4. Chapter 4

The next few weeks came and went with the same intensity as Lena’s heat. True to her word, she cleared out a drawer for Kara in her bedroom. While she was at it, she also made room in her walk-in closet and gave Kara her own shelf in the bathroom, so the alpha could keep a spare toothbrush, a couple bottles of shampoo and shower gel at her house.

Lena was happiest on the nights that Kara stayed over, and she found she couldn’t sleep on the nights the alpha had to leave. She never mentioned it in case she seemed clingy, but it must have shown, because soon after her sleepless nights began, Kara always made sure to accidentally leave one of her worn shirts behind.

They both knew she would wear it to bed, and Lena held her own suspicions as to why Kara enjoyed the thought of her wearing her clothes. She was still unclaimed, but draping Kara’s shirts over her nakedness was one hell of a statement to say she belonged to the alpha. There was something altogether exceptional at getting to fall asleep wrapped in Kara’s scent, though it proved more difficult when Andy and Sophia returned for their summer break.

Natalia was still young enough that she didn’t pick up on pheromones yet, but at fifteen, Andy was at the stage where she could smell just about everything. Sophia wasn’t quite on that level at the age of thirteen, but her hawk-like perception meant she picked up on things fast. It wouldn’t be so bad if it wasn’t coupled with the fact that Sophia idolized Andrea, and much like her other mother, couldn’t let anything go.

For five nights, Lena found herself pining for Kara, who she had temporarily banned from stepping foot inside the house. She had wanted to break the news that she was seeing a new alpha gently, but Andrea ruined it by asking where her pool boy was when they went to pick up the girls from boarding school.

That opened the floodgates for questions, and Lena had stalled at answering due to surprise, so Andrea helpfully informed their daughters that Lena was involved with another alpha.

Sophia had taken it so badly she had chosen to ride back with Andrea, despite the fact that she was staying with Lena for the first two weeks.

It was hard to say how Andy took it, because she sat in the back of the car with Natalia and kept her headphones on for the entire journey.

Lena didn’t mention her new relationship when they got home, and Andy didn’t ask, which filled Lena with a peculiar sense of anxiety as the days stretched on. Sophia, on the other hand, grilled Lena with questions every time her phone dinged with a text, or when she discovered something new in the pantry.

Everything became an excuse to pointedly ask her about the new alpha she was seeing.

Lena calmly informed Sophia that the woman was called Kara and not the alpha, and her daughter in turn made sure to ignore her.

It didn’t help that the one person she wanted to reach out to for comfort was the one person she couldn’t allow over.

Lena felt pulled in two separate directions as she tried to meet the needs of her daughters while ignoring her own needs. She had barely gotten a few words with Kara since her daughters returned home, and had to sneak off to the bathroom to send short, pitiful texts.

Kara surprised her by suggesting she host a family dinner, and mentioned that by extending the invite to Andrea’s girlfriend, it meant Lena could also extend an invite to her.

Andrea always brought whichever omega she was sleeping with at the time to the family functions, with or without the explicit permission, so as far as plans went, it was a pretty decent one. Lena grabbed at it with both hands, because she missed Kara, and though she could only imagine the chaos of them all sitting at a table together, it would be worth it for the few hours she would get to be with both Kara and her children.

Lena made sure to organize it for Saturday night, and used her usual catering company for all but the dessert.

She planned to bake a few pies because they always went over well, and it would be something special for her girls and Kara. Either way, she doubted Andrea would care, because she would find some way to criticize the meal.

With everything all planned, Lena was still ready for surprises — except for the package she found sitting on her doorstep during the afternoon.

The giftbox was nicely wrapped and tucked suspiciously between her plants in a way that a normal delivery wouldn’t be.

Lena brought the box inside while her children finished their lunch. She would have opened it then and there if she hadn’t gotten a text from Kara asking if she had gotten her gift and if she was available to FaceTime.

“Andy,” Lena called out distractedly and tucked the box behind her back before any of them saw it. “Why don’t you take your sisters to the pool and I’ll join you in a little bit? I just have some work to finish up.”

The deep sigh Andy gave her in return was as good as an agreement, and Lena hurried up the stairs while Natty yelled for her armbands.

Lena never really used the lock door to her bedroom, but something told her to put the lock in place before she tore into the wrapping paper. The box was on the heavy side and about the length of her forearm. The brand Replyk-A was printed along the side in bold, black letters and Lena shivered as she realized what Kara had sent her.

Replyk-A was a site that catered exclusively to omegas, and offered them a unique customization to purchase toys with the exact girth, length and knot specifications of an alpha.

She opened it with eager hands, then ran to the bathroom to wash it, only calling Kara on FaceTime once she had gathered a few things on the bed beside her.

“Hey,” Kara grinned the second she appeared on screen. “Did you—”

“Take your pants off,” Lena blurted in lieu of a greeting, her chest already heaving as she held onto the toy out of sight. “We have about ten minutes before I have to get outside and I need you.”

“God, I’ve missed you,” Kara exhaled in a rush, and Lena could tell she was fighting to get her jeans down, because the picture blurred with the alpha’s movements. “I figured if I can’t be with you right now, maybe this would be the next best thing. Do you like it?”

“See for yourself.” The sultry way Lena’s tongue formed the words must have been seductive enough because Kara sat up straighter as she removed her own pants and angled the camera between her thighs.

She pulled her panties aside and watched the screen as she parted her pussy lips to reveal the shimmering wetness of her arousal that clung to her intimately.

Kara’s low groan was everything she needed and Lena’s cunt clenched at the sound of it.

She pushed the tip of the phallus through her lower lips and rubbed it over her sensitive entrance.

“Do you even understand how much I want you right now?” Lena questioned with a breathless moan as her sleek inner muscles stretched wide to take the replica of Kara’s cock.

From the positioning of the phone, Kara would be able to witness every little spasm of her desire. Lena slid the long shaft in with an enthusiasm that kept her pussy spread open, even when she pulled it back out.

“I’m going to pound my cunt very hard while you watch,” Lena confided and gave a hard thrust with the ample head of the cock to pleasure herself.

“God, Lena, please do that, and let me see everything.” Kara sucked in a breath that she seemed to hold for a moment before exhaling and pursing her lips together again. Her eyes were round with excitement and soon Lena could hear the sounds of Kara’s hand slapping around her own cock.

“See how easily I take it?” Lena asked, forcing the full length into her welcoming heat until only the knot remained. “That’s how needy my cunt is just for you.”

Kara groaned at the sight of her stuffed full, and Lena enjoyed the thrill of the tease as she pulled the toy out, just to push it all the way in again. “Do you miss it Kara, feeling how warm and wet and tight I am when I wrap around your cock?”

Lena wasn’t playing fair by asking that, but just hearing how desperate Kara was for her soothed her on some level, since she was just as desperate for the alpha in return. “Is that why you made me this, so even when we’re apart, the only cock that gets to be inside my cunt is yours?”

“Yes,” Kara half moaned, half growled, her alpha taking charge as she fisted her cock faster. She was enthralled by Lena’s cunt taking the toy, her bright eyes now darker than the side of the moon.

It wasn’t often that Kara showed a possessive streak, and when it leaked out right then, Lena had a very physical reaction to it. Her cunt gushed with fresh slick and she held her legs further apart in submission. “I bet I could take your knot already. Do you want that, Kara? To see me take this big knot deep inside my cunt?”

If she closed her eyes, Lena could almost feel the hot exhalations against her cheek when Kara rumbled, “So badly. Take it for me, Lena. Please.”

Lena’s jaw tensed from pleasure and effort as she forced the knot between her obscenely spread lips. For a second she worried she wouldn’t be able to take it, and then Kara growled in appreciation, and her cunt accepted the knot without resistance. They both moaned from it, Kara in longing and Lena in satisfaction as she brought her fingers up to rub at her clit.

“I wish you could feel it,” Lena lamented, rocking her hips with subtle undulations to massage her inner muscles with the thick knot. “I wish you could pump all of your hot seed deep into me, and keep going until I forget how much I’ve missed you.”

“The second I can have you like that, I promise I will,” Kara vowed with such sweet sincerity that Lena couldn’t help but smile.

“I’ve been holding off so I could do this with you.” The alpha confessed, her voice strained and breaths uneven from furiously working her cock.

“You haven’t come since the last time we were together?” Lena asked in shock. She never imagined that Kara would go without release due to some sort of sympathy, and when the alpha groaned in response, she heard herself utter, “Stop stroking yourself. I don’t want you to finish.”

Lena wasn’t cruel by nature, but the thought of Kara’s pent up frustration finally being unleashed in the alpha’s own hand instead of inside the warm confines of her cunt was unimaginable to her omega. She wanted every last drop of it for herself and plunged the phallus faster into her weeping slit as she imagined how much seed Kara would have to give her.

“Wha—but I—” Kara choked out, her flustered expression endearing, even as her breaths became labored. She was close, and Lena could tell it pained her to slow her hand.

“Save it all for me just like you have been, and watch as I fuck myself,” Lena encouraged, and worked the phallus deeper with rougher, full thrusts to make up for denying Kara.

Lena slammed the cock into herself until slick dripped down over the knot. With a few final pumps of her hips, she experienced an orgasm so good that her vision went a little blurry and her back contorted in bliss. She slid the entire knot inside of her cunt and listened to Kara’s breathing as it hitched.

“Can I take you on a date in a few days, when you’re alone?” Kara asked and flopped backwards on her bed so that all of her blonde hair curled around her shoulders.

“Not only can you take me on a date, but you’d better pack your bag, and be prepared to spend that week at my place,” Lena dictated and reclined with her head on the pillow to make the most of these stolen moments with Kara.

She still needed to set up the dining room for their family dinner, and put on an outfit that was more presentable, but she talked to Kara for five more minutes, and only ended the call when Andrea’s number popped up on her screen.

Pressing the ignore button, Lena hurried to stow her gift from Kara in the bedroom safe and then took a hot shower.

Afterwards, she put on an impeccable black dress that was just casual enough for an evening with her ex, and headed downstairs to check on her kids. They were all eating popsicles and sitting outside by the pool, but Sophia stomped off inside when Lena appeared.

Natty raced at her legs, and Lena had to reach for a towel to scoop her youngest up or risk getting drenched.

“Andy, could you—”

“Head inside and get ready for dinner? Yeah,” Andy confirmed and moved by her in the doorway without so much as a backwards glance.

“I want to wear my unicorn dress,” Natty announced and pressed her forehead against Lena’s so that her damp bangs dripped.

Lena nodded and stepped inside to find Natty’s clothes and shoes. It took her fifteen minutes to wrangle the three year old into a dress and dry her short brown hair, and by then the catering company arrived to do all of the set up.

Andy returned in black torn jeans and a hoodie, and Natty made a beeline for her with one of her picture books. For all of her eldest’s huffing, Lena could see the smile on the corner of her lips when she sat down to indulge her younger sister.

While they were preoccupied, Lena checked on the pies she had baked that morning and was pleased to see that nobody had dared try to take a slice. She tucked them off to the side and out of Natty’s reach, and kept her eye on the clock as the minutes ticked by.

Andrea and Kara would be arriving soon, and Sophia was still locked away in her room defiantly ignoring Lena whenever she called up to check on her.

Lena wrung her fingers with anxiety and forced a smile every time Andy glanced her way. She was tempted to pour herself a glass of wine, but she could already hear Andrea insinuating that she was a bad parent for drinking in front of her children before anyone else got there.

When the doorbell rang, Sophia rushed down the stairs like an Olympic sprinter. Her crisp white shirt and pressed trousers made her look like a miniature version of Andrea, and for a moment Lena was stunned at the resemblance.

She barely managed to grab the clipboard out of Sophia’s hands as her daughter sidled up to the door with an imperious look about her.

“No clipboards at the dinner table,” Lena quietly chastised, and opened the door with a strained smile to see Andrea in a full three piece suit with Eve hanging off her arm.

“Lena, you look exhausted,” Andrea drawled, her sharp eyes peering over Lena’s shoulder in expectation of finding Kara already there. She smirked when she detected no scent of her, and barely registered Sophia as she pushed through the threshold with all the smugness of an alpha that considered herself better than anyone else in the room.

“Wow, Ms. Luthor, you’ve really outdone yourself,” Eve stated in awe when she caught sight of the beautiful spread of food.

Lena was almost touched by the kind words until Andrea ruined them with a scoff. “Don’t be fooled darling, Lena didn’t make any of this. She’s not that good in the kitchen.”

Eve’s awkward smile and apologetic eyes did nothing to stop the bitterness that rose up Lena’s throat. She swallowed it back and ushered them into the dining room while Sophia darted around the kitchen to gather a few appetizers for Andrea.

“Oh honey, you’re not the maid,” Andrea lilted, but accepted the plate as she cast a condescending look to Lena. “Your mother will serve us when her guest finally arrives.”

“You only just arrived,” Lena pointed out, though she refused to make any remark about serving anyone.

Andrea waved her away dismissively despite the way she held Lena’s gaze. “Where is she anyway, skimming leaves off another omega’s pool?”

Lena’s tongue pressed against her teeth as she resisted the urge to play Andrea’s game.

Natalia bounded over with Andy trailing behind her with considerably less enthusiasm.

“Mama!” Natalia greeted, her eager little hands grabbing fistfuls of Andrea’s suit jacket. “Look, I’m a princess!”

“So you are,” Andrea murmured, and then gently pried Natty’s hands off the material with a light reminder, “Careful Natalia, this is Armani. What do we do with our hands?”

“Keep them to ourselves,” Natty sang back without missing a beat.

Lena didn’t miss the way Andy rolled her eyes behind Andrea’s back before she helped Natty into her chair, and then the room went quiet when the doorbell rang again.

She could feel Andrea’s eyes burning into her back as she walked off to answer it, and knew the moment she was out of earshot that her ex would likely bad mouth her.

Whatever else happened that night, at least Kara would be by her side, and that was all that mattered to Lena.

She opened the door to find the alpha in a pair of dark navy pants and a beautiful pale blue shirt that brought out the color of her eyes. Her hair was tied back and she sported a grin that Lena found infectious. Kara also had a bottle of Lena’s favorite wine tucked under her arm.

“You look beautiful,” Kara murmured in greeting, and Lena caught her lip between her teeth and dipped her head as a blush warmed her cheeks.

“You better come in,” Lena encouraged with a slight incline of her head to signal that Andrea was already there.

When Kara stepped foot in the dining room, Sophia made a noise of disapproval and began checking little boxes she had drawn on a tiny notepad that she retrieved from her pocket.

Andy began loading up her plate with appetizers, and Natty rushed into Kara’s arms, screeching joyfully when the alpha lifted her up.

Andrea’s eyes flashed with hatred when she saw how Natty reacted to Kara’s arrival. “Mommy’s new friend certainly is fun, isn’t she? I guess she would have to be, considering she spends all day in the pool.”

Lena had been waiting for this exact moment when Andrea took cheap shots at Kara’s chosen profession. “Kara owns her business, and it extends across not only the whole city, but also the five surrounding suburbs.”

Those facts hit hard and Andrea stiffened in her seat as she sucked at her teeth, no doubt in preparation to say something awful.

“I love swimming and getting a good tan,” Eve interrupted with a pleasant smile, and then began filling up the wine glasses on the table.

“Me too, Victoria,” Andy agreed with a straight face, while calling Eve the name of one of Andrea’s ex-girlfriends.

“That’s Eve,” Sophia corrected and sighed in frustration at Andy’s apparent forgetfulness.

Lena shot a questioning look toward Andy, who gazed back at her blankly and popped an appetizer into her mouth to chew. “My mistake,” she muttered under her breath, and slid her gaze to Andrea.

It wasn’t like Andy to forget names, and from the way Andrea bristled and turned her attention onto their daughter, it was almost like Andy had planned that little slip of the tongue.

It gave Kara a chance to pull out a seat for Lena while she held Natalia on her hip, and then she settled into the chair between the two of them. Natty hopped off of Kara’s lap with the alpha’s assistance and sat up straight to browse all the food with wide eyes.

“How long have you owned your business?” Sophia asked the second Kara lifted the wine glass that Eve offered her with a smile.

“About four and a half years,” Kara stated without any hesitancy. Her relaxed, confident demeanor was all the more attractive to Lena amongst all the tension at the table.

“And how many employees do you have, if any?” Sophia demanded as she made a note in her pad.

Andrea looked amused by Sophia’s line of questioning, though Lena could sense the unease from Eve. She was uncomfortable herself, and opened her mouth to chime, in but the sudden warmth of Kara’s hand finding hers atop the table stilled her tongue in surprise.

“I have a dedicated team of eighteen,” Kara answered with honesty and turned toward Sophia with a slight smile, as if she was being interviewed.

Sophia pursed her lips at Kara’s good nature and leaned on the table to grill her mercilessly, “That’s hardly a team. Do you pay them per hour or do you set a price for each pool? What do you make annually? How big are your profit margins?”

“That’s enough, Sophia,” Lena cut in with an apologetic squeeze to Kara’s hand. “We don’t interrogate guests in our home and that information is nobody's business except Kara’s.”

“Our daughter is just a naturally inquisitive child,” Andrea piped up and placed her hands in front of her as if they were all sitting around a negotiating table rather than the dinner table. “Sophia, darling, you can find the answer to most of your questions online. Kara’s company is publicly listed.”

Sophia jotted down another note to herself and shut her notebook with a huff while glaring across the table at Kara.

“So girls, tell us about your experiences at school,” Andrea encouraged as she spooned caviar onto a cracker, and filled the dining room with her arrogant alpha perfume.

“Sophia got in trouble for keeping a hamster in her room for half the semester,” Andy replied with a shrug, and her visible lack of enthusiasm was a clear slight to Andrea. She didn’t share any information of her grades, or what she had enjoyed about school.

“It’s summer vacation, so I think it’s time for a break, at least for a few days,” Lena insisted as she began passing around the food with the determination not to get hung up on how Andrea was behaving.

“I couldn’t wait to hang out with friends and go on road trips when I was your age,” Eve expressed cheerfully as she looked to Andy and lifted some salad onto her plate.

“That wasn’t that long ago, right?” Andy murmured, and though she never smiled, her tone was light as she elaborated, “I mean you don’t look a day over twenty-one.”

Eve laughed as though it was a compliment and touched her neck self-consciously. “I’m a little older than that, but I take really great care of my skin.”

Lena side-eyed her eldest daughter in alarm while Kara watched Andrea’s complexion change to a ruddy shade of anger.

The proud pheromones Andrea diffused into the air shifted and simmered to an acrid stench of warning. “Andy, I have yet to see the cover letters you were meant to write for the colleges I selected for you. Why is that?”

“She hasn’t written them, that’s why,” Sophia announced with a smug jut of her chin, and narrowed her eyes at her sister as if that was somehow a bad reflection on the family.

Andrea wiped the corners of her lips with a napkin and dropped it onto her plate with an arch of her eyebrows, and then Andy raised her chin defiantly.

Whatever argument Andrea was about to launch into was subverted as Kara directed everyone’s attention with a simple, “Lena, those pies look amazing, maybe we should eat dessert first.”

“I knew I smelled something delicious when I walked in. I’d love a slice.” Eve professed, and Kara grinned at her as they silently formed an alliance that didn’t go unnoticed.

Lena sliced up the pie and squirted whipped cream onto each plate as Kara chatted with Eve about desserts. She was grateful for how they took over the conversation, because Andrea was brooding in a rage.

As she held out a portion to her ex, Andrea sniffed in disgust and pushed it aside. “I’ve never been a fan of your pie. Even your attempts to make my favorite flan always fell short.”

“I’ll have it,” Kara offered and tugged the plate away from Andrea before Lena could blink.

To say Kara devoured that pie would be an understatement, and she ate the slice with such a bright smile that Lena fell in love with her just a little more.

By the time they were ready for dinner, Andrea had a pinched expression on her face and her hawkish eyes tracked after Kara’s every move.

“Pendeja,” Andrea muttered when Lena was scooping out string beans onto Kara’s plate.

“No hables así cuando sus hijas estan aqui,” Lena warned with a wave of her spoon at her ex-wife.

“Tu nueva alfa es una babosa,” Andrea hissed with emphasis, and her remark made Sophia giggle.

“No, she’s not, mama, Kara is smart,” Natty argued in fierce defense of Kara, who put down her napkin for a second, but remained silent.

“Spanish is a really beautiful language, isn’t it?” Eve murmured to break the tension and turned to flirtatiously touch Andrea’s arm. “I could listen to you speak it all day.”

Kara’s slight smile was enigmatic, and for a brief moment when their eyes met, Lena forgot they were in the middle of a tense dinner that might shape the rest of their relationship going forward.

She reached out to thumb the smallest remnants of gravy from the corner of the alpha’s lips, and shivered when Kara turned to kiss her palm.

Sophia’s face twisted in revulsion and she hissed incredulously, “Mira, mama, ella no tiene vergüenza.”

“Sophia, don’t talk like that,” Lena warned, but she was immediately undermined by her ex.

For the first time since arriving, Andrea bestowed affection on Sophia by cupping her cheek as she laughed, “You have a sharp eye, just like me.”

Andy looked bothered, but it surprised Lena to notice that her ire was directed at her other mother and Sophia. Picking at her food, Andy then stretched across the table to take another slice of pie, as if to spite Andrea.

“Oh, you like The World Killers?” Kara asked seemingly from nowhere, and then motioned to the wristband that Andy hid beneath the sleeve of her hoodie.

Andy shrugged, but even Andrea noticed the way her daughter perked up, despite her best efforts to appear bored. “I like some of their stuff,” Andy muttered, her jaw hardening defensively as she asked, “Why?”

Kara leaned closer to Andy and lowered her voice like she was swapping a secret. “I clean Reign’s pool. She’s even cooler in person, and gave me a bunch of their albums all signed because I mentioned that my sister is a huge fan. You can have one if you like.”

Andy cracked a smile and sat up straighter as she asked, “No way, are you serious?”

Andrea slapped her fork down so roughly the sound of it made everyone at the table jump and a collective hush fell upon them.

“You’re still listening to that trash?” Andrea’s pinched lips showed her discontent and she glared at Andy like she had personally betrayed her. “Omegas dressing up as alphas and screaming at the top of their lungs isn’t right and it isn’t music. You’re going to rot your brain with all of their stupid ideas.”

“Yeah, because pointing out the double standards that omegas face and talking about the injustice in the world is totally the worst.” Andy fired back, the sharp jut of her jaw, and her haughty raised brow identical to Lena as she glowered. “Why don’t you ask if Jess thinks it’s stupid? I mean Lucy, no wait, Megan—”

“It’s Eve,” Sophia cut in with a critical squint at her sister.

“She knows, Sophia,” Andrea drawled, her tone dangerously quiet. “Andy just thinks she’s being clever, but she forgets that she’s not just an alpha, she’s a Rojas, and I expect her to act like one.”

Andy crossed her arms and stared back at her, until Andrea leaned forward to hiss, “So if you have a point to make, be an alpha and do it directly.”

To everyone’s surprise, Andy turned in her seat to face Kara and demanded, “Are you in love with my mom?”

Lena’s heart stopped for a fraction of a second. Fear and panic spread like a virus through her system and the pungent scent of it leaked into the air.

Kara blindly took her hand to squeeze in reassurance, and her whole face lit up when she earnestly answered, “I am.”

“Are you going to respect her, and treat her well, and be faithful?” Andy pressed with emphasis, her tone firm without being hostile.

“I always will,” Kara affirmed so confidently that Eve brought her hand up to her heart and sighed wistfully.

“Is this the part where you ask your mom if she’s happy?” Andrea bitterly mocked, and much to Lena’s surprise, Andy smirked and shook her head.

“I don’t need to ask that,” Andy retorted with all the attitude expected of a fifteen year old. “Anyone with eyes can see that she’s happy.”

Andrea stewed in anger while Lena sat in awe and silence. If it wasn’t for the way Kara’s thumb stroked along her knuckles to tether her in the moment, Lena might have thought this was all an anxiety-induced dream.

“Well that was a lovely meal,” Eve announced to no one in particular, and released soft, calming scents into the air to try and curb the storm of emotion brewing between Andrea and her daughter. “I’ll just clear a few plates away.”

“Let me help you with that,” Kara immediately offered, though she didn’t move until Lena gave her a slight nod to extract herself from the volatile situation.

Kara gathered as many plates as she could and Eve hurried along after her to stand in the kitchen at a safe distance.

“Sophia, why don’t you and Natty go get some ice cream from the freezer?” Lena suggested, knowing full well that even a thirteen year old wouldn’t pass up the opportunity to gorge herself on a treat.

Natty scrambled off her chair and Sophia reluctantly got up to follow her sister.

Andy pushed her chair back with the intent to flee Andrea’s wrath, and Lena held out a hand to stop her eldest in her tracks.

“You stay,” Lena murmured, sharp enough to make Andy sink back into her seat with the same forlorn expression she had since she was a toddler and in trouble.

“So was this your whole plan, to poison our daughter against me?” Andrea began before Lena could get another word out. “Look at the examples you’re setting—”

“It’s not always about you.” Andy whined, the pout of her lip trembling as she tried to release her own brave scents into the air.

“Andy, that’s enough,” Andrea growled, her own dominant pheromones overtaking the room as she put her daughter in her place.

“You told her to act like an alpha, so let her,” Lena insisted, and gave Andy her full attention as she explained, “Listen to me, as your mother I will always encourage you to speak your mind, but you were unfair tonight. You were rude to Eve and she didn’t deserve that.”

Andy cringed and hunkered down in her seat with a look of shame. “I know and I’ll apologize, but I just—I don’t get it.”

“Don’t get what?” Andrea demanded, and Lena drew her a look that said if she snapped at Andy one more time, she would make her regret it.

“All of this weirdness, it’s so stupid.” Andy grit out in an attempt to sort through her emotions.

“When I was younger I used to think that maybe you’d get back together, but then I realized all your new friends weren’t actually friends, and you were dating people, and bringing them home. It was like every time I saw you, it was with a new omega, but mom?”

Andy’s sad eyes flicked to Lena, and then shifted back to Andrea before any of the tears trickled over. “Mom never dated anyone the whole time, and now you’re fighting with her like you just split up, and I just don’t get it.”

Crinkles of worry appeared on Andrea’s forehead and she lost some of her rigidity when she leaned into the table. “I know this must be confusing to you, but I promise you’ll understand all of this when you’re older.”

The huff Andy gave in return made it evident that she wasn’t pleased with that answer, and Lena watched on with bittersweet pride as her daughter showed herself to be a kind, good-hearted alpha. “What if Natty turns out to be an omega, and someone claims her and leaves? Are you going to expect her to be alone forever?”

“No, of course not,” Andrea sputtered, the color of her cheeks paling in a tell-tale manner that said loud and clear she never considered that her youngest wouldn’t be an alpha.

“Then why are you acting like mom should?” Andy argued, fixing Andrea with her most scathing look.

“It’s complicated,” Andrea whispered and then fell into a contemplative silence.

“Why?” Andy persisted with annoyance, the stubborn jut of her chin reminiscent to Lena’s whenever she felt vulnerable.

Lena could see the wheels turning in Andrea’s head while her ex attempted to find a plausible excuse for her deplorable behavior. Part of her wanted to watch the alpha squirm under such undisguised scrutiny, but it wasn’t Andy’s responsibility to make her mother a better alpha, and Lena would never let that pressure settle on her daughter's shoulders.

“Because I was your mother’s first love, and she was mine,” Lena uttered through a broken smile that tightened when Andrea sat up straighter. She gave her ex a wary glance and then reached out instinctively to brush Andy’s hair behind her ear. “Things like that can be hard to navigate, but all you really need to know is that even though we don’t love each other the way we once did, we will always love you, and Sophia and Natty. You are the best parts of us, and that’s all that matters.”

Hearing her own daughter point out her hypocrisy must have triggered some self-evaluation within Andrea, because the alpha wore a contrite expression that went beyond her normal manipulation tactics. The weight of their conversation finally settled across the three of them and Lena drew Andy into a hug that the teen reciprocated fiercely.

“I’ll take the girls home this weekend,” Andrea offered after the silence between them stretched on, her words so hushed they were like a whisper.

It was hardly an olive branch, but it was certainly a step in the right direction.

Lena lifted a dark brow in suspicion and leveled Andrea with a look, “Are you sure?”

Andrea gave a curt nod, and then stood up to stride into the kitchen to inform Sophia and Natty that they would be staying over for a few extra days.

There was still one-sided tension between Andrea and Kara, but her ex kept her remarks to herself, and helped Eve load the dishwasher before finally ushering everyone through the door.

The sudden emptiness of the house made Lena feel strange, but then she glanced back to where Kara was still tucking leftovers into the fridge.

She thought about the last several years when Andrea had picked up the kids, and how she had sat alone afterwards with a glass of wine in front of the television.

Her chin pushed outward as all of her emotions hit her at once when she hurried into Kara’s arms.

“So now you’ve met all of my kids,” Lena whispered with teasing warmth, and gave a soft, tantalizing caress to Kara’s back while the alpha held her. “Do you still want to stick around?”

“More than anything,” Kara murmured, and nuzzled into the side of Lena’s cheek to surprise her by announcing, “Sabes que te quiero mucho.”

Lena pulled back with a startled scrunch of her brows and then asked, “You speak Spanish?” Horrified laughter choked out of Lena as she recalled all of Andrea’s talk at the table and how Kara just sat and listened.

Kara grinned with mischief in her eyes and tipped her head back with an easy shrug, “I figured I’d keep that up my sleeve for when the time was right.”

“What else have you been hiding from me?” Lena wondered aloud with a curious squint. Her lips twitched into a smile at Kara’s nervous chuckle, and she waited with a raised brow for the alpha to spill.

“So when I said my sister was a fan of The World Killers—”

“You really meant it was you,” Lena smirked, tilting her head to the side as she studied the guilty shade of Kara’s cheeks. “Why didn’t you just say that?”

“I didn’t want to make it weird for Andy,” Kara explained with a bit of a cringe. “She’d probably hate the thought of her mom’s new alpha liking the same band as her, plus Alex totally listens to them, too.”

“That’s very considerate of you, my new alpha,” Lena joked with a seductive lilt, and allowed her hand to brush down Kara’s abs to cup the front of her pants.

She fondled Kara with the lightest touch just to feel her begin to stiffen and glanced up at her through desire laden lashes. “Is there anything else you’d like to confess?”

Kara’s lips hovered so near to Lena’s that she could feel the warm tickle of the alpha’s breath.

Anticipation raced over Lena’s skin when Kara’s eyes went to her mouth, and Lena surreptitiously slid the zipper down on the alpha’s pants.

Kara’s hand settled possessively on the nape of her neck, with her thumb ghosting over the special place where her teeth would pierce, and husked, “I can’t stop thinking about fu-uuhnf.”

Lena had snaked her hand inside Kara’s pants to smoothly stroke her warm palm along the thick length of her cock.

“Go on,” Lena purred.

All of the tease and denial of earlier was worth it just for the way Kara sucked in a breath and eagerly pressed forward.

Lena encouraged her by lazily feeling the full shape of her cock, and running her fingers around the sensitive head.

“About being inside of you and how effortlessly you took the knot for me,” Kara exhaled in a rush while lifting a hand to grope at Lena’s breasts. She tweaked Lena’s nipple, and when it seemed like Lena might pull her hand free, her alpha scent was unmistakably desperate.

Lena unfastened Kara’s belt and glanced downward as she breathed in the pheromones.

She knew that Kara would be stiff, but she had lacked a frame of reference for just how rock hard the alpha could become when denied release. Kara’s cock looked much more swollen than in rut and Lena was a little dazed from lust as she placed her hand over it.

“Do you want to see that again, Kara?” Lena asked with dilated pupils and intrigue in her voice, like she was hanging on Kara’s answer.

Kara’s blue eyes darkened like the sky when clouds blocked the sun, and her jaw hung open for a good three seconds before she blurted, “Please.”

It hardly needed saying, considering the throbbing pulse of her cock beat steadily under Lena’s skilled hand.

There was no way to disguise Kara’s enthusiasm and Lena loved that the alpha never even tried to hide it.

Kara was always open with her, both emotionally and physically, and the only alpha Lena had known to be so free in showing her vulnerabilities.

Not that lust was necessarily vulnerable. Though Kara’s tendency to allow her needs to fragrance the air with an almost unabashed confidence certainly came close.

Lena coiled her fingers around Kara’s shaft and began a leisurely glide from base to tip. “Follow me,” she whispered, her natural perfume seductive enough as Kara swayed on her feet. “I have an idea in mind that I think you’re going to love.”

Kara moaned when Lena’s slim fingers wrapped snugly around the thick rim of her tip to lead her, quite literally, up the stairs and into the master bedroom.

She held on, even as she toed off her heels and kept Kara right by her side as she opened the safe to collect her new toy. Lena had plenty of gadgets, but the Replyk-A was definitely her new favorite because it came from Kara.

“Take off your clothes and sit on the bed, Kara,” Lena encouraged with a coy smile and finally released the alpha’s cock.

Droplets of arousal formed at the tip and Lena made sure to collect some on her finger to taste. Kara noticed, and almost injured herself in her haste to get out of her shirt. The alpha was practically panting by the time she was naked, and Lena stripped out of her dress with a provocative shimmy.

She stalked over in only her panties and stockings, with the phallus in hand, and directed in a smoky tone, “Take off my panties, I want you to see exactly what you do to me.”

Kara rumbled in acquiescence, her skilled fingers already hooking into the slim band to tug the flimsy, soaked material down Lena’s thighs.

As expected, Kara groaned at the sight of her glistening cunt, and Lena pressed a hand to the alpha’s chest to prevent her from immediately going down on her.

For all of Kara’s muscle, she was powerless to Lena’s charm and her inner omega reveled at the sight of Kara so thoroughly fixated on her cunt.

“You’re going to lie there and watch me take this knot again,” Lena intoned while her amorous scents condensed in the confines of the room. She sank lower onto her knees when Kara huffed the aroma, and then spread her thighs to give Kara an unobstructed view of her bare cunt. Lena grinned when the alpha’s hips bucked up reflexively, and reached behind to lightly pet at Kara’s cock.

“Not yet,” Lena soothed, her quiet words as gentle as the hand that she stroked along Kara’s shaft to keep it painfully erect. “You’ll give me the real one after you see how good I am taking this. That’s why you bought it, isn’t it? To see me use it just for you.”

Kara’s undignified whimper was rather endearing, and Lena took pity on the alpha by taking her hand back to delve between her pussy lips. She coated her fingers in fresh slick and brought them to Kara’s mouth in offering.

The alpha accepted them with a carnal moan, and Lena shivered at the sensual swirl of Kara’s tongue.

God, she missed having Kara’s mouth on her, and the more Kara sucked on her fingers the more her clit poked out from its hood in a desperate attempt to be noticed.

She slipped her fingers free of Kara’s warm lips before the temptation to straddle her face overtook, and used the wide tip of the toy to part her cunt lips.

A hush fell over them, neither one saying a word while she rubbed the Replyk-A along her slit with enough pressure to almost dip into her entrance on every pass.

Lena’s hips rose and fell with Kara’s breaths, slow and tantric until she finally gave in, and forced the round head into her eager passage and then shoved it deep.

Kara growled under her breath and Lena’s omega submitted with a series of rough thrusts to really open her cunt. She whined from it, so enraptured by having Kara’s face so close to her while she fucked herself, and worked the phallus in deeper.

“You’re so sexy, Lena,” Kara breathed out, her hands landing on Lena’s knees to keep them wide apart.

The truth was, Lena believed Kara, but she was still getting used to feeling sexy, even though she was brazen enough to do such wickedly filthy things. She teased her cunt, and Kara, by stuffing herself until all that remained outside was the knot, then bounced to stretch her entrance.

“Oh god, yes, please take it, I want to see you take it,” Kara rambled, unfiltered in her desire. She dug her fingers into Lena’s hips in excitement and part of the bulge eased into her grasping heat.

Lena moaned at the sweet ache it created and pulled the toy out a moment later to show off the blushing pink of her inner walls. They begged for Kara with every tight clench and the alpha rocked her hips and moaned.

“You like when I gape for you?” Lena’s sultry words were scandalous, and she chalked it up to the fact that she had been denied Kara’s cock for over a week. Her omega was practically feral, and now that she could smell Kara, and feel the heat of her skin, her own urges seemed to be magnified. “Does this make you feel like my cunt belongs to you, Kara?”

“Keep going, please,” Kara begged in avoidance, her lips a bitten scarlet from her efforts to stifle her moans.

Lena took it a step further by holding her pussy lips apart and raised an imperious eyebrow that never failed to elicit a reaction from Kara in the bedroom.

“Is my cunt yours, Kara? Is that what you think when you look at it?” Lena’s dulcet tones were a bonafide weapon, and Kara looked like she had been attacked.

Kara’s startled wide eyes were wild and her nostrils flared to breathe in the potent mix of Lena’s perfume. Lena wondered if the alpha was too shy to admit it, or that she worried that Lena would be offended on some level.

Kara let out a growl and affirmed her suspicion outright with a rasp, “Yes, now show me it’s true.”

How could Lena deny such a command?

Kara’s dominant scents were better than any other and Lena plunged the toy back into her cunt with greedy ambition. There was no tease this time as she fucked herself good and proper. The frenzy of her hand as she drilled the phallus into her sensitive channel would leave her puffy and red, and she whined when Kara’s hands grabbed at her inner thighs.

“Show me what you need. It’s so good, Lena,” Kara praised and brushed the pad of her thumb over Lena’s protruding clit with such reverence that Lena’s hips rocked harder.

The knot rubbed insistently into her, and finally Lena’s cunt relaxed enough to take it. She barely got to feel the satisfaction of it, because Kara pulled it back out, and in one rough buck, pushed the entirety of her cock into Lena’s rippling hole with a blissful groan.

“Fuck, Kara,” Lena hissed, her hands falling to the alpha’s broad shoulders for leverage while Kara fucked into her cunt at a rapid pace.

She had hoped that seeing her like that would provoke Kara’s alpha into acting, but Lena’s cunt clamped almost instantly around Kara’s thicker shaft and she shuddered as the alpha held her down by her hips to make her take every inch.

Much like when in rut, Kara handled Lena in a voracious way, and leaned up to kiss and nip at her breasts. She had mastered the art of finding the right pressure with her teeth to straddle the fine line between pain and pleasure, and Lena soaked her lap in breathless euphoria.

“Don’t ever let me tell you to stay away again,” Lena uttered mindlessly, her fingernails scraping across Kara’s tanned arms. “I can’t go without this for more than a few days.”

“You’ll never have to,” Kara promised fiercely, and rolled them over in a display of power to pin Lena to the bed.

The alpha was insatiable, and every muscle in her toned body strained from the effort she put into fucking Lena. Her powerful thrusts got faster and faster and soon the only sounds they made were throaty grunts as Kara bottomed out.

Lena’s legs were wrapped high on Kara’s hips, and she locked her ankles to encourage the alpha to stay buried.

Their kisses were desperate, biting things that tapered away when Kara jerked all of a sudden, and Lena caught her by the face to breathlessly whisper, “I love you, Kara. Come hard inside of me.”

She liked to think it was her confession of love that caused the wonderful sensation of Kara’s warm seed to spurt into her cunt.

The sheer amount was staggering for an alpha out of rut, and Lena went into her own orgasm as throb after throb emptied into her tight clutches. The hot pulsations of her muscles milked Kara’s cock and the alpha worshipped at her throat with lips and tongue, her words garbled but filled with praise.

When the spasms of her cunt finally subsided, Kara pulled out and Lena raised herself up onto her elbows to admire the creamy sight of her used entrance. They were both mesmerized by it, her beautiful puffy lips and scarlet labia giving way to the trickle of Kara’s essence that lazily poured from her.

It was baser omega impulse that had Lena reaching for the phallus to stop the flow of seed. She did it so automatically that it barely registered until the blunt tip was pushing into her heated folds.

The sloppy sound of the phallus pumping into her cunt after Kara had just filled it with warm seed was enough to keep the alpha obscenely hard.

Kara’s broad purple tip looked almost angry, and the veins that etched along her shaft were vivid.

“Lena,” Kara rumbled, her voice thick and gruff enough to make Lena tremble.

Lena bent over instinctively to soothe Kara with her mouth and moaned at the first taste of their mixed arousal. She lavished the wide brim with excellent tongue work and popped her lips around the tip with sensual grace. Another inch slipped into her mouth and she bobbed her head and kept her lips parted to begin a slow descent.

Kara’s breaths were uneven and ragged, and the dominant pheromones she unleashed in waves were a precursor to how she took charge of the Replyk-A between Lena’s thighs.

“You’re so beautiful,” Kara murmured, cupping the toy at the base to thrust it in long strokes. The steady penetration sent trickles of Kara’s seed down the shaft and Lena widened her stance for Kara to go faster.

She whimpered from the sensation and wrapped her hand around Kara’s length to jerk her off while she sucked, and then coaxed the alpha’s hand into her hair.

It was all the permission Kara needed to begin guiding Lena into swallowing more of her cock, and she worked Lena’s mouth as well as her cunt with the kind of confidence that drove Lena wild.

It was debauched to be had in such a way, and yet even as Kara groaned and pushed her head down, her fingers were gentle and the loving scents of being mated infused the air.

They weren’t truly mated. Lena had yet to receive that bite, but the fact that Kara could even produce those pheromones spoke of the depth of her feelings.

Lena couldn’t really be held responsible for the way she wanted to devour Kara upon smelling them. Her omega fully returned the sentiments and Lena submitted by taking Kara into her throat while she presented.

“God, Lena,” Kara choked out and sped up with her hand to fuck Lena with the toy much harder.

There was no way to still Kara’s hips, and every moan and slurp and tug on her cock seemed to bring out more of her alpha.

Kara might have wanted to hold back, but Lena made sure that she couldn’t, and she gazed up at the alpha as she moaned erotically and swallowed.

Hot blasts of seed coated her tongue, and she would have drank it all down if Kara hadn’t pulled away and immediately positioned Lena with her face against the sheets.

Kara’s strong hands held her in place and she breathlessly asserted, “I can’t wait any longer, you need to take my knot.”

“Yes Kara, give it to me,” Lena pleaded, her fingers tangling in the covers as Kara entered her from behind with a powerful full thrust. “It’s all I’ve been wanting for days.”

She no longer cared if that made her sound desperate when she knew that Kara would never think any less of her. The alpha’s hedonistic lunges rocked Lena forward and her thighs tensed from the impact. She lowered herself even further, pushing her breasts into the bed, and whined when Kara uttered, “I want you to think about me claiming you.”

Lena’s cunt tightened in excitement and she turned her head to admit shamefully, “I’ve been pretending I’m yours for weeks now. Every time you're rutting inside me like this, I think of your teeth on my neck.”

The force of Kara’s hips increased as she leaned over Lena’s back to nip at her pale throat.

“You are mine,” Kara insisted, the base of her cock beginning to swell along with her conviction. “One day when the time is right I’ll give you my mark, but until then, maybe you could give me yours.”

There was no way for an omega to claim an alpha, not in the traditional sense that alphas claimed omegas, but Lena’s breath caught in her chest all the same. “Kara,” she gasped, the pressure of the knot expanding in her cunt rendering her momentarily speechless.

“I’ll let you choose where you want to leave it,” Kara earnestly stated, her hips bucking faster to lodge her knot in deep. Her hot breath came out in puffs and sent goosebumps down Lena’s spine, “Nobody else will understand if they see it, but you’ll know that it means I’m yours.”

The power of those words caused Lena’s climax to tear through her with such intensity that she quaked beneath Kara. The muscles of her cunt convulsed around the alpha’s shaft and a sense of blissful serenity swept across her like nothing she experienced before. She was weightless in Kara’s arms, both fragile and stronger than she had ever been before, and she only realized she was weeping when Kara devotedly kissed the tears from her cheeks.

“Are you okay? Was that too much?” Kara asked between nuzzles, the concern in her voice carrying through her own euphoria.

“I’m more than okay,” Lena managed around the lump in her throat, and turned to gaze at Kara’s beautiful face. She cupped the alpha’s cheek tenderly and reaffirmed with a quiet chuckle, “Happy tears, I assure you.”

“Oh thank god,” Kara’s lopsided smile brightened as she confessed, “I was worried I’d ruined the moment.”

Lena was still dazed from the pleasure and the suggestion. She caught her lip between her teeth while she regarded the hopefulness in Kara’s eyes and finally dared to whisper, “Do you really mean all of that, about me—”

“A hundred percent.” Kara cut in seriously, and if it wasn’t for her nervous smile, Lena wouldn’t have caught the hints of vulnerability that clung to her skin. “I’m yours for the taking.”

Lena was stunned that Kara would think for even a second that she wouldn’t snatch her up, and tugged the alpha closer with a seductive smile that made Kara blush. “I like the sound of that,” she lilted, and snuggled into Kara’s arms while she considered all the places she would love to put her mouth.