Imogen is her pack's runt. She was a surprise to her family, and a disgrace. Her father is the gamma of her pack so her existence as the runt is a disappointment and disgusting.
Her family wait for the moment when she can find her mate, leave the pa...
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After a few tries of retracting my claws and summoning them again to satisfy Tobias he finally agreed to let me try for fangs.
Bouncing up and down happily on the rock, I grin at Tobias making him smile ruefully. I'm so excited that I succeeded with the claws that now I'm certain within the next hour I will be able to mark my mate and claim him as mine.
"Why is it so hard!" I cry out in frustration after trying to summon fangs for over with no success.
"Baby, you did such a good with the claws, why don't we call it a day on a good note?" Tobias has been offering up ways out of this endeavour for the last half and hour, I have been ignoring him. I want to do this, I need to do this.
"Please, Tobias, I want to do this today."
"Ok ok," Tobias nods his head and gently takes my clenched hand in his, "why don't we talk about something else for a minute to give your mind a break."
"Ok, talk to me." I squeeze his hand tight and try to push all thoughts of fangs from the back of my mind.
I hear Tobias taking a deep breath and I immediately feel nervous. I thought we were going to be having a light hearted, easy conversation but from Tobias' reaction I sense I was wrong.
"You know this morning..."
"Yes..." I drawl out with a nervous smirk, of course I remember this morning. It was my first time with my mate.
"Well you know about the risks, well not risks, the uhhhh byproducts of mating."
Tobias stumbles over his words in an adorable fluster. To put him out of his misery, I reach up and cup his face between my hands. Then I pull his face down to mine and press our foreheads against each other.
"If you're talking about pregnancy, I know."
"Oh, ok it's just that you know we can't use protection, you know it wouldn't work right?"
"Tobias, I know that wouldn't work. I knew what that could mean and I'm excited... if you are."
"Yes baby, I'm excited to even think about it."
For mated couples, pups are expected very swiftly after mating. It's the way it works, no form of birth control work for us but mated couples are the only pairs who can conceive. When Tobias and I made love, I knew what it could mean and so did he. Neither of us needed to talk about it in that moment because we knew how amazing it could be.
"There's just one last thing baby." Tobias nervously rubs at the back of his neck, I'm still not sure why he is so nervous around me. "About that could I'm fairly certain for us it will be a would."
"What do you mean?" I question, puzzled as I look at Tobias, who is looking out over the pool and not making eye contact with me.
"I mean, because I am a beta that chance of conceiving is high, really high."
"How high?" I mumble as I let my hand drop down to my stomach, the excitement is evident in my voice and it makes Tobias let out a relaxed breath.
"Almost 100%. It's the moon goddess' way of making sure that the line of succession occurs in a pack."
I nod in understanding, it makes sense and it makes my heart swell as I imagine a tiny version of Tobias running around the cabin on unsteady legs.
"I'm sorry Imogen, I should've...I should've told you before we we mated."
"Why?" I question boldly, if Tobias had told me this information this morning, it wouldn't have changed anything. Hell, I probably would have insisted we mated again so we had 20o percent chance (even if that isn't the way percentages work!).
"Do you feel like I kept something from you? Like I lied to you?"
I sigh heavily at Tobias' harsh guilt and treatment on himself. Gustily, I slip off my hoody, leaving me in my leggings and T-shirt.
Tobias is so distracted by his own guilt and worries that he hasn't noticed that I am minus a garment of clothing.
Slipping down from the rock, I stand up to my knees in the warm water. Bravely, I lift my hand and point my finger at Tobias before making a come hither movement.
Tobias smirks as I slowly dip my torso down in the water until just my eyes are peaking suggestively over at my mate.
I rise again and watch as Tobias removes his jumper, and then his shirt, and then his jeans. I watch with my mouth open as my gorgeous mate descends into the water wearing next to nothing, if I thought I was being sexy I've got nothing on Tobias.
He takes a few long strides through the water before he is standing in front of me with a devious smirk on his lips.
"I'm taking this as you saying you don't blame me for telling you?" Tobias smiles lazily down at me and traces the side of my face with this hand.
"Oh, I do blame you for not telling me," Tobias' face falls and his chest heaves with anxiety, "I blame you for not telling me because I definitely would have gone for a second round in the morning."
Tobias let's out a startled laugh and lifts me up by my ass so that my legs are wrapped around his waist and our noses are touching.
"Imogen!" He scolds me playfully, "Who knew my mate was such a little vixen."
I grin at him before dragging my tongue over my teeth. When I feel something sharp digging into my tongue I let out a gasp of surprise.
Tobias watches me with amusement as I trace my tongue over my fangs again and again.
"I-I did it!" I squeal, throwing my arms around his neck and burrowing my face there.
"All you needed was a little distraction." Tobias whispers suggestively in my ear as he nibbles along the shell of it making my skin tingle and my back arch in pleasure.
"No," I exclaim huskily as I shake my head, "you had your fun this morning, it's my turn now."
I begin to kiss my way from the underside of Tobias' ear down to his neck. When he lets out a juddering groan of delight as I reach the place where his skin is thinnest, I know this is where I shall place my mark.
My fangs ache as they gently pierce his sensitive skin. The bond between us explodes in my brain, in my heart and I never want to be away from his arms.
I carefully pull away before lapping at the few droplets of blood that had spilled and healed the wound.
Breathlessly, I look back up at Tobias whose face is flushed with pleasure and delight.
"Was that ok?" I ask unsurely as I look back down to the mate mark on Tobias' neck.
