Blake, Abby - Suddenly Wolf (Siren Publishing Ménage Everlasting) (13 page)

“They’re here, aren’t they?”

Xavier grinned and glanced at his watch. “They who?” he teased.

She growled her annoyance, but couldn’t quite get the right note simply because she felt so happy. He laughed and pulled her into his embrace. He looked like he was going to continue teasing her, but after a moment’s hesitation he became very serious.

“Can we claim you tonight?”

She nodded her consent but laughed at the delivery. “As marriage proposals go, that’s not really what I was expecting.”

“Would you prefer the down-on-one-knee, diamond-ring-in-a-box routine that humans seem to prefer?”

“Well, no. Considering I’m no longer human, it’s probably not appropriate.” She lifted onto her toes and pressed a kiss to his lips. “What happens when you claim me?”

He grinned but didn’t seem inclined to answer. She was about to take him to task when the front door opened and Daegan and Isaac walked in the door.

* * * *

The first thing that hit Isaac was his mate’s sweet scent. The second was the delicious smell of her arousal. His wolf howled at him to claim his mate, but it was barely four in the afternoon, and there was no way he would disrupt the business she loved.

Her enthusiastic welcome made him smile so wide his cheeks began to ache, but his jaw almost hit the floor when she marched over to the front door, flipped the lock, and turned the sign to “closed.”

She exchanged a secretive grin with Xavier. “Upstairs?”

“Probably best,” Xavier said with a quiet laugh. He turned to Isaac and Daegan as he finished his words. “Unless you want to be claimed where anyone wandering past the store front can see you.”

“Claimed?” Daegan and Isaac asked in strained voices at the exact same time. Isaac’s wolf was practically spinning in dizzying circles in his mind, but the human side needed to be sure he’d actually heard what he’d thought he’d heard and not just what he wanted to hear.

“Unless,” Andrea said, a note of uncertainty creeping into her voice. “Unless you…um…want to wait. I mean…”

She didn’t get to finish the sentence. Daegan lifted her into his arms and kissed her in frenzied passion. Isaac helped guide his brother to the stairs and made certain they got to her apartment without major mishap. Xavier followed, his grin as wide as Isaac’s.

As soon as Daegan set her on her feet, Andrea leapt into Isaac’s embrace. She wrapped her arms around his neck, her legs around his waist, and her tongue around his own. He could already feel his claws growing, the need to strip his mate of clothing damn near undeniable. Xavier pressed against her back and dropped a lingering kiss on her neck.

Andrea sighed and relaxed between them both.

“I missed you,” she said as she hugged him close.

“I missed you, too, sweetheart,” Isaac said as love blossomed in his heart. This was the one. The woman who completed them all, and he’d spend the rest of his life making certain she was happy.

“This spot here,” Xavier said, running his fingers over the back of her neck, “is where we are all going to make our mating mark.” Xavier gave Isaac a measured look and then turned to Daegan.

Both younger brothers knew that a mating mark could be made anywhere on a mate’s body, but that alphas always claimed their mate by biting high up on the back of their mate’s neck. Until that moment, Isaac had simply assumed that Xavier would do what alphas do and that he and Daegan would simply choose another spot.

But by insisting that they all mark her in the same place, he was assuring his brothers that they were equals in this relationship. Isaac nodded, glad to see Daegan nod as well, and then the need to have his mate naked overwhelmed all else.

He took a deep breath, trying to slow down, trying to not frighten Andrea with his need. But she was with him all the way, her smile growing wider when Daegan and Xavier started to strip her of clothing.

Isaac dragged his own clothes off, pulling Andrea back into his arms the moment he kicked his jeans free. He kissed her wildly, her passion matching his own as she damn near climbed up his body and pressed her pussy to his hard cock. He felt Xavier press against her back, pushing her harder against him, his beautiful woman reacting to something that Isaac couldn’t see. But he could feel her, sense her emotions, her heart open to all three men.

He stopped kissing her to stare in wonder at the woman who’d become so important so quickly. She smiled shyly as he used the beginnings of their mating link to send all the emotion he was feeling at that moment. And then he lifted her slightly and sank his cock into her heavenly warmth.

* * * *

Home. That’s what it felt like to be naked and surrounded by her men. It didn’t matter where they were. It only mattered that they were together.

She gasped as Xavier pressed cold lube against her ass. He let Isaac’s movements push her back onto his fingers, stretching and caressing the tight muscles as he kissed and licked at her neck. The skin tingled, her mind already imagining the ecstasy to come.

Finally, Xavier pressed the head of his cock against her anus and slowly worked inside. Isaac held still, kissing her passionately, her senses reeling as sensation exploded over her entire body. As Xavier pushed all the way into her ass, Isaac pulled out of her pussy.

“That’s it, beautiful,” Daegan said as he caressed a hand through her hair. She tilted her head, exposing her neck, realizing even as she did it that it was what her men wanted, what they needed from her. None of them would force her to claim, or be claimed by, them. This was her choice, her decision. After a few moments of frenzied fucking, winding every muscle, every nerve ending, every emotion tighter, with Xavier plunging into ass, then retreating as Isaac pushed back into her pussy, over and over, all three men suddenly stilled.

She whimpered her need, and Daegan caressed her face, his lips pressing against hers a moment before he moved his mouth to her neck and bit down.

She moaned, the urge to howl so overwhelmingly strong she wasn’t sure if she held it back or not. Orgasm exploded through her, Daegan’s teeth sinking deep into her skin, the sting overwhelmed by the liquid heat coursing through her. Her pussy and ass pulsed around Isaac and Xavier’s cocks, pulling grunts from them as they both tried to hold still. Daegan carefully pulled his teeth away, licking at the tiny puncture wounds, the slight sting just adding to every other sensation rioting through her body.

Just as her orgasm started to wane, Xavier bit in nearly the exact same place. Holy shit. Climax burst through her once more, her entire being consumed by the fire, her heart racing, her breathing harsh and uncontrolled, her lower body throbbing around both men.

She cried out as Isaac’s cock pulsed, pumping his seed deep into her body before he pulled out of her pussy. Daegan thrust quickly into her as they changed places. Xavier licked at her neck, holding her still as Daegan fucked her. And then Isaac’s incisors broke the skin once more. She screamed, unable to believe the sensations coursing through her. Everything tingled, every muscle shook, every nerve ending danced electricity through her body. She closed her eyes, the pinpricks of light still exploding on her eyelids, as orgasm continued spinning wildly through her.

She felt Xavier come in her ass, his cock pulsing in time with her frantic heartbeat. She moaned as Daegan pulled away, slamming his cock into her pussy over and over again. He kissed her briefly, releasing her mouth to drag in his own ragged breath, crying out as orgasm took him as well.

The four of them leaned against each other. Thank fuck they were holding her up. She wasn’t sure her arms or legs were even still attached to her body, let alone working. Xavier lifted her slightly, making certain that Isaac held her securely before he pulled his cock from her ass. He pressed a kiss to the place where they’d made their mating mark and whispered, “Shower time.”

Chapter Eight

Andrea looked around the empty shop. It was a bit sad to pack away the life she’d once thought she wanted, but all she had to do was think of her future with the Cloveck brothers, and warm happiness suffused every part of her.

“Are you sure you’re doing the right thing?” Louise asked quietly. “It seems awfully fast.”

“It is,” Andrea agreed. If the situation were reversed, she would certainly be trying to talk Louise out of such a drastic step. But there were things Andrea couldn’t explain, much of which a deputy sheriff was probably better off not knowing anyway.

Louise gave her a worried look but didn’t say anything more. One of the things that had made their friendship so strong was the fact that they both respected each other’s independence.

“We promise to take good care of her, Louise,” Daegan assured the deputy as he and Isaac came back in the front door. “And we promise to bring her back regularly for visits. I have no doubt Mrs. Thomson and her good friend Mavis will track us to the ends of the Earth if we don’t.”

Louise laughed, her tension easing slightly. “True.” But when she turned to Andrea, her eyes were glassy with tears. “I’m going to miss you. Who else is going to listen while I complain about the sheriff’s latest idiotic decision?”

“I’ll be only a webcam away,” Andrea answered with a smile. Not only had her computer geek mates made certain she understood how to use a webcam, they’d also upgraded Louise’s computer system and made sure she knew how to use it, too. It was kind of like taking the best part of home with her.

“Well,” Louise said, looking around the room and blinking rapidly in an obvious attempt to hold her emotions in check. “I guess this is good-bye.”

“Nah, more like see you later,” Andrea said as she gave her friend a quick hug. She noticed her men leave the store so the two women could have a moment alone. Andrea felt their whisper-soft assurance in her mind urging her to take her time, and letting her know that they were happy to wait as long as she needed.

The mating link was stronger since they’d claimed her. Even with Xavier back at the compound, she could feel his mild loneliness, his sense of frustration as he dealt with problem after problem with the pack, and his relief that she and his brothers would be home soon.

“Go on,” Louise said with a watery smile. “I’ll lock up and get the keys back to your landlord.” Andrea hugged her friend once more, then turned toward the front door and headed to her new life.

* * * *

Xavier growled loud enough to make his secretary jump back three feet. He smiled apologetically at the woman, but if he had to deal with one more “well-meaning” pack member giving him advice on how he shouldn’t mate a human, somebody was going to get hurt.

“Get my father in here.” His nervous secretary nodded all the way out the door, closing it behind her.

Even when Xavier had explained to his last visitor that he’d already claimed Andrea, he’d been given a barrage of advice on how, with the mating link not completed until she could claim him in return, he could easily ignore the mild connection they shared.

Mild? He’d felt Andrea’s emotions as she climbed into the truck eighty miles away. He could feel her excitement growing the closer she got to the compound. Whether she realized it or not, she loved him, and he loved her. There was no way he would even consider not completing the claiming.

His phone rang, and he seriously considered throwing the damn thing across the room. Only the thought that it could be Andrea calling to tell him they were on their way home stopped him from following through.

He snatched up the receiver and pressed it to his ear.

“Your father is on his way,” his secretary informed him. Finally a touch of good news. “And Dave is on line two.”

“Thanks.” He’d meant the word to be genuine, but the idea of speaking to anyone related to Sheila at the moment set his teeth on edge. His secretary squeaked a good-bye and disconnected quickly. Xavier sighed and rubbed his forehead. He really should have hired someone a little less easy to scare. He’d gone along with his mother’s recommendations when he’d hired the woman, but he still couldn’t figure out what his mom had been thinking when she’d recommended such a frightened mouse for an alpha’s secretary.

He glared at the flashing light on line two. Dave had been his best friend since grade school. He knew the man almost as well as he knew his brothers. It was just unfortunate that Dave’s younger sister was such a manipulative, ambitious, scheming bitch. Xavier really should take this call.

Annoyed at his own uncharacteristic behavior—he usually faced trouble head-on, not hiding in his office—Xavier snatched up the receiver.

“What?” Okay, not his most friendly greeting, but it was the best he could muster.