40 No Objections? Great!

[TAMIKO]

After what felt like forever, Igor pulled back from Tamiko.

The young Lycan's face was flushed and his lips were swollen, not to mention pink. His ears had turned red, and his feet were wobbling. He felt like his whole body was on fire and he wanted to disappear.

So he did the only rational thing he could think of.

He hid his face in Igor's shirt, ignoring the alpha who was staring at them.

There was nothing that could ever be more embarrassing to Tamiko than being claimed right in front of Alpha Ashton. He wasn't ashamed of belonging to Igor, no. He just felt like he couldn't handle the stares from the alpha and the questions.

Besides, this was Igor's doing, so if anyone was going to answer the questions, then it had to be him.

"My beautiful soul," Igor whispered lovingly to Tamiko, as he sniffed Tamiko's neck, while stroking the young Lycan's hair.

Suddenly it was as if Alpha Ashton was the one intriguing in their private moments, and not the other way around. In all that time, the ever-feared Grealor alpha was still dead silent, watching in sadness, and worry.

Sure, he had expected that there would come a day when fate would remind alpha Ashton who and where Tamiko belonged, but he had never thought that it would be this soon.

At the end of the day, Tamiko was always a lycan and he would always find his way back home to where he truly belonged, and Grealor wasn't that home.

It was a reality that was hitting the alpha a little too hard, while Igor, he was smirking at alpha Ashton.

"You're always going to be safe with me, I swear it," Igor said to Tamiko, though this time, Igor was looking at Alpha Ashton, as if to warn the alpha against trying shit with his erasthai.

The warning had been clear from the moment Igor had walked in with Tamiko's hands in his, but now, it was glaring at the alpha.

This right here was just the beginning of what Karma looked like. And when the day would finally come, there wouldn't be enough space in the world for Alpha Ashton and Tamiko to live in at the same time.

Alpha Ashton knew that, Igor knew that, and Tamiko, was too busy hiding his face to know that his vengeance would probably kick off sooner than he had planned. Then again, it was fate and karma, right?

Some would even call it destiny, only that destiny was the beautiful part of life, and fate was the asshole that shoved shit in everyone's faces and forced them to accept it.

"So, Ashton. As I was saying before I got lost in that sweet kiss. Tamiko is mine. You hurt him, I burn down everything you love. I won't take him from Grealor, because he still doesn't want to leave.

"It's obvious he feels gratitude towards you and wants to prove that you didn't waste your time by taking him in. But be warned, Ashton.

"If I come back and find an extra scratch on him, if I find him fatigued, if I come back and find my sweet little angel feeling low because of any of your wolves, then don't blame me for who I will be then. That is all.

"Do you have any objections?" Igor asked.

Before Alpha Ashton could say a word, Igor added, "Great, you don't have any more questions. That is very good of you.

"Anyway, could you please show me the nearest room with blankets? I just had my mate's cabin fixed and I want to keep him warm. I wouldn't want him being accused of stealing."

Alpha Ashton looked at Igor with his jaw once again on the ground.

Igor had audacity, and a lot of it, for coming to the alpha like this. He had to have some loose screws and that would have been surprising if they didn't know him, but Alpha Ashton knew him.

Maybe that was also why instead of saying anything, the big bad alpha of Grealor got up himself, and went for the blankets, before coming back with three servants who carried the beddings for Tamiko and strangely, a better set of clothes than the one Tamiko was having.

"Here you are," Alpha Ashton said and Igor let out a knowing chuckle.

"Oh dear me. I almost forgot that my beautiful soul has to put on some clothes. Thank you. If it's not too much trouble, then I shall stay in Grealor for a week to make sure my mate is settling well in the new house.

"It is new after all and he might find it uncomfortable," Igor said and Alpha Ashton just nodded defeatedly before he shooed the servants outside, as if to tell them to follow Igor and his mate. Well, Igor was still sitting and Tamiko was still hiding his face in Igor's shirt.

Oh to be shy, so protected, and very loved by the worst of the worst.

"Kosta I c—" Tamiko began and Igor figured that Ramiko was too shy to get up. So the barbarian's solution was to carry Tamiko in his front while they walked the long road to the Grealor woods.

Well, frankly, Tamiko was willing to take on anything other than show his face out there to anyone, really.

He wasn't ready for Galya and Danny teasing him or the stares that Gabe would definitely give him.

He wasn't ready for the looks he would be getting from the whole of Grealor, and so with his face still in Igor's shirt, Tamiko undid Igor's hair that had been in a bun, letting it flow freely on Igor's back, and that was his shield. Oh, Tamiko.

"Thank you, Ashton. I look forward to helping you score the woods and make sure it's safe for the next week. I shall take my plate and leave now," Igor said and Tmiko didn't even fight him.

"Where are you taking him?" Gabe growled possessively when he noticed the position Tamiko and Igor were in. It was one that he had clearly not expected because the pang in his heart was making him feel a whole lot worse.

It took Judd and Zakhar holding him back to make sure that their alpha in line didn't mess up the day. If Alpha Ashton was not even having the words to describe the situation right now, Gabe trying to fight Igor over Tamiko would be terrible for the young wolf.

"He's mine. Do you have any objections to that? Gabriel Grealor?" Igor asked, making sure to pause while he shooed the servants as if to tell them to make sure the gifts Alpha Ashton had been so kind to share with Tamiko were in the right place.

"Why you little—" Gabe began and Galya looked at the alpha's son, then at Igor, before looking at the two best friends who had always been quick to mock Tamiko, yet right now, they were holding back.

It was then that realization dawned on Galya a little too hard. Tamiko had gotten a mate that night. Instead of spelling the words that seemed so forbidden, Galya Belova did the one thing she had always wanted to do for years now.

She punched Gabriel in the face.

"You're such a dick, Grealor. Fuck you."

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[A/N]

* Galya lmfaooo thanks for doing what we have also wanted to do for a while I guess lol