The Creature Inside Me

“Edmond, I won’t let you do that. Do you understand?!” Atlas spoke sternly, glaring at his son.

“I’m the Alpha, Dad,” Edmond replied, huffing.

“Really? Alpha’s job is to protect its pack not make enemies for it.” Atlas spat but ended up coughing due to his bad health. He grabbed a glass of water and gulped it down.

“Don’t try to teach me, dad. You know how much powerful the Onyx Tails pack is right now. Their Luna is literally an angel and they are protected by a shield because of the magic in that forest. Nobody would know what they’re plotting against us ever.” Edmond spoke, sitting back on his chair.

“You’re planning to steal their land because they can protect themselves? I know you want power and you never want to be vulnerable but this is not the way of doing it!” Edmond scoffed.

“I have a son, Dad! I have to think about his secure future. I want to provide him with a place where he won’t fear anyone. I have to do this for him.” Edmond argued back.

“You think you’re protecting him by snatching land from innocent people? Don’t forget that when you fight a war before it’s even started, there are consequences.” Atlas warned but Edmond was determined. He was not going to back down.

“Then, I’ll face them too.”

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Zadkiel slowly opened the curtain of his eyes revealing bright hazel orbs behind them and yawned. He closed the eyes again for a moment before opening them again.

It took him a moment to recognize his surroundings and once he did, he sighed in relief that he was in his room. He tried to get out of bed but then he realized he was pressed under a heavy weight of a body.

The scent of the body told him whose weight he was under and the second he realized they were stark naked under the sheets, all he could do was blush as his heartbeat started racing.

He remembered last night and the events that unfold. The love they made and the way Irvin held him after that. All of it was something Zadkiel thought he’d never experience in his life because of the ultimate death news he was given.

But here he was, lying naked in the sheets under the weight of the guy whom he made love to and whom he loved with all he had and will always love. He couldn’t be more grateful for it.

He wriggled under Irvin’s body to roll on his back, making the older lad grunt in sleep. He did his best to try not to wake Irvin but he failed.

“You tryna go somewhere?” He heard Irvin’s voice as he stopped his squirming.

“Uh no… was just trying to get comfortable.” He replied with flushed cheeks.

Irvin lifted his weight off Zadkiel and the younger lad turned around and lied on his back. Irvin was quick to dump his body on Zadkiel again.

“Alright.” Zadkiel giggled.

“Let me sleep.” Irvin hugged him closer, inhaling the scent of his mate.

“Sorry to wake you up,” Zadkiel mumbled, keeping his hands away from Irvin’s naked figure above him. Last night beast was at rest and all he wanted was to vanish because he knew what he did last night. It wasn’t helping his shy nature.

“Hmm.” Irvin hummed in sleep, nuzzling his face in the crook of Zadkiel’s neck.

“Let’s wear our boxers at least. It feels weird.” Zadkiel was too shy to be in his senses and be naked with anyone at the same time. Last night was the only time he was ever naked around someone but he was lost in the euphoric moment to feel shy but now he was in his senses and the constant heat in his cheeks and the weird feeling in his stomach was too much for him.

“Seriously? We had sex last night. And you weren’t exactly shy last night.” Irvin grumbled in his sleep but not in an annoyed tone, just in a sleepy way.

“We made love.” Zadkiel mumble under his breath, too low for Irvin to hear and rolled his eyes.

“Yeah but that was last night.” Zadkiel protested.

Irvin didn’t say anything in return and rolled off Zadkiel’s body to lie next to him, eyes still closed.

“Come back once you’re dressed up,” Irvin murmured.

Zadkiel smiled at Irvin’s understanding behaviour and gave him a kiss on the cheek before sitting up. A pain shot through his back and he shut his eyes tightly, taking a moment to get used to it. He was so used to enduring pain by now that not a yelp or a whimper left his mouth. He had been through the worst. This wasn’t a big deal for him.

Once he was able to ignore the pain, he opened his eyes and scanned the room for his boxers that were lying few feet away from the foot side of the bed. He was about to get out of sheets when he remembered again that he was naked.

He turned his face to glance at Irvin who was asleep, snuggling the sheets in his arms. He looked around the room to see if there was any way that someone could see him naked and when he was sure there wasn’t, he slowly lifted the sheets to shuffle out of them.

Once he was completely outside, he hurried towards his boxers to wear them but stopped when he heard Irvin’s voice.

“Look at that arse!” He turned his face to glance at Irvin who was looking at him with eyes wide open as if he wasn’t sleeping a few seconds ago and he had a teasing smirk on his face.

Zadkiel blushed and turned around to hide his ass but then realized what he did. Zadkiel’s cheeks were resembling like they were slapped over and over again. He had all the blood rushed to his cheeks. Irvin’s smirk widened and Zadkiel hid the lower part of him behind the boxers in his hands, quickly.

“Irvin, go back to sleep!” He scoffed at him, trying his best to hide his flushed cheeks behind a glare.

“Sure,” Irvin smirked, taking his time to adjust on the bed. He fluffed the pillow, slowly slipping back under the sheets. He rested his head on the pillow and then closed his eyes, cuddling the sheets.

“Keep your eyes closed,” Zadkiel ordered, making Irvin press his lips together to hold back the laugh.

“Irvin, I’m serious,” Zadkiel warned.

“Alright! Alright!” Irvin chuckled, grabbing Zadkiel’s pillow and placing it on his face.

“Don’t peek,” Zadkiel said before quickly wearing his boxers.

Once he was done wearing his boxers, he walked back to the bed and lied down beside Irvin, snatching his pillow from him. Irvin chuckled, pulling him in a cuddle and closing his eyes.

“You do know, it’s time to get up,” Zadkiel spoke, resting his head on Irvin’s chest.

“I don’t want to. Let’s just stay in for the whole day today.” Irvin suggested.

“Can’t do that. I gotta die today.” Zadkiel answered but it earned a slap on the ass from Irvin.

“Don’t say it like that. I have a complete faith that you’re gonna get better and completely well.” Irvin assured him.

“If you say so,” Zadkiel murmured, finding it hard to believe that Irvin would want that. He was still not sure of what Irvin wanted but he had stopped blaming him because he knew for Irvin, the pack came first.

“We should get up. They gonna clean the breakfast table if we’re late and I’m hungry.” Zadkiel spoke, tracing circles on Irvin’s chest.

“I’m the Alpha of the pack, baby. They wouldn’t even start the breakfast without me.” Irvin chuckled, massaging Zadkiel’s scalp.

“We shouldn’t make them wait long then.” Zadkiel tried to get up but Irvin pulled him back.

“Few more minutes, please.” He pouted. Zadkiel laughed, shaking his head.

He thought of checking his mind control powers on Irvin because he had only excelled it with Abel but with Irvin or anyone else, he didn’t know if he could make them do whatever he wanted.

“Irvin, get up.” He looked up at Irvin and said, staring right at him. He kinda voiced it to check if it would work. Baby steps.

“Maybe, you’re right. We should get up.” Irvin spoke sitting up.

Zadkiel wasn’t sure that if he really controlled Irvin’s mind or not because it could be like Irvin just agreed to what he said and just wanted to get up.

He thought of doing it without uttering a word this time. He just held momentarily eye contact with Irvin, thinking of what he wanted him to do.

Carry me to the bathroom…

Irvin got out of the bed, stark naked. Zadkiel’s cheeks tinted pink and he looked away, trying not to hold his gaze on Irvin. Irvin smirked and slipped into his boxers before pulling Zadkiel to the edge of the bed through his leg.

“Let’s take a shower,” Irvin spoke, wrapping Zadkiel’s arms around his neck and lifting him off the bed. Zadkiel instantly wrapped his legs around his torso and smirked because his power worked.

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