His Beta of Submission

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"How about we both be with him?" Brian interrupts, and Tyler's eyes widen. "We won't have any kind of relationship, no thank you. We can share him and even have kids with him in the future. Honestly, this isn't as uncommon as it may seem. This whole...arrangement I'm offering-."

"It's something you'd see on TV." Tyler interrupts quietly, but it looked like he was considering it. I honestly wasn't even considered at this point.

They both just looked at me and suddenly Brian nods at me.

"Your expression says it all, you're smiling."

I cover my mouth because I was somehow smiling. Brian chuckled and I saw Tyler just continue to look at me.

"I wouldn't mind....being with the both of you, yeah..." I breathe, and Tyler looks at Brian now. "I just don't understand how we'd...go about it."

"Well, I've had you for a bit now. I think Tyler and you have some things to say to one another. Am I wrong?" Brian questions us both now and neither of us say a thing. He just chuckles as he walks out of the room.

When he closes the door I look back at Tyler only for him to hug me tightly. To feel him doing so took me aback because I thought he'd display that hostility towards me still. Except he wasn't...

My fingers went into his hair as I felt how soft it was, my other arm wrapping around his waist. I hugged him back and leaned into him. Found myself at ease suddenly and being with him and not being angry with his actions...brought me peace.

I liked being with him and before him. I couldn't even stay mad at him anymore.

"Since when did you smoke?" I question him softly, and he chuckles shakily.

"I don't...it distracted me with how much it hurt." He confesses to me, and I see him peer up at me. To see his face up close like that again...

"You're so pretty." I murmur to him, and he snorts.

"Even after I cut my hair? I remembered how much you said I was...that and I wanted to try and not look that way anymore. I thought this would alter my appearance."

"It only accentuates your features. You're still beautiful to me." I breathe, and he looks away fast. I saw him blushing and he laid his head against my chest again.

I was surprised because it really seemed like he missed me. Missed me much more than he was letting on. To see such a thing...to feel his embrace in such a way...

"You're not telling me something, of course you aren't." I whisper into his ears, and he shakes his head. "You can tell me. I won't be mad."

"Of course you won't be, but I'm mad...at myself." He confesses, and I feel his hands run up my arms. "I missed this embrace and seeing you. I just wanted to hold onto something that wouldn't even cease. Just because I mate with you...doesn't mean anything. I just didn't want the mark because I thought that would lessen my status."

"Who cares what people think Tyler, as long as you're happy...right?" I ask him softly.

He looks at me and I raise my eyebrow. I see him smile as his eyes watered.

"I'm sorry Xavion." He apologizes, and I shook my head. "I tried everything to not tell you what I was really feeling. To give in to this feeling...love for you. I believed that I was...the problem, that I was wrong for letting myself submit to someone when I'm an Alpha. Aren't I going against my destiny?"

I grin down at him, cradling his face softly.

"Isn't your destiny to just be happy...follow your heart? Despite what others believe? Even despite what you believe at times?" I question him.