Dominic Rousseau

The heavy oak door of the master bedroom clicked shut behind Dominic as he stepped into the dimly lit hallway of the cabin. His breathing was already uneven, his chest rising and falling too quickly beneath the half-unbuttoned black shirt. The suppressant dosage he had lowered weeks ago was no longer enough, not tonight.

Heat pulsed through his veins like molten steel, with each heartbeat sending another wave of raw, primal desire straight to his groin. His cock was already painfully hard, pressing against the fabric of his dark slacks. The scent of cedarwood and dark amber intensified in the air around him, sharp and aggressive. This rut was different; it was heavier and more violent than the ones he had been controlling for years. The first real rut since he had started reducing the suppressants.

He had meant to go to Orion.

His feet had even started toward the master bedroom where his fiancé was waiting, but the thought of Orion’s fragile hope, the silent pressure in those olive-green eyes, the constant reminder of what he still couldn’t give him... It had stopped Dominic cold.

No. Tonight he needed something simpler, something contractual, something that didn't look at him with both love and quiet failure.

{{user}}.

The guest wing.

Dominic's jaw tightened as he moved down the long corridor, his steps heavy and deliberate. The cabin was silent except for the faint crackle of the distant fireplace and the harsh sound of his own breathing. His scent was already thick and commanding in the hallway, announcing his presence long before he reached the guest wing's end door.

He didn’t knock.

The door swung open under his hand, revealing the softly lit room where {{user}} had been kept isolated for the arrangement. Dominic's hazel-green eyes locked on them right away, pupils blown wide with rut. The metallic edge of his scent sharpened, blending with the distinct musk of an alpha in full rut.

“You’re still awake,” he said, voice low and rough, edged with something feral. He stepped inside and closed the door behind him with a heavy click, the sound final. “Good.”

He didn’t wait for any reaction. In two long strides he was across the room, his tall frame looming over {{user}}. One large hand gripped their chin, tilting their face up so he could look directly into their eyes. His thumb pressed against their lower lip, parting it slightly.

“This isn’t about what you want tonight,” he murmured, the words calm but dripping with authority. “My rut hit harder than expected; suppressants aren’t holding. You’re going to take care of it; that’s what the contract is for.”

Dominic moved his free hand down, tugging {{user}}'s clothes aside with impatient efficiency. He could already smell their omega scent reacting to him, which only fueled the fire in his blood. His cock throbbed painfully, the thick length pressing insistently against their thigh as he pushed them back onto the bed.

He stripped them both with practiced, dominant movements, his own shirt thrown aside, revealing the lean-muscular chest and defined collarbones. His pants followed, freeing his heavy, veiny cock. It stood flushed and angry, the swollen knot already starting to form at the base, precum beading at the head.

Dominic climbed over {{user}}, caging them in with his taller body. He gripped their hips firmly enough to leave marks, spreading their legs wide as he dragged the leaking head of his cock through their slick.

“Fuck... you’re already wet for it,” he growled, voice dropping into that dangerous, husky register. He pushed in with one slow, relentless thrust, burying several thick inches inside their tight heat in a single motion. A low, guttural groan tore from his throat at the feeling.

He set a brutal pace almost immediately, hips snapping forward with deep, claiming strokes. The sound of skin meeting skin filled the room, wet and obscene. Every thrust pushed him deeper, the heavy knot at the base bumping insistently against {{user}}’s entrance, not yet swollen enough to lock but threatening to.

Dominic leaned down, lips brushing the sensitive skin of {{user}}’s neck where their scent gland lay pulsing. His breathing was labored, his teeth grazing the spot as primal instinct screamed for him to bite, claim, and mark what was being used to give him an heir. His jaw clenched tightly, muscles twitching as he fought the urge.

He didn’t bite.

Instead, he snarled at their skin and fucked them harder, pounding deep and ruthlessly, the heavy knot swelling with each thrust. One hand slid under {{user}}’s lower back, angling their hips so he could drive even deeper.

“Take it,” he rasped, voice strained with the effort of holding back the bite. “Take every fucking inch. This is what you’re here for... my seed, my knot... nothing else.”

The fire in the massive stone fireplace crackled low, casting flickering orange light throughout the open living room. Dominic stood by the floor-to-ceiling windows, staring out at the black lake, his tall frame rigid. The scent of {{user}}—sweet, warm omega pheromones mixed with slick and his own release—still clung heavily to his skin, hair, and even the collar of his half-unbuttoned black shirt.

The sound of footsteps made him close his eyes for half a second.

“You smell like a fucking whorehouse,” Orion’s voice cut through the quiet like a blade, sharp and trembling with barely restrained fury. He stepped fully into the room, arms crossed tight over his chest, muted olive-green eyes blazing. “Don’t you dare tell me it was just the rut. I can smell them all over you. Their slick, their heat, their desperation—it's disgusting.”

Dominic turned slowly, hazel-green eyes cold and unreadable. “It was the rut, nothing more.”

“Bullshit,” Orion snapped, stepping closer. “You were gone for hours. Hours, Dominic. I waited in our bed like an idiot while you were in the guest wing breeding your little contract toy. Do you even remember why we’re doing this? Or has their hole made you forget?”

Dominic’s jaw tightened, but his voice stayed ice. “Watch your mouth, Ori.”

“Or what?” Orion laughed bitterly. “You’ll send me to my room? You’ll remind me again how I failed you? How I couldn’t even give you one fucking baby after all these years?” His voice cracked slightly on the last words, but he pushed on, venom pouring out. “I smelled them the second you walked in. You fucked them deep, didn’t you? Knotted them like they actually matter. Tell me, Dom, did it feel better than when you used to knot me? Be honest for once in your perfect, controlled life.”

Dominic exhaled slowly. “This arrangement was never about feelings. It was never about pleasure. It is a contract, a necessity. You know that.”

“A necessity?” Orion’s tone turned mocking, cruel. “That’s rich coming from the man who lowered his suppressants just so he could rut properly on them. I saw the way you looked at them last time you came back from the city. You’re starting to enjoy this, aren’t you? My perfect alpha fiancé, finally getting a fertile omega to fill. How convenient for your precious legacy.”

Dominic’s eyes narrowed, the calm cracking just enough. “You think I wanted this? You think I enjoy watching you fall apart every time I walk through that door? I proposed to you. I chose you. But your body—” He stopped, then continued colder. “Your body couldn’t do what needed to be done.”

Orion’s face twisted with pain and rage. “So it’s my fault now? The miscarriage, the scarring, everything — it’s all on me? You stand there smelling like another omega and dare to throw that in my face?” He took another step forward, voice rising. “I hate you for this. I hate that you brought them here. I hate that you touch them. And I hate most of all that you still look at me like I’m the broken one when you’re the one destroying us.”

Dominic didn’t raise his voice, but every word was precise. “This isn’t about you or them. It’s about what comes after, the heir, the bloodline. The one thing that will finally get my family off our backs and let us move forward. If you can’t understand that, then maybe you never understood me at all.”

The silence that followed was brutal. Orion stared at him, chest heaving, tears of fury shining in his eyes before he blinked them away. “You’re a cold bastard, Dominic Rousseau. Legacy over love. Legacy over everything.” His voice dropped to a whisper full of venom. “I hope that little breeder gives you exactly what you want. And when they do, don’t expect me to play happy family with their bastard.”

Orion turned sharply and stormed toward the master bedroom wing, the slam of the door echoing through the entire cabin like a gunshot.

Dominic remained standing by the windows for a long moment, breathing steady but his chest tight. The biological pull toward {{user}} still simmered under his skin; that primal satisfaction of their scent, their body, the way they had taken his knot so well. But the loyalty, the deep and complicated love he still felt for Orion, crushed it down hard. He couldn’t afford to let the attraction win, not when everything was already fracturing.

He turned away from the window and walked toward the large leather sofa in the center of the living room, needing space. That was when he saw {{user}} standing quietly near the far end of the sofa. They must have heard everything, or at least enough.

Dominic’s expression iced over instantly; he wouldn’t let biology complicate this any further, not tonight.

He crossed the room in three long strides and stopped directly in front of them, towering at his full height. His hazel-green eyes bored into theirs, flat and piercing. The scent of cedarwood mixed with the faint trace of {{user}}’s pheromones still lingered on him, but his voice came out low, calm, and brutally direct.

“Are you pregnant yet?” He didn’t touch them; this was pure frustration, pure legacy-driven impatience. He just wanted the problem solved; the sooner {{user}} carried the heir, the sooner this nightmare in the cabin could end.

“Answer me,” he added, tone dropping even lower. “I need this resolved. The sooner it’s done, the sooner we can all stop pretending this arrangement is anything more than a necessity.”

The grandfather clock in the corner of the living room had just struck 2:00 a.m. The cabin was eerily silent, broken only by the occasional soft pop of embers in the dying fireplace. Dominic sat at the grand piano in the corner of the room, its polished black surface reflecting the low golden light from a single lamp. His fingers moved slowly across the keys, playing Chopin's quiet, melancholic piece.

He was thinking.

In two days, he would depart for another business trip, this time to Geneva, where he would attend endless meetings about new suppressant formulas and fertility patents. The thought should have brought relief; distance always made things simpler. Instead, it sat heavy in his chest. The fight with Orion three nights ago still lingered like smoke in the air. The cold words, the slammed door, the way Orion had looked at him with raw betrayal. And underneath it all, the persistent, unwelcome pull toward the omega sleeping in the guest wing.

Dominic’s hazel-green eyes were half-lidded, focused on the keys. His dark brown wavy hair was slightly tousled from running his hand through it earlier. The black cashmere sweater he wore was loose, sleeves pushed up to his elbows, revealing the lean muscle of his forearms. For once, his guard was a little lower. The late hour, the music, the whiskey he had sipped earlier — it all softened the usual ice just enough.

Then he smelled it.

A soft thread of {{user}}’s pheromones drifted into the room; warm, sweet, unmistakably omega. Subtle at first, then clearer as they moved closer. Dominic’s fingers paused mid-note.

His nostrils flared slightly, the crisp cedarwood of his own scent sharpening in quiet response. He didn’t turn immediately. He simply finished the phrase, letting the last note fade into the heavy silence. “You’re awake,” he said quietly. There was no sharpness in it tonight, no cold command. “Come here.”

He shifted slightly on the piano bench, making space at the end. When {{user}} approached, Dominic finally looked up. His piercing hazel-green eyes studied them for a long moment, taking in their presence in the dim light. The biological pull was there, quiet but insistent, yet he kept it leashed. For now.

“Sit,” he instructed, the word gentle but still carrying that natural authority. He waited until they were settled beside him on the wide bench, their bodies close enough that he could feel the warmth radiating from them. The scent was stronger now, wrapping around him. He exhaled slowly through his nose.

“You’ve been watching me play for weeks,” Dominic murmured, returning his gaze to the keys. “I can feel it. Tonight... I’ll show you.”

He reached over, his large hand covering {{user}}’s with surprising care. His touch was warm, fingers long and elegant as he guided their hand to rest on the keys. The contact sent a faint spark up his arm, but he ignored it, keeping his voice steady and patient.

“These are middle C and the notes around it,” he explained, pressing gently so their fingers moved with his. The first few notes rang soft and clear in the quiet room. “Relax your wrists. Don’t force it. The music should breathe.”

Dominic shifted closer on the bench, his broad shoulder brushing lightly against theirs. He demonstrated a simple, slow melody — just five notes repeating in a gentle pattern — while his other hand rested on the edge of the piano, fingers occasionally tapping the wood in thought. His scent, cedarwood and dark amber with that faint metallic edge, mixed with theirs in the small space between them.

“Again,” he said softly, guiding their fingers once more. “Slower this time. Feel the weight of each key before you press.”

For several minutes he continued like this, patient, focused, almost gentle in a way that was rare for him. He corrected their posture with a light touch to the small of their back, then adjusted the angle of their wrist. His voice stayed low, instructive, the usual cold distance softened by the late hour and the intimacy of the moment.

“You’re not bad,” he admitted after a while, the corner of his mouth twitching in the faintest hint of a smirk. “Most people tense up. You listen.”

He let the melody trail off naturally, leaving his hand resting lightly over theirs on the keys. The cabin felt smaller, the silence thicker, filled only with their breathing and the faint crackle of the dying fire. Dominic’s hazel-green eyes lingered on {{user}} a second longer than necessary, the guard still not fully back in place.

“Try it on your own now,” he murmured, voice dropping just a fraction. “I’ll stay right here.”

The small plastic test lay on the marble counter of the master bathroom, two clear pink lines staring back at Dominic. There was no doubt anymore.

{{user}} was pregnant.

A quiet breath left his lungs as he stared at the result. Relief flooded him first, sharp and heavy. The heir his family demanded was finally on the way. The endless pressure, the fights, the cold silence from Orion... it could finally start to end. But the relief was tangled with something darker: a deep, primal wave of possessiveness that made his alpha instincts flare hot under his skin. And beneath it all, a heavy knot of guilt twisted in his chest when he thought of Orion.

Dominic set the test aside and walked through the silent cabin, his footsteps quiet on the hardwood floors. It was well past midnight; the only light came from the low lamps in the hallway. He pushed open the door to the guest wing bedroom without knocking.

{{user}} was already in bed, the sheets pooled around their hips. Dominic closed the door behind him with a soft click, the sound final in the quiet room. His hazel-green eyes found them immediately, darker than usual with the storm of emotions he refused to name out loud.

He crossed the room slowly, tall frame moving with that controlled grace even now. Without a word he sat on the edge of the bed, the mattress dipping under his weight. His scent rolled thicker into the air, laced with something sharper, more possessive.

He reached out and rested one large hand on {{user}}’s lower stomach, palm flat and warm through the thin fabric of their shirt. “You’re pregnant.”

He didn’t smile; there was no joy in his face, only a quiet intensity. His thumb stroked once, slow and deliberate, over the soft skin just below their navel. Then he leaned down, pushing the shirt higher with careful fingers until their belly was fully exposed.

Dominic lowered his head and pressed his lips to the warm skin there, kissing the spot where his child was now growing. The kiss was surprisingly gentle at first, almost reverent. But the alpha in him quickly took over. He dragged his nose along the curve of their abdomen, inhaling deeply, drinking in the subtle change in {{user}}’s scent; sweeter now, warmer, unmistakably carrying his claim.

A low sound rumbled in his chest as he opened his mouth and bit down lightly, not enough to break skin but enough to leave a faint red mark. “Mine,” he murmured against their flesh, the word barely audible. “You’re carrying my heir.”

His hands moved with purpose, sliding the shirt higher, exposing more skin. He kissed lower, then higher again, mapping the soft plane of their stomach with slow, open-mouthed kisses and occasional scrapes of teeth. The guilt toward Orion still sat heavy in the back of his mind, but the biological instinct was louder tonight, the primal satisfaction of knowing his seed had taken root, that {{user}}’s body was changing because of him. His cock stirred in his slacks, half-hard from the scent and the feel of them beneath his hands.

Dominic shifted higher on the bed, caging {{user}} in with his taller body. He nuzzled against the curve of their neck, lips brushing the sensitive scent gland there. He inhaled again, slower this time, then dragged his tongue over the spot in a long, possessive lick.

“You smell different already,” he whispered, voice husky and controlled. “Sweeter. Like you belong to me now. This changes everything... but not tonight. Tonight I just need to feel it.”

He kissed his way back down their body, lips and tongue tracing every inch of their lower belly with quiet intensity. Another soft bite, another slow lick, another murmured word against their skin. “You’re carrying my heir.”

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