Authors: Stormy Glenn,Joyee Flynn
A dim roar behind him echoed Owen’s orgasm. He felt
Constantine
’s seed fill him even as he collapsed on top of Christian’s sweaty body. Moments later, something else moved inside of him. Owen jerked and cried out when it latched onto his prostate, sending more pleasure rocketing through him.
“What the fuck is that?”
“Mating knot.”
Constantine
panted against his back. “It only comes out when we fuck our mates. Don’t you remember it from last time?”
Owen could feel his face flush. “I kind of passed out after a while. I don’t think my body is supposed to have multiple orgasms.”
“We’ll have to fix that.”
Constantine
chuckled. “Maybe when we try fucking with me on the bottom and Christian on top, huh?”
Owen could feel Christian’s rapid heartbeat beneath his ear. He could feel
Constantine
’s heaving body behind him, the knot inside of him holding them together. He wasn’t sure he ever felt anything more wonderful in his life.
“I think the other way just might kill us.” Christian panted. He gently stroked his hand down Owen’s head to his back. Owen could feel Christian’s hand entwine with
Constantine
’s but strangely, sandwiched between the two men, he didn’t feel left out. In fact, he never felt more loved.
Owen chuckled. “I’m willing to chance it.”
Chapter 5
The next morning, all seemed in a much better mood leaving the motel than when they had gotten here. Christian figured that it might have something to do with the life-changing sex and the mating that had happened last night. But what did he know? He was walking around smiling like an idiot.
Constantine
picked up one of the bags and headed outside. Christian figured he should help, grabbed the other one, and followed him out to the car. His injuries felt much better after some rest, food, and amazing sex.
“I say we hit the vending machine,” Christian said, nodding in that direction. “Get a couple of pops and some chips to tide us over until we get some more distance before we stop for real food.”
“Great idea.”
Constantine
leaned down to give him a quick kiss.
Constantine
closed the trunk after both bags were in, and they headed over to the vending machines. Once there, they both pulled out their wallets and started getting junk-food supplies.
Just as they were finishing up, they heard a loud crash coming from the direction of their room followed by a short shout that was suddenly silenced. Dropping everything in his hands, Christian sprinted toward their room.
Owen!
Shit, he hadn’t even been thinking about not leaving Owen alone.
Constantine
, being a much faster and bigger guy than Christian, flew by him. Plus, even though he was mostly healed now, Christian was still pretty sore from his beating.
Reaching the room, Christian’s heart fell when he saw the door open and the room in disarray. Well, at least Owen had put up a fight. He just prayed that Owen hadn’t gotten hurt in the process. How could they have been so stupid to leave him alone?
“Christian, in here,”
Constantine
said from the bathroom.
He quickly went over to join his mate and froze in fear when he saw what
Constantine
wanted to show him. There was a note with an address written in marker on the mirror.
We’ve got your boy toy, Christian. You’re life for his. One hour, come alone.
“This is all my fault,” Christian cried as he started to collapse.
Constantine
was there in a flash to catch him before he hit the floor. “I have to go get Owen. I need your car.”
“You’re not going anywhere alone,”
Constantine
said firmly. “We go together.”
“They said come alone. I don’t want them to hurt Owen.” Tears started gathering in his eyes. He would die if anything happened to Owen. They’d just mated. Christian couldn’t lose the man.
“Baby, listen to me,”
Constantine
said, lifting Christian into his arms. “You really think they’re going to let Owen go? They took a human who knows about werewolves. They won’t let him go.”
“I’ve killed our mate,” Christian cried out, clinging onto
Constantine
like his life depended on it. “It should have been me!”
“No! No one’s dying today except the people who took Owen.”
Constantine
growled. “This is
not
your fault, Christian. Your asshole pack is to blame for this, no one else. You didn’t do anything but love Owen. He knows that.”
“How do we get him back,
Constantine
? We just found him. We need him to hold us together. He’s our center. We can’t lose him.”
“We’re not going to. I’ve got a plan, baby.”
Constantine
kissed Christian’s cheeks then he wiped away his tears. “We’ll get him back, Christian. Come on, we have to get to the address they listed.”
“I don’t want you getting hurt, too,” Christian said. “I couldn’t stand if I were the reason you got hurt, too!”
“Please! I’m a Delta.”
Constantine
snickered and ran his hands over his firm chest and abs. “Look at this body, completely solid and made for kicking ass. Besides, they won’t even see or smell me, Christian. I can mask my scent. Don’t forget that.”
“You know when I look at your body, I’m not thinking of you fighting.” Christian chuckled and he wiped his eyes again. He knew
Constantine
was being silly to help him, and Christian fell a little more in love with him right there for it. “It more involves us being naked.”
“We’ll explore that more once we go get our baby back,”
Constantine
replied, wiggling his eyebrows and holding out his hand to Christian. “I need you to trust me, Christian. I’ve been in worse situations than this. I’m worried about Owen, too. But I also know I’m way more able to handle this than the guys who have him.”
“I trust you, Constantine,” Christian said gently and took his mate’s hand. And he did. He might have just met the man, but he couldn’t think of anyone besides Owen that he trusted more. That thought amazed Christian a little bit and gave him courage. “Let’s go get our Owen.”
They grabbed whatever was still in the room that belonged to them and left the hotel room. Christian took several deep breaths when
Constantine
handed him the keys so he could drive. It was up to Christian to drive because
Constantine
would be invisible when they arrived.
“You drive, but remember to leave the door open when you get out of the truck,”
Constantine
said as they climbed in. “It’ll blow our secret that I’m there if they see the door open by itself.”
“Yeah, that would be bad.” Christian nervously giggled while he drove out onto the road. He was glad he wasn’t going in this alone.
As he drove,
Constantine
started to pull off his clothes. If it had been almost any other situation, Christian wouldn’t have been able to keep his eyes off his hot mate. But the severity of what was happening kept his hormones in check.
He gasped when, out of the corner of his eye, he saw
Constantine
vanish. His pack didn’t have a Delta, so this was a new experience for him. Everyone knew about Deltas and about what they could do, but Christian had never seen it before.
“
Constantine
?” he asked with a whisper.
“Yes, my love?”
Constantine
asked in Christian’s mind.
“Holy shit,” he replied. “I feel like I’m on acid trip or something.”
“You better not be speaking from experience, Christian. Or when this is over I’m going to kick your ass!”
“No, I don’t know firsthand.” Christian chuckled. He turned left onto the side street that would bring them to the address left in the hotel room. “I never had the desire to do drugs. I just didn’t see the appeal. I prefer my high to come from much more natural activities.”
“Good. Owen and I are your only drug of choice now.”
Constantine
snickered in his head.
“Okay, no more talking to the invisible werewolf in the car. We’re getting too close. I’ll be right there with you, Christian.”
“I need you to promise me one thing first,” Christian said solemnly. “No matter what happens, get Owen out. I can defend myself better than he can, you know that. I’ll keep them distracted the best I can, but you get Owen out,
Constantine
. Promise me that.”
“I promise. I also promise we’re all getting out of this. We’re not going in there to trade you for Owen.”
Christian wasn’t as sure as he pulled up to the warehouse. But at least his mind was clear on the task at hand now that his mate had promised to get Owen out. He slowed the truck, threw it in park, and shut off the engine. Slowly, he opened the door and climbed out.
“I’m here,” he called out as he walked toward the abandoned building. Christian felt like he had stepped into a really bad B-rated mob movie. Everything in him wanted to look back to the truck the farther away he got. He hadn’t forgotten to leave the door open for
Constantine
.
“I’m right next to you, baby. You’re doing great, just keep going.”
When he got to the door, he opened it and just peered for a moment. He felt something brush against him. It had to be
Constantine
, especially since it felt furry. Taking a deep breath, he walked through the door, making sure he paused just inside while holding the door open. He needed to give
Constantine
time to get inside.
“You’ve always been stupid.”
A man laughed. Christian recognized the voice immediately. He’d never forget it. Jake was one of the members of his pack who had beaten the living shit out of Christian.
“Hello, Jake.” Christian walked farther into the building. Getting closer to where Jake was, he could see the other two members who had been in on his beating.
“You actually came alone.” Jake sneered. “You fucking moron.”
“You said come alone or Owen died,” Christian replied and tried not to cry out when Owen was dragged into view by Mike and Liam, also pack members who had participated in Christian’s beating. His little mate was tied up and gagged, and blood dripped from his nose. “I’m here, let him go.”
“Yeah, right,” Mike said, rolling his eyes. “We kidnapped a human who’s going to witness us killing you. Yeah, we’ll let him go when hell freezes over.”
“Let him go now before you kill me,” Christian begged. “He won’t see anything then.”
Just then, something clawed up the front of Liam, who was holding Owen. Wanting to take advantage of their surprise, Christian shifted as fast as he could and leaped at Mike. Mike had been especially brutal when they had beaten him. Payback was going to be a bitch.
Mike didn’t even have time to shift before Christian was on him. He gave two strong swipes of his claws over Mike’s face to temporarily incapacitate him before turning toward Jake. Unfortunately, Jake had enough time to shift into a wolf, and he was ready for Christian.
“Get Owen out of here, NOW,”
Christian growled to
Constantine
through their mental link. He wanted to see where his little mate was, but he couldn’t turn his back on Jake. The man was by far the most vicious of the three men.