He Was Sent to Tame the Alphas, Then Made Them His novel · Chapter 3 of 24

Chapter 3: What the Morning Left

Troy walks in at dawn wearing every mark and ache of the night, furious until Lucas tells him to sit. Melinda brings sweet tea, Lucas swaps the cups, and Felix appears in the doorway.

Lucas woke clean.

There was no ache in his body and no mark on his skin, and the sheets under him were dry.

Someone beside him was swearing in a low, steady voice.

Troy sat on the edge of the bed with the blanket bunched in his fist.

Dawn light fell across his back, and every inch of it was covered in marks.

There were long red scratches from his shoulder blades down to his waist.

There were dark bruises in the shape of fingers on his hips.

There was a bite on his collarbone, and another one under his jaw, and the silver crescents on his shoulder still glowed faintly.

"Don't touch me," Troy said, when Lucas sat up. "I can't walk right. Every muscle in my body hurts, and I feel it in my ass."

"That's the transfer."

"The what?"

"It's a long story." Lucas yawned. "Everything that happened to me last night happens to you this morning. It's my reward."

Troy turned around slowly.

His golden-brown eyes were furious, and he was breathing hard through his nose.

"You," he said. "You did this on purpose."

"I did it because it was convenient."

Troy rose off the bed, all six and a half feet of him, bruised and naked and angry.

"I am a Prime. I have never been handled like this in my life, and I won't be made a fool of by a palace omega who..."

"Sit," Lucas said.

The scent went out of him in one soft wave.

Troy sat down so hard that the mattress bounced.

He looked down at himself, and then up at Lucas, and his mouth fell open.

"Stop that," Troy said weakly.

"I'm not doing anything now."

"Then why do I want to do what you say?"

Lucas didn't answer, because the system had just opened a window in front of his face.

NIGHT ONE COMPLETE. ALPHA TROY: RUT SUPPRESSION ACTIVE. HOLD ON ALPHA: 18%.

Troy pressed a hand to his own stomach. "My rut is due in three days. I could feel it coming at the table yesterday. It's gone."

"Good," said Lucas. "Less to deal with."

"What did you do to me?"

"I tamed you a little." He propped his chin on his hand. "It's my job now. I'll explain it over breakfast. Come here."

Troy came, because he did not know how to do anything else.

He knelt at the side of the bed with the bite marks on his throat and the fingerprints on his hips.

"You want something," Troy said hoarsely.

"I want your mouth on me before I'm properly awake. Can you manage that?"

Troy's eyes went dark.

"Yes," he said.

Lucas lay back against the pillows and kicked the blanket off.

He was already half hard.

Troy bent down between his knees and took Lucas's cock in one hand.

He licked a long wet stripe up the underside.

Lucas gasped.

"Slowly," he said. "I like it slow in the morning."

Troy took the head into his mouth and sucked, and his tongue swirled around the slit.

Lucas threaded his fingers through the black hair and let his head fall back.

"Use your hand on the base," he said. "Yes. Like that. Good boy."

Troy shivered all over at the praise, and went deeper.

His mouth was hot and tight.

He bobbed in a steady rhythm, with wet sounds filling the room.

One big hand pumped what his lips could not reach.

Lucas's hips lifted off the bed.

"Look at me," he said.

Troy looked up through his lashes, golden eyes wet and wild, with Lucas's cock stretched between his lips.

"That's it," Lucas breathed. "Swallow when I come."

He came with a groan, spilling down Troy's throat.

Troy swallowed every drop and licked him clean.

Then Troy rested his forehead against Lucas's thigh and stayed there, breathing hard.

"I came too," he said, sounding stunned. "I didn't even touch myself."

"Of course you did." Lucas patted his head. "You're mine."

A light knock came at the door.

"Brother? I've brought your morning tea."

Melinda.

Troy froze, and Lucas pushed him toward the wardrobe with one foot. "Get behind that."

Troy grabbed a robe and ducked behind it. His boots stayed in plain sight by the bed.

Lucas pulled the blanket up to his waist. "Come in."

Melinda came in with a silver tray, smiling.

She wore a grey morning dress, and the iron key lay on its ribbon at her throat.

"You look better," she said warmly. "I was so worried after yesterday. I thought you might want something soothing."

She set down two cups and a pot of tea that steamed sweetly.

Her gaze rested on the boots by the bed for one moment.

Then she looked back at him, and her smile did not change at all.

"Drink while it's hot," she said. "It's my own blend."

Lucas picked up a cup.

A line of text slid across the corner of his eyes.

TRACE DETECTED: DREAMROOT. Heavy sedative. Effect: sleep without waking for one day.

He turned the cup in his hand.

"Aren't you going to join me?" he said.

"I've had mine already."

"That's a pity." He rose, wrapped the blanket around his waist, and walked to the window, where a potted fern sat on the sill. "Then you won't mind if I let it cool."

He tipped the cup into the fern as he passed it.

The leaves went limp in front of them both.

Melinda looked at the fern, and then at Lucas, and the smile stayed exactly where it was.

"Dreadful soil," she said gently. "I'll have the gardener look at it."

She picked up her tray, patted his arm, and left.

The door clicked shut behind her.

Troy came out from behind the wardrobe, pale under the bruises. "That was a sedative."

"Yes."

"She was going to put you to sleep for a whole day."

"She was going to put me on a cart to Ash Lodge," Lucas said, "before the Blood Moon, with my signature forged."

He pulled on his shirt and started for the door, because he suddenly wanted a real breakfast.

When he opened it, Felix was standing in the corridor.

The Prime of Optimus was dressed in grey and silver, with his pale hair tied back, and his arms folded.

His blue eyes went over Lucas, and then past him to Troy.

Troy had stepped out from behind the wardrobe in a borrowed robe, with the bite plain on his neck.

Felix's voice was soft.

"Whatever you did to him," Felix said, "you will do to me."

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