SAVAGE

02.

Matheo.

I snuggled further to the heat, the warmth and the comfort was splendid, I needed more of it, the musky yet dominant scent all around me made me melt even more, this was heaven and somehow I didn't want to leave it, until I realized I wasn't the only one in the large bed, meaning. "Morning hermosa, stop squirming around I'm trying to get my wood down over here." If anything brought me back from my heaven it was that statement and all I could do was blush, very very vividly.

I tried to move from him but his arms were around my waist, and they pulled me closer to him. "Morning Savage, why are you in my bed?" I questioned wondering why indeed, he had his own bed, his own room in fact. "Don't be rude Matty, plus you're in my bed, you said you're confiscating it because I need to stop yelling at the patrol or anyone who doesn't listen to me." He retorted with a chuckle and I realized I had said and done that, but what was the point of confiscating his bed when he could easily just slip into the bed after I was asleep, obviously after he came onto the bed I clung to him.

"Then aren't you supposed to be on the floor then, take your punishment." I ordered and he scoffed. "I'm not sleeping on the floor when there is a perfectly good bed to sleep on, plus you're the one who choked me in the night whilst cuddling, and now you woke me up by pressing on my wood, I'm not sleeping there, I refuse." Savage argued and I knew this was one of those mornings, so I tried to forget about big things and be stubborn. "If you don't take your punishment I'm not making you lunch." I threatened but the booming sound of his laughter only made me glare.

"I can live with that, you're the one who is going to have a hard time controlling yourself not make me that lunch." He taunted and I hated how he was right, I'm so used to it that it's second nature, a habit I can't control. "Jerk." I muttered and he burst out laughing again, as he laughed I pushed him off the bed, well tried to push him since I fell with him and he kept laughing. "I'm not talking to you for the rest of the day." I announced sticking my tongue out and walking away, obviously, it wasn't long till I was back to curling onto his body, but right now I had to stay strong and resist.

Stomping all the way to my room I headed for the shower instantly, I had to get a head start on the day, along with helping dad at the bookstore, I had to help Alpha Reese Savage Heathen, that name still gives me goosebumps, with the pack, without a mate the pack can thrive with only just him as an alpha but he can't be at every place in the large pack, therefore, I help him, half his duties are mine, the easier ones of course, well easier ones at times.

After showering I wore a large sweater which was obviously Savage's, black jeans that were somehow tight at different places, and black vans, simple and practical. The smell of food however made me float down the stairs to find my brother half naked in boxers flipping over pancakes, this was every gay boy's dream and I lived it every day, was it so wrong to admire what you knew you couldn't have, to just immerse yourself in the delusion that somehow that whole package you're looking at might be yours, it was a pipe dream, so I placed it aside and walked toward him silently.

He was trying to buy my forgiveness with food and temptation, I promised myself I would be strong so I wouldn't cave, but damn he was bringing out the big guns. "I made breakfast hermosa, sit." He lovingly asserted and I did so with a glare. "Don't be like that, you look so cute when you're trying to glare." He retorted and I hated it, why couldn't I glare at someone like Papa, one look from that man could kill you, breakfast is served and I couldn't keep it together, along with breakfast he was being touchy, I was playing right to his tune.

"Eat, you need your strength." He added placing a kiss on my forehead, how I was not to crumble when he was like this, how could anyone not crumble when six foot nine hot as hell man makes you breakfast half naked, then serves it to you whilst being touchy almost like you'll fade away, then places kisses on you just to be the cherry on top. "Need more syrup sweetheart?" He questioned when he realized I was remaining silent.

"Yes I will have some." I growled and there goes my vow to stay perfectly silent, he offers it to me with a wink and I try glare at him again but realize he will only find it cute and hardly threatening so I sigh and continue eating breakfast with my brother who was obviously celebrating his victory, I'm startled when I feel my body being placed on his lap, I don't argue or resist, just curl closer, depressive thoughts are a bitch sometimes, I always wonder how long I will have these kinds of mornings with him, how long will we wake up in the same bed and argue like an old couple.

A very selfish part of me wished he and blue never found their mate so I could keep him with me, but that selfish part of me was also dying, I've seen him at times just staring into nothing, and because I have Heathens for parents I could tell he was thinking about his mate, about the future, and as he thought about it, I often asked myself, would I ever be part of it.

We finished breakfast in comfortable silence, he did feed me the rest of my food, after that, I placed a kiss on his cheek and walked upstairs, we both had our moments when words couldn't suffice, how long could we stay in this bubble that we had created away from everyone, would we ever not be threatened by the idea of other people coming into our lives and turning us into different directions, I was attached to him since the day I met him as a baby, he was my knight in Heathen armor.

By the time I got down breakfast plates had been washed and the kitchen was spotless, I filled his two bottles with water and the other his apple juice, he needed his liquids even if it was just chilly outside, he always neglected himself but thought of everyone's happiness I knew that it's why I had kept close to him, but for how long would that last. I left a note for him sprinkled with a lot of hearts and walked out.

Sydney Falls was no longer a small town in the middle of nowhere, it was slowly becoming a city, I had watched it grow all my life as more wolves came into the pack and more people came into the town, I waved at pack members who were on their way into town, some offering a ride others walking beside me, even though I myself was human the pack never treated me any differently, papa trained me to be just as strong as him, dad taught me how to love and be part of the huge family that was the Crescent Fall pack, I wasn't the irregularity, I wasn't the outcast, no human in the pack was.

I was the alpha's second kid, wolf or not they still saw me as one of their own, I knew I was adopted when dad first told me about wolves when I was three, it hurt to hear but when you're shown love the right way, I accepted it and happily accepted love from both my parents and my brother along with my baby brothers, I'm always grateful because having them, made me a Heathen too.

I smiled happily walking into the bookshop, it was bigger now, one part bookshop, the other cafe, my family and I had so many memories in the place, it always felt a little bit like home too and I wondered how long that would last.

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LMJ