River moaned and arched his back as he was filled to the brim; he kept his eyes squeezed shut as pleasure coursed through his body.

"Angh. M-More," he pleaded, spreading his legs wider as the wolf atop him dominated him. 'I've missed this so much.'

The Alpha above him grunted and effortlessly flipped him onto his back, grabbing hold of his legs to pin them back against his shoulders.

River gasped as his hips were raised so that the the man could slide deeper into him; he sobbed as the already rough thrusting became even more wild.

"You like that, huh?"

River could only moan, wrapping his arms around the man's neck as his pace quickened. "Hmmm."

This was just what he needed before the annoying case against Wolfie. Lukas and Persephone were practically hounding him and now, he was regretting even accepting their offer.

"Ahhh!" He gasped, his grip on the man's neck slackened as his body became weak, he could feel his orgasm approaching and knew that there was no way that he could stop it.

He bit his lip and the Alpha halted his actions before grabbing hold of the back of his legs to push deeper inside of him, releasing a groan as River tightened around him with the force of his orgasm.

The Beta's body convulsed as his orgasm wracked through him. It didn't even take more than a couple seconds later for the man to spill inside of him with a low groan.

"Fuck." He squeezed his eyes shut as River's body milked him for all he was worth.

The aforementioned Beta could only gasp as the Alpha's knot grew inside of him until it locked them together. "L-Lo... Ugh," he choked out, arching his back as the Alpha pushed his legs back even more, coming to hover over him.

Before he could speak again, his lips were captured in a soul searing kiss and he happily responded, pressing back against the man as he took complete control of the kiss.

"You know," he breathed, pulling back to look into River's eyes. "I was pretty surprised that when you called me. Desperate?"

River snorted and rolled his eyes at him. "Let me lower my legs then I'll answer that."

The Alpha chuckled but pulled back so that the Beta could lower his legs down on the bed. He latter released a groan of relief which was cut off as the Alpha resumed his position hovering over him.

"Well?"

River huffed out a laugh. "No, I wasn't desperate. Just thought that I'd stop being an idiot."

"What does that mean?" He replied, looking at him curiously. "Is there something you're not telling me?"

"Louren, no." River sighed and wrapped his arms around his neck. "I was a bit hesitant since your brother and his Alpha are friends with Wolfie and his Omega. I don't want them to think that I'm with you to get close to Wolfie."

River was still a bit on edge about seeing Louren because he knew that Arlo would probably jump to conclusions and go yapping to Wolfie and his Omega the first chance he got.

But you know what? He was sick and tired of caring about what other people thought about him. He was sick and tired of lying to himself and others to make himself feel good.

It was time that he owned up to the fact that it was his fault that him and Wolfie hadn't worked out.

It was time that he stopped looking for ways to demean Wolfie's character.

It was time for him to start owning up to his mistakes and make a better life for his pups. Phoenix and Cyan were the best things to ever happen to him and they needed him to be a proper mother figure to them and not someone who kept on blaming others for his own mistakes.

It was about time he honestly and truly got his life together and to do that, he needed to move on.

Louren was everything anyone could ever want in an Alpha but River had never given much of a thought to being with the man because he was a strict Alpha.

He wasn't open like Wolfie and maybe that was what's wrong with him. He needed to stop comparing other Alphas to Wolfie and maybe, just maybe Louren was better for him in the long run.

River thrived on being dominated and Louren was the best person to give him that so that he could finally keep himself grounded.

For all his life, it was either Wolfie this or Wolfie that. He needed to own up to his mistakes and stop trying to make Wolfie out to be the bad guy when the blame rested on his shoulders alone because to be completely and utterly honest.

The only side to Wolfie that River found disgusting was how open the Alpha was with his money.

River could admit that maybe be was pretty greedy in that aspect because Wolfie loved donating and he never saw a reason to give away his hard earned people to people who made stupid decisions.

Sure, it was cute in the beginning but overtime, he started getting annoyed with it because what if the money eventually ran out? Okay, it really had nothing to do with him since it wasn't his money but Wolfie had been his boyfriend at the time.

He sighed and focused his attention back on Louren. "Look," he sighed. "I'm a selfish and egoistical person, Louren. I know that I don't deserve half of the things I have but I can't help myself. I never entertained the thought of dating you because I knew that you would never put up with my bullshit. I knew that I would never get away with the amount of shit that I'm doing if we were together but I just realised that maybe that's what I need. You already know about my pups and I know that you would love to have them as your own but I've always been protective of them. I always used the excuse of wanting to protect them from everyone but early on, I realise that maybe that's a lie. Maybe I feel as if everyone would reject me if they discover that I'm used goods. Maybe I'm ju-" Louren cut him off at this point with a finger to the lips.

He immediately quieted and looked at the Alpha, feeling a bit nervous at the sight of his knitted eyebrows.

"River, I'm not stupid. I know exactly what type of person you are and somehow I'm still smitten with you. Anyone with two eyes can see that you have trust issues and you can be extremely jealous and bitter towards others but I still like you and I'm quite certain that I can temper that if you give me the chance. I also don't mind that you have two children and last but not least, you're not used goods. You've just made some not so smart decisions, but one thing you should realise is that your children aren't mistakes and you shouldn't think that because you have them that you should devalue yourself and think that you're not worth anything. River, everyone makes mistakes and the best way to start making up for them is to realise that you've made them and own up to those mistakes." Louren pulled back and looked down at where their bodies were joined and saw that his know was deflated.

So with a low groan, he carefully pulled out of River, biting his lip when the Beta moaned as his cum oozed out of his hole.

"Fuck, I missed that so much."

Louren snorted and rubbed whatever cum was left inside him directly on River's hole before slumping to the side, putting his arm behind his head to prop himself up. "Okay, look. Let's try and see where this relationship would go and move on from there. No one is perfect and if they were, they have some kind of big secret hidden. So if you're really being serious, I want you to be mine. I want you're children to be mine and who knows, maybe we'll end up Mated by the end of this," he intoned, raising up on his side so that he could look into River's eyes. "But if we're really gonna do this. I just have one request."

River swallowed nervously before replying, "Which is?"

"That you forget about Wolfie Hadrian. Distance yourself from him because you're too obsessed with him. If you really and truly want us to work out, this should be one of the lost important steps that you can take. Let me take you out of the country for a bit, you can even take the children so that we can all get to know each other better. Let's just get away from everything. You're too caught up in Hadrian and honestly, it's affecting you more than you think. It's like your every thought is focused on him and that's not healthy at all. What makes it even worse is that whatever went wrong in your relationship, you keep blaming it on him and don't think that I don't know." He sent River a pointed look just as he was about to open his mouth. "Word travels fast and its easy to put two and two together. As I've said before, owning up to your mistakes and distancing yourself from him would go a long way so what do you say? Let's go travel and leave everything behind, at least for a while. Hopefully when we get back, you won't feel that need to always be around Wolfie or to validate your existence by having him as your rival or whatever. I know that you need to think about it so-" River interrupted him by placing his hand over his mouth.

"No, you're right. You're totally right," he agreed, closing his eyes briefly then looked back at Louren. "You're totally right and if doing that would help me then I'll happily agree. I need to start being a better mother to my pups so there's no use thinking about this and later refusing because I would just go back to my bad habits and that is something that I really want to avoid. So, my answer is yes. Yes, I do want to go travelling with you, I'll even bring the pups. I hate being this way so hopefully this would help because I'm just getting worse."

Louren smiled and placed a hand on River's hip, moving closer to the Beta who lied back down on the bed as he positioned himself over him; he leaned down until their faces were centimetres apart and tilted his heads.

"That's wonderful. So now, let's seal it with a kiss." Before River could reply, he slotted their lips together.

For the first time in his life, River felt like he was finally making the right decisions and not the easier, selfish one.

Maybe he would become someone that his children can look up to because being bitter certainly wasn't helping him one bit.

Not one bit.

...

Arlo grinned and looked at his neck in the mirror, admiring the bonding mark from Jackson who was looking at him in amusement from his seat on the bed.

"It's not gonna disappear, you know."

Arlo ignored him and just kept caressing it, not even caring that it was still sensitive. He was finally bonded!

Like, oh my fucking God! And next thing you know, he'll be known as Arlo Whittaker!

Okay... Maybe that was a bit fast but could you blame him? Him and Jackson were now mated and that was like a fucking dream come true.

Sure, the Alpha had given him the mateship necklace but that wasn't the same as having the actual bonding mark on his skin.

The pups were sleeping in the other room and he had a camera set up in case any of them woke up.

So far so good.

"Now that it's over and done with, can you cook something for me?"

Arlo spun around so fast that he had to wince seconds later from the whiplash. "Urgh, fuck!"

Jackson began snickering, ignoring the glares being sent his way. "What? It's not my fault. You were the one who acted as if I just spoke blasphemy."

"And you didn't?" he retorted, moving away from the mirror to approach Jackson, sitting down adjacent to him. "Do I look like Danny to you? I'm not good at cooking, so let's just order something."

He rolled his eyes and fell back on the bed with a groan. "Can't you like take classes or something? Or better yet, get Danny to teach you."

Arlo sneered at him and Jackson in bed away from him and up towards the top of the bed. "The same way that I can take cooking lessons is the same way you can. Why don't you do the cooking?"

"Uhhh... I don't know about th-" Jackson cut himself off by pulling his phone from his pocket and putting it at his ear while Arlo looked on in confusion as he seemed to have some kind of conversation.

"A-Are you okay?" Don't tell him that Jackson was turning crazy so soon after mating with him. Was his blood that toxic or something?

Said Alpha held up a finger and continued talking before seemingly ending the talk with himself and putting the phone.

"Just had a talk with chief and he said that ain't it."

Arlo's face contorted in a scowl and he crawled up the bed to stranger Jackson. "You mothe-"

"But I don't want to learn how to cook!" he complained, rolling away from the irate Beta.

"And I look like I want to? Come here let me choke you for wasting my time!" Arlo growled, jumping towards him with his claws out.

Jackson's eyes widened. "Cheif didn't say anything about this."

"I'll give you a good chief up the arse!"

...

Danny failed again and released a sigh of aggravation when Wolfie laughed at him. "How the hell is it so hard?!"

Wolfie shrugged and crossed his legs, propping them up on the living room center table. "Babe, I don't even know who E-paint is."

"It's T-Pain, not E-paint. I mean, he always does this neck thing and makes it look easy," he whined, replaying Kiss Kiss by Chris Brown and T-Pain to try the backwards neck thing.

"You look so silly right now. Why don't you take that crap off and watch some Ncis or something? Better yet, why not Game of Thrones?"

Danny frowned and pushed his mouth at him. "Eww, I don't like Game of Thrones. Those incesiblings are nasty and the way he crippled that boy was it for me. Never tried watching more of it after that."

"Incesiblings?"

"Yeah. The blond brother and sister are sleeping with each other. Disgusting," he replied, moving towards the couch so that he could plop down on Wolfie's lap. "But enough about that, what do you say we watch some Martial Arts movies?"

The Alpha shrugged. "Just watch whatever."

Danny grinned and got his phone to look for some Martial Arts movies on Netflix so that he could Screencast it to the telly.

"I feel like watching some Jet Li or Jackie Chan or Wesley Snipes or Steven Seagal an-"

Wolfie tuned his out to just pull him closer as he continued blabbering on about whoever Martial Artist that he knows.

"Ughh, just pick one or put back on that lame E-paint guy or something." He honestly didn't care what they watched, as long as he got to snog the heck out of the Omega afterwards, he would be a happy Alpha.

Danny pushed his mouth at him but finally decided on watched The 36th Chamber of Shaolin.

"This looks sorta interesting," he muttered, casting it to the telly.

Wolfie didn't care either way because there was a 100% chance that he wasn't even gonna watch it.

Who really cared when his Omega was sitting right there just waiting to be touched? He wrapped his arm around Danny's shoulder and pulled the Omega closer as the movie started.

"Ohh, this guy is so cute!" Danny squealed.

Wolfie immediately tuned back in to see the guy that Danny was yapping about and just snorted. "I'm way more better looking than him. He looks like a Beta or something."

Danny snorted. "Yeah, whatever. As if you could fuck him."

"Psshh! I could totally bend him over somewhere and show him who's boss," he deadpanned, rolling his eyes at the Omega.

"Yeahhhh..." Danny snorted. "Are you forgetting that we're watching a Martial Arts movie? He could totally kick your white arse."

The Alpha snorted and looked on as the guy caused trouble. "You know, I can already tell that he'd be trouble and I've got one trouble to deal with already." He looked right at the Omega who turned to look at him with a fake insulted look on his face.

"Or we could do a three-way..." He suggested, snickering when Wolfie turned to look at him with a glare on his face. "Hey, you can't be mad. You were also participating in this little banter we had going on."

"Just watch the movie before I change it to something I can actually understand. I hate reading subtitles," he grumbled.

"Looks like someone needs more Anime in their life," he sang, waggling his eyebrows at Wolfie who didn't even both looking at him this time."

"Just watch the movie before I change it."

"Okay, Mr Grouchy-pants." He turned back to the movie and leaned closer to Wolfie. "This feels nice doesn't it? We're bantering like an old married couple," he snickered, looking at the Alpha fondly.

Wolfie smiled and looked down at him, staring into his eyes. "Yeah, we do don't we?"