He’s My Alpha by Cassandra M (Jake & Clair)
Chapter 59
Jake
The sun’s gentle ray touched my face, urging me to flip my eyes open. The sun had just started to come up, and the cold breeze of air danced around my
skin, together with the familiar warm feeling of sparks.
A low, sleepy groan sounded just below me, and it took me some seconds before I was able to see where I was and who was clinging to my arms.
Clair.
I placed a kiss on her forehead and blew the loose hair strands on her face gently.
We were in the middle of the forest, n*ake*d with her sitting in my lap, her head resting on my chest while I cuddled her like a baby.
This was pure bliss.
After she hunted a small rabbit, I let Rain eat the rabbit, but she was nice enough to share it with Echo, refusing to eat it until he ate it with her.
And then we ran and played some more, before taking a rest under this tree.
Clair then fell asleep in her wolf form, but immediately shifted to her human once her head lolled into slumber. I shifted after that and took her into my arms. I told myself I would rest for a while, cuddle her, and carry her back home, but darkness took me in.
I haven’t had a nice sleep for a long time now, and this, by far, was the best one I’ve had in days. It doesn’t matter if we weren’t in bed. I guessed it was enough that she was in my arms.
A sudden movement in the nearby bushes perked me and my wolf up. I held her tighter in my arms in a defensive stance, rolling off my Alpha aura while she slept peacefully, snoring softly.
The noise in the bushes revealed Matteo and Chloe. Their eyes widened, but they both bowed their heads as my Alpha aura rolled away from them.
“Sorry, Alpha. We’re just passing by. We just came from patrolling. We didn’t notice.” He explained, his voice firm but respectful.
“What time is it?” I asked, my brows furrowing. How long did we sleep?
“Almost six, Alpha.”
“Give me your shirt,” I asked in a calm tone, almost a whisper, not wanting to wake her up.
Matteo and Chloe looked at each other before they headed to a tree behind us. Matteo came back shirtless, with Chloe trailing behind him, now wearing his shirt.
Matteo handed Chloe’s shirt to me. “Sorry Alpha, better her shirt than mine. Women are complicated. I hope you understand.” He explained that while Chloe looked down at her bare feet, uneasiness was in both their auras.
I chuckled lightly. “I understand. I’m sure Clair would do the same.” I reached for Chloe’s shirt and shifted my gaze to her. “Thanks, Chloe, you can both go home and rest. Thank you both for patrolling.”
They both nodded and entwined their hands before bobbing their heads in my direction. “See you around, Alpha.” Chloe said, smiling as she threw a last glance at Clair, her shirt covering Clair’s n*ake*d body.
They left and I was still in the same position, wondering how on earth I would walk her home n*ake*d in my arms without anyone seeing her.
I pulled her face away from my chest and tucked the loose strands of hair behind her ear. I needed to wake her up before more patrollers passed by. But I didn’t have the heart to wake her up just yet.
I decided to get myself on my feet and carefully carried her towards the forest line in front of her house, making sure we didn’t meet anyone along the way.
As I made our way back to where our clothes were, she stirred as her eyes fluttered open.
I was staring at her beautiful sapphire eyes, which seemed to be lost in the moment before everything clicked into place. With eyes widening in shock, she struggled from my hold, giving me no choice but to put her down with Chloe’s shirt falling off, leaving her n*ake*d again.
“Goddess!” She exclaimed in a hushed voice. She bent down to pick up Chloe’s shirt and slipped it on. “I need to go back home.”
“Relax, we’ll just go pick up our clothes.” I pulled her body close to my side before gearing her to walk in the right direction. Her body stiffened, she kept her neck and head straight ahead as if she didn’t want to look down on me.
Clair
We silently walked to where we left our clothes. I couldn’t look at him when I knew he was n*ake*d all over. I couldn’t believe I fell asleep in his arms n*ake*d. What would happen if anybody saw us? My reputation was slowly going down already.
“Clair?”
“Hhhmmm…”
“Are you mad that we fell asleep in the forest?”
“No. It’s just that you could have woken me up as soon as you did. You don’t have to carry me around n*ake*d.” I felt my cheeks burning, and the feeling of his body against mine brought back the familiar tingles to my core. Shit!
I rushed forward as soon as I saw the tree, grabbed my clothes, clutched them tightly against my chest, and discreetly clamped my legs. Thankful that we were in the open air.
I didn’t bother changing. The one I was wearing was loose and long enough, more like a dress. It can cover me more than Jake’s shirt I had on last night.
I heard him shuffling behind me, then he moved and stood before me, fully clothed.
“You can look at me now.” The annoying smug grin was still plastered on his face.
I rolled my eyes and asked him instead. Whose shirt is this? Smells familiar…” I just couldn’t remember. “Chloe.”
“She saw us?” My eyes widened again. I can’t believe she saw us.
“Yup, she and Matteo. Matteo gave his to hers so Chloe can give her shirt to you.”
“This is embarra*s*sing!” I felt my cheeks burn and felt the need to blame someone. “This is all your fault! If you hadn’t come into my room, none of this would have happened! Now everyone’s going to talk about me being n*ake*d with you.”
“My fault? You called me, or so I thought. So I came. I thought you were giving me a free show.” He didn’t conceal the smug grin on his face as he looked at me with those deep, dark blue eyes. It was early morning, and with disheveled hair, he was still looking hot.
Damn! He was loving that I was ogling him and it was making my skin boil.
“I hate you!” I snapped, baring my teeth at him.
“Hmmm, I don’t think so. I heard different last night.”
“Jacob Galhart! If I hear you talk more about last night, I will… aaaargh!” I didn’t know what to do, so I just stomped my foot on his before turning on my heel and walking away.
“Don’t worry, I ordered them not to say anything about it.” I heard him talk and was half expecting him to follow me, but he didn’t. For once, I was glad he had this Alpha command thing.
‘Echo and I had fun last night. See you around, princess.’ He sent it in my mind before I closed the door and tiptoed into my room.