by Abby Blake
PUP Squad Alpha 6
Wolves’ Bite
Ever since her sister left town to join PUP Squad Alpha, Jennifer Hastings has struggled with the feeling of being left behind. Enjoying sexy dreams about Thomas Hagen and Adam Johnson is probably not the healthiest way to deal with it, but at least it’s keeping her sane.
Thomas and Adam know Jennifer is their mate, but the life of a PUP squad operative isn’t an ideal situation to drag their woman into. As a human, Jennifer is unlikely to feel the same instant attraction that werewolves do, so months ago they both decided not to disturb her happy life. Yet now that they’re sharing mating dreams, all bets are off.
When she’s abducted, Jennifer fears no one will notice her missing. But two determined werewolves are coming to claim their mate and they’re not going to be put off by anything—not the lady’s stubbornness or an invincible pixie king.
Genre: Ménage a Trois/Quatre, Paranormal, Vampires/Werewolves
Length: 25,036 words
WOLVES’ BITE
PUP Squad Alpha 6
Abby Blake
MENAGE EVERLASTING
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WOLVES’ BITE
Copyright © 2012 by Abby Blake
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WOLVES’ BITE
PUP Squad Alpha 6
ABBY BLAKE
Copyright © 2012
Prologue
Emmallina Constance DeKardoin was considered royalty among her people, yet the title of Queen had never really made her feel comfortable. Inside her head she was plain old Emmallina—ordinary, common, everyday, garden-variety pixie.
But she was also a woman who loved her husband very much. The fact that he was the pixie king had never mattered to her. Emmallina knew in her heart that she would have loved the man no matter what his title.
“Dex?” she asked as he walked tiredly into their bedroom. “Anything?”
He shook his head, his despair quite obvious. They’d been searching for their youngest daughter for several days now. Connistanterina was willful, belligerent, and arrogant, and the only one of Emmallina’s offspring to have joined the Pixie League of Assassins, but it wasn’t like her to go anywhere without telling them. Once they’d realized she was missing, tracing her movements had been nearly impossible, but it had been the shock of learning that she’d been assassinating humans without the king’s knowledge that hit them both hardest. The head of the PLA denied giving her the assignment, but Emmallina had long suspected that the king was often left out of the loop when it came to that particular branch of his kingdom.
The Pixie League of Assassins had once been a noble institution, only accepting contracts that would rid the paranormal world of dangerous individuals who threatened the safety of the rest of the community. Quite often the request came directly from the Ruling Body. But recent decades had seen a turn toward a more profit-based attitude, and many of the recent contracts lacked the righteousness of the early days. It had been the reason for Emmallina’s suggestion that they shut down the PLA decades ago.
Her husband sighed as he sat on the edge of the bed they shared. He had aged considerably over the past few weeks. His usual robust health had been replaced with a sickly gray pallor. It was true that pixies were mostly indestructible, but being able to recover from physical wounds didn’t help them when it came to the soul-deep ache of a missing daughter. It didn’t matter that Connistanterina and her sisters were fully grown pixies. As parents they would always worry about their children, no matter how old they got.
“I should have listened to you,” Dex said in a voice only she had ever heard come from her husband’s mouth. In public he was the infallible king of the pixies. In their bedroom he was simply a man. She wanted to agree with him, but it was hard enough for a pixie born into royalty to admit he’d been wrong. The last thing he needed was his wife rubbing salt into his wounded soul.
“We will find her,” Emmallina said quietly.
“I am no longer so sure,” he said, showing a vulnerability he would never let another see. Only here, in the sanctity of their bedroom, could he be a father deeply worried for the safety of his child. “Connistanterina wasn’t just my youngest daughter. She was also one of my best-trained assassins. If she has not been able to fight her way back home, then there is little hope that she is still alive.”
Emmallina felt tears fill her eyes, but she shook her head in denial. “Do not speak of my daughter in the past tense. We will find her.”
Her husband nodded in agreement, but it was obvious that he didn’t truly believe it.
“There is only one way to kill a pixie,” Dex said tiredly. Emmallina nodded. It was the most guarded of all secrets within the pixie community, and it was quite likely many pixies themselves did
not know of it. “If humans have discovered how to kill us, the world has just become a far more dangerous place. Humans are not known for their restraint when it comes to killing. They kill randomly without reason or regard, and they outnumber pixies by millions to one.”
In other words, pixies could become the next extinct species on the planet.
Chapter One
Jennifer moaned in her sleep. Somehow she knew she was dreaming, but it didn’t stop the terror gripping her as she watched Thomas get crushed in the arms of a murderous vampire. She cried out in horror as the dream went a step further than what had actually happened. This time the vampire crushed the life from the wolf, and then did the same to Adam. She whimpered as Thomas changed to his human form and fell dead to the floor, Adam beside him, their sightless eyes staring up at her.
In her dream she ran to them, pushing past her sister, Skye, despite the woman’s vampiric strength. Tears flowed down Jennifer’s face, blurring her vision as she fell to her knees beside Adam’s and Thomas’s lifeless forms. The vampire laughed, the cruel and soulless sound filling the small room.
“Come here,” he ordered, compelling her with his vampiric skill. She whimpered as she did exactly what he told her, this time her sister unable to stop her. She moved into the vampire’s embrace, and realized she no longer cared what happened. Thomas was dead. Adam was dead. Her sister was a vampire and had a life of her own. Jennifer was the one left behind to live the day-to-day drudgery of an ordinary life.
She watched, somehow outside herself, as the vampire bit into her neck, the room suddenly empty of everything except the one who would end her life.
“Babe, you know it didn’t happen like this,” a voice said next to her ear.
Startled, she turned to see Thomas standing beside her watching the strange way her dream was warping the past. An arm slid around her from behind, and she breathed a sigh of relief when she realized Adam was with him.
“Hello, beautiful,” Adam said as he pulled her closer and pressed a kiss to her lips. He moved back slightly, giving Thomas room to kiss her as well.
And then, holding her tightly between them, they turned to watch her strange dream play out.
But this time the memory was more accurate. With the dream no longer embellished by her fear, Jennifer watched as events happened the way they had in the past. Skye held the other Jennifer back, stopping her from following the vampire’s order. The bathroom and front doors both opened at the same time, a strange popping noise and then blood everywhere.
Skye shielded her from the worst, the blood and gore barely a memory as dream Jennifer moved to Thomas’s side. Adam held her tight as he reassured her that Thomas would recover quickly.
Finally, the dream faded, the landscape of her fictional world now just a spotlight on the three of them. Feeling safe in her men’s arms, she held them both, too worried to ruin their brief time together with silly words.
A real relationship between the three of them simply wasn’t practical. They were highly trained members of PUP Squad Alpha, and she was an accounts clerk in a sleepy little tourist town. They traveled the country. She sat still. They fought to protect people. She wrestled with numbers and missing receipts. They were long-lived werewolves. She was plain old ordinary human.
“I miss you,” she finally blurted, unable to keep the emotions under control. Hell, it was only a dream. She knew that. But it didn’t stop her from wanting it to be real. She’d spent only a few hours with them, and that had been months ago, but somehow she missed them even more than she missed Skye.
Considering that her younger sister’s absence left a gaping emotional hole in her chest, she couldn’t even describe what missing Thomas and Adam was doing to her.
“Babe,” Thomas said as he pulled her closer. “We miss you, too.”
“I don’t understand why I feel this way. I barely know you.”
Adam sighed, pulled her away from Thomas, and wrapped her in his warm embrace. “It’s because we’re mates. We can deny the attraction all we like, but it won’t change the fact that we were meant to be together.”
“We talked about this,” Thomas said with a low growl.
“Maybe it’s time to talk about it again,” Adam said angrily. He hugged Jennifer to him as if he were afraid she’d disappear. Considering she felt the same way, she tightened her grip as well. “Denying the connection is making us all miserable.”
“Loving us could get her killed.”
“We can protect her. We have choices. Fuck, if it can work for Alex and Ronan with Kali, and Brody and Nathan with Ava, surely we can find a way to keep Jennifer close without putting her in danger.”
“So we should…what? Ignore the fact that her first time meeting us almost got her killed?”
“No,” Adam said in a voice that betrayed the anger he felt toward Thomas at that moment. “Do you really think I’d put my mate at risk like that? I’d die before I let that happen. Hell, I’ve been considering retiring from the PUP squad for years. Maybe now is the time to consider going home to the pack.”
“Fine,” Thomas said, sounding suddenly very tired. “We’ll discuss this once our current assignment is complete.”
“You will?” Jennifer asked with far more excitement than she knew was healthy. This was just a dream for heaven’s sake.
“We will,” Adam said, emphasizing the word we. “All three of us will discuss this as soon as we wrap up our current mission.” Jennifer smiled, clinging to her men, dreaming of a future together, willing to overlook the fact that this was just a fantasy.
* * * *
It felt like heaven to have her in his arms again. Thomas had grown up with the knowledge that mating dreams felt completely real, but until this moment he’d never truly believed it. He was almost certain that when he woke this memory would be as clear and as cherished as their brief time together four months ago.
He was a little surprised to realize they were all naked. He wasn’t sure who managed to change that part of the dream, but his cock reacted swiftly to the touch of his mate’s naked body. She moaned, pressing her soft belly against his rock-hard erection.
Unable to stop himself, he ran his hands all over her back, dipping lower to caress the soft flesh at the top of her ass. She leaned up, pressing kisses to his throat and nibbling little bites to his jaw. Adam moved closer, sweeping aside the strawberry-blonde curtain of her hair to press kisses to the back of her neck.
“Last time we saw you this was red,” Adam said curiously as he let her long, straight hair filter through his fingers.
“After meeting a vampire who preferred to murder redheads,” she said, turning in Thomas’s embrace, “I decided that the occasional blonde joke wasn’t so bad.” She wrapped her arms around Adam’s neck and pressed her delectable bottom against Thomas’s thighs. “But I don’t want to think about that at the moment. I want you to make love to me. Both of you.”
Thomas’s cock grew so hard that his eyes almost crossed, but she needed to understand what she was asking. If they made love inside the mating dream, their connection would only grow stronger, their obsession, their need, their want for one another would grow and expand and make it damn hard to move out of range when the time came for their assignment to take them elsewhere. A quick glance at Adam suggested he was thinking the same sort of things.
“Not tonight,” Adam said, his voice sounding as strained as Thomas was feeling, “but maybe we can do something to help you sleep better.”
“Oh,” she said, seeming both disappointed and intrigued.
* * * *
Confusion was Jennifer’s biggest emotion at that moment. It was her dream. Shouldn’t she be the one deciding when, where, and how they’d have sex? It seemed absurd to be turning herself down, yet that’s essentially what she’d just done.
But then Adam leaned forward, sealed his lips to hers, and kissed her savagely. She tried to wrap her hands around the hard cock bobbing in front of her, but Thomas grabbed her
arms and secured them behind her, moving them higher when she managed to brush her fingertips over the head of his hard cock.
Thomas laughed quietly. “Behave, vixen. Let us give you what you need.”
“Oh,” she said against Adam’s lips, not entirely surprised by the direction her imagination had taken this time. She’d always dreamed of having a man in her life who was strong enough to take charge but not so overbearing that she would lose her own identity.
But all thought flew from her mind when Adam dropped to his knees in front of her, pressing warm kisses to her belly and then moving lower. He used his hands to widen her stance, her balance off kilter, her weight falling against Thomas. He wrapped an arm around her upper body, his hand caressing her collarbone, yet holding her securely, keeping her safe.
Adam slid his hands up the back of her thighs, kneading the tense muscles as he traced over her mound with his tongue, spearing through her folds, finding her clit, and caressing over the taut bud.
She cried out, the sensation too much, too fast, too soon, but Adam laughed quietly, the reverberation going right through her, her body tingling all the way to her toes, her pussy clenching against nothing, her breath gasping from her throat as arousal took hold.
She whimpered as thick fingers pushed up into her pussy, Adam’s warm lips and tongue still tormenting her tumescent flesh as she shook all over. Thomas’s hand moved lower, caressing her aching breasts, soothing her need, but inflaming her senses. He pinched her nipple, his hold tightening when she moaned her delight.
