Naughty Elf: Evan (Santa’s Naughty Elf Mates)

15. Evan

Chapter 15

Evan

I was excited to meet Ms. Beverly, and not just because her son was going to give me an exam. But also because I wanted to meet more people. Especially shifter people. I’d spent my whole life in a society where I was constantly around other elves. I almost missed that noise.

Holden didn’t care much for people, but I think he was just conditioned to protect himself from lowering his guard. He was afraid to risk getting hurt, so he didn’t form relationships. I wanted to think I could break him of that insecurity, but even if I couldn’t, I certainly wanted to try.

What I didn’t expect was that a real-life bear shifter was coming to our home.

Yes, I definitely considered Holden’s house to be our home. Maybe I had always been destined to find my way there and never leave, but it was his fault too. He made it too comfortable for me. Why would I ever leave when I had the best alpha in the world taking care of me. And more importantly, letting me take care of him.

I pulled out his tablet and looked up some recipes for Christmas cake. If all went well, I could bake for the bears. It would be rude not to have a nice cake ready to share with our guests when they were coming all the way out to check on me.

Even though the house was in great shape by most standards, I wanted to make it extra clean and extra Christmasy for our doctors, so I asked Holden to put up a string of lights while I built a snow family. There was a snow alpha, a snow omega, and a big wolf in the front yard.

And I made sure to give the omega a nice baby bump, even though I didn’t have one yet.

Later that night, I got into bed with a book and noticed Holden was walking from room to room, anxious or impatient about something. It was making me nervous.

“Are you okay, Holden?”

He sat down at the edge of the bed and sighed. “My wolf is getting antsy. He wants to go for a run, but it’s late, and I don’t wanna leave you alone.”

“I don’t want you to leave me alone either.” I appreciated that he always put me first, but he and his wolf had needs too. “Would he be happy to sleep beside me tonight?” I patted the bed, loving when his wolf cuddled up to me. He was so warm and soft, and the little growly sounds he made always filtered into my dreams, making me feel protected and loved.

“Maybe.” He stretched out, hovering above me as he leaned down to kiss my mouth. “Maybe later.”

“Yes, alpha.” I could already feel slick coating my pajama bottoms, even before his hand slipped underneath and began to stroke me.

“We’re ready, Evan. Are you?” He held still with his lips on my cheek, waiting for his words to sink in.

“For what?” I looked at him, and then I knew exactly what he was referring to. The mark. The mark I had been waiting for. And apparently, he had been waiting too. “Oh, I’m ready.”

Holden’s lips closed over mine, invading my mouth as he pushed down my pants so he had full access to me. I didn’t want him to move, but I also needed him to get undressed, so I squeezed him to me until we both needed air. Then, the second he stood up, I yanked my clothes off so there would be no barriers between us.

If I’d ever had any inhibitions before, they were long gone now. Now, my body belonged to Holden. Every inch of it was his to look at, to kiss, to love.

So when his fingers slid down my torso and poked into my opening, I relaxed and pulled him right in. My knees fell open, making it easy for my alpha to completely breach me.

Moments later, he was inside me, stroking, and moving in a slow rhythm as he kissed along my jawline. Evan’s tongue traced the shell of my ear and his teeth scraped back down to my lobe. “I want to mark you, Evan. Make sure the world knows you’re mine.”

“Yes, Holden, do it. I want it so bad.”

My body didn’t need a lot of prep or stretching anymore. It was made to take my alpha, and he quickly moved inside me, sliding in and claiming his place within me. Curling my fingers into his biceps, I held on and lifted up to take him as deep as possible. That extreme intrusion was the best feeling. Like I could barely breathe because I was so full of him.

Each time he slid out, I immediately missed his length inside me.

I rocked with his movements, moving in the opposite direction on some strokes and rolling with him on others, creating the deep friction that made my balls draw up with their need to unload.

Holden began to move faster, breathing heavily against my ear as his whole body tensed up. He licked down to my lips, barely teasing the inside of my mouth before dragging his tongue down to the hollow of my throat. He licked a circle there, preparing the spot he would mark.

Anxious for this moment, I dug my heels into his back, holding him against me. “Do it, alpha. Claim me. Let your wolf claim me. I want to be yours completely.”

His teeth pressed against my skin and then broke it, releasing my pulsing blood into his mouth as it mixed with his saliva.

I came at the same time, the shock of pain and weight of his seed all made for an experience I couldn’t hold still through.

I bucked off the mattress, curling to accept his load and his knot as I closed my arms around his back, pulling him to me tightly.

Holden pulled away from my neck and licked over the mark to soothe the sting, then he pushed up on his elbows and looked down at me. “You look so beautiful, Evan. So beautifully ours.”

I moved my hands up to his neck, then cupped his cheeks. “Yours forever, Holden. Thank you for making it official.”

He chuckled and then lifted up higher so he could place his hand on my belly. “I thought this little one made it official.”

I shrugged. “Yeah, but I’m happy to have something I can see in the mirror every day, not just for the next nine months.”

His eyes went to my neck again and he smiled. “It looks good. I’m gonna enjoy looking at that for the rest of my life. I love you, Evan.”

My eyes watered, and I smiled through the boulder in my throat. “I love you too, Holden. Thank you for picking me up in the snow that day.”

“Always.”