The Mark of an Alpha (15 page)

Bennett thought about it very carefully. He knew what his master was asking—and it went far deeper than wanting to know if it was good for him too. The answer was important. In some way, the whole world, their whole future seemed to rest on his ability to get it right.

It took him a long time to think of anything appropriate to say. While he thought, he continued to clean his master's hand.

And there was his answer.

"It beats the hell out of butter, sir,” Bennett said, between lapping kisses.

"Butter?"

Bennett smiled against his master's hand. “That's what humans do, sir—they spread butter on a cat's paws when they move it to a new home. Lapping up the butter is supposed to distract them while they are getting used to their new surroundings."

Marsdon smiled against his neck at the gentle reminder that his pup was quite capable of spotting any attempts to pacify his worries that way. And maybe even more than that, he seemed to smile at the fact Bennett felt able to tease his mate, and his master, in a way that made it clear he knew he was Marsdon's equal as well as everything else. That smile was all Bennett needed in order to know he'd found the right answer.

"I like my distraction technique better,” Marsdon said. “Although, I'll give you fair warning, I'm going to keep doing this long after you're settled into your place in the pack, your submission to me and everything else."

Bennett turned his attention away from his master's hand for a second and pressed a kiss onto the scar on his forearm in acceptance—in willingness to try if nothing else.

Marsdon pressed an identical kiss on the identical scar on the back of his neck in return.

"That's right, love. Good, pup. Good, alpha."

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26 years old, from Wales, UK, Kim writes about kink, love and happy endings. If a story doesn't have those three things, it's not going to be written—at least not by this writer!

Apart from that, Kim likes to write a little bit of everything. Male/Male, Male/Female, menage, vampires, werewolves, ghost, time-travel—that sort of variety always keeps life interesting.

A firm believer that there is no “One True Way” for people to kink, Kim also likes to let the characters in each book pick their own ways to dominate and submit to each other. As long as they stay safe, sane and consensual—Kim's happy to let them live their lifestyle 24/7, or just open the toy box on weekends—whatever's right for them.

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