The Prince's Fated Mate: M/M Alpha/Omega Paranormal Werewolf Romance (Norvargen Wolves Book 1) (15 page)

“Hogstail powder?” Will repeated, not recognising the name.

“Knocks them out like nothing else,” said James, grinning. “They’re having sweet dreams, and we won’t be disturbing them. It’ll take a lot of noise to shake them awake.”

“You’re a frightening man, James,” said Will, laughing. “I suppose you picked that up from one of Advisor Keanes’s dull books?”

James nodded. “Shh, don’t let him know,” he said cheekily. “I was sneaking through his bag for his book and found a jar with the powder in it. And don’t let them know what we’re doing.” He leaned down and kissed Will, holding his jaw in his hands.
 

“God, I missed doing this,” Will sighed when they pulled apart.
 

“Mmhmm,” James sighed, planting spidery kisses all over Will’s neck. “It’s strange just how much I miss you even when we’re together.”

“It’s hard because we can’t really
be
together,” said Will.

James growled, clenching his fist suddenly, and resting his head on Will’s shoulder. “I hate this.”

Will seized up, stricken by the sudden confession.

“No, no,” James hurriedly said, “I don’t mean
this.
I love being with you. But I hate not knowing what’s going to happen next. I hate not knowing whether…”

Will turned to peep at his face, and he saw the prince flushing a deep red.
 

“I hate not knowing whether I’ll be able to be with you again,” James finished softly. “This is the happiest I’ve ever been with anyone, you know? I want to be with you forever, I want to stay by your side — I wish I were anybody else in the world right now and that I’d have the chance to marry you and have you be my bondsmate.”

Will melted. “I know,” he said, “I wish the same things, too. I don’t know why things have to be so difficult for us, and I don’t know how they can get any better. But I’m happy being with you now. Even if this can’t last very long, I’m glad I can be with you.”

James stroked his hair. “You’re too good for me, Will. You really are.” He bent down to kiss him, full on the lips, and his hands wrapped around Will’s slender bare waist.

Will’s hands reached up and rested on James’s shoulders, feeling the prominent collarbones underneath the loose cambric shirt the Prince was wearing. He couldn’t resist running his hands further south, touching the tantalisingly hard chest and torso of the alpha. Everything about James was strong, well-defined, dominating, powerful.
 

“You’re doing something very dangerous right now,” warned James in a breathy, husky voice, but his own fingers drifted further, grabbing Will’s ass and making the omega yelp in shock.

“I know,” said Will, recovering, smiling. “I’ve just been wanting this since the moment I saw you, literally.”

“We shouldn’t be doing this,” said James, as a last warning, pressing Will against a tree and leaning in with his whole body. Will felt with rising heat the length of James’s erection against his thigh.
 

God, he feels huge
, Will thought in awe, almost shivering with lust.
 

“We shouldn’t,” Will agreed, but his fingers flicked against James’s nipples through the thin cloth, teasingly, almost provokingly.

“You don’t care that any of the others might just wake up and wonder where we are?” James cocked an eyebrow at him, a faint smirk on his lips.

“I’ve been waiting too long for this to care.”

James let out a growl. “You’re too much for me to say no to,” he said, giving into his lust, his eyes glazing over. He grabbed Will’s hand and led it down to his cock, hard and stretching out a lump in the crotch of his trousers.
 

Will fondled it greedily, his fingers wrapping around the underside of the shaft and dragging upwards to the tip. Precum had leaked through and there was a wet spot in the cloth. He swirled the tip of his finger around the swollen head of James’s dick, feeling the cloth of the trousers get wetter as he did so.
 

James was breathing heavily, almost panting, as he grazed his touch over Will’s nipples, eliciting a soft moan from the omega.
 

“More sensitive there,” Will heard James mutter.

“Shut up,” said Will, blushing hotly. “I can’t help it.”

James cracked a grin at him. “I know you can’t. And we both ought to shut up — it would be bad if we woke up the others, wouldn’t it?”

Will silently agreed, and he bit his bottom lip, fighting against the urge to moan and whine as James tormented his sensitive nipples into hard peaks. The prince then yanked their hips together, and started grinding, their hard cocks rubbing against each other through the flimsy material of their trousers.
 

“Fuck me,” Will panted after a moment, pleading desperately. His head was clouding over with lust.

James looked ready to agree, but then he paused. “We shouldn’t,” he said one more time. “Aren’t you technically in heat?”

“I’ve taken my wagsroot already, I won’t get pregnant,” Will argued, pawing at James’s chest. “I’m not asking you to bond with me. I just need you inside me now.”

“I can’t refuse you if you say things like that,” James said, his eyes glazing over once more, and he stripped off his clothing, freeing his hardness. Will fell onto his knees instantly, and engulfed the swollen red head with his mouth, flicking his tongue hungrily along the dripping slit.
 

James sucked in his breath through clenched teeth, hissing in pleasure, his muscles tightening as he enjoyed the feel of Will’s tongue on him. He cradled the side of Will’s head, gently yet dominantly, guiding him ever so slightly.

Will kissed the length of the shaft lovingly, rubbing the rest of it with his hand, until he felt James lifting his head up.

“Get up and take off your trousers,” James grunted.
 

“But I only just put them on,” Will joked.

James laughed, but yanked at the waist of his trousers. “Do you want me to fuck you or do you want me to stop?”

Will didn’t bother answering, and he stripped off the remains of his clothing, revealing his pale, leanly-built thighs and his throbbing erection.
 

Pulling him down to the ground, James whispered into his ear, “You’re beautiful, Will.”

He blushed, and any possible response he had flew right out of his mind as he was bent over, his round ass exposed to the prince. A hot tongue ran over his tightly-closed entrance, making him jolt in surprise at the new sensation. He eased into it almost immediately, feeling his slick spill out of him, wetting James’s tongue even more. James probed him around with his tongue first, then two fingers, brushing him gently first and then stretching him with increasing pressure.
 

Will jolted suddenly as James brushed against his prostate, making him gasp and reel back in pleasure.

“Shh,” James whispered softly, and only then did Will realise just how much noise he was making. He had been moaning and groaning without thinking.

“Sorry,” he said, embarrassed. “I can’t help it. It feels too good.”

Apparently, these words had an immediate effect on the alpha. James flipped Will over and pressed down on him, his larger body weighing down on Will’s slighter build.

“I’m going to fuck you now,” he said in a low, deep voice, and Will made a mewling noise of acquiescence, spreading his legs wide open. James lined up the head of his erection against the stretched opening, and he began to push ever so slightly, looking at Will constantly, as if checking for his reaction.

At first, Will tensed up, worrying about how taking something so big inside of him would hurt, but his primal lust took over soon enough, and he groaned in pleasure at being penetrated. James sank in smoothly, one full thrust until his balls were pressed against Will. The alpha leaned over and kissed Will, covering up his moans with his lips, as he began thrusting back and forth, in and out.
 

The heat between them was incredible, and Will felt himself turning dizzy with ecstasy as he was taken for the first time by his fated mate. He held on to James tightly, greedily, wrapping his legs around him and writhing.
 

“I’m coming,” Will gasped after a moment, shaking as he came hard, white cum splattering over his waist, his tight hole seizing and convulsing on James’s hard cock. The alpha came shortly after, ramming in hard one last time and unloading inside the omega, grunting and panting as he did so.

Will felt wet, inside and out, and tired from their exertion, but he had the presence of mind to tap at James. “Pull out,” he whispered, “or you’ll knot inside of me.” That would be dangerous — they would be halfway towards bonding then, and that was a risk they could not take then.

James nodded wordlessly, pulling out his swelling cock. White cum spilled out of Will’s stretched-out entrance, and he resisted the urge to whine at how empty he felt. There wasn’t much chance for Will to say a word though. James pulled him close, so that Will was draped over his body.

“You have no idea how amazing that felt,” Will whispered.

“I think I do,” laughed James.

“You don’t,” said Will, nuzzling his cheek against James’s chest. “Not unless you know what it feels like to be with your fated mate.”

James swirled a finger around the edge of his ear, tracing a path down and touching Will’s lips. “Then I wish I could feel what you felt, Will. But I can’t imagine being even happier than I am now.”
 

Will smiled, and bobbed his head up to kiss James’s retreating fingers. He caught sight of the engagement ring, and James followed his gaze down to it. Without a word, the prince pulled it off, and tossed it on top of the pile of his abandoned clothing.

Will beamed at that gesture. Before long, they dozed off, their tired bodies taking over at last.

*

Will jerked awake. His head was pressed against a wonderfully warm body, and he could hear a heartbeat calmly pounding by his ear. He smiled suddenly, knowing it was James, knowing that he was lying with his fated mate.

It was still late, the moon shining high in the night sky — he and James had probably slept for only an hour or so. As tempting as the idea of lying here together was, Will had enough sense to fight against that desire. He shook James awake.

“James,” he called softly, “wake up. We need to head back to the camp before anyone wakes up and realises we’re gone.”

The prince groggily nodded, looking around at their surroundings drowsily. When his eyes met with Will’s, he paused, and broke out into a happy smile. “Will.”

“Hmm?” said the omega, looking around for his discarded clothing. He had to clean himself up before heading back; dried cum was sticking to his torso and his lower half.
 

“I love you.”

Will froze. He turned back to face James, all thoughts of washing himself by the creek wiped out by that confession. “Pardon?” he said, too stunned to think of what else to say.

“I said I love you,” James said, smiling handsomely.
 

Will stared back at him. “That’s the first time you’ve said that to me,” he stammered.

James sat up, and leaned over so that Will was pinned against the trunk of a tree. “It is,” he said. “I was always scared of using it before. But now I’m being honest with myself, and I’m being honest with you. I love you.” He planted a small kiss on Will’s lips. “Aren’t you going to say something?”

“You already know what I’m going to say,” said Will, melting. James held him. “I love you, too.”

“Then that’s all I need to know to make my decision,” said James, breathing out a sigh of relief. “I’ll end my engagement.”

“What?”

“I don’t care what happens, Will. I don’t care what my father says, what the Court says, what the Redfang pack thinks. I don’t want to live a life where I can’t spend every night with you. I don’t want to enter a loveless marriage with Prince Dashel. I want to be with you. I’m ending my engagement.”

“You’ll do that for me?”

“For you? Only for you.” James stroked Will’s chin tenderly. “It won’t be easy, Will. We might…we might have to run away, you know. Either that, or perhaps the alpha court might decide to banish me. My father would never allow me to end this engagement easily, not with the risk of offending the Redfang pack. If they ousted me entirely from here, then they might at least be able to placate the Redfangs by saying they’re ashamed of me and never supported me. I know I’m asking something terrible of you, Will, and I can understand if you say no.”

Will listened solemnly, thinking about it and considering it deeply. “I want a life with you, James. You’re my fated mate, after all.”

James broke into a wide grin.

“We’ll keep this secret until we reach Hemslock, of course,” said Will, hurriedly.

“Yes, of course. I’ll need time to think about what I’m going to say to my father and the others.” James trailed off, deep in thought.

“Things will work out,” said Will comfortingly, even though he wasn’t so sure about this. But he was happier than now ever before — James loved him and wanted to bond with him. “For now, let’s head back to the camp before it’s too late.”

*

The others were none the wiser the next morning; Advisors Keanes and Berin seemed groggier than usual when they woke up, and Advisor Keanes in particular seemed very disoriented, but their strength recovered as they ran further along the path to Hemslock.
 

That night, the same thing happened: James sprinkled a pinch of hogstail into the advisors’ tea, and when everyone else had fallen asleep, he sneakily woke up Will and they went off for a coupling in the night. Somehow knowing that they would have a future together made their lovemaking a hundred times better.
 

He might not ever recognise me as his fated mate
, Will thought post-climax, when he and James were lying side by side, panting,
but at least I know he loves me and wants to be with me
.
 

That was a big enough comfort to him. He might not ever solve the mystery of why he knew they were fated mates but James didn’t, but it didn’t seem to matter so much anymore.