Disobedience and Devotion - Chapter 6

Tags:  Tags: Lena in extreme heat, knotting, oral sex on alpha; *Warning: A beta briefly sexually harasses Lena later in the chapter and is dealt with immediately (touches her skirt, says rude stuff to her); protective Kara.

For days after its arrival, Lena’s heat kept her in a perpetual state of need. She sweltered in her own skin from an arousal so severe that she whined pitifully if Kara was out of her sights for too long. Kara did all that she could to calm her and ordered all of their meals to be taken in the bedroom.  

Lena’s condition affected her appetite for food and her scent sensitivities in equal regard, leaving her either ravenous or squeamish, all depending on what was served. She ate porridge with cream for breakfast and hearty stews for dinner, but she turned her nose up at slices of bacon and salted fish, and Nia prepared special teas for her and brought her trays with unusual flavor combinations. Lena never had to ask for them, just like she never had to ask Kara to satisfy the rest of her wants.

Rather than diminishing, her heat seemed to be strengthening, and it reached a peak by day four.
 

Kara had no sooner knotted than Lena whimpered and rubbed at the heated bulge until the alpha pulsed out more seed inside of her. Her cunt was almost painfully tight around Kara’s thick and convulsing cock, and still she forced her inner muscles to squeeze and release. She rocked her hips with the desperation to slide Kara’s knot in deeper, to penetrate the place where her channel narrowed. 

 
Lena softly cried in frustration when it would go no further, and Kara hushed her distressed noises and soothed her by rubbing her breasts with some of the seed that was covering her from an earlier release. She wore Kara’s pleasure all over her skin like a balm, but it was not enough to quiet her omega, and she worked her fingers over her sensitive red clitoris for no other reason than to console herself. 

 
Her ragged, breathless sounds of complaint moved Kara, and the alpha pushed into her until her sweet cunt spread more than ever and the knot lodged within her deeply. She lifted her head to peer between her shaking legs and then wilted back against the pillows and Kara. 

“Why do I feel like this?” Lena murmured with a soft pout and pleasurable undulation of her hips, until Kara took over with gentle thrusts of her knot. “My heat is so much worse than the last time. You mustn’t leave me while I feel this way, Kara. I am sure the townspeople will be coming to our home for help with their debts if you’re absent from the counting house for too long, but I can’t be away from you right now. I can’t.”
 

Kara hushed her whimpers and divided her attentions between rubbing her sore breasts and aroused clitoris. “I have no intentions of leaving you,” She whispered and fondled Lena’s nipples much more firmly, pressing them between two fingers and palming the whole of her breast with squeezes that made her cunt clench. “As for why you are feeling this way, perhaps it is because you feel more of a fondness towards me this time.”
 

“A fondness? Is that what this is, when I can barely sleep or do more than beg for your touch?” Lena’s quiet shuddery exhales and her flushed face were such strong indications that it was so much more—not just fondness, but also a profound connection. She felt as if her very pores exuded the aromas of her alpha now, as if some part of Kara’s scent was present in her own, their individual chemistries no longer discernible. 

She trembled violently when Kara’s knot softened and slipped free of her cunt. It made her jaw shake as if from the bitter cold.
 

“I am your alpha, and when in heat, your body will always call for me,” Kara whispered against the nape of her neck, showing her tenderness that quieted her inner omega. “A few more days of this and you should feel much better. Until then, I will be with you, tending to your needs.”

 
The consolation that granted was short lived, because just as Lena nodded in understanding and relief, a knock came at the door. Kara drew the blankets around her closely as Nia entered.

“There’s been some trouble,” Nia announced while wringing the end of her apron and glancing in worry at Lena. “Someone has broken a window at the counting house, and it seems as though that same vandal has done mischief to a few other buildings you own. It’s quite clear that Mr. Lockwood orchestrated this, but it could not have been by his own hand. You are wanted in town.”


Lena sagged against the bed sheets, both from guilt and from the fright that her alpha would leave and not return to her until later in the night. She settled with her cheek against a pillow and watched while Kara slipped a sheet about her body and stood. 

“Do me the kindness, and order both of the carriages ready,” Kara uttered. “I would have you and Winn join me.” 

The alpha waited until Nia gave a small curtsy and took her exit before applying the bindings to her chest and pulling on a shirt. Lena whimpered when Kara stepped into her trousers. 

The feverish sweat that clung to her skin worsened as Kara moved about the room and beyond her reach. She decided to speak up when Kara continued to be silent. 

“You said you would not leave me.” Lena’s voice was timid rather than accusatory — the softest whisper from her lips that expressed how much she was aggrieved. 

 
“And I will not,” Kara firmly told her as she did up her cravat and turned to peer down at Lena, where she still languished in bed. “You are going to accompany me into town. Winn and Nia will take the second carriage.”
 

Much as it relieved Lena to hear it, she was still in a lustful haze and her pheromones hung in a distressed cloud around her. She doubted she could endure the carriage ride without requiring Kara’s sexual attentions, and yet she dared not complain when the alpha was kindly allowing her to go along.

It took self-discipline to slide upright in bed and to fetch the pretty nightdress she had worn on and off during her heat.
 

“Will you see me to my room to dress?” She asked and set her pitiful eyes on Kara’s back while alpha was busy rummaging among the parchment on her little desk.
 

Though distracted by gathering up documents, Kara nodded to her, “Yes, I’ll tend to you myself this morning.” 

 
When they made their way down the hall to Lena’s bedroom, the alpha took charge of opening the wardrobe and choosing her gown.

“Leave off your underthings and wear this simple dress,” Kara whispered as she brought the gown to Lena at her bedside, and removed a frilled undergarment from her hands. She touched Lena’s face, tracing a thumb over her bottom lip as she explained, “When we are in the carriage, you will lift your skirts for me and spend the journey on my lap. Once I have assessed the damages done to my properties, you will accompany me into my office and lift your skirts for me again while I compile a list of fixes and the cost of each."
 

Kara held her gaze with an intensity so hot it burned through Lena's senses and her cunt throbbed in anticipation of being filled with the alpha's cock once more. 

"Do you understand me?" Kara prompted, the protective scent of her musk unfurling as though to soothe Lena's fevered soul.

Lena quivered for want of her alpha, responding to each waft of scent like she would a cool breeze. “Yes.” 

She felt breathless, as if Kara was inside of her already and she was uttering mindless affirmations because of it. “Yes, yes, I understand. It will be such a help to me.”
 

Kara assisted her in lacing up her simple blue gown and retrieved a hat and coat for her, and Lena appreciated the alpha’s efforts to usher her out to the carriage with haste.

They acted in concert with one another, Kara first to take down her trousers the minute the door on the carriage was shut, and Lena raising her skirts well above her hips, in keeping with Kara’s clear instructions. 

Lena moaned when she saw the glistening head of Kara’s cock, so ample and swollen and ready to push inside the vibrant red of her cunt. She waited for Kara to be seated, her erection straining and pointing upwards. 

 
Kara must have shared her urgency, because the alpha beckoned her over and pulled her down to sit on her knees. “Relax there for a moment, Lena, and let me touch you.” She whispered and rubbed her fingertips over Lena’s private lips. “The carriage has little space for this. I’ll need to thrust fully into you and you will feel every bump in the road. It may be rough when we reach that stretch of land where the carriage always jostles.”


Lena knew that stretch of land well, because her backside sometimes became bruised when traveling over it, in spite of the thin cushion within the carriage that was meant to protect her. She thought of having Kara’s cock deep inside of her, and how beaten and bashed her pelvis and cunt might feel afterwards. 

 
“I won’t complain,” Lena promised and inclined her head so Kara could kiss down the side of her neck. “Please, Kara, I can handle the brunt of it.”
 

Kara hummed her acknowledgement but Lena could see her attention was fixed elsewhere. She whined quite pathetically when Kara drew her fingers along her slit, and bit her lip as Kara spread her puffy folds to inspect her swollen clitoris, lest the alpha think she was complaining.

 
“You poor thing,” Kara remarked, bringing her thumb and two fingers together to gather the throbbing bead between them. She rubbed ever so gently, smearing slick around the hardened jewel as she fondled it carefully.
 

Lena let out a ragged breath and shamelessly moaned as her cunt spilled a fresh rivulet of slick.
 

“I’ve never seen you in such a state,” Kara whispered, intrigued as she manipulated the turgid nerves until Lena shook entirely.

 
“You don’t sound entirely sympathetic to my condition,” Lena groaned from between clenched teeth. Her hands were fisting her dress to keep it above her waist and she could see the ravenous darkness of her alpha’s eyes as she played with Lena between the thighs. 

“I dare say you’re enjoying it rather immensely,” Lena accused. 

 
Kara met her gaze then, a flicker of smirk on the corners of her mouth that broadened when she slid a lone finger into Lena’s grasping and desperate channel. Lena shuddered, but it was hardly enough to satisfy.
 

“I feel for you, truly, but you cannot fault me for deriving joy from the way you react so pleasantly to my advances.” Kara slipped another finger into her open cunt and Lena choked on the urge to request two more.

After experiencing Kara’s cock filling her for days, Lena knew without doubt that it was the stretch of the alpha’s knot that was calming her fever. The deep internal massage couldn’t be replicated by two of Kara’s fingers. The scent of her frustration must have alerted Kara that she was near the point of complete misery, because the alpha moved and then all at once bliss flooded Lena’s body as Kara forced her down onto her rigid cock.

Lena’s cunt clenched in spasmodic excitement and she exhaled a breath of happy relief. She leaned into her alpha fully and lifted one of Kara’s hands to kiss it in gratitude. Her own aroused scent still clung to Kara’s fingers and she knew anyone who entered their vicinity for the rest of the afternoon would be aware of their private deeds. 

“I’m sure we’re already the subject of public talk because of what happened with Mr. Lockwood, but I expect we’ll be even more the topic of the hour because of my heat,” Lena gasped out as the carriage jolted and dropped hard into a ditch in the road. 

The impact caused Kara’s hard cock to penetrate her forcefully and she whined as they drove on. 

“Even the least observant in the town will know we’ve been rutting like animals,” Lena huffed as she tried to bounce as hard and as fast as she could so that her cunt would be prepared for another jostle, or rougher thrusts when they finally came to Kara’s counting house. 

“Consider it a blessing,” Kara whispered against her throat, her soft lips contrasting with the sharp graze of her teeth. “It would draw far more gossip if we weren’t. At least this way the townspeople will know you are most certainly mine.” There was still a possessive lilt to Kara’s tone, and her hands enforced the sentiment by curling around Lena’s shapely hips to ensure she took her cock fully as the wheels of the carriage rattled over rocks in the uneven path.
 

Lena would have liked to hold a grudge, yet loathe as she was to admit it, her body certainly behaved as if it belonged entirely to Kara now. She couldn’t find the strength to argue, though she did muster the energy to bounce quite adamantly on Kara’s girthy erection to elicit startled sounds of pleasure from the alpha. “While I may be yours by law, let me remind you that in this marriage, your wife is the one who owns your cock, despite the fact it’s attached to you.” 

The defiance in her voice was nothing to the way Lena clamped her inner muscles around Kara’s length tight enough to prevent her from thrusting. Lena watched enraptured as Kara’s eyes went glassy with arousal and her lips parted in pleasure, then she undulated to rub her slick cunt more firmly to prove her point.
 

“You’d be wise to remember that.” Lena whispered salaciously, her lips all but touching Kara’s in the mere flirtation of a kiss just to torment her.
 

She anticipated the way Kara would put her in her place the moment they were alone within her office, and shuddered to a startling climax. 

The throb of her cunt was powerful, and the alpha’s cock stiffened in preparation to fill her with seed, and would have, if Lena hadn’t raised herself up to fix her skirts before the carriage came to a stop.


It was torture to deny herself, her heat so strong that it pained her considerably, but it was worth it to see the utter scandalized shock on Kara’s face.
 

“You poor thing,” Lena lilted, and directed a sympathetic and pitying gaze to Kara’s swollen, purple cock, which appeared to weep from her cunt’s absence. 

 

Lena was fully aware that taunting the alpha with her own words would only inflame her ego to be more dominant, and she gave a gentle pat to the broad head of Kara’s erection to make sure of it. “You better put that away before your coachman opens the door. I don’t imagine that’s the kind of tip he’s used to receiving.”

 
Kara’s frustration simmered under the surface and brightened her eyes as she hurriedly tucked herself into her pants and buttoned them up. From the tight-lipped way she stared at Lena, it was safe to say she was biting her own tongue so as not to cause a scene. 

The carriage door opened an instant later and the poor coachman was hit with the scent of their activities. He dipped his head to avoid Lena’s eyes and Kara’s demeanor shifted instantly into Clark’s much sterner one. “Remain inside the carriage until I come to collect you. I must inspect the properties first to make sure it’s safe for you to accompany me.”
 

Lena waited for the coachman to close her in and then looked out at the window to observe the happenings in town. It seemed all of the activity was centered around Clark’s building, with onlookers standing about the shops and talking about the damages. 

Clark’s appearance brought a silence to the square and the formerly boisterous crowd became more sedate. Their love for Clark was clear in how they worshipfully flocked around him, offering help and sympathies. 

Lena noticed the precise moment when they breathed in the scents that cloaked the alpha and glanced towards the carriage, perhaps sensing her heat even from the distance.
 

Clark went into the counting house with two alphas and Winn, and came out again in short order to retrieve her. 

Lena knew she looked a state, and that everyone would be aware that Clark had spent the morning ravishing her, but she no longer cared what anyone might think of it. She was ready when Clark returned, and she acted her part of an omega who was meek and under the governance of her alpha as she stepped from the carriage.
 

The thrall of her heat was so powerful that other alphas came out of the shops and the gathering of people pressed in around them as Clark escorted her. 

 
Their utterances already traveled to her ear as she walked. “She’s in heat again! And so soon after her last.”
 

“It can’t be long now until she’s with child,” came the whisper of an alpha that seemed to be in awe of Clark. 

Lena eyed the broken glass in front of Clark’s building and the shattered window above it, and then she went inside and straight to the private office in the back.
 

Clark lingered behind to give instructions to Winn and then came in to find her sitting with her legs crossed on top of the desk. She removed her coat and hat and placed them aside on a cabinet, where both garments would be out of the way.

Without a word, Kara locked the office door and waited for the sound of footsteps to retreat before she turned to Lena with a stern expression. “My Counting house, the Apothecary, and two of my other buildings were all struck last night.” There was a touch of thunder to her words, an anger so deep that it resonated through the alpha’s entire being. “Unfortunately nobody had the chance to see the scoundrels who defaced the buildings. Nothing has been taken. The doors were thankfully strong enough to withstand whomever was trying to jimmy the locks, but I will have them reinforced on all of my properties regardless.”
 

Kara had never resembled Clark quite so much than in that moment with her hardened jaw and steel eyes, which gave the illusion that her gaze alone could tear into the culprits the way blades might.

Despite that observation, Lena held no fear that her alpha would lash out at her. She felt contrite as she whispered, “Perhaps if I had not ventured into town against your wishes to see Lockwood in the stocks—”
 

“He would have still done this,” Kara snarled as she stalked towards her. “You are not to blame for his plots. As an alpha, he should be able to conduct himself in a manner more befitting a gentleman, yet he lowers himself to such foul means of exacting vengeance.”
 

By all accounts, Kara could have used this as an example to force her will upon Lena to make sure that she did as she was told. It surprised Lena to see how the alpha instead acted to free her from guilt. 

 
She beckoned Kara towards her by opening her legs and hiking up her skirts, and laced her fingers into Kara’s handsome jacket to bring the alpha nearer.
 

“I pity him, for he has no idea of your honor, strength and integrity. He’s so outmatched and he can’t see it.” Lena raised her hand to cup Kara’s cheek and met her eyes as she whispered sincerely, “You are exactly what an alpha should be.”
 

The statement appeared to stun Kara, but then all at once there was a frenzy of movement.
 

Kara tore open the buttons on her pants and Lena wrapped her arms around the alpha’s neck in preparation of the first, rough plunge of Kara’s cock. She hardly had to wait as Kara’s hands found purchase on her hips, and Lena moaned wantonly as the alpha slammed her exceptional girth back into her heated cunt.
 

Kara was frantic in her passion, and gave Lena powerful, full thrusts that rocked the desk beneath her. The sharp noise of her thighs smacking into Lena’s delicate pale flesh, and the loud thump of the heavy wood meeting the wall echoed in the empty counting house. It was so loud that it might very well be heard outside.

 
Lena let Kara undress her by pulling the gown up over her head and freeing the stays on her corset. She knew Kara wanted to see her nakedness—her alabaster skin and breasts, and the crest between her legs that was bathed in warm slick.
 

It felt like much more of a risk to be nude in such a place where they could be called upon at any moment, but a risk she would take for Kara.  
 

“My scent will linger in this room for days, and I hope when you sit down at this desk you will think of me taking off my clothes,” Lena husked against Kara’s mouth, and then moaned as the alpha pushed into her cunt with a deeper and rougher lunge. Her omega scents were fragrant and seductive, and she licked her own honey from her fingers just to watch Kara’s pupils widen with desire for her.
 

“Your beauty will remain a fixture in my mind, I assure you.” Kara promised, overcome by the provocative sight of Lena tasting herself. 

The alpha’s quickened pace reflected her excitement and she lowered her warm mouth to Lena’s sensitive breasts and bestowed open mouthed kisses over them. 

Kara welcomed a stiff nipple between her lips with a moan, and sucked while she palmed Lena’s other breast, her fingers working at Lena’s nipple until she whined out and bucked from the attention.
 

The sensual caress from Kara’s mouth heightened the pleasure she felt from the rough and vigorous pounding Kara intently gave her cunt. 

Lena found herself enamored and attentive to the fact that Kara’s eyes were on her pink slit. She was shameless in the thrill it granted, to see Kara so enthralled by the sight of her glistening lips stretched by her thick cock. Lena made sure to hold her knees further apart to keep herself exposed for the alpha as she admired the strength behind every thrust.
 

 “I may never be able to return to work without insisting on daily visits,” Kara declared, her mouth latching onto Lena’s neck to leave behind a blushing mark that contrasted with her porcelain skin. “I fear you’ve spoiled me.”
 

The slick sound of Lena’s cunt grew louder when Kara used three fingers to massage into her swollen clitoris, and the alpha groaned when Lena’s inner walls clamped around her in velvety pulsations.

Lena’s eyebrows came together in a tense wince from how powerfully her inner muscles grasped at Kara’s thickness.


The irresistible, tight warmth must have been too much for Kara, because the alpha filled her with seed. It was pleasurable to feel it inside her narrowed cunt and it rushed down her legs when Kara withdrew at the sound of a little bell from the other room.
 

Lena trembled from the alpha’s sudden retreat and dropped off the desk and onto her knees before Kara could leave.

 
“Please, Kara, ask them to wait,” She begged and closed her lips around the tip of Kara’s cock to taste her own desperation and experience their sexual heat in her mouth. 

The bell sounded again just as Lena began to suck Kara in earnest, her cheekbones accentuated by the force she used. She licked up the cascades of Kara’s seed while the alpha was hers to command. 

 
From the faltering steps and the familiar beta scent, Lena could tell it was Winn before he even reached the office door. 

 
She begged Kara by hollowing her cheeks, and the alpha silenced her whine by clasping her hair and forcing her cock deeper. It was an act that Lena didn’t count on, and yet her inner omega seemed so receptive to the dominant way Kara took command of the situation and her mouth.
 

“Leave me while I take note of the damages. I’ll fetch you when I’m ready.” Kara barked before poor Winn’s knuckles grazed the wood.
 

The beta hurried out without saying a word and Lena bobbed her head with voracious enthusiasm and began to rub at her cunt. It was such a lewd display to be on her knees, naked in Kara’s counting house, with the alpha’s cock filling her mouth while she in turn filled herself with two fingers.

 
The vision of her so desperately depraved must have called to the carnality of Kara’s alpha, because the blue of her eyes turned inky black as she observed how Lena hungered for more. 

She cared little whether anyone might hear her moans or the noises of her oral devotion, and dared to take as much of the alpha as possible into her throat. Lena gagged from it, yet persisted, wrapping her lips and hand around Kara’s straining shaft with increasing urgency until Kara breathed out a groan so guttural it could be mistaken for a growl.
 

Lena felt the surge of seed pulse through Kara’s shaft. The throb of it worked along her tongue and she opened her mouth in excitement to receive it. Kara appeared to be having a spiritual experience, the awe on her face nothing short of witnessing a miracle as her essence spurted onto Lena’s eager tongue. 

“Up,” Kara suddenly growled, fierce and insistent as she bent to pull Lena into her arms. 

Kara moved so quickly that several more jets of seed splashed over Lena, covering her breasts.“The properties can wait, but you shall not.” She asserted, her hands firm on Lena’s backside as she bucked into her reddened cunt. “It’s time I give you what you need.”

“Yes?” Lena prompted in the soft, mild voice of one who hadn’t used her charms to beguile her alpha into doing what she wished. “What is it I need, Kara? Tell me, tell me what I need from you.” She pouted her lips and brushed them over the alpha’s throat until the sharp, assertive pungency of Kara’s scent was in her nostrils.

 

After all of the times they had mated, she was beginning to correlate that scent with extreme sexual pleasure and she whimpered at the unspoken assurance of what was to come.

“My knot,” Kara asserted, her muscles straining as she kept Lena steady and drove her hips with abandon. The determination to fill her wife was written all over Kara’s face and she never slowed for a second as the base of her cock began to swell from the friction. “You will take it, even if it means we stay in here all morning.”
 

Lena nodded and opened her legs with the ambition to accept the massive knot between them. The measure of it was intimidating, and the warm convulsions of the alpha’s cock continued on, the vein beneath the shaft pulsating.
 

Lena moaned from the sensation of the seed, hot and filling, and the slick knot as it pushed through her tight channel. 

As she scrambled onto her elbows and back on the hard surface of the desk, Kara pressed into her and forced her thighs outward.
 

Her muscles cramped in the position, but she held it and cried out because of a wonderful spasm in her cunt. She whined from how deeply Kara’s knot penetrated, and again as it slipped farther yet, just beyond the very sensitive curve inside where her pleasure was centered. 

 
“Make it fit, oh please Kara, I need it that deep,” Lena pleaded. Twinges went through her thighs that were like the pricks of a thousand needles, but she wanted to remain beneath Kara, and for the alpha to pump into her until she experienced the full carnal delight of the knot. 

 
Her skin was scalding with desires, and her breath came in fast, excited exhales. She hung onto to her alpha with both of her arms, straining to take the knot until it was rubbing her inner walls and her cunt lips were beautifully stretched.

 
Ledgers fell and quills scattered, but thankfully the inkwells were locked away, or Lena may have found herself stained as Kara took her with enough force to chip the desk.
 

The alpha praised her, breathless and passionate as she plunged her knot deeply with the same urgency an alpha in rut might.
 

Kara’s mouth worked along the elegant slope of her neck, and she managed to have the presence of mind to locate Lena’s sensitive clitoris to lavish it with attention. The added stimulation produced a spike in pleasure for Lena, and she whined desperately as a deluge of slick aided Kara in ramming her knot into the tight clutches of her cunt.
 

Relief and bliss merged into one and Lena lost all sense of self as she trembled below her alpha. She barely registered the sounds coming from Kara as words, but she could feel the alpha’s devotion to her in the hot blasts of seed that tried to fill her womb.
 

Kara stilled her hips at last, and gathered Lena carefully as she sank into her chair with a heavy exhale. “Rest now. I’m capable of taking care of you and the business that must be done before I can get you home.” She rubbed soothing circles over the expanse of Lena’s back while also opening a drawer to select a quill and pot of ink.
 

The alpha’s cock still throbbed in release, and Lena felt glorious pressure from the copious amount of seed trapped inside of her.
 

Lena watched from the corner of her eye as the alpha marked the page with expenditures, and then Kara carried her about as she pulled records from the shelves. The sudden shift in their postures drove the knot into Lena and she moaned from the tenderness of her cunt. 

“How long will it take to carry out the repairs on your buildings?” She inquired with a clearer mind now that her needs had been met. 

“A few days at the most. The carpenter is already at work.” Kara opened another record book and put on a pair of spectacles to read the small script. “He assured me that my counting house will be as good as new by morning, and Winn is going to see if he can’t trace the incident back to Lockwood.” 

 
Kara’s curt way of addressing it gave Lena pause, and she once again experienced some remorse for her part in provoking the attack.

“You have my word that I won’t trifle with that rotten alpha again,” Lena whispered and caressed Kara’s tense shoulders with warmth and affection. “I will think only of our future now. If you happen to visit the apothecary again before we travel homeward, would you procure a tincture to lengthen my heat?”

Kara faltered mid step with her hand under Lena’s backside and the sudden halt in movement kept her cock buried deep.
 

Confusion and wonder reflected in the alpha’s cobalt eyes and she squinted curiously at Lena. “You would choose to prolong your current state, despite knowing I would have to return to my duties here?”
 

Lena sensed the hesitancy in Kara’s tone, and yet she used her cunt to persuade, and tightened it around the alpha’s solid cock with sensual undulations. It appeared to be working, given the breathy moan that rolled off Kara’s tongue, but her alpha was nothing if not strong willed.
 

“Why would you wish this on yourself?” Kara uttered and strode to the chair simply to set her ledger and quill down. “I cannot remain home much longer, especially after this attack. Though I confess I would enjoy nothing more than spending every waking moment ravishing you during your heat.
 

Lena’s sullen face must have revealed much about her state of mind, because Kara laughed when she appeared unhappy.

She had hoped that extending her heat would be a reason to appoint others to handle Kara’s responsibilities in town and give them more time to spend alone with one another.
 

“I feel a certain joy when you’re with me.” Lena’s eyes strayed down to where their bodies met and she touched Kara’s face as she uttered the truth with a begrudging pout, “I don’t want this to end. You have been good to me, and I like receiving all of your attention.” 

 
For a precarious second the silence in the office seemed to be an answer all of its own, but then it shifted as Kara caught her by the chin and tipped her head up to rumble, “If I didn’t know better, I’d be inclined to believe that you might actually care for me after all.”
 

Lena narrowed her eyes at the amusement on the alpha’s face, but Kara hid her smile all too soon. “I will fetch the tincture, but I will not be staying home to tend to your needs during the day,” She intoned seriously. “If you feel able to endure your urges until I can relieve them in the evenings, then you may take it, but if you try to come to town in such a state, I will be forced to lock you in your bedroom for your own safety.”


Lena huffed at the compromise and remained quiet as she fixated on the warning. It would be terrible, of course, to force the alpha’s hand in disciplining her if she took the tincture with the desire to show up at her office. Poor Nia would be caught in the middle yet again, but Kara was honorable and Lena doubted the alpha would take her ire out on anyone else bar her. She could almost feel the smarting of her backside already, and her cunt squeezed in anticipation around Kara’s knot and forced another jet of seed into her hot canal.
 

Time lost all sense of meaning, until inevitably Kara’s knot softened and she finally withdrew her cock.
 

Lena bit her tongue to stop a whine of discontent, but her scent was unfortunately desperate and the alpha could smell her need.

Kara didn’t draw attention to it as she fixed her pants and tucked in her shirt with precision. She lifted Lena’s dress and turned to her with kind eyes before insisting, “Allow me to help you into your dress and escort you to wait with Nia. I need to deliver coin to the carpenter. It shouldn’t take more than a moment, and then I’ll take you home, where I can soothe your heat privately.”

“I don’t see why I can’t accompany you to pay the man, but I suppose if it’s a quick errand, I can agree to wait patiently.” Lena sat with elegance on the desk and waited for Kara to slide her dress on over her shoulders.
 

Her heat had made her much more idle about her clothes and appearance, and it was Kara who smoothed the wrinkles from her skirts and then opened a drawer to lend her an ivory handled brush. She dragged the bristles through the tiny ringlets and curls that formed about her neck, and finally put her hat on after fixing the pretty ribbon at the top.
 

“Since you have been so agreeable for – oh - these last forty-eight hours, I have a present for you.” Kara’s jovial way of teasing her was becoming an enjoyable part of their marriage, though Lena narrowed her eyes again at the alpha in pretend dislike.
 

“It’s been more than forty-eight hours, surely,” She complained and tried to remember if she caused any bit of trouble since the first moments of her heat. “Besides, I’ve pleased you much more than I’ve aggrieved you and that has to count for something.”
 

Kara’s laugh was bold and went on a little too long for Lena not to take offense, but at the end of it she pulled out a small decorative box and lifted the lid. It was a piece of finery from a local shop—a hat pin with rubies and rhinestones, and the distinct shape of a small fencing sabre.
 

Lena saw it as the weapon it was and picked it up in curiosity. “You bought me this in case I need to stab someone,” She blurted and a perverse little smile of appreciation curled at her lips. 

 
“It’s for your defense, as a very last resort if you find yourself alone, or in a position where you must defend your honor,” Kara clarified with a severe frown and a determination to cut her mirth short.
 

Lena allowed the alpha to slip the pin into her hat and she tidied the ends of her hair again and tucked them up so she would look smart. 

“There, now it doesn’t seem like we spent the last few hours indulging in complete debauchery,” Lena smirked. 

She stepped up to kiss Kara’s cheek affectionately, but her mouth seemed to skip its intended landing place and she ended up locking lips with the alpha. Their tongues caressed and she experienced a jolting recognition that her emotions were becoming as tangled in the marriage as her hair. Gasping from it, she separated from Kara and backed herself towards the door before she could overburden her mind by naming the feeling. 

“I’ll go to Nia,” She announced and laughed uneasily as Kara gathered up her things and took ahold of her arm to escort her. 

 
They found Nia standing in front of one of the other shops, where ladies’ finery was sold.
 

Lena squeezed at her alpha’s hand in parting and then watched Clark disappear down another lane to pay the carpenter.
 

“I did the shopping,” Nia mentioned with a small wave at all of the parcels placed on the bench outside of the counting house. “You’ve been having so many cravings lately, and I purchased more of the tea that helps when you have stomach upset.”
 

“Oh, thank you.” Lena patted the beta girl on the arm with genuine fondness. She knew she had caused Nia quite a bit of trouble and she wanted to make amends for it.
 

“Listen, Nia, I owe you an apology,” She uttered. “I should have listened to you the other day when you told me about Clark’s way of conducting himself. You were right and I’m sorry.”
 

“You needn’t worry about that,” Nia reassured her and chuckled as she moved aside for others to pass. She rummaged with the parcels and Lena eyed the crowd that was still chatting away and regarding her every so often with curious glances. 

 
There was hardly any standing room and Lena did what she thought logical and stood aside. In her distraction while watching for Kara’s return, she didn’t even notice the man who stepped nearer, at least not until he began sniffing the air around her with interest.
 

He made a soft grunt near her ear, and Lena balked at the warmth of his breath as he whispered, “Quite the change in you.”
 

She glanced over her shoulder to glare at the man, his pungent aroma that of a beta, and grimaced when he moved even closer.
 

“You must have mistaken me with another. I don’t know you sir,” Lena muttered softly and then turned to Nia, who was still fussing with the parcels.
 

That didn’t seem to deter him, because Lena felt his feet toeing at the hem of her dress and he taunted her under his breath, “Well, I know you. The town hellion, but you’ve become little more than a harlot. I can smell your cunt from here.”
 

Shock robbed Lena of her tongue and her face burned with anger as she reached for Nia, who thankfully saw the stranger for what he was and rose from the bench.
 

“I insist that you step back, sir,” Nia uttered in her stead. “It’s indecent for you to be so close.”
 

He ignored Nia, who linked her arm with Lena and pulled her away, but the man followed close behind to raise Lena’s skirts out of sight, flashing her ankles as he murmured aggressively, “Bathed in seed and yet still begging for more. Why, if all it took to tame the belligerent shrew was a small prick, half the town would have given you it.”
 

Lena snapped out of her speechless state with a gasp and found her fingers pulling the hat pin free as she turned to face the scoundrel. “I’ll give you a small prick.”
 

The man raised his hands up, aware that people were beginning to gawk, and played to the crowd by announcing, “That’s not language befitting a young lady like yourself. I appreciate that you’re in heat, but I will not allow you to make such advances. Perhaps your husband shouldn’t leave you unattended if you’re prone to soliciting favors from others.”

Lena might have hesitated if not for his attempt to publicly tarnish her reputation. 

The thought that his talk could upset Kara and that the alpha might believe the stranger’s lies was too much for her to bear. She stuck the hat pin into his arm in the most sensitive spot accessible. It pierced him cleanly and she let it remain for a second before pulling it back. 

 
The vulgar beta let out a yowl of shock, “You wench! You cut me!” He appeared surprised that she was bold enough to fight back, and because he was still hovering so close, Lena stood poised to do it again.

The wound already bled through his cream colored tunic and it seemed much more of a dramatic hurt because of it.
 

Two of the town’s most reputable alphas observed the commotion and came over to inspect the man’s arm. 

 
“He was rude to me,” Lena muttered in her own defense, pathetic as it was to try to justify her actions when neither of the alphas had overheard the entire conversation.
 

She knew how it seemed to everyone who had witnessed the stabbing, and when she noticed Clark parting the crowd, she studied her feet and wondered if her rash behavior would bring an end to all they shared together during her heat. 

 
The acrid stench of anger enveloped Lena, and she pressed her lips together to stifle the submissive whine when the alpha’s hand wrapped around her throat to force her eyes up.
 

She feared that Kara harbored a hatred towards her when the alpha’s rage spilled out in a snarl, yet the alpha did not strike her and Lena made great effort not to plead, lest the townspeople think Clark was soft to her sway.
 

“Clark, it seems your omega assaulted this gentleman,” The alpha Mr. Lord noted with a touch of disdain as he held the man’s arm out as proof.
 

The slick crimson stained the beta’s sleeve and he had the audacity to pretend the pain he suffered warranted a howl to draw a crowd around them.

“Even in heat, she dishonors herself and makes a mockery of our laws,” Mr. Edge hissed, his scorn shifting from Lena as he stepped closer to Clark to hold him personally responsible for Lena’s outburst. “And here I thought you’d be the right alpha to keep this defiant little bitch in line, but it appears even Clark Danvers can’t control her volatile nature.”

Murmurs began through the gathering, speculation that perhaps Clark was unfit to handle such a wild omega, yet nothing came close to the warning rumble of Clark’s growl when he turned to Mr. Edge and stepped so close he practically pressed into him. “I will determine what happened here and act accordingly, but if you question my dominance again, I’ll be sure to demonstrate it fully.” Clark informed him with fierce, unwavering steel in his voice. “On you.”

Edge looked perturbed by the threat, and though anger flashed in the alpha’s eyes, it barely reflected the fury that filled Clark’s face. “I’m not your enemy, Clark.” He finally snarled, but when Clark refused to move as if ready to make good on his vow, Mr. Edge relented by lowering his gaze and taking a step back to show submission.

Clark turned his full attention back to Lena, his hand still coiled around her throat, though Lena assumed it was more for appearance than intimidation as the alpha’s grip wasn’t nearly as biting as it could have been. “Tell me exactly what happened, or I will have Mr. Edge fetch me a switch to strike the truth out of you.”

“That man approached me.” Lena stated in a harsh whisper and lifted her head back without struggling against her alpha’s hold on her. “He called me a harlot and told me he could smell my arousal. Nia asked him to step back, because he was standing too close and touching my skirts. He refused to listen, and then suggested that half of the town would have mated with me if they had known all I needed was a prick.” She over-enunciated the word despite the vulgarity, and then grit her teeth together in frustration.
 

It upset her to have fallen into such a trap, and her scents were meek instead of proud like when she had previously broken other town rules. She squeezed her eyes shut to stop them from watering and herself from appearing weak, and then glared at the alphas who would judge her.
 

“I did nothing wrong,” Lena argued and glanced away to await a punishment she suspected some of the alphas longed to give her.  
 

As Clark held his tongue to observe the emotion on Lena’s face, the beta drew attention to himself by shouting, “Everyone heard how she tried to proposition me, but I have more integrity than that.”
 

That caught all of Clark’s attention and he unclasped Lena’s throat with the subtlest caress to the underside of her jaw. Then Clark turned on the irate beta, who appeared to vibrate with a mixture of panic and forced rage.
 

“Do you?” The calm hostility in Clark’s tone spoke of danger and he stalked forward with his chin raised to regard the man with contempt. “Mr. Edge, have you ever known a married omega to lust after a beta while in the throes of a heat?”

 

 “I can’t say that I have.” Mr. Edge admitted, his narrowed eyes locked on the beta as the townsfolk echoed how strange it would be for an omega to seek a beta to soothe her heat, especially when she was already bound to an alpha.

“What of you, Mr. Lord?” Clark asked, the scent of his pheromones laced with malice as he stared the beta down with a glare. “Have you ever encountered a claimed omega who wanted an inferior male?”
 

“It’s not my fault you married a tramp who would give it to anyone who looked her way!” The beta spat, but he quaked where he stood as the three alphas encroached on him.
 

Clark advanced with a slow, sinister growl and without warning snared the beta by his throat and squeezed tight enough to make him sputter for breath.
 

“Gentlemen,” Clark intoned as if striking up casual conversation, “As you may have noticed, I’ve been the target of someone’s cowardice. Several of my properties were damaged overnight. I suspect someone put the fool up to this.”

 

 “He seems to have sprung a leak,” Mr. Lord noted with a smirk as the sharp scent of fear was punctuated by a steady and noisy trickle that pooled around the beta’s shoe. Several onlookers pointed at it, and the public opinion turned on the man as they deemed him weak and untrustworthy.


“I’m willing to accept that as confirmation of guilt.” Mr. Edge asserted, his gaze flicking back to Clark to gauge his reaction before he stated viciously, “If you hold no objection, I’d like to bring him before the council to speak of his crimes. It seems he’s forgotten his place.”
 

“See that he remembers it.” Clark growled and released his hold on the beta, who gulped at air and let out a pathetic snarl of protest when Mr. Edge and Mr. Lord caught him by the arms to drag him off without another word.

Lena didn’t wait to be told that she should get into the carriage that was waiting on them. She dashed away the minute the alphas came to their verdict.
 

It might have been hasty of her, but she felt like she might cry and desired to conceal her sensitive fragrance from others. As it was, her stomach churned from the conflict and the sickening pheromones of the disgraced beta. 

Her nausea abated a little when Kara entered the carriage, still very much in the mood of Clark.
 

Lena had every intention of remaining calm, and she sat passively with her hands in her lap until the carriage began to move. She might have stayed seated like that, but her eyes wandered and she recognized quite suddenly how much she wanted to go to Kara. 

Lena flung her arms around Kara’s shoulders and buried her nose in the alpha’s neck. 

Kara was strong, powerful and had all of the traits that their society prided alphas for having. Alphas were never expected to be nurturing or capable of giving comfort, yet there was no denying it was what Lena sought from her mate when she latched onto Kara and fought the vulnerability that stuck in her throat.
 

Lena wouldn’t ask for it, wouldn’t shame Kara by requesting it, and so it shocked her when she felt the alpha stroke her back with tenderness. 

“You’re safe now,” Kara whispered, her chin resting atop Lena’s hat to allow her to nestle closer to her chest. “They will deal with him, and I will always protect you.”

“I thought you might believe him,” Lena admitted with a heartbroken whimper and quiet gasps that threatened to become cries. “Everyone in this town despises me and I didn’t care about that before, but I don’t want you to ever despise me.”

She breathed a little easier as Kara’s hold on her tightened and the alpha pressed their foreheads together to look her in the eye.

 

“I would never,” Kara swore, her thumb tracing a lone teardrop down the side of Lena’s cheek as she confessed, “In public I must conduct myself how they expect I should. Even if it seems that I believe the worst, you must understand that I will always trust you over them, no matter how awful it may look.”

Lena might have wept had Kara not quieted the beginnings of a whine by pulling her closer. The protective embrace soothed the distress within Lena.
 

“In time public opinion of you will change,” Kara insisted in a whisper that calmed Lena’s shudders. “Now more than ever, it’s important that you begin to socialize with other omegas. You may not consider them friends, and I will not pressure you to think of them as such, but even acquaintances can be beneficial. There is a hunting party that I must attend at the end of the week. The alphas’ wives always gather together. I’m going to propose I host it this time, so you feel at ease in your surroundings.”

“I would find it much more preferable if we were both to stay home, considering it was that same hunting party that found me when I was living outside the law in the forest,” Lena replied, but she could see that Kara would not be moved on the matter. 

She detested the idea of sitting down to tea with anyone and making idle chat. In the past when her mother forced her to attend such events, she had offended omegas who were excited to be married or had nothing to say except to talk of their husbands. Lena never expected to be in such a position herself and she felt bile rise in her throat from it. 

“Fine,” She sighed and ran her fingers over the buttons on Kara’s outer vest with the urge to undo them. The sooner she gave in, the better, because they were nearing the house and now that she was calmer, her heat began to affect her again. “I’ll be the perfect wife while you’re out hunting—but please do me the kindness of taking me to the bedroom the moment we get in.”