Chapter Twenty-Three

“Oh god, what is this?” My eyes flickered down to the small white box that Theo had just placed in my hands. He had been very secretive all day and my mind wandered to unhealthy places in anticipation.

“Open it” He smiled down at me.

Taking a deep breath, I undid the ribbon on the small box and gently pulled it open, my mouth falling open when a small diamond ring was revealed. “It’s beautiful”

“Well, we may have already mated—”

“Several times.” I laughed at him.

“Yes.” He nodded. “But I never actually got to properly propose to you. You are the love of my life, and yet I’ve never shown you how much you mean to me.”

“Theo...” I started.

“Really, Isabella, I have no idea how you did it but you came to me in my darkest moments, and you managed to pull me out and show me the light. And for that I will never, ever be able to thank you. Truly.” Pulling my hand to him, he placed a gentle kiss on my knuckles.

“I love you.” Staring deep into his eyes, I joined him in a passionate kiss.

Since leaving the Alpha Trials weeks ago, our relationship has blossomed and he’s opened up to me more than I could have imagined. I can really say that I’m in love with him.

“You’re distracting me...” He purred into the kiss.

“Sorry” I straightened up, giggling. “Carry on”

“As I was saying…” He cleared his throat. “Isabella Short, you are the candle to my wick, the sweet to my sour, the yin to my yang…”

“The peanut butter to your jelly?” My eyebrows rose.

“The love of my life…And I want to spend all of eternity with you by my side, as equals. We will rule the pack together and have cubs of our own, I can’t wait till we are finally married. Which brings me onto my next question” Standing up, he bent down onto one knee and took my hand in his own. “Will you marry me?”

Pausing for a moment, teasing him, I bent down to him and placed my forehead against his own. “Nothing would make me happier”

His lips joined my own in a symphony of love as we danced with each other's tongues, breathing heavily into the kiss.

Pulling away after a moment, he nodded to me, hunger deep in his eyes. “I am absolutely smitten by you and everything that you do, my Queen”

I let out a squeal as he picked me up, my legs wrapping around his muscular stomach and his hands squeezing my bum tightly, my own wolf growling from within for more.

“Are you going to do something or are you just going to hold me like a child?” My eyebrow cocked at him, the excitement from the evening wearing off and my wolf taking over, lusting for him.

“Don’t have to ask me twice” Quickly he sped over to the bed and threw me on it, standing back to look at what was his.

“I love you” I muttered, a smile creeping across my face.

“But not as much as I love you” His hands drew lines up and down my legs. “Which is a lot, by the way”

“How big?” My eyebrow cocked mischievously.

“I think you know how big” He leaned so that he was on top of me and I giggled into him, bringing my hand up and rubbing his crotch, making his dick stand to attention. “Really?” He smirked at me, looking down at his pants that were now covered in pre-cum.

“You just asked me to marry you officially, we should celebrate” I reasoned and shrugged my shoulders. “Don’t you agree?”

“Oh, I agree with you” He smirked and whipped off my pyjama bottoms and top, revealing a red lace bra that I had put on specially for this occasion. “Red lace? This takes me back”

“I thought it would” I but my tongue and caressed his face gently, pulling him into a kiss and rubbing my pussy against his thigh, moaning into the kiss.

“Someone’s hungry” he commented and instead of shying away I nodded my head, smiling.

“Always.”

Hunger taking over, he flipped me onto my back and placed two hands on my bum, massaging them roughly before sliding my underwear off and down my legs. “You smell great.”

One thing that I loved about Theo, he always could smell when I was wet or not. Some kind of Alpha trait that I wasn’t exactly upset about.

Before I could say anything, he pulled my legs apart and plunged his finger deep inside me. This angle was perfect for my g-spot as he rubbed me carefully, sliding the first finger out and slipping another finger in, making me arch my back in pleasure and moan into the pillow.

“You like that?” He taunted but knew I couldn’t say anything for my face being buried into the pillow.

After getting me all wet and aroused, he pulled his fingers out and unzipped his pants, whipping out his cock and positioning it at my entrance, lifting my belly up so that he could have full access to all my holes.

Filling me up inch by inch, his cock slid inside me and gently rocked back and forth, stretching my pussy walls out with his huge girth. His idle hand snaked around and placed itself firmly on my clit, drawing circles around it as he thrusted in and out.

“C'mon” He grunted as my muscles tightened up. “Cum for me”

An intense wave of pleasure rocked over me as my orgasm built up in my stomach, my legs shaking uncontrollably and that familiar hot sensation rolling over my body. “Oh my...” I breathed out, not quite sure what to do with myself but focusing on the feeling of my little bud being assaulted by his finger. He knew exactly what to do and say.

Pounding one last time into me, he let out a cry of pleasure and at the same time an orgasm quaked through me as we cried out together, his hot cum filling me up and pouring out of my pussy as his cock was pulled out, limp from the intense orgasm we both just had.

I felt him flop down beside me on the bed and I rolled over to face him, his cheeks red and hot from all the exercise and he was huffing and puffing to catch his breath.

“I’ll definitely remember that” I laughed into his chest and he pulled his arms around me. “This is amazing, I never want it to stop”

“It won’t” He nodded. “Once we’re married, we will be free to do whatever we want to do. Together.”

“Married” I smirked. “I never thought that I would be married, and to an Alpha at that. It’s insane.”

“Never? I thought you would have at least thought about it?”

“Sometimes, but I always wanted it to be with someone that wanted the same things as me, that cared about me, that thought we were equal” My fingers traced lines in his chest hair.

“Do you not get that with me?” He looked down at me.

“I do. It’s just, we will never be equal. You’re an Alpha and I was a just a beta, I was your beta.”

“And now you’re a Luna.” He nodded.

“I suppose so, but it’s still the same thing, we will never be equal”

“Isabella” I turned to look at him as he spoke. “As long as we're mates—and you're my Luna and I’m your Alpha—we will always be equal. I can promise that”

“Really?” He nodded and I planted a kiss on his lips, thanking him and lying back down, staring at the ceiling. “What do you think the future holds for us?”

“I don’t know, really” His head shook as we looked above us. “But there is one thing I know for sure…”

“What’s that?”

His hand squeezed mine. “We have so much to look forward to”