The Alpha King’s Runaway Mate .Chapter 32: waited for more than a decade .“Mmmh - omega, Regina, can’t keep it in anymore…”The omega looks down and sure enough, the seed that Mattel is trying so hard not to waste is trickling out against his already-drenched clitoris in tiny spurts.Regina. “Oh? Is my alpha going to knot outside like a silly little pup?”Adding insult to injury seems to be what springs the king into action: the alpha growls menacingly, hands grabbing Regina’s waist and flipping them over urgently.Regina yelps - her inner omega squealing in delight at the show of strength - and yips when her lover immediately takes advantage of their new positions to spear her open on his leaking cock.Mattel lets out a long exhale, sounding immensely relieved by the knowledge that his orgasm isn’t going to waste.He doesn’t even thrust, choosing instead to pull Regina further and further onto his sizable erection, until there is barely an inch remaining outside of the omega’s bo
The Alpha King’s Runaway Mate.Chapter 33: lovers .It takes longer and longer between rounds for Mattel to get hard, Regina more or less asleep or unconscious or something in between, too tired and spent to keep up with him. He’s buried inside of her again, Regina’s legs swung over his shoulders as he fucks into her slowly, exhaustion coursing through him and yet still no match for his hunger.Somewhere in between he’d fed Regina again, his own desire for food completely gone. There was only room in his head for his mate, a burning need to consume her, take her, have her every and any way he can.The edge hasn’t worn off, just turned down to a simmer and Mattel thinks he’ll scorch through it, kisses along the inside of Regina’s knee, up her thigh. She’s unmoving, fucked out completely beyond belief and Mattel’s previous ruts had never been this long, this drawn out.Still, he thrusts into Regina, the sight of his mate before him like a cool wave of relief.She is his, bears Mattel
The Alpha King’s Runaway Mate.Chapter 34: the truth is bitter.A girl stood by the door of the king’s personal room trying to listen in on what was going on but she couldn’t hear a thing.She stepped back and frowned frustrated at the door wondering why it had to be a large wooden door so tight air locked.“Annalise?.”Her eyes widened as she turned around and saw Maria, the head maid with the king’s personal bodyguard, Lionel. They were both staring at her with confused expressions on their faces.That snooping old woman.Annalise tried to fake a smile as she moved away from the king’s personal room entrance curtsying a little to the older woman.Lionel tilted his head before looking around. “There’s always an assigned guard to the king’s personal room, why isn’t he here?.”Because I had managed to bribe him to leave thinking that I would get to spend an alone time with the king. Annalise thought.“There wasn’t any here.” Annalise replied instead putting up a fake smile.Lionel w
The Alpha’s Runaway Mate.Chapter 35: an almost predatory aura .Regina wakes first.This time, she awakens with the immediate and keen awareness of precisely where she is - that is to say, not her own bed, but the one she’d just shared with King Mattel.King Mattel, who, when Regina looks to her right, is evidently still asleep.Regina can’t help but to stare.In sleep, the king’s features seem impossibly young - with none of the heavy presence that bears on him like an ever-present weight when the king is awake. It’s something about his eyes, Regina thinks; those dark, fathomless depths that speak of years much, much beyond the King’s age of twenty nine.(And there’s a fascination here, too, of being permitted to observe such a feared man from up close - not unlike being permitted into a tiger’s den, when the ferocious tiger is declawed in its slumber.)“If you leaned in any closer, one would think it is my person people should worry about, rather than yours,” the low, gravelly ti
The Alpha King’s Runaway Mate.Chapter 36: tired of being set aside.“What is happening?” Regina asks, hushed and anxious, as soon as they come to a stop in the grand foyer.Regina hates, in this moment, the sudden realization that she had not grown nearly as skilled as she’d believed in deciphering the lord’s expressions.Whatever hints of emotion she’d been able to discern from his features must simply have been the ones that King Mattel had permitted her to see, for now - when Regina wants desperately to glean something, anything, from his expression - King Mattel’s face is a perfectly blank veneer.It makes something cold curl in her stomach, like a sudden chill.“Nothing for you to worry about,” is the quiet reply.*flashback*“Mother- mother, where are you and brother headed?”“Mother, why can’t I be allowed outside like brother, too?”“Mother, when-”“It is nothing for you to concern yourself over, Regina. It’s not of importance to you.”She stumbles a quick step backwards, f
The Alpha King’s Runaway Mate.Chapter 37: reflection of an open heart.Somewhere, in between King Mattel looking at her with a gravity underpinning his gaze as though Regina were something particularly remarkable; and Mattel, allowing Regina to cling to him; Regina had forgotten what it felt like.“Why am I not permitted to know?” It sounds childish and sullen, even to Regina’s own ears, but she feels so- choked up. The words come tumbling out, without her control. “Would it really be so burdensome, if I were allowed to-”Mattel’s brow furrows harshly. “Because you do not need to know.”Regina physically jerks back, as though stung. The perplexion in Mattel’s gaze grows more pronounced, as though he cannot fathom why it is that Regina’s features are twisted in such hurt. “I’ve already said,” Mattel says slowly. “That I will handle your safety.”“I’ll always be here to defend you.”But this time, it carries none of the warmth that the words had evoked the first time. Instead, Regi
The Alpha King’s Runaway Mate.Chapter 38: an animal yet not a werewolf?.The next morning, King Mattel is called into another meeting with Damian and Lionel before they’ve even had a chance to eat breakfast.As it is, Regina - pouting blearily and still ridden with sleep - insists on walking out with him until at least the main hall, before parting ways. (Here’s another thing about finding all the depths of his affections returned to him following a lifetime of being rebuked and sent away: it’s addicting, heady and exhilarating like nothing else. Regina finds herself rapidly growing attached, in a way that defies common sense and rationality.)She takes the chance to wrap her hands around Mattel’s, reveling in the small, amused smile Mattel sends her all the while, unable to do anything but smile shyly, sheepishly back.She can’t bring herself to stop testing out the boundaries of the space she’s permitted to explore, because each tentative step reveals to her that there are no suc
The Alpha King’s Runaway Mate.Chapter 39: worst depths.Jana finds Regina in the orchard by her usual tree.For a moment, Regina is almost fooled into believing that it is her dog, given that the princess comes jogging up to her in the form of a pitch black hound. Regina is once again startled into pitching backwards when the dog suddenly shifts into a woman, shrieking with laughter.She pouts.Princess Jana drops into a graceful seat in front of her with that preternatural, animalistic grace he always carries. “So jumpy,” She teases, but it’s without any malice.Regina picks at the fabric of her pants, flustered and embarrassed and a little sulky. “That’s not very polite,” She mutters, and her ears turn pink when Princess Jana, apparently, finds it uproariously funny.“You’re cute,” Jarad, sharklike.Regina barely suppresses a shiver.And then, she realizes what it must mean that the King is now out and about, rather than shut in the meeting room. “Is the meeting over?” Regina as
The Alpha King’s Runaway Mate . Chapter 98: Announcements . “We promised we’d do it together. I may have still been out of it, but I kept my promise. She’s just been ‘baby,’ her entire life so far.”Mattel laughs as he kisses her again. “Oh, Regina,” he breathes, then he looks down, observing her body, the way they’re able to be pressed close like this for the first time in months. “I can hold you close again now. No obstructions.”Regina grins, looking like she wants to chastise Mattel for the smirk on his face, but a throat clears. She turns to find Jana and Lionel staring at them, the omega smirking knowingly--and oh, there’s another conversation they have to have now. No one but Mattel knows that Jana is pregnant. There’s something to look forward to. “Do I get a hello?” Jana asks, and Regina throws her arms around Jana, breathing in her friend’s sweet scent as Mattel pulls Lionel into an embrace, the two alphas holding tight to one another even as Mattel’s eyes never leav
The Alpha King’s Runaway Mate .Chapter 97: Not without you .The moment her heat is over, Regina rolls out of bed and tells the others to get ready. Apprehensive eyes look back at her, but she knows it’s time. Her body feels stronger than ever, her mind is sharp, and they’ve involved just enough people in the lower town in their plan that they’ve got the numbers to pull off an attack. At least enough to sneak into the dungeons and free their military.Despite their hesitance, Damian and the others get the horses prepared and weapons ready. Hal even prepares a sling for himself--he’ll be the one watching Regina’s baby while they are fighting.She hopes beyond all hope that today is a success, that she’ll get her family back together and they’ll never be separated again. Today, she will reunite her baby with her father, she will, and from here on out, they’ll only know peace.Still, her fingers shake as she dresses herself, doing up the laces of her leather waist coat, and looking
The Alpha King’s Runaway Mate .Chapter 96: Accidentally .When she wakes, Regina is feverish and covered in sweat. The moment she comes to awareness, she knows what’s happening, knows that her body has finally returned to normal, but it brings about a feeling of great sadness.She can’t fight when she’s in heat. She can’t do much of anything. A soft groan parts her lips as she throws her blankets back, her entire body growing hot--too hot.“F-Fuck,” She breathes, all the aches and pains in her body not enough to distract her from the tears that spring to her eyes. Six weeks have already passed since she left Mattel behind, and this heat will just put her back another several days if not another week entirely. “Shit.”From her little makeshift crib at her bedside, her baby whimpers as she comes awake. She wonders if she can scent her distress, her curiosity spiking as ehe rolls off of the bed to attend to her, lifting her into her arms. “Hey, my love, I’m so sorry,” She whispers, h
The Alpha King’s Runaway Mate .Chapter 95: Side by Side .In the days after Imari discovers Jana’s pregnancy, things become difficult for them. Jana is now chained to the all, and after several sleepless nights, the poor omega managing to find a comfortable position by some miracle.Mattel tries to help her out, but there’s only so much he can do when there’s iron digging into his skin as well. He makes a mental note to completely get rid of the dungeons when this is over, when he and Regina have defeated the evil that’s taken over their kingdom.God, he misses Regina. He misses his baby. His family. Thanks to their situation, he’s only had a few minutes with his daughter and it’s killing him. A part of him is starting to fear that by the time he sees her again, his child will be a woman, and he and Regina will both be old and gray. And that’s if he sees her again.Today, Imari had summoned him and Jana in for a meeting, and they’d managed to buy themselves some time for the rescue
The Alpha King’s Runaway Mate .Chapter 94: Must go on .It has been four weeks since Mattel and Jana were left behind at the castle, four weeks without his baby, without either of their mates. Without a doubt, it has been the worst four weeks of his life.At night when he’s trying to sleep, he calls to mind the image of his daughter’s face, the sound of Regina’s laugh. He envisions a world where they’d never been separated. In that world, he imagines that they’d gotten the chance to hold one another in the aftermath, that he’d been by his wife’s side through her recovery.In that world, they’re just a couple with a baby. They don’t have the pressure of kings and royalty. It’s beautiful and evergreen, but it can never be a reality, they can’t abandon the kingdom and leave it behind for Imari. It would be madness.The fight must go on.He and Jana are being marched back into the grand hall, Imari having summoned them somewhat randomly in the middle of the night. Whatever it is, it ca
The Alpha King’s Runaway Mate .Chapter 93: A long way to go .Regina swallows the lump in her throat, leaning into Lionel as Castile rises from the picnic blanket to help her, the former moving aside to allow the latter to loop an arm around her back as well. Together, they make their way back toward the cottage, Hal and Damian following suit as the queen hangs her head low, fighting the urge to cry.“I’ll get them,” She whispers.Castile’s palm is warm against her back as he rubs circles into it, his alpha scent soothing. “We know, Regina.”“I’ll kill them.”“We know, Regina,” Damian says, then they guide her into the cottage, laying her gently on the bed as the queen fights back tears. “Get some rest, hold your daughter for a while. Remember why we’re here.”Sniffling quietly, Regina nods, watching as Hal enters the room with her baby, sitting down beside her before handing her gently over to her mother. Silence passes between them as she takes her, supporting the newborn’s head
The Alpha King’s Runaway Mate .Chapter 92: Coming for you .The rest of the afternoon passes in relative quiet. Once they got on the road again, Regina spent the bulk of their time mesmerized by her baby. She’s fed her twice on the journey, half worried that they’d run out of formula at some point, but eventually, she sees their friend’s little cottage at a distant bend in the river, smoke pouring out of the chimney—they are going to be all right.By the time they pull up in front of the cottage, the sun is beginning to set, the light streaming in through the carriage window to illuminate her daughter’s face. A smile parts her lips as she reaches up a hand into the light, the little dust particles floating in it dancing around her tiny fingers as Regina’s heart melts.“There’s the sunset, darling,” She tells her, laughing softly to herself as the baby coos softly.On the other side of the carriage, she can hear snoring beneath her infant’s soft coos, and she looks over to find Lio
The Alpha King’s Runaway Mate .Chapter 91: together we conquer .Tears prick again at her eyes, a couple of droplets making their way onto her cheeks before she wipes them away, kissing her daughter again before glancing across the carriage where Castile and Lionel are sound asleep in each other’s arms. Jealousy wells up in her chest as she watches, but she says nothing.They’re lucky to be together. She remembers how they got together. How in the beginning, her healer, Castile, and Mattel’s chief of Commander, Lionel had met and immediately fallen for one another at first sight.Only they hadn’t met until Mattel summoned Castile to court to treat an injury—one Regina had inadvertently given him when he’d been giving one of his training lessons. She almost laughs at the memory, but before she can get too lost in it, there’s the sound of Damian pulling on the reins.The other two in the carriage slowly stir awake. Curiosity floods both of their faces, then Castile turns around, pul
The Alpha King’s Runaway Mate .Chapter 90: Whatever shall be .The simultaneous feeling of joy at being a father and the sorrow at the loss of his wife and baby is already exhausting. A part of him wants to start thinking of names, Sandra, Ari, hell, just calling her “Baby,” even? But he’s too upset to think. He can barely even focus.Down the hall, there’s shouting, and he forces himself to wipe his tears, rushing toward the cell door as he hears banging and shuffling. He gets there just in time to see guards dressed in the enemy’s colors and symbols carrying a limp Jana in their arms.“Jana!” he cries, but before he can worry about his friend, the omega is thrown into the cell with him. All he can do is watch as he collapses, unconscious, with a bruised eye and a split lip facing the ceiling, then he hears a throat clear, and suddenly Imari, now king of the north, is standing before him.The omega king is taller than he is, but not quite as broad. They’ve met before, but someh