The Delta's Daughter Chapter 42

LAMIA

3 Weeks Later

It had been a month since my birthday and three weeks since Zane and I had arrived at his pack, sorry 'our' pack.

We had ridden here, on a couple of Yamaha TW200 bikes, which apparently were mine and Kellen’s presents from all the parents. They had even bought one for Mike, who got to keep his. We had stopped at a small human town between the Blue moon and Golden circle packs, finding a quaint bed and breakfast to tucker down for the night, before travelling the rest of the journey once morning hit.

Aunt Olivia had provided us with an herb that would help mask our scents, in case there were any wandering rogues so they wouldn’t pick up on who we were. Hiding your scent is pretty easy, it’s the aura that’s harder to hide unless you dose yourself with wolfsbane, which I do not recommend. Even me, who has built up a tolerance to it will feel it burn through the body and it can be quite excruciating, hence the masking herbs.

I haven’t seen as much of Zane as I would like to, he has been constantly busy with pack business as well as helping the Royal pack with investigations. I really can’t complain though. I saw him at the morning training session. Sometimes we get to have lunch, but he is always there for dinner. He will spend a couple of hours in the office again until coming to bed. Which, of course, is my favorite time of the day. Zane is a pure beast in bed. I try not to compare him to Kellen, but sometimes it just can’t be helped.

Whereas Kellen is gentle and caring, almost soothing, we didn’t have sex every night, not even at the beginning of our relationship. Zane is possessive and rough but also compassionate, like I said, beast. It’s never just one round either; neither of us can get enough of each other. It’s as if the world stops when we are in the same room together, nothing else matters except our desires and lust. He need only look at me with those hauntingly cold, pale blue eyes and I am wet and ready for him.

It was so intense one morning. I had gone to his office to see if he minded Tawny and I going to the village to do some shopping. Both his Beta and Gamma were in his office at the time and, of course, he said yes. I knew he would. I just wanted to give him the courtesy of knowing where I was.

I bent down to kiss him and his fingertips touched my mark ever so lightly, sending those electric sparks through my body, instantly arousing me and causing my panties to dampen and a slight whimper to escape my lips.

I had been wearing a pleated skirt with a tank top, and before I knew what was happening, his desk was cleared and I was laid out on it, legs open and him in between them pressing his hard length against my core. The Beta and Gamma forgotten about, as his hand slid up my skirt, removing my soaking-wet underwear. He began to drop his pants when a cough came from behind me. Zane’s darkened eyes shifted for a split second and let out a growl “GET THE FUCK OUT NOW!”

He plunged into me in one greedy, needy thrust, and it was only then I heard the door shut. He hadn’t even waited for them to completely leave the room before fucking my brains out. I was sure he wouldn’t have even cared if they had stayed. If one of them hadn’t coughed he would have fucked me without restraint. And truth be told I wouldn’t have minded. I was an hour late meeting up with Tawny. I wasn’t even embarrassed, not until I had straightened myself up and left the office, meeting Bret his Beta and Cyrus his Gamma on the stairs. I knew my face was red, I could feel the blood rising with the awkwardness.

“Luna.” They had both greeted me.

Suddenly feeling playful and realizing that it is what it is, I stopped half way down the stairs as they passed me. “Ughh, you may want the Alpha to air out the room a little, unless you boys like smelling our lust and sex-drive?” I gave them a quick flash of a smile and a wink then turned and headed down the stairs.

Hunji and Tawny were staying in guest bedrooms on the third floor of the pack house, while I was on the Alpha floor, the 4th floor, with his Mom, Luna Juniper and sister Halley. Halley was a sweet girl, just turned fifteen and would be starting high school after the summer; of course, she was into boys, shopping and makeup. She had taken a particular interest in Tawny and was always searching her out. She’s so cute with short black bobbed hair and deep brown eyes, she looked very much like her mother.

Hunji would help with training and even implemented weapons training into sessions when he wasn’t with me as my personal guard.

Bret and Cyrus welcomed me from the first day I got here. The majority of the pack did, even though I still hadn’t met many of them in person, just passing by, with the exception of a few she-wolves who had had their eye on Zane and hoped to be the future Luna.

One girl in particular, Jody, hated me. I didn’t really care much; Zane had told me they had had a few nights together but nothing like a relationship. I appreciated his honesty and he had told me before we even got to his pack because he didn’t want me to be blindsided. However, the piercing dagger glares, and snippy comments from her were getting a little old and I truly tried to brush them off, letting them roll over me knowing this girl meant nothing and I could very well use a command on her or simply just beat the shit out of her. Alas, I had to be the bigger person; it would be an unfair fight.

Apart from feeling a little drained and tired, things had been going well. I put my slight exhaustion down to the excitement of being at Golden Circle and beginning a new life with Zane. Kellen had said there were only two more rogue sightings at the royal pack after we left and, since, all has been too quiet.

Is it too much to hope for peace? Was I getting too comfy with my happiness and letting my guard down? I hoped not. I was enjoying the sunshine and rainbows for these past few weeks.

It was later that night, Zane and I were lying in bed, my chin resting on his robust chest while my fingers were tracing patterns on the contour of his defined and sexy six pack, and the man was truly a work of art. He’s muscular and chiseled in all the right places, a deep V pointing to his nether regions, his Adonis belt I think they call it, forever tempting my desires. One of his arms cradled me from underneath while the other was lazily slung behind his head.

Zane shifted and cleared his throat hesitantly but without breaking our hold or movements. “Lamia, we have a little situation…” he paused and pressed a kiss to the top of my head. I waited for him to carry on “Jody wants to challenge you for the Luna title.”

I truly didn’t mean to be so loud, but when I started laughing, I just couldn’t stop. I lifted my head up to meet his eyes. He looked confused at my laughter and a little worried, thinking maybe I had finally gone mad.

“A-are you s-serious?” I barely managed to get the words out in between my hysteria. After calming down a little, I propped myself up more, staring into his calming pale eyes and holding his gaze. “Seriously Zane, is this a joke?” I searched his eyes for amusement but found none, this wasn’t a joke.

“No doll, she is serious, Bret tried to tell her she would be making a grave mistake by challenging you but…” He trailed off and averted his eyes from mine, a look of embarrassment crossing his features.

“Zane, I can’t fight her, it would be over before it even began. Shit, just how long were you two an item?” There was annoyance and a little anger laced in my voice. How close had these two been for her to want to challenge me. A feeling of jealousy crept under my skin and Inanna started pacing and growling, not liking the challenge nor the fact this woman thought she could challenge us.

“Doll, I fucked her a total of five times, and that was staggered over a year. I swear on the moon goddess there was nothing between us except my needs.”

I let out a threatening growl at the thought of my mate having sex with her. A disturbing image filled my head.

‘Kill the whore,’ Inanna growled. Jealousy was rearing its ugly head from within.

I sat up rubbing my brow, before bringing my knees up and hanging my arms on them, I put my head down, taking a deep breath to calm not just myself but also my wolf, who was ready to go find her and rip her to pieces. I let out an exasperated sigh,

“Obviously she doesn’t think that, if she thinks she has a claim on you, I can bet she has fallen in love with you and thought more of your sexcapades than you did.” I tilted my head to him, the shame in his eyes not going unnoticed. “Zane I can’t just kill, maim or beat the shit out of your pack…” I didn’t get to finish my sentence.

“OURS.” He growled out, pulling up and over into his lap, kissing my shoulder as his one hand began fondling my breasts “Our pack doll, not mine, ours.” I could feel the anger rolling off him “I will have her sent to the cells for disrespecting our Luna.”

His soft full lips were trailing up my shoulder and he moved my hair to the side as he planted his warm mouth over my mark, I moaned at his touch “Zane… You can’t do that, rules are rules, packs have rules for a reason, and if she challenges me then I have to fight her… mmm.” It was hard to concentrate when he was pinching my nipple and sucking my mark.

“Tomorrow doll, we will talk about this tomorrow.” He grumbled as he slid my ass against his hardened cock, turning me in his lap so I could straddle him.

“Zane” I moaned when he finally lifted me onto him, filling me to the hilt. Like I said, he’s a beast in bed and I liked it, he was insatiable.

*****

It was the next morning and I had woken up early, my mate was in the shower and as much as I wanted to join him, I got up, throwing on a pair of gym shorts, a bra and one of Zane’s t shirts. I left him a note to meet me in the kitchen for breakfast.

I headed downstairs to the pack house kitchen. I have to say the pack house was decorated very modernly. I was sure it was all Luna Juniper’s doing. The fourth floor was the Alpha suite, the third floor was the Beta and gamma accommodations, with guest rooms.

The second floor had around 15 additional guest rooms, and the main floor housed two conference rooms and ranking member offices, a library off one of the corridors, along with the pack kitchen that connected to a large dining area for the pack members and then the common room, which was at the front of the pack house. The common room was home to a couple of cream couches decorated with colorful throw pillows. There were two T.V’s set up on either side of the room with glass coffee tables complementing the couches.

I was just about to enter the kitchen when Cyrus’ voice had me halting. “Jody, you’re an idiot, there was never anything between you and Alpha, why would you be stupid enough to challenge Lamia, his mate and rightful Luna?”

I heard her grating voice and held back a growl “I am Beta blood, she is only Delta, which is just as bad as Gamma, I should be the Luna! Not her! I deserve Zane, she doesn’t and I will show her who her superior…”

Cyrus cut her off with a low growl “Then you are even dumber than you sound. She is our Luna and I will only tell you once more, you need to let go, your obsession will be the death of you.”

On that note, I swung the door open wide and walked in with a smile plastered to my face. Bret was sitting there with a cup of coffee looking amused, while Cyrus was standing by the counter, clenching his fists, jaw ticking facing Jody, who sat on the other side of the table facing Bret.

“Good morning!” I cheerily called out. “Have you guys had breakfast yet? I was going to make some for Zane but would be happy to cook for all of us.”

The boys both shook their heads and Jody let out a little displeased grunt. I got to work making bacon, sausage, eggs, French toast and hash browns, enough for all of us, including Jody. Ignoring the disdain that rolled off her aura like the summer heat wave we were experiencing. Her perky little boobs were barely concealed by a tube top and her shorts rode up her crack, making them look two sizes too small. Her blond hair hung down her back in waves. She was actually a very attractive woman with big blue eyes, a cupid bowed mouth and buttoned nose.

I was just finishing up putting the food on the platters, Cyrus was setting the table and getting plates out when Zane walked in, smelling fresh and his intoxicating scent of oak and maple filled my nostrils, making me light-headed and horny. I turned just as he got to me and kissed my lips.

“Good morning sexy, thank you for making breakfast.” He smiled. As soon as he pulled away to take a seat I felt lonely and abandoned. I shivered at the lack of his touch. My body was aching to be touched by him.

Jeesh! When did I become so needy? I thought.

Hunji and Tawny walked in saying they smelled breakfast and took seats around the table. The conversation was light, the boys talking about training with Hunji, while the girls and I sat there listening. Tawny was trying to make small with Jody but I wasn’t listening all I could think about was mate and the need to touch him so I slid my hand on to his thigh giving it a light squeeze, when a low, feminine growl was heard. I snapped my head towards the perpetrator, Jody. Who’s narrow eyes were darkened and brazen.

I had enough, I was pissed, how dare she growl at me, touching my mate, her Luna, her Alpha, her Queen. I turned my body towards her “What the fuck is your problem?” I bellowed “You dare growl at me?” The room went crudely silent with unease. Jody didn’t even have the smarts to look scared, although she did slouch back a little before poising herself. I didn’t realize I had used my Alpha tone, commanding her to answer me.

“You are my problem, waltzing in here and stealing my man.”

“HE IS MINE!” I was vicious and snarled at her, teetering on the edge of tearing her throat out when she stood and boldly spoke.

“I, Jody Crane, challenge you for the title of Luna and your mate Zane Noir.” Huffing at the end with her hands on her hip. Oh, she really was a stupid one.

“Jody, no, don’t be stu…” Bret started, running a hand through his light blond hair, his hazel eyes showing concern.

I cut him off, holding my hand up to him while glaring at the dumb bitch. “I accept your challenge, when will it take place?”

She hesitated, looking around the table, Tawny was sitting stiffly, Hunji was emotionless as usual, Zane sat back watching the whole thing unfold, looking like he had not one care, that his pack member had just signed their death certificate, while Cyrus and Bret looked worried.

“Now, I will go change. No point delaying it. The sooner you are gone the better.” She got up and left, Bret on her heels following her out the door.

Turning to Zane, I raised an eyebrow. He chuckled and took my hand in his. “Well, that fucking escalated quickly. Are you going to go change?”

I shook my head slowly, scrunching my eyebrows together “No.”

“Seriously, is this girl for real? Does she not know who you are?” There was no sarcasm in Tawny’s voice, she was generally confused or maybe bewildered. The four of us just nodded in confirmation. “You won’t kill her will you Lamia?” There was now worry in her voice.

“Depends on what her terms for the challenge are. It’s up to her.” I really didn’t want to kill anyone, especially as it was not necessary. I hadn’t been challenged in over three years, since Zane, to be exact.

“Come on doll, let’s head down to the arena.” He took my hand, leading me out the back of the kitchen.