Page 30 of The First Alpha on the Planet
Chapter Thirteen
Wallace
A notification woke me before Roan did. It was only our second day in my new home, which wasn’t the original home they’d tried to give me. As an alpha with a mate, they decided I’d needed a larger home, not quite an estate like Noel’s, nor staffed, but five bedrooms, each ready for a child to inhabit. A reminder that he was destined to breed.
Many years ago, it’d been a library, a small one, but dwindling populations and digitization had rendered it unnecessary. So, they’d renovated it for a polycule at one point, rehabilitation housing at another, and as of the day prior, our home.
I yawned and sat up, rubbing at my eyes. I made a gesture of confirmation in the air once I checked to see if Roan and I were decent. “Hello?”
“Friend Wallace!” Fel beamed at me from a window, Robard in the background. “The implantation was successful! I am gravid!”
Between the beat of one of my hearts and the next, I snapped awake, eyes wide. “That’s great! Congrats! Just the one, right?”
“Just the one. One is far more than I ever could have asked for! And a mate—” Fel choked as a rather red arm wrapped around his waist.
“Mates.” Kris nuzzled against Fel, dominating the screen for a moment.
“Robard and I haven’t decided if we’ll accept your bite. There’s paperwork and discussion… I’ll be the first to form a proper triad, so we need to—” Fel moaned, his voice cut off as Kris made a show of sucking and licking at his neck on his unmarked side.
“But I want to.” Krisliterallypurred, and the call shut off, feed ending as I became very aware of Roan rising at my side with a sleepy blink.
“Good for them, I suppose? Keeps things from getting messy. I don’t need a beta, or a third.” Roan yawned and nudged his head into my shoulder, his tail burrowing under the sheets to tangle with mine.
It was no small miracle when I managed to pull myself away from Roan, avoiding a morning session of making him come again and again until he went limp and complacent. He was a bit of a brat without at least one. I could handle it, though. I always loved giving more than receiving. I could switch when I had the notion, but I derived more pleasure from making my partners delirious with pleasure, and I could be selfish with it.
With a little bit of whining, Roan rose from bed and followed me to the shower and gave me a cold shoulder as we washed up and dressed in what was consideredniceclothing. Alphas wore loose tank-top-type draped cloth with flowy pants. Omegas wore barely anything: cropped tops, kilts of a type, short pants with spacious insides. Betas could wear anything they preferred; but longer kilts and had the option of wearing longer sleeves as they tended to run colder than their alpha and omega counterparts.
As we left the building, Roan followed me with pinched shoulders. His omega designation and beautiful coloration still unsettled him. But his beauty standard was so geared toward Terran desires that he couldn’t see beyond the magazines and glitz. Simultaneously obsessed with the Progenitors but disgusted by their kin. I couldn’t jar him from his lived reality, but still, as we walked, I leaned in and nuzzled his mark, inhaling deeply. “Lift your head. Remember what Noel said?”
“Noel has said alotof things and less than half of them don’t make my eye twitch.” Roan glanced at me with a sidelong stare.
“The greatest honor an omega can have is being chosen by an alpha.” I smiled when his face twisted and earned a glare from an omega walking by. “But the opposite is true. The greatest honor I could have is being chosen by you.”
The glaring omega passing by relaxed his posture and flicked his tail in apologetic greeting as he kept on his way.
“That is cheesy as fuck.” Roan stared me down, and I kissed the glare away. No matter how much he was worth, beneath it all, he was just another hybreed who’d lived a life doing anything he could to get one step higher up the ranks. But never equal to that of a human. And a world that worshiped Progenitors but held on to archaic blood purity of humanity, races, and more? It was a dichotomy and hypocritical. All it made was mentally unwell lizard men carrying echoes of a fallen civilization and the prejudices of all that came before.
Horny lizard men.
“Extremely. But can I still be happy?” I twined my tail with his in that gentle little gesture that sent shivers up my spine, and he relaxed.
With a gentle sigh, he leaned into my side and made every fear I had melt away. “I settle for nothing but the best, and I strive to overachieve. If anyone would bear two eggs, it would be me and my exceptional mate.”
My chest puffed with pride, and we made our way to the medical center in earnest, finding Fel’s office by memory.
When we sidled in with a knock, Fel glanced up at us from Kris’s lap, Robard at his side with a hand resting on Fel’s thigh with a gentle appearance. Swishing tails curled from one to the other.
“Our first triad,” I said as we came by to pay proper respects to the new throuple.
“Not the first, but the first in a very long time.” Fel leaned his head to display a new bite mark, both his mates lifting theirchins with pride, a gleam of magenta blood still streaking new binding bites. Fel shifted in place and placed his feet across Robard’s lap, trying to equally dole out his affections and touch.
“So, you’re expecting an egg and mated! What did Zurok have to say?” I flicked my tail with joy, and Fel smiled.
“He was hesitant, but Noel kept shoutingdo it, do it, do itin the background. And well, Zurok relented!” Fel chuckled. “The only reason we’re not at my home already is because we were waiting for you, Friend Wallace. I wanted to show you the images, and I wish to make sure your mate has some supplemental nutrition.”
As I tried to imagine Noel doing such a thing, Fel handed Roan a piece of paperlike material with a list of items on it, some of which I’d been told were rationed. They’d well prepared for the oncoming wave of children to come, so things better for forming young were stocked and ready. I took the list from Roan to read, brow furrowed. “I’ll ensure he listens to you, my friend.”
Fel preened at the title. “I don’t know if I’ll necessarily need more assistance with my young with two mates. Though, you will need much help.”
