Mates With Benefits

“So why do you think Princess herself has requested a meeting?” asked one of the two men sitting in the conference room. Damien didn’t answer, looking out of the wall of windows overlooking the city. It was early in the morning and the crisp air was flooding the modern room from the open window. Despite that, his suit seemed too tight and uncomfortable. “The rumor has it she has been visiting the most influential men her age for the past three months. People say she is looking for her mate, others think she is plotting something against or for her father,” continued Damien’s Beta. Anything coming from that clan, that family couldn’t be simple. Meanwhile, all the way down on the first floor of the tall building that was the financial pride of the Black clan, Alpha Damien’s assistant sat behind the gigantic front desk trying to hide her bitter face as much as possible. Tea, coffee, and small pastries from the bakery around the corner. It was too early f

Damien was having a rare peaceful lunch in the outdoor part of the corporate cafeteria when Arsen sat down at his table without an invitation. They had had a few arguments since meeting the princess. Obviously, Mates with Benefits was the dumbest idea his Alpha had come up with to date, but nothing was changing Damien's mind. Arsen even offered to take him to underground shady sex clubs and treat him to anything his Alpha heart and dick desired.Damien looked up from his lunch with an annoyed “What is it?”“I just received an email from Emma Lord, your rejection meeting is set to Wednesday at noon in a conference room at Institute of Organic Chemistry on King territory,” Arsen informed.Damien made a “humph” sound in acknowledgment.Beta smiled and continued, “Remember Emma Lord from the academy? She used to beat up most of the boys. She is a Beta, isn’t she? So, Princess has a Beta as her assistant.”Damien looked at him and smirked. “Emma used to beat you up.”

“I need all the details!!!” Emma roared barging through the front door and almost running to the kitchen.Ada already had Emma’s coffee made the way she liked, placing it on the island. She herself was sitting by that same island eating homemade crepes with strawberries from her grandparents’ summer house. Emma sipped her coffee and stole a piece of a crepe, impatience showing in her jerky moves, as Ada slowly chewed a bite of her breakfast. What was there even to chew?“He kissed my cheek…” she growled not raising her eyes off the plate.Emma’s loud unladylike laughter echoed throughout the goddamn house.“I swear you are cursed. Are you sure your father hasn’t asked a witch to put some sex-repellent spell on you?”Ada already had had a bad night having dreams of an invisible beast chasing her through a night forest growling her name. She had woken up hot and sensitive. Now she was grumpy and Emma’s great mood wasn’t helping.“When are you seeing him next? Do you

WARNING: Sexual Content --------------------------- “Isn’t it that old Char’s nephew? That family has been trying to take down Damien ever since he took over. That boy is no match to Damien. What’s happening?” Emma said frowning. Neither Damien, nor the challenger were attacking. The crowd was getting impatient. Emma silently pointed at the Char family leader, and Ada noticed that the opponent kept glancing their way too. Then after a node from the family leader, the opponent attacked. Damien was calm, almost detached, unsurprised. The fight was over within minutes, they didn’t even shift. Damien was standing above the body of the Char kid, then he walked over to where the rest of his family was gathered and said something. What was surprising, he didn’t move out of the arena or put on his shoes. He simply walked back into starting position and waited. As the crowd was starting to disperse, another man walked into the arena and growled his challenge r

The older part of the city was buzzing with life. Wine festival had been set up in the central square and Moonlight Shine clan had allowed access to members of other clans to this territory after purchasing overpriced entry tickets of course.The artsy clan had found out a few decades ago that the profit of opening their cultural events to other clans outweighed the risks. After a few failed attempts at security, other clans had decided to combine their efforts and each had provided twenty warriors. This balanced out the power and allowed Moonlight Shine clan hold the public events. No fighting, challenging or mating was allowed, although the last rule had been generally ignored. Izolda Mikhailova and Ada’s grandmother Rose had been pioneers of organizing such public events to bring wolves together.Ada and Emma were walking down the center of boulevard named after great werewolf poet Paschkin. All major streets and the boulevard were closed for vehicles to allow