by Maia Dylan
Brendan was about to scoff at that when he saw relief in Lucy’s eyes as she nodded. Well, fuck, he wouldn’t have thought of that.
“Pet, Brendan and I are partners, and we have always known that we would share the fated woman destined to be ours. We knew that she would be beautiful and we would have to work to be worthy of her. But we also knew that she would be strong enough to not only let us love, cherish, and protect her but have enough love in her heart for the both of us.”
Lucy’s trepidation faded away and was replaced by longing as Cody moved to kneel between her spread knees. He reached down, wrapped his arms under her shoulders and pulled her up to straddle his legs. She squeaked a little then settled against him with her arms around his shoulders.
“As for me not wanting you after watching you take my brother so beautifully”—Cody scoffing snort—“you couldn’t be further from the truth! Seeing you with him, watching your face as the pleasure built, and then watching and hearing you come just about blew my mind. Feel me, baby. You can feel how hard I am for you, and if you would lean up onto your knees a little and let me slide on into that pretty little pussy of yours, I would by most grateful.”
Brendan sat back against the headboard of the bed and settled in to watch his kitten move.
Lucy knelt up a little, then reached out a hand to grip Cody’s impressive and silky man part. She had been amazed at how hot it had made her when she had him in her mouth, but this was good, too. Being able to watch pleasure bloom on his face and his eyes start to glitter blue. Yeah, he liked her hand on him.
Then with an instinct born to every woman in the world, she stroked him, squeezing on the way up and twisting at the end. His breath hissed out, and he squeezed her tighter against him. Hmm, interesting she knew she would want to explore this new hidden power she seemed to have over these men, but for now, she was feeling more than just a little empty and needed to have this man inside her.
She should have been sated. She had come so hard with Brendan that she swore she actually saw stars, but now the flames were leaping higher and she was burning for this man. Her Cody. Trembling, her pussy quivering with anticipation, and a telltale gush of liquid slid down the inside of her thigh as a testament to how much she desired him. Kneeling, she placed him at her entranced, and again in a move she didn’t even know she knew, she swirled her hips as she moved to take his cock inside her.
“Fuck yeah! Move on me, Luce. Take me inside. Jesus, you feel like liquid satin on my dick. Ride me, beautiful.” Cody groaned and the tendons in his neck stood out in stark relief.
As she breathed faster, her body releasing more of her cream. She twisted and ground her way down until she was settled in his lap. She felt so full! She sat there absorbing the feel of Cody deep inside her. Then she started to move, slowly up onto her knees, feeling the glide of him as he slid out of her pussy then swirling back until she was fully seated on him.
“That’s it, my Lucy. Ride me, move on me, and make me yours.”
Cody was breathing hard and she watched as sweat beaded on his forehead.
“How does it feel, Cody? How does it feel to have your dick pressed so far inside me? I can’t feel anything but you, baby,” Lucy breathed into his ear, undulating and rolling her hips against him. She slipped her tongue out of her mouth, drew his earlobe into her mouth, and bit it gently. Cody groaned and she felt his fingers clench hard against her hips.
“Shit, baby, I knew you would be like this—so damn sexy you make my head swim.” Cody returned the favor and bit gently on her earlobe, making her moan aloud. “How does this feel? Lucy, this feels like heaven, like fucking home to me baby. That’s what you are to us, home. Damn, pet, you feel so fucking good surrounding my cock!” Cody suddenly lifted up, moved around, then lay back on the bed, leaving Lucy straddling him.
“Now take me, Lucy, ride me hard, baby!” Cody gasped, gripping her hips and helping her rise.
Lucy began to move slowly, at first, up and down, adding a little twist at the end, enjoying the feel of him twitching inside her. Then the heat began to build, and she moved faster and harder until she leaned forward and braced her hands against his chest. Then she started to slam her hips up and down on him.
“Oh fuck, Cody, I can feel it rising, baby!” Lucy closed her eyes as the impending orgasm threatened to consume her.
“Open your eyes, Lucy,” Cody forced out through gritted teeth. “Let me see those beautiful violet eyes. I need to see your eyes when you cum. Fuck! You are so beautiful, baby. I’m so close. Come for me, pet. Lucy, goddamn it, come!”
At his words she could do nothing else but comply. With a scream she flew off the edge of the cliff again. Just as high and just as hard as before, she felt her body shatter. Even over the storm raging inside her, she felt the heat of his come inside her as he succumbed to the pleasure with her. Gasping shuddering breaths, she dropped forward to lie on his chest. Maybe she didn’t suck at sex after all!
Chapter 6
“So, what do you guys feel like doing today?” Brendan asked as the three of them sat around their outdoor picnic table, enjoying a late morning coffee in the sun. After the fun and games of the night before, the three of them had a much-needed sleep in that morning. When they finally surfaced long enough for a shower, with some sexy fun water sports that had all three of them roaring their pleasure to the heavens, and then breakfast the morning had been mostly over. Cody had never felt as content as he did in that moment.
He and his brother had found their mate, and they had spent the night loving on her as the Fates had destined. They had shared an intimacy that he hadn’t known he had been longing for until he had experienced it for himself. He knew that there would be challenges ahead of them, not least of which the walking corpse that was Mani Vasquez, but he also knew he would fight with everything in him to keep her.
“Well, if it’s okay with you guys, I would like to ask you both a couple of questions.” Lucy sat at the head of the table with Brendan on her left and Cody sat on her right. Her hands clasped around her coffee cup, staring intently into the depths of the cup.
“Now’s the time I wish we had had time to write that book,” Cody said down the link to his brother.
“What the hell are you talking about?” Brendan sent back and frowned in his direction
“Last night after you shifted and threw our mate a wolf-sized curveball, I thought how handy it would have been to have a guide book to help navigate telling your human fated one that you were a wolf shifter. Now I think she has questions about being our mate.”
“So, what?” Brendan’s amusement rang in his voice and vibrated down their link. “You think book two in that particular series should be Mating a Shifter for Dummies—What to Expect When You’re Fated?”
Cody chuckled, heard a disgruntled humph, and turned to meet flashing violet eyes. He had seen these eyes flash a lot in the past twenty-four hours, but not out of frustration. “That! That right there is one of the questions I have. Why is it that at times I think I am missing the punch line of a joke, or is it that I am the punch line of the joke?”
“Lucy, you’re no joke, punch line, or otherwise, but yeah, there are a few things we should tell you about being a shifter.” Cody turned a little in his chair to face her more directly. “Wolf shifters from the same family share a link or a bond that enables them to communicate with each other telepathically.”
Lucy nodded like she understood then stopped and shook her head. “Yeah, so that would have been a little harder to believe if you had told me that this time yesterday, but okay.” With a shrug she looked up with a small smile. “So that’s cool! You two can hear each other in your minds, huh?”
“Yeah, and it is cool, but sometimes annoying as hell.” Brendan grinned. “Especially when he rabbits on about shit that don’t mean anything! But yeah, cool most of the time. We have links to each other and to our parents, and we have a link to our alphas Trent and Ty.”
“So, Trent and Ty
are in charge of you all?”
“Of the pack, yes, and all pack business then yeah they are. We are one of their beta pairs, and we work with them to ensure the safety and protection of the pack.” Cody answered.
“Okay, sorta like wolves in the wild,” Lucy muttered as she processed that. She gasped and her eyes shot wide. “But then I should leave! I’m bringing danger to Grey River and the pack! I can’t be the reason for anyone you care about to be hurt.”
He and Brendan both reached out at the same time when it looked like Lucy was about to leap up from the table and leave right then.
“Kitten, that would mean something if you weren’t already someone we care about,” Brendan said. “Someone we are growing to care about more than anyone else in this world. Yeah, danger may be coming our way, but I say bring it on! My wolf would fucking love the opportunity to introduce this Mani person to his spleen, when I drop the bloody thing at his feet.”
“Beautiful imagery there, B.” Cody shook his head at his brother, who just grinned unrepentant. “There is another link that will allow us to communicate telepathically with someone—the mating bond. Once we have fully mated, then we will be able to communicate with you and you with us.”
Lucy looked a little shocked at that. “Is that why I sometimes get this buzzing in my head when you are doing your mind-melding thingy?”
“Yeah, probably. We can see the bond strengthening between us. You are our fated one and once we claim you as our mate, then the bond will be completed.”
“What does that actually entail? The claiming part?”
“Well”—Brendan leaned in closer to her—“we will take you together, one of us in your tight little pussy and one of us in your ass. When we are balls deep and have you screaming between us, right when you start to swear like a trooper and we know that you are about to come, and come hard, then we will lean forward and bite into the part of your beautiful shoulder where it meets your neck. As we give you the claiming mark, your quivering body will pull us both over the edge of the abyss.”
Cody scented their mate’s arousal at the description of the moment they will take her as theirs. He inhaled deeply to take the scent deep into his lungs.
“Wow, the way you talk sometimes really makes me—wait, what did you say? What on earth do you mean that I start swearing like a trooper?” Lucy sat back and looked between them, her shock clear on her face.
Cody shared a look with his brother. Obviously Lucy didn’t know she had a potty-mouth. “Well, pet, last night and this morning, whenever you were close to orgasm, you would join us in turning the air in the bedroom blue.”
“Really? I knew I had cussed a little, but I never noticed it being a huge amount.” Lucy got a little shrill at the end.
Cody chuckled at the shock in her voice, and even Brendan cracked up a little. “Yeah, kitten, I never knew you were fluent in gutter! You’re usually ‘cheese and rice’ and ‘holy cow,’ but last night, and a couple of times this morning, there were definitely a few shits, son of a bitches and fuck mes flying out of that beautiful mouth!”
Brendan lost his grin quick when they noticed Lucy’s face growing pale. “What is it, Luce?”
Cody’s wolf could feel her pain down their link, even with the barrier in place. Her hurting was intolerable for her. He reached out and stroked the back of his fingers down her cheek.
“I…um, I don’t usually cuss. It’s not something that I insist that the people around me not do, I mean to each their own right?”
She looked between the brothers, and Cody saw tears glistening. Oh Jesus, please don’t cry!
“My mother…well, you both know she would never win mother of the year, right? She needed a man in her life and a bottle of gin in her hand. If she had those things then she was happy and definitely did not need me. I promised myself I would never be like her—ever.
“She had the worst mouth. Everything was f— this and f— that. Every second word was a curse. When I got away from her and that life, I told myself that I would never speak like that, that I would be better than that. But I guess I’m not.”
Her voice broke at the end of that sentence, and Cody’s heart broke for her. Oh how he wished he could find that bitch and make her pay. He went to open his mouth to speak, to talk gently with her and help her to see that the failure here was her mother’s not hers to carry, but he was beaten to the punch by his brother, who had apparently had a completely different approach in mind.
“The hell you say! You think you are anything like that bitch of a woman who birthed you?” Brendan snapped, his voice loud. “I cannot and will not call that woman a mother because, baby, she ain’t. She’s a bitch of the highest degree, and if I ever have the pleasure of seeing her face-to-face I cannot promise that I will not drop the bitch on her ass!”
Lucy gasped and her jaw dropped.
“Just because you lose yourself in the moment when we fuck you doesn’t make you like her, Lucy. The fact that we can make you lose so much control that you can’t think straight enough to sensor yourself makes me want to throw you over my shoulder and run straight for the closest flat area to fuck you on because my dick is so hard it could pound nails. It has now become my mission in life to make you swear like a sailor as much as possible and on a daily basis! Don’t let this be an issue for you, kitten, please.”
Okay, so the tone, words, volume, and content may not have been what Cody would have gone with, but the intention was very much the same. Lucy sat there for a moment and just stared at Brendan, as if she were seeing him for the very first time. Cody couldn’t tell what she was thinking or how she was going to react, in fact even their link remained silent and still.
Then, like the sun rising on a beautiful clear day, a smile so genuine and serene, and so damn big her face just glowed, spread across her face. Cody’s heart stuttered at the sight. Then she leaned over and placed both her hands on Brendan’s cheeks, pulled him forward, and pressed a beautiful soft kiss to his lips. Pulling back and running her thumb over his bottom lip she whispered, “Thank you.”
Brendan sat completely still, held in thrall by this small slip of a woman who was fast claiming them both, as men and as wolves. Then she turned, kissed him just softly as well, and then sat back in her chair, smiled sweetly, and sipped her coffee. “I don’t mind what we do today, guys, as long as we can hang out together, I’m up for anything.”
Her eyes glittered with joy, making his heart turn over in his chest. A mental knock came down the link from Trent, before he heard his alpha clear in his head.
“Hey, guys. Ty filled me in on what Lucy told you yesterday. We’re in touch with the police in Dallas, but other than an unexplained murder that they have no idea that Lucy witnessed, and never will, we’ve got nothing to report at the moment.”
Cody heard Brendan telling Lucy that they were talking with Trent as he growled back, “Let us know if you find out anything, but Christ, I hope he’s heading this way.”
“Will do, but that’s not the entire reason I wanted to talk with you both. I hear you won some money a short while back, Cody?”
Cody laughed and rocked back in his chair as Brendan glared in his direction “Yeah, apparently Brendan’s not as fit or fast as he would like us to believe.” He was suddenly thrown back and heading for the deck thanks to a quick foot from his brother pushing the chair over from under the table.
“How’s that for fast, asshole,” Brendan said.
Lucy gasped his name and rushed to help him but relaxed when she saw that he was laughing. “Oh, you two are like children!”
Cody jumped to his feet, then he righted his chair and sat down, pulling Lucy onto his lap. “I also heard that you mentioned putting it on the bar at Country Blue?” Trent asked laughter clear in his voice.
“Yeah, I did. Why you have an occasion in mind?”
“Well, Faith is hankering for a night out and wants to get to know you mate better.”
Cody could hear the love his al
pha had for his mate in his voice. “So we thought we’d head out tonight for a few drinks after dinner. AJ mentioned they have a band playing tonight that wasn’t half bad. You in?”
They made plans over the next few minutes and planned to call a few others to make a night of it. When they had settled their plans and said good-bye, Cody filled Lucy in on the plan.
“You know, I have never really gone out for a night of fun and listening to music when I wasn’t one of the girls serving drinks. I think this sounds like fun!”
So decision made. If his mate wanted a night of fun and music, then she would get it. With a glance at his brother, Cody saw that they were on the same track. The night of fun and music will be after an afternoon of loving on their mate!
“Well, pet, it will be our pleasure to take you out and show you off. But for now, we have an idea on what to do to fill in a couple of hours!” He stood with a giggling Lucy in his arms and raced into the house, Brendan moving quick and fast behind them.
* * * *
Lucy took Cody’s hand as he reached up to help her out of their truck, thinking about southern men and trucks that required a step ladder to get into, especially at her height, when she looked up and finally saw the Country Blue in all its glory.
It was huge! On the outside it looked like a massive barn, with concrete foundations and a thick cedar frame and sidings left to age naturally. It looked beautiful with a high roof and asphalt shingles. She could hear loud country music coming from the bar, and if she wasn’t mistaken, there was the distinct aroma of barbeque coming from somewhere, too.
“We never asked if you even like country music, Lucy,” Cody asked as they made their way over to the entrance.
“Honey, I’m from Texas.” As far as Lucy was concerned, that was all the explanation required.
The inside of Country Blue was just as you would expect from the outside of the bar. Massive solid wood floor and bar with stools lined up against it, there were tables in the center of the room and booths lined one wall. There were glass sliders along the other wall that led to what looked a like a massive outdoor area. One end of the room was home to a dance floor and a stage. There were already quite a few people in the bar, most drinking and having a good time at the table and a few brave ones dancing on the dance floor to the country band playing on the stage.
