ROMANCE: PARANORMAL ROMANCE: Coveted by the Werewolves (Paranormal MMF Bisexual Menage Romance) (New Adult Shifter Romance Short Stories) (7 page)

              Hailey stood up, breaking the monotony, and slowly slid over her robe to reveal her alabaster skin, dewy in the soft incandescence of the candles they had lit.

              Caleb felt himself harden at the very sight of Hailey’s exposed skin. He too stood and slowly walked towards the now completely naked woman whom he had always loved. His penis was tumescent with lust as his eyes took in Hailey’s heaving bosom.

              Hailey could see Caleb’s groin instantly tighten. She raised her finger to tease Caleb’s penis against the rough denim that held it captive. It jolted as if struck by lightning as Hailey led his hand from her cheek down the curve f her neck.

              Hailey’s nipples were swelling from the feel of Caleb’s rough hands. But it was his artful way of encircling her nipples with his tongue that made Hailey shriek in delight.

              “Ahhh…” Hailey moaned as Caleb’s tongue began to inch lower down her waist to her nether folds, dripping wet with anticipation.

              He tried to sneak a glance at Anton who was by now blushing from ear to ear at the scene they were witnessing.

              “Gustav? Can we move it a long?” Anton finally spoke up as Gustav was still meditating and chanting.

              “Always in a hurry, that’s a trait you have to work on changing, young Dominguez. You are very much like your grandfather.”

              Anton shook his head and pointed to the scene that was still playing out in front of them. Gustav let out a laugh that did not at all disturb the images of Caleb and Anton servicing the beautiful Hailey.

              “I’m sorry. I promise it will go by faster as soon as I finish my incantation.” Gustav answered. “I haven’t done this in a very long time, and to be honest, I have never done this to save a sacrifice.”

              “I know.” Anton responded.

              “You might just be better than your grandfather.” Gustav winked before he closed his eyes one more time to finish his chanting.

              The lights started to shine in a deeper color – it was almost orange, but not the pretty kind. It was orange like fire burning.

              She screamed. Waiting right at the bottom of her doorstep was the rogue wolf.

              “Hailey!” Caleb yelled as he and Anton heard her scream from downstairs.

              With lightning speed, the two Alphas bolted down the stairs to find Hailey curled up on the steps, whimpering and quivering in fear. The rogue wolf gritted its teeth as the two other wolves approached him.

              Without warning, Caleb leapt through the air over Hailey, smashing into the vicious black wolf. Anton ran and grappled it down with his fangs, violently tearing his head from side to side, while Caleb struggled to pacify its attempt to break free.

              The placid Hailey propped up on that chair was crying now. The color was her fear seething thourgh her memories. This was what she had wanted to forgot, but she knew she couldn’t.

              Gustav only stood there, still with his eyes closed as he continued to chant in a deep trance.

              The memories started to shift faster from one scene to another in an almost lightning like manner.

              Then at one point, the light started to turn darker again, this time into an even deeper burnt orange color. But there was nothing. No shapes were formed, no buildings, nothing but a low rumbling sound.

              “The attack.” Anton said past his clench teeth.

              Just like that it all vanished. All they saw now was this mist trying to form a figure, only to be blown to the other side of the room to form another. It was a whirlwind of this incandescent color just shifting from a sunshiny yellow hue to sometimes orangey shades.

              Caleb’s heart ached as he saw the colors changing. He had understood what the colors meant. Happiness and fears. It was quite bipolar. There were moments when there was just this glorious bright mist that swirled, and more often than not, the colors were this dark reddish or orangey hue that gave him intense shivers throughout his body.

              “Almost there.” Gustav paused. All of a sudden, the light started to retreat back into Hailey’s eyes.

              “No! What’s happening? We haven’t learned anything!” Anton called to Gustav desperately.

              “Oh dear.” Gustav said almost inaudible.

              “Wait what is happening?” Caleb asked now more confused than he was ever before.

              “Oh no, no no…” Gustav shook his head. “Genius!” He exclaimed.

              Anton stepped forward clenching his fist. “Are you going to tell us what just happened?”

              “Relax little wolf.” Gustav smirked as he walked towards Hailey who looked like she was having the soundest sleep she had ever had in her whole entire life.

              “Your keepers were geniuses, were they not?” Gustav asked again rhetorically to Hailey, who was by then slowly waking from her trance.

              “Gustav turned to the boys. “She is special.”

              “Do you know what Hailey is now?” Anton asked as Caleb rushed to Hailey’s side, who was obviously quite confused by all the excitement.

              “No. Not even the slightest.” Gustav answered with a smile. Anton wanted to punch him right then and there but he kept his cool knowing he could do so much better than to anger the one man who could actually solve this mystery for him.

              “But I do know something very significant.” Gustav said. Hailey was now quite aware of what had transpired thanks to Caleb, who had hastily briefed her on what had happened to her. Of course, Caleb left out the part that he and Anton had to relive the scene when they had to mark her.

              “Please Gustav…” Hailey paused before continuing. She noticed she had no trouble now responding to the man without sounding at all sheepish and all too wanting.

              Gustav laughed. “Surprised you’re not attracted to me anymore my dear? It is sad. I really did like you awing over me. But alas, it was all part of the enchantment so we can figure out who you were.”

              Hailey blushed. For a moment there, she thought she had actually liked Gustav, for real. “Well, Mr. Gustav? Did you finally figure out who or what I am?” Hailey finally asked.

              Anton and Caleb looked to the man with anticipation.

              “Again, I have to point out that the enchantment failed to show me who or what you are. Both of your werewolves here can attest that the memories were cut all of a sudden.” He noted.

              “But I did find out one important thing. You have a keeper.” Gustav said proudly.

              Unfortunately, the rest of the group did not really understand how this piece of information was at all relevant. In fact, they had no idea what a keeper was.

              “You are all so confused.” Gustav giggled. “A keeper is someone tasked to make sure you would never come to know of your existence or your true nature.”

Gustav looked at the waiting faces of the three. “You see, your kind – you pure sacrifices – are indeed special, but once you figure out what you are, it would automatically create a way for you to be tainted. For some, tainting a pure sacrifice could be so bothersome that a keeper is not required anymore because even if the sacrifice wanted to taint itself, it would be too hard to do so.

              “For some, just like you my little doll, it could be as easy as a kiss from a prince or a prick on the spindle to taint you, and that’s why a keeper is sent to hide your identity and in turn, keep you clean as a whistle.”

              “So I have someone making sure I’m prepped for sacrificing?” Hailey said almost defeated. “How is this, a good thing?”

              “I get it.” Caleb remarked awkwardly but thoughtfully. “Now that we know that Hailey has a keeper, we know that tainting her isn’t at all impossible.” Caleb looked to Gustav for affirmation. Gustav simply nodded.

              “Wait just one second. How do we even know that she really does have a keeper?” Anton inquired.

              “Someone had to wipe out her memory of her childhood.” Gustav said.

              “Right.” Caleb responded. “Someone had to have made sure she stayed away from what could taint her.”

              “If that’s all correct, then this keeper must have been close to her ever since she was a child, up until she met us and the harvest moon started to rise.” Anton added.

              “Exactly. And here I was thinking you little wolves didn’t have enough brain cells to figure this out.”

              “What do we do now?” Hailey asked

              “Simple. We find your keeper.” Responded Gustav with a slight smile.

*****

              They had left the voodoo hut that was disguised as a Dental Clinic immediately after they sensed a cold chill looming in the distance. It could just have been that typical east coast mist rolling in from the Atlantic, but both Caleb and Anton wouldn’t take the risk.

              The Khiones were a formidable foe, and a foe that had a reason to hate Anton and had every reason to try with all their might to capture Hailey, the pure sacrifice.

              It is important to point out how the Dominguez wolf pack and this Alaskan pack were related. In general, there was bad blood between them. The Dominguez’s feared them not because they were stronger or even more powerful, but simply because they had this deeply rooted hatred for the Dominguez family. They couldn’t really count on the Khiones to play a fair and honorable fight at any time.

              The story is of a love lost and a betrayal perceived. It was not or did not seem to be something that was quite significant to the Dominguez’s, but the Khiones took it all too badly. The grudge they had was so strong that they even chose to move the entire pack as far as they possible could from the Dominguez pack.

              They are definitely here.” Caleb looked to Anton who gave him an affirmative stare.

              They both looked to Hailey who was not at all shaken, or so it seemed, by all the events that had just happened in the cellar of the not so old looking, but definitely advanced in years, Gustav.

              “There’s progress, and this is what matters right now.” Anton said. “The mark may be fading, but it doesn’t matter. By the time it actually does, you will have ceased to become the pure sacrifice.”

              “Exactly Hails.  Our next move is simple enough. All we need to figure out is who your keeper is.” Caleb replied.

              Their car parked inconspicuously a block away from Caleb’s. They decided to go there instead of Anton’s or Hailey’s so as not to draw suspicion from anyone. They knew they could smell a wolf a mile away, but these clans weren’t just powerful, they too were rich. They could hire someone, a plain human, to keep an eye at Anton.

              No one knew Caleb Storm still existed, so it was a more or less safe bet.

              “Your keeper has got to be someone who you’ve always been with in all stages of your life but you have never noticed.” Anton said. “Gustav mentioned he could be cloaked or misted so as to hide his or her recurrence over time.”

              “That means it is no use asking me who it is because if he or she does exist, then I wasn’t supposed to notice him or her.” Hailey said pessimistically.

              “Exactly.” Caleb added as dumbfounded as Hailey. “How in the hell are we going to figure out who this keeper person is?”

              Gustav had no idea either. He had figured out this dilemma right there when they had peered into the mind of Hailey. There was no way they could filter out the faces of the people Hailey had been with all her life without getting caught up by the cloak or mist this keeper had kept over its own appearance. Anyway, what Gustav could see was what Hailey had seen. And for sure Hailey had seen different people the whole time she was just seeing the keeper right in front of her.

              The witch doctor asked them to leave and give him time to concoct a spell to figure out how to reveal the identity of this keeper.

              There they were in front of a blazing fire Hailey was kindling as they sat in silence, each drowning in their own thoughts. Gustav promised them he would call if he figured out something as to who they could identify as Hailey’s secret little keeper.

              The fire was cracking as Hailey heaved in a huge sigh of sadness and anxiety. Her bosom bouncing from every breath as the light of the flame caressed it ever so slightly, giving it a tinge of an other-worldly color.

              Hailey could feel Anton’s and Caleb’s eyes burrowing deep into her supple breast as if aching to see more.

              Caleb found his sword starting to harden not at the sight of Hailey’s exposed skin, because there was none just yet, but at the mere sight of her svelte neck that dipped into alabaster sheathed shoulders. Her neckline revealed her tight bra strap that Caleb knew encased the object of his current fantasies.