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She
shook her head against him. “Once I tried it, but I didn’t like it so we
stopped.”

“You’ll
like it this time, cupcake, because when I take you Own is going to be in your
pussy and you would have already come.” Stephan could hear the raw need even in
his voice. He wanted to take Angelica here. Stephan wanted Owen and himself to
claim Angelica at the same time.

****

Angelica
had never felt anything like she was right now. When she’d tried anal with
Brenton, it hadn’t felt anything like what she was feeling now. She could feel
a strange burning stretching sensation. It wasn’t painful, but different. With
Owen’s fingers rubbing her clit and sucking at her breasts her body felt full
of tingling tension, and Angelica knew if they keep what they were doing up she
was going to come undone.

This
week had been amazing. She’d never had so much sex, and all the orgasms with it
she felt like she should be a pile of mush. She’d been using muscles she didn’t
know she had. Cold lubricant touched her skin, and a second finger was added to
the first.

Angelica
was so close to coming. “I need, please, Owen, I need you.”

Owen,
who was sucking one of her nipples into his mouth, let it go and grinned up at
her. “Well, since you said please.”

Stephan’s
fingers that were pumping in and out now stopped, and she felt Owen ease into
her slick core.

“Sweetheart,
you’re soaking.” Owen’s mouth met hers as his cock sank deep within her.

 
Wrapping her arms and legs around Owen she
looked into his big baby blues. Stephan’s fingers started moving again, and Owen
started to move. That was all it took. She came apart holding Owen tight to
her.

“Fucking
hell, she’s squeezing me so tight. Stephan, if you want to do this you’re going
to have to get in her now.”

Angelia
moaned as the fingers pumping into her
scissored
every now and then, and left her. She then felt the head of Stephan’s cock.

“Push
out, cupcake,” Stephan rasped against her ear.

Taking
a deep breath she pushed out as she felt Stephan’s lubed dick push into her.
She panted for breath as the stinging intensified, and she felt full, and all
different sensations bombarded her. Angelica had never felt anything like what
she was feeling now.

“Holy shit.
She is so
tight.”

“I
know, man. I’ve never felt anything like this. Her pussy has me in a vise-like
grip.” Owen’s voice sounded gruff, and she looked up into glowing cat eyes.
“Kiss me before Stephan and I move, because, sweetheart, we aren’t going to last.
You’re heaven.”

Owen’s
mouth captured hers, and she felt Stephan’s mouth kissing her shoulder.
Angelica’s body felt like she was on overload. She couldn’t believe she was so
close to coming again, and she knew this one would be huge.

Owen
slid out, and Stephan thrust further into her. She gasped and moved her mouth
from Owen’s, needing to breathe as her body flared with a hunger she’d never
felt before. “More.”

This
time Stephan moved out, and Owen drove into her. They went on like this until
she couldn’t take anymore. “Harder. Faster.” She screamed, needing to come.

Stephan
hissed and Owen growled as they both picked up their pace,
pistoning
into her before they roared. Owen struck, and she felt Stephan’s teeth piercing
into her other shoulder, biting down on her. She screamed her most powerful
release in her life, scoring her nails into Owen’s back. Angelica could feel
both Stephan and Owen coming hard into her. They both licked her shoulders when
she fell back against Stephan, enjoying her rapturous, blissed out state.

“Was
that good, cupcake?”
 
Stephan said
against her shoulder.

“Aha,
I’m not moving ever again.”

Owen
chuckled. “I think that means we proved she couldn’t handle anyone else and we
are everything she needs.”

“
Mmm
, what Owen
said.
” Angelica
closed her eyes and groaned as Stephan slipped out of her and so did Owen. They
laid her gently on the bed.

Stephan
left and came back with a warm cloth, and she felt him clean her. Stephan left,
and Owen pulled her so she laid her head on him. She felt Stephan get back in
bed, and he cuddled into the back of her.
 
Angelica closed her eyes and let sleep claim her, happy and content with
her men.

****

The
next day had gone smoothly, albeit tensely. Every nerve was playing havoc with
Owen the closer they got to the meeting time. He could see his emotions echoed
in his best friend and their mate. Damn, he just needed this to be over with
now.

He
had called Joel that morning to let him know what was going on. Their friend
had been pissed, and for the first time actually seemed completely behind their
mating. Who knew it would only take a threat of a Vampire to get Joel to pull
his head out of his arse?

As
expected, their mate’s overprotective brother insisted on being there and had
planned to meet them at the council.

A
knock at the door jarred Owen from his thoughts, and he groaned as Angelica
opened the door to reveal the second biggest pain in their arse …
Jenika
.

“Well,
gee, don’t look too happy to see me,” she drawled, making her way in and
plopping herself down on the lounge.

Owen
grimaced. “When are we ever happy to see you?”

“Ha, ha, funny man.”
Jenika
rolled her eyes at him.

“Um,
Jenika
,
hun
.
Now isn’t a good time. We were just on our way
out,” Angelica said cautiously.

“
Oooh
, where are you off to? Mind if I tag along?” the woman
asked, all excited.

Oh crap.
This was the
last thing they needed. “No, you can’t. Now, if you don’t mind…” Owen said
sternly.

The
annoying woman’s face lit up. “Oh come on, tell me, where are we going?”

“We
aren’t going anywhere,” Stephan answered, stepping forward. “Owen and I have
plans with Angelica like he said. And they don’t include you.”

Beside
him, Owen felt Angelica stiffen. Leaning down, he whispered in her ear. “What
is it?”

He
was totally unprepared for her next words. “I want her to come.”

He
stared down at
Angelica,
sure she had lost her mind.
“Sweetheart, you know she can’t come.
Jenika
cannot
know about us.”

“Owen,
I’m asking this of you, and of Stephan. I have accepted a lot lately, maybe not
always willingly, but I have. Now I’m asking you to not only accept my best
friend, but accept that I need her.” His mate turned pleading eyes on him, and
Owen felt a small part of his resolve crumble.

“No.
Absolutely not,” Stephan growled, obviously having picked up on their
conversation.

“You
swore you would never make me choose,” she reminded them. “When I told you I
didn’t want to give up my life, you said I never would have to. Well, I will
lose my best friend if this keeps up.”

“
Ummm
, if what keeps up?”
Jenika
asked. Owen could see the human was well and truly confused. “And why on earth
would you lose me? Granted, you have been plenty occupied lately, but I figure
that will wear off, right?”

Owen
groaned. No, it wouldn’t. And right at that moment he could see exactly what
their mate meant.
Jenika
would put up with a lot, but
there would come a time where she would no longer accept Angelica’s excuses, or
perhaps she may even grow to resent Angelica for the distance that would no
doubt be created between them. He had seen it happen before.

“Stephan?”

His
friend glanced at him and sighed. “Did we ever have a choice?”

“Of
course you did.” Angelica smiled sweetly and shrugged. “You just may not have
liked the outcome.”

“So
I’m coming to this
oooooh
so secret whatever?”
Jenika
glanced back and forth between them.

“Yeah,”
Stephan muttered.

“Yay.”
The perky
blonde squealed. “So where are we going? What are we doing there? Do you think
I need to change first?”

Stephan
growled and glared daggers at him, no doubt blaming Owen for giving in first.
“Put it this way, man, maybe we might get lucky and she’ll piss
Draken
off enough that he’ll drain the pain in the arse.”

His
best friend chuckled.

“
Pfft
, Vampires,
good one.”
Jenika
rolled her eyes at them.

Piling
into the car, the silence didn’t last long when
Jenika
started inquiring again. “So, what is this mysterious thing we are going to?”

“Sorry,
can’t tell you, or we’ll have to kill you.” Owen smirked, concentrating on the
road as he drove.

“Well
hell, let’s tell her right now,” Stephan muttered from his spot next to
Jenika
in the back seat.

“Stephan!”
Angelica said in outrage, though Owen noted the hint of amusement in her tone.
“And can we really not say anything?”

Owen
shrugged. “We swore an oath not to tell our secret. If a person happens upon
it, then so be it, but otherwise…”

“Otherwise,
nothing can be said,” Stephan finished for him. “So this way she is bound to
find out by seeing something, but technically we haven’t told her.”

Angelica
shot him a speculative glance. “I still don’t see how that keeps you out of
trouble?”

“Oh,
it won’t, but at least we won’t be breaking any laws,” he admitted,
half-jokingly. “And it will be hella amusing to watch.”

“
Gah
, you two, I swear.” He could see her worrying her
bottom lip out of the corner of his eye. “Seriously though, maybe we should
have done this back at the house, like you offered?”

“Trust
me. We won’t really get into trouble. Hell, the Elders are surprised she hasn’t
accidently
found out already. At
least let us have a little fun.” He knew he wore a rakish grin as he waggled
his brows.

“Terrible.
Just terrible.”

“You
guys do know how weird and cryptic you sound right?”
Jenika
frowned as she leaned forward in her seat. “They haven’t, you know, joined you
up to some sort of cult, have they?”

His
mate laughed.
“Oh God, no.”
Angelica paused for a
moment, her gaze meeting his, and he could see the mischief sparkling in them.
“Well, not your average kind, anyway.”

“Oh
lord, I’m not even sure if I want to know what that means.”
Jenika
dramatically sighed.

“Too late for you to back out now,
Jenika
.
We’re here,” Owen announced as he
pulled onto the lands the lead to the council chambers.

He
stiffened as he slid out of the car and caught sight of the Vampire. He knew
the moment this friend did, too, because Stephan snarled.

“Ah,
what the hell is that about?”
Jenika
asked, eyeing
the two of them and noticeably stepping in between Angelica and everyone else.
He had a moment of insight and respect for the woman he had always cursed.
Without thinking,
Jenika
had unknowingly put herself
between Angelica and half a dozen or more paranormals. Something told him by
the glint in her eyes that
Jenika
would have done it
even if she had known the truth.

Damn,
did this mean he had to start liking her now?
Nah
.

“
Shh
, not now,” Angelica muttered.

The
closer they got, the tenser he became, the need to grab Angelica and run almost
overwhelming. He met
Draken’s
gaze and poured all of
his fury into the look. For his part, the Vampire seemed anxious, which just
served to piss Owen off more.

“What
is she doing here?” one of the Elders suddenly asked, reminding Owen that
Jenika
was still with them.

“It’s
a long story, but our mate demanded she come, and you know that a Shifter can
never refuse his true mate.”
Let the leech
suck on that one.

“She
needs to leave.”

Owen
went to explain further when
Draken
abruptly stepped
forward. “No.”

The
Elder’s face turned red as he gaped. “What do you mean no, Vampire? I think you
have made enough demands as it is.”

Two
guards moved toward
Jenika
, and
Draken
snarled. “Touch her and die, Shifter.”

Beside
them
Jenika
laughed. “Nice try, guys. It didn’t work
back at the house, and it isn’t going to work now. Seriously, getting this
group to go along with your plan was pretty neat though.”