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Broken Pieces

Chapter Seventeen

By Roofles

It was late in the afternoon as Alan helped round up and wrangle in PB’s pups from the back yard and corral into the side house.

They spent the entire afternoon playing games in the back yard trying to burn through the pups boundless energy. The two, PB and Alan, were exhausted by the end and needed to tag out with Salt and Pepper who were thrown to the wolves as the two cooled off, even sharing a bottle of water.

“How do you do this every day?” Alan was panting as he rubbed his lower back. “There are so many! I only got two hands! I can only protect my family jewels for so long.” He laughed before wincing. He had not seen the fourth pup coming and they’d run straight into him.

“Welcome to my life.” PB chuckled as he looked off to the side. Barrett was still around. The wolf hadn’t left Alan and PB alone. Refusing to give them a moment alone together. Keeping an ever-watchful eye on them as if suspecting PB might try something. “Thanks, for helping… I know it’s a lot.”

“Of course,” Alan wiped the sweat from his brow and flicked it aside before looking at PB with a smile. “What are friends for if not to help keep their hell hounds in check?” He smiled changing it up from hellspawn to hellhounds. It was just more fitting.

“I’m just glad they didn’t bite you.” PB chuckled, rubbing the back of his neck with a hand. “I swear you’re better with them than I am. Or… Or Danny ever was…”

“It’s cause I’m so non-threatening.” Alan shrugged as if that explained everything. “With you guys, wolves, you tend to fight for dominance with everything!” He laughed, chuckling as he shook his head. That smile never left his face. “I’m just a side player in it all. Not a threat. Not someone you got to worry about, and it doesn’t kick in those… instincts of yours,” Alan playfully pushed a closed fist against PB’s arm.

The wolf looked down at it, glancing up at the human. Alan’s hair was swept up from where he’d rubbed it. Sweat making it stick up as if a cow had licked him. He had that fag flip going in the front and that smile. A bright, warm smile that lit up his entire face. A smile PB remembered fondly during the cold nights alone.

“Didn’t stop me before.” PB brought up and Alan blinked at that.

“No. No, I guess it didn’t.” He laughed. “You always were far stronger than I was.” The human just stated as a fact. “Wrestle me into submission. Get me on all fours and…” Alan trailed off, not about to continue that line of thought.

“Not anymore…” PB glanced down at his hand. He didn’t have all his fingers. His arms didn’t have the strength they used too. He was just so… so tired from it all. He missed those instincts. Those feelings inside.

“Oh, please.” Alan rolled his eyes. “Don’t give me that shit.” PB looked at him.

“What?” The dark nutty brown furred wolf asked.

“You were able to handle all eight of those little heathens, bless their god forsaken souls.” Alan made a cross over his chest and PB couldn’t help but smile at his humor. Alan always did have a laugh for everything. “I know it feels like you can’t… but, bro.” Alan said and got a look. “Dude?” He offered instead.

“Close enough.” PB rolled his eyes as his nub of a tail wagged.

“We’ll workshop it.” Alan compromised as he continued what he’d been saying. “You handle all eight of them, by yourself!” He said before quickly going on, not wanting to remind PB that his husband had left him. “You handle them each and every day. Their fat and spoiled,” he added.

“Thanks…?” PB wasn’t sure if that was a compliment or not.

“You’re a good father, PB. From what I’ve seen.” Alan said. “They’re lucky to have you. And you have them.”

“Right…” PB’s stump for ears splayed out.

“You know, if it’s not too, uh, personal…” Alan offered taking a step closer, making the wolf tense. Alan reached up but didn’t touch him. “May I…?”

“….sure.” PB bowed his head with closed eyes as he felt Alan touch the scarred over ear flaps.

“You could get prosthetics…” Alan voice was soft, no more than a whisper that was carried away on the wind. He took a step back, looking to the side. “When… when I met you, after all those years apart…? At your house. Sorry, again, for dropping by unannounced… Well, I… I looked into it. Prosthetics, I mean. They have prosthetics for everything these days!”

PB didn’t answer him. Just looking at the human who’d cared enough to look into that for him. Where even his own uncle hadn’t. Wolves didn’t take supplements or use prosthetics. They saw it as a weakness. Needing aides to be or appear strong than they were.

“I wanted to text you or like… write? I don’t know. I really… don’t know what we are anymore, to each other.” Alan sighed, shaking his head. “God fucking dammit,” he cursed, covering his mouth after. “Can never be easy, huh? We can’t just go grab a beer, shoot the shit and just… I don’t even know. Fuck…”

“Life’s a bitch. Then you die.” PB shrugged and Alan looked at him for a long minute.

“Or you keep living…” Alan said, and the wolf didn’t meet his eyes. “You did.” Alan said, taking a slow, steady breath before continuing. Trying to work up the nerves to talk about this where they couldn’t before. “You have a family PB.”

“Danny…” PB started up but couldn’t even finish as he looked away, tears burning in his eyes.

“Fuck that loser.” Alan just said and PB actually laughed, not used to the sweet image he had of Alan being so aggressive like this. The human was getting worked up for him, angry for him as PB just didn’t have it in his tank anymore to do so. “He’s a fucking loser who missed out on the best thing imaginable!”

PB felt the creeping warmth of a blush fill his stubs for ears. How long had been since anyone had complimented him? Talked to him like this? Encouraged him, tried to help him, maybe even help PB look in the mirror without hating what he saw looking back in return.

Alan, in those eyes, in Alan’s eyes PB saw a reflection of himself of how Alan must see him. The perfect wolf he had always been. Even damaged and broken, Alan still gave him that look as if… as if he were the only one who mattered in the world.

“You have a great home, wonderful pups… your uncle seems cool!” Alan nodded at the end. “Danny? Danny is the one missing out. Not you. You still have a bright future ahead of you with a family who’ll love and cherish you for all you’ve done for them. Just got to get through the, uh, biting years…” He winced, thinking of all those pups biting PB.

“That doesn’t stop.” PB chuckled before exhaling, shaking his head as he rubbed his forehead with a hand. “This is crazy.”

“Life usually is. Reese though will figure it out… I mean, you came here for a reason.” Alan tried to offer, to reassure him about. “If anyone can figure it out, it’s Reese.”

“No. Not that.” PB hesitated. “You.” He looked at the human.

“Uh, what?” Alan was confused about it. “What about me?”

“You’re so… different. From back then. You used to be so meek and helpless and now,” PB covered his muzzle with a hand, clenching his eyes tightly shut. “Just time. Time has changed you.”

“Sorry?” Alan wasn’t sure what to say to that. “We all change. Just, hopefully, for the better… Reese did.”

PB looked at him from the corner of his eye without saying anything.

“Yeah, I know. I know! Reese is a lot. He’s dangerous, yadda yadda. You aren’t the first to tell me or warn me or try to save me from that,” Alan rolled his eyes. “He’s changed though. He’s a lot… better, about things. The time apart did him wonders.”

“You ever thought about having pups with him?” PB suddenly asked and Alan froze on the spot.

“Uh…” Alan had that conversation, once, with Reese. It hadn’t gone well. It was one of the very few times the two of them had verbally fought with one another. Reese didn’t want to have anyone else suffer the same life he had, and Alan rather let his family name die with him.

It had been complicated. Even if the two were on the same side about it, neither wanted to make the other feel like they didn’t have the choice but to ask about it. It had been… a lot. And Reese had distanced himself from the subject and Alan.

It might’ve been the start. The start when Reese began to focus on his work as Alpha above Alan. Funnily enough. Doing all this for their future and neglecting the one you were doing it for. Alan didn’t resent or hold it against Reese. That’d be childish and he’d already sworn this was the future he had chosen to accept and walk down.

Didn’t make it any easier to deal with and bear.

“It’s complicated.” Alan said lamely. “I don’t want my name to continue and he… well, Reese doesn’t like the idea of having pups. We already have Salt and Pepper,” he gestured back at the house where the two wolves were most likely upstairs playing video games at now that they were free from PB’s hellhounds. “The pack takes his full focus and I… well I’m just here.” He offered at the end.

“Alan…” PB took a second. “I’m sure Reese is as grateful as he can be given his… situation.”

“Huh?” Alan was taken aback for a moment. “Oh. Oh! No, no. PB.” He laughed. “I’m not saying Reese doesn’t care for me or some nonsense like that. Reese and I are doing extremely well together. We’re far more compatible than I had expected.”

“Oh.” PB blinked, the one caught off guard now.

“Yeah. It might look odd to others on the outside looking in… but Reese and I? We’re doing really, really, REALLY damn well together.” He repeated. “It’s just this situation,” he motioned all around them at everything. “The outside world gets in the way. Reese and I are good. You don’t have to worry about that. Just… just others, getting in the way.”

Alan knew that was why Barrett was hovering around the two. Reese was worried that others, like PB, would get in the way of their relationship. Alan had already sat down and talked to Reese about this; hell, at one time, he’d been knotted to the wolf when they talked about this.

How difficult and challenging it was and will be for them in a future. How Reese had a plan in motion to protect them and their future, no matter how many of these other wolves Reese was willing to use. He’d do it all to make sure Alan and him could have their happy ending.

“Right… I don’t have to worry about you anymore, do I?” PB almost laughed. His eyes were watery again and the pained look in them hurt Alan’s heart.

“No. No you don’t. Not anymore, PB. I’m doing… I’m doing good. You just focus on you and your pups, okay?” Alan forced a smile onto his face.

“Okay…” PB just said, and it had been one of the most painful things about this visit.

“I still don’t understand why everyone keeps getting on it, though.” Alan sighed, shaking his head as he muttered to himself. “Reese and I are doing great. People just need to stop sticking their noses where it doesn’t belong…”

“Right.” PB rubbed an arm. “It’s getting cold…” He said and Alan gave him a look.

“Huh…? Oh. Oh! I’m so sorry PB! You can’t handle the cold anymore, can you? I didn’t even, I’m so stupid. I’m sorry, here.” Alan was already taking his coat off and PB quickly lifted his hands. “Just take it,” he said, draping it over the wolf’s shoulder and rubbing his arm after. “Get back inside. Make some no chocolate cocoa and get yourself warmed up with your pups. Its nearly December! We have all of that to get through as well.”

Alan laughed. His nose was turning red from the cold as he shivered, trying to put up a strong front for PB. Once upon a time ago, it had been PB giving Alan his jacket. And now… now the wolf had to accept being the one being taken care of.

“I’ll be inside the main house. I don’t got much planned today. I gave Salt and Pepper an early Christmas present to keep them busy.” He giggled, forcing a smile on his freezing face. “They never had a Christmas before! Can you imagine that? It took an entire day to explain it to them what it was all about. Crazy, huh?”

“Yeah, crazy…” PB tried to smile but it didn’t reach his face. He only ended up grimacing.

“Hopefully we can figure this all out before the twenty fifth.” Alan nodded quickly, teeth beginning to chatter. The sweat he worked up was beginning to freeze on his skin. “I need to break out the decorations but,” he looked around the yard. “Well, maybe I’ll wait on things before then. I never liked Christmas.” He took a second on that.

His smile slipping away as Alan just stared off at something only he could see.

“Alan,” PB wanted to reach for him but knew he didn’t have the right to do so. Alan had always hated Christmas because of his family. It had been a complicated mess and… and back then, PB could reach out for him. To help him. Save him.

When they had been together. But not anymore.

This man, now, didn’t need saving. He wasn’t even PB’s to save! Alan had others and Barrett came over to get Alan back inside as the human shivered in the cold air around them. The wolf chiding him about it, telling him that “Alpha won’t be pleased if you end up a human popsicle.” It had made Alan laugh. Hitting the wolf for teasing him like that but Barrett had continued to lead him back inside as PB watched him go, yet again…

“Text me if you need anything!” Alan waved a goodbye before being ushered inside by an annoyed bodyguard.

Barrett stopped in the back door way, giving PB one last cold look before slamming the door shut and locking it. PB just stood there as a chill breeze blew by, ruffling his fur. It was ratty now. His fur. Like an old fur coat that had been left in the rain and dried after… It wasn’t lush and gorgeous as it once had been. He tried to take care of it but… but it was a lot.

This was a lot.

Everything was a lot and PB headed back inside, hoping to get a moment’s peace but knowing he wouldn’t as his pups demanded his attention…

Alan made his way through the living room and down the steps into the basement. He was rubbing his arms as he hopped down the last step and walked over to grab something to wear. The door shut above him, and he jumped, looking back to see Barrett standing there at the top of the steps.

The wolf fiddled with the locks before coming down to join him.

“I’m just grabbing a coat.” Alan said but the look on Barrett’s face told him that wasn’t happening. “What…?”

“You’re cold.” Barrett said with a low growl, trying not to focus on the real issue here. The issue he had with Alan hanging out with that… other wolf. “You were out all morning, and you only wore a single coat!”

Barrett growled at him, getting worked up over that instead of what was actually wrong here.

Alan rolled his eyes. “Barrett, fuck. I mean I know I don’t have fur but I’m not going to freeze just because I didn’t bundle up.” He chuckled but shivered again. Barrett gave him a knowing look. “Dammit, the basement is always so cold. Shut up!”

“It’s a basement.” Barrett frowned at him as the human moved over to look at the coats hung up on the wall. They were far nicer brands than anything Alan would’ve normally bought. He was the Alpha-mate of this pack, and the Alpha did love spoiling him with presents.

Even if it wasn’t the kind a pack leader normally would spoil his mate with. Reese didn’t buy frivolous things. He didn’t buy jewelry or sports cars, or gold toilets as other rich people - Alan assumed - did. Reese was a very practical man. But if Alan needed something? He’d run out to get it for him…

No one got it.

No one seemed to understand that, sure, Reese and Alan had their ups and downs, but every relationship did. The two of them were doing great. He didn’t want to be apart from Reese, he wanted to spend even more time with him and now… this had come up and Alan was placed safely to the side as Reese took care of business.

Again.

Something or someone from the outside was always trying to get in the way of their time together. Their happiness. Alan hated it but he didn’t blame Reese, or PB, for it. He understood. It didn’t stop from him from feeling bad about it.

“Damn it…” Alan took a moment, just holding one of the coats. He hated the fact he’d smelled the inside of the jacket. It was one of the ones Reese had worn. Just because Alan had wanted the two of them to go out together a couple months ago, together. Wearing similar clothes. He had mistaken Reese’s coat for his own and now…

Now he was missing his wolf even more.

It barely smelled like Reese. Maybe Alan just needed the wolf to come roll around on everything, so he still had that scent with him at least. Roll around on him. The human chuckled at that, placing the coat back before turning around and nearly running face first into Barrett’s chest.

“F-fuck, sorry.” Alan apologized as he took a step back and bumped into the wall. “I forgot you were here…”

“I noticed.” Barrett frowned at him, looking over at the coats. He leaned over and sniffed the one Alan had been. “You like his scent, huh…?”

“Well, he is my boyfriend… uh, mate?” Alan was still trying to figure out the verbiage to use to describe what they were to each other. “I guess, I just miss him around…? The smell is nice… reminds me of him. Ah, this freaking sucks Barrett.” Alan stepped past the wolf who watched him go.

Barrett just watched him go without following. Always nearby Alan but never standing directly in his way, as if knowing his place.

Alan turned around and fell back onto the massive dog bed in the middle of the room. Reese had upgraded it from the smaller version last year as if planning for Salt and Pepper to join them. He wondered if Reese had wanted that. To sleep in a wolf pile as Alan had heard several of the other pack members did.

That was something very normal to want in a wolf pack.

It was a bonding experience. Sleeping together. Reese wanting to experience what others did and Alan, well, he just hoped not to be on the bottom of that pile if it happened again in the future. It was nice that Reese let him use his chest and body like a bed. Able to lay on it and just…

“This spot still smells like him.” Alan noted to where Reese had been sleeping the previous night. It wasn’t warm any longer, but it still smelled of his wolf and when you were surrounded by so many on a daily basis, it was nice to be able to distinguish Reese’s musk from the others.

Barrett just stood there, making Alan feeling increasingly awkward as if getting it second hand from the wolf.

“Uh, don’t you have anything else to do today?” Alan asked him, looking up at the wolf standing above him. He was comfortable around Barrett, but the wolf had been acting… odd, these past several days and it was hard to know what he was thinking. Even if Alan knew what was bothering him.

Where Reese hid his feelings from others, Barrett appeared as if didn’t have any. A blank look to his eyes as he just stood there.

“No.” Barrett said. “I am to watch you.”

“Well, you are dismissed.” Alan waved a hand. “I need some alone time.” Alan didn’t want to admit the smell of Reese was getting him worked up and needed some private time to take care of these urges.

“No.” Barrett said with that flat, monotone voice he used whenever he was on duty. “Alpha has ordered that I stay with you.”

“What…?” Alan sat up, taking a second to think that over. “This is about PB, isn’t it?” The human sighed, turning over as he pulled out his phone. “Going to give Reese a piece of my mind. Ditching me like this and not even letting me hang out with my friends…”

“Alan,” Barrett said his name and made the human look back. Alan jumped as Barrett crawled over him on all fours, reaching for his phone. He easily plucked it from Alan’s fingers and held it out of reach as he looked down at him. “Alpha is busy. I am to watch you. If you need something, ask me.”

Barrett gave a low warning growl now, not joking around any longer.

“I am to watch you.” He repeated as if that would explain things to the human who didn’t get it.

“Well, you don’t have to do that Barrett.” Alan turned to his side, looking at the wolf now. “You can go watch a movie. Or go talk with some pretty female wolf! Or slutty. Whatever your preference,” he shrugged. “Domino mentioned you don’t really uh, do much back at the club… this is your chance to live a little! Go out and drink, party. The Den is across the street. Go over there and just let me have some peace.”

Barrett’s ear flicked in annoyance. It was a very Reese-like reaction to have, and Alan had to stop the smile on his face from seeing him do the gesture. Salt and Pepper did a similar action when bothered by something. Some mannerisms were inherited.

“Do you not enjoy my presence any longer…?” Barrett’s ears folded back as he looked away. “Do you wish to hang out with that other wolf instead of me…? I thought I had earned a spot by your side but if you…”

“What?” Alan was utterly confused as he sat up. “Barrett, sit.” He ordered and the wolf did. “It’s eerie when you get on all four over me.” He laughed. “For a second you looked like Reese right before he-,” and Alan stopped talking. “Fuck. Sorry…” He blushed.

He hated how much Barrett looked like Reese in the right light. Something about those cold eyes, the dark fur, and those sharp features. They had similar mannerisms and there was something familiar about his touch and smell…

“You just look so much like him…” Alan shuddered, hoping he didn’t need to go back to therapy about this. He was beginning to see his boyfriend in other wolves, lovely.

Barrett rested in Reese’s spot, looking at the human. Tilting his head to the side with that blank expression on his face. Thinking things that Alan couldn’t even beginning to touch on. Barrett was nearly as large as Reese was. Lounging out next to the human, facing towards him.

If Alan squinted his eyes and dimmed the lights, he’d easily be able to mistake Barrett for Reese.

“I look like Reese?” He said the name only down here, in this safe place, between the two of them. The wolf would’ve never disrespected his Alpha otherwise.

“Well,” Alan offered in one hand. “You are his brother. And I’m a dumb human. At times it’s hard to tell you guys apart…” He apologized. “I don’t mean to compare you though. It’s just…”

“You’re a dumb human,” Barrett teased with a playful smile. “I look like Reese, huh…” Barrett mulled that over. “When I was on all fours, above you…? Or at all times?” He just asked and Alan wasn’t sure where he was going with this.

“I mean, yeah? It’s a little hard for me to miss that. Reese is bigger and his fur is darker in tone, like fresh shoe polished obsidian…” Alan reached out and Barrett didn’t pull away as he rubbed his hand through his fur. Alan didn’t even know when Barrett had undone his tie and opened the top buttons of his shirt.

It allowed his fur to breathe, and Alan just figured this was the way Barrett was when he was comfortable. It was nice, in a way, that Barrett could be like this around him. To trust him like this. To be vulnerable and open.

It was a first for another wolf to be so outside of Reese.

“I think I’m just missing Reese, is all.” Alan didn’t want to add on that he missed fucking his wolf and left that open ended. “Seeing you reminds me that you’re here because Reese isn’t… I’m sorry, Barrett. I don’t mean to be rude about this, or to you. You don’t deserve that.”

“Alpha is busy.” Barrett said, taking no offense. “If he were here, then I wouldn’t be…” It was just a statement, a fact, but Alan could see the look in his eyes as he said it.

“What?” Alan laughed, trying to ease the strange heaviness of their conversation. “You want to be here when it’s just Reese and I?”

Barrett gave him a look without words.

“Barrett,” Alan pushed his shoulder. The wolf just continued to look at him as if he didn’t understand. “There are things Reese and I do together that is just… us. I doubt Reese wants you in here while we… uh…” Alan blushed, unsure when the two of them were at the point they could talk about this kind of stuff.

“Reese has said I could be.” Barrett stated and it took Alan another full minute to fully understand and process his words.

“What?” Alan frowned, thinking that over. “I mean, you mentioned that last night. I thought you were joking!”

“Why would I joke about that?” Barrett asked, tilting his head to one side and Alan wanted to hit him in the face for the act. He needed to roll up a newspaper and bonk these wolves when they tried to pull a sneak, if albeit cute maneuver like that with him.

“Fuck,” Alan rested back. “You really do look like Reese when you do… that.”

“I can be your Reese when Alpha isn’t here.” Barrett said with a flat monotone voice and a blank face. If he was making a joke? Barrett was the ultimate straight man in the matter.

“I don’t know if you are joking or teasing me or just…” Alan took a second. “Did Reese really say that?” He sat up and looked at him.

“Reese wants you happy and safe here in the pack.” Barrett nodded his head once. “He does not wish for you to leave where he cannot keep an eye on you. For your safety.” Barrett struggled now with the words, trying to express his Alpha’s wishes to his mate. “Reese, Alpha, wants you to be happy but safe. If something were to happen to you, Alan…” He didn’t finish.

He didn’t need too.

As up and down as their relationship could be, Alan knew that Reese entire life and future was centered around his wellbeing. It was strange to be loved like that. It was almost possessive in nature, but Alan knew it was just a wolf thing. And Reese was a wolf. His wolf. And Alan? Alan was Reese’s ultimate prized possession.

And Reese was a wolf that would swallow the sun in order to keep it all to himself…

“I want to at least hear it from him.” Alan looked over at Barrett who reluctantly gave him his phone back. “Not to say I think you are lying to me,” Alan added on as he flipped through his contacts and found Reese’s number. “I just need to hear it from Reese.”

The last several messaged Alan had sent had been seen but not replied to. Most of Alan’s messages were seen but never replied to outside a one- or two-word response. The days of them texting for hours were over and Reese would just check in to make sure he was okay.

Until he had placed Barrett in charge. Now Reese checked in with him instead of Alan and it left the human feeling needy for his wolf.

“Hey babe, sorry to bother you. I just wanted to check in. And. Uh, well, Barrett told me some things you told him and like… what?” Alan laughed at the stupid text as he sent it out. He dropped the phone on his chest, resting back. “Are you gay?” He asked Barrett.

“Bisexual.” Barrett answered. “A lot of wolves are. We just aren’t allowed to express ourselves with others…”

“Is that a wolf thing or your old Alpha’s policy…?” Alan asked, looking over at him. He felt terrible for these wolves who were so suppressed on every facets of life. Their families, their personal development, relationships, their career or wants and needs and just… everything.

No wonder so many of these wolves would eventually snap and act out. All predators were shackled since birth to conform to the way society wanted them to be. To be born into a pack should be a joyous occasion, not a debt you would eventually owe them.

That isn’t why you should have children. To have them, raise them… so they would one day owe you. That wasn’t love.

“I don’t remember.” Barrett laid his head down and looked at Alan. “I’m kind of experiencing this for the first time. We all are. Since Reese took charge and you…” He trailed off, looking away.

“What about me?” Alan really wanted to know what the wolves thought of him.

“You allow Reese to be more… human.” Barrett chuckled as he smiled. It was a devilish smile, full of white fangs and pointed teeth but Alan tried not to show it bothered him. Most wolves never smiled and to have Barrett try to do it in front of him meant a lot. That this wolf trusted him. “We’re not perfect. We don’t have to be. We can experience life in all its colors and live up to our potential… Unlike what the other Alphas pressed and forced onto us. We’re just… doing the best we can.”

“All we can do.” Alan agreed. He felt his phone vibrate and picked it up. Reese was trying to face time him. “Reese?” Alan answered before pushing the phone away from him with a laugh. “Dammit Reese!”

All he saw was the obsidian black furred wolf’s snoot pushing against the phone and Alan laughed loudly at the look of it.

“Fucking small phone,” Reese grumbled on the other side. He had to turn his snout to the side before glaring at the small screen. “Alan.” He growled the word and Alan felt himself smile. “Is Barrett there?”

“Oh, you want to talk to him?” Alan was disappointed that Reese had just wanted to facetime Barrett.

“I’m here, Alpha.” Barrett scooted closer and Alan felt a hand brush his side as the wolf looked down at the phone, facing brushing up against his as the two looked at the video screen.

“Good.” Reese growled before pulling back. He looked left, then right before stepping to the side before addressing them. “I’m a little occupied. I’ll make this quick. Alan,” he said, and the human sat up. “I ordered Barrett to be with you at all times I’m not.”

“Uh, okay?” Alan was about to ask what did Barrett have to say about that but neither of the two wolves seemed to be concerned that Reese was using Barrett like his personal henchman.

“He will be there for any and all your needs while I am taking care of this shit.” Reese grumbled. “To make sure you are safe and okay… taken care of.”

“Yes, but he seems to think that also means, uh, bedroom stuff.” Alan whispered at the end. As silly and pointless as it was, he didn’t want Barrett to hear them. Even if the wolf was lying next to him.

“He’s a sub in.” Reese shrugged, not seeming to see an issue with this.

“What does a subby bottom have to do with this?” Alan asked and Reese rolled his eyes with a low growl.

“No, Alan. I mean… Barrett is under my orders. By my order, and thus as an extension of myself, will do whatever you need to be… happy. During my absence. Anything.” Reese said the word again with an amused laugh. “Just think of me. As you always do.”

“Wait, you want me to use him as a fill in for you… do you… Like, sexually?” Alan hesitated, new doubts and fears surfacing he didn’t even know had been there. “R-Reese…? Do you… do you have someone on the side? When I’m not around…?”

Reese blinked several times before nearly snapping the phone in his hand. “NO! This is different. I am there but not there. No one is allowed to touch me but you.” The wolf closed his eyes, letting out a heated breath. “Barrett is just a tool for me to use to keep you safe and happy.”

“Uh…” Alan still wasn’t following.

“Barrett.” Reese ordered and the other wolf’s ears perked up. “Nose his chest.”

“W-wait, what?” Alan jumped as Barrett did.

Before Alan could say anything else, Barrett had moved down and crawled over him. Pushing his snout underneath Alan’s shirt, the wolf began to nose and snuffle around his chest like a pig looking for truffles. Alan squirmed at the feel of his fur and whiskers tickling his flesh as that large padded canine nose pushed against his cold flesh.

It was wet and bumpy, and it continued to sniff at his skin, snorting him up as Barrett did as he was told.

“Alan,” Reese said over the phone and the human looked at his phone. “Look at me.” And Alan did. “Just look at me as I rub my hands over your sides,” and Barrett did. Running his hands up and down Alan’s side. “Look at me, think of me… I’m right there with you, aren’t I?”

“Y-yes, f-fuck, Reese!” Alan curled his toes as he felt the hot damp tongue of Barrett lick up his stomach and to his chest. His skin had been ice cold because of the weather outside and Barrett’s steamy muzzle was like fire against his skin as he breathed over him. That tongue was like a hot damp sponge licking over his body. “Fuck, that’s hot…”

“I told you I’d keep you warm.” Reese growled lustfully from the other line. “You think I’d ever leave my mate alone and cold?”

“Ah, R-Reese!” Alan breaths grew heavier and hotter as Barrett continued to nose and lick at him, nibbling on one of his nipples. The large wolf was over his body, pinning him to the bed as Alan focused on the phone screen as Barrett licked him up like a succulent slice of meat.

“You’ve been bent up for a long time, pup. I noticed. I might’ve left you alone for a little too long, this time, heh... Wanting to rub one out by yourself?” Reese growled and Alan had a sneaking suspicion that Barrett had texted Reese the second Alan had the idea of doing so in their bed together. “I promised to be responsible for every one of your orgasm you had. I plan to keep that promise.”

“R-Reese!” Alan hissed, looking down at the wolf with his head under his shirt. “T-this is not what I had in mind!”

“No, Alan.” Reese growled. “Look at me.” And he did. “You think of me,” Alan groaned as Barrett rubbed his hands lower, spreading his legs before groping him roughly. “Every second of every day, you think of me.”

“I-I do,” Alan admitted. Even if it was stretching the truth, he was too worked up and aroused by this to stop himself. “Every day. I do. I think of you. All the time.” He panted and breath as the wolf on the other line rubbed himself. “I miss you,” Alan admitted. Huffing out and groaning Reese’s name in a long drawn-out moan that filled the basement.

Reese’s ears splayed out.

“I miss you too, pup.” Reese said in a softer tone. “I’m going to zip down your pants,” and Barrett did it for Reese. “Pull you out,” and Alan jumped as he felt the clawed fingers of his bodyguard pull his stiff member free of his underwear. “Work you,” Alan moaned as Barrett’s strong finger and rough paw pads rubbed over his sensitive length. “And I’m going to take all of you,” Reese licked his fangs.

Alan didn’t need to look but Reese ordered him to do so.

The human looked down between his spread legs to the wolf that had gone down on him. His length vanishing into Barrett’s muzzle as the wolf began suckling and slurping over it. It was so hot that Alan feared he might melt in that muzzle. Loud wet, slurping sounds filled the basement as Barrett’s tongue licked over his body. Tasting his cool sweat from the long day outside. Licking over his hairy orbs and up and down the inner part of his thighs. Drool dribbled down his balls and along his taint. It was hot and warm, sticky, and thick and Alan groaned louder as the wolf mercilessly took him all the way to the back of his throat with ease.

Barrett had to be warmer than any wolf, or man, that Alan had ever been with. Steam rose from the wolf’s parted jaws and Alan was trying not to face fuck those steaming hot lips as his toes began to curl.

“Come for me Alan.” Reese growled low and deep. “You come only when I tell you too.” And Alan nodded. “Put your hand on the back of my head,” and Alan put his hand on the back of Barrett’s head. Between his ears. Rubbing the wolf fondly as he thought of his wolf. “Now hump.” Reese growled.

Alan did.

Slow steady thrusting motions as he rocked his hips up and into that warm, steaming maw until the very tip of his dick pushed against the back of Barrett’s throat. The wolf didn’t even struggle with his length, easily taking it in and letting him slide over the warm girth of his engorged, grooved tongue. The heat of it, the taste of Alan was making Barrett pant hotly around him and the breath, combined with that tart drool and the heat gusting out of his mouth was all Alan needed.

“Reese,” Alan started with, pushing Barrett down roughly over his length. “Reese!” He cried out his lovers name as he felt it coming. It had been so long since he had the pleasure of this and now he was about to lose himself in it as that pleasure flooded through his body, making his thighs flex and ass clench.

“Swallow,” Reese ordered, and Barrett did.

Gulping and swallowing down Alan’s load as the human shot down his throat. The other wolf didn’t hesitate, he didn’t falter, Barrett took it without a single word or sound other than the messy slurps he made lapping Alan’s mess up after.

“Don’t let anyone else see it, smell it or have it.” Reese growled and Barrett gulped louder as if to answer his Alpha. “Good. Now then, I need to get back to work,” he cursed as he adjusted the bulge in his pants and the wet spot that had formed. “Alan,” he said and the human gasped for breath in answer. “Never mind. Barrett,” he said, and the wolf crawled back up.

Taking the phone from Alans’ limp grasp, Barrett wiped the drool from his chin before answering. “Yes, Alpha?”

“Keep an eye on my mate until I return.” Reese told him and the two knew exactly what he meant. It was why he had Barrett clean up the mess, to swallow the evidence as it were. Reese wanted PB and Alan around each other as little as possible.

He did not want that foreign wolf smelling his mate’s release. That was something reserved only for Reese, or, in this case, Barrett.

Barrett nodded in understanding as he licked his lips clean.

“I promise, Alpha. You have my word.” Barrett nodded towards the phone and Reese snorted.

“Good. If you keep this up,” Reese trailed off. “Just… just watch Alan for me.”

“Of course…” Barrett hesitated for a brief second. Alan was still recovering, no one else was downstairs, the door was locked, and Reese had a little privacy. “Of course, I will, Reese… brother.” He hesitantly said the words.

Reese looked at the phone in his hand. His expression was impossible to read, and Barrett worried he had stepped over the line by being so informal with is Alpha. To be familiar with him like this. To act like they were a family after all the time apart…

“Is Alan doing good…?” Reese asked and Barrett’s ears perked up.

“Yes, Reese. H-he is. I am keeping a close eye and monitoring him at your orders.” Barrett growled back, keeping his words more wolf than human so Alan didn’t understand. The human was still gasping for breath next to him.

Maybe Barrett had been a little worked up, going down on the human far more hungrily than he had been attending. Barrett couldn’t help the smile on his face seeing the look on Alan’s sweaty face.

“Oh, god. I’m dying.” Alan gasped. “That was. Holy shit. I’m… wow…”

“Good. Good… It seems I made the right choice in trusting you then with this matter…” Reese sighed. He adjusted himself once more. “Going to mount that pup so damn hard when all this is over.”

Barrett almost chuckled. It was as close to an emotion as Reese was going to get from him.

“Keep up the good work.” Reese smoothed out his suit, adjusted his tie and stood back up. “I’ll make sure to wrap this up nice and neat. Bury the rest.” He growled and Barrett nodded. “Stay with Alan until I return… and after, if you wish.”

“Thank you, Alpha.” Barrett closed his eyes as he pressed his head down, forehead forward as if to bump it against Reese’s.

“If anything happens to me…” Reese started, unable to finish his sentence.

“I will take care of Alan. Promise, brother…” Barrett growled in reply and Reese was able to turn the phone off. One less thing for him to worry about as he stepped back out onto the street to deal with business.