Page 14 of Broken Alpha
“You’re mine going forward, little fawn. Teasing your Alpha before he lectures a class isn’t in your best interest.”
All I could do was give him the biggest grin of my life.
Luke
De-scenters need to be banned and burned in hell, and rolling down the windows in my car only helped marginally air out the acidic scent surrounding us. At least I had the forethought to pull off the cardigan Aidyn liked before spraying us both with the heinous chemicals. I knew there was a reason we had to use it—to make less trouble for Aidyn. It made sense, but I didn’t like it all the same. I hated that he sat in my class, listening to my lecture, and the only scent from him was chemicals. I knew other students used de-scenters or the fake pheromone spray that companies produced for people like Harllow, and normally I wasn’t fazed by them. Today, however,was different. I couldn’t scent the one person that had changed my life so much already.
I was so distracted that I honestly didn’t remember what I taught in class, going through the lesson methodically with the notes from the previous years of teaching, hoping I had made the class interesting. But my head was back in my office with Aidyn wrapped around me, his body warm and soft against mine as he felt perfect in my arms. After class, I returned to my office for the cardigan when my phone pinged with an incoming email to my faculty address. There was no text to the email, just a simple picture of my car, and I couldn’t help but smile. Without looking at the sender's email, I knew who it was from, and it reminded me that I needed to give Aidyn my personal number.
I couldn’t help the big grin that spread across my face as I spotted Aidyn leaning casually against the side of my car. He had his eyes trained on the path to the parking lot, hoping to spot me as I approached, and a grin that mirrored my own spread across his face as he watched me. Instead of going to the driver's side, I walked right up to him, my eyes darting around us to make sure no one was around before kissing him. A surprised squeal escaped him before he leaned into the kiss, gripping the belt loops at my hips. Pulling away was practically torture, but I didn’t want to increase the chance of being caught.
Unlocking my car, I opened the passenger door for Aidyn before placing my cardigan in his lap once he was buckled in. As I crawled into the drivers side, it didn’t escape my attention that Aidyn instantly began toying with the buttons on the cardigan absentmindedly, feeling and petting the fabric as if it were a soft cat while I pulled out of the university parking lot. My Alpha stood a little taller, chest puffed out, at the happiness my clothing brought to the Omega, and I took his hand in mine, squeezing it lightly. We had rolled down the windows as we sped out of the inner community, the chemical scent beginningto overwhelm the small enclosed space between us. It didn’t do much, but it made it easier to think, and my mild headache began to disappear.
Aidyn lived about a half hour from campus, but the trip seemed so much shorter as I pulled into a guest parking spot closest to his unit. Aidyn unbuckled himself before opening the door but turned to me when he noticed I was still buckled into my seat.
“Are you not coming in, Mr. Ellis? Remember, I have to give you back your jacket?” he grinned.
“Luke, please, when we’re not at school. And I really shouldn’t…” I breathed, shaking my head. I watched as disappointment flashed across his face before he slid a blank mask over his expression. “It’s not that I don’t want to. Lord knows I do. But I want this relationship to build on each other and not on sex. I’m not assuming that’s what would happen, but I don’t know if I can behave. Especially when I know Harllow won’t be home for a few hours, and my Alpha screams at me to cover you in my scent to wash away those chemicals.”
“And here I thought I was just being a needy Omega, wishing you would do exactly that the whole ride over. I didn’t want to say anything that could possibly make you regret this or me. I’m already asking so much of you.”
I raised my eyes to look at Aidyn, a slight blush on his cheeks. He was avoiding my gaze, looking down at the cardigan in his lap and fingering the material again as he fidgeted under my gaze. I reached over and brushed his hair behind his ear before placing my hand under his chin and forcing him to meet my gaze.
“I won’t regret this or you. Ever. I want to do right by you and not force you to do anything you’re not ready for or uncomfortable with. You’re not asking too much of me, little fawn. I wish you would ask more if you have need of me, and ifit’s in my power, I will give it to you happily. I told you, you’re mine going forward, and I want to take care of you.”
“Sooo, if I asked you to come in and just cuddle on the couch with me for a bit, drown me in your scent, would you do it?”
“With pleasure. I know many Omegas turn their whole home into their nest. Are you sure you want me in your space so soon?” I asked, tilting my head to the side.
“I’ve actually never built a nest,” Aiden responded, blushing and avoiding my gaze. “If I ever did, it would probably be in my bedroom since I don’t live alone, but there is no real sanctuary. You wouldn’t know I was an Omega just by looking at my bedroom. I don’t want to rush this, either, but my Omega is trying to run before he can walk. You’ll be helping me immensely in a few months, but I don’t want my first time with you to be during my heat. I want to remember it. As you said, sex isn’t what I’m assuming either, but how do I know that my Omega instincts aren’t trying to rush this?”
Unbuckling my seat belt, I leaned across the middle console, pulling Aidyn to me. I pressed my lips against him, holding his face to me as I poured as much emotion and love into the affection as I could, releasing my pheromones to soothe the frantic look in his eyes as anxiety began to cloud them. This man was my undoing. It gave me an odd sense of comfort knowing that he was battling the same thoughts as I was. That we were on the same page, and it was clear that we needed to work on our communication skills so that we didn’t isolate each other, drowning in our insecurities. I was holding back every Alpha urge I had for him because we just began whatever this was, and I didn’t want to scare him away. I wouldn’t survive it if he never contacted me again. Pulling away, I looked at him, running my hands through his soft blond hair, and smiled at the slightly dazed look in his eyes.
“You can’t rush this; that is impossible. We go at our own pace, as slow or as fast as we want or need to go. I’ll take my lead from you, little fawn.”
“Then come inside. Please.” I could hear the slight begging tone at the end of his sentence, and there was no way I was going to deny him anything.
The scent of Aidyn waseverywhere. It mingled with the artificial scent his roommate wore, but my Alpha honed in on his scent the second I stepped into Aidyn’s apartment. My Omega’s scent clung to the air as if a candle burned in the room, filling the space and making my dick harden at its inviting embrace. This was probably a huge mistake. Probably. He mumbled something about making myself at home while he fetched my jacket and watched him move down the short hallway that was to the right of the front door, taking my cardigan with him. I looked around the small living room and couldn’t help but smile.
The bookcase on which the TV sat held an assortment of books, its three shelves bowing slightly with their weight as if someone had run out of room and began stacking them horizontally across the vertical books. Every nook and cranny was filled with a book. Everything from romances to detective novels to sci-fi and mystery, with the occasional horror. I noticed a murder mystery book I enjoyed a few years ago. It was about a Beta detective who had lost his partner and had been experimented on in a lab, hoping to make him an Alpha. He had heightened senses but wasn’t a complete Alpha, and he finds outthat his partner had been murdered by the mafia, whose leader is an Omega, whom the detective falls in love with. I had stopped reading it some years ago, no longer finding the time, and the author had stopped writing a few years back due to health issues.
Another shelf beside the bookcase housed an assortment of DVDs and pictures. Pictures of Aidyn and Harllow on summer break at a beach, Aidyn graduating high school, and an image of a very drunk Harllow wearing a birthday crown. I knew they were best friends, but I wouldn't say I liked the implication that, to outsiders, they looked like a couple. I knew Harllow wanted that, but I got the impression that Aidyn didn’t. And if he did at one point, he didn’t now. A fresh wave of Aidyn’s scent entered the room, and I turned around to find Aidyn standing nervously by the couch. He had changed into a pair of loose black lounge pants paired elegantly with a large, chunky navy sweater that gave him a cozy and snuggly vibe.
“You look comfy,” I smirked, watching him blush under my praise.
“I wanted to get rid of the de-scenter. I don’t have any clothing that would fit you, or I’d offer you a change of clothing too,” he responded, depositing my jacket and a buttoned flannel onto the back of the couch. I recognized the flannel instantly as the one he had worn the day he had turned my life upside down. I wonder if he remembered, but he didn’t say anything to suggest so. He moved to the couch, his hand resting on the spot he wished for me to occupy. When I sat down, he instantly threaded his fingers through mine, tilted his head onto my shoulder, and sighed contentedly.
My Alpha took pride in the touch, that his Omega was happy in my presence. I met his pheromones with my own, and I was grateful that Harllow was a Beta, so he would never know that I was here as we bathed each other in our scents, filling the room. Without having to be told, I could tell that Aidyn was perfectlycontent to sit in silence. Affection and touch were all he craved, and I was happy to meet that need. My thumb rolled little circles over the back of his hand, my head tilted backward, resting on the back of the couch, eyes closed.
Aidyn snuggled a little closer, settling into my body's silence and warmth before pulling his legs up onto the couch to curl them up beside him. I sunk further down on the couch, releasing my hand from his grip to drape my arm around him so he could nestle against my chest. He removed his glasses, setting them on the coffee table in front of us before tucking himself into my side, his face nuzzling my neck and breathing in my scent. My dick rose to attention, and I cursed its over-eagerness. It didn’t give a damn that I wanted to take things slowly or that I was comfortable where I was with him pressed against me. I shifted slightly, trying to get my cock into a better and more comfortable position so it would stop straining against the zipper of my jeans, and Aidyn chuckled beside me.
In a single fluid motion, he straddled my lap, staring at me as he pressed his pelvis into mine, and I could feel his hard-on pressed against me. I felt better knowing that he was just as happy as I was to be in this moment with each other. He leaned forward, rubbing his face along my cheek before nuzzling my neck again, and it occurred to me at that moment that he was scent-marking me, just as he had done during his heat, and my heart melted. He was making it clear to anyone I may encounter after leaving this apartment that I belonged to someone. That I belonged to him. I reached for him, cupping his face in my hands as the beginnings of my Alpha’s purr rumbled through my chest. I pressed my lips to Aidyn’s, swallowing the low moan he emitted at our touch, devouring it as if it was the most decadent thing in the world. He opened his mouth to me so that I could taste him, my fingers slipping into his soft hair as our breaths mixed with one another. A slow external vibrationrumbled across my chest, and I pulled back, surprised, staring at Aidyn with large eyes. He blushed as his Omega answered my purr with his own. Someone was purring for me.Hewas purring forme. Tears filled my eyes, and I let out a soft, relieved chuckle, my forehead pressed against his. A purr was important to an Alpha and Omega dynamic. It’s used to calm each other down and to express anger, possessiveness, love, happiness, and contentment. I had given up long ago that I would ever purr and, in turn, that someone else would purr for me, to feel the vibrations of another.
“You have no idea the gift you have just given me.” I breathed softly, looking at him with a smile.
Tucking my face into Aidyn’s neck, my beard scratched against his soft skin, and his breath hitched at the sensation. A soft moan escaped his throat as I placed tender kisses on the sensitive skin, nipping slightly. His sound was a mixture of a chuckle and a moan above me, made foreign by the purr that still rumbled strongly. He ran his hands through my hair, tugging on the last strands at the base of my skull.
“I want to take you out to dinner. A proper date.”
