Alpha Maria

"What do you mean by that?" I asked.

"I mean I'm stronger than you, and if you ever tried to do anything I didn't like, I'd be able to shut it down immediately," Maria explained as if it was obvious. 

"You don't need to worry about that." I rolled back to lay flat against the bed. 

Maria traced the patterns of the small amount of muscle definition on my stomach. She moved her hand to one of my sides and pinched causing me to jerk away from her. I gave her a stunned look, and she smiled an evil smile back at me. Before I could react, Maria jumped on top of me and started pinching my sides. 

"Maria," I said between laughs, "Quit it!" 

"Make me," Maria responded. 

I rolled over so I was on top of her and tried to assault her sides with pinches of my own, but Maria kept trying to push my hands away. I barely got any pinches in before we were both out of breath. I was a lot more winded than Maria, which is only to be expected when she has the ability to run a 5k without breaking a sweat. 

I felt a wave of sleepiness wash over my body and I relaxed my tired muscles. All the training I've been pretending to do is really making my body sore. I placed a kiss on Maria's jaw and brought my hand down to her thighs, where I wrapped them around my waist. I made myself comfortable and attempted to fall asleep. 

"What are you doing?" Maria asked. 

"Shut up and go to sleep," I demanded. 

"You expect me to sleep with you crushing me?" Maria retorted.

"Shh. Sleep now." I said drowsily. 

Maria tried to adjust underneath me and I lifted my head lazily to look at her. She groaned and stopped trying to move, and I kissed her forehead before dropping my head back down next to hers. Maria stayed like this for what felt like ten minutes before she put her hand on my ass. I picked my head up and gave her a confused stare, to which she stuck her tongue out in response. 

"What're you doing?" I asked. 

"I want to know why you're so proud of it. I'm finding out for myself." Maria shrugged. 

"So you're copping a feel while I'm half asleep?" I inquired. 

"Yeah," Maria announced. 

"Then so am I," I stated before scooping my hand under Maria to rest on her ass. 

I don't know why I waited this long to touch her ass because it was bigger than I had thought it would be, and even my large hands couldn't hold the entire thing. I couldn't fall asleep with these thoughts racing through my head, and I rolled off Maria and stretched out on the free side of the bed. I laid on my stomach and within minutes I was asleep. 

I woke up fairly early and looked over to see Maria laying fast asleep beside me. Her hair was fanned out across her pillow and her face was gentle. I think it was the most peaceful I'd seen her besides when she was around the children. I had learned my lesson from waking her up last time, so I just allowed her to wake up naturally. 

What I didn't expect was for her to wake up soon enough to see me watching her sleep. I wasn't Count Dracula, so I had no excuse for how I was acting. Maria's eyes fluttered open, and she gave me a small smile before stretching out her limbs. There was a small knock on the door, and I looked at Maria and she didn't seem concerned, so I didn't feel the need to be either. 

"Come in," Maria said groggily.

Jason walked inside and jumped onto the bed between Maria and me. She chuckled as he laid down and tried to go back to sleep. I wanted to follow his lead because my eyes were still heavy, but I knew better than to fall asleep when Maria was still awake and could draw on me with a marker or something. I had slept enough with Isaac around to be fearful of sleep with other people in the room.