Page 67 of Alpha Awakened

Ice groaned and rolled his hips once, the cotton of his briefs dragging over the wet tip of his cock. Then, he got himself under control. He would not be fucking Hazard today. He refocused on pleasuring the omega, thumbing over the sensitive spots on his cock — the slit, the spot right beneath the head — before he returned to his smooth stroking.

“Feel good?” he asked roughly.

His eyes heavy lidded, lips parted on rushing breaths, Hazard nodded. “Real good...”

Hazard reached up and wrapped his arms around his neck, tugging him down into a kiss. The scent of apples bloomed in the air between them, rich and tempting. Ice broke their kiss. Ignoring Hazard’s attempt to pull him back, he dragged his tongue over the omega’s mating gland to fully taste it.

“Your taste... You taste—.” He cut off that sentence before he could say too much. But Hazard didn’t let it drop.

“What about my taste?” he asked.

He couldn’t say that Hazard tasted like he washis. He wanted to lick him again before he sank his teeth into the gland to bite him and claim him as his own. To distract him from his question, Ice tightened his grip and started to stroke him faster. In seconds, he had Hazard gasping and cursing as he worked him to the edge.

Hazard cried out, back arching high off the bed. “Oh, fuck,” he groaned.

Ice kept up the fast, tight movement, pushing him closer and closer to release.

“Ice... I’m... I’m...”

“Royce,” he whispered against Hazard’s plush lips. “Say my name when you come.”

“Royce!” Hazard desperately called out as he came in a hot, wet rush in Ice’s palm, spilling over his fingers onto his sweat-slick torso. Ice kissed him through it, stroking him until the wet tip stopped giving up its spend. Hazard moaned into his mouth, hips rolling to lazily slide his still pulsing cock through Ice’s loosened fist.

Ice kissed his way down Hazard’s jaw to lick over the flushed gland on his throat one last time, sucking on it, but being careful not to leave a mark. Closing his eyes, he fully savored the final taste of Hazard on his tongue. He was grateful that he’d had this one chance to be with the omega who’d so easily scaled all his defensive walls.

When Hazard’s body went slack and he relaxed onto the mattress, Ice drew his lips away from his throat. Although his own cock was hard and unfulfilled, it was time to stop.

He wiped his hand on the sheet. Rolled off of Hazard. Pushed himself up from the bed. Every move felt as if he was swimming through wet cement. He didn’t want to leave Hazard. But he had to. He couldn’t let this go any further. They’d expelled some of the tension simmering between them. That would have to be enough.

“Where…” Hazard dragged in a deep breath and let it out on a shuddering exhale. “Where are you going?”

Ice stared down at the gorgeous omega sprawled out on his bed. He’d made Hazard look like that – flushed and happy and sated. But he couldn’t —wouldn’t— do it again. Digging deepto find the strength to resist the man in front of him, he forced himself to say what needed to be said.

“This stops here. We’re on the same fucking squad and I’m your goddamn superior officer. If this continues it can only end one way and that’s bad. That’s why I’m stopping it now before that happens.”

Hazard pulled up his clothes and pushed himself up to a sitting position.

“You really think a bad ending is the only way a relationship between us will turn out?” he asked softly.

Ice nodded. He was sure of it. The regulation was there for a reason. But there was more to it than that. And it was time he came clean. Maybe that would finally get Hazard to understand why there was no future for them.

“Hazard.” He paused to scrub a hand over the back of his neck, palm rasping over the fabric of his balaclava.

“Yes?” Hazard prompted.

“I have a goal.”

“What is it?”

“To become the first shifter to achieve the rank of brigadier general.”

Hazard’s eyes widened. “Oh. That’s... that’s a worthy goal.”

Ice nodded. “It is. But if we’re caught fraternizing, we might get kicked out of the Legion. If we’re not, I’ll definitely be punished as your superior officer. Either way, I won’t be able to reach my goal. Do you see now why we can’t let this thing between us go any further?”

Hazard stared at him for a long moment before he answered.

“I do.”