Konstantin: The Heartless Beta

Lily

“Let's get them inside,” Konstantin says when he leans down next to me and picks up Kaia. I blink at this, then scoop Luca up in my arms and follow him in.

I haven't seen or heard from him all day, so this is a bit of a surprise for me. Wasn't he still angry at me for what I did?

We lay the twins down in their separate cribs and stood there just staring at them for a few minutes. The fact that they won't be plagued with their demonic side lifted a massive weight from my shoulders, especially for Kaia and her future. At least they'll live normal lives, well as normal as it can be for a werewolf.

But not only that, I feel... lighter? My mind seems clearer than it has before, and as I peek inside my subconscious, I can see Gypsy lounging happily. Taking a deep breath, I decide to take advantage of my state of mind - it's now or never.

“I spent the entire afternoon rehearsing my apology in my head, and now that I'm face to face with you, I don't know where to start,” I say, turning my head towards my mate.

He's got his jaw clenched so tight that I can see a thick vein bulging in his neck... but he doesn't look my way and continues to stare at the twins. My heart pounds at his cold reaction, and I can already feel the confidence dissipate.

I sigh, take a step back from him, and turn to the door. “I'll go-"

He grabs me by the wrist before I can walk away, and when I look up at him, his beautiful brown eyes have shimmered to their Beta silver. Not just that...they were brimming with unshed tears. “Konstantin-"

“I am so angry, Lily, and so fucking hurt, but that doesn't give you the right to walk away.” He says, and when he blinks, the tears fall down his cheeks, and he scoffs. “I fucking hate showing weakness like this, but you're my mate, so I can't exactly hide this side of me from you.”

I draw my hands up to his face, wiping his tears away, and my heart shatters at how he stiffens at my touch. “This isn't weakness. I turned to another man because of my fear and self-doubt; that is weakness.” I say and shake my head.

“I know now that what I did is wrong, and I might never get your forgiveness after this, but please know that I will do whatever it takes to show you how sorry I am for hurting you, Konstantin. You're the last person I should be hurting and the first one I should put my trust in, but I fucked up and did it the wrong way around.”

"Yeah, you fucked up,” he says, calling me out on my bullshit as usual, but then he takes my hands from his face and kisses my fingers. “But owning up to that fuck up is the first step.”

I scoff and roll my eyes. “Can you not be so honest for once?”

“But my cocky self is what made you fall for me in the first place,” he says and grins, causing my heart to skip a beat. “We have a long way to go to fix what's messed up between us, Lily, but I would rather have you here with me, sorting our shit out than us living past one another because of what you did in a moment of weakness.”

He holds me close to him when I start to sob and strokes my hair. I know I shouldn't be the one crying right now because I was in the wrong, but his words broke through my entire brave facade. Breaking off the embrace, he takes my face in his hands and looks me dead in the eyes. “I love you, I always have, and I always will. You're my mate, my wife, the mother of my children and my entire fucking life. Nothing will take that away, not even a shitty Alpha who can't keep to one fucking wife."

I let out a laugh when he says this, and he gives me the smile I love so much. “Thank you for giving me another chance, Konstantin; I promise not to screw it up-"

"You're gonna say you love me too or do I have to kiss it out of you?” He asks with a raised eyebrow, and I blink at this.

"Well-"

Of course, he doesn't allow me to finish my sentence before he crashes his mouth on mine. I melt into the softness of his kiss, recognising the familiar taste of bourbon, and I feel a pull at my core. He runs his fingers through the hair at the back of my head, and I stiffen when he grabs the back of my neck....

But nothing happens. I don't dissolve into a mess of memories, and the only reason my heartbeat starts racing is that Konstantin has just picked me up and is guiding me to our bedroom.

I don't understand? Is it because my demonic side is locked away or something else entirely? Konstantin doesn't allow me to think anymore because as soon as the bedroom door closes, he rips off my dress and throws me on the bed.

“Hey, I liked that dress!” I complain, looking at the tattered material discarded on the floor.

He gets on top of me, grips my wrists in his one hand and pins it above my head. “Well, I like to see you naked, and it was in the way,” he says, trailing kisses down my neck and chest.

“It had... it had buttons...” I sigh when he starts twirling his tongue around a taut nipple and biting it gently. I know I am fighting a losing battle since he's a beast, and whatever he wants, he gets. When he stops and gets off the bed, I look up but see he’s only removing his shirt and jeans, and when he gets on top of me again, he’s completely naked.

“Wait,” I say and sit up, running my hands over his chiselled body. He frowns and looks confused at me stopping him in the middle of what he was about to do, but I smile and shake my head.

“I want to admire your body; I never got the chance to do that when you claimed me, and when we were intimate again, it was for all the wrong reasons. So please give me this,” I say, loving the surprise in his silver eyes.

I push him back on the bed and straddle him, repeating the kissing motions he did on my body a few minutes ago and running my hands down his chest. It's not the first time I'm admiring his body, but it's the first time doing it, knowing he’s mine.

He sighs and breathes out my name while running his fingers through my hair, and when I get to his massive cock, his body stiffens. “You don't have to,” he says nervously, looking down at me with desire clear in his eyes, but I want to do this.

So without another word, I ran my tongue up his shaft and over the pre-cum bead on his head, peering up at him through my eyelashes and loving how he started to come undone. He sucks in a breath through gritted teeth, and it dissolves into a moan when I take him in my mouth.

I love the taste of him, love the feel of him in my mouth and the way he sounds as I am the one pleasuring him for the first time. I could probably get off by just listening to his groans and breathless moans, but as usual, he has other things on his mind.

“Wait, not like this,” he growls and pulls me up before slamming me down on his waiting length. This is even better than I remember. The last time we literally angry fucked, and the second time we were in an emotional haze but this time... this time around, I get to experience what it feels like to be with my mate without inhibitions.

He grabs my hips and brings me down onto his cock so hard that I cry out in surprise, but he doesn't stop... Slamming me down harder on his length every time he bucks his hips up, I meet his thrusts just as hard.

Konstantin is a beast in bed and has been starving for me for over a year, but I've been in love with him for over ten years, so I think I deserve to take what's mine now.

When I eventually reach my climax after a while, he meets me there with his own and pulls me down onto his chest while moaning out my name.

We lay breathless and satisfied for a while; the only sounds we can hear are each other's breaths and heartbeats. He was still rock hard and twitching inside of me, and I know this is probably just make-up sex, but it felt like more - it felt like we were making love.

“I love you,” I whisper with my eyes closed, but he spins us around, so he is now on top of me - then he starts moving his hips and thrusts inside of me slowly.

“I love you too,” he says with eyes filled with a mixture of admiration and lust.

We didn't sleep for a while as we continued to show each other just how much the other was loved. My body moulded into his perfectly each time, knowing The Gods made this man for me, and I was made for him

The next person who tries to come in between us and threaten our happiness will have their heart ripped out. I'm no longer the frightened 19-year-old Lilith Vega; I'm a Volkova warrior with The Heartless Beta as my mate.