Omega’s Pretend Mate by Lacey Daize

Chapter 9 - Gabe

Istared at the ring on my finger, and the way the light reflected off it. Each color in the braid design had its own unique character and invited me to follow the pattern all the way around.

Christian couldn’t have picked out a better ring if he’d had me point out exactly what I wanted. Even if he had, I probably would have chosen a lesser ring. The one he bought was both stunning in its simplicity, and at the same time the detail in its intricacy was a subtle statement that he saw how much there was to me.

Ivy would probably scoff and proudly proclaim how many carats of diamond her ring had, but it didn’t matter. That wasn’t who I was, and Christian clearly understood that.

In fact, the only problem with the ring was how emotional it made me. For almost anybody else it would have been a source of joy, but for me it was a reminder of what we were doing and the people we would hurt. Including myself.

We’d shared the news with our families the morning after his proposal, mine via video call, and his on the telephone.

My family had been thrilled until they started asking questions. They wanted to know about Christian’s career, and his plans for the future. He discussed how he’d been setting aside money to buy into the firm as an equity partner. My parents, while polite, didn’t seem enthusiastic about my choice in alpha.

They’d probably expected me to marry another billionaire. It seemed that even doing what they wanted and was expected of me, wasn’t good enough.

Christian’s family, in contrast, was overjoyed. They gushed over the ring, and made sure that they thought Christian had good taste, while gently ribbing him about how I had to be too good for him. His papa asked me my favorite dishes, so he could learn to make some when we eventually came to visit, and his omega brother and brother-in-law insisted that we all get together for bonding time at some point.

I was only his fiance, and they already treated me like part of the family.

Luckily everybody on both sides accepted Christian’s reason for not bonding me already. There were some disappointed looks, but no arguments.

I took a deep breath, pulling his scent into my lungs. It had only been a week since he’d moved in, but the smell of alpha already filled my home and I couldn’t get enough.

I needed more.

I stood from my desk and made my way into the living room, where I saw Christian lounged on the couch, reading a book.

My legs carried me towards him without my brain giving the go-ahead. Then I was there, trying to crawl into the space between his chest and the book.

I needed his scent wrapped around me; filling me.

“Gabe?” he asked, setting aside the book.

“Please,” I murmured. “I need… I need…” I trailed off. What did I need?

Christian frowned and pressed the back of his hand to my forehead. “God, Gabe, you’re burning up.”

How could I be burning up when his warmth felt so good? And his scent… I buried my nose against his chest and inhaled deeply. It was amazing, and my body responded to it immediately, my dick hardening and slick starting to ease from me.

Hands on my shoulders, and I whined as Christian pushed me off and into a sitting position.

One hand held my shoulder, while he slid the palm of the other down my cheek.

“Fuck,” he murmured, a low growl in his tone. “You’re flushed too. Gabe, when was your last heat?”

I blinked, forcing myself to think. “Two months?” I guessed.

“Well it looks like your next one is early.”

“Huh?” I asked, head foggy. Then his words sunk in. My heat was starting early.

Christian gently shook my shoulders. “Listen to me Gabe. I need you to focus, ok?”

I nodded.

“You need to tell me what you want to do. You probably thought you had time, but that time is up. You’re going into heat.”

Why was my alpha asking what I wanted to do? I wanted him inside me for my heat. I needed to feel him moving within, knotting me and filling me with his seed.

“Gabe!”

I shook my head at the shout, and managed a moment of clarity. “Condoms…” I gasped. “I don’t have any.”

He looked into my eyes, then nodded. “Are you sure Gabe? You wouldn’t rather I go back to my apartment until it’s passed?”

“Hurts when I’m alone,” I whined.

He studied me for another minute, then sighed. “If you’d been any worse…” He ran one thumb across my cheek. “I wish we’d have discussed this properly. But I think you’re still coherent enough to consent.”

He set both hands on my shoulders, then stood. “Still…”

He went to the fridge and grabbed a bottle of water. “Drink,” he ordered, handing me the bottle. “The cold will help.”

I did as my alpha said, and drank the water, even though I didn’t want to. By the end of the bottle the haze had lifted somewhat.

“That’s better,” Christian said, once again staring into my eyes. “This heat is coming hard and fast. Now, before it gets bad again, I need you to tell me what you want me to do.”

I swallowed, and met his gaze. “I… I want you to share my heat, but I don’t have any heat condoms. I thought I still had time to get some.”

“Ok,” he replied with a nod. “That was a much clearer answer.” He took a seat beside me on the couch and took my hands in his. “I’m going to the drug store to get some. Do you have toys if it gets too bad before I get back?”

“Y-yes.” The haze was already coming back, and I didn’t want him to leave.

“I’m going to be back as soon as possible, but if it gets bad I want you to use the toys on yourself, ok?”

“Don’t go,” I begged.

“I have to get the condoms Gabe. I won’t be long. I promise.”

I whined.

“Listen to me omega,” he growled, and it cut through me at the same time that my body reacted with more slick. “I’ll be right back. Use your toys if it hurts until then.”

“Yes alpha.”

He leaned in, grabbed my chin and kissed me hard. The contact went straight to my dick, which stiffened painfully.

“Wait for me,” he ordered.

I nodded and more slick eased from me. My alpha was going to take care of me.

He bolted towards the garage, snagging his car keys from the bowl by the door.

The sound of the garage door opening grated against my need. He was going the wrong way. The bedroom was the other direction.

I doubled over with a cramp.

My alpha had told me to use toys. I stumbled towards the bedroom, pulling off clothes as I went. I collapsed face-first onto the bed, and fumbled around underneath it until I found a familiar handle. I pulled the box out, opened it and grabbed my favorite dildo.

I shivered as I ran the tip over my hole, using it to stretch and prep. I rocked onto it slowly, taking a bit more each time my body adjusted while fighting the urge to plunge it inside.

The pleasure overrode the pain of my heat, and I chased it. I worked the dildo in deeper, fucking myself on it just like my alpha had ordered. It felt good, but it wasn’t right. I needed my alpha inside me, stretching me, surrounding me with his scent.

A growl from the door pierced the room, and I turned to see my alpha standing there, a box in his hand.

“Fuck,” he rumbled, “You’re absolutely gorgeous like that.”

I shivered. My alpha liked this?

I spread my legs a bit more and angled myself so that he could watch as I worked the silicone dildo in and out of my hole.

His growl deepened, then the scent of his arousal hit me and made me moan with need.

He kicked off his shoes, then strode to the bed. He tossed the box onto a pillow and crawled over to me.

“Alpha…” I whined. I needed him inside me, but he still had clothes on.

Instead of getting naked like I wanted, he tugged me up until I was kneeling. Then he pulled me against his chest and plunged his tongue into my mouth.

I moaned into the kiss, then gasped as he wrapped his hand around the bottom of the dildo and started thrusting it into me.

I clung to his shirt, and he wrapped his free arm around me tighter, supporting me as my entire body shook with pleasure.

“That’s it Gabe,” he rumbled. “I’m going to take care of you. Show me how beautiful you are like this.”

I rolled my hips, trying to take the dildo even faster than he was working it, and dragging my hard cock against his jeans. The sensation made a fresh burst of pleasure dance through me, and I started grinding against his hip then back onto the dildo.

I buried my face against his neck, breathing in my alpha’s scent while he rocketed me towards bliss.

“Alpha!” I cried when he changed the angle of the dildo and it nailed my sweet spot.

“Found you,” he growled.

I panted as he used the new angle to ramp up my pleasure to heights I’d never known before. Then he captured my lips with his, and the feeling of his tongue in my mouth again was all it took to send me over the edge. I screamed against his lips as my cock spurted onto his shirt, my ass spasming around the dildo.

He kept fucking me with the toy until I stopped shaking and slumped in his arms.

“Absolutely beautiful,” he murmured, kissing my temple. “You’re so sexy Gabe.”

I preened at the praise.

He slid the dildo from me, leaving me with an empty feeling, then settled me onto the bed.

He growled as his gaze roamed me, making my cock twitch in interest. His eyes were dark with desire, and I shivered with the intensity of it.

He pulled his shirt off, then scrambled from the bed to push down his pants and boxers.

My mouth watered as his large cock sprung free. I wanted to lick it, to take it between my lips and taste his seed. But my own dick hardened again as soon as I saw the firmness at the base, where his knot was already preparing to lock us together.

I needed that, and my focus shifted to the ecstasy a knot would bring. I turned onto my knees, presenting my ass to him, then turned my head to watch his reaction.

He grabbed the box from the pillow, opened it, and pulled a foil from the strip.

I whined as he rolled the condom onto his beautiful cock. I wanted his seed inside me, making me round with his baby.

“Shh,” he murmured, crawling up between my legs and running a hand over my ass. “I know sweetheart. But that’s your heat talking.”

I wanted to argue, but he took his cock in his free hand and teased the tip across my entrance.

I whimpered and dropped my head to the mattress. “Alpha…”

He pushed in, and I moaned at the stretch. It was so much better than I’d expected, and as he bottomed out I felt properly filled for the first time in years.

He stilled and ran his hand down the curve of my spine as we both adjusted. “God Gabe, you feel incredible.”

“You too,” I managed, forcing proper words out through pleasure and need.

He pulled out and pushed back in slowly, making sparks of ecstasy ignite through me.

“You ok?” he asked, hand running along my back again.

“More,” I begged.

He chuckled, then rolled his hips.

I gasped and curled my hands into the blankets.

My alpha slid his hands to my hips, then held them tight as he started thrusting.

My entire focus narrowed to the feel of him moving inside me. Every nerve zinged with pleasure as his cock slid past. The heat of his hands grounded me while my entire body wanted to rocket to bliss.

I couldn’t hold back as I started trying to thrust back against him.

“That’s right, Gabe,” he rumbled. “Take what you need.”

What I needed was his knot, locking us together and giving me relief from the urge to be bred.

“Knot,” I begged, thrusting as hard against him as I could. “Please.”

He released my hips to lean over me instead, changing the angle and making me cry out as he nailed my sweet spot. “As many times as you need sweetheart.”

He fucked into me hard and fast, his cock hitting my sweet spot with every thrust, and the force making my dick rub against the covers.

The added stimulation was all it took. I screamed as I came.

My alpha fucked me through my second orgasm, then roared.

“Alpha!” I cried as his knot grew, locking us together and wringing one more orgasm from me.

He collapsed on top of me and kissed my shoulder. “You’re the sexiest omega I’ve ever met,” he murmured as his lips traced near my neck.

I hummed in contentment. I was being properly knotted, and my alpha seemed pleased with me.

He turned us onto our sides and wrapped his arms around my middle.

“Rest for now,” he whispered. “I’m right here when you need me.”

Sleeping in his embrace seemed the perfect thing to do.

∞∞∞

I was too comfortable to open my eyes, because that would mean facing the world. I was warm and supported, and Christian’s delicious scent filled my nose.

I shifted to get back to sleep, and moaned. I was sore all over, but it was the good type of sore, the kind that was a reminder of ecstasy.

I froze as lips pressed against the back of my neck, and hazy memories came back to me. I’d been admiring the ring, then I had gone looking for Christian. After that was mostly a blur of pleasure brought on by his knot.

I groaned. I’d finally gotten him inside me, and I could barely remember it because I’d been in heat.

He shifted behind me, his morning wood pressing against my ass. “How are you feeling? Did your heat pass?”

He set one hand on my forehead then kissed my shoulder. “You feel cooler.”

I turned in his arms and pressed my face to his chest, inhaling his scent. If I was being honest with myself, I was close enough to the end of my heat that I could probably thank him and let the lingering need dissipate on its own.

But would I be satisfied with that? No. I’d wanted him for far too long, and this might be my only chance to actually remember what being with him was like.

I kissed up his chest, neck, and jaw until I was able to brush my lips against his. “Once more?”

He smiled against my lips. “You ride?”

I moaned at the thought. “Deal.”

He reached into what appeared to be an almost-empty box of condoms and handed me one. “Don’t forget to wrap it.”

I nodded, even though I wanted to feel his knot without the barrier. I wanted to feel his seed fill me and see myself grow round with his baby.

I scooted down, kissing as I went, while he turned onto his back. Then I got a good look at his cock, hard where it rested against his stomach.

I shivered as hazy recollections of orgasm after orgasm filled my head, all brought on by that same cock.

I opened the condom packet, then rolled the latex down that gorgeous shaft. Finally I straddled his hips, and knowing I was still open and loose, sank down onto him.

I moaned as he filled me. It was better than any of my fantasies, and I knew I’d never get enough of him.

Our hips came together as I took him fully, and I stilled for a moment to appreciate it. Then those last tendrils of need flared through me and I rolled my hips.

I wasn’t going to last long. My body was over-stimulated already and every inch of me was sensitive.

I bounced on Christian’s cock, taking him hard and deep with every thrust. I chased the pleasure, leaning back and bracing my hands on his thighs so he’d hit my sweet spot every time.

I closed my eyes, focusing on the sensation. Then his hand wrapped around my dick. He stroked it to the same pace as my thrusts, and that was all it took.

“Christian!”

He fucked up into me until my orgasm started to wane, then he grabbed my hips and held me down as his knot tied us together, wringing a few last spurts from me.

Finally I collapsed onto his chest, the heat fucked out of me.

I was more sated than I’d been in years. I only wished that I could remember most of it.