I shook my head, trying to force thoughts of claiming her body from my mind.
When dinner was ready, I doled out heavy portions onto metal plates and gave her more than I know she would have given herself. In order to make it through what was coming, she and I needed all the sustenance we could get.
“Every single bite,” I commanded, my voice more forceful than I had ever spoken to her before. If she disobeyed me, I didn’t know what I would do, but I knew I would have to punish her. My palm twitched and I felt the sudden urge to take her over my knee and spank her.
I watched her tentatively take the plate from me.
Thankfully, she obeyed. In fact, she ate everything as if she had suddenly found her hunger too strong to resist. I smiled. That pleased me.
The two of us ate in silence, but I could feel the tension growing between us in waves. Time was beginning to grow short. She knew she was going to get fucked good and hard and we both knew I was going to be the one to do it.
Her nipples pebbled beneath her shirt. Either she wasn’t wearing a bra, or it was thin enough where it didn’t matter. My balls tightened and I could feel my dick begin to get hard. At once, my pants felt far too constricting. I wanted to take them off.
It wouldn’t be long now.
I was bigger, stronger, faster, and my metabolism burned hotter than hers because of it. Likely, my body was breaking down the suppressant at faster speeds than hers was.
That meant I would be ready to fuck her long before she would be prepared to be fucked. I licked my lips and turned away, ashamed of the direction of my thoughts.
I didn’t want to hurt her. She was a good woman, strong-minded and independent, and the thought of doing anything to diminish that part of her worried me. Could I fight the urges long enough for her to want it too?
Only time would tell.
I was strong. I’d trained hard and worked as a soldier before I’d taken a position in the lab. I had worked the borderlands of the wilds, ensuring that no man or beasts breached our walls. I’d studied medicine and the army had taken advantage of that, stationing me in the most dangerous areas so that I could treat the wounded in the field. The constant bloodshed wore on me, so I’d quit after my last deployment and gone into research, ending up in the lab by Raven’s side instead.
I liked the work. It had been less stressful, that is until this unfortunate little trip.
She caught my eyes, distracting my train of thought, and I had to turn away, taking another bite of my meal as a way to avoid her gaze.
We finished our dinner and set our plates to the side. I stood and walked over to where she was sitting, kneeling down in the dirt in front of her feet. She cringed and unconsciously clutched at her lower abdomen, jolting slightly at what I could only guess was either pain or desire. I had to console her, help her through the process as much as I could.
“No matter what happens, know that I don’t want to hurt you,” I said, doing my best to comfort her despite the circumstances.
“I know,” she replied quietly, but her voice trembled. She was nervous, that much was clear, but there was a certain sense of shame in the way she avoided my gaze. There was more to her fear than I initially thought. She pressed her thighs together and I sniffed the air. I could smell her now. My mouth watered and I tried to focus back on her as a woman and not just an omega.
“You’re afraid you’re going to like it,” I observed quietly, and she refused to look at me, instead focusing on the sun that was beginning to set low on the horizon. The sky lit up with countless colors, a thing of beauty that I would never tire of seeing.
I took her hands in mine and squeezed her fingers. She felt cold and I felt the sudden need to protect her once more, to take care of her and make her warm again. Sitting beside her, I pulled her into my lap. At first, she protested, but slowly, she began to relax in my embrace. She was small enough to fit easily on top of my thighs and I curled my arms around her stomach, pulling her into my chest.
It felt right.
We sat there together for a while, watching the sky turn from a cloudless blue to pink and red, streaked like fire, until the first bright twinkly stars began to sparkle in the night. Gradually, the chill left her body and the longer she sat in my lap, the more my cock reacted to her presence.
Our time together was growing short. That much, I was sure of.
I felt her tremble in my arms and a soft sigh escaped her lips. Then the sweet, distinct smell of her slick ravaged my senses. Perfume like honeyed, sugared peaches wasted my defenses, and then I knew all was lost.
Raven was mine. It was my right as her alpha, and now she was going to learn what it meant to be my omega.