Rick

"Why?" Zia asked, looking pointedly at Rick. Her baby slowly sucked her breast, making gulping sounds. Jordan's wife had given birth to a baby girl a few months ago and the little girl was the sweetest thing ever. She looked so much like her mother, only her eyes resembled her father.

"Sam can be a handful. I don't want you to deal with him."

"Are you sure that is the only reason?" Zia raised an eyebrow. She was one of the few people who knew about Rick's sexuality.

"What else can it be?" Rick snapped with a little too much heat.

"You know, I have seen how you look at him." she rocked her baby as it stirred in her hold.

"He just turned eighteen and I am twenty eight." Rick said as if it wasn't just a ten year age gap but hundred years of it. Rick had definitely seen couples with much larger age differences but they weren't him. Sam wasn't built for Rick, he was too innocent to be corrupted by Rick's dirty ways.

Zia stood up. "I am not saying you start something with him, but if you feel something for him don't suppress it because of the age gap." She turned around and walked towards Jordan's office.

He certainly did feel something for Sam and he certainly wouldn't act on it. As for the snow wolf, he needed to find out who he was. He couldn't stop thinking about the mark on his palm and strong tug towards the person behind the animal.

He went to his usual spot of waiting a few hours later.

Rick decided it would be best if he waited for the snow wolf in his wolf form. The snow wolf would feel calmer around another wolf but he was wrong. As the snow wolf approached expecting to see Rick but he froze right outside the clearing seeing Rick's wolf. Rick's wolf growled in warning for some reason and the snow wolf retreated further into the woods.

"You are scaring him away," Rick said to his wolf in his head. His wolf only grunted before he followed the snow wolf with a strong sprint. In a few seconds, his wolf had the snow wolf on the ground, submitting for his wolf.

Rick's wolf sniffed the other wolf, and made a growling sound in his throat as if warning him to stay put. Before Rick could understand what was happening, he bit down on the snow wolf's body, his sharp teeth sinking into the fleshy part above the front legs. The snow wolf yelped with pain but stayed put. Rick's wolf had a firm hold on him before he posited himself and tried to rut him.

"What the fuck," Rick cursed his wolf, trying to take over control but his wolf was having none of it. His wolf's hard cock nudged under the tail of the snow wolf and he crowed lower. Rick had to stop this madness. He couldn't believe his wolf was using it's alphha power to fuck another wolf. This had never happened before. Rick wolf had never shown the desire to be physical with another wolf, in fact most wolves don't, not if they are not their mates.

It took some concentration and hell lot of effort but Rick was able to pry himself away from the scared snow wolf and change into his human form, but the wolf inside him wasn't giving up the fight. It wanted out and demanded it by clawing his mental barriers.

"Run." Rick warned the snow wolf. "Go away."

The snow wolf hesitated for a few seconds but ran through the thick woods disappearing from his sight.

"What is wrong with you?" Rick yelled at his wolf. "You know it's forbidden to have sex in animal form. Moreover, you scared him. You can't use your authority to get your way. It's unethical!" Only if Rick could make the uncultured animal inside him understand. His wolf retreated back it's consciousness and went dormant. It was his own way of sulking.

Rick's brain was hazy from the incident. He didn't know who to talk to. Only one person came to his mind.

He called David knowing he was the only one who could help him understand what was happening and maybe prescribe something to get his wolf under control.

"Rick?" David sounded surprised as he picked up the phone. They used to be such close buddies once but times changed.

"I need someone to talk to." Rick said, defeated. Maybe he shouldn't ask for David's help but he honestly didn't have anyone else.

"Where?" David asked without beating around the bush. That is what he liked about his once best friend, David always knew what to do.

"I am sitting in our usual spot near the lake."

Half an hour later David drove to the place and walked to where Rick was sitting on the ground. He sat beside him and leaned back on his arms.

"It's so nice here, isn't it?" David said, taking a deep breath.

"Yeah, it is. How is Pam?"

"She is doing great." David turned his head and looked deeply into Rick's eyes. "I missed you, man."

Rick felt his throat close up. He wished he could say the same but he couldn't. It had taken him a long time to get over David and he wasn't walking the path again.

"My wolf tried to rut another wolf." Rick stated as a matter of factly.

David sat up. "What?"

"Yeah. I am pretty sure he is my mate, nothing else explains it."

"He? It's a male?" David frowned.

"Apparently yes. Have you heard anything like this happen before?"

David dusted off his palm. "Yes, it pretty common for homosexual werewolves to find mates in sex of the same gender."

"Why haven't I heard it before then?"

"Because it's rare and kept hush."

Rick sighed. Times were different now. Jordan would be more than accepting but the elders and other pack members will still have a hard time swallowing this pill.

"So, when am I meeting your mate?" David asked with a small smile. There was something else behind his eyes, and if Rick didn't know better he would have thought it was sadness.

"I don't know who he is. I have only ever met him in his wolf form."

"I see." David looked away in the lake. "Can I be honest with you?" he said after a few seconds of pause.

"Yeah."

"Nothing. I should go." with that he stood up and walked to his car. "Goodnight, Rick."

He took her face in his hands, leaned in and kissed her like there was no tomorrow. All the frustration, anger, desperation was put into that one kiss. He nudged her lips with his tongue. He expected resistance but she opened up without any restraints. He groaned at the unique taste of her on his lips, sweet, salty and honey that made him want to push closer, take everything whe was offering and more.

He devoured her mouth. Anything he had experienced until now paled in comparison to this kiss. He sucked on her tongue, ran his inside the roof of her mouth, twined with hers. He placed his hand on her petite body bringing it flush to his hard one. She was soft, fragile and he was going to break her, he knew he would. She had made him suffer way to much. He deserved his mate whether she liked it or not.

"I don't care if you like me or not. You are fucking mine," Jordan growled on her mouth as he gave her one last kiss and walked back to his chair.