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Redamancy

Two Alphas and one Beta were the reception committee on neutral grounds exactly a week after Donghyuck's first heat.

They stood motionless near the northern end of the small clearing where they had agreed to meet, their postures alert and tense. Technically, they were allied packs since the day Donghyuck had been born, but wolves were unpredictable. No one was surprised by their defensive stance, nor the ridiculous amount of escorts accompanying Donghyuck.

They were clad in pelts and skins, their bodies hard and toned, smudged with dirt and mud, sweat and blood. Slightly dazed from the last phase of his passing heat, Donghyuck shuddered in his thin linen, his crisp-clean skin feeling tingly and especially sensitive when he picked up the musky and salty scent coming from the members of the other pack.

Around him, the Alphas and Betas that made up his escort were tensing, their reaction to the other wolves so different from Donghyuck's that the young Omega felt like laughing for a second. Another whiff of the earthy scent made him bite back a moan instead, but a choked little sound still escaped his trembling lips, which had every pair of eyes immediately turning and resting on him.

Donghyuck flinched nervously and felt his stomach lurching as heat pooled and churned low in its pit. As the only submissive in an increasingly aggression-tinted situation full of dominants he felt his hackles raising and his toes curling in his slippers, his shoulders hunching slightly. The small wolf within him was whimpering as it pressed its ears close to its skull. With his tail between his legs, his own body curled up low inside Donghyuck's soul, eyes squeezed shut.

Donghyuck's own eyes flickered quickly over the tall line of the three foreign wolves, before he blinked and averted his gaze back to the ground. The fleeting glance had been enough to make his skin pulse with heat, the bones of his body trembling in his flesh as he stumbled along and across the clearing.

Around him, his escorts were drawing closer as if they sensed him getting weaker the nearer they got to the three waiting wolves. Donghyuck was hyper aware of his pack members' eyes on him and tried his best to fight his body's treacherous reaction to the unwashed scent of the two foreign Alphas. Cheeks tinting pink with both embarrassment and the flush of heat surging through his body, Donghyuck knew that he wasn't fooling anyone when his knees nearly gave way as he took another lungful of raw Alpha scent.

It was unlike anything he'd ever smelled before, as his birth pack's territory was at the outer ends of the deep forests and close to the human city suburbs. The majority of the pack lived in houses with electricity and running water with only a small part of the dominants stationed outside in the light woods near the housings as patrolling protection. Due to their close proximity to the human world they abided to human hygiene and appearance, everyone's hair short, trimmed skin clean and smelling herbal or floral, nails cut down and their food cooked most of the time.

Donghyuck knew from the few times he had seen wild wolves that their way of living was repulsive to them– it was obvious in the way they had looked disdainfully at everyone and everything when they had sent representatives to formally cross territories. To others, their short hair was an open invitation to attack vulnerable throats, their nails were seen as trimmed claws of docile wolves. Their herbal and flowery scents masked natural indicators of dominance and submission and made their Alphas especially lose their faces in the law of nature.

Donghyuck saw the same repulsion and contempt in the three foreign faces as they watched his escorts. But as soon as any of them slid a glance at him cold eyes hardened with something akin to want. All the apparent disgust on their faces gone and replaced with perhaps a harsher form of longing ...or something similar to it at least.

Donghyuck wasn't a stranger to lustful glances thrown at him, but the open approval of his usually scorned at flower-herbal scented body was adding to the strong sense of ownership the three foreign wolves emitted as Donghyuck stepped closer.

Donghyuck shuddered and averted his eyes when one of the Alphas caught him staring, but the sudden pulse of dominant arousal in the air was enough to make his feet stumble.

He whimpered, eyes squeezing shut in self-loathing almost immediately after. The scent had his bones turning to jelly and two of his escorts had to grab him quickly to prevent him collapsing onto the ground.

They were so close to the three foreigners that Donghyuck could hear them growl low in warning even over the sound of his own choked gasps falling from his open mouth. Technically Donghyuck still belonged to his birth pack until he was handed over by the representative leading Alpha, but in reality everyone knew that Donghyuck was already owned by another pack. Which was the reason why his escorts' hands on his body were unwanted, even though Donghyuck needed them to steady himself for the last few meters separating the two packs.

It was when they were standing right in front of the three tall wolves, their heady potent scent encasing all of Donghyuck's senses that the young Omega almost lost what little control he had left over his trembling body. Carnal lust was pulsing in his veins and Donghyuck tensed when he felt the heat in his body intensifying.

Horrified, he pressed his eyes shut in distress when he felt his limbs numbing. It was instinct, Donghyuck knew with fading coherency, that had him collapsing low on the ground in submission, but he gritted his teeth, unwilling to give in to his body's weakness in front of strangers and stayed upright -albeit twitching and shuddering. When he opened his eyes he saw his efforts had brought a small scoff on the lips of one of the three wolves in front of him.

It was the tall Beta, which was probably the only reason Donghyuck didn't crumple to the ground right then and there. An Alpha's glare would have been unbearable this close- Donghyuck already had trouble breathing properly as he felt his body cracking under the pressure of the dominance flaring all around him.

He whimpered and curled a little into himself, hating his wrecked body and the raw onslaught of his own survival instincts forcing him into submission to please and soothe the aggressive wolves around him.

It wasn't fair, not when he had to suffer like this, not when there wasn’t a single goddamned Alpha taking care of him, not when there was no knot soothing the freaking burn in his–

Donghyuck shuddered and gasped, annoyed with himself and the world as he breathed down another lug-full of dominant scent heavy air.

The heady mixture of Alpha scent and testosterone in the air was swirling in his mind, dazing him and leaving him weak and vulnerable, his own sweet scent seeping from his pores and mixing with the floral scent of his skin.

Donghyuck saw through blurry vision how the line of Alphas and Betas from his birth pack tensed when the two unfamiliar Alphas craned their necks and stepped forward as a reaction to the sudden Omega scent in the air. When their gazes met, Donghyuck saw how their eyes were wide open and filled with raw want, their pupils dilated and the thick muscles of their necks flexed in tension.

It was the tall Beta that eased the tension– naturally, as Donghyuck's scent didn't affect him as much as it wrecked the two Alphas beside him. Donghyuck knew that the only reason a Beta had been ordered to fetch him along with the Alphas was because the Alphas of the wild pack hadn't tied with him yet and therefore made it necessary for a collected Beta in control of his instincts to perform the formal necessaries and polite pleasantries between packs.

All the Alphas and some of the Betas that made up his escort had bedded him during his first heat, which was why his Omega scent hardly had an effect on them anymore– they had all pleased their beasts within.

This advantage of control over their inner wolves was easily predictable, Donghyuck knew, which was why there were two Alphas accompanying the wild Beta– to protect, both their packmate and what rightfully belonged to them, Donghyuck.

Donghyuck gasped when the heat in his body tightened his stomach and pulsed in his nether regions. He fell onto the ground, his shaking hands gripping grass while the tips of his fingers dug into the soft soil. The dominant wolves around him hardly spared him a glance, too concentrated and tense for the imminent exchange to care for the Omega giving in to his instincts and carnal desires.

Donghyuck was thankful for the ignorance, uninterested in an audience as his eyes fluttered shut and his cheeks tinted a deep shade of pink as he started rutting subtly against the hard ground, his teeth biting onto his bottom lip to muffle the small cries and whines that he desperately wanted to keep from spilling in front of three strangers.

From somewhere above him he heard the tall Beta talking to his escort's leading Alpha and he shivered at the gravely low voice, only realizing then that the formal introductions and greetings had already been exchanged.

He blended out the voices negotiating and repeating the benefits and oaths that were promised between the two packs nineteen years ago when he had been born, instead gripped his hands tighter into the grass as he sat up on his knees, spreading his legs and lifting his hips for better friction. He only snapped out of his daze when a large hand gripped his chin and forced him to tilt his head back. Blinking against the brightness of the sunlit clearing, Donghyuck's eyes widened when he looked right into the tall Beta's handsome face.

The wolf was checking on him, his unoccupied hand sliding down Donghyuck's curves to cup his behind and Donghyuck gasped when broad fingers slipped under his thin and short tunic to press in between his tensing ass cheeks. Calloused fingertips slid up and down his cleft, before pressing sightly into his body and Donghyuck moaned, his hips rocking back helplessly as his rim twitched and fluttered around the probing finger.

When the Beta pulled his hand out from under Donghyuck's tunic, the tips of his fingers were wet, coated in slick and Donghyuck almost sobbed in arousal. He choked on a moan instead, when the hand on his chin tightened and send sharp lightning of pain and pleasure down his spine and chest to pool low in his abdomen.

Donghyuck felt his asshole pulsing and more slick oozing out of him when the tall Beta rubbed the tips of his wet fingers against each other only to spread them a moment later, beads of slick hanging in between the digits in heavy webs before breaking down in thick droplets. Donghyuck felt his last bit of sanity bidding him goodbye when the Beta took one of his wet fingers into his mouth to lick the Omega's scent off his digit.

The wild wolf's eyes flashed amber for a small second, before black bled into his pupils and turned them dark again. Donghyuck's own dazed eyes widened at that, his heart rate picking up and his mouth dropping open. Before he could even form a sound of confusion at the back of his throat the hand on his chin loosened and he was pressed firmly against the Beta's warm and hard body.

Gasping and panting damp air against the skin of the Beta's broad and muscular chest, Donghyuck shuddered when he tried to make sense of what he saw. But he couldn't, because his mind was dizzy and heavy with arousal again and nothing made much sense anymore. A flicker of amber flashed in his thoughts again and he squirmed, confused and a little bit frustrated with himself, too. What he saw was impossible and a trick of the setting sun or his weakened sanity, but his mind wouldn't let go of it.

Donghyuck whined, but the Beta slid his free hand up to the back of the Omega's head and pressed him immobile against his chest. Donghyuck muffled another whine against the man's skin and listened with difficulty and only through a heavy haze to the deep voice rumbling above his head.

"How many helped him through his first heat?"

Donghyuck heard his escort's leading Alpha scoffing before answering, the man's voice full of disdain, yet forced politeness. "We didn't know that you expected us to keep count."

Donghyuck felt the hands on his body tightening at the same time he heard two unfamiliar Alphas left and right from him growling low in warning. He only realized that he was in between the wild wolves now instead of behind the line of his birth pack's members when the tall Beta stroked a soothing and large palm from Donghyuck's neck down along his spine. The haze cleared for a moment and Donghyuck saw that he was encased by the wild wolves' scent as they circled him protectively– keeping him safe from his birth pack he realized, which shook him out of his daze for long enough to release a distressed cry.

He had been handed over to the wild wolves already without noticing it and fear and panic had him choking so hard that the Beta gripped his chin again and made him look up at him in both warning and concern.

"Breathe." Was muttered to him in a low tone, and even though Donghyuck wasn't part of their pack yet, his body obeyed the gravelly voice almost immediately. Gasping and spluttering, Donghyuck squeezed his eyes shut and concentrated on breathing, not even realizing that his fingers clutched hard on the Beta's warm skin.

He was pressed back against the safety of the Beta's chest as soon as he calmed down enough to breathe decently again. Donghyuck kept his eyes shut as he instinctively leaned closer to the protective warmth and power of the body that held him. His head was hurting and he felt reality slipping behind the dazing swirl of his instincts again, but it was welcomed this time as the Omega felt his fear dulling down and the cold panic diluting in his blood.

He was vaguely aware of his nostrils twitching as he inhaled more and more of the strong and musky scent that was now the only thing he could smell, and he realized that he was rubbing his face against the Beta's skin, trying for closer and wanting more. He felt himself sliding his cheeks across the hard chest in search of a more potent source of the heady scent, his mouth open and his lips rubbing wet against salty skin as he sniffed and searched with his eyes closed.

When Donghyuck had his nose buried in the warm curve of the Beta's damp armpit, he felt himself leaking even more slick, his hips jerking as he couldn't help but rut softly against the Beta's flexed thigh. The heavy and warm scent that rested under the Beta's arm was coiling the heat inside of his stomach and making him moan helplessly in arousal, as it was also near and strong enough to drown out the potent Alpha scent around him. It helped him to focus- at least enough to be aware of what was going on around him.

The Beta was still petting him, his large hands sliding up and down his body soothingly, while the two wild Alphas stood tense and attentive beside them. Donghyuck's birth pack was standing close in a line and when he leaned backwards for a lung-full of clean air, he saw them all looking at him and the Beta holding him, with disgust and resignation in their eyes.

Donghyuck shuddered and quickly pressed back against the Beta, happy to feel the tall man's arms tightening around his body as he pressed his small face back against the Beta's armpit.

Slick was still pulsing out of his twitching asshole, wet and sticky, uncomfortable as it slid between his naked thighs and ass cheeks. As he rubbed his abdomen against the motionless Beta, Donghyuck realized that his cock was hard and leaking too- adding to the uncomfortable heat and wetness he felt under the damp folds of his tunic.

He whined and arched up in the Beta's hold desperate for a touch to stop the aching madness pulsing through his senses, but the Beta shushed him calmly, hands rubbing circles on his back and Donghyuck curled against his strong chest with a whimper.

He hiccuped when he felt the burn in his body intensifying painfully and he clutched the Beta's skin tightly with his pale fingers. His wet lips opened to mouth at the salty skin next to the dominant man's armpit, rosy tongue licking away sweat and tangy warmth it found there, before Donghyuck closed his mouth around a bit of flesh to suck pathetically. He was so turned on that he felt like going crazy, but somewhere at the back of his mind he knew that no Alpha would knot him as long as his birth pack was still close enough to watch him getting mounted.

"Did any of your Alphas knot him?" The Beta asked, but Donghyuck was too far gone to listen to his birth pack's answer.

Of course no one knotted him, he thought, frustrated, which was exactly why he was sucking on a wild wolf's sweaty skin and rutting the man's thick thighs like an animal, even though his heat was over since a week. Without a thick Alpha cock knotting and breaking it though, Donghyuck was doomed to heat up, leak and offer himself up to potential dominants as if he was ovulating all over again. His body was craving for knot, his insides churning and shuddering with the need to fill up and carry his first litter. Until that primal need was sedated, Donghyuck was doomed and hopeless, condemned to leak and moan until eventually the fever of the heat would eat him up from inside and leave him withering and burning to ash.

Usually Omegas were too rare and precious to be left alone long enough to even suffer through minor pain of heat, but Donghyuck had been forbidden to be knotted, while additionally he had been physically unable to get moved into his new pack before the peak of his heat had passed.

With all the Alphas of his birth pack keeping their knots out of his body, Donghyuck's first heat had been a nightmare, though the endless rounds of sex with various packmates had been nice. Sex was always nice to him though, ever since he had lost his virginity a couple of years before his first heat. He had also known most of the eager Alphas from the years they had grown up together before he had turned Omega and it had been easy and fun to lie with them. Most of them had bedded him before, though the addition of his heat scent had resulted in a sudden improvement of their skills and libido- something he had appreciated while being pressed into the soft forest ground.

Donghyuck had not been a virgin since the day he had started emitting his Omega scent right when he had turned 17. One second he had been lounging between his parents at their home, and then the next thing he knew was his six years older and unmated Alpha brother mounting him roughly in the middle of their living room.

Having his older brother deflower him had been quite the experience, though not uncommon for an unexpected Omega presentation, and Donghyuck hadn't been too upset about it as Donghyung had spoiled him rotten afterwards out of guilt. Though he had been thankful for his father's composure as an already mated Alpha back in the moment, after Donghyung had spilled his cum inside his ass and left it wide open for the next Alpha to claim.

It was one thing to get mounted by the young pack wolves he grew up with, but he had demanded from the older unmated packmates to keep their distance to uphold human morals as long as he wasn't fertile. Two years later, when his first heat had hit, though, it ironically had been Donghyung -now a mated Alpha and father of two and thus unaffected by Donghyuck's scent- who had held back their raging father -now a mateless widower- from mounting his own Omega son.

Even through the immense pain and heat surging through his body, Donghyuck had felt physically sick by the lack of sanity in his father's raging eyes and then the shame as soon as the man had realized what he had been about to do. But Donghyuck's heat pheromones were lethal, an all-kill to senses of any unbound Alpha, young or widowed or lone– even those biologically related to him.

Back then Donghyung had been the one to carefully pick him up from the floor and to carry him to head Alpha. Safe and protected from assaults while curled up in Donghyung's arms, Donghyuck had been too out of it to hear even one word of the decisions that had been made for him. He had only snapped out of his painful haze when a while later he had been lowered to the ground in the middle of their forrest-territory only to have one unbound Alpha after another mount and fuck him through his heat, his body willingly opening up for them, taking it all and demanding more, but nothing ever enough to break the pain of the heat that had been surging through his body.

Honestly, Donghyuck didn't remember much of his first week of heat, but he remembered the way his voice had sounded, desperate and hoarse and shrill and broken as he had begged and cried and screamed for the Alphas to knot him.

So no, he thought bitterly, of course no Alpha had knotted him- not with the way his fertility belonged to his new pack's Alpha and no one else.

Donghyuck had a few dreams, those that hadn't been crushed once he had realized that as an Omega he'd never run fast enough or be strong enough to be a patrolling fighter like most children that grew up in his pack wanted to be.

Donghyuck wanted a family, a mate, someone who'd love him and put pups inside of him for him alone to take care of. Over the years, his dreams had only changed from the one providing to the one getting protected and looked after, but Donghyuck was fine with that. He had made his peace with his role in life long ago, but now that his body was calling for its purpose, Donghyuck needed someone to mate and knot him and to fill him up with a litter he could call his own.

It was instinct and his most inner wish since the day his family had broken apart, but after a week of purposeless sex his insides were screaming in pain and longing, and it was hard to keep back the tears that threatened to spill every time the flames of his heat licked through his veins and whispered of mate and children.

Donghyuck only snapped out of his pitiful musings when he heard a loud scoff from above him. From where he was still pressed against the Beta's body, Donghyuck heard his birth pack sneering as they answered, the atmosphere growing more tense by the minute. It had the Omega shivering in his new pack mate's arms, another whimper slipping from his mouth that was still sucking pathetically on the Beta's soft skin.

The Beta shushed him again and his large hands pressed firmly against the small of his back, forcing Donghyuck's lower body closer as he carefully rose to his feet. Donghyuck tightened his arms around the Beta's neck, but let go of the skin between his lips with a cry as gravity pulled him down. He whined, quickly pressing close again even when the Beta's arms stayed wrapped around his body to keep him safe and from falling down on his trembling legs.

Even while standing on the tip of his toes, Donghyuck hardly reached to the Beta's chin- not that it was surprising. A dead giveaway of him being an Omega ages before he had even presented had been his short height, the way his growth had almost seemed stunted at some point during puberty. But not having the man's salty taste on his tongue was torture and Donghyuck sobbed low in his throat as he weakly reached out, his legs trembling as he squeezed one between the Beta's powerful thighs to rut at least.

Slick was dribbling down the inside of his soft thighs, rubbing wet and glistening on the Beta's skin where it smudged dirt and other stains of their wild nature, dried blood and sweat and whatever else had marked their skin on their way to the outer ends of the deep forests to get Donghyuck.

Donghyuck felt vaguely disgusted, his own clean skin prickling and feeling oddly itching and vulnerable pressed against the hard body of his new packmate, but as he inhaled the heady mixture of the Beta's scent again he felt more slick wetting where he rubbed himself against the man's flexed thigh.

It was uncomfortably hot now and Donghyuck groaned weakly from where he pressed his face against the man's chest, eyes blinking lazily to the rhythm of his hips sliding back and forth. They immediately widen, hips stuttering, when he found the tip of his nose pressing right next to a nipple. He gasped, his warm and damp breath hitting the small nub just before Donghyuck's swollen lips closed around it to suck. The Beta shuddered and his hands on Donghyuck's body tightened.

Somewhere from beside him, Donghyuck heard someone cursing low, most likely one of the two wild Alphas, the voice sending shivers down Donghyuck's spine and making his hips roll faster against the Beta's thigh. He was out of control now and he knew it, but there was no modesty- not even shame left inside of him, the heat and urge to get knotted surging like fire through his system and burning everything else on its way, even his sanity.

The Beta pressed the slightest bit against his desperate hips and Donghyuck's eyes rolled back, his lips detaching from where they had clamped around the man's nipple to let out an incoherent moan.

"We should go now," Donghyuck heard the Beta say from somewhere above him, and even though he was incoherent and messy, his body couldn't help but shudder when one of the two Alphas growled low in his throat.

"I don't trust them," was spit at their direction and Donghyuck flinched and curled closer to the Beta at the venom in the voice.

The Beta rubbed Donghyuck's skin in comfort, his large hands gripping his body in a way that made Donghyuck feel safe despite the growls of the second Alpha joining in now.

"I ain't turning my back to those fuckers," this Alpha hissed and Donghyuck realized in his dizzy mind that they were talking about his birth pack.

Weird, he thought while another shudder ripped through his body and diverted his attention back to his bodily needs. Why would anyone distrust his birth pack? Weren't they allies now that he was made part of this wild pack?

Every thought about his birth pack flew out of his mind when a sudden wave of intense heat surged through his body and left him almost wrecked. He tightened his hold on the Beta as his stomach cramped in agony while his asshole clenched uselessly around air.

He moaned, his own fingers clutching at the Beta's warm skin as he leaned up and flat against the man's tall body. His legs trembled with effort as he balanced himself on his tiptoes, muffled cries escaping his lips as he rutted urgently against the Beta's flexed abdomen. It felt so good.

Donghyuck was too out of it to notice the Beta's dark eyes resting worriedly on his writhing form, but when the man bent down and hooked one of his strong arms under the inside of his knees to lift him up, Donghyuck cried out in distress and snapped his eyes wide open.

It took the Beta only a small moment to balance him in his arms, the Omega's small weight seemingly nothing to him. Donghyuck was quick to wrap his arms around the man's neck, clinging onto him while the Beta's other arm wrapped around his back, his large hand pressing against the soft dent of Donghyuck's armpit to keep him close to his chest.

Carried in the Beta's arms like this, Donghyuck's tunic slid up slightly, its backside hanging loose, presenting the Omega's wet ass to the eyes of those around him. He squirmed, cheeks heating up when he felt his slick sliding down his wet cleft to pool behind his balls, but the Beta tightened his grip on him and when Donghyuck looked up with feverish eyes he realized that neither the man nor anyone else was even looking at him.

Both packs were staring at each other, postures tense and offensive, and Donghyuck realized with a start that between his last coherent moment and now the atmosphere had changed into something even more hostile than before.

He craned his neck a little, resting his chin on the Beta's broad shoulder to look over it and at his birth pack, but the looks on the faces of the Alphas and Betas he grew up with were so distorted in disgust that he felt his stomach twisting painfully and quickly curled back against the safety of the Beta's chest.

He clenched his thighs– useless in the Beta's hold, but felt like doing it anyways, an instinct to become both as small as possible and to secrete more slick to have the aggression in the air turn to lust which would avoid a fight.

He realized too late that the only ones getting affected by his scent were his new packmates and only when one of the two wild Alphas gave a low groan and shot him a glare.

Donghyuck winced, his soul almost crumbling under the heat of it, but his scent had both Alphas finally backing off and agreeing to move. They backed down a little, moving closer to Donghyuck and their packmate, but their eyes stayed narrowed and their mouths wide open with all their teeth visible.

The Beta was the first one to turn around, tense but backed up by his Alpha comrades that followed backwards, never letting Donghyuck's birth pack out of their eyes. Donghyuck craned his neck again to look over the Beta's shoulder and cast a last glance at the people he grew up with, but the Beta made a warning sound, his arm shifting the weight of Donghyuck's upper body from his hand to the crook of his bent arm to reach out for his head and push it back down.

Donghyuck whined then, the first real pathetic sound of a distressed Omega that he allowed to slip in full consciousness to manipulate the Beta in letting him look at his damn family for a last time. Donghyuck gritted his teeth to suppress a pleased smile when the Beta winced and hastily let go of his head.

Donghyuck was free to stare at what he was leaving behind then while he was kept motionless in the Beta's ungiving hold, and his eyes watered a little, Donghyung's and his two children's faces flashing in front of his eyes as his new packmates slipped through the invisible border of territories behind the meeting clearing's tree line.

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As soon as they were out of the clearing's earshot Donghyuck's new packmates broke out into a full run.

It was necessary as out of earshot meant nothing else but the possibility of Donghyuck's birth pack following them from a distance to hunt them down. Omega business was a delicate issue and handing over one in exchange for power or peace was never easy.

Donghyuck knew that some of his old packmates would harbor grudges for losing him and the children he could have given to them, but he had always been promised to another pack so chances of attachment deep enough to seek revenge were slim at least. Nevertheless, even without an Omega in heat, running while crossing foreign territory was a given instinct.

The worst wasn't the potential danger, at least not to Donghyuck, but convincing his body and screaming needs to wait just a little bit longer before demanding attention to soothe the pain. Now that his old pack was out of the picture, Donghyuck's senses slammed down on his bodily needs with full force, every thought other than his instinctual urges utterly dismissed.

He gritted his teeth when another pulse of heat surged through his body that left him whimpering desperately against the Beta's neck. He squeezed his eyes shut, trying to focus, but his asshole clenched and unclenched in increasing panic now, wrecking shudders of such intensity through his body that he felt like fainting.

And maybe that would have been for the better as the pain of his unattended heat grew more severe with every passing second. Slick dribbled down from the curve of his ass, but instead of falling onto the ground it smeared onto the Beta's stomach while they were running and Donghyuck felt ashamed and helpless.

The only positive of this mess was the lack of his fear of the unknown, his nonexistent usual unwillingness and repulsion to belong to wolves this wild and dirty and uncivilized. Their heady scent was nothing but alluring to him, their strength thickening the saliva in his mouth and the slick in his ass. Their harsh words and actions churned his insides and the Beta's rough and calloused hands on his body made him shudder and moan in anticipation.

It didn't make much sense on his part– at least concerning the Beta, but Donghyuck guessed that he was so out of it that he craved any dominant, Alpha knot or not. He squirmed in the Beta's hold, muffling another cry when he uselessly clenched his thighs again, groaning when there was nothing he could rut against carried sideways up in the man's arms like this. He twisted his upper body, pressing it more or less against the Beta's and tried to arch up into his curved torso, but the Beta growled, voice reprimanding and Donghyuck stopped with a whimper, realizing that he was hindering the man's run.

He groaned into the skin of the Beta's neck and tried to suppress his tears of frustration, fingers digging into the Beta's skin while he clenched and unclenched his thighs, muffled sounds leaving his lips.

No one from his birth pack really knew where his new pack's territory was located, not since twenty years ago, when they had been at war with each other over territory. The peace treaty which Donghyuck actually embodied, had also been agreed on back then but after that the wild pack had left and had only send representatives on Donghyuck's 15th birthday to remind of the oaths and treaty and to re-acknowledge them while they all waited for his first heat to officially mark him as theirs.

It had been then that the two packs had agreed on the exchange terms on neutral grounds.

All of this had been so far away from Donghyuck who had lived under the care of his older brother and had attended to Donghyung's pregnant mate without a care for his own future. Leaving his birth pack had been nothing but a distant thought for him, unimaginable in a way. But clinging desperately onto his new packmate's body now, Donghyuck wished for nothing else but his new pack and especially Alpha to be near and to take him already, to make him theirs.

Donghyuck was pulled from his thoughts when water suddenly splashed onto him from all sides and made him shriek in distress. Almost immediately he was silenced by a comforting and deep hum from the Beta who leaned in a little to coo at him. The Beta's chin rubbed gently over the top of his head, softly digging in and it was enough to have Donghyuck relax and go lax in the man's hold.

They were crossing a river bank, one Donghyuck knew to be at least two territories away from his birth pack's. Close to human civilization, they had relied on running water from their houses, which was probably one of the many reasons why their territory had always been undesirable for other wolves. Donghyuck, who had never left his birth pack's territory, knew that he should feel curious and excited to see something new, but all he felt was an urgent hope for his new pack's territory to begin at the other side of the river- besides the intense hope for the Beta to drop him in the water to let him drown in case it didn't.

It obviously didn't, but before Donghyuck could drown in uncertainty instead, the Beta suddenly lowered him down with a grunt. Donghyuck collapsed onto the ground when his own shaking legs gave way.

He cried out, eyes wide open as he instinctively reached for the Beta, but the man barked at his Alpha packmates in such a frustrated voice that Donghyuck ended up flinching instead.

"I'll take him to break the worst, you keep watch!" He commanded with furrowed brows, and Donghyuck saw that he didn't relax until both Alphas gritted their teeth and nodded. Only then did the Beta turn back to Donghyuck who looked up at him with his eyes wide open and his mouth slack in surprise.

Break the worst? Donghyuck thought, fear and excitement clutching his stomach tightly and making him almost suffocate on anxiety. He had half a mind to shrink back from the Beta's hands when the man bent down to pull him back up into his arms, but opposed to his angry voice, his hands were gentle when they closed around Donghyuck's thin arms.

The Beta hoisted him up as if his weight was nothing and Donghyuck hated himself a little for liking that enough to clench his thighs again in lust. He grabbed the Beta's skin, a small sound of alarm leaving his lips when the man left his packmates at the riverbank and walked a few meters into the dense underwood behind the next tree line.

"Wha– what," He tried to ask, but his throat was clogged up and his chest felt too tight for enough breath to form words and so he helplessly clutched the Beta's skin in his hands.

The Beta shushed him and Donghyuck felt anger rising once again at the way he was handled. He was an adult– an Omega, sure, but nevertheless an adult by wolf standards and he wasn't used to being shushed and treated like a doll. It reminded him of his early childhood, when the other pack children had been stronger and faster and had belittled him for his limited abilities.

He snapped at the Beta, an angry sound leaving his lips, even though his fingers were still grabbing at the Beta's skin and his hips rutting insistently against the man's hard outlines. The Beta looked taken aback for a second, clearly not understanding the reason for the anger in Donghyuck's eyes, before he dismissed the Omega's discomfort and walked further into the woods until the loud and omnipresent rush of the river fell behind another tree line.

Donghyuck was carefully lowered to the ground, but the Beta stood attentive and tall for a few more minutes, his eyes concentrated and his large ears twitching as he tilted his head around to make sure they were safe and alone. Donghyuck muffled a groan at the lack of touch and pathetically crawled in between the Beta's legs, his mind dizzy and clouded as he pressed his little face upwards and against the junction where both the man's legs met.

He heard the Beta gasp, and under his hands which had grabbed around the man's legs, he felt a shiver running through the flexed muscles of his thick thighs. Yet the man didn't stop him nor did he close his legs, and Donghyuck whimpered as his heart rate jumped up in delight.

He closed his eyes, the Beta's loincloth serving as a curtain and hiding his face from the world. He felt oddly safe and comfortable in the damp semi-darkness against the other wolf's crotch. The Beta's only piece of clothing, Donghyuck realized as he pressed forward and closed his lips around a patch of skin somewhere close to the man's ass cleft, was just a piece of skin wrapped around his hips. There was no cloth cupping and covering the man's sack nor his penis and Donghyuck felt his insides churning and melting as he breathed in the raw scent in between the Beta's upper thighs.

He let go of the flesh in between his lips, instead leaned closer to lick along the Beta's cleft. With the tip of his nose pressed snugly behind the Beta's testicles his lips were pouting up to mouth at the base of the man's thick cock and saliva pooled on the flat of his tongue as he smelled the musk of the Beta's uncut cock.

He rubbed his small face higher up, past the Beta's swollen sacks and by now hardening cock to gain better access to the man's whole length. Moans fell from his lips whenever he let go of his cock as he mouthed at it from all sides. He almost sobbed at the thought of wrapping his mouth around the Beta's cock head to suck, the saliva in his mouth thickening to a point where it was impossible to swallow down anymore. It dripped down his chin as he panted, but Donghyuck had no mind to wipe it away. He was almost in pain now, his stomach clenching so hard that it had him left gasping for breath, but every lungful of musky damp air in between the Beta's legs added to the fire searing through his veins.

He could smell it now, the Beta's uncut cock and the sweat and precome gathering under his foreskin which slid back and forth as Donghyuck rubbed his face against the man's length. When he finally closed his warm mouth around the salty and glistening tip, he actually started to cry.

He must have gagged and sobbed around the Beta's cock in an alarming way, because the next thing Donghyuck realized in a sudden flash of coherency were large hands grabbing him under his armpits to drag him from between the man's legs and in front of him.

Donghyuck whined when the Beta's thick cock fell from his lips and he actually struggled a little against the hands holding him in a weak attempt to get back to it. But the Beta shushed him again, this time a bit more reprimanding as he forced Donghyuck flat against the forest ground.

Forced away from the man's thick scent and breathing in the clear forest air instantly cleared Donghyuck's mind enough to have him realize where he was and what he had done just moments ago. Shame rushed hot and cold down his spin and he muffled a pathetic sound of humiliation somewhere at the back of his swollen throat. He could barely look the tall Beta in the eyes, but the man was still holding him down, carefully lowering himself and caging Donghyuck's smaller body in.

Forced flat on his back, Donghyuck needed a small moment to realize that the Beta was hovering above him. He arched in the man's hold, something that was half a moan and half a cry of want leaving his lips as he tried to reach out with his hands. But the Beta was quick to immobilize them. One of his large hands was enough to pin both of Donghyuck's wrists above his head and Donghyuck felt tears of frustration and anger welling up at the half coherent thought of being manhandled like this.

He was being unfair and he knew it– his instincts made him take advantage of the Beta at every given chance and he was using the man's body to satisfy his own desperate needs. But Donghyuck felt overpowered and treated like a child, whenever the Beta used his power to keep him still or to move his smaller body as he wished.

He couldn't help it though and his tears spilled the moment the Beta's hand didn't let go of his when he struggled and jerked them in the man's tight grip. When the Beta looked down at him with disapproving eyes, Donghyuck flushed pink in anger, but it took the Beta tutting at him in a reprimanding manner to have him snap.

"Keep still!" The Beta demanded when Donghyuck started squirming and kicking out with his legs, but Donghyuck didn't even waste a second listening to him and instead cried out in frustration as he struggled harder.

The Beta frowned and then finally let go of Donghyuck's hands, his eyebrows furrowing when the Omega sat up and scrambled away from his as soon as he was free to do so.

"Omega," He called, and in his deep voice Donghyuck heard both impatience and frustration.

Donghyuck shuddered and squeezed his eyes shut, but his body was already begging him to lean closer to the dominant man, his heat surging through his veins in a panicky desperation that had Donghyuck moaning in pain and surrender.

"Omega, come back here!"

Donghyuck shuddered, almost breaking in half at both the urge to obey and the desperate stubbornness to listen to no one but himself. The inner struggle had him crying out in distress, but he still wrapped his arms around his drawn up knees in a last attempt to stop himself from reaching out for the Beta.

The tall man looked at him with confused eyes and Donghyuck thought that he saw something akin to disbelieve too. He was probably asking himself why Donghyuck was making things so hard for himself.

Donghyuck gritted his teeth and tightened his arms around his knees when the Beta reached out for him and pulled him back close. Large hands grabbed his arms and gently, though insistently pulled them from around Donghyuck's body. When both of his arms were held by their wrists in one of the Beta's hands again, he cried out and tried to kick the taller man.

"Omega– stop!"

Donghyuck shuddered at the warning in the Beta's voice and this time couldn't help his body going lax on instinct. There was a certain timbre in the Beta's voice, a taste of dominance that called directly to his submissive nature and everything in Donghyuck was forced and wanted to obey.

It was one of the reasons why he hated to submit as back in his birth pack Alphas and Betas had loved to abuse this tone on him as a joke. Defenseless and unable to help himself, Donghyuck had been subjected to humiliation in front of his peers– at least until one of the older Alphas had intervened or Donghyung had found and rescued him.

Laying pliant in the Beta's arms, his eyes were dark pits of contempt and poorly concealed fear. It was the latter which had the Beta's own hard eyes softening, though Donghyuck had no idea. The Beta stared him down for another moment until Donghyuck helplessly averted his eyes, but then the man let go of him and gently tipped up his face with a hand to his chin.

"Look at me, Omega," The Beta sighed and Donghyuck shuddered from the way the fingers on his chin curled around his bone. He glanced up at the man in front of him, all remaining fight draining out of him at the genuine worry he saw in the Beta's eyes.

"I'm going to break your heat, but I need you to listen and understand for a second, look at me."

Donghyuck flinched, but looked up at the tone, his whole body numb and swaying when he was forced to stare into the Beta's eyes. It was against all nature as his instincts were screaming at him to avert his eyes, but at the same time it was oddly pleasing as he was finally giving in to his instinctual needs and submitted to the Beta's will.

"I'm going to touch you," The Beta said, and his voice faltered as he searched Donghyuck's eyes for something the Omega didn't understand. "I'm going to put my hand on your cock and help you release– but I need you to give me permission first. Do you want me to do that for you? Do you want me to take care of you like that?"

Donghyuck blinked and finally stared at the Beta without his gaze flickering away. Even in his heat-dazed and instinct-driven mind the Beta's words cut through him like a knife. They slapped the confusion and fear right off his senses and left him clear minded for a few and almost painfully confusing moments.

Donghyuck's stomach lurched and his insides pulsed at the mental images the Beta's words planted in his head, but his whole body was numb with shock, because the dominant had asked for permission, and that was a first. Donghyuck was almost sure he imagined the words, but the man was still looking at him, head tilted slightly as if awaiting an answer.

"What– what?" He croaked out and then as the Beta just furrowed his eyebrows blurted out: "Are you asking for permission to touch my dick?"

The Beta closed his eyes as if in pain and sighed, but he nodded when Donghyuck kept staring at him. When he opened his eyes again the heat in them made Donghyuck squirm uncomfortably where he sat on the ground, suddenly much more aware of the wetness glossing his whole ass and pooling behind his balls and in the small dent between his squeezed thighs.

Donghyuck's cock gave a small twitch and he whimpered, flushing red in embarrassment, because he was still locking gazes with the Beta. He was still in slight shock, but his body was already begging him to open up and let the Beta take care of him. Donghyuck shuddered when a new wave of searing hot rushed down his spine and coated his skin in a layer of sweat. The hazy mist was back to cloud his mind and when he blinked the Beta was oddly clear in his suddenly blurred vision.

There was a pull begging him closer and he complied with a muffled whine, hands reaching out for the Beta who quickly wrapped his own arms around Donghyuck to pull him in between his legs.

Donghyuck leaned back, the crown of his head falling comfortably on top of the Beta's broad shoulder as the man pulled him closer and flush against his chest. Sitting chest to back like this it was easy for the Beta to close his arms around Donghyuck's smaller form and to reach for the Omega's leaking cock hidden under his damp tunic.

Donghyuck sobbed and choked on a cry when rough hands closed around his length, the calloused and broad flat of a thumb rubbing deliciously against the slit of his cockhead, gently adding pressure.

"Spread your legs," the Beta muttered and Donghyuck complied with a moan, all his former reluctance gone with the way his cock fitted so perfectly in the molding warmth of the Beta's large hand.

He jerked his hips helplessly, the friction wrecking moan after moan from his hoarse throat. The Beta groaned and the low sound had Donghyuck's asshole pulsing with thick waves of slick that dribbled out of his hole to pool on the grass. Donghyuck shuddered when the Beta's loincloth started sticking to his wet ass cheeks as he arched up in the man's arms.

He felt feverish and dizzy with the way the Beta's rough fingers squeezed up and stroked down his sensitive cock, but his senses finally registered that behind the loincloth the Beta's hard cock was digging into the soft flesh in between his ass cheeks.

Donghyuck’s heat gained on sudden intensity that left him weak and gasping for air in the dominant arms.

The Beta cooed at him, his arms sliding lower to press the palms of his hands against Donghyuck's abdomen in an attempt to have the small Omega even closer to himself. The man’s thick cock speared forward urgently, pressing against the Omega's cleft until the pressure forced his cock to tilt upwards, the whole length now rubbing the underside of it against Donghyuck's crack.

Both shuddered, but it was Donghyuck's pitiful whine at the way the Beta's loincloth prohibited skin on skin contact which made the man let go of the Omega for a small moment to lift his only piece of clothing. Almost immediately, Donghyuck leaned forward on his knees, quickly supporting himself on his stretched arms, his palms on the ground as he pushed his ass back against the Beta's groin. A small moan fell from his lips when the man's cock dug right beside his frantically clenching asshole, but his slick made the velvety soft tip slide and press against his blossoming hole almost immediately.

Donghyuck sobbed, his hips jerking backwards as his hole unclenched and forced itself wide open to engulf the Beta's cock head. It was futile, though, the tip of the man's cock too broad and impossible to force in with Donghyuck's strength alone.

Donghyuck whined, pathetically and needy, but instead of giving in to his demands the Beta leaned back and away, a throaty groan falling from his lips. Donghyuck sobbed and turned his head enough to look at him from over his shoulder, his eyes hungrily zeroing in onto the Beta's hard cock before he glanced at the man's dark eyes.

Donghyuck's heart stuttered at what he saw and he felt his stomach turning and then falling with such a sickening sensation that his arms gave way and had him landing on his ass.

The Beta's eyes flashed amber, only for small seconds, though repeatedly– but that was impossible! -unless Donghyuck was going crazy.

Donghyuck shuddered and squeezed his eyes shut and when he opened them the Beta's eyes were dark again. There was no flicker of soft color in his iris and again Donghyuck's feverish mind pushed off the though too easily, blaming the play of color on the golden sun rays falling through the thick canopy of the century old trees surrounding them.

The Beta was gasping in front of him, one hand grabbing the grass hard between his clenched fist the other hand gripping hard around his own cock as if to crush it in his grip. Donghyuck whined in want when his eyes followed a thick drop of precome gathering in the Beta's slit before running down the crown lazily until a dollop dripped down thick and creamy.

Heat pulsed in Donghyuck's veins, suffocating him as his insides twisted and turned. Drool flooded his mouth as he started crawling to the Beta, mouth open and pink tongue hanging out. The man looked almost afraid, almost hesitant for a small second, but then allowed Donghyuck to settle between his spread legs and reach for his cock.

His own large hands reached out to cup Donghyuck's ass in their palms, pulling the small Omega closer, Donghyuck on his knees and bend forward to lick at the Beta's cock in his hands.

The moment Donghyuck's mouth closed around the Beta's cockhead, thick fingers slipped into the Omega's body and made Donghyuck jerk in the other man's hold. He moaned around the cock in his mouth, eyes rolling back and drool dripping out of the corners of his stretched mouth as the Beta's slit leaked more cum for Donghyuck to devour.

The tall Beta tasted like everything Donghyuck's body was craving and more– salty and musky and thick and heavenly, the creamy texture sitting heavy and sticky on his tongue only running down his throat with the sudden flood of saliva turning it watery.

Donghyuck choked, but pressed even closer at the same time, his hands gripping tightly around the Beta'a hips. He breathed in the heady potent scent resting underneath the Beta's dark curls of pubic hair. His mouth suckled around the base of his cock, his throat swallowing around the tip as the Beta's cock leaked more precome down Donghyuck's throat.

Hands were gripping around his ass cheeks, the calloused tip of a broad thumb rubbing lazy circles over his wet and clenching skin. Donghyuck squeezed his eyes shut and choked on a sob as he eagerly swallowed around the Beta's cock. Muffled cries escaped his slack lips as the Beta dipped three fingers inside his begging channel, and Donghyuck bobbed his head deliriously, drool running down his chin and sticking the man's pubic hair to his skin.

"Omega," The Beta groaned, two of his fingers hooking up deep inside Donghyuck's channel and making the Omega choke on his cock. "I'm going to make you cum, let go."

Donghyuck whimpered, his lips locking around the cock in his mouth as he sucked desperately on it, the thought of letting go of the Beta's cock tightening his stomach in distress.

"Omega," The Beta crooned, and his fingers slowly slipped out of Donghyuck to slip up his curves and cup his chin. Donghyuck whined, but obediently loosened his mouth around the man's cock, a small hiccup leaving his throat as he leaned in to lap at the still leaking tip for a last time.

The Beta's cock was glistening in the golden rays of the setting sun, still hard and coated in thick saliva and his own cum. Donghyuck moaned needily as he squirmed on his knees, yearning to have it back in his mouth.

His asshole burned with the sudden emptiness, and even though he had been so concentrated on the dick in his mouth that he had hardly spared a thought to the fingers pressing inside of him, Donghyuck missed their absence greatly.

"Please," He whined as he leaned back to sit uncomfortably on his folded legs. "Beta–"

The Beta jerked abruptly and glanced down at him, his hands letting go of Donghyuck's chin as if burned. He stared down at Donghyuck until the Omega started squirming again, needy whines falling from his lips as he sat down on his ass and spread his legs.

"Please."

Donghyuck leaned back more, until he was flat against the forest ground and quickly hooked his arms under the inside of his knees. Lifting up his legs like this and presenting the Beta his wet ass, he made sure to push his bottom up, the tips of his fingers sliding down to dig into his ass cheeks to part them. He knew that the Beta would be able to see his quivering asshole like this, pink and swollen and wet, shuddering and leaking slick, clenching and unclenching as if begging to be touched and filled.

"Please."

The Beta groaned again, a low sound so deep that it had Donghyuck shuddering and moaning himself, choking on his drool but loving the taste of the Beta on his tongue. He almost cried when the man's hands cupped the curves of his ass again. He spread his legs wider and let go of his own flesh to reach out for the tall man that settled between his soft thighs.

Donghyuck pushed against the ground, squirming closer to the Beta, until he was able to close his legs around the man's hips. He locked his ankles behind the man's back and dug his heels into the small of it to force the Beta closer, a pleased sigh falling from his lips when the Beta complied and leaned down enough for Donghyuck to clasp his hands around his neck.

The Beta closed in, his chest almost pressing against Donghyuck's as he leaned down to mouth along the Omega's soft jaw. Donghyuck shuddered, his cock twitching between their bodies and his asshole jerked in anticipation as it pulsed, his wetness sliding down his cleft. The Beta's cock was pressing close though, damming the oozy slick and when the man gripped his cock to swipe it up Donghyuck's cleft to have his tip slipping into the Omega, Donghyuck gasped at the feel of his own cooled slick and then Beta's hard heat pressing against his walls.

Donghyuck was delirious with arousal now, his hips jerking in a desperate attempt to force more of the Beta inside of him. But the man slid his hands up to his narrow hips and kept them still.

Donghyuck sobbed, writhing under the Beta's firm hands, but the Beta tutted at him, his fingers curling around Donghyuck's hipbones in a soothing manner.

He started rutting then, the broad tip of his cock pressing in until his ridge disappeared inside of Donghyuck's body, only to pull back out until only his slit remained inside to pulse precome inside of the Omega.

Donghyuck whined, this time in genuine desperation, because the flare of the cockhead's wide girth burned deliciously against his swelling and distressed rim, but the Beta didn't thrust far enough in to satisfy his needs.

"Beta–" He choked out, tears running down his face and into his wide open mouth as he sobbed. Donghyuck didn't even realize that he had started crying and only blinked his eyes to see through his blurred vision. "Beta, please– Please."

The Beta ignored him, but one of his hands slipped between their bodies to grip around Donghyuck's cock, gently thumbing the Omega's slit and tightening a little when Donghyuck jerked in his hold.

"The name's Mark," The Beta offered oddly collected, but Donghyuck only looked at him uncomprehendingly, pupils blown and tongue lolling out of his mouth to drip drool down his chin.

Mark smiled, lips a bit crooked as he cooed at the Omega. "I can't knot you, Omega, but I'm gonna fuck you like this, if you want." He thrusted his hips forward, forcing more of his thick cock into Donghyuck's tight channel and the Omega felt his eyes rolling back as his asshole stretched impossibly further to accommodate the Beta's brutal girth.

"You ah– said, only touch– ah touching my c-cock–" Donghyuck mewled, voice faint and words butchered, but the Beta understood and grinned down at him and when Donghyuck forced his eyes open to stare up he saw that the Beta's pupils, too, were blown and his breath ragged.

The man was fairly collected, though, his hands firm but not hurting on Donghyuck's skin and for a moment he wondered if it was due to the man's status as Beta which didn't affect him as much as Donghyuck's scent and pheromones did with Alphas. The way he was methodically manhandled in his defenseless helplessness by someone who wasn't just as desperate to rut made him angry, but the need to have the Beta inside of him made him hold back his tongue.

He was being unfair again and he knew it, but this time he didn't really mind the Beta taking advantage of his offerings and actually embraced them. It was him who'd sucked on the man's cock until it had been nice and hard and dripping, it was him who had pushed his ass back to have it stretch his hole. Donghyuck wished for nothing else than that thick cock pressing inside of him until the broad tip pushed his insides up his stomach. He groaned at the mental image and clenched his hole around the Beta's tip, sucking in his stomach to pull the man's cock back inside.

Mark chuckled and snapped his hips up, earning himself a long and clear moan as Donghyuck's legs jerked up in the air and his toes curled in his slippers.

"You wan't me to stop then? To only jerk you off?"

"Ah– no–" Donghyuck whined and clenched around the Beta's cock again, more tears sliding down his cheeks and running into his ears as he shook his head left and right on the hard forest ground.

"I want to knot you," Mark mused quietly to himself as he snapped his hips up again, wrecking Donghyuck into a sobbing mess. "But you're Alpha's." He kept thrusting his cock deeper and deeper inside of Donghyuck, who sputtered and gasped, small hands reaching out to grip on the Beta's flexed biceps as he was pressed further into the ground.

Donghyuck sobbed, white flashing behind his eyelids as the Beta kept thrusting hard and fast, forcing him open until he felt like he was being split in two. He sucked in his stomach again, frantic eyes glancing down to where they were connected, but he couldn't see, his own cock and balls in the way.

He saw his stomach bulging slightly out in the same moment the Beta's cockhead slipped through a tight ring deep inside his channel. It was a sort of internal barrier, a tight ring of muscles that only let the cockhead in but snapped shut around the Beta's ridge almost instantly to keep it locked inside the internal channel.

Donghyuck knew that it was leading to his womb, but Mark only realized when he pressed the flat of his palm against Donghyuck's bulging stomach only to realize that it was his cock pressing from the inside.

"Omega," He crooned, his thrusts ebbing down now that the tip of his cock was gripped tightly inside of Donghyuck's body. "Relax and let go of me."

Donghyuck shuddered, his insides clenching even tighter, locking the Beta deep inside of him on instinct. It didn't make sense as they weren't mates, nor an Alpha-Omega pair. Donghyuck's dizzy guess was that he had been left alone and knotless with his heat for too long and that his body was going crazy just as he felt that he did.

"Omega," Mark called again, one of his palms coming up to cup Donghyuck's cheek again. When Donghyuck looked up there was no smile on the Beta's lips anymore. In its stead there was worry and a sudden sense of calmness that was almost shocking to the small Omega, because he had thought that the Beta had been just as lost in his lust as he was.

"Let go of me, come on. Slowly, breathe–" Mark murmured, his hand on Donghyuck's face brushing away tears and drawing soothing circles on the apple of his cheek. Donghyuck sobbed and unclenched, his stomach sagging in relief, but his birthing canal didn't let go of the Beta's cock and Donghyuck hiccuped.

"Breathe. Come on, breathe," Mark soothed him and his unoccupied hand slid down to cup Donghyuck's cock again, gently stroking it up and down, making the Omega cry out.

Donghyuck whimpered and gripped the Beta's biceps so hard that his lines of knuckles turned white with the force, tears squeezing out of his tightly shut eyes as he jerked his hips against the Beta's hand.

He was close, white flashing faster and faster behind his eyelids, and the Beta's cock inside of him felt heavy and warm as it forced him wide open, putting pressure on his internal organs until he felt full and sick and good and suffocating. The Beta jerked his hand faster, his thumb's nail catching on Donghyuck's slit and slightly digging in, making the Omega jolt in his hold with a yelp and then crying out when the pressure in his cock let loose at the same moment the Beta grind his own hips and cock deep inside the Omega's body.

Donghyuck screamed, his whole body tensing and curling up as he orgasmed. He lifelessly fell back onto the forest ground, his eyes closed and his whole body slack, tears, snot, cum, drool and slick leaking from his orifices. He was twitching in the Beta's hand's as the man's calloused fingertips pressed gently against his cock on every upstroke, milking the small Omega dry until not a drop of cum was left in his softening cock.

It was then, when Donghyuck lay unresponsive on the forest ground that Mark carefully pulled out of the Omega's body.

He stared down at his red cock, smeared with slick and precome and some blood too, but his eyes rested on the opaque and slightly thicker slick around his cockhead, the only part of him that had been locked in the Omega's actual birth canal.

He groaned as images of the boy swollen with children flashed through his mind and made his cock twitch in desire. He had half a mind to grab his cock and guide it back inside the Omega, fucking in and out the boy's swollen hole until filling that flat stomach with his litter. Instead he sighed and forced himself to relax, tension bleeding out of his tense shoulders as he sagged in his sitting position.

He glanced at the knocked out Omega and carefully pulled him up to put him sideways against his chest, before he gave up the struggle against himself and gripped around his own cock to jerk himself off.

It only took the touch of his fingers against his slick covered cockhead to have him lose interest in chasing his relief. The opaque secrete coating it in a thick layer was foreign to his touch and immediately caught his interest as he gathered some of it on his fingertips.

It looked and smelled exactly like the Omega's translucent slick did, but its texture was almost glue-like, stretching between his fingertips as he pulled them apart, reminding him of particularly sticky snot somehow. Mark grimaced and smeared the weird slick onto the forest grass before he hooked one arm under the inside of the Omega's knees and the other around his shoulders. Carrying the small thing like this in his arms was a bit tricky as Mark's hard cock kept pressing up and its tip brushing against the naked skin of the Omega's fleshy ass, but Mark ignored it, as there were more urgent matters than his own needs now that the Omega's were satisfied.

He was glad that the boy was unconscious since it would make running with him easier. They had to hurry. Mark only needed to glance once at the darkening sky to know that they had wasted way more time near the riverbank than intended and that they really really needed to hurry.

He didn't think that the Omega's birth pack would follow them into foreign territory, but he was aware that they were trespassing and thus open to attacks from the packs that lived here.

Mark slid another glance down at the unconscious Omega in his arms and suppressed a sigh.

It would be a miracle if the boy's sweet scent and heat pheromones didn't call for every Alpha within a radius of at least three territories.

Quickening his pace, Mark gripped the Omega tighter in his hands as he slipped through the dense tree line and back to the riverbank where his two packmates were waiting, their bodies tense and their eyes wide in alert.

Mark pressed his lips to a firm line when both Renjun and Yukhei' eyes darkened with raw want and zeroed in on the unconscious boy's dripping ass curve which peaked from under his ruined tunic.

"Don't even think about it," He said to them softly, but his eyes were hard as was his tense stature as he was close enough for them to try to assert their dominance over him. But Mark stood his ground, his eyes flashing amber once which immediately had them both avert their eyes.

Instead of attacking or even answering him, Renjun spat heartily on the ground while Yukhei clenched his hands to fists and breathed heavily through his mouth.

"Good job fucking him unconscious, Beta," Renjun sneered as soon as he had himself under enough control. "He's fucking deadweight, now that we have to run. I bet they heard the slut screaming for cock three territories down where his deranged pack lives."

Mark ignored him and instead handed the Omega over to Yukhei who wordlessly bedded the small boy over his shoulder. It wasn't comfortable for neither of them and the Omega whimpered quietly, but Mark turned his back to them and squat down on the forest ground, his eyes closed and his head tilted as he concentrated to listen and smell into the falling night.

It only took him less than a minute to confirm that they had to run and he turned to his packmates with a grave expression on his face before he took the Omega back from Yukhei's arms and gave the quiet command to run.

They had to hurry. Others were coming.

-

Donghyuck woke with a start to the loud sound of something dry and too close snapping in half.

When he glanced around with frantic eyes he realized that it was night and that he was on the ground, bedded on leaves and freezing, which explained the sound that woke him up, because it was the tall Beta- Mark his dizzy mind supplied, who was snapping thick branches in two for a weakly flickering fire. Small flames bickered on the cleared ground, threatening to die until the Beta carefully layered pieces of the broken branches on top of the small pile.

In no time a steady campfire was lighting up the immediate night and Donghyuck felt its warmth bathing his clod skin as if he was really stepping into a pool of heated water.

He carefully folded his legs to sit up, but pain laced up his spine and made him flinch instead, a small cry leaving his lips and turning the Beta's as well as the two Alphas' heads in his direction.

Donghyuck shrunk under their scrutinizing looks, his cheeks tinting pink as soon as he remembered the last time he had seen all three of them and the way he had acted around them.

With his heat appeased for now he was slightly clearer in his head and wanted nothing more than to never face those three strangers ever again. But they were pack now, Donghyuck thought, a little bit comforted by that, maybe not fully yet but soon. Most of his birth pack's Alphas and Betas had seen him naked and needy– had fucked him even. There was no need to feel embarrassed nor shy he told himself, though his cheeks stayed pink and his eyes were unable to lift from the ground.

It was the tall Beta who broke the awkward silence as he sat down next to Donghyuck and ruffled his hair. Under normal circumstances Donghyuck would have snapped at that, but he just flushed a deeper pink instead, remembering the taste of the man's cum on his tongue and the feel of his cock in his ass. Donghyuck's insides clenched and to his horror he felt his channel wetting up again– albeit not as frantically.

The Beta slid one hand down Donghyuck's cheeks and stopped it under the Omega's chin to tilt it up. He smiled down at the startled boy and Donghyuck was unable to look away, the tips of his ears slowly turning pink as well as his embarrassment deepened.

"You remember my name?" The Beta asked and Donghyuck quickly nodded to have a reason to lean back and away from the hand gripping his chin.

"Mark," He croaked out, watching the smile on the Beta's lips widening "I'm Donghyuck."

It was weird to exchange names with this Beta only after they had been so intimate, but Donghyuck was relieved to finally introduce himself properly. He didn't really like being called 'Omega this' and 'Omega that' and if he was honest to himself he really wanted to hear the Beta call out his name with that low voice of his.

Instead of that happening, though, one of the Alphas scoffed and came closer to the fire. The flames and the cleared haze in Donghyuck's mind allowed him to get his first real look at the escorts' faces as the second Alpha followed suit and moved closer to the fire as well.

Up close Donghyuck saw that under the layers of sweat and dirt both Alphas were impossibly handsome. One was tall and broad like Mark– but where the Beta's face was a careful mix of open and controlled, this Alpha's face was remarkably open. Donghyuck could see every emotion on that impossibly sculptured face, and when the Alpha locked eyes with him there was a boyish glint in his dark eyes that instantly softened Donghyuck's first impression of unreachable handsomeness.

The second Alpha, the one that had scoffed, was... He was beautiful. Ethereal even, pale as the moon, but in a grotesquely clashing way: His beauty rivaled that of Omegas, but his whole stance, exterior, facial expression, the steel in his large eyes and the cold twist of his lovely lips screamed Alpha in such a blatant way that Donghyuck had half a mind to roll over in fear and bare his throat. It was bizarre and mildly terrifying and Donghyuck reeled back, clinging to the Beta.

As if sensing his distress, Mark reached out to put the flat of his palm on Donghyuck again, this time on top of his stomach in an oddly intimate way. Donghyuck knew it was meant as a silent comfort when the beautiful Alpha's mouth twisted into a vile sneer, but he couldn't help jerking away from it. His cheeks tinted red despite his fear, but the Beta's touch was uncomfortable on an instinctive level, crossing a line even with the way it lay almost possessively on top of what dominants liked to reduce Donghyuck's whole being to, his womb and his ability to carry child.

He squirmed until the Beta, Mark, Donghyuck reminded himself, took his hand away, an unfathomable look passing his dark eyes and Donghyuck thought he saw a flash of amber again when a loud spat interrupted his thoughts.

He almost jumped in sudden alert, because the air around him had turned vile in the few seconds he had been lost in his instincts. He turned huge eyes up to the Alphas that stood motionless in front of him and the Beta, but it was only the ethereal one looking at him with his eyes screaming murder when Donghyuck dared to lock gazes.

Donghyuck flinched as if slapped and his insides quivered when he felt the unmasked wrath of the Alpha's hostility directed at himself, throat closing up and his limbs turning numb as he lost control of his body for a small moment. He swayed, lightheaded and faint, his mind screaming at him to throw himself flat on the ground to appease the beautiful man who emitted nothing but cold fury.

Donghyuck made a weak sound in his throat as he prayed for protection, his face drained of all color now, but it was only when the Alpha made a move to lunge at him that the other two dominants jumped into action.

Mark stood up at the same time the other, strangely expressionless Alpha called out: "Injunnie!" with a confusingly soft voice. In comparison the Beta's voice was all steel when he spat out the angry Alpha's name.

Donghyuck heard rather than saw the beautiful Alpha, Renjun, taking a deep breath, before naked feet turned on the soft forest ground and then walked away into the night. "I'm taking the first watch!" was spat at them with venom before the Alpha was gone.

The two dominants around Donghyuck stared after him, their shoulders tense and their hands balled to fists, not relaxing until Renjun was out of earshot.

Mark sat down next to Donghyuck with a low sigh, one of his arms wrapping around a trembling Donghyuck to pull him closer to himself. He gently uncurled the Omega, crooning at him as Donghyuck cried out in distress, one of his large hands cupping Donghyuck's face again as if to comfort before grimacing. Donghyuck was near tears, his face still pale as he raised trembling hands to grip around the Beta's wrists to cling.

"Don't mind Renjun. He's a bit on the edge."

Donghyuck felt hysteria rising up at those ridiculously harmless words, feeling both hurt and wronged at the way the Beta played down what just had happened. The Alpha had wanted to hurt him, that much had been obvious by the way he had spat and directed his hatred at Donghyuck.

It took a while for him to calm down, but when Mark slid his warm hands down his face and curves to grip around the give of his waist, Donghyuck felt almost at ease with the way his smaller body fit perfectly against the Beta's hard body.

He looked up questioningly from where he was pressed against the Beta's naked chest, when the man started to soothe him with nice and distracting words, but his face was still unconvinced and guarded, shoulders drooping as he instinctively tried to curl up again when the Beta muttered how 'Renjun didn't meant it'.

"Ah– nonono, don't do that." Mark frowned, uncurling Donghyuck again, but this time Donghyuck allowed him only reluctantly.

He felt like crying, because he couldn't handle hostility directed at himself, and no matter what the Beta said, that Alpha, Renjun had looked at him with open hatred in his eyes.

"Listen," The man tried again, his voice soothing. "We're in one of our ally's territory ...but you know how wolves are, right."

It was a rhetorical question, one Donghyuck didn't bother to answer ("always on the edge") and it did nothing to calm him down. He drew in his legs to hide behind his knees, muffling a sob as soon as he was safe behind his skin and bones. The Beta– Mark, Donghyuck reminded himself again, kept sliding his palms up and down his smaller body and Donghyuck recoiled from the touch, unwilling and skittish.

He heard the man sigh before he stood up and walked away to the other Alpha and when Donghyuck glanced up with teary eyes he saw them talking in low voices with each other. He quickly hid behind his knees again when the Alpha slid him a glance.

"You should send Injunnie ahead to inform Alpha."

The Beta hummed at that, agreeing with another glance at Donghyuck who watched them with wet eyes.

"As soon as the night is over. I need him on watch, or neither of us will get decent sleep tonight. We'll have to run tomorrow, too."

The Alpha kept silent for a moment at that before he snorted, voice a tad disbelieving as he said: "Can't believe my own fucking eyes. Mark, his excellency, Lee's being invested in that fucked up pack's Omega, wow."

The Beta's pressed his lips into a firm line at that and from where Donghyuck sat he could see the man's hands balling into fists. It made the fear which had clutched the Omega's heart at the Alpha's words deepen with an intensity that had his stomach lurching. Donghyuck wondered what those words meant, why the Alpha's voice was so genuinely disbelieving.

"Go find Injun. Tell him to come back and not to wander off so far!" Mark barked through gritted teeth, his hands still balled to fists.
The Alpha made a nondescript sound and nodded, his eyes darting to Donghyuck for a split second and then back to the Beta before bowing slightly. "As you wish, Beta," He muttered, ducking a little when the Beta slapped the flat of his palm against the back of the Alpha's head.

If the Alpha's mocking eyes on him hadn't distressed him already, Donghyuck would have squirmed in discomfort at the way a lesser rank handled a more dominant. As it was, though, Donghyuck flinched behind the safety of his knees when the Alpha's dark eyes rested on him, the hunger in them both frightening and -to Donghyuck's horror- arousing him unwantedly.

"Don't look at him," Donghyuck heard the Beta say to the Alpha, his low voice almost a growl, but when Donghyuck checked, Mark's face was controlled and void of anger.

"As you wish, Beta," was repeated at him, this time scornfully and from the corner of his eyes, Donghyuck saw the tall Alpha turn on his heels and disappear into the night as well.

He shut his eyes in distress, not understanding the tense and hostile atmosphere. When Mark sat back next to him and wrapped his arms around him to pull him close, Donghyuck realized that despite the warm fire he had been cold and freezing.

"Don't mind them," Mark hummed, one of his hands combing broad fingers through Donghyuck's dark locks and sending pleasant shivers down his spine for long minutes.

Donghyuck felt subdued heat pulsing in his chest, a reminder that his heat would strike back soon, but for now it let him rest comfortably against the Beta's chest. He was distressed, but warm and gradually calming down into a sleepy peace. It was mildly confusing how the Beta's close proximity helped him relax that easily, when at other times it riled him up so much. His body was so screwed up, Donghyuck feared that even after knotting the heat and madness out of him it would stay fucked up like this.

"Renjun is our first's protégé, all the hyung's love him- especially our first, Johnny-hyung who's watching the pack and protecting Alpha. And Yukhei, that's the other Alpha of your escort, is our most recently presented Alpha. A late bloomer," Mark chuckled, "Always so eager– he can't control himself much."

Mark's low voice was soft and soothing, enough to calm Donghyuck, having him almost drift off to sleep, but there was something in the Beta's words, something that made no sense and had him oddly alarmed. With his sleepy mind it took him a while to realize what exactly, but when the penny fell Donghyuck sat up with a start and stared up at the Beta in confusion.

"Your first in command is protecting Alpha?" He asked, voice a bit faint, because what he asked was absurd. "Then...who is Alpha? Shouldn't it be the first in command?"

Mark pursed his lips and shook his head, an unfathomable look passing his eyes before he visibly forced himself to smile at the alarmed Omega.

"We don't follow your birth pack's pack order. We function in a different way. Alpha will explain it to you."

Donghyuck gaped almost scandalized, but mostly upset to be fobbed off like this without a real explanation. The Beta turned his eyes away and to the fire, though, and Donghyuck was perceptive enough to understand that Mark didn't want to elaborate.

Donghyuck hesitantly bedded his head back on top of the Beta's broad shoulder, but even when the man wrapped one of his arms back around him to keep him close and comfortable, Donghyuck needed forever to fall asleep.

In his mind he saw the terrifying face of an unknown first in command flashing– someone even colder and more dismissive than Renjun, someone whose eyes burned Donghyuck down effortlessly, someone Mark couldn't shield him from. And then there was Alpha, the one Donghyuck belonged to, the one he had been given to by his own pack in exchange for peace and alliance. An Alpha who was even more terrifying than the first in command– someone powerful and terrible enough to have wolves like Renjun and that Johnny person submitting to his dominance. Donghyuck felt slightly sick, his stomach flipping uneasily.

He was just a nineteen year old boy who grew up spoiled and loved and desired by everyone in his birth pack. One glance at Lucas, 'their late bloomer Alpha' had been enough to make him realize that he would be at the hierarchical bottom rank-wise. How was someone like him supposed to serve well under an Alpha that burst each and every expectation already, without Donghyuck even meeting him.

There wasn't much Donghyuck wished for now that his lifelong fears had caught up with him and his silly dreams of a safe and domestic future as he had seen his older brother share with his mate. He just wished for safety, for a mate who'd protect and respect him. He wished for children of his own to take care of, but he also wished for someone who wouldn't see him as a mere vessel to breed.

The hostility of his new packmates, the way the Alphas looked at him and talked about him was terrifying him, bursting his little bubbles, because if subordinates were this deprecating already how much would their head Alpha disapprove of him then.

Donghyuck belonged to him now and all his dreams and hopes for himself were traded alongside with him when his birth pack had handed him over to his new pack. What would become of him and his wish for something he had only been allowed to witness at his brother's home if head Alpha was even more terrifying than Renjun?

He sighed deeply and was surprised when his chin was gently lifted again by the Beta's warm hands.

"Sleep, Donghyuck," The man said and Donghyuck blinked and barely suppressed a shudder at the way his name rolled off so nicely from the Beta's tongue. It reminded him a little bit of his brother and Donghyuck quickly squeezed his eyes shut, trying not to feel homesick when he suddenly realized that he was alone and far away from home and would never see his family again.

This was his life now. Mark and Yukhei and Renjun, too. Even that terrifying first in command Johnny and his new pack's nameless Alpha. And as frightening as it was, Donghyuck would have to find a way to live among them.

He swallowed, his throat and chest tightening to a suffocating point, but he pressed back the tears and suppressed the sobs. Not one little sound slipped past his lips, but Mark wrapped both his arms around him after a while and hummed soothingly, gently rocking him in his hold and bedding his own head on top of Donghyuck's as he let the boy cling and press against him.

Sleep came only after hours of crying for home and fearing for his uncertain future. Mark kept him close and safe through the whole night, never letting go of him.

Donghyuck only woke up when the body he leaned against moved slightly.

Blinking tiredly he sat up enough to see the Beta stretching carefully, one arms still around Donghyuck, large hand keeping him safe in place against Mark's chest. Above them the sky stretched in faint green and blue, the first rays of the sun lighting it up in pale gold.

Donghyuck watched the play of colors in the sky for a small moment before he lowered his gaze enough to watch the tall Beta's profile. The man was staring intently into the forest, his head slightly tilted as if listening into the awakening morning.

Donghyuck realized for the first time how handsome Mark was, how even his facial features and how clear his eyes were. It made him blush and squirm restlessly, the action having the Beta snap out of his concentration and glancing down at him.

"You're awake," He said, his voice gravely from sleep. Donghyuck shivered against the man's naked chest, lust coiling low in his abdomen. Before the slowly rising heat in his veins could make him press closer to the Beta, Mark carefully detached himself from him to attend to the fire.

"Renjun's out hunting food for you. You'll have to eat quickly, we have to run."

Truthfully, Donghyuck was surprised that no one had attacked them during the night. While he understood close to nothing about fighting tactics and the way Alpha fighters functioned, he knew enough about the potency of Omega pheromones and how they could mess with dominants.

A Beta's cock without the knot wasn't enough to satiate the lust in his blood that was singing in his veins for long and his scent must have traveled far enough by now to call Alphas of surrounding areas to come for him. Oddly enough, though, Donghyuck felt almost sedated, his head clear and the fire of his heat burning low and tame in his abdomen, only licking up once or twice when Mark's musky scent hit him.

He was still wondering about that when Renjun returned with his prey.

Donghyuck was too lost in his thoughts to realize from afar what was dangling in the Alpha's pale hands, but when Renjun threw the small animal in front of him, Donghyuck's stomach turned in a sickening sensation.

Something that was once a wild bunny was lying red and bloody, skinned in front of him, intestines hanging out where deep bite marks had ripped open the animal's body.

Donghyuck cried out and turned away hastily, his insides shuddering as they twisted and turned in disgust. Was this how his food would look like from now on, or was this just Renjun being cruel? What had he done to offend the Alpha to be punished like this? He squeezed his eyes shut, almost choking on another wave of nausea.

He came from a humanized pack which, in the rare case that they went hunting, butchered their kill in a sanitary way and cooked it before eating it. In all his nineteen years of life Donghyuck had never eaten a piece of raw meant, nor had he ever seen the occasional kills his packmates had brought home.

He felt miserable and sick, eyes welling up with tears again as he grabbed the grass on the ground to steady himself. He was shaking, angry and frightened, fearing that this was really a punishment of sorts and that he'd be subjected to these from now on.

He wasn't a stranger to cruelty directed at his rank to appease the inflating egos of Alphas and Betas, but where dominants of his birth pack had held him down or commanded him into submission, Renjun had slapped him with plain cruelty.

Donghyuck hiccuped, eyes squeezing shut to hold back tears as his grip on the grass tightened until he felt the blunt tips of his nails pressing into his own palms.

Before they could breach skin, though, arms wrapped around him and then he was hoisted up against Mark's strong chest. A hand bedded his head to his favorite spot on the man's shoulder, softly stroking through his dark locks to calm him down. When Donghyuck glanced back down at the ground with blurry eyes the bunny was gone and so was Renjun, who was next to Yukhei near the closest tree line, tossing something small and red into the dense underwood, before turning to glare at Donghyuck while cursing loudly.

The Beta turned his body aside, away from the Alphas and Donghyuck was suddenly unable to see them, unless he stretched his neck. He had no desire to do so, though, content to ignore Renjun's whole existence forever if it was up to him.

"We'll skip breakfast," Mark said quietly as his arms tightened on Donghyuck's body as if to steady him against his own form. "We have a day of running ahead. I'll carry you until we reach the outer ends of our territory."

Donghyuck tightened his trembling arms around the Beta's neck and squeezed his eyes shut, his heart clenching in fear when the man carried him right in between Renjun and Yukhei who both looked at him, one with scorn written all over his beautiful face, the other oddly concerned.

Mark gave the quiet signal to run and not a moment later they were gone. The abandoned fireplace and a small heap of leaves and grass were the only signs showing that they had stayed the night in foreign territory.

There was a faint trace of tears though, but it dissolved soundlessly in the breaking morning air.

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