Ava felt someone tapping her, she tried pushing the hand away, but the tapping continued.
When she opened her eyes, she saw Lucas towering over her with his face and hair wet like he had taken a bath. He was clad only in shorts and a singlet, with water droplets on his singlet.
“Wakey, wakey Precious, it’s already morning,” he said to her.
“What time is it?”
“Nine in the morning, You overslept; I guess my mouth knocked you out,” he smirked.
“You wish,” Ava said and stood up from the bed. She spotted the Pancakes, fruits, and juice kept beside her. Lucas was serving her breakfast in bed. He usually does that whenever he feels she is too tired to go eat with the dawners or whenever he feels like being romantic. For either reason, she is always happy when he does that.
She made to pick up one of the fruits, but he carried the tray containing the edibles away. She growled at him, but he didn’t budge.
“Go brush your teeth first, then you come back for your breakfast,” Lucas stated.
Ava scowled and headed to the bathroom but stopped abruptly as soon as she remembered something important.
“Shit, I forgot about Ramsey!” She turned around and made to go to his room, but Lucas halted her.
“Keisha and I already took care of him. We fed him, amongst other things and sent him to the nursery workers. Why do you think my hair and clothes are a bit wet?”
She smiled gratefully at her husband. “Thought you had a bath. What did Ramsey do this time?”
Lucas exhaled, “let’s just say we gave birth to a troublesome child. I was never that mischievous. You can ask Nani. You sure he didn’t get that from you?”
She rolled her eyes and pinched Lucas’s stomach; he jerked and caught her hand, pulling her to him before kissing her mouth. The kiss was so intoxicating that their tongues wrestled with each other for dominance.
Lucas hoisted her up, still kissing and carried her into the bathroom. He put her down in the bathtub and spanked her ass.
Ava giggled and turned the water on before grabbing the bathing sponge. Lucas snatched the sponge from her hand, using it to caress her body till it came alive.
They fucked slowly, fastly and with a medium tempo there in the bathroom. Although Ava was sore when they were done, she was pleased; she felt marked by Lucas.
They dried off their body and went to eat breakfast.
“These pancakes taste delicious. Nani sure is the best.”
He pinched her nipples. “I made them. Nani only helped a little bit”.
Ava gave him a knowing look; she knew who made the delicious pancakes. She just decided to humour Lucas and pretended that she believed him.
“Of course, my Alpha’s pancake is the best.”
As Lucas rolled his eyes and fed her another pancake, she bit his hand.
He tugged at her mouth and rubbed his finger on the spot, enjoying her softness.
They were there for long before a knock on the door was suddenly heard, disrupting their play.
“What could it be?” Ava asked him.
“I don’t know, precious,” he answered her, raising his voice so the person who’d knocked from outside could hear. “Who is it?”
“A guard, sire. Apologies for the disturbance, but your presence is needed in the meeting hall.”
“Okay, I will be right down.”
After Lucas answered, a trail of footsteps was heard before it gradually disappeared, indicating that the guard had left.
“We’d been so occupied, we forgot that you had meetings with the dawners today.”
Lucas spanked her ass as he smirked, “that’s what you do to me, precious. You distract me every single day of my life.”
He was about to kiss her before Ava stopped him. “We’ve been here for long. You have to go and attend to it.”
He sulked, “I’m sure they can wait a little while longer.”
Ava shook her head, leaving the tub. “I will go and check on Ramsey while you attend to your duties. Have fun,” she said before leaving the bathroom.
Shit! That wife of his, she’d left him hard. He would surely make her pay for it tonight, Lucas promised himself. He grabbed the towel from the rail, cleaning his wet body before leaving to prepare for the meeting.
***
The dawn alpha was settling a petty dispute between two pack members when noise was heard from outside.
Lucas sent Kiron outside to find the noise source when a few omegas came in with a small number of men and women with little children. He recognized them to be from one of his territories. They all looked tired; some of their clothes were torn, and most were wounded.
They knelt before the Alpha, but Lucas commanded them to stand up.
“Alpha Lucas, the rogues attacked our territories, and only these few people here survived the attack.”
A man came forward and fell down on his knees.
“I lost my wife and newborn child to the rogues, including everything we had!” He cried out and fell down on his knees.
Another woman came forward and fell on her knees too, and told the Alpha:
“They killed everything in their way, including little children. They took the crops and weapons. They had so many soldiers, enabling them to slaughter our male wolves easily and take over the territory. Only a few of them could escape with their lives; I also heard that the same rogues have killed the Alpha of the Yellow sun and Blood pack and taken over their lands like ours.”
Lucas nodded in understanding and turned to Kiron,
“Gamma Kiron, see to it that these people are treated and taken care of”.
“Yes, Alpha” Kiron then beckoned on them to follow him.
“Thank you, Alpha, Thank you, Alpha!” They kept greeting as they followed the Gamma.
Lucas was so troubled. He knew the kind of trouble coming, and he feared for his family’s life and the whole Dawn pack.
The rogues keep getting more robust, with all these territories being taken over as the day passes. They had already attacked the outer territories, which were much weaker. Lucas knew what the rogues were planning; it was only a matter of time before the dawn pack received its own attack.
He caught the hand coming to his face and released it when Ava cried out, finally getting his attention.
“I have been talking to you for a long time, but you haven’t been answering. What is the problem?” She asked him. He hadn’t even noticed when she’d entered the meeting hall.
Lucas thought about telling her his fears and his secrets, but he decided against it; he didn’t want to be the cause of her panic.
“Nope, I am just worried about the wounded pack members, that’s all.”
“Hey,” Ava cooed. “They will be fine,” she said, brushing her hand through his hair.
He felt bad lying to his mate, but he decided that the lie would do for now. Brushing off his worries, he decided to enjoy her ministrations.
“Come, I promised Ramsey we would play with him today since you were so busy the other days.”
Lucas locked his fingers in hers and allowed her to drag him to Ramsey’s nursery.
Immediately they entered, their little urchin ran towards them and collided with Lucas’s leg while smiling up at him.
“Daddy! Daddy came to play today!”
His words tugged at Ava’s heart. Lucas had promised Ramsey an outing before, but the day they were supposed to take him out, there was a pack emergency, and he couldn’t make it.
She watched as Lucas hoisted the cub up and patted his ruffled hair.
“Remember, your Dad and mum are the pack’s parents. We are busy with many things, but we will always come to play when we can! We will always love you, little one!”
“I love you too, daddy! I love you, mummy!” He replied.
Ava smiled and kissed his lips.
“We love you too. Now let’s go to the amusement park.”
“Yay, yay! Today, I will ride the Ferris wheel and eat the biggest cotton candy!” Ramsey shouted.
The rest of the day was full of smiles as Lucas and Ava watched Ramsey play his way into tiredness. By the time they left the park, he was already asleep in Lucas’s arms.
All the while, it was hard for Lucas to keep a happy face and not let his family know what was going on in his mind. Still, he tried, up until the point where Ramsey was tucked into bed.