Claimed by Her Panthers (3 page)

It’d
been a year since he and Stephan had had it confirmed Angelica was their mate.
At first they’d fought over who should claim her. Then when they figured they
could share, they fought about what they should do and if they were going to do
anything and if they did where they would live, and what Joel would say and do.
They had bought a place at the base of the mountain and spent the last year
doing it up. He and Stephan had moved in a couple of months ago and knew they
were now ready to claim Angelica. They’d figure out everything else eventually,
they hoped.

“I
don’t think we can keep scaring off all Angelica’s boyfriends, or potentials.”

Owen
gave Stephan a death glare. “My panther says differently. I say differently.
She’s our mate. Angelica should be with us.”

Stephan
raked his fingers through his sleek back hair. “I know, but she has no idea
what we are, let alone that she’s our mate. The council didn’t want her to know
as Joel moved them from the mountain.”

“I
love Angelica. I want her with us, at our house, in our bed. I’m sick of
sleeping alone.”
  

Stephan
moaned. “I know how you feel. I feel the same. But what do you think our
reception will be when she finds out we followed her here? This is a better
club than the biker bar she was in the other week.”

Owen
shrugged. “I’d like to say she’d be happy, but lately she’s been getting snappy
with us. She bit my head off the other night when I answered her phone and told
the guy on the other end that she was taken and to not call again.”

Stephan
grinned. “I say we mate Angelica tonight and tell her what we are. She can bite
me anytime then. I can’t hold myself or my panther back any longer. I need Angelica
to stay sane.”

“I’m
glad you said it first because I’ve been trying to not act like a prick and
throw her over my shoulder and claim her without you.”

Jenika
, one of
Angelica’s friends, pulled Angelica away to whisper something in her ear.
Angelica laughed, and her lips turned up in a wicked grin. He and Stephan
weren’t fans of
Jenika
. She was the wild one in the
bunch, the one who just the other week had dragged their mate to a biker bar.

Not
liking the nod Angelica gave
Jenika
,
Owen stood and walked from his hiding place to his mate.

“Angelica,
your cock blockers are here.”

Stephan
snarled, showing his sharp teeth to
Jenika
, who
stared daggers at him and Stephan.

Owen’s
breath caught in his throat at the sight of his mate up close. She was gorgeous.
Angelica wore a little black dress that fit every one of her curves on her very
shapely body. Angelica had light olive skin, with freckles scattered over it,
long flowing strawberry blonde hair that had a slight wave to it, a plump
bottom lip, and a thin top one. Angelica was large were every man wanted her,
breasts, thighs and arse. She had a small tummy and wide hips. Her head came
just to his shoulder, and as Angelica looked up at him she narrowed her eyes
and placed her hands on her hips.

“You
do know that when my brother asked you two to look out for me, he didn’t mean
for you two to follow me out on my girls’ night out? I’m not at the biker bar.
I can look after myself,” Angelica yelled over the music.
Jenika
shook her head and strolled off.

“What
the hell are you wearing?” Owen couldn’t help the snarl in his voice.

Angelica
tapped her red stiletto heels, and if looks could kill he’d be dead.

Stephan
groaned. “Angelica, you just sealed your fate.”

Angelica
rolled her eyes. “Well hello to you, too. Why on earth are you two here? Don’t
you have jobs? And what are you talking about?”

Owen
didn’t think. He grabbed Angelica by the waist, lifted her, and almost sprinted
out of the club.

“Put
me down this instant, Owen. What the fuck do you think you are doing?” Angelica
wiggled around in his arms and banged on his chest.

Owen’s
body came alive, burning with the need to claim her. They walked out of the
club, and not one person tried to stop them. He didn’t know if Stephan’s fierce
stare had anything to do with it, but he didn’t care.

When
the night air hit him and Angelica’s yells for help could be heard more
clearly, he did the only thing he could think of. Owen took Angelica’s lips to
his, stopping her tirade. Her fists stopped whacking him, and her legs stopped
kicking him. She seemed stunned at first and didn’t respond. Then he moved his
hands down and patted her arse. She gasped, and his tongue slipped in and
sought hers. Slowly her hands slipped up his chest and came around his neck
holding him closer to her.
 

“That’s
hot.” Stephan groaned. “I can smell our mate. She likes what you’re doing to
her. Let’s get her home. I want a taste so bad.” Stephan’s words seeped through
Owen’s lust-filled fog, and he reluctantly pulled away.

“Come
on, sweetheart. We’ll finish this at home.” He kept a hold of Angelica and
walked to his car.

Angelica
stared up at him with passion filled eyes and a dazed look. “Um … why did you
do that?”

Owen
winked down at her. “Why do you think I did that?”

“I
don’t know. I’ve known you two all my life. You two are like brothers to me.”

Stephan
moaned beside him. “We are
not
your
brothers. We are not even related. I can promise you we have never seen you as
a sister. Owen and I knew from the moment we met you that you were important to
us, and we needed to protect and keep you safe, but we never once saw you as a
sister.”
 

“You’re
mine
, Angelica, ours.” Owen leaned down and kissed her
furrowed brows.

“Angelica,
you are Owen’s and my mate. We aren’t waiting any longer to claim you.” Stephan
grabbed Angelica from him as they reached his four wheel drive.

Owen
opened the back seat, and Stephan set Angelica in and did her seatbelt up.
Stephan got in and sat next to her. Owen got into the front driver’s side, put
his seatbelt on, and started the car and headed towards his and Stephan’s house
at the foot of the mountain.

****

Angelica
sat in the back of Owen’s car, her mind ready to explode. What had gotten into
Stephan and Owen? She’d known the two of them her whole life, and they’d never
shown any interest in her other than a kind of brotherly love, or, well, at
least that’s what she’d thought it was. They were her brother’s closest
friends. Her brother who was on the first ever holiday she could remember him
taking.
Her older brother who had raised her.

Was
this all a joke? Had she slipped into an alternative reality? Trying not to be
obvious she looked out the corner of her eye at Stephan. He didn’t seem any
different from he always did. His black hair was slicked back, and his thick lips
were curled up like he had a secret. His eyes were what captured her, and
Angelica couldn’t stop the shiver that coursed through her body at his stare.
Wow, had he always had those deep warm chocolate brown eyes? Turning her head
slightly she chewed on her lip.
Oh my
.
How had she never noticed Stephan’s body? Even clothed and sitting in the car
she could see the clear outline of his muscular chest.

Angelica
closed her eyes. What was wrong with her? This was Stephan. The man she’d known
all her life. She’d never been attracted to him before, so what was happening
now? Stephan was old. Okay, he wasn’t that old, but she’d been brought up by
her brother.

“What’s
going on? Where are you two taking me?” They weren’t anywhere near her house.

Stephan
reached for her hand and held it. “We’re taking you home.”

She
looked out the window, and Angelica could see the mountain pass up ahead. They
were going in the wrong direction to her flat. “No, you’re not. I live in the
opposite direction.”

“We’re
taking you to your new home,” Owen said.

What
were they going on about? Owen turned down a side street at the base of the
mountain. It wound up for a good five minutes before he pulled down a driveway
surrounded by thick bushes.

“What
are you two talking about?” Angelica started to get scared. Something was going
on. When she was younger she’d been to Owen’s house, and he’d lived way up in
the mountain and Stephan had lived not far from him. “Who lives here?”

Owen
pulled up out the front of a large house. It had windows all across its front
and a real country house feel to it, like if you opened the windows and sliding
doors the house would open to the outside. It had a blue color-bond roof and
white trim. It was beautiful.

Angelica’s
car door opened, and Owen held his hand out for her. She let go of Stephan’s
hand and folded her arms over her chest. “Are you going to answer my
questions?”

Neither
man said anything. Owen stood there with his hand held out. Growling, she got
out of the car, avoiding the hand Owen offered. Angelica could feel something
wasn’t right. Her body was responding to men she’d never considered before, not
to mention the two men she trusted had kidnapped her and weren’t answering her.

“Stephan
and I live here, and now so do you.”

Owen
pulled her close, and Angelica stared up at him ready to tear into him when his
eyes caught her in their gaze and her breath caught. God, when had Owen’s eyes
become so big? The baby blue was so intense, as he gazed down her with lust
clear in them, that she shivered.

Clearing
her throat several times she croaked, “Um … no, I don’t. I don’t live here. You
don’t get to tell me where I live.” Feeling her sanity coming back to her
Angelica pushed on Owen’s solid muscular chest. He was big. He’d never seemed
so big to her before. She ran her hands over his chest, and his baby blues
flared with a desire that she could feel burning through the fabric of his
clothes.

Owen’s
fingers traced her lips and stroked her cheek. “Sweetheart, you’re special to
us. You always have been. I, we, need you.” Owen’s hand dropped, and his mouth
replaced his fingers. His hands came around her waist, and he picked her up.
They walked through the front door, which she realized Stephan must have
opened, and down a hall. She closed her eyes as it got too hard to concentrate
on her surroundings. Owen’s hands unclipped her shoes, and they fell to the
floor. His hands then slid up her dress and cupped her bare arse.
 

Angelica
moaned as Owen’s fingers moved her j-string and probed her core. Opening her eyes
as a soft mattress met her back, she stared up at Owen. He looked different.
His eyes seemed to glow and change shape until she swore she looked at cat eyes.
She must have drunk way too much. His eyes captured her, and she stared,
helpless, until a naked Stephan pushed Owen away.

Stephan’s
mocha colored skin was so dark it almost looked black. His muscles bulged as he
leaned over her. She glanced down his body and sighed. Stephan had the body
every woman dreamed a man to have, all toned and tight. Holy shit, her gaze
focused on the massive member pointing up towards her. Scared if she took her
eyes off his dick it would snake itself up her leg she gasped, “That isn’t
coming any closer to me. I don’t know what game you two are playing, but I’m
telling you now that will not fit.”

“I
promise we’ll fit. You were made for me, for us.” Stephan’s fingers eased her
dress strap down, then her bra. Angelica’s phone, cash, and ID, fell on the
bed. He chuckled. “Good storage space is it, cupcake?” The name he’d called her
all her life brought a grin to her face, and she tore her gaze from the huge
member.

“You
can’t call me cupcake now that I’ve seen you naked.”

“Why not?”

Angelica
shivered as his lips brushed feather light kisses over her neck and down her
chest. Stephan lifted her up, and Angelica felt Owen’s hands ease down her
dress and pull it off. Angelica tried to concentrate on her answer, but when
fingers hooked under her j-string and pulled it down all she could mumble was,
“because.”

Stephan’s
chuckle this time had her coming alive with a burning need she’d never felt so
strongly before. Owen’s sank two fingers in her pussy and pumped them in and
out of her. Owen’s other hand rubbed circles around her clit. Angelica’s brain
became mush. All that she could think and feel was the blissful sensation of
two sets of hands and one mouth.
 

“Cupcake,
do you want us to make you feel good?”

“Yes.”
She gripped Stephan’s hair holding him against her neck where his sucking and
nips were helping to build to her impending explosion.

“Stephan,
I don’t think she wants you to talk. You want us to claim you, sweetheart,
don’t you?” Owen’s fingers moved faster, and she knew she was so close.

Angelica
nodded. She wanted to feel this eruption she knew was close. “Yes, please. Please
make me come.” Owen’s fingers left her core, and she cried, “
Nooo
. I need to come.” She tried to move her body up to rub
on Stephan’s dick, but he moved away and pulled her hands from his head.