The Alpha Next Door (Patreon)

Rating: Explicit, ABO, Alpha Kara, Omega Lena.


Description: Jaded on alphas, omega BFFs Lena + Sam create a perfect platonic family until the Danvers sisters (alphas) move in next door.

Tags: This is a comedy - but Lena has PTSD and she's vulnerable like in Howl and The Bodyguard AU, Librarian Lena, Co-parenting BFFs Sam and Lena, Mouthy, standoffish & tough Lena who has a lot of vulnerabilities, Sweet/charitable/loving/protective Kara, Heat sickness, sweet/caring Kara in bed, checking in, sex in multiple positions, dirty talk, no condoms, praise.


Word count: 12,313

Lena lived in a picturesque little house on a charming street not far off from the sea. She filled her days and nights with books — shelves upon shelves that she catalogued and kept in good condition as the town’s librarian. Every story she read was like a lit-up house on her street. She could experience glimpses of other peoples’ lives and romanticize them without getting any closer.

All things being different, Lena was the kind that would have lived alone, but her best friend had discovered she was pregnant right after college and put an end to all her plans to become a hermit.


Samantha Arias had been Lena’s roommate, and it just felt natural to continue sharing a home after they graduated. Lena never wanted to settle down or have children of her own, but she loved Sam’s rambunctious six-year-old, Ruby.

On any given day, Ruby covered the walkways in their yard with chalk drawings and Barbies. She liked to ask Lena questions about science and nature—like what made grass green and the sky blue, or about the 302 neurons in a worm’s body.

It wasn’t unusual for Sam to work late, and for Lena to find herself sitting on the back deck, watching Ruby play.

One afternoon, out of nowhere, the kid hit her with a question she didn’t know how to answer:

“Lena, how come you don’t have a mate?”

Lena closed the copy of Don Quixote that was resting in her lap and squinted up at a pear-shaped cloud above her. Everything was literally going pear-shaped.

“Because my life has been very fu—full—up—filled,” Lena corrected and turned to look at the inquisitive excitement on the kid’s face.  “It’s completely full already, Ruby. Besides, omegas don’t need mates to be valid. I’m perfectly happy without a mate by my side.”

She slipped into her Irish accent more than once and held her lips in a dignified pucker, considering what other reasons she could offer to someone who was six.

It wouldn’t do to explain the truth—that her teens and early twenties had been full of experiences that made her standoffish and unwilling to get close to anyone who identified as an alpha. It wasn’t that her urges had stopped, but she couldn’t overcome her aversion to the entire arrogant species, or the way her stomach turned whenever she thought of her past attempts to get close to someone.

Lena lit up a cigarette, which she hadn’t done in a long while, and started to puff on it from stress.


Sam walked in at the worst time, and Lena managed to drop her toxic tobacco stick in the dirt, but that didn’t stop her from receiving the third-degree.

“Hey, you told me you quit,” Sam scolded and whacked her on the arm for the sneaky indulgence.

“I did quit, but the child decided to blindside me and ask why I don’t have a mate today.” Lena pointed at their kid and Ruby giggled at the charges brought against her.

“Oh no, Ruby, you know we don’t ask Mama L about the A-word.” Sam bent down to help her daughter pick up chalk and missed the way Lena awkwardly mouthed “asshole?”

“Alphas.” Ruby crossed her arms like she had her own reasons for despising them.

It occurred to Lena that her opinions might have come off too strong and caused Ruby to adopt them inadvertently. She beckoned for Ruby to take her hand and wondered if it was too late for therapy to fix any parenting mistakes she made.

Lena helped the kid inside to wash her hands at the sink. “Let’s make dinner, and maybe see if we can book an appointment with Dr. Olsen.”

Sam tidied up the toys outside and they all reconvened in the kitchen to prepare their meal together. They ate at the table, helped Ruby with her schoolwork, and headed for the living room couch afterwards to watch a film.

Lena was practically elbow-deep in a bowl of popcorn when a glance outside disturbed her peace.

In the next driveway was a large moving truck, and two good-looking alphas hopped out to start unloading all of their crap. They owned the most ludicrous things, including an unnecessary amount of athletic gear and a fridge meant for a family that had to buy items in bulk.

The hot blonde alpha strapped on a weight-lifting belt and lifted the giant fridge by herself — and that caused Lena to utter multiple profanities.

“Fuck. No. Shit. Why is that moving in right next door to us?”

Sam succeeded in covering Ruby’s ears in the nick of time. “I’m assuming it’s because the house has been on sale for seven months now, and Mrs. and Mrs. Harris just reduced the price.”

“Screw them,” Lena raged and nearly upended the bowl in her lap. “Do they have any idea what this will do to our property value?”

“Maybe we should go say hi and welcome them to our neighborhood,” Ruby suggested and moved to sit on her mother’s knee so she could peer curiously through the curtains at the new alphas.

For the most part, they lived near betas, and there wasn’t an alpha within a two-mile radius. Ruby appeared to be excited by the idea of having neighbors again.

“They have a foosball machine and arcades!” Ruby exclaimed and bounced in place. “I wonder if they’ll let me play.”

“No, no, absolutely not,” Lena commanded strictly and pushed out her lip as she caught herself staring. “Remember the rhyme I taught you?”

Ruby rolled her eyes and sighed dramatically before reciting, “Omegas are sweeter than pie – the kind of friend on which you can rely. Betas are good and loyal: they will never cause you turmoil. Alphas are strong, but really quite dumb. They only play nice to use you for fun.”

“That’s why we don’t play with alphas in this house,” Lena reminded the little one, completely forgetting how smart Ruby was for her age and how that phrase would later bite her in the ass.

“You’ll understand when you’re older, Ruby, but alphas really can’t be trusted,” Sam whispered, and it was her momentary sadness that ultimately seemed to break through Ruby’s disappointment.

“Even if I like them?” Ruby asked after a quiet moment of consideration.

“Especially if you like them,” Sam warned, unable to explain to her daughter how she was living proof of that.

Lena reached over to comfort Sam by rubbing her shoulder, and it prompted Ruby to hug her mom with both arms.

“It’s okay. I have enough friends at school,” Ruby confided and helped herself to a handful of Lena’s popcorn.

For the rest of the night, none of them mentioned the alphas next door, and Lena cautiously closed the curtains to save herself from gawking. She forgot about the new neighbors until the next morning when one of them had the gall to knock on the door.

The sexy blonde alpha stood on the front steps with a tray of cookies and a grin on her face.

“No solicitors,” Lena snapped and attempted to close herself back inside.

Much to her distress, the alpha had better reflexes and stopped the door from closing by shoving the cookie tray forward.

“Wait, I’m not trying to solicit anything. I just came to drop these off and introduce myself. I’m Kara Danvers. I moved into the house right next to you.”

Lena breathed in the enticing cologne on Kara’s skin. She dared not look directly at her for too long, but she did glance at the exposed curves of Kara’s biceps in her black tank.

“Are those store-bought cookies?” Lena threw a disapproving look at the chocolate chip treats and ripped the tray out of Kara’s hands.

“Rats, you caught me.” Kara chuckled at her own antics and smiled so wide that her face formed the cutest dimples. “I bought these from the bakery by the library in town.”

“You’re not exactly starting off on the right neighborly foot if you’re already lying about cookies.” Lena jutted her chin and folded her arms judgmentally.

Kara appeared to be gobsmacked by her standoffish attitude. She stared in perplexed silence and laughed like she thought Lena was kidding.

“Well, I was hoping the gesture would be enough,” Kara explained when it became obvious that Lena had no intention of carrying on a conversation. She forged on with a grin and folded her buff arms in a shrug. “I don’t usually do much baking myself, but they looked delicious.”

“They are,” Lena drawled and lifted one to bite into it. She tried to keep her icy demeanor intact, but the warmth of Kara’s friendly personality threatened to thaw it.

The polite thing would be to invite Kara in, maybe offer her some tea or share common knowledge about the neighborhood. Instead, she grabbed the front of her own sweater to make a little hammock, and let gravity pull the cookies into it as she tipped the tray sideways. Lena thrust the empty tray at Kara before she had time to process what she had just done.

Kara gawked at her as she stumbled, and in her moment of distraction, Lena slammed the door shut.

“She better not come back,” Lena huffed and pressed her back to the door.

The insanity of her actions caught up with her as Ruby ran downstairs and paused by her side to stare at the chocolate chip snacks bunched in her sweater.

“Where did you get those?” Ruby asked with far too much suspicion for a six-year-old.

“I found them,” Lena lied and ushered the kid through the house to coax her into the backyard just in case Kara was still lurking out front. “Take one and go play. I’ll be out in a minute, okay?”

Ruby stuffed the cookie into her mouth and went off to skip rope from one end of the path to the other.

Lena stored the rest of the treats in containers and slipped her shades onto the bridge of her nose. She picked up her current read and headed out to her favorite sun chair.

In the wood chipped beds next door, Kara Danvers was landscaping — not just mowing the lawn, but putting entire trees and shrubs in the ground.

Ruby lifted her green and pink scooter and zoomed in circles across the grass, oblivious to Lena’s miserable pheromones.

“That’s a really big bush,” Kara shouted at the fence line.

“What did you just say?” Lena asked in offended horror.

“I could come over and help you with it,” Kara called out and made some kind of crude gesture. She ended up reaching for a clipper and an extension cord, and by that time Lena was already on her feet and prepared to herd Ruby inside.

Lena froze with her hand on Ruby’s shoulder as their new neighbor took a shaping tool to the overgrown shrub in their yard. She didn’t speak for the duration or say a single word of thanks when Kara finished or swept up.

Ruby piped up first with an introduction she never had the chance to finish. “I’m—“

“Going inside now before you hear adult words.” Lena directed the little girl to the door and shooed her inside before turning to deal with Kara.

She didn’t normally explode at strangers, but she was feeling charged-up from Kara’s unusually friendly behavior.

Kara started raking up the leaves that Lena planned to tackle that weekend.

No one just volunteered to help out with someone else’s yard work. The most probable explanation for Kara’s charitable deed was that she wanted another favor in return. Every so often, Kara smiled at her and checked her out, and Lena responded by knocking the rake from her hand.

“You’re really trying hard to get into my good graces, aren’t you? Why is that?” Lena shouldn’t have clutched the handle of the rake like a weapon or furrowed her brows so tightly that she must have looked like a gremlin.

On the other hand, it would send a certain firm message, since Kara must not have understood her before.

Kara blinked at the shrewish expression on Lena’s face. “I like gardening. It’s one of my favorite hobbies.”

Bullshit, Lena thought, and her hateful glare must have conveyed as much because Kara held her hands up and backed off like she sensed Lena’s next move might be to ram the rake up her ass if she didn’t scuttle over the fence to safety.

It was equally pleasing and stimulating to watch the muscled alpha leap over the fence with ease. Lena might have stared longer than necessary, and she shook herself out of it by brandishing the rake as she ranted, “I don’t know where you came from, but around here, you don’t just invite yourself onto someone else's property.”

Kara at least had the good grace to look chastised, and Lena almost felt sorry for being so brash. She changed her opinion when Kara shrugged and clasped the picket fence with a smile that still looked charming.

“I was just trying to be nice. I feel like we might have gotten off on the wrong foot earlier. I don’t even know your name–”

“Let’s keep it that way,” Lena called out from a safe distance where Kara’s pheromones couldn’t reach her.


She kicked the pile of leaves spitefully to work out her agitation and turned to find Kara still standing there with a peculiar and sad expression on her face.

“Leave our yard alone. I’m perfectly capable of taking care of the chores around here without your interference,” Lena griped.

“Are you always this-uh-” Kara flapped her hand towards her and puffed out her cheeks as she tried to finish her sentence without causing more trouble than she already had. “Intense, or have I caught you on a bad day?”

Lena didn’t dignify it with an answer and stormed into the house. She spent a good hour periodically peeking out of the kitchen window to watch Kara carry out her landscaping.

Sam found her half an hour later with her head in the freezer and Ruby by her side munching on a popsicle.

“Tell me the fridge isn’t broken again?” Sam asked as she bent down to gather Ruby into her arms for a hug.

“No, but I might be,” Lena lamented and sullenly shut the freezer to reveal her blotchy complexion.

“Jesus, did you run through poison ivy?” Sam asked and pulled open the medicine cabinet to find the calamine lotion. She was poised with a cotton ball in hand and Lena waved her off as she checked on dinner.

“She got all sweaty after she yelled at the alpha next door,” Ruby informed her mother and blinked innocently at Lena as she scoffed.

“I did not,” Lena contended with a sweeping gesture out the window to Kara lounging on her deck. “Our new neighbor entered my territory twice this afternoon. I’m a little irritated. That’s all.”

Sam peeked over her shoulder to glance at the buff idiot. The shorter, auburn-haired alpha exited the house and settled beside Kara with a couple of drinks in hand.

“They could be uglier,” Sam sighed and put both hands on Lena’s shoulders to remove her from the kitchen.

Ruby unhelpfully decided to give her opinion in a happy, sing-song voice. “I think Kara liiikes you.”

“Does not,” Lena spat very maturely and touched her too-hot face. “I’m just breaking out in hives because of my new suppressants. It has nothing to do with that knothead.”

Lena maintained that argument for the rest of the weekend while she hid out of sight from the alphas next door.

On Monday morning, she bundled Ruby into her coat so that Sam could drop her off at school, and then spent an extra ten minutes covering her red face with an extra layer of make-up.

She drove to work without any thought of Kara in her head until she smelled the delicious scents from the bakery next door.

Lena would never admit it, but she had eaten half a dozen of the cookies herself. She even had one tucked away in her pocket to have with her lunch later.

The library was blissfully quiet at the early hour of eight, and Lena relished the silence as she browsed the new books she had to catalogue.

Around nine, people started to venture in, and by eleven, the tables and computers were filled with people enriching their minds.

Lena should have known her serenity wouldn’t last through the morning. While she was handling the check-out desk, she grimaced at the noxious scent of an alpha filling her nostrils.

She groaned inwardly as an arrogant and familiar asshole threw glances her way, then swiveled in her chair to hiss, “Nia, can you take over? I can’t deal with this today.”

The bubbly omega was busy with a visitor, and Lena cursed her luck as an alpha named Mike walked over with a smarmy grin on his face.

“Lena, you look like you could use a coffee. When do you go on break? I’d be happy to buy you one.” Mike laid it on thick and leaned on the desk as he pushed forward his latest collection of books.

Lena grimaced as she saw the titles and tried not to gag at the suggestive pheromones around Mike. She scanned The Tantric Art of Knotting and stamped it before grabbing Know Your Place: An Omega’s Guide To Submission.

“I’m not thirsty,” Lena stated as she handed over the books and swallowed back her disgust. “Is there anything else I can help you with?”

“Maybe you could give me some more book recommendations over dinner.” Mike propped his elbow on the counter and peered over the desk like he cared about what she was reading.

Lena knew it was a scheme just to look at her tits. She hunched in discomfort and tried to cover her chest with her arms, unaware that Kara was close by and overhearing the conversation.

Mike continued to stand over Lena and she started feeling dizzy from anxiety.

Just in time, Kara dropped a few books from the nearby self-help section right in front of Mike. The top title was Erectile Dysfunction: When to Seek Medical Assistance, followed by a guide about dating and manners.

Lena’s lips curled in a smile upon seeing the books and she remembered how to breathe.

“You should check these out,” Kara insisted, straight-faced and calm in dealing with Mike. “Looks like you might find some valuable information in the pages.”

Lena couldn’t suppress her grin, in spite of the queasiness in her stomach from being around too many alpha pheromones. She realized at a delay that she liked Kara’s scent, but she assumed that was because she was comparing it to Mike’s foul stink.

Mike scoffed, shoved the books into the return bin, and ignored Kara as he continued to push for a date. “Lena, how about Friday at seven?”

“Not interested,” Lena replied, lacking the punch she normally used when turning down an alpha.

She could feel her pulse in her neck, and her nostrils no longer seemed to be capable of drawing in air, especially as Mike reached out to touch her wrist. He made a noise of irritation and exited before Lena’s anxiety turned into a full-blown panic attack.

Kara backed off from the desk until Lena’s distress pheromones settled. She looked apologetic as she set down a bunch of children’s books and novels.

Most of the other people in the library were older and retired — or parents of younger children taking advantage of the library’s activities. It was odd to deal with two alphas in the same day, and if Kara hadn’t come to her defense, Lena would have assumed she was visiting for the same reasons as Mike. She squinted at the stack of Newbury books and other classic picture books for little ones.

“Working on improving your reading level?” Lena didn’t make it a habit to be rude to people that helped her, but Kara was still an alpha and that alone filled her with distrust.

“Actually, starting next week, I’ll be teaching second grade. It’s a temporary post. I’m covering for Mrs. Moore while she’s out on maternity leave. I’m also a personal trainer, but I just finished my Masters—”

“Wait a minute, did you say Mrs. Moore?” Lena frowned at the coincidence and picked up her phone to text Sam.

Mrs. Moore was Ruby’s teacher, and if Kara would be taking over the role, it put even fewer degrees of separation between them.

Over the next ten minutes, Lena learned that Kara’s older sister Alex had taken over the post as school principal. Mrs. Moore was a close family friend and the wife of school superintendent, Jon Jones. Nepotistic problems aside, Lena wondered how she would survive if she had to see Kara during after-school pick-up and at home.

She managed to scan Kara’s books, and then Nia wandered over to make small talk with the newcomer.

With all of the distractions, Lena didn’t completely process her emotions until later that night when she flopped into bed with Sam.

They didn’t sleep together all of the time, but Sam sensed she had a rough day. That meant a lot of pouting from Lena, despite the residual stress melting away as Sam’s arms slipped around her.

Lena sullenly pushed out her chin and came up with a number of scenarios to force their neighbors to move. “What if I just drop a few lit matches right by their house? I’m sure they’re insured. The fire department would get here in time to prevent spreading damage.”

“I would laugh if I thought you were joking.” Sam stroked the hair away from her face and peered into her eyes, which had the habit of shifting in greenish-blue colors like a mood ring.

“Kara sort of came to my defense today at work. You know Michael Matthews, the skeezy lawyer with the practice in town? He periodically stops by to harass me. Today he was checking out books about sex, and Kara stepped in to make him uncomfortable. She probably didn’t even do it for me. Maybe she was just trying to create an opening for herself.”

“Well, that depends on what she did after she scared off Mike. Was she flirty or inappropriate in any way?” Sam asked with a crinkle of concern between her brows.

“No,” Lena admitted after a stubborn moment of silence. “But who swoops in to ease anyone’s discomfort without an ulterior motive?”

That question plagued Lena for days. She became twitchy at work whenever the door opened, though her dwindling expectation that Kara would walk in was shifting to an uneasy feeling that maybe it wouldn’t be so bad if she did.

Of course now that Lena wasn’t entirely opposed to seeing the alpha, the idiot never appeared. The lack of contact pushed Kara as far back in her mind as she could go, and for the rest of the week Lena functioned normally.

At least until Friday.

Lena set off after her shift at the library to grab groceries for the week, and after the tedious endeavor of buying and bagging it all, she lugged it out to her car.

None of this was new. She had done it thousands of times, but when she popped her trunk in the semi-empty parking lot to store the groceries for the trip home, she saw a shadow stretch out from behind her.

The speedy footsteps freaked her out, and Lena fumbled with her keychain as she turned to pepper spray her attacker.

She screamed louder than the alpha, who swung her hand up to cover her eyes. As she backed off frantically, Lena realized she had just temporarily blinded Kara.

“What the fuck are you doing running up on strangers in the parking lot at night?” Lena yelled as Kara rubbed at her eyes and groaned in agony.

“I was going to help you pack everything into your car,” Kara hissed as she stumbled and sank to her knees. “I’m sorry–”

“You should be!” Lena snapped as her heart raced and her vision blurred.

She chalked it up to the residual cloud of irritants floating in the wake of her spraying Kara—and not the sheer panic and relief that she wasn’t about to be stuffed into her own vehicle and taken.

“Where’s your car?” Lena asked.

Not that Kara could drive anywhere in her current state, but Lena could at least offer to call Alex to come retrieve Kara and the vehicle.

“I was out for a jog–” Kara moaned in pain and Lena sighed at the state of her all tear-streaked with her red eyes screwed shut.

“Get up, I can’t just leave you here,” Lena ordered, and grabbed a bottle of water to dump it over Kara’s face.

It probably would have helped if she had told her it was coming.


Kara sputtered in shock and immediately raised up her tank top to furiously wash the mixture off her face.

Lena could have lived quite happily without seeing Kara’s defined abs, and she stared at them until heat clawed up her neck and itched her skin.

“Come on, this way,” Lena grunted as she shoved Kara into the passenger seat. She flung the rest of her groceries in the trunk and climbed into her car.

“If I’d known it was you, I wouldn’t have done that,” Lena whispered as she grabbed a stack of wet wipes from the glove box and carefully tried to remove the spray from Kara’s eyelids.

Kara cringed during the gentle wiping and shook her head. “No—no, I shouldn’t have approached you from behind. I thought you saw me.”

Lena took another deep breath and continued to pat at the affected areas on Kara’s face. She turned on the car engine and backed out of her spot with a peculiar sensation in her belly. It must have been flutters of panic, but she was also breathing in Kara’s pheromones in a confined space. Her skin started to prickle before she was even on the road.

“So, you live with your sister?” Lena asked for no other reason than to distract Kara from the burning pain. “Why not get your own place?”

She figured she would get some kind of answer about the smart economics of it all.

Kara looked more pained by the subject than the powdery fire still wreaking havoc on her senses. “I like being around family. Besides, Alex makes the world’s best pancakes.”

For a careless instant, Lena forgot she wasn’t talking to a friend. “Oh, well, I’m guessing that’s just your opinion because you haven’t tasted mine.”

The little bit of levity went a long way in bringing a smile back to Kara’s lips. They managed to keep the companionable atmosphere between them for all of ten seconds.

Kara scrunched her eyes tighter shut and decided to ask questions of her own. “How long have you and your wife lived in our neighborhood?”

As a rule, Lena never shared personal details with alphas, especially if the conversation switched to the topic of her relationships. She must have been feeling generous because of the pepper spray, considering she volunteered a little bit of information.

“Sam isn’t my wife. We’re best friends raising a child together.”

“Oh, I assumed you were together-together.” Kara clutched at her tank top to wipe off some more of the spray.

“No, I don’t date.” Lena tried to keep the acid out of her voice that she reserved for conversations about her love life. She ended up following her habits because of the strong pheromones that swirled around her all of the sudden. “Every alpha I’ve ever met has been scum. Some are just pigs, while others are completely vile – not even comparable to swine. Most of you just care about tits and ass. The horny ones I can tolerate from a distance. The self-proclaimed ‘nice’ ones areactually evil. They assault and abuse omegas, and cheat and lie. They take what they want unapologetically. You know the type. They’re often the kind that talk about wanting pups on the first date, but they’re not interested in being a parent. What they really desire is a mate to see them through their ruts, fulfill their every sexual need, and run their households.”

She needed to pause for breath after all of that ranting and took that opportunity to glance over at Kara’s confused face.

“I’m going to go out on a limb here and guess you’ve never had any good experiences with an alpha, huh?” It was hard to tell if Kara’s grimace was due the sting of her eyes or the uncomfortable realization that Lena probably hated her for existing. “All of our interactions make a little more sense now.”

“And what’s that supposed to mean?” Lena spat, as if she didn’t already know how awkward she made their car ride.

“Well, you’ve been kind of defensive and I was worried it was something I had done,” Kara explained as conversationally as anyone could when her eyeballs were burning. She rubbed fitfully at her face with her top, and Lena had to slap the fabric out of her hands before she rubbed more of the pepper spray back into them.

“You mean I didn’t have grounds to be suspicious after you leapt into our garden unannounced to gather leaves like a woodland fairy?” Lena frowned at the hapless alpha who had yet to complain about her hostility. “What did you think would happen after I’d already slammed the door in your face?”

“That you would say hi and maybe we’d become friends?” Kara intoned hopefully. The slight smile on her face chipped away at Lena’s armor, and for that reason alone she knew she had to repair it before any more cracks formed.

“I doubt friendship was on your mind. How many yards have you entered since moving in?” Lena snidely questioned and held onto the idea that Kara was just as deplorable as every other alpha she had ever known.

Kara paused for a second with her hand still pressed across her eyes. “Five, I think.”

“Five?” Lena choked out in offense.

Whatever assumptions she had made about Kara were precariously close to disintegrating as she glared at the alpha and almost drove onto the sidewalk.

Kara was oblivious to how close she had come to being wrapped around a lamppost and listed off everyone she had helped in the past week. “I rescued Mr. Birch’s cat from a tree. I retrieved a frisbee from Mrs. and Mrs Wilson’s roof when their son tossed it too high. Miss Graves needed a hand with repotting her cactus, and Mr. Schott needed help with a flat tire.”

“So, what you’re saying is that you’re truly a nice person?” Lena couldn’t avoid the thick skepticism in her voice.

“It makes me happy to pitch in and volunteer in my community.” Kara shrugged and her shoulders remained stiff, like she instinctively knew she would find judgment all over Lena’s face.

Lena might have unfairly pegged Kara as an alpha who was just looking for a good time, but that didn’t mean she had to be any friendlier towards her.

She drove straight into the Danvers’ driveway and opened the car door for her passenger. All she needed to worry about was getting Kara inside, which was harder than she guessed with all of the steps leading up the path.

“Let me direct you,” Lena commanded and pulled her neighbor along by the tank top. She avoided touching the pepper sprayed parts of the fabric.

Alex came out before they made it onto the porch, and Sam hurried over as soon as she noticed Lena’s vehicle in the wrong driveway.

“What did you do to my sister?” Alex questioned in amazement and reached for Kara’s arm to lead her indoors.

“She scared the hell out of me, so I pepper sprayed her in the eyes,” Lena declared and wiped down her fingers with a tissue from her pocket. “If you’re good now, I’m going to head home.”

“If I’m good?” Alex gruffly echoed and shook her head.

Sam made it to the doorstep at just that moment, and Alex paused as they made eye contact.

Lena knew from her best friend’s posture that she liked the scent on Alex. Thankfully no one else was aware of Sam’s tells, but Lena was filled with resentment as Kara asked, “Can we please just go in? I need to get the rest of this stuff off my face.”

That prompted Sam to follow them into the foyer, and Lena waited for Ruby to join them from the yard before she grudgingly entered the house.

They all went into the kitchen and Alex pushed her sister’s head under the faucet to clear away the rest of the pepper spray.

Ruby tugged on her mother’s sleeve and whispered, “Did Mama L do that to the neighbor’s face?”

“I have no idea what happened.” Sam threw a tense and questioning glance at the commotion and lifted Ruby onto her hip.

At six, Ruby was too big for it, and too big to be deceived about the actions of adults.

“She got her good,” Ruby whispered to her mother and looped her arms around Sam’s neck.

“Pepper spray is a weapon, and some people have taken others to court over its misuse,” Alex lectured and detached the hose feature on the sink to spray Kara more directly across the bridge of the nose.

Kara pulled a lot of ridiculous faces and jumped up and down flailing her arms. “I’m fi-fi-ne. I’m not even in agony anymore.”

“See? She feels better now.” Lena slipped her hands into her pocket to retrieve her keys. “Don’t forget: it’s never a good idea to surprise an omega.”

Kara blinked her eyes open just as the keys in Lena’s hand rattled. “Hey, wait, why don’t you stay for dinner or something?”

Despite how her focus kept straying to Sam, Alex expressed doubt over inviting anyone to stay. “Kara, she just inflicted fiery, painful harm on your face, are you sure it’s a good time?”

Unfortunately, due to all of the hectic events, Sam didn’t get the chance to cover her neck. She normally wore a scarf or some concealer to hide the multiple bite-marks on her throat.

Alex hesitated where she stood and shook off her agitated mood. “Actually, maybe we should all get acquainted, so we don’t have a misunderstanding like this ever again. I’m sure it must seem unusual to have two single alphas move into this quiet neighborhood.”

“It certainly is,” Ruby supplied in the same tone her mother often used and slid down Sam’s side to return to her feet.

“We don’t want any trouble,” Sam cautioned with a small flick of her hand and glance to the door. “I’m sure we can get along. Lena and I tend to be private people, so please don’t take offense if we seem like the kind who prefer to keep to themselves.”

“Does that mean you won’t stay for dinner and get to know us?” Alex asked, softer now that she saw the vulnerable mom beneath Sam’s cold exterior.

“We already know you,” Lena scoffed and pinched her eyebrows together as she fought the urge to completely level the ground under Alex. “You were ready to accuse me of a crime two seconds ago. Did that suddenly change because you like the look of my best friend?”

Kara cleared her throat and stepped forward to cutely defuse the argument before it happened. “Alex was just being protective of me, and I understand why you reacted the way you did. I personally would like you stay for dinner, but I respect your decision to turn down the offer.”

Lena hated that her neighbor knew how to be respectful. She still would have turned down the invitation if she was on her own.

Ruby headed over to the table and picked up one of the napkins on top of a placemat that was obviously just for show. She stuffed it into the collar on her shirt and glanced around at the bare kitchen. “Where’s the food?”

“Ruby,” Sam laughed skittishly and hurried forward in the hopes of collecting the child.

Regrettably Alex was fast with her phone. “I’m going to order pizza on my app. What toppings do you like?”

“Pepperoni, ham and pineapple,” Ruby declared and picked up the silverware in her small fists.

“What have you done to this kid?” Alex asked as she ordered the pizza with a few taps on her phone screen.

“Raised her to be a free thinker,” Lena intoned, in spite of her inner disgust over the pizza toppings.

They would never have allowed Ruby to order something like that at home, mostly because the kid usually picked off everything including the cheese, but their neighbors didn’t need to know that.

To Lena’s appalled surprise, this time Ruby ate two whole questionable slices when the pizzas arrived.

Kara also dug right in, leaving the rest of them in the dust with the amount she was capable of eating. “The only thing that would make this better is chow mein, wonton soup and some orange chicken.”

Lena picked at her dinner and tried not to get too comfortable in her neighbors’ home. She glanced at her little family, and her attention lingered on Sam’s relaxed face.

It inspired thoughts of putting up a twelve-foot fence between their properties so they could avoid letting their guards down again.

She bit her lip and peered over at Kara with the strangest feeling that she was going into heat. Her suppressors must have expired without her realizing, or else she was experiencing a breakthrough heat from being in close contact with an alpha.

Lena spent so long avoiding alphas that she had actually forgotten what it was like to feel genuine attraction, let alone arousal. It crept up on her insidiously from within as she watched Kara eat and keep a respectable distance away from her.

Whenever Lena reached for her glass of water, Kara sat back, and if her fingers were covered in sauce from picking at the pizza, Kara wordlessly slid her a napkin or two without making eye contact.

It infuriated Lena that she was being treated like a feral animal, if only because it worked to chisel away at the wall around her, which she had painstakingly maintained for years.

She caught her eyes wandering multiple times, and no matter how avidly she glared at the pineapple on her plate, her gaze somehow found the dimples on Kara’s cheeks and the swell of her biceps.

The tingle between her thighs was a troublesome omen, and Lena gritted her teeth as the temperature in the room gradually increased. She wouldn’t be able to breathe at this rate, and she gulped at her ice water until an unfortunate ice cube hit the back of her throat.

Choking at a dinner table was mortifying enough, but to suddenly have Kara’s arms around her from behind was worse. Lena coughed forcefully and sent the chunk of ice skittering across her own plate and towards the kitchen door like it was making a break for it.

“That was scary. Are you okay?” Kara asked as she squinted at Lena through her own reddened and swollen eyes.

“I’m fine,” Lena wheezed and staggered out of Kara’s buff arms as her knees weakened.

She didn’t expect her omega to betray her, and she bristled as she caught herself sweeping the hair off her neck.

“You don’t look it,” Alex muttered in concern and shared a worried glance with Sam, who gaped up at Lena. “Do you have allergies? I should have asked before ordering.”

“Honey, your face,” Sam croaked, and motioned to the spot where Lena could feel a distinct and prickling sensation.

“What’s wrong with it?” Lena spat self-consciously and loathed that she was bothered about her appearance.

She spun wildly to the nearest reflective surface and groaned at the patchwork blotches of scarlet and mauve that broke out across her pale Irish features.

“I must have sprayed some of that stuff on myself,” Lena rasped in panic, though Alex seemed skeptical as heat raced to Lena’s cheeks when Kara stepped nearer.

“You can use our medicine cabinet down the hall,” Kara offered.

Maybe it was the chivalrous way that Kara held out her hand to allow Lena to walk on that made her bolt straight out the door instead.

Though she had never been athletic, she ran across the yard to fling herself over the fence. It wouldn’t have been nearly as humiliating if Kara hadn’t remained at the door to watch her scramble into her house gasping.

Lena locked herself in the bathroom and ignored the sound of voices downstairs. She discerned that the neighbors were helping Sam unload their groceries. Opening the door a crack allowed her to hear the conversation without venturing down to interact with anybody. She pressed a cool wet wash rag to her face and listened to the friendly banter taking place in their living room.

Her heat began in earnest with Kara’s scents in the house. About twenty minutes later, the neighbors finally left and Sam found her in a pathetic condition.

Sam squinched the corners of her eyes as she examined Lena’s skin condition and prodded her straight into bed. “Sweetie, I don’t know how to tell you this, but you’re a having a physical reaction to our new neighbor. I see this kind of thing all of the time as a nurse, usually among lovesick teenagers.”

“God, you couldn’t have told me that sooner? Give me the cure. We both know I’m not lovesick. This is just my biology acting up because a halfway decent alpha happens to exist."

Lena would travel to the hospital that night if it meant she could fix her physical ailment.

“You’re not going to like the cure,” Sam gently explained and reached for a neck pillow that she fluffed up and stuck under Lena’s head to help her rest.

“I’ll swallow whatever vile medicine you recommend so I don’t have to feel like this,” Lena bitterly insisted through chattering teeth.

She expected the fever and loathed the muscle aches that accompanied it. Her body tensed and spasmed, and that would have been tolerable if not for the insistent clench of her cunt that occurred whenever the thought of Kara took her off guard.

“I’m sure Kara would take you up on that offer, but I suggest you just stay in bed for the weekend and get some rest,” Sam intoned through a smirk that slipped away as Lena scowled up at her in offense. “I’ll make you some of your favorite tea.”

The only bright side of enduring such torture was having a friend like Sam to watch over her during the worst of it. In the middle of the night, while Lena thrashed restlessly beneath the covers and trembled from desires she refused to entertain, it was Sam who climbed into bed to comfort her with a cold compress against her forehead and an herbal drink to ease her into sleep.

As Lena languished in misery, Sam detoxed the house of alpha pheromones with a cleansing spray, and she was finally able to get out of bed when Monday morning came.

They never discussed how haggard she appeared, or the extra strength patches that Sam brought home on Monday after a long shift. Lena slapped one on, and as the sun rose on Tuesday, she began to feel like herself again.

For the most part, she tried to avoid the alphas next door, and ignored the odd fluttering she experienced whenever she glimpsed someone at work in the yard.

Her life seemed to be going back to normal, and Lena no longer had to slather herself with concealer before leaving the house.

Although that might have jinxed her in some way.

She was nose deep in a new novel on Friday afternoon when she received an emergency call from Ruby’s school.

Lena drove recklessly fast to get there, and nearly took out a stop sign as Sam screeched to halt two feet in front of her.

Neither of them said a word as they ran up the steps and burst through the big double doors.

They sprinted through the halls and straight into Alex's office without the courtesy of knocking.

“Where is she?” Sam gasped at the same time Lena stressed, “Is Ruby okay?”

Alex blinked at them as she stood up and tried her damnedest to calm everyone with her pheromones. “Wow, you guys got here fast. An incident happened with one of the students at lunch. Someone smuggled in candy with peanuts.”

“Well, it wasn’t Ruby,” Lena spat out defensively.

“She knows the rules, and we pack her lunch carefully,” Sam was quick to state and hardened her jaw like she was ready to fight Alex if she said a bad word about her daughter.

“No, you misunderstood, Ruby isn’t in trouble.” Kara stepped into the office from behind them and guided Ruby through the door. “She noticed a boy go into anaphylactic shock, and it was her fast response that saved him.”

“Her response?” Sam pressed in confusion and swung her head back to Alex for the missing details of what transpired.

“She stabbed him with the epi-pen he had in his pocket,” Alex explained bluntly, her surprise mirroring Lena’s and Sam’s as they gawked at Ruby and how she preened at the attention.

“Where the hell were the lunch attendants?” Lena snapped as she processed the gross negligence.

“In the midst of controlling a food fight that broke out over the candy,” Kara explained and smiled down at Ruby with pride in her eyes. “Ruby ran to get me immediately afterwards, and it was her smart thinking and bravery that got him the help he needed.”

“We would like to hold a little award ceremony for her, but—uh—how did she know what to do?” Alex questioned with arched brows as she looked between the two omegas.

Ruby chimed in to answer that one for herself. “My mom taught me all about allergies because she’s a nurse, and Mama L taught me how to stab people.”

Sam burst into laughter at her daughter’s eloquent way of putting it.

“Okay, I taught you to defend yourself with common household items just in case you’re ever in a situation that warrants the use of force,” Lena corrected and avoided making eye contact with the educators in the room.

“Can you guess which one of us is the helicopter parent?” Sam smiled fondly at Lena and her contributions to raising the kid.

Ruby stood between them and took turns hugging them both.

Lena slipped her arm around her best friend and behaved like she wasn’t in the same room with two alphas. “We should probably just tell everyone that Ruby learned how to use the epi-pen from you.”

The issue was that she couldn’t act oblivious to Kara’s presence for long. She hadn’t remembered to slap on a patch that morning, because she didn’t think she would be interacting with Kara that day. Her face started to develop that same heat-blotchiness again, and her hands began to sweat.

The hours of the school day were winding down, and that meant Ruby would have ballet lessons. Lena heard the bell ring as her neck itched from the blossoming rash.

“We can just focus on the details of what happened today and credit you both as great parents who taught their daughter to think fast in a crisis situation,” Alex decided and smiled down at the little hero in front of her.

Sam sighed to herself as Principal Danvers stepped back behind her desk. She looked at Alex’s ass very obviously, and Lena gave her the gentlest shove before Kara noticed.

Lena scratched at the hives on her arms and covered them up with her sleeves to throw some last criticism at both of the alphas in the room. “Do us a favor, and next time you call us in here, please let us know the reason in advance.”

Her moodiness was a smokescreen of sorts, behind which she was suffering from heat sickness. She gathered Ruby’s backpack and coat and passed them to Sam with the hopes of leaving before her symptoms became worse.

Kara spoke up first to deal with Lena’s concerns. “I’ll be sure that the office gives you more information if we ever get in touch like this again.”

“You should have my number in the school directory, but take this, too.” Alex pulled a sleek business card from a holder on her desk and held it out to Sam. “If you ever have concerns, call me personally.”

Sam tucked the card into the pocket of her long beige coat.

Lena would have worried more about the lust on Sam’s face if she wasn’t so busy trying to put her own in check.

“Well, we had better get going or Ruby will be late for practice,” Lena dryly informed everyone and ushered Sam and the kid out of the office before the scorch of her skin became obvious to the alphas.

She tailed after her little family and frantically glanced over her shoulder to see Kara surreptitiously peeking out of the office to watch her leave.

Of all the reactions that ought to have caused, the thump of her heart shouldn’t have been one of them.

Lena groaned in distress at the slick already forming in her panties and all but pushed Sam through the doors to get into the fresh air first. She inhaled it like a drug, drawing it into her lungs with greedy gasps while Sam secured Ruby in her booster seat.

“I’ll be right behind you in five,” Lena promised as she tried to mitigate the fire in her veins by standing in the cool afternoon breeze.

“I’ve got this, you go home and take care of that,” Sam murmured as she twirled her car keys around her finger and subtly motioned towards Lena.

At first, Lena assumed Sam meant her sickly complexion, but then she realized the omega had stared pointedly at the building behind them. Even without looking she could sense Kara Danvers’ presence, and the shiver that worked down her spine wasn’t one of revulsion.

“The hell I will,” Lena hissed under her breath and instinctively pulled her arms around herself like that would create a barricade around her heart. “I’ve never missed one of Ruby’s lessons and a little heat fever isn’t going to stop me.”

“That’s why I am,” Sam pointedly informed her and softened her expression at the betrayed jut of Lena’s chin. “Think of it as some tough love, Lena. You’ve spent all these years looking after me and Ruby, but it’s time you did the same for yourself. Go find your cure.”

Lena scoffed at her best friend’s parting words and huffed dramatically as Sam slid into her vehicle and drove off after mouthing play nice.

As if it was that easy.

She had long since satisfied herself by living vicariously through romance novels and would have happily continued down that lonely spinster path if Kara hadn’t existed in her near vicinity.

The alluring scent of Kara intensified as she approached, and Lena childishly hurried into her car to drive off before she was forced into small talk.

It was insane that her omega wanted to form an attachment when she barely knew the idiot, and yet as she veered down the street faster than should have, she couldn’t ignore the ache that spread through her chest. She made lengthy plans in her head to spend the next two hours in an ice bath or cold shower to combat her libido. Unfortunately, she accomplished neither as she entered the house and began stripping out of her clothes as her pulse raced.

She wiped the sweat from her brow as she dropped her shirt on the kitchen floor and stuck her face into the freezer with a pained moan.

The rational part of her mind was fraying around the edges, and her omega seized the opportunity to take the lead for a change.

Lena didn’t stop to consider how inappropriate it was to slide her hand into her jeans as she pressed her cheek against a frozen dinner with the curtains open. That was the least of her worries as her eyes shut and she pictured Kara lending her a hand.

Frustration felt like nails down her clammy skin when she barely reached the slick partition of her pussy and was disturbed by someone at the door.

She winced at the intrusion and shuffled towards the door to snarl through the crack, “What?”

“I brought you some ice cream and popsicles to help you with your condition,” Kara carefully explained and held up a bag filled with icy treats.

Lena wasn’t proud of the way she flung the door open to drag Kara inside by the shirt, but she was too far gone to regret it when the alpha’s jaw unhinged at the sight of her bra.

Kara gawked at her in open appreciation and Lena took advantage of it by perfuming the air with propositions. “If you really want to make me feel better, take your clothes off.”

“Whu? Uhh-” Kara closed her mouth so fast that she reeled from the snap of her teeth and dropped the bag in her hand. “I really shouldn’t.”

“Why?” Lena pressed and shimmied out of her own pants as she witnessed the fabric of Kara’s tighten and lift with the swell of her cock. “Because you’re such a nice alpha that you’ve never once thought of getting me naked?”

It wasn’t exactly fair to stand there in her underwear and judge Kara for looking. Lena raised her brows as her patience wore thin and squinted as Kara audibly gulped and took a step back.

“Oh, I’ve thought of it, but you’re–” Kara trailed off as her gaze dropped to the apex of Lena’s thighs.

“Too bitchy?” Lena supplied as if she could read Kara’s mind.

“Suffering from heat sickness, I think, and that can impair your judgement,” Kara clarified with a bit of a growl. She puffed up her chest and postured despite her good intentions of showing self-restraint. Tucking her thumbs into her belt drew Lena’s attention to the bulge just below it. “I don’t think you really want me to um-well, to–”

“Raw me into unconsciousness? Whose fault do you think this is?” Lena accused and stalked towards Kara like she was on a mission.

Normally her aggression was far less sexual, but she couldn’t control the way she went for Kara’s belt to rip it open.

“I was perfectly fine on suppressors until you showed up with that unwavering kindness and soft charm. Now look at me. I’m so wet I can barely function, and every time you get near, my omega tries to burn me alive to get your attention.”

Lena’s rage propelled her on and she yanked Kara’s jeans down like she planned to mount her right there in the foyer.

She whimpered at the concealed length of Kara’s erection and gasped as the alpha grabbed her by the waist to meet her eyes.

“I just want to make sure you’re okay.” Kara searched her face for any hesitations, and touched her with a gentleness and empathy that took the frenetic stress right out of Lena.

“I think you can tell that I’m a mess, but I’m capable of making up my mind,” Lena whispered and suppressed another small gasp in her throat.

“We should take our time then.” Kara placed a palm against Lena’s feverish cheek with shy affection. She pushed the ragged strands of hair behind Lena’s ear and led her into a kiss.

It made Lena feel different inside, like she had tightened the notch on a belt that was cinched around her middle. She tensed and held her breath in, and then she relaxed as Kara’s tongue slipped into her mouth. Her lips opened for a deeper caress, and her eyelids fluttered for an instant before she closed them in trust.

Kara placed an arm under her knees and the other around Lena’s back, and they continued to nuzzle each other on the way up the stairs.

Lena forgot all of her reservations as Kara kissed her onto the mattress. She slipped the straps of her bra down and let Kara open the clasp. Her breasts came free of the soft cups, and Kara’s eyes popped as she glanced at them.

Kara stared with bated breath and reddened as she realized it. “Oh my gosh, I’m so sorry, Lena. I want to be nothing but polite and treat you with the absolute reverence you deserve—“

“Look at my tits, Kara,” Lena instructed and formed her hand to Kara’s face to prevent her from shying away.  “Please look.”

Lena took advantage of having the alpha’s complete attention. She moved the hair off her shoulders and glanced down at her panties, which clung to her cunt with excessive slick.

During her first bout of heat-illness, she had trimmed her intimate curls into a tidy strip. She provided just a glimpse and Kara’s cock twitched palpably against her thigh.

“Can I take these off?” Kara asked as she reached for the waistband of the slim panty and faltered before taking hold of them. She breathed deeper as she forced her eyes back to Lena’s and skimmed her fingertips over the supple curve of Lena’s waist.

“How else are you meant to touch me?” Lena countered with a baffled frown at Kara’s hesitancy.


She pinched her lips together to save the alpha from a few choice words and exhaled slowly as Kara hooked her thumbs into the soaked fabric to peel them off her cunt.

Kara didn’t need to say anything with the way she growled upon revealing the thick gloss of Lena’s arousal. It clung to the pink partition of her labia, and Kara spread her open by pushing Lena’s knees further apart.

There was no judgement on the alpha’s face as Lena’s entrance squeezed with anticipation, only lust in those big blue eyes that pinned her to the bed.

“Will you lift your hips for me?” Kara whispered and reached for a pillow to prop under Lena’s backside when she raised herself up. “I want to make you comfortable.”

“You’re in my bed with an erection thicker than my forearm. You don’t have to keep asking for permission.” Lena gritted her teeth as frustration began to manifest again.

She didn’t need to be treated like a delicate thing when her omega exclusively called out for a lengthy and vigorous rutting, though she did appreciate how sweet Kara genuinely seemed to be.

“I’m just checking in–”

“Kara, the only place you should be checking in has been vacant for years, so get a move on,” Lena snapped as her patience flew out of the bedroom, along with Kara’s shirt a moment later when Lena tore it off her like she was possessed.

She couldn’t cope with her emotions or the insatiable ache that kept her inner walls in constant contraction.

The idea of begging to be fucked felt demeaning after being so fiercely independent, so she settled for grabbing Kara by the shoulders to confess, “I want this, okay? I want you – as absurd as it may sound, since I haven’t exactly been as sweet as pie. I promise I’m not going to wake up tomorrow and mace you for giving me some good dick.”

Kara blinked at Lena’s intensity and a smile curled her lips as she eased Lena back onto the bed with a firm hand. She didn’t ask as she cupped Lena’s cunt and pressed into her blushing slit to find her clit already throbbing. “How do you know it’s going to be good?”

“This isn’t a situation where you want to prove me wrong, especially if you’re hoping this won't be a one time thing,” Lena stressed through a moan that she stubbornly tried to hold back.

She failed miserably as Kara massaged her sensitive clit with the pad of her thumb before pushing it into the greedy clench of her entrance.

“That might be the nicest thing you’ve ever said to me,” Kara sassed gently and rubbed into Lena’s upper wall. She slid her fingers along Lena’s natural parting to stimulate her clit, and rocked her with the slight penetration.

Either Kara was exceptionally talented or Lena’s bar for sexual gratification was low, because her thighs trembled from the confident way Kara handled her. She rocked herself into Kara’s palm with the ambition to grind harder and whined as Kara leaned over her to kiss at her breasts.

The soft pucker of Kara’s lips on her nipple was everything Lena could have hoped for and she groaned at the fast flutter of the alpha’s tongue. It was almost humiliating that she was already close to orgasm, but it was Kara’s quiet rumble that pushed her over the edge.

“I like you too, by the way,” Kara announced against Lena’s throat, and nosed under the sharp line of her jaw to kiss in safer areas away from the place meant for a claim.

The thoughtfulness of that would have turned Lena feral if she wasn’t there already. She whined as Kara pushed her boxers down to settle between her thighs.

“Bold of you to assume I can tolerate you at all,” Lena muttered just to save face, though she knew she was a goner as she stared up at Kara with soft eyes and a pout that lured her in for a kiss.

"I'm sure you'll come around if I do this enough." Kara grinned as her lips brushed against Lena’s mouth.

The plump glans of her cock nestled into the tender space between Lena’s thighs, and Kara plunged into her with a satisfied moan.

Their arousal blended in those first thrusts, and Lena’s pleasure concentrated in the slick crook where Kara’s tip rubbed into her. She clutched at the bedsheets with bent fingers and rocked her pelvis.

Kara’s cock looked more imposing between her thighs, and Lena grunted as the girthiest part of the shaft pushed into her.

“Fuck. You’re stretching me out.” Lena scraped her teeth over her lower lip and placed her hands underneath her legs to keep them far apart.

“Do you like feeling this full, Lena? Or should I go easy on you?” Kara breathlessly inquired and bore her weight on her forearms so she could nip and suck on Lena’s earlobe.

“Rough and fast,” Lena moaned.

The glide of their bodies was fluid and gradual, and the ridge of Kara’s cock strummed the intimate ripples of Lena’s cunt. The hot tip pressed deeper and deeper, and Lena’s back bowed with the pleasure of it. She wanted to laugh at Kara’s assumption that she wouldn’t be able to handle her and linked her arms around the alpha’s broad shoulders to meet her halfway.

She worked her inner velvet in strong pulsations and dared to bite at Kara’s neck in a reverse of expectations.

“If you don’t prove your worth, we won’t be going for round two.”

Kara flexed her muscles and moved the bed with her speedier lunges. “How’s this?”

“Better, but I know you’re holding back.” Lena groaned and lifted her ass from the mattress to cling onto the solidness of Kara.

She inhaled the musky scent of alpha pheromones the way a coffee drinker savored the aroma of their first cup of the day. It energized Lena the same way a shot of caffeine might, and the unbearable tension in her core began to slacken with Kara’s perpetual slams.

For an omega who hadn’t slept with an alpha in a very long time, Lena was certainly cocky in her ability to endure whatever Kara could give.

All of her suppressed desires were competing against one another, and her lustful greed compelled her to buck upward to take far more than she was accustomed to getting.

The tender lips of her pussy were spread apart as Kara’s shaft rammed all the way to the base. The sheer enormity brought a bliss all of its own and Lena choked out a sound so filthy that even Kara blushed. She didn’t care how wanton it made her to crave this kind of rutting, and she trusted that Kara wouldn’t hold it against her as she undulated with pitiful keening whines.

“If it gets to be too much–”

Kara’s chivalrous warning ended the second Lena scored her nails down her muscled back to grab palmfuls of her ass.

Intimacy didn’t come naturally to Lena any more, but this felt right, and she encouraged Kara to take her pleasure even as she gave it.

“As a personal trainer, isn’t it your prerogative to push me to my limits?”

She triggered something with that question because Kara’s thighs battered against her own and left Lena breathless. Kara’s eyes fell shut as she gave it her all and Lena stared up at her with the terrible realization that she wanted to see her face in the throes of release.

“Don’t you want to see my cunt reach its full potential by taking your knot?” Lena lilted and drew her knees up higher to give Kara the chance to glimpse the reddened and used hue of her cunt as it stretched for Kara’s shaft.

It validated Lena’s ego to feel the powerful throb of Kara’s cock before the alpha gave a startled groan.

Warm ropes of seed emptied into her unprotected cunt and Kara rubbed diligently at her clit to send her straight into orgasm.

Lena’s vision swam as the natural high hit her, and she pleaded for Kara to stay when the alpha pulled free of her channel. It took her a moment to realize that Kara wasn’t leaving, and she mindlessly presented by digging her heels into the mattress to flaunt the creamy state of her pussy.

The sight must have pleased Kara’s alpha because her cock remained stiff and her essence still dripped from the divot at the top.

“I don’t go around just knotting every hot omega I see. If you want that, Lena, you’ll have to do something for it.”

“That’s a weird way to ask for a blow job,” Lena drawled as she came back to her senses and sat up as though amenable to wrapping her mouth around the wet circumference. She came close to tasting their combined arousal and licked her lips right before Kara ruined the moment.

“I meant give me a chance, but if you’re offering–” Kara raised her eyebrows suggestively, but in a way that showed she was kidding.

“Smart ass, you’ll just have to wait now,” Lena insisted, though she couldn’t hide that she enjoyed this playful side of Kara.

She smirked as she shoved Kara onto her back and mounted the alpha with the ambition of riding the hell out of her.

Lena situated herself over the imposing erection with one hand secured at the base and wondered how it had fit inside her at all. She teased them both by rolling her hips over the plum-colored glans and let her pussy lips envelop the tip.

It excited Lena to hear Kara huff in frustration when she denied her entrance. She wondered how long she could keep it up without losing her own mind in the process.

Fifteen seconds felt remarkably like aeons in her heat-stricken state, and she groaned as she dropped onto the girthy tip.

Kara snared her by the hips at the first quivery embrace and pulled her right onto her lap in one thrust. Their animalistic greed set the tone, and Lena flung her head back as Kara ravaged her. The wet staccato slap of Kara pounding through the velveteen spasm of Lena’s cunt became a backdrop to the noise of their moans.

Kara’s stamina showed no signs of diminishing, and Lena’s chasm yielded to the force as the blunt tip of Kara’s cock hammered at her cervix.

It brought a carnal flush to her extremities and Lena gasped as she bore down on more, taking the full thrusts with every bounce she gave in return.

“Oh, fuck, I want to come with your cock this deep inside of me,” Lena gasped and swayed from the rush of endorphins. She wanted to sink down faster on Kara’s cock, but her body wouldn’t cooperate and her thighs spasmed from sitting in a position that held them wide apart for too long.

Kara propped her up with strong hands and moved her hips at twice the rate to thrust into Lena’s pussy.

Lena moaned at the change and relaxed her inner clench to let Kara’s stiff shaft pound into her. She moaned, and her voice went through ups and downs in pitch depending on how hard Kara rutted her.

The deep slam was sensationally powerful, and she shook from the wonderful tension that came over her. She couldn’t keep her knees separated, and her back cramped as she experienced an orgasm unlike any she had before.

Lena huffed softly in between whimpers, and she undulated back and forth to rub her pussy into Kara’s groin. She whined at final satisfying moment, finding freedom in her new taste for sex.

“Good girl, Lena. Gosh, just like that, rock your hips while you come. Rub your pussy against me.”

“Did you just call me a good girl?” Lena loathed that she liked the phrase, and yet she couldn’t find it within her to chastise Kara for encouraging her. “Fuck, call me your good girl.”

Kara knew just when to continue thrusting, and Lena’s pussy was more stretched and restricted her less this time.

Lena didn’t know how Kara would react to her demands, although she could feel that she was just on the precipice of learning the alpha’s true potential in bed.

“Harder, Kara, like this is the best pussy you’ve ever had.”

“Bold of you to assume that it isn’t,” Kara retorted, and that little bit of humor went a long way in removing the rest of Lena’s armor.

The confidence Kara exuded in that moment as she sat up with one hand on Lena’s ass and the other splayed out behind her on the bed had Lena swooning.

The shift in their position brought Kara’s mouth back to her jaw, and Lena whimpered as she instinctively bared her neck to beg for kisses there. It was the first time she let anyone near her like that after college. She cradled the back of Kara’s neck to guide the wet heat of her lips.

Kara kissed at her neck sucked carefully so that not even a blemish would be left behind. The tender caress was so different from the unrelenting momentum of her hips, and the forceful pace shook Lena entirely.

“Oh god-oh god—” Lena breathlessly cried, her spine stiffening as all of the tension in her body condensed in her core, and she brought her limbs tighter around Kara.

“You can just call me by my name,” Kara joked and dropped her face down to Lena’s tits and sucked at her nipples. She manually rocked Lena by the ass, urging her to move quicker as the base of her cock began to expand.

“I’ll call you anything you want provided you don’t stop,” Lena promised.

The pressure against her slit was almost too much for Lena to take and she furiously played with her clit to ease the ache it created. She probably should have tapped out, or waited and tried again, but she refused to give up with Kara sating all of the needs of her libido.

Kara’s cock thickened to a challenging girth and Lena backed off twice before letting it push into her. She coordinated the rock of her hips with Kara’s upward bucks. They groaned and relied on her inner slipperiness to merge them together.

Once it was inside, they became ambitious, and Kara bounced her on it. She whimpered as her cunt stretched around the enormous base of Kara’s shaft.

Kara climaxed with the bulk of it spreading her inner lips completely apart. Lena stilled for the passionate sensation of seed filling her, and Kara held her down by the hips to prevent any of it sliding out.

The swollen knot wanted to fuse inside of her, but Lena whimpered and refused to stop riding it. She exhausted herself, and when they emerged from her bedroom two hours later, she needed Kara’s help to walk.

Inconveniently, Lena stepped into the kitchen just as the garage door started rising. Ruby came bounding inside and hesitated at the door as she spotted Kara.

“Did you guys have a play date?” Ruby asked and let her backpack slide off her shoulder onto the floor. “You know the rules about playing with alphas.”

“About those,” Sam intoned from behind her daughter and dropped her purse on the counter. “They need a little adjusting. Some alphas are okay as long as we’ve met them.”

Lena glanced over at her best friend with the inkling that their lives were about to
change. It scared her, but Kara’s loving smile took her worry away. She put out her hand to take Kara’s and for once felt relief in an alpha’s touch.