(Chapter 12 Continued)

"Alpha. Did you hear me?" 

I raised an eyebrow as I looked up from my dinner plate, tilting my head at my assistant Sam who'd pulled me from my thoughts before shaking my head. 

"No. I didn't. Repeat it." I nonchalantly replied, glancing around the room which was filled with loud chatter. During the vacation I'd specified that dinners were to be spent as time for the entire pack to come together, to break bread and form new connections among the newcomers. I sat at the front of the room in a special section of the table for the higher ranks in the pack. Berlin sat to my left, subconsciously leaning against my bicep as he dozed off. However, the spot to my right reserved for the Beta was empty. I smirked at the thought that he was probably being punished by his mate for evading him to long. Serves him right.

"I said I think this retreat is going really well for the socialization of the pack. I'm glad you suggested it. Makes our jobs a lot easier, I'll tell you that." Sam stated, chewing on a string bean as she spoke. 

My attention was once again drawn away for a moment, this time to my mate as his head began to slide drowsily down my arm. I shifted his body in my hold, wrapping an arm around his waist to lean him more comfortably against me while I thought about Sam's words. Lifting a green bean to my lips, I nodded slowly. 

"Also, Osias, please go easy on that boy." Sam sighed, setting her fork down as she looked at Berlin's sleeping form with sympathetic eyes, her tone somewhat suggestive. "I can only imagine what you've put him through today..."

"I am very much in control of my urges." I snapped my jaw at her, not liking what she was insinuating. 

"Mhm, whatever you say" she held her hands up in surrender, a playful glint in her eye. "I'm just saying that some pack members were worried this morning when they saw him. They said he looked like... How did they phrase it?..." She tapped her chin before her eyes lit up with recall "Oh right, a baby deer!"

I scowled as she laughed, taking a few more bites of green beans as she shook her head. "So yeah, 'in control of my urges' my ass." 

"Whatever" I grumbled out, trying to convey an unconcerned demeanor but secretly taking notes to go a bit gentler on my fragile mate next time.

Berlin yawned in his sleep, lips smacking together adorably as he wiggled impossibly closer, unconsciously pressing into my side. Delicious tingles ran up my spine as he moved against me, and I couldn't help but think back to the moment on the beach and the firework of sparks I'd experienced then.

My thoughts wandered, the image of his bubble butt bouncing as it pressed back on my cock causing my pants to tighten in all of the right places. I'd be able to hold back from mating Berlin since this morning, but it was getting impossibly harder as the day wore on. Although he may be done with his Heat, that didn't change the fact that my instincts as a newly mated dominant wolf screamed at me to fill him to the brim with my seed every second of the day. 

Naughty thoughts. 

"Make sure the warriors switch out their watch at midnight for me." I instructed Sam, pushing my seat back with my legs as I stood and gathered my mate up into my arms. "Berlin is about to pass out, so I will be heading back to the Wing now. I want confirmation on my desk tomorrow morning."

I didn't wait for her reply and simply exited the dining room, heading towards the Alpha Wing as I stared down at the angelic features of my beloved. I don't think I'll ever get used to the way his bottom lip trembles when he is sleepy, or how his perfectly wide hips sway when he walks past me. 

He's so tempting. 

So perfect. 

So mine.

The sound of loud moans broke through my loving haze of my thoughts of Berlin, causing me to scowl in disgust as I realized that I was walking past my Beta's room. I'd have to get his room back at the Pack House soundproofed now that he has a mate. Ortiz's groans of pleasure caused my stomach to churn, and I sped up my pace towards the double doors that signaled the end of the pack house and the beginning of the Alpha Wing.

"Osi?..." Berlin whispered in a sleepy voice as I set him on my bed, grinning as he snuggled into the soft covers.

"Yes?" I replied as I walked over to the closet to strip to my boxers. 

"Can you undress me? I'm... I'm too tired..." he asked, his voice becoming more and more faint as his eyes fluttered closed. 

"Hell yes." I grinned devilishly, accepting the offer without a second thought and damn near pouncing on the smaller boy.

"Wake him up! Let's get laid!" howled York inside of our mind. How he keeps getting past the barriers that I put up to keep him at bay, I will never know. 

I didn't even try to shut him up. I just smiled down at Berlin as I gently tugged his sweatshirt over his head. 

Tomorrow, we would go to the beach. 

I had to bite my lip hard enough to draw blood to keep myself from passing out at the thought of seeing Berlin in his tight, pink swimming trunks.