seen her and that in that time, I knew she had lost weight.

She pulled back and wiped a stray tear from my cheek, her own pooling in her eyes.

“Sweetie. I missed you.” She smiled, and I held her hand to my face.

“I missed you too.”

Her eyes went to my stomach then, her other hand rubbing over the swell of it. It was still growing fast, and I felt our baby in there moving to meet her.

Her eyes lit up, and her tears spilled over.

“Wow,” she breathed out. “You’re growing so well.”

“Yeah, he’s strong.” I rubbed my stomach, and she nodded, a sad smile covering her features.

“What’s wrong, Mom? Why are you here?”

She nodded toward the tea, and I followed her to sit down.

Anetta had already been told to leave, but Derik and Kai hovered. Not too close, in case the heat flared, but close enough in case I needed them.

I checked on Brax, but he pushed me back out softly, like he was trying not to hurt my feelings but couldn’t have me that close yet without being able to do something about it.

I pulled away from the link, then turned to Mom, waiting for her to answer. She sipped her tea and avoided it, playing with the silk napkin next to her cup.

“Mom. You came to the city despite being terrified of the werewolves. I know that means it is bad, just tell me,” I said, and she let out a shaky breath.

“Your father…” She tensed, laying out the napkin before meeting my eye. “He has taken over the villages. He has implemented so many rules and consequences. The women are suffering, and it is much more than I could ever explain.”

“Try,” I bit through a clenched jaw, his face flaring in my vision.

A target. An enemy.

Kai tensed from behind me, and I knew he was feeding from my rage. I tried to pull it back, but it was just as hard as trying to control the heat within my body.

“He has made the women his personal servants. We must serve our men in all ways,” she said, her voice breaking as tears fell.

I clenched my fists under the table.

“We must cook for them, clean for them, and if our husbands wish it, pleasure them.

“We are not allowed to speak unless spoken to, and every chore has fallen on us.

We are barely given the food we need to survive, and we are punished for every infraction we incur. It is hell, Lorelai.” She trembled.

“I didn’t know he was this kind of man,” she muttered before sniffling back her tears and dabbing her face with the napkin.

Rage consumed my blood, and with it, the heat, flaring underneath my skin until I was digging my nails into my thigh to stop from lashing out.

“How did you get here?” Derik asked with a frown.

My head snapped to him with a glare as I felt the accusation in his tone. I did not appreciate it, and by my mother’s matching glare, neither did she.

“You wonder how I escaped if he is so controlling?” she assumed, and Derik nodded.

“I would like to know,” he said, holding his arms around his body.

Kai was silent, but he wanted to know too, so I waited for Mom’s answer with them.

“I used my body, Alphas. I seduced him, then used some herbs, the same ones he used on Lorelai, to keep him incoherent. Then, with Vaughn’s help, I made it to the city.

“I must get back soon though. Vaughn can’t cover for me forever.

“I am currently meant to be helping with the children at the widows’ hut–which, if you must know, has recently been converted into a brothel of sorts,” she explained, then turned to me.

“Your father has decreed that all widows are to pay their dues through sexual favors, otherwise their burden on the villages and resources may become too much.”

My heart twisted at her words. It was hell, and my father was the devil.

I let out a shaky breath that was too hot. My skin clammed up as I tried to process what she was saying, but it was too much.

I wanted to kill him, hurt him, and make him pay, but with the heat writhing beneath my skin, that was the only emotion that pierced my control, like all the others were so strong it forced out the only one I could do anything about.

I took deep breaths, clenched my thighs together as my core throbbed, begging me to sate it.

I eyed Kai and Derik out of the corner of my eye just as Brax came to the edge of the clearing in the gardens, his eyes wild, his top off, his bare torso glistening with sweat.

“He needs to be stopped then,” I answered Mom breathily, and she frowned.

“Yes…he does. Sweetie, are you all right? You’re awfully flushed,” she noted, taking a sip of her tea.

I nodded tightly and swallowed hard against the flaring heat. It was getting hotter.

Howls broke through the quiet of the gardens and I shuddered, the pack’s pleasure leaking into me–like I wasn’t struggling enough with my own body.

“Yeah, I, uh, Derik and Kai are just going to keep you company for a moment, I need to use the bathroom,” I said, and stood from the chair.

She nodded as if that was totally normal.

I gave my alphas an eye and they nodded, closing in to occupy her while I made my way to Brax behind her. He needed me and I needed him.

He curled us around the corner of the mansion where the gardens were less dense as he kissed me. I met his mouth, grabbing for his ties as he lifted my skirts with the same desperate movements.

He fucked me against the estate, covering my mouth with his hand as his growls fell on my neck. His teeth scraped the flesh, and I sucked in a breath, my head spinning.

“I need the bite,” I breathed, and he growled.

“I can’t. Kai will know.” He shuddered.

I met his hips with my own, my body climbing as I gripped the wall with my fingertips. “I need it,” I urged.

“Bite her. Not on the neck. Not in front of me. I can control it while my body burns with the feel of her filled with you. I will need her soon. Real soon,” Kai interrupted our thoughts, and I moaned.

Brax stole the sound as he kissed me again, his teeth pressing against my lip before he dropped me to the ground, spun me, and bent me over.

I splayed my hands on the mansion wall, hidden by gardens and the towering building. Brax ran a finger down my spine before filling me again.

I went to cry out, but his hand clamped on my mouth and his canines sank into my shoulder. I squeezed my eyes shut as his toxin made my orgasm instant, his cock pulsing inside me until I was a sated, shuddering, panting mess, high on his toxin and his cum.

When he finally let me come down, his own climax hitting him just as hard, I felt a thousand times better, more in control, and like I had at least another conversation with my mom in me before the urge would hit again.

He grabbed my hand and walked me back to the gardens where Derik was pouring Mom some more tea, talking animatedly with her like the heat barely affected him.

But I knew the truth. He was just as desperate to cure his. He hid it better than Kai though, who was standing farther away, his fists clenched as he gritted his jaw.

I didn’t meet his eyes and sat back down in my chair.

“Better?” She smiled, and I nodded.

For now.

I knew it wasn’t going to last long, and it started to get harder and harder to come up with excuses as the day wore on.

The heat got stronger, the urges, the stages starting to become harder to ignore. I knew the initial fuck every five minutes was just the initial part, and I had no idea how I was going to cover for it when the second stage hit.

I talked with Mom for as long as I could. Her fear for the women in the villages was so fucking important to me because it meant so much to her, but I just couldn’t breathe.

I needed to be ravaged, like putting it aside for short bursts was making it more determined to consume me.

“Sweetheart, I don’t mean to put you on the spot, but are you sure you’re okay?

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