As the house and people slipped from view, Daeton turned back around and looked at me. “Do you think I’ll see them again? Any of you?”

  “I hope so. Whatever you are, Daeton, whatever about you that makes you special, means you need protection that is greater than the den can provide.”

  “I’m so glad that you got those bad feelings.” She smiled at me and wiped at the tears under her eyes.

  “Me, too, sis.” Me, too.

  We drove for several hours, talking about everything and nothing. I had only known my sister-in-law for a few months, but she was such a close friend to me that I was already feeling the loss of her friendship keenly. When we stopped at a rest area on the turnpike to use the facilities and get something to eat, Daeton and I sat down at a small table with Ash and Axe. They had a mini laptop open with a map of our journey on the screen.

  The plan had been not to make any hotel reservations, because we didn’t want to alert anyone to our journey, if someone was even watching us. There were so many unknown variables that we decided to err on the side of extreme caution. No concrete plans, no credit cards, and throwaway cell phones. We opted to stay outside of Philadelphia. According to the binding and seeking spells, they needed to be cast when the moon reached its zenith in the sky, which was 10:47 p.m. in Philadelphia.

  The seven bears from the den that Axe had handpicked as guards were anxious to get settled for the night and so were we. We pushed on to Philadelphia, stopping just outside the city at a small hotel. We got three rooms, two of them connected and the other across the hall. Our room had two queen beds in it so that Daeton could with stay with us, with three bears in the connecting room and four across the hall.

  Not taking any chances, I sprinkled herbs on the window sills of each room and across the doors, and cast a protection spell to keep us safe. As I walked into our room and shut the door, I found my husbands naked and waiting for me on one of the beds.

  “Where’s Daeton?” I asked, licking my lips at the sight of their incredible bodies.

  “She’s in the other room,” Ash said, patting the bed between them, “we’ll bring her in after we finish making love to you.”

  I took a few steps towards them, and Axe said, “You have way too many clothes on to get on this ride, aleni. Take them off. Slowly.” His brown eyes darkened with sultry promise and I bit my lip. I just loved how they looked at me, as if the world could go spinning off its axis into oblivion when we were making love and they wouldn't care.

  I edged up the hem of my top, baring the length of my stomach slowly for them, until I pulled it over my head and dropped it to the floor. I toed off my shoes, kicking them aside, and a flick of the button on my jeans and the slow, grating sound of the zipper being opened sounded loud in the quiet of the room. I worked the jeans down over my hips, wriggling out of them and my socks until I could step free from the fabric. The matching bra and thong set were dark peach lace and I turned my back to them and reached up to undo the bra and pulled it off, pressing one arm across my chest as I turned around and tossed the bra to the floor.

  “Drop your arm, baby,” Axe growled.

  I watched their gazes, heat and desire swarming through them, and I lowered my arm and twisted my fingers in the strings of my panty. “I’ll do that, aleni,” Ash offered, his tongue snaking out to wet his lush lips.

  I laughed at that, because I knew if he got his hands on the fragile strings that the panties would be toast and I liked them. I lost at least one pair of panties a week to his inability to take two seconds to pull them off me as opposed to ripping them off. I only really complained afterwards, and only then if they were part of a set.

  “Oh no, you naughty boy, I like these.” I snapped my hips with the strings for effect and then tugged them down, kicking them to the side with the rest of my clothes with a simple flick of my foot.

  I spun in a slow circle for them, and their identically heated gazes were enough to melt me from the inside out as I walked the few steps to the bed and they made room for me. Axe settled me on a mound of pillows so that the upper part of my body was lifted slightly. When he leaned over to kiss me, I tangled my hands through the soft, heavy silk of his hair, pulling it to my cheeks to hold him close while our tongues slid against each other. Ash replaced him at my mouth, kissing me like he could climb down inside me.

  Dizzy from the scorching kisses, I opened my eyes to see Axe straddle my upper body. His knees pressed gently under my arms until his deliciously long cock was right at my mouth, jutting proud and hard from his smooth, hair free body. I loved to go down on the boys, but I wondered how much time we had and how long Daeton would stay in the other room. I didn’t want to overwhelm her delicate virgin nature by having her walk in on her twin brothers in a three-way with their wife.

  All conscious thought when flying from my mind as Axe leaned on the headboard and shifted his hips forward so his cock brushed my closed mouth and the slick drop of pre-come transferred to my lips. Ash spread my thighs apart, settling between me quickly and spreading my pussy. I loved that feeling of being laid open slowly, the stretch of my flesh and the shiver of cool air hitting my hot skin just a few teasing moments before his tongue would slide through me to taste and explore.

  I adjusted my arms so that my left arm was between Axe’s legs and my right arm settled over the top of his thigh so I could squeeze the base of his cock as I sucked him. My favorite thing about giving oral like this was the feel of the muscles in his ass as they clenched, the carved perfection of his body lost to my mouth and out of his control. Splaying my hand across one cheek, I squeezed slightly and licked the head of his cock, so plump and hot and soft like silk over iron. He moaned on a low growl and I opened my mouth wide to take him in at the same moment that Ash slid two fingers inside me.

  Axe dropped one hand from the headboard to cup my cheek as I took in as much of him as I could from the position, relaxing my throat and savoring the taste of him. While Ash explored me and my body responded to him, Axe began to thrust into my mouth with slow, deliberate shifts of his hips.

  Ash’s fingers found that petal soft place inside me that made me groan around Axe’s cock. Ash deviled it, tickling the place with come-here motions that made my body quake with each motion. As Axe’s cock continued to thrust slowly into my mouth, I came hard around Ash’s fingers, my groan muffled by the heated length. Ash moved his fingers faster over that spot and took my clit between his teeth, lashing the swollen bud with his tongue in a frantic rhythm that spiked through me like lightning, and I cried out, the sound spilling past Axe’s cock. Axe groaned, slightly increasing his pace in my mouth, and his body flexed under my fingers.

  I felt Ash growl into my flesh and then he pulled my hand down from Axe’s ass and thrust my fingers into my soaking pussy. Confusion scattered through me and I opened my eyes to see Axe wasn’t paying attention to anything except my mouth, his eyes dark with unbridled heat. Ash pushed my wet fingers back to Axe’s ass and I knew what he wanted me to do, even though I’d never done it before.

  My fingers slid through the tight cheeks of his ass as he thrust into my mouth and I slowly circled his tight hole and coated it with my come. He moaned and his body tightened and he began to thrust faster into my mouth and I slipped the tip of my finger inside him. “Ah, baby, wait,” he groaned, but I didn’t stop, pushing my finger inside him completely. He cried out and his cock spasmed in my mouth, his come jetting down my throat while I held him in place with my finger in his body as it clenched around me.

  He pulled away from my mouth and rolled to his back with a groaning chuckle. Ash slid up my body and captured my knees under his arm, teasing my body with his cock. “That was not fair,” Axe laughed.

  “You were taking too long,” Ash chuckled, pushing inside me with one, smooth motion of his hips. I arched up to take him inside completely, running my fingers up his arms to his shoulders and watching as his body moved in and out of mine with steady rhythm.

  “Maybe I should tell her one of your kinks,” Axe rolled over onto his side and kissed me.

  “I’m trying to fuck my wife, Axe, shut up.” Ash growled and began to fuck me hard, moving in and out of my body with increasing speed.

  Axe chuckled, tipping my face to kiss me again while he snaked a hand down my stomach until he reached my clit. With the precision of a man that knew my body very well, he rubbed my throbbing bud until I moaned and dug my nails into Ash’s shoulders as my body clenched his in the throes of climax.

  “Ah, sweet fuck,” Ash growled as he rocked hard into me and his cock spasmed inside me. With a little extra press of his hips into mine and a wink, he kissed me and dropped off to the side of me, his breath coming out in hard pants.

  I played my fingers down my sweat soaked body until I could twine them with Axe’s hand that rested on my hip. “If you wanted me to touch you like that, why didn’t you ever say anything?”

  He shrugged. “Because I don’t, normally, but it’s something I like with oral occasionally. I guess,” he kissed the corner of my mouth, “I mostly want to come in that hot pussy of yours and not your mouth so I’ve never mentioned it. Did it bother you?”

  I wriggled my brow, “Nope. I like making you lose control.”

  “It doesn’t take much for that to happen.”

  I looked at Ash. He was trailing his fingers along my stomach, swirling small patterns. “Do you have anything you want to tell me?”

  Axe said, “Ash likes to have his nipples bit, right man?”

  Ash grinned. “Oh yeah.”

  “Yeah?”

  “Sure, baby. Really hard. It’s just when I feel like it, I always seem to be at your back sunk deep in that hot ass of yours.”

  “Ah,” I shivered at the thought.

  “Well, when we go into our mating heat in a few weeks, you can bite him all you like.” Axe said.

  “What do you mean?”

  “Well, we’ll only take you individually, aleni.”

  “I thought…the spring heat wasn’t like that.” Shortly after we mated, their spring heat came upon them which turned out to be a week of nearly non-stop sex. And although we were together in pairs often, it was mostly three ways.

  Axe shrugged. “You weren’t able to conceive so there wasn’t any reason for us to concentrate on getting you pregnant. Having three-ways during a heat is just, well, it’s not in our nature exactly. We weren’t driven like we will be with the fall heat.”

  I blinked. I hadn’t really given it much thought but it made sense. The spring heat had been a wild time, but there hadn’t been any underlying stress on creating a life.

  Ash patted my stomach gently and I looked at him. His face was soft, his eyes warm and full of love. “We have a lot of stuff going on right now that needs our perfect concentration. Let’s get through this, and then we’ll talk further, okay, aleni?”

  “Okay.”

  They suggested a quick shower so we could go to bed without being sticky. Afterwards, when Ash and I were in bed together, Axe opened the connecting door between the rooms. We had no real normal way to sleep, except that I was always between the two of them in some way. Sometimes, I laid on one of their chests, but most often they were front and back to me. Sandwiched between them, I would have a muscular arm as my pillow and my head would be tucked under one of their chins. I always felt very safe and warm between them. I wondered how I’d ever been able to sleep before they came into my life.

  Ash pulled me gently to roll over against his chest and I lifted my head so he could slide his arm underneath me to be my pillow. His very warm hand rested on the curve of my waist. “You aren’t upset, are you, aleni?” He said quietly, kissing across my forehead.

  “About what?”

  “The talk about the mating heat. You seemed kind of shocked.”

  “I was just thinking that it hadn’t occurred to me there was anything different about how we’d made love during the heat that might change this time around. Did it bother you that I was on birth control for the spring heat?”

  “No, of course not. And we love sharing you, aleni, but it will be so sweet to know that your body might be ready this time, for our cub.”

  Axe walked back into the room and closed it after Daeton. She smiled in a small way at me and took her duffel into the bathroom. Axe climbed in next to me and turned my head enough so I could kiss him, and then he settled against my back which involved wedging his muscular thigh between my legs and resting one hand between my breasts.

  I giggled, “You just think you own me, don’t you Axe?”

  He jerked his thigh up against my pussy and my body shuddered at the motion. “I own you lock, stock and pussy, baby, just like you own me and Ash.”

  Ash’s eyes were twinkling in the light from the bathroom when Daeton walked out in pajama pants and a tank. Just before she shut the light off, Ash whispered, “When we get home we’re totally going to explore this ownership business,” and I laughed and hugged my free arm under his arm and tickled his back with my nails.

  “I love you both.”

  Daeton climbed into her bed after we all said goodnight to her, and although I listened to her toss and turn for a while, I was too comfortable and worn out to try to comfort her. In truth, I didn’t really know what lay ahead for her. I was sad to lose her friendship, but I knew she was strong enough to handle anything that would come even if she was very young.

  My last thoughts were filled with the coming mating heat and what it might be like to carry a child for my husbands.

  Chapter Five

  We sat in the SUV in the parking lot of the park that bordered the Delaware River where I would perform the ceremony in less than an hour. The park was small, with a stand of trees beyond a small hill that led down to the river’s edge. “There’s just one thing I really need from you guys,” I looked at Daeton and my husbands.

  “Anything, aleni,” Ash promised from next to me on the second row of seats, kissing the top of my hand.

  “I need you to trust me. There is no danger here. The guards are fine, they should keep an eye out for anything and everything, but no matter what comes for Daeton, we have to trust that it is the only way to save her and the den, and ourselves.”

  “We do trust you, Elizabeth,” Axe said from the front seat.

  “Good. Daeton are you okay? Do you have any questions?” She’d been incredibly quiet since we woke up around dinnertime and a few of the guards had gone to bring food for us.

  “I am. I had a dream last night about the men who would come for me. I know I’ll be safe with them.”

  “Any clue why you need protecting?” Ash asked, reaching his free hand for his only sister’s.

  She shook her head and swallowed hard, emotion bubbling up to the surface. She asked us to give her a few minutes alone, so we left the guards with her and went to prepare for the ceremony.

  By the time the moon was near its zenith, Daeton knelt on the bank of the river in front of me. Ash had gathered river water for me and Axe laid out the herbs and supplies for the spell. Using a special blend of herbs, I sprinkled a circle around where Daeton and I would stand together to create a ring of protection for both of us.

  I watched for the moon and the swell of power, and then I began by taking a length of leather that was blessed by the coven and instructing her to hold her arms together, fingertips to elbows.

  “I bind you, Daeton Stalking Horse, with the power of the Mirador of the South, the Coven of Beth-Larga, and the god Iliarta. I bind you in safety and power. I bind you from harm and cover you in the power of your protectors.” I wove the length of blessed leather around her arms as I spoke, covering from her elbows to her clasped hands.

  With a stripped willow branch dipped in the container of river water, I passed the tip over her head so the droplets of water shone like diamonds from the moonlight on her black hair.

  I felt the presence of power like a heated caress across my skin with each pass of the branch into the water and flicked to drop water on Daeton’s bowed head. The bears with us tensed, but Ash and Axe were calm beside me. They trusted in my power and this quest to keep our family safe. All around us, my power pulsed like a wall of invisible flame that shimmered and moved as if it had a mind to do its own will.

  Over the small hill and through the stand of trees, power spilled down to us on the sixth anointing. It was ancient power, and Daeton shivered and her breath caught in her throat. On the seventh flick of water, a group broke through the trees and walked to us, and the power that surrounded them was so strong it pushed back the bears that were outside our protective circle. Only Ash and Axe stood their ground, confident in our mission.

  Two enormous men were in the center of the group, wearing dark capes knotted at their shoulders, leather trousers, and tall boots. Behind them stretched a long wall of men. With one barked command from one of the men, the wall of men shifted in the blink of an eye to large wolves. They were normal wolves, not werewolves, but larger and lighter in color.

 

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10