Shared By The Alpha Bears - Complete (14 page)

As I stood back, trembling in terror, one of the wolves stepped forward out of the pack, and shifted into the form of a fit, lean, chiseled man with dark hair and dark eyes. As he stood before us, Jake and Max stepped forward and shifted back into their human forms as well.

“This is your last chance,” the alpha wolf said. “If you take that human away, we can all walk away from this, and nobody needs to get hurt.”

“This forest doesn’t belong to you,” Jake said. “We’re still alphas just as much as you are, and we have our own say in who can stay with us in our own territory.”

“Your status as alphas doesn’t give you the authority to violate forest law at your whim. That’s the kind of thing that’ll bring the full force of the forest down on your dumb asses! And speaking of the full force of the forest, I’m sure you can see it behind me, all gathered here just for you. Are you ready to fight us all off with that little motely crew you’ve got there?”

“Ready, willing and able!” Max boasted.

The alpha wolf gave a huff. “Fine, then. We do this the hard way. Just remember, you asked for this.”

And then he shifted back to his wolf form, and Max and Jake shifted back into bears. My five protectors marched forward to meet advancing wall of teeth surrounding us. And my hands flew to my mouth as I watched, not wanting to watch but unable to look away.

And then… everything stopped before it started.

“Everybody, wait!”

I looked to the voice, practically jumping back in surprise as I discovered someone standing almost right next to me in front of the doorway. And as the light fell on him, I realized it was Eric. He leaned forward and sniffed at me, and then turned to the crowd behind him and shouted three words:

“She’s been mated!”

I’d been what?

As soon as he said that, several of the other wolves started shifting to their human forms and stepping toward me. “Are you sure?” one of them said.

“I can smell it,” Eric said.

The alpha wolf marched forward, brushing past my bears, who also began shifting back to their human forms, and were staring at me. Max and Jake tensed as the alpha wolf got closer to me, and I reflexively shrunk back from his approach. But he just leaned in closer to me and gave me a whiff. And then his face took on a much angrier look.

“It’s true,” he said. “She’s carrying a cub.”

My mouth dropped open, my eyes drifting down to my belly, and my hands beginning to shake.

The wolves all began murmuring among themselves. “This changes everything!” I heard one of them say.

“Why didn’t you say this to begin with?” the alpha asked my bears.

“We had no idea,” Jake said.

“But all your leverage is gone now,” Max said. “You can’t send her away without sending one of our kind with her. You have to let her stay.”

I could see that the wolves weren’t happy with this. None of them. But the important thing was that they were starting to back off. The alpha gave Max and Jake a scowl and said, “Fine. Keep your damn human. But we’ll be watching.”

And with that he returned to his pack, they all shifted back into their four-legged shapes and loped away into the woods.

I dropped to my knees, thinking I ought to pinch myself and wake up from this dream. The wolves were gone, no one had been hurt or killed, and I was actually being allowed to stay. I couldn’t believe it was for real.

Oh yeah, and I was pregnant.

My bears came crowding around me. Max and Jake knelt beside me, taking me by the arms and lifting me shakily to my feet. “Billie?” Max said. “You in there?”

“I’m not sure…” I said.

“I think the question should be who
else
is in there!” Sally said with a big grin on her face.

I supported myself on my feet for as long as I could. I think it was all of twenty seconds. And then I collapsed against the nearest body and let all my tears out. Whether they were tears of relief that we were still alive, or shock at the revelation, I couldn’t say.

The person I had collapsed against lifted my head up to look at my face, and only then did I find that I was leaning on Jake. Was the baby his? Was it Max’s?

Would I ever know?

Maybe not. But as Jake leaned in to kiss me, one thing I knew was that this baby had already saved all our lives. And for that reason alone, I knew more clearly than anything I had ever known before, that this baby was my hero.

B
OOK 3

SHARED BY THE BEARS 3

AMY STAR 

CHAPTER ONE

Jake laid me back down across the couch, laying a pillow under my head.  Max lifted up my feet to sit down with them in his lap, beginning to massage them.  Sally had just returned from the kitchen with a sparkling glass of iced tea. I never would’ve thought it, but I was actually starting to get tired of all the pampering.

Ever since we had learned I was pregnant, my housemates had been treating me like I was made of porcelain.  It was really unnecessary; I was carrying a cub, not in danger of breaking.  I had told them as much several times, but they still insisted on taking care of me.  So I’d decided to just relax and enjoy it, but still, it was getting to be a little much.

So I accepted the tea from Sally with a polite, “Thank you.”

“Anything else you need?” Jake asked me.

“A little breathing room would be nice.” I stated matter-of-factly.

“Oh, sorry,” Jake chuckled, as he and Sally backed away from me.

Max started to get up from where he was massaging my feet, but I stopped him by raising one foot and holding it in front of his chest.  “
You
, stay right there!” I commanded.

“Yes ma’am,” he grinned, sitting right back down.

Jake headed off to the kitchen to get lunch started, while Sally picked up the remote and turned on Max’s TV.  “Anything you want to watch, Billie?” she asked me.

I gave a slight roll of my eyes.  “I leave it to your good judgment.  I‘m comfortable just relaxing here like this.”

I sagged back into the couch, luxuriating in what Max was doing to my feet, while Sally put on some sappy soap opera.  I closed my eyes, letting myself start to doze off.  Yeah, life was good.  We no longer had wolves threatening to come barging in and dragging me out in pieces, I still had my group of regular lovers, and I had bouncing baby bear cub on the way.  And to top things off, I was being treated like a queen.  The queen of the bears. 

Come to think of it, Max and Jake were both the alpha bears in the area, and they were both practically bowing to my whims, so I guess in a sense that really did make me a queen.  How about that? Eventually there was a knock at the door, and Sally got up to let Ben and Paul in. 

“Hey, everyone,” Paul said.  He looked at me with a smirk and added, “How’s baby bear, Billie?”

I tittered a little, rubbing my belly.  “Not really making itself known yet.”

“Tell that to the breakfast you lost down the sink this morning,” Jake said.  That got a few sardonic laughs around the cabin.

“So the word has gotten around,” Ben said.  “From what we’ve heard, pretty much every shifter within fifty miles of here knows there’s a human carrying a bear cub in these woods.”

I can’t say I that didn’t make me a little nervous.  Thus far, other shifters knowing about me had generally been a bad thing.  Like getting angry wolves huffing and puffing outside your door, that kind of bad thing.  And even with the bears, for every one like Jake or Max or Sally, there was another like Trish.  But given how the wolves had reacted to the news, suddenly backing off and agreeing to let me stay, I decided to not be worried about this.

Max was the one who asked the question I was agonizing over: “How are they taking it?”

“Ahh… hit and miss,” Paul said.  “Some of them are intrigued, whispering like schoolgirls.  Others… well, it’s like you might as well have told the Westboro Baptist Church that gay marriage has been universally legalized.  But for the most part, I’m prepared to call it good news.”

“Really?” I said.  What he’d just told me didn’t sound like so much good news as that. 

How do you figure?”

“You gotta understand,” Ben said.  “A child born of a human and a shifter hasn’t happened in a long time.  A
long
time.  And whenever it does happen, it’s always a big deal.  Some shifters see it as a potential bridge between our two worlds, and a lot of us tend to have mixed feelings about that.  But as far as the bears we talked to, I’d say we got more positive responses than negative ones.”

“Actually, a lot of them were pretty excited about the whole thing,” Paul said.  “Which you know, that reminds me, there’s something else we should mention.  You’re likely to start getting some visitors pretty soon.  For several months.  Like nine months.  And, come to think of it, they’ll probably be coming in even more droves after the baby’s born.”

“So what, I’m like the Virgin Mary of bears?” I said.  “I’m like Sarah Connor or something?”

Paul laughed a little.  “You can look at it like that, little lady.”

“I don’t know if that’s good news or bad,” Jake admitted.  “This cabin is supposed to be a solitary haven, not a tourist attraction!”

I kind of agreed.  I’d gotten used to the quiet life out here, and I wasn’t looking forward to the idea of bear shifters crowding around our front porch to get a look at me.  But at least it was better than wolves trying to chase me away.

“So what happens with this baby?” I asked.  “I have some half-human, half-shifter cub, and it becomes a sort of messiah to the shifter world?”

“Well, not exactly,” Max said.  “You’re either a shifter or you’re not.  There isn’t really an in-between.  So as long as your baby has shifter genes in it, that’s probably what it’ll be.”

“But supposedly,” Ben said, “being born of a human gives a shifter special insight.  Like they can understand and communicate with humans in ways the rest of us can’t.  I’ve even heard stories that say they have psychic powers or something, but like I said, it’s been a long, long time since one has been born, so who can say what’s history or tall tales.  The point of the matter is, a lot of other shifters, especially bears, is going to be treating your baby like the Second Coming of Christ or something.  You might as well get used to the idea.”

I sank into the couch, not sure whether to be flattered or overwhelmed.  “Well, at least I’ve got a few months to brace for the hurricane,” I muttered.

“I sure hope that’s enough,” Sally said.  I wholeheartedly agreed.

I took a big swig of the iced tea by my side.  Yes, it was soothing, and that helped.  But even so, I looked at the glass in my hand, and I made a face and groaned.  “You know, if I wasn’t pregnant, I’d say I need a bourbon right about now.  Damn this kid!”

Paul sighed.  “Yeah, I guess this is a lot to dump on you right now.”

“You need some alone time?” Jake offered.

“Anything but that!” I promptly answered.  Then I thought about it, and said, “Actually, if you don’t mind, I could use a little alone-with-you-two time,” gesturing to both Jake and Max.

Both my guys smiled.  “Our pleasure,” Max said, setting my feet down on the floor.

Together, each of them came to my side, helping me up off the couch by a wrist.  Hand-in-hand-in-hand, the three of us headed up the stairs—and then I paused, and turned to look back down into the room below me, where I saw Sally looking a little left out.

“Next time, girlfriend,” I reassured her.

We got to the bedroom, and I collapsed onto the bed, where I was soon sandwiched between the hulking bodies of my two favorite guys.  I never felt safer than when I was nestled between them like that, lying on my side, pressing my face to Jake’s chest while Max spooned up behind me, each of them with a hand on my body; Jake smoothly caressed my bare hip and the curve of my backside while Max draped an arm over my midsection, his hand holding me by the belly. 

Despite everything I had just been told, it was enough that I was able to doze off pretty quickly.  It was the best thing in the world to know that no matter what came my way, I still had them to fall back on.  As long as the two of them were with me, I could get through anything.  It was why that brief but terrible period when Max had left to go look for help had seemed like so much longer than it was; I’d been left with only half my bear love sandwich, and I’d felt half lost as a result.  I don’t think either of them ever truly realized just how much I needed them.  They were jointly the best things that had ever happened to me, and I would never let them go.

I still didn’t know which of them was the father of my baby.  I wasn’t sure I ever would really know—and honestly, thus far it had never occurred to me to try to find out,  because it didn’t seem to matter.  When my cub was born, I knew both of them would be fathers to it, and they would be the best kind of fathers a little bear cub could ask for.

And when I woke up again, still sandwiched between them, I made sure to let them both know just how much I appreciated them. I started by leaning up to kiss Jake, while beginning to wiggle my ass around a bit against Max’s crotch.  Jake responded by pulling me tighter to him, and I was soon rewarded in my efforts by beginning to feel Max hardening against my ass.  He started rubbing his crotch back against me as his cock continued to swell.  I reached a hand down to Jake’s cock, feeling a similar reaction beginning to happen with him, too.  I took hold of his stiffening tool and started stroking it, while I rubbed the cleft of my ass back and forth along Max’s shaft.

I moaned into my kiss with Jake when I felt his big paws take hold of my breast and begin to massage the flesh, his thumb running over my hardening nipple.  It got even better when Max’s hand snaked around me, slipping between me and Jake to seek out my other breast, giving it the same kind of treatment.  God, I loved it when they did this.  Having each tit being attended by a different one of my guys was one of the most exquisite feelings in the world.  I practically had a little orgasm just from that.

Max leaned over me to start kissing my neck.  I rolled my head back, moaning contentedly as I let him do that, while Jake planted kisses on the side of my face.  I reached a hand behind me to grasp Max’s hard shaft, now savoring the feeling of having a big bear cock in each hand, merrily stroking both of them.

One hand—I wasn’t sure whose it was at first—but one hand soon started gliding down my belly, and found its way to my clit, giving it a little strum.  I moaned harder, my legs squirming around a little, feeling wetness growing between my thighs.  And after fidgeting with my clit a few times, the hand that I had now determined was Max’s moved lower, and its fingers dipped themselves into my honeypot.

I think I had another mini-orgasm then.

I let Max finger-fuck me for a few minutes, as I impulsively squeezed the cocks in my hands harder, feeling the precum leaking from them starting to lubricate my grip, making my job easier.  Meanwhile Jake bent his head lower, taking one of my erect nipples into his mouth, making me arch my back upward.  And then Max took the other one into his mouth.  God, I thought having each tit rubbed by a different guy was hot?  How about having each tit
sucked
by a different guy!  While you’ve got their cocks in your hands!  While one has got his fingers in your pussy!  Now
that
is fucking heaven!

Especially when one of those guys, namely Max, decides to move his body down lower and start applying his very talented mouth to your pussy along with his fingers.  That’s a pretty heavenly scenario too.  And having Jake then get up on his knees beside your head, putting his big, pulsing cock right in front of your hungry lips, that’s not bad either.

Max ultimately tongued me to an orgasm that wasn’t so mini, making me give a muffled scream around my mouthful of Jake’s cock.  And then the next thing I knew, I was looking up to see Max rising to his knees, lining his cockhead up with my juicy pussy.  My mouth hung open as I rubbed my clit in flushed anticipation, still stroking Jake in my other hand.

When Max pushed himself inside me, my head rolled back to hit the bed and I let loose with a long, loud groan.  He started to fuck me slow and steady, making me impulsively grip Jake’s cock tighter.  I can only imagine a lesser man than Jake would have been yelping in pain at what my hand was doing. 

That’s right, a man had to be a bear to handle a woman like me! And even then, one wasn’t enough.  I needed two.

As Max got his rhythm and started speeding up, I turned my head and took Jake into my mouth again.  This had to be my absolute favorite feeling in the world: getting stuffed full of big bear cock at both ends, drilled in the pussy by one while slurping the other in my mouth.  I moaned again and again around the big phallus filling my oral cavity as Max pounded his way into me.  I furiously rubbed my clit with my free hand, trying to get myself off again.  And again, and again, if I could.