Mates of a Human

Part Four. Chapter Seven. Eric

Author's note; for all those breathless with anticipation, I apologise that this chapter is not the chapter where Alex pops his cherry. Michael and Eric are being gentlemen, wanting to make Alex's first time memorable as they know the moment they fully do the deed, they will mark him. So we will all have to be patient with them. Thank you for your time. Ps You won't have to wait too many chapters, that I am sure of x.

"So where are we going?" Alex asked as he strapped himself into the back of Michael's car. I sat in the passenger seat and glanced at Michael with a grin. So far we had been successful with hiding our small surprise from our amazing mate. Although we had almost broken down and confessed when Alex revealed that surprise of his own.

Male cats have always been a little nonchalant when it came to offspring; we might strut around a little if it turned out our sperm had done their job and impregnated the female we had just banged, but the kids themselves.. well once they could fend for themselves, time to send them on their way. If there was no offspring, no worries. Our neighbours had probably had enough kittens or cubs to cover our lack.

But family meant so much more to Michael. His protectiveness of our mate was strong anyway and had been almost stifling this morning. He questioned every yawn, apologised for the ache Alex complained about and would have refused to let the boy lift a finger if I hadn't warned him to back off and let Alex breathe. Alex hadn't seemed to notice; he was still floating down from numerous intense orgasms we had caused between us last night as we had tried to show him just how much he meant to us physically. He had even turned his slightly clumsy attentions onto me, but damn he was a quick learner and my fangs had protruded from my gums, piercing my lip as I came into his mouth.

"Like all good shifter's before their mating," Michael said, cheerfully, "we are going to meet the in-laws before we whisk you away."

There was a slightly stunned silence from the back seat for a moment. "We are going to visit my parents or yours?" He asked.

"Yours," Michael confirmed. "You'll see Eric's later, next week." He didn't mention his own, naturally and I saw the flicker of sadness in Alex's face with a surprising burst of anger before he calmed.

And then he smiled. "Good," he said. "I can't wait to introduce you to my mum and dad as the best things to happen to me ever."

"Me too!" I grinned. My parents would likely give me the thumbs up as simply as they had with Michael. They were pretty laid back parents, especially if you considered my dad was a warrior for the pride and my mum was out and about doing her own thing.  She was often not on the Pride lands for days at a time.  They had only had me, but that was okay, I had plenty of cousins to rough and tumbled with. They handed me to my maternal uncle the moment he saw I had potential as a Second, probably glad to get my boisterous, arrogant self out of their fur.

The drive down to the town of Alex's birth was fairly smooth.  I switched to sitting in the back with Alex after a toilet break, enjoying snuggling against him for part of the journey and singing along to the radio.  Michael didn't sing, although I caught him humming along a few times. I rubbed Alex's back when he began to complain that it ached there, just above his hips.  Eventually, Alex fell asleep, the lack the night before catching up with him. He didn't wake until we were close to our destination and that was only so as we needed him to give us directions; we didn't trust the satnav. We once ended up travelling down the narrowest and poorest excuses of roads imaginable thanks to that infernal machine.

The Rivers family home was huge. Three stories, detached, with a triple garage attached and a drive that could have been mistaken for a car park. It wouldn't have looked out of place on a newly established shifter territory. In fact, if its plot wasn't so small for the amount of house, it probably would have been mistaken as such.