Triple Threat (7 page)

Chapter 17

“You didn’t have to go to the funeral.” Xerxes watched Charise, worried about how calm she had been. She had been unusually quiet on the drive home.

“Yes I did. I had to let go of my fears and say goodbye to the person Ares used to be.”

“Do you feel better now?”

Charise looked thoughtful as they walked into the house. “I’m a little worried about Nadia. Taj and Vance couldn’t find out where she went. I don’t doubt she’ll be back to cause more trouble.”

“And from what I’ve gathered both she and Ares alluded to more women, a harem of sorts. Your brothers have their entire den combing the entire territory looking for it,” Xavier said from behind them.

Charise turned and looked at him. “What are you doing out of bed?”

“Acacia stopped by while you were gone and checked me over. She gave me the green light to go about my normal activities,” Xavier said, grinning mischievously. “Xander should be back from the store any minute. So why don’t you go get cleaned up and meet us back down here.”

Charise looked at him questioningly. “If you think that you’re doing anything hanky pankyish tonight then you’d be wrong.”

Xavier arched a brow at her. “Don’t believe Acacia’s verdict?”

“Personally no.”

“She’s been with our Pride for almost 4 years now. We trust her completely,” Xerxes said.

“Yeah, she’s one of two females in your Pride,” she huffed, crossing her arms over her chest.

Xavier smiled. “Are you jealous?”

“No.”

“I think you are,” Xerxes said, pulling her to him.

“Am not,” she snorted. She cuddled into his arms even though she was irritated with him.

“You are totally jealous. But I just want you to know that none of us have had any interest in her. Besides it’s too much fun watching her and Taj dance around each other pretending not to notice their attraction for one another,” Xerxes chuckled.

“As long as you three understand that you belong to me, then we will be fine,” she said, pressing her face into his chest.

Xavier sandwiched her between Xerxes and him, nuzzling the top of her head. “Just as you belong to us.”

Charise looked up at him, grinning impishly. “Technically I only belong to one of you so far.” Three growls answered her statement.

“Which will be fixed today,” Xander said, striding into the room. “You’re not the only one that’s been waiting for Xavier to get better.”

“Why didn’t you say anything?” she asked, shocked.

Xerxes chuckled. “How would you have felt if we had asked you to step away from Xavier so we could spend some time in bed?”

She thought for a moment. “I would have been angry that you were even thinking about that when we didn’t know if Xavier was going to be okay or not.”

“Exactly. Our mother was the same way with our father. If she had to leave his side while he was injured or sick she became very upset,” Xerxes replied sadly.

“No one ever found out what happened to them did they?” she asked.

“No. The last time any of us ever saw them was the morning of their disappearance. Xander, Graeme, and I went off to school and Xavier was off with friends celebrating his graduation. We were all supposed to go to his ceremony that evening but when we got home from school no one was there. We didn’t think anything of it until Xavier came in not long after we did and asked where Mom and Dad was. We told him that we didn’t know, we had thought they were running errands but their car was still parked in the garage,” Xeres said, hugging her close.

“I called Lex, Taj’s father, and asked if he knew where our parents were but he hadn’t seen them all day either. He called the rest of the Pride together and even got Lachlan and your parents involved in the search. All that was found were two sets of prints leading into the forest behind our house, they disappeared into a small creek about 100 yards past the treeline. Nothing else was ever found,” Xavier said.

“We continued the search for several months before finally giving up. If our parents were in the vicinity then they didn’t want to be found. What made it so much worse was the fact that just a few months before they disappeared they had adopted Graeme. His situation was very similar to ours. He came home from school and his parents weren’t. They never came home,” Xander said. “A couple years later Lex went missing. But we weren’t sure if he had been taken or just went feral because of his wife’s death. Most of the pride moved away after that except for Acacia and Camilla’s parents, and Nadia’s family.”

Charise cocked her head, questions whirling through her mind. “It wasn’t long after your parents’ disappearance that my parents had their ‘accident.”

“What’s got your mind whirling, sweetheart?” Xavier asked.

“Could it be possible that there were all taken for some kind of shifter black market?” All three of them stared down at her. “What?”

“We never thought of that,” Xander murmured.

Chapter 18

“I knew you three weren’t the sharpest tools in the shed but I still love all of you,” she giggled.

“We love you too,” Xavier said.

“Even though Xavier was a complete asshole?” Xander asked smiling.

“Asshole?”

She laughed and snuggled closer to Xerxes. “Yes even though all of you have had your moments I love you. My bear went crazy the first time I saw all three of you together in my office and it was just downhill from there.”

“Well, don’t make it sound like a bad thing,” Xavier grouched.

Xander bumped Xavier out of the way and picked Charise up. “I love you Charise. Will you be my mate and marry me?”

She smiled at him. “I love you too. I’ll be your mate but I’m not quite ready to get married.”

“Don’t make me tease you with my cock to make you say yes,” he growled.

She couldn’t help laughing at his mutinous expression. “I have two other cocks to enjoy while you go on strike.”

He grinned evilly at her. “You do realize that means you have three men all willing to torture you until you say yes?”

She hesitantly looked at Xavier and Xerxes, who both wore the same evil expression as their brother. “You can’t do this.”

“Oh yes we can, my darling mate. That’s why Xavier sent me on a little errand this morning.” He upended her over his shoulder. “I have spent the last three days getting blue balls watching this beautiful ass of yours scamper around in one of our shirts while Xavier was recovering.” He smacked her on the ass as he went to the bedroom. “Now that he is fully recovered I’m going to mark you as mine like I wanted to in the truck.”

“As long as I get to mark you as mine too.” She pinched his butt, earning herself another swat on the ass. She giggled when she looked up to see Xavier and Xerxes hot on their heels, stripping as they went up the stairs. “So how do you plan to torture me?’

“You’ll just have to find out, sweetheart,” Xander said, laying her down on the bed.

Xavier and Xerxes climbed in on both sides of her, effectively making her the filling of their sexy sandwich. They trailed their hands along her skin, Xavier grinned and nipped playfully at her shoulder, sending delightful shivers along her skin. Xerxes purred as he sucked one of her stiff nipples into his mouth, causing even more shivers.

Charise squirmed in anticipation. She loved these men and they loved her. Her thoughts scattered as they turned her her onto her back and Xander slid in between her thighs.

He spread her thighs wide and purred at the sight before him. She was pink and glistening and he couldn’t wait to make her scream. He teased her pussy, drawing moans from his mate, he sucked her clit into his mouth and then purred.

Charise screamed only to be muffled as Xerxes kissed her. She twitched and jerked as she orgasmed and her senses were overloaded as three pairs of hands, and three mouths touched and caressed her body. Xavier pinched her nipples, drawing her out of her pleasure coma. She pulled away from Xerxes and looked at Xavier. Her grinned at her, flashing a bit of fang before taking over kissing her.

He dominated the kiss, drawing her into his web of pleasure as his hands danced across her skin, distracting her from what Xander and Xerxes were doing. She moaned as a different mouth locked onto her clit. She arched up as a hot mouth engulfed one of her nipples. She could only moan and whimper as another orgasm swept over her. Her orgasm spiked as her three mates marked her at her peak, she screamed as she blacked out.

Charise woke to the sound of purring, from not one but all three of her mates. She snuggled closer to one of them.

“She’s finally awake.”

“I’m sorry.” She curled closer to her living pillow. A hand started stroking her hair, another her back, and another on her butt.

“Why baby?”

“This was supposed to be our mating and I blacked out,” she said, peaking up from Xavier’s side. Her eyes met Xander’s and she reached back for Xerxes’ hand. She loved them and never wanted to disappoint them.

“Don’t you think that making you pass out from pleasure pleases us? Plus we now get to do it all again,” Xavier purred. “And I haven’t gotten my turn to taste that pussy of yours. My brothers say you taste like honey and cream. I want to find out for myself.”

Charise’s bear rumbled in excitement. Her mates had claimed her but now it was her turn to claim them. She pulled Xavier close and kissed him. She nuzzled his cheek before pressing her lips against his shoulder in a quick kiss then sank her teeth into him. She heard his groan of ecstasy and growled in pleasure.

Xavier kissed her ear. Arms wrapped around her from behind and a hand settled on her hip. “We love you. We want to see you grow big with our cubs and make you ours in every sense of the word.”

Xander kissed the back of her neck. “Will you please marry us?”

“Yes,” she said smiling at them. Purrs erupted around her and she was swept into a kiss by Xavier, then Xander, followed by Xerxes. Their hands moved along her body, heat radiating through her and pooling in her pussy making her moan and rub against them.

“Does our naughty little bear want to be fucked?”

“Yes.”

She was rolled on top of Xavier and quickly impaled on his cock. She moaned as he work his cock into her bringing her to the edge of another climax as their hips finally met. She wiggled trying to finish herself off only to have her hips grabbed and held still by not one but two pairs of hands.

“Sorry, baby, but we can’t have you going off like a rocket this time. We plan to take our time with you.” She growled in frustration.

Hands gently caressed her face drawing her attention to Xerxes. His cock bobbed in front of her face, the beads of moisture glistening on the tip had her wanting to know what he tasted like. It didn’t take her long to find out. She swirled her tongue around the head before sucking him into her mouth. She moaned as he hit the back of her throat.

Xavier began a slow thrust and retreat that had her shifting with him, trying to get him deeper. He stilled beneath her once again causing her to groan around Xerxes. She felt something cold dribble on her ass but couldn’t see what Xander was doing.

Xander rubbed his fingers against her virgin hole slipping one in stopping at the knuckle. Xavier started moving again in time to Xander moving his finger. She was soon pushing back against Xander wanting more and he slipped another finger into her ass.

Charise couldn’t concentrate on Xerxes and soon felt a hand grab her hair and hold her as he began to fuck her face. She could only moan as her men fucked her into oblivion.

She shifted restlessly as Xavier stilled beneath her. Xander withdrew his fingers from her ass and pressed his cock into her. The head of his cock pushed through the tight ring of her ass stinging only slightly until he was completely impaled in her. He held still and began playing with her clit, pulling her attention away from the pain and drawing her back into the pleasure they were creating. They fell into a seesaw rhythm, one thrusting in as the other withdrew. Their pace became harsher and soon both imbedded into her at the same time.

Xerxes had continued to hold her head still as he thrust faster and faster. His breath becoming ragged as he drew closer to his climax. Finally he thrust into her hard and held still. She could feel his cock pulsing against her tongue as he spurted into her mouth. His climax triggered her own and her body clamped down on Xander and Xavier, moaning around Xerxes.

Xander and Xavier groaned as she climaxed around them. Xander roared as he came into her marking her as his. Xavier soon followed and roared in satisfaction.

They all sprawled across the bed. Xerxes got up, grabbed a washcloth and began cleaning their mate. He chuckled as he saw that she had passed out yet again. He handed the cloth to Xander as he withdrew from her.

He gently cleaned her and himself. He tossed the washcloth into the laundry basket and laid down next to Xavier, drawing the comforter up over them all. He purred as he held her hand and fell asleep.

Chapter 19

The doorbell woke Charise up. She slowly extracted herself from the tangle of bodies on the bed and put on one of the discarded shirts lying on the floor. She stumbled down the stairs and hastily went to the door. She opened it and found Freya standing on the porch. “What are you doing here? Is something wrong?”

“Everything is fine. I came to talk to you and your mates. I have news from the Shifter Council and Ares’ cabin. You may want to wake your mates up,” Freya replied.

“We’re already awake,” Xavier said as he came down the stairs followed by Xander and Xerxes. “What were you wanting to talk about?”

“The Council sends their apologies for what happened to you and all of the suffering you experienced because of Ares. They did not believe that he was as unstable as he apparently was. They will be sending more agents to help with the search of the missing girls and will be looking into placing an agency in the vicinity,” Freya said. She was dressed very formally and even had a badge on her belt.

“Why are you dressed like that?” Charise asked curiously.

“I’m the local Council agent,” she said smiling.

“What? Why did you never tell me?”

“If I told you you would have told your brothers and then everyone would’ve  known,” Freya said.

“I wouldn’t have told my brothers,” Charise growled. Freya’s look said she didn’t believe her. Charise was ready to pounce on her friend but was stopped by the arms that wrapped around her waist.

“Can we move this to the living room? Maybe talk about what brought the Danu pack Alpha to our door instead of brawling on the front porch?” Xavier asked, his eyes twinkling with laughter.

“That would be nice.” Freya walked into the living room and sat down in the armchair and waited until her four companions had settled on the couch. “I moved my pack to the area because of Ares, he was already suspected of kidnapping several women but we had no concrete evidence. Dejah convinced me that by moving us here I would be one step closer to catching him and it would bring Charise, an added layer of protection.”

“Much good that did,” Xander growled.

“Yes, I know that I wasn’t a very good protector or friend when it came to Char but when she was taken I had been sent to investigate a possible lead into the abductions. This lead is a woman only known as Nightshade. Because of the fact I was stretched thin trying to do that and be there for Char the Council has decided to build an agency building here in Millersburg.” Freya sighed. “As for Ares cabin, all the evidence we found either belongs to Char or Ares. But we’re still missing 15 women and that’s only the ones that Ares is suspected of taking. It could be more because not every missing person gets reported to the Council. I believe he has a den somewhere in the area, but the Council refuses to give me the man power needed to do a search of the area.”

Xavier leaned forward, studying Freya solemnly. “I don’t want to think badly of a clan but is it possible that his clan knows where his den is? Maybe even participating in whatever he might have been doing to these women?”

“It is possible, but like you I don’t want to think badly about a clan. Plus I would have to have concrete proof to take to the Council before they’ll let me question anyone,” Freya said angrily. “They expect me to do my job but tie my hands so I can’t.”

“Do you have to have proof to search their territory?” Xerxes asked.

Freya thought about it for a moment. “I’m not sure. I will have to ask.”

“If they are tying your hands on this then I wouldn’t ask. I would just do a quiet investigation without them knowing, there might be someone connected to the Southern Den that doesn’t want you finding something,” Xander said bluntly. He knew that contractors tried to cover when they used low grade materials the same was most likely true for the Council. “Something else, Charise had a theory about all of the missing people around here. She suggested that there migth be a shifter black market or collector.”

Freya stood up. “That is a definite possibility. I will get more agents out here to help look into everything. Thank you for your time. I shouldn’t have told you any of this so I would much appreciate it if you didn’t tell anyone until later on.” She stared pointedly at Charise.

“Hey! I wouldn’t have told anyone,” Charise growled.

Freya chuckled and smiled at her friends aggravation. “I know. I just like teasing you.”

Charise climbed out of Xerxes lap and hugged her friend. “Thank you for being one of my bestest friends.”

Freya hugged her back. “You’re welcome but I am not your vibrator. Little piece of advice, mark them ASAP because I really don’t want to see you brawling with some poor female because they don’t have the mating mark.”

Charise chuckled and smacked her friend on the arm. “I don’t need that anymore. I have three men to take care of that and I plan on marking them as soon as you leave.”

“You have a vibrator? Can I see it?” Xander asked, but all three men watched her expectantly.

Freya laughed at her friend’s expression. “I’ll see you later.” And let herself out. She shook her head as she heard Charise tell her men that if they were very good she would let them see it. Hopefully she would be hearing about their mating in the next couple of days. Maybe next week as a round of roaring and screams came from the house.