Chapter 31

Previously on Silver Moon...

"What makes you think you know anything about love?" 

"Because I am in love!" Cobie snapped. "I love him. I love Erik. I love everything for his face to his claws when he shifts. I love his laugh, his eyes, his nose, even that stupid anger of his. I love the way he puts me first, I love the way he makes me feel comfortable.  L love the way he holds me, I love the way he kisses me, I love the way he pampers me, I love the way he takes care of me, I love him the way he is. So yes, I do know things about love." 

"And what about you? Do you feel the same?" 

It takes Cobie a couple of seconds to realise that Colson wasn't talking to him but someone beside him. He turns around quickly and his eyes widened when he sees Erik standing there. 

"I do." The Alpha said. "I love him so much it frightens me. I love the way he makes me strong, the way he holds me too, I love his scent, I love how soft and warm he is, I love how smart he is, I love how brave and courageous he is, I love how caring he is. I love how he is always beside me, I love how he holds my hand, I love the feel of his weight when we cuddle, I love his eyes, I love his hair, I love his lips. I love him. I love you, Cobie."

NOW

Cobie doesn't know who moved first but in the blink of an eye, he finds himself wrapped in Erik's arms, the Alpha's face in his hair as he whispered.

"I love you. I love you so fucking much."

Cobie lets out a wet laugh as he tightened his hold around Erik's waist. "I love you so much." 

Erik doesn't say another word, he just hold onto Cobie and took in deep breathes, trying to get as close to Cobie's scent as possible. When they finally pull apart a few minutes later, Cobie quickly remembered what had led to this. He spun around and stared at his brother who had a smirk on his face. Did he plan this? 

"You little shit..."

"Love you too, brother. Go and have your fun and forget about my issues because to be honest with you, I don't actually like Michel. He's a nice guy but I feel if I get any closer to him, Gabby is going to kill me in my sleep." Colson said, an amused smile on his face. 

"Don't call him that." Erik replied.

He had listened to Colson's heart as he spoke and there wasn't even a jump or a little blip. His mate's twin was saying the truth. The little shit. 

"Go and do dirty things to my brother." Colson said with a wave before he turns around and walked down the stairs. 

Once Colson was gone, Erik grabbed Cobie and threw him over his shoulder. He lets out a loud laugh when Cobie began to wiggle in his arms.

"This is so romantic." 

"I will romance you so hard." Erik said with a chuckle. 

Erik ends up taking Cobie to his room and locked the door behind him. He gently placed Cobie on the bed and took a step back to admire him. To admire his mate who loves him. 

"Why are you looking at me like that?" 

"I'm just looking at you, looking at my mate." Erik replied, his lips still stretched around a smile. Damn, his cheeks would be hurting him. 

"Why don't you come over here and kiss me?" 

Erik didn't need to be told twice. He made his way to Cobie, pushes his hands into the space between Cobie's back and the bed. He pulls him up into him and leaned down to close the rest of the distance between their lips.

Once their lips were pressed together, a zing of something unexplainable shoots through them. They've kissed hundreds of times but this... this felt different. This felt like everything and more. Cobie pushes his fingers through Erik's hair and arched even more into the Alpha as they kissed, tongue rubbing against each other. 

Erik's hands find their way underneath Cobie's shirt, his fingers trailing down the smooth skin of Cobie's tummy. They kissed, they pushed all the locked up feelings they shoved to the back of their minds into each press of their lips, into each slide of their tongue. 

Cobie trails his hands down Erik's neck to his shoulder and pushed until their position was reversed and their lips pulled apart. Cobie straddled Erik's waist and watched him through hooded eyes. 

"You are so beautiful." Erik whispered, his hands on Cobie's waist and thumbs stroking the small sliver of skin exposed. 

"I beg to differ. Have you looked in the mirror lately?" 

Erik laughed, his body shaking with the intensity of it. Cobie just smiled at watched his Alpha. Not once in fifteen years did Cobie think he'd ever willingly call someone his Alpha nor did he ever think he'd fall in love with one.

Yet, look where he is. 

"I love you." Cobie said again, his fingers stroking Erik's cheek. 

"And I love you." 

Mates. Cobie has never been able to fully grasp the full meaning of mates and right there as he's on Erik as they exchange I love yous, he feels more understanding flow through him. He thinks back to the time where he and Erik were suffering from rejection, throwing up blood and feeling weak. Forward fast it into a few months and Cobie feels stronger than before, he feels like he was ready to do anything as long as Erik was beside him or offering his support. 

So what happens after he gets the bite? How much more would he feel? How much stronger would he feel? Would they feel? 

"Cobie..." Erik calls out, pulling Cobie out of his thoughts. 

"Hi." 

"Where did you go?" 

"Just thinking about you and about us." Cobie said and immediately smiled when he sees a light frown forming on Erik's forehead. 

"About mating..." Cobie adds, his eyes cataloguing Erik's reaction. 

"Cobie..."

"I think we should do it." Cobie said and the room falls silent. Erik stared at him with wide eyes and slacked jaw. The grip he had on Cobie's waist tightened. 

"Are you sure?"

"Why don't you think about it for a little more while and then come to me when you're ready. Mating is not something that is done without serious thoughts because we'd be linked in every possible way. It's the human equivalent of getting married." Erik said when he finds his voice.

Cobie nods. He knows mating was a huge deal to wolves. He knows it's equivalent to marriage but the thing is after reading all the available how to werewolf books in the house and asking Se Ju and Randall a lot of questions, he feels like this was the right step to take, the next step. 

Yes, he had been scared to tell Erik I love you, a couple of days ago, hell, even a couple of hours ago but he's good now. Great even. 

He knows what he wants already but it wouldn't hurt to think about it some more. Maybe get Pa and Colly's opinion on this too because it affects them in a way. 

"Hey, hey. Look at me." Erik whispered. Cobie raised his head and locked eyes with Erik. "Your eyes are still gold." Erik said. "I'm not saying no, I just want you to think about it so you don't end up regretting it." 

"I'll let you know when I decide." Cobie replied. He leaned down to press a kiss to Erik's lips. The Alpha kisses back instantly, his hands pushing underneath Cobie's shirt and rubbing up his back. What started out with a little press of the lips turns into something hot.

Cobie leaned away for a bit so he could pull his shirt off, Erik's shirt coming off right after his. The press of skin against skin, the moan Cobie let out when Erik's fingers found their way around his nipples and pinched, spurred them. Every touch felt amazing, ever slide of their lips as they kissed caused tingles to shoot through their body and moans to escape. 

The scent of arousal, the taste and the sounds Cobie was making caused all of Erik's blood to rush south until he was hard and pushing against the zipper of his pants. Cobie doesn't hesitate to grind down against the hard on that was right underneath him. He does it one, two, three times before shuffling down Erik's body. 

Erik stared at Cobie. At his ruffled hair, his swollen lips and pink cheeks. His mate's eyes were still gold and Erik hoped he color never goes away. He watched with bated breath as Cobie unbuttoned his jeans and pulls it down. He doesn't get a chance to react because in the next moment Cobie presses his nose right on his boxer-clad hard on. 

Erik's pushed his finger into Cobie's hair as he began to mouth around his clothed cock before pushing the boxers down. Erik shivered a bit as soon as is cock was exposed. He was fat, curved, big and throbbing.

He lets out a groan when Cobie take him into his hand and lick at the head of his cock, his tongue pressed flat against the slit. Erik tightened the grip he had on Cobie's hair as he watched as Cobie swallowed him, his tongue going down the underside of his cock. 

Cobie pulls back with an obscene pop, his lips shiny with spit. This time he looks Erik in the eyes as he goes back down on the dick, swallowing until his nose was pressed against the trimmed hair around his cock. Erik couldn't even. His eyes rolled to the back as he let out a loud grunt. 

If Cobie could smile, he would but he had a big cock in his mouth at the moment. He pulls back and goes to tongue at the head of Erik's cock. He wraps his lips around Erik's cock and used his hands to grab the Alpha's waist and began to bob his head, going as fast as he could whilst making what had to be the filthiest noises Erik had ever heard. 

Erik thrusts his hips up when Cobie hummed around his cock. It had been a reflect thing but Cobie doesn't pull back and doesn't pinch his waist, so he does it again and again until he was thrusting into Cobie's mouth until he was so close, until he could feel heat pool at the bottom of his stomach.

"I'm going to come, Cobie."

Cobie pulls off and pressed a kiss to Erik's cock. He locked a big stripe of his hand and then wraps said hand around Erik's cock. "I want you to come. I want you to come in my mouth, Alpha." Cobie moaned  as he began to jerk Erik off. "Come on, Alpha. Let me taste you." 

It was the word Alpha that does it, the way Cobie's mouth shaped around the word. He comes with a loud groan and shiver, his come going straight into Cobie's already waiting mouth. 

Cobie, however, wasn't done. He shoves off his jeans and boxers. He pushed three fingers into his mouth and smirked around them as Erik watched. The Alpha tried to touch but Cobie shakes his head. He shifted around the bed, spread his legs apart and pulled his wet fingers out of his mouth. 

"Watch. No touching, just watching." Cobie said and Erik nods though it might have been absentmindedly. Cobie pushes the first finger in, he pulls it out and thrusts it back in again and again before adding the second finger. Cobie threw his head back as he moaned, his fingers moving within him and the other hand pinched, rubbed his nipple before trailing down and wrapped around his cock. 

"Baby, add one more finger." Erik said, his voice coming out hoarsenand deep. Cobie does as he was asked and added the last finger. It felt nothing like when Erik fingered him but it still felt so good. He began to finger himself, pushing his fingers in and out of him until his legs began to shake and he came, come staining his stomach and chin. 

Erik surged forward then and pulled Cobie close to him. He kissed Cobie so hard it made his toes curl. They pull apart a few minutes later, their chest rising and falling rapidly as they tried to catch their breaths. 

"Fuck! That was..." Erik trailed off as he tried to find the right word to say. 

"Incredible." Cobie added. He looked to his side and grinned at Erik. Erik chuckled. He leaned over and pressed a kiss to Cobie's nose before getting off the bed. Cobie stared at his Alpha's ass as he walked away. This gorgeous man was his forever, this gorgeous Alpha was his mate. 

He lets out a happy sigh. Erik appeared with a wet cloth and wiped Cobie's skin clean with it. He throws the wet cloth over his shoulder and got back into bed. He pulls Cobie close to him and buried his nose in the Vet's hair. 

"You smell amazing..." Erik said.

"Like what?"

"You smell like me again with a hint of berries." 

Cobie laughs and shuffled closer, his nose pressed to Erik's chest. They stay like that long enough for Cobie to fall asleep. Erik doesn't stop rubbing Cobie's back softly, he got up when it got a little chilly though. He grabbed another duvet from the closet and draped it over Cobie who was shuffled underneath it with a sigh.

His mate was too adorable. 

The next time Cobie wakes up, it's almost six and Erik was still in bed with him. He was still pressed against Erik's chest and the Alpha's arms were still around him. 

"You okay?" Erik asked and Cobie nods. 

It's been a while since he's had any nightmares and right now in Erik's arms he felt safe. Then again, there was this little voice at the back of his head that kept saying that man is coming. 

"I just want this to last." 

"Who said it isn't going to last?" Erik asked. 

Cobie sighed. "He's coming, Erik." Cobie said, shifting a bit in Erik's arms so he could look him in the face. 

"And like I said, you are going to be safe. Your brother, Pa and everyone will be okay." Erik said with conviction. "Aetos is going to help so-"

"I know about the plan but I can't stop worrying, you know?"

"Would you feel better if you train with the pack?" Erik asked. "Your brother and Pa can join in too." 

"Really? Is that okay? Colson and I can spend a few hours training with compact and other hours practicing our shots." 

Erik's heart swole with pride as he listened to his mate talk. "Of course it's okay." He said. "I can even give you the address of a local arms store and maybe he could help you customize your bullets. You said you use a special mix?" 

"Yeah. Wolvesbane, mistletoes and poison ivy. The dreadful three." Cobie replied. "How do you know if the man is on our side?" 

"He is. He's Michel's father and a dear friend of the elders." Erik said.

"Still doesn't mean he can't betray you. Look at what happened with Kaye?" 

"Kaye was a bitten wolf before he moved to Astir a couple of years ago. I never gave him the bite, he just moved here and didn't agree with our version of a pack, I guess. He didn't understand how thousands of people could support me, he couldn't understand how thousands of Alphas felt okay with handing me a piece of their responsibilities. Whoever must have bitten must have been killed because the next morning, he was rushed here almost feral and with bright red eyes." Erik sighed. "Family go those who are from Astir, those born and raised, those who moved for sanctuary, means a lot.  So yeah, you can trust Khylin Farrow." 

"Who?"

Erik shook his head. "Michel's father."

"Is Farrow Michel's last name?" Cobie asked, his eyes wide with wonder.

"You didn't know."

Cobie shrugged. "I just thought of him as Michel. The hard ass but still soft, curly haired Beta. Your second in command Michel. I didn't even think he had a last name." 

Erik laughed and relaxed the arm he had around Cobie a little. "You are something else."

"But you still love me." 

"Of course. I love you forever and ever." 

"I love you too." Cobie said, turning his face down a bit so he could press a kiss to Erik's chest. They stay in that position and talked about anything and everything. From Cobie's favorite show to the five things Erik hated about Venom, the movie. 

"It's time for dinner."

"Ugh. I don't wanna move." Cobie pouts. 

"You have to because I can smell your brother and he's coming up the stairs."

Cobie groaned and rolled onto the side before getting off the bed. "What does he smell like?" 

"Citrusy." Erik replied with a shrug. 

Cobie grabbed his boxers and jean, he pulled them on and then made his way to Erik's closet and grabbed a plain shirt that doesn't hide the love bites Erik has given him. 

"You must feel so proud of yourself for this." Cobie said and points at his neck. He hadn't even realized Erik had marked him up.

"People have to know you're mine."

"Hate to break it to you but the all of Astir know I am your mate. No one in their right mind would want to date me or ask me out when they know I have McStupid with me." 

Erik groaned. "Again with the name."

"It's either that or doggy ones. Choose one and choose wisely, Brian."

"I don't like Brian." Erik grunts. "I think he and Stewie are gonna bone soon."

"Ew! Stewie is a lil baby."

"Uh... he's not. Remember the time he got pregnant for Brian in that episode of Family Guy?"

"Can we not talk about this anymore?" Cobie asked, one hand on his hip. Erik nods and grabbed his shirt. Just as he pulled it over his head, there was a knock on the door.

Cobie ends up answering. He pulled the door open and rolled his eyes at his twin's smirk.

"Dinner is served, your highnesses."

"Thank you, peasant. We are on our way down." Cobie replied, his tone posh and nose raised a bit in the air. Erik walks right up to Colson who stared at him with a saccharine smile.

"If you hurt my brother, I will kill so fucking violently that you wouldn't be able to reincarnate. If you so much as make him cry or make him unhappy, I will cut off your fingers and toes and then your dick! Are you listening?" Colson snapped.

"Yes."

"Good. Take care of him. He's my only brother and I love him." Colson says, looking at Cobie this time as he spoke. Cobie smiled and pulled his brother in for a hug and whispered.

"I love you too."

"Lets go. Food waits for no man." 

Downstairs, Cobie sits between Colson and Pa and they talk as they ate. Erik knew everyone could smell him on Cobie and was very happy with himself. Michel who had just grabbed an extra piece of chicken turned to Erik.

"Colson is terrifying." 

"Not as much as Cobie though. Do you remember he first few times we met me?" Erik replied and laughed at Michel's blanc face. 

Yeah, they were going to be fine.