The Lycan Kingpin's Captive: A Baby For The Beast novel Chapter 50

I don’t know how long I’ve been laughing for, but I can no longer feel my cheeks. My sides ache from trying to breathe while laughing, one side of my face is smeared with frosting and the glitter bombs they shoot at me have my hair all tangled up.

Doubled over, full of cake, and laughing at Niko looking confused at the sight in front of him.

It’s the afternoon of the autumnal Equinox, and I along with the Pente brides have decided to get to know each other better. They’ve moved onto the pack lands and are staying in the mansion with us until they’re married to their partners.

Maxim still hasn’t returned after going out to look for his missing bride, but Niko doesn’t seem worried about it. Me, on the other hand, I am not sure if I’m worried about the bride or Maxim himself.

I get up and walk towards him, throwing my arms around his neck. “Hello, my love,” I greet him in a cheery voice. “I didn’t expect you back until later this evening.”

“The meetings wrapped up sooner than expected,” he says, frowning at the giggling women behind him. “Am I missing something?”

“Nope! We’re just getting to know each other better,” I say, turning back to look at them.

Just a few days ago they were terrified little lambs, now they’ve relaxed some. Well, I suppose the champagne is helping quite a bit.

“Hmm, well I’ll leave you to it; when you’re done, come to my office, I have something to show you,” he says and presses a kiss to my forehead before walking back to the mansion. “Enjoy, ladies.”

I watch as he walks away with a squeezing heart, then I turn back to women who have gone quiet. They look up at me expectantly, but I have no idea why until I sit down next to Gianna and she takes my hand in hers.

“Luna, how…” she starts, blushing. “How did you get someone as scary as the Alpha to fall in love with you?”

I blink and turn to look at their faces shining with the same curious look present on Gianna’s face. That question makes me think a bit, because there’s no way you can get Niko to do anything he doesn’t want to do.

“How did I get Niko to fall in love with me?” I sit back in the wrought-iron chair and cross my arms. “I don’t think I did anything of the sort.”

Eden rolls her eyes. “Yeah and my father isn’t a cold as fuck asshole who sells off his daughters,” she says, scoffing. “You’ve got the second most powerful Alpha wrapped around your little finger, Luna. Spill your secrets so we know what we need to do about our situations.”

I frown at this. “Situations? Are the Gammas-”

“Cold? Ignores us? Never talks? Yeah, pretty much,” Eden interjects, then she sighs. “We’ll be here for a while and know what’s expected of us. But…how do we do that when our husbands are literal walls of stone?”

Oh…The Gammas can be quite intimidating. I remember how much they scared me when I first met them in Sin City - I can’t imagine spending a lot of time with them. Then again, Niko was the same.

I look at each of their faces; Gianna with her kind blue eyes, Eden with the defiance lingering in her green ones, Noelle and Demi and their unreadable hazel color, and Alessia with her distant gray eyes.

These women will come to be my family soon; they’ll be the sisters I never had and since I am their Luna, I feel a responsibility to them.

Sighing, I offer them a small smile. “All I did was be myself; I did nothing different. I didn’t push, didn’t pry, didn’t force him to love me. One thing I did wrong was lying to him when I should have just told him the truth, and that was the worst mistake I ever made.” I say, cringing at the memory of running away from the pack house.

Alessia sits forward and narrows her eyes at me. “So, just be as we are? Nothing over the top to try and break the ice?”

I nod. “You ladies need to remember that the Gammas are battle ready and hardened from years of fighting. Alpha Nikolaos trained them and honed their skills to the best of his ability, so they’re always primed for war. The last thing they will want is to fight a war with their partners at home,” I say, thinking back to Divan’s words.

“Be yourselves. Be the kind women I see today. Apart from me and the Alpha, the Gammas have never experienced true kindness; kindness that doesn’t hide ulterior motives. The only advice I can give you today is to not push things with these soldiers, give them and yourselves the time to adjust to things.”

I don’t know if I’m getting through to them at all, but from the looks on their faces, I don’t think they expected this advice. But truth be told, there’s no easy way to get through to a warrior who only knows violence.

As much as people think I worked magic, I didn’t tame Nikolaos, not in the slightest. The cold Alpha is still there; he just reserves the sweet part for me.

After a few minutes, I think the lesson has stuck because the looks on their faces are all different. The determination to get through to their partners is there, but now it seems like there’s some renewed motivation.

I hope this is a good thing.

The afternoon draws to a close when I tell them I need to head up to feed Ares. My breasts are full and hard, so that gives me all the indication that my son will be waking up soon. After I say goodbye, they still stay in the back garden to sip on their champagne; I didn’t indulge for obvious reasons.

Like clockwork, Ariadne has Ares in her arms and he’s already starting to get niggly. “He just woke up,” she says with a smile as she hands him to me. “Something tells me the beasty is starving.”

When she says this, I look down to see the wet spots on my blouse and chuckle. It’s only been a short while since I gave birth, but Ares is already looking more and more like Niko. From the proud nose, to the constant scowl on his little face.

I have a sneaky suspicion that he’ll be a formidable Alpha like his father, too.

After feeding and burping him, I express the rest, clean up and change into a fresh shirt and sports bra. Then I head to the nursery and smile at what I see.

“Are you certain you’re okay to still watch him?” I ask Ariadne as she settles into her chair by the window in the nursery. “I could call the minders?”

She makes a dismissive noise and waves me away. “He’s my only great-grandchild; I would like to spend every waking moment with him,” she says with a warm smile.

I walk over to her and give her a hug. “Thank you,” is all I manage to say, but I am certain she knows how much I mean it. Grandmothers are a blessing; great-grandmothers are even more so.

Kissing her silver hair, I walk out of the nursery towards Niko’s office. He mentioned needing to show me something, but it didn’t seem like bad news.

He’s sifting through some paperwork and looks up when I enter, a small smile tugging at his lips. “Did you have fun today?”

I nod and walk around his desk to sit on his lap. “I did; the brides wanted some advice from me seeing as I tamed the SilverCrest Alpha.”

I shake my head. “I was sleeping and woke up feeling…weird,” I say as I lean back onto his bare chest. His heart is beating just as fast as mine, and I sense the same unease in him as well.

He walks around and tilts my chin up to face him…that’s when the uncomfortable feeling immediately goes away. Our eyes widen at the same time, our hearts beating in time and the connection we’ve always shared feels solidified - like a barrel bolt lock sliding into place.

“MATE…” we say in unison, but where I whisper the word, Niko growls it.

He pulls me closer and meets my mouth in a rough kiss, claiming me not only as his wife but now as his mate. Was this the uneasy feeling my wolf’s way of saying I was close to my mate and needed to be claimed?

Star must have been as clueless as me because she looks shocked as she sees Niko’s large Lycan beast looking at her as if he wants to devour her. We never expected to meet our mate since it’s so rare, but now something is clear.

You can only meet your mate at the Equinox.

He picks me up and carries me back to our bed, ripping off my flimsy nightdress and peppering chaste kisses all over my chest.

“Mate,” he growls again, nipping at my skin as he dives between my legs. My eyes shoot open and I look down, but there’s no hesitation in Niko’s scent when he languidly slides his tongue between my folds.

In our time together, Niko has never done this; he always used to freeze up. But as his tongue works delicious circles around my oversensitive clit and his claws dig into my thighs, I have a feeling he’s no longer terrified of initiating intimacy.

My mind is delirious with want as Niko takes me higher and higher, finally letting me down to crash into tiny little pieces around him. I grip his head with my thighs, pulling on his hair and he growls while I ride out my orgasm.

I’m still in a haze when I feel his large body covers me and when I open my eyes, his crimson Alpha ones are staring right into mine. His hand goes to the back of my head, into my hair and my thighs wrap around my waist before he sinks into me in one swift motion.

I cry out, tears springing into my eyes not simply because of the overwhelming emotion of Niko claiming me under the full moon, but because Niko initiated this. He didn’t freeze, he didn’t stop or have a panic attack!

“Vasílissa mou,” he calls me his queen while thrusting slowly and hard inside of me. “I love you; fuck, I love you so much.”

Our bodies are flush against each other, and he’s looking at me as if I’m precious. “I love you too, Nikolaos,” I murmur through tears, and when we finally reach our climax and I feel his knot growing.

We fall apart together, out of breath but not letting go. He lifts his head and looks into my eyes, the crimson gone and replaced with his lovely green color. His bottom lip trembles and he draws his forehead to mine.

“You were always the silver lining in the mushroom cloud of my fucked up existence,” he whispers in a shaky voice. “Now I know why.”

When his tears hit my cheek, my heart constricts and I hold him close, neither of us saying a thing. I know now that it was the Goddess giving me strength that night I escaped from Mikhail and ran into Niko’s arms. She led me here to find him…

Nikolaos Ioannides, the broken man I helped heal; my husband, my Alpha, and now, my mate.