15. Tuft

Ihad never seen anything sexier than Axel gripping his headboard shelf and rocking his hips in time with mine. He cried out when my cock pressed against his prostate. I had to be careful I didn"t lean too far forward. My jaw already ached from wanting to bite him. We"d agreed to wait for our mating marks until we"d mated as nature intended, with his knot filling me.

I couldn"t give him a knot, but I did my best to make his first time as fantastic as possible. My first time, hell, my first few times, had been rushed, with no foreplay. I had prepped Axel, but I"d avoided most foreplay tonight. We"d been building up to this for weeks now, ever since our first kiss. If I"d sucked his cock, this would have been over before it began, and we"d be waiting for another weekend.

I was tired of waiting. Axel had completed his training, which meant all eyes would be on us to mate. Tonight, we progressed one step closer to that, though my slick didn"t understand why it was still running freely from my ass while I fucked into Axel"s tight hole. It kept running down my crack to the back of my balls, where I scooped it up and applied it to my cock. I didn"t want to hurt Axel in any way.

He started babbling again, the way he had when I"d fingered him. I stopped worrying he wouldn"t enjoy it and focused on how good it felt, instead. Axel spread his legs and planted his heels on the bed, thrusting against me as I fucked into him. His muscles flexed and rippled beneath his skin, and my balls drew up as I watched.

I grabbed another handful of slick and coated his cock with it, jerking him hard and fast in time with my hip snaps into his tight hole. His scales glistened with sweat as he tightened around me, and I felt the beginning of his knot swell in my hand as he shot white stripes over his chest and abdomen.

The smell of his cum mixed with my slick and pushed me over the edge. I came hard, thrusting my knees under his back and rolling into as tight a ball as I could with him beneath me. I tucked my head against his sticky chest to keep from marking his neck. I didn"t even care that I"d smeared cum all over my face.

Once I could breathe again, I licked the rest of him clean, from his chest to his cock.

He shoved me away with a laugh. "That"s enough."

"Never." I kissed his thigh. "At least, I hope you liked it?"

"Oh, sugar." He chuckled, and he sounded both worn out and delighted. "We"ll definitely do that again."

I crawled up the bed to lie beside him. He kissed my sticky cheek, and then he licked it clean. Kissing and licking led to more kissing, and then I was sprawled on top of him again, my tongue lapping at the scales on his neck, where I wanted to put my mating mark.

"Soon," I whispered. "We"ll mate soon."

"We can take our time." Axel"s tone drew my attention to his serious gaze. "It"s all right. We"ll wait until you"re ready."

"How are you so perfect?" Weld hadn"t forced me to mate by any means, but knowing that Axel would wait for me had me falling even harder for him.

I blinked. Shit. I was probably already in love with him. He was my fated mate, so it was expected, but damn. I"d never fallen in love this quickly. I questioned whether I"d been in love before. I"d realized I"d loved my exes only after they"d broken my heart.

This time, I recognized the feeling, only it was more. I wanted to mate and claim, yes, but I also wanted to communicate and snuggle. I wanted long walks and interesting discussions. I couldn"t wait to wake up beside him every morning, to eat breakfast with him, to share a bed and a nest with him.

I had it bad. My mind wandered to earlier in the week as I came down from my natural high. I rested my head on Axel"s chest and my thoughts drifted between the past and the future.

Punky and I had both cringed when Priestess Alma had told our class, "An omega"s place is in the home." We were expected to take care of our alpha mates, feed our egg clutches, and raise our beta children.

Now that we had the added duty of raising our alpha and omega children, as well, I might have taken on more than I could handle. I would never know until I tried, though.

When I met with her earlier in the week, Priestess Alma said nothing about mating and children. She squinted at me when I shared the job I"d created for myself was a full-time position. Ultimately, she supported my career choice, but then she said, "You"ll need to hire two betas to start." When I tried to argue, she threatened to add more.

"Two is fine," I"d agreed. I already had two hardworking betas in mind.

While Axel and his construction crew spent the next two weeks building our outdoor recreation area, I would be knocking on doors and putting together teams for our alpha/omega intramural, beta, and combined youth leagues.

Punky didn"t want his daughter to be excluded just because she was the only female kobold under thirty, and I agreed. All four of his children wanted to participate, but I was going to split them onto different teams to give them the best chance to meet other kids.

I should not have been thinking about kids, or sports. I curled into Axel"s side and kissed his cheek. He was already snoring from the busy day and the amazing orgasm. I still had slick running down my ass, so I took a moment to clean us up and find my compression shorts before returning to his comforting warmth.

The next morning, I woke before Axel, which was unusual. First, I"d only spent the night with him once, by accident, when we"d both fallen asleep watching some forgettable romantic comedy on his couch. Second, my alpha"s alarm sounded at some ungodly time before my brain could register sound. He said he tried to get me up to shower with him, but I hadn"t budged. When he"d left for work, he"d awakened me with a kiss.

Today, he hadn"t set an alarm, so it was the perfect chance to return the favor. I crawled down the bed, kissing, nibbling, and sucking all the sensitive spots I knew until I found myself face-to-face with his massive cock. Even semi-hard, it was larger than anything I"d put in my human mouth. Thankfully, my kobold mouth was bigger, and he fit perfectly between my rows of sharp teeth.

I knew he was fully awake when he gripped the base of my neck and moaned. "Good morning to you, too, sugar."

I swallowed around his head, earning another grunt of pleasure.

"Close," he warned.

I took that as a challenge to see how fast I could make him come. I increased my speed and suction. When I pressed a finger to his taint, he held my head in place and pumped his load down my throat. His knot grew in my mouth, but I backed off it, not wanting to injure him with my teeth. I was sure I could take all of him, knot and all, and hold him in my mouth until it went down, but I also wanted to eat breakfast sometime soon. I caressed his knot with both hands, but Axel grabbed them and pulled me up the bed to lie on his chest.

"Thank you."

I kissed him hard and deep, and he moaned as he sucked on my tongue.

"Damn, you taste good with my cum in your mouth."

"You say the prettiest things."

He laughed, and suddenly I found myself sitting on his chest, straddling his face, with my compression shorts nowhere to be seen.

"Magic," he said. "I want you to ride my face."

He really did say the sweetest things. I helped him arrange the pillows for the best angle, and then I fucked into his mouth. I kept my thrusts shallow at first, but he didn"t gag, even when I pushed further into his mouth. Soon, I was fucking his mouth the way I"d fucked his ass.

He surprised me by shoving three fingers into my slick hole at once. The suction on my cock and the pressure on my prostate drove me out of my mind, right into bliss.

A few drops of cum trickled from the corner of his mouth when he grinned up at me. I scooted down the bed so I could lick them up and kiss him again.

I"d never wanted anyone this often. My cock had already rebounded by the time we wandered to the shower. The stall was barely big enough for two, and definitely not spacious enough for sexy shenanigans. I settled for helping him wash his hair and back, and he returned the favor. We finished with a slick and quick handjob in lukewarm water. I had a few bruises from contact with the shelves and the shower nozzle, but it was worth it.

"I"ve never wanted anyone like this," Axel said over the waffles he"d magicked from the cafeteria.

His statement was so close to what I"d been thinking, it caught me off guard. I"d been carefully filling each of the squares with the perfect amount of syrup, but now I had a big pond of syrup in the middle.

"When the others talked about their fated mates, like Punky, and Coz and Grindl …" I sighed. "I didn"t believe them."

"It"s hard to believe until it happens to you," Axel agreed. "I wasn"t really looking for a relationship on Earth, and then the one with Rosanna developed, and I guess you could say I settled. It wasn"t like this, full of passion and desire. Turns out, I"m attracted to kobold omegas."

I couldn"t keep the grin from spreading until all my teeth had to be showing. I stabbed a waffle square with my fork and shoved it into my mouth before I said something crazy, like "I want to make babies right now," or "I love you."

Instead, we grinned at each other as we each took larger and larger bites of waffle, no longer sticking with the one-square bites of humans. I swear Axel shoved half of his waffle in his mouth at once and washed it down with milk.

"Time to go back to bed," he declared when his plate was spotless, not one drop of syrup or crumb of waffle to be seen.

"We have to finish the line work today, and make sure all the supplies are on the right fields and ready for the construction crew.

"We can do that after lunch," he said. "We have plenty of time."

He was right. We did.