Shelly's Forbidden Mates [Beckett's Wolf Pack, Triad Mates 6] (Siren Publishing Ménage and More)

by Lynette Bernard

“We know, baby,” Max agreed, a soft growl rumbling from him before he could calm himself. “We’ll do our best to keep our wolves under control until you’ve been presented.”

  Shelly leaned into Max’s chest and unbuttoned the navy dress shirt that he was wearing. She looked at the mating mark that she had put there and smiled with satisfaction. Kissing the mark gently, she rested her head against his chest, loving the strength of him and the soothing beat of his heart.

  “This marks you as mine, Max,” she said softly, rubbing her cheek against the dark hair on his muscled chest. Easing back, she turned and unbuttoned Eli’s white dress shirt to reveal the mark on his chest. She leaned in and kissed it lightly, growling softly as her wolf expressed deep satisfaction that her men had been marked. “You’re mine, Eli. Nothing will ever change that.” She rubbed her face against the brown hair on his chest and licked at his nipple for good measure, eliciting a gasp and a growl from him. She looked up at Eli, then Max. “I’m looking forward to us completing our mating.”

  “After the party,” Eli promised, his wolf howling within him to make the final connection.

  “Are you ready for us to claim you, baby?” Max asked gently. He pushed down his wolf with determination. Neither he nor Eli was going to force Shelly to complete the mating if she wasn’t ready.

  “Yes,” Shelly answered without hesitation. “I want us to complete our mating tonight.”

  “We want that, too, honey,” Eli said for them both.

  He looked at Max and saw that his triad partner wanted him to tell Shelly what they had been talking about that morning. Eli fought his smile. Max tried to come across as a serious man who didn’t care about anyone, but Eli knew better. Max cared a great deal about people. Both men had been conditioned to present an appearance of aloofness and uncaring, but the exact opposite was true for both of them.

  They cared about their parents. They cared about the members of Randall’s pack that they had been forced to threaten or hurt. And they most certainly cared about Shelly. Just the thought of anything happening to their beautiful mate scared them more than any physical or emotional threat that they had ever been subjected to. Shelly was goodness and kindness. She was love. She was theirs to protect and care for, for the rest of their lives.

  “We also want you to do whatever you want to do,” Eli continued gently, his eyes flashing golden when he saw the brief nod that Max gave him as his own eyes flashed with the presence of his wolf.

  “What do you mean?” Shelly was confused. Was Eli giving her a chance to back out of their relationship?

  “We want you to have the freedom to choose your future,” Max explained for the both of them. He and Eli had talked about it that afternoon after Vera had left. They were determined to give Shelly the future that she wanted. “If you want to go to college or move somewhere else, Eli and I will go wherever you want to go in order to make your dreams come true.”

  “Max,” Shelly whispered, completely overwhelmed. “Eli.”

  “We want you as our mate and the mother of our children, Shelly,” Eli said quietly. “If you want something else, we want that for you—whatever it is that you ache for. We just want you to be happy.”

  Shelly was filled with love for her men. She did have some things that she wanted to accomplish in her life. Knowing that Max and Eli would support her in her desires was more than she had ever expected.

  “There are some things that I want to do,” Shelly admitted after a moment. “I want to go to school. I like studying numbers and business. I want to be with my sister Synthia and help her so that she can find happiness.”

  “We’ll help you,” Max promised.

  “Okay.”

  “Okay?” Eli asked, not sure what Shelly was telling them.

  “Yes. Okay.”

  “I’m not sure what you mean, baby,” Max admitted.

  “I mean, I’m going to bring you with me to stay with my sister until we’re both finished with school,” Shelly explained. “Jace has promised that we’ll have this house as our home, and he’s promised the house down the path near the lake for Synthia and her mates when she finds them. I want us to have a life here in Jace’s pack. I want us to have those babies that we saw in our vision.”

  Max and Eli felt the rush of relief that filled them. They pictured the babies that they had seen and looked forward to sharing that life with Shelly.

  “Do you think you’ll be able to go to school and have a family, or do you think you might want to wait to have kids until after you’ve graduated?” Max asked, knowing exactly what he and Eli wanted, but they needed to make sure that they allowed Shelly to choose. It was Shelly’s life that would change dramatically. She was the one who would be affected most by the decisions made today.

  Shelly stepped out of their arms and looked at both men very seriously. She felt their worry and knew that she had to be honest with them and ease their fears. They were unfounded, after all.

  “I’ll need your help,” she said quietly.

  “Anything you need, baby,” Max answered without hesitation.

  “You might want to wait until I tell you,” Shelly said, laughing softly as she looked at both of her men.

  “What is it, honey? What do you need?” Eli asked worriedly. He made a move to step closer to Shelly but stopped when she raised her hand to halt him. “You don’t want me to touch you, Shelly?”

  “Eli, I want you and Max to touch me all the time,” Shelly told him honestly. “You guys have no idea how frustrated I am that we couldn’t make love until today. I want you so much, I ache for you.”

  Both men’s instant growls filled the room. Shelly could scent their need and had to stomp down her own deep desire for them. She had something very important to discuss with them, and she couldn’t be distracted. She had to get this settled.

  “Do you want to be enforcers?” she asked them.

  Eli looked at Max, his eyebrows raised in surprise. That certainly was not a question that they had expected to hear Shelly ask them.

  “Why do you ask that, Shelly?” Max asked quietly.

  “Well, I know you’re both strong and do a good job as enforcers, but I want you to do what you want to do,” Shelly stammered, feeling like she was messing the whole thing up.

  “Max and I have always wanted to work in construction,” Eli admitted after a moment. “We both enjoy carpentry. We like building things.”

  Max cleared his throat, feeling a little uncomfortable at the reveal. “We want to build homes and additions to pack homes,” he admitted. “We want to build good things. We don’t want to hurt anyone anymore.”

  “We also like crafting furniture,” Eli added. “There’s something about creating things with our hands that we really enjoy.”

  “I think that’s wonderful,” Shelly said softly. “We should talk to Jace and Jackson about it. I know they’ll be able to help you.”

  “Maybe,” Eli said hesitantly. “What about you, Shelly? What do you want?”

  “Well…” Shelly began. “I want us to have a baby.”

  “You do?” Max asked, surprised.

  “Now?” Eli asked, determined to clarify their woman’s words.

  Shelly couldn’t help but blush at the intimate conversation. “Yes,” she said firmly. “I want us to make love and make that beautiful little girl that we saw in our vision.”

  “Our little Allison,” Max whispered.

  “I want our baby girl to know how wonderful her daddy and her poppa are,” Shelly continued. “But I’m going to need you two to help because I want to go to school and get my degree in business and accounting, and I want you both to learn your trade and build homes for our pack and craft the furniture that will fill those homes.”

  Both men stepped closer and embraced their sweet woman. The flash of their vision burned bright within their hearts. They saw their little Allie and their little boy Matthew. They saw Shelly standing between them, her belly swollen with another baby. They could actu
ally feel their baby moving within her, and it made something inside of them swell with happiness and pride.

  “You’re going to be smug, aren’t you?” she asked quietly.

  “About what?” Eli asked for them both.

  “About getting me pregnant,” Shelly said, laughing despite her embarrassment.

  “Yup,” Max said, his eyes flashing golden as his wolf pushed forward with pride.

  “Honey, Max and I will help with our cubs,” Eli promised. “We’ll take care of them while you go to school and do whatever work you have to complete in order to earn your degree.”

  “I’ll have the kids when you two need to work,” Shelly promised. “I want you to learn everything you want to learn about carpentry and construction. We’ll work together to make sure all of us finish our training and education. And we can still have our family. What do you think?”

  “I think I like that plan,” Max said softly.

  “Me, too,” Eli agreed.

  “Good,” Shelly said, sighing with relief.

  “Did you think we wouldn’t want that, baby?” Max asked, reaching up and tracing Shelly’s jaw with the back of his knuckles. “We want you. We want you to be happy. We want to make love to you and make beautiful babies.”

  “There isn’t one moment of our lives together that we’ll ever regret,” Eli added. “Working together to create a future as a mated triad is exactly what we want.”

  “I’ve always been told that I was forbidden to have mates,” Shelly said softly. “I was told that I couldn’t be part of a triad mating.”

  “Who the hell told you that?” Max asked, his voice a deep growl as anger filled him.

  “Vera. You heard her tell me exactly that when she came to our home.”

  “We did,” Eli said, remembering the horrid woman and her cruel words. “Your mother told you that a lot, didn’t she?”

  “Nearly every day of my life,” Shelly admitted sadly. “She said that only my sister Synthia was worthy of having a mate.”

  “She has no say in your life anymore,” Max said firmly. “You’re twenty-one today. You’re going to be our mate by the end of the night. You’re going to be pregnant by the end of this month.”

  Shelly couldn’t help but laugh with delight. “Are you that certain of your virility, Max?” she teased him. “Are you so sure that our union will be a fertile one?”

  “No. But I can be certain of your fertility,” Max said without hesitation.

  Shelly was shocked into silence. She remained still as both Max and Eli leaned in and kissed her neck, breathing in her scent deeply and growling softly as they opened their mouths and bit down lightly on her shoulders where they would place their claiming marks.

  They released their gentle hold on her sensitive skin, laving at the light marks there until they disappeared. They would not jeopardize their mating by marking her too soon.

  “Eli and I will be able to scent your fertility, baby,” Max told her softly, smiling at the immediate blush that came to her cheeks.

  “You will?” Shelly’s voice was barely a whisper as amazement filled her.

  “We can scent every change in your body,” Eli told her, his voice gentle. “We can scent when you’re happy, when you’re upset, when you’re angry, and when you’re aroused.”

  Shelly covered her face with her hands as embarrassment swamped her. They could tell when she was aroused. She knew that they could scent her as their mate, but she didn’t realize the extent of their ability to know her so intimately.

  “Don’t be embarrassed, sweetheart,” Eli whispered, reaching up and gently pulling Shelly’s hands away from her face. “Max and I like that you want us.”

  “Hell! We more than like it, baby,” Max said, leaning forward and taking a slow kiss from their woman’s soft lips. “We love it.” He whispered those words against her lips, kissing her again and easing back to look down at her.

  “I want you all the time,” Shelly said quietly.

  “We want you all the time, too,” Eli admitted.

  “Am I fertile now?” she asked them quietly.

  “Not yet, baby,” Max said, a soft smile playing on his lips as he looked down at her. He couldn’t help but picture their woman pregnant. It was a great image within their minds that he couldn’t wait to be their reality.

  “We’ll let you know when we scent your fertility, sweetheart,” Eli promised. “We want to make sure that it’s your choice to get pregnant.”

  “I’ve already made that choice,” Shelly said softly.

  “We know,” Max whispered. “Thank you for wanting a family with us. We want that, too.”

  Shelly’s smile was instant. It lit the room with warmth. Eli and Max couldn’t believe how lucky they were to find such a kind and loving mate. She found worth in them that no one else ever had. She made them dare to hope for a life filled with love.

  “We know we’ll have to be careful,” Eli said very seriously.

  “What do you mean?”

  “Shelly, we want to be deep inside of you,” Max said for both of them, his eyes flashing golden as his wolf made his presence known, completely in agreement with him. “We promise to be careful and gentle so we won’t hurt you.”

  “You would never hurt me,” Shelly said, nearly snorting with her response.

  “Not intentionally. We certainly don’t want to,” Eli said quickly. “It’s just that Max and I have to temper our lovemaking. We won’t cause you one minute of discomfort.”

  Before Shelly could respond, Max reached up and slid his hands through the hair at the back of her neck to grip her long hair within his fist and hold her firmly. The soft rumbling growls that escaped him gave testament to the fact that he was fighting to control his wolf.

  “If it were up to the both of us, we would be deep inside of you, knotted, and filling you with our seed all the time,” Max whispered. “Your body is untried, baby. Our shafts are going to stretch you and fill you. I want that. Eli wants that. What we don’t want is to make you sore, but we know that it’s something that will happen.”

  Shelly laughed softly, enjoying the looks of confusion on her sweet men’s faces as she did so. Their caring touched her heart. She loved them so much. She was looking forward to spending the rest of her life with them, loving, laughing, talking, and working beside them.

  “One of the things I’ve learned as a young wolf working with Martha to help care for the newly mated women of our pack is that their men can help them with their soreness,” Shelly said, blushing despite her determination to remain calm.

  “They can?” Eli asked, surprised.

  “How, baby?” Max wanted to know immediately. He and Eli were going to do whatever it took to help Shelly.

  “Your saliva has healing properties, remember?” Shelly said, reaching up and tracing the jawlines of both men with the tips of her index fingers. “Just as you’ll lick at my shoulders after you’ve claimed me to heal the mating marks, you’ll have to lick me to ease my soreness. Do you think you’ll be able to do that? You won’t mind doing that, will you?”

  The picture of licking Shelly as she spread her legs for them and offered herself to them so openly flashed through both men’s minds. Their level of arousal skyrocketed. The living room was filled with the scent of their pheromones. Their growls of need echoed throughout their cozy home.

  Shelly smiled as she reached down and palmed the bulges at the front of their jeans, doing a bit of growling herself. She squeezed and rubbed their hard lengths, her body tightening as her own need heightened. She could feel her channel clenching with the desire to be filled. Wetness dripped from her, filling the air with the scent of her arousal.

  “I know you can scent how much I want you,” Shelly whispered as she squeezed their hard shafts gently through their jeans. She laughed softly as both men groaned. She had reduced them to grunts and groans. How amazing was that? “I’m glad you can scent my need for you. Don’t ever think that you have to hold back, m
y mates. I want you just as much as you want me.”

  She dropped to her knees before them and reached up to unbuckle their belts, unbutton, and unzip their jeans. She pushed at their hips to get them to back up and sit on the couch. Taking her place between Max’s spread legs, she spread the material of his jeans and reached up to carefully free his fully engorged shaft. His responding moan made her smile.

  Turning to her left, she reached over and did the same to Eli, laughing softly when his hands morphed to claws and he embedded them into the cushions of the couch. She took his hands gently in hers and kissed them tenderly.

  “Don’t ruin the couch, Eli,” she told him softly before she reached up and took firm hold of his hard shaft and slid her palm along its silky length. She loved the soft texture of it. She couldn’t help but emit a soft growl of need as she felt the hardness of him beneath her touch.

  “I’ll buy a new damned couch,” Eli said through gritted teeth.

  Shelly leaned forward, laying her chest across the strength of Max’s thigh as she reached for Eli. She felt Max caressing her back and was touched by his need to show her how much he loved her.

  Using her right hand to begin a slow pumping of Max’s thick shaft, she eased forward, opened her mouth, and licked the tip of Eli’s cock. The flavor of the drop of pre-cum on the head exploded in her mouth. She moaned with pleasure at finally being able to taste him. Kissing the flared head, she opened her mouth and sucked on his shaft, loving the spongy feel of the head as it slid into her mouth.

  The warmth of his shaft made her moan in appreciation. The velvet hardness of it made her channel drip with desire. She wanted to give Eli and Max pleasure. She wanted to feel them deep inside of her. She wanted to experience their claiming bites and know that she would be forever theirs. She was not forbidden to have mates. She was destined to have the most caring and kindest mates ever.

  Pressing deep, she fought through the urge to gag and took Eli’s shaft as deep as she dared. Pulling back on it slowly, she eased off his shaft and kissed the tip before pressing back down again. She felt Eli’s hand sliding through her hair and holding her gently. She was touched by his gentle hold, knowing that he was allowing her to do what she wanted, at the speed that she was able to do it.