Alpha’s Badass Mate novel

---- Nuzzling into Alex's neck, she inhaled, trying to pick up her Alpha scent through his fading blockers. She could almost catch it, but it wasn't quite strong enough yet. "Where's your bedroom?" Alex asked, his voice registering lower than before. Ashly shivered. She could feel the rumble of it where she was pressed against Alex's chest. Answering the alpha's question, she nodded toward the stairs.

Alex carried her up the stairs , careful of the barren concrete walls that made up Ashly's home. He found the bedroom and carefully laid her down on the king- size mattress that made the Omega seem so small in comparison. "Ashly," Alex whispered as he kneeled beside the edge of the bed. Ashly hummed curiously, wondering why Alex wasn't in bed with her but being too faded in the midst of her heat to ask.

Alex's dark eyes stared through her and into her." There's something about you that I like too," he whispered. Ashly smiled as he reached out to caress Alex's cheek. Slim fingers slid over Alpha's jaw and down over the line of his pulse. Eventually, her fingers found the knot in Alex's tie and closed around it. ---- Alex jerked forward, catching himself on the edge of the bed and gripping the blankets with both hands. Shocked eyes met Ashly's dangerously wanting gaze.

The hand gripping his tie pulled him in until they were barely a breath apart. Ashly's eyes dropped to Alex's lips. "If you say you like me, then don't make me wait." Alex lifted a hand and slowly covered Ashly where it was wrapped around his tie. Her fingers instantly relaxed beneath Alex. Effortlessly , Alex lifted Ashly's hand to his lips and pressed a kiss to each delicate knuckle as he rose from the floor and moved carefully onto the bed.

Ashly's breath was coming in and out in soft huffs as she forced herself not to pant from the heat of Alex's body slipping over her and covering her. Alex lay above Ashly, his forearm pressed into the mattress next to Omega's wispy black hair, holding his upper body up off the smaller person for now. He was so close, their foreheads almost touched. Alex's leg slipped between Ashly's thighs as he leaned in closer, pressing their brows together.

"Okay." Alex's breath tickled Ashly's lips as he spoke. "T'll give it to you." Ashly shuddered beneath her gratefulness , relieved. Her hands lifted to grasp at her ex-mate's shirt, ---- which was tucked into his trousers. Her fingers clenched, fisting in the fabric, as Alex's weight shifted above her. The Alpha's hips rolled, pressing down onto him from above so Ashly, his Ashly, could feel how hard he was, how big he was, and how good it would feel. And they were only just getting started .

Ashly watched as Alex's finger slipped into the knot of his own tie, loosening it, pulling it away, and tossing it aside before unbuttoning his shirt with a hooded gaze and lust-hypnotized expression. Alex's pace was deliberate , teasingly so. Long, deft fingers plucked apart one button at a time. Gradually , the sculpted expanse of his chest was revealed to Ashly's needy gaze. Without a second thought, Ashly lifted a hand to the bare expanse of Alex's chest.

Her palm slid between his pectorals and down, parting his shirt, which was still tucked in, revealing a deep angle of flesh between the parted fabric. Ashly took a shuddering breath before her eyes flickered up from Alex's chest. "Kiss me?" she breathed. Alex didn't need to be asked twice. His lust-darkened eyes closed as he dove in to capture Ashly's lips for the first time. There was nothing chaste about their first, heat-driven kiss after seven years, but it tasted the same. Alex captured her bottom lip between his