Richie growled. “There won’t be anything left of him by the time you get here.”
“Watch your asses, everyone,” Liam said, and we went.
Chapter Eight - Liam
Liam could not help but steal glances at Alanna while they searched. He was glad that Ollie had made a nearly complete recovery, but he’d be lying to himself if he said he wouldn’t rather be alone with her. The more he was around her, the more he felt it. He wondered if maybe she felt something for him as well, and then banished the thought. No. He would only wind up hurting her. She couldn’t be his fated mate. He just hadn’t been around any women in awhile. That had to be it. Maybe after the project was over, he might feel differently. It was nice to hear whispers of a part of himself that had never reared its head before.
No. He felt nothing. He couldn’t. He wouldn’t.
Alanna
We walked into the aquatic lab. It was like a huge aquarium — so beautiful. All of the specimens had been moved to other labs, but the lights in the tanks made the entire room look calm and blue and serene. It was easy to forget what we were doing here, especially since I was here with two men I liked. Well, “liked” was a strong word to use for Ollie, but at least I didn’t hate him today. I could not stop thinking about Liam, though. He was the pinnacle of an alpha male, strong and capable. I could see why the others held him in such high esteem.
And he was beyond sexy. Like, distractingly so. I mean, the way his ass looked in the jeans he was wearing? Wait. Focus, Alanna. You have a job to do. Suddenly, my own pants were a little too constrictive.
Liam stopped in front of one of the tanks. It painted him with shimmering blue. “Beautiful, isn’t it?” he said.
I walked up beside him. “Very.”
Before I even knew what was happening, my head was on his shoulder. There was nothing in my life that had ever been more comfortable than this. Even when I realized what I was doing and knew that I should stop, I just couldn’t force myself to break away.
Then Ollie’s hands were on the small of my back. “I wanted to thank you both for saving my life,” he said. “I’ll never forget it.”
“You would have done the same for me,” Liam said.
“Allie, I’m sorry I was such a shit to you,” Ollie said.
It was actually really nice having both of them so close. Ollie moved my hair to the side and kissed me gently on the neck.
I moaned softly, realized what I had just done and looked wildly at Liam. His eyes burned into me and his smirk melted whatever inhibitions I had left. He leaned down and kissed me. Softly at first, and then with a wilder hunger than threatened to consume us both.
Oliver was on my other side, and I slid one arm around each man’s waist to steady myself. I was already dizzy from Liam’s kiss, and Oliver nibbled on the exposed flesh of my neck until I turned my head to face him. As I ran my hand up his powerful back, he pressed his lips to mine hungrily. The three of us started moving as one unit, the two powerful alpha males carrying me right with them. Clothes came off in a whirlwind. I think some things might have been torn.
Ollie lifted me from behind and pulled me up onto a metal table. It was freezing on my bare ass and thighs, but there were so many warm hands all over me that I could not even begin to care.
Liam knelt down in front of me and spread my legs, pulling me to the edge of the table and exposing my sex. As I sat on the table, I was able to lean back into Ollie and just let Liam devour me, digging my fingernails into Liam’s arms when the pleasure became overwhelming.
Ollie squeezed my breasts and teased my nipples, sometimes just grazing his fingers over them, and sometimes pulling them a little. He kissed my neck, dragging his teeth over my skin, and growled in my ear. Fuck I loved it when he did that.
Liam licked and sucked my labia into his mouth gently and then flicked his tongue expertly against my clit. The low rumble of the growl in his throat and the quiet hum of the massive aquarium filters all around us could not compete with the wet, happy sounds he made while consuming me. I was getting close to the cliff of an orgasm, and these men were about to drive me right off the edge.
Liam must have sensed that I was getting close, because he pulled my hips further toward the edge of the table and pushed my legs even wider. I’d never been so exposed for one man, much less two. I was completely open to them both, and Liam bent down lower, spreading my ass and pressing his tongue against the tight pucker of my ass. As he teased me, he slid his thumb inside my pussy and slowly moved it in and out in a way that made me ache. The fingers of his other hand on my clit matched the rhythm perfectly.
Ollie stood over us, admiring the view as Liam drove me closer to the brink of insanity. He grasped one of my legs behind the knee and pulled me even further open, then walked around me, bending down to kiss my breasts, followed by my belly. Soon he stood alongside Liam. He touched the hand Liam used to rub my clit, and Liam withdrew. I audibly pouted. But when Ollie’s warm lips encircled my clit, the orgasm that had been slowly building ripped through me. I cried out, arching my back and trying to move away from their perfect tongues, but the men held me tightly. Liam slid his tongue into my ass while Ollie sucked gently on my clit and teased the opening of my pussy with one finger. The orgasm seemed to last forever. I was dizzy and breathless and still they would not stop. I again tried to slide away but to no avail. I was afraid that if I screamed the others would come running.
“Please,” I begged. “Oh my God, ple—” My last words were cut off as another orgasm tore through me. Even though it followed right on the heels of the first, this one was much more intense. I could not make a sound, I could only gasp for air. For a moment I was drawn outside myself. The feeling was so good and so intense I was almost afraid. But as I floated happily back into reality, Liam and Ollie kissed my thighs, my belly. My legs trembled. Their warm lips touching my skin were nearly electric.
With some assistance, I was able to sit up again. The cold surface of the table actually felt wonderful against my burning skin. Liam stood up. He’d been stroking himself while he licked me and his cock now stood fully erect. It was thick and long, culminating in a round purple crown. Precum oozed down his shaft. He grinned at me.
“I just couldn’t help myself,” he said, and took a step closer. His cock grazed my bare leg and it was so hot, I was afraid he might burn me.
On shaky legs, I hopped down off the table and put one hand on Liam’s chest. With the other, I wrapped my hand around his cock and began to jerk him off.
“Holy shit,” he said. His voice was a deep rumble. “That feels so fucking good.”
I stopped only long enough to grab a pile of discarded clothing and throw it on the floor before getting on my knees and stroking Liam’s cock with both hands, rubbing the silken skin of his shaft while the other was wrapped around the throbbing head.
“You like that, honey?” I cooed at him. He could only nod furiously, putting his hands on the table behind him to steady himself. I wrapped one hand tightly around the base of his cock and used the other to slowly stroke the length.
Until now, Ollie had just been watching, dumbstruck. I looked up at him and grinned.
“I have two hands, you know,” I said. “Care to try one?” I motioned for him to come closer, and Ollie wasted no time. I thought he might actually impale me with his erection, he seemed so eager. I wrapped my hand tightly around his girth and I marvelled at it for a moment. It wasn’t a point of view I was used to. His cock was nearly as perfect as Liam’s. And why wouldn’t it be? I thought. It must be a trait of bear shifters to be so perfectly endowed.
I began to stroke Ollie’s cock, and it wasn’t long before my hand was slick with his precum. I wasn’t sure how it was possible, but the men swelled even more as I stroked them. I knew they were getting close.
“Please don’t stop!” Ollie begged. I pumped him harder and faster, and he cried out and grabbed the table behind him. His cock throbbed and jumped in my hand, coating my
hands in his hot seed. He bucked his hips and fucked my hand and I squeezed him tightly until he was still. I squeezed him gently a few times and smiled when he winced. Aww, I thought, they get so sensitive.
“Too much?” I asked Ollie. Since he was attempting to catch his breath, he could only nod furiously. I smiled and turned my full attention to Liam.
He locked his eyes on mine, and I stroked against his cock with my hand, still wet with Ollie’s cum. I gripped his balls with the other. “I want you to cum too, Liam, “ I told him. No, not told. Commanded. As powerful an alpha as he was, I wasn’t sure he’d even ever heard a command. “I want you all over me. I want to wear you in front of everyone.” What on Earth was I saying?
That sent Liam over the edge, and he cried out as he erupted. I milked him with every contraction, and I squeezed him hard to make sure I didn’t leave behind a single drop.
“Jesus, Allie,” Oliver said. He’d finally caught his breath. “You really are surprising.”
I laughed. “So you’ve said.” Liam helped me to my feet. He didn’t miss the opportunity to cup my ass to steady me as I stood. I playfully swatted his hand and started to get dressed.
Ollie pulled on his jeans. “You know what else is surprising?” He stabbed Liam in the side with a syringe and depressed the plunger. “This.”
Chapter Nine - Harry
Richie Golden was showing off a sketch of the label for Golden’s Gate when Calder slashed his throat with a clawed hand. Blood shot from the wounds, destroying the drawing and covering everything in a six-foot radius, but Calder did not release him immediately. He held him long enough to inflict mortal damage before dropping his lifeless corpse to the floor.
It all happened so fast that Harry didn’t even have time to see the drawing.
“Richie!” Harry screamed, turning on Calder in a fury. His skin nearly exploded as his bear emerged. Harry roared, his white fur stained with his brother’s blood, and charged Calder, all teeth and claws and raw power.
Calder transformed in an instant. His instincts were honed by life as an apex predator who thrilled in the hunt and who could take down even the mighty mammoth. A polar bear was no match for him. He leapt over Harry’s attack easily and tore at his back with his sharp hind claws.
Harry spun around and roared, then charged again, sending chairs and tables flying in his wake.
Calder would have to make this a quick kill. One bear he could handle easily, but if the others returned, things would get much more complicated. He again leapt to dodge Harry’s charge, but this time jumped on the giant bear’s back, sinking his enormous incisors into Harry’s spine and severing his spinal cord.
The bear collapsed in a pool of his brother’s blood and Harry regained his human form. Unable to crawl out from beneath the giant bearskin that enveloped him, he could only close his eyes and wait for the predator to make the kill.
Alanna
Liam was doubled over in pain. What the fuck had Oliver injected him with? Not silver. He wasn’t reacting like he’d been poisoned. Something else.
“What the fuck, Oliver?” I said. I was still trying to get my clothes on while at the same time keeping my distance from him. Clearly he’d lost his fucking mind.
“Calder is so much more brilliant than we think,” Ollie said. “His blood is not only going to save all shifter species, it’s going to save the world!”
“What the hell are you talking about? What did you do to Liam?”
“Him? My. Fucking. Alpha?!” Oliver punctuated each word with a kick to Liam’s ribs.
“Stop it, you piece of shit!” Screaming made my throat raw.
“I gave him a gift, is all. A gift of real alpha blood. Not that garbage that flows through his veins right now. It’ll be a gift for you too, Allie. You’re about to get some up close and personal time with Liam. More than you’ve already had today, that is.”
On the ground, Liam started to growl. “You…motherfucker. Ollie. I’ll kill…you.”
“What’s that, fearless leader? You won’t kill anything. Well, me, anyway. I can’t say the same for Allie though. See, I injected you with a new strain of TPV. Calder created it. Having had time to examine it, I can tell you that it’s beautiful. It’s made me strong. Look at what I did just a few minutes ago. Pheromones, can you believe it? I’m the alpha now, but the virus is going to awaken your full potential, Liam. You’re going to lose the battle of man versus beast. And then Allie is going to lose the battle of woman versus beast. You’re going to tear her apart with your teeth and claws, Liam.” He turned to leave.
“Ollie, you’re a fucking asshole. If Liam doesn’t kill you, I will.”
“Speaking of,” Ollie said. He took a thin black case out of his wallet. “The needle had some company in here.” He pulled out a piece of metal and tossed it toward me. It skittered across the floor. It was one of the silver scalpels. “I already used all of the silver nitrate in the lab injecting myself to buy Calder some time. You’ll have to make due with that. There’s still a few seconds to jam it into Liam’s heart before he shifts and kills you. Best of luck.” He left, and I heard the sound of something heavy being placed against the door.
I crawled over toward Liam. He was fighting the shift.
“Allie,” he said. “I can’t stop it. You’ve…got to get away. I don’t know what I’ll do.”
“I’m not afraid, Liam. I’ve dealt with worse than this. I dated Ollie’s stupid ass for a long time.”
He laughed. It must have hurt like hell.
Then he started to shift. His back and arms cracked and reshaped. Liam screamed in pain.
I held his head in my hands. His eyes, which were a piercing blue, were now brown. “You can beat this, Liam. You’re a fucking alpha. Your blood is stronger than his.”
Liam screamed again as bones in his legs cracked and reformed. “Tr — trying,” he said.
“Try harder, dammit! I can’t lose you.”
“The…scalpel.”
Tears streamed down my face. I didn’t even realize I’d been holding it.
“You have to…in my heart, Allie. Please. I…don’t want to hurt…you.”
And then in an instant, I knew who I was. I knew what I had been running from. I unbuttoned my pants and ripped them down. I could feel Liam changing underneath my hands when I put them on his chest and sat astride him. I reached behind me and gripped his cock. It responded, and I gently stroked him until he was fully hard.
“Al…Allie,” Liam said. “What are…you doing?”
“Look at me,” I said, and took him into the deepest part of myself in more ways than one. Our eyes locked as I began to move. Fated mates. I’d read all about the idea, but never thought for a moment that I could be one myself. An ancient source of power for both alpha and his mate. I could feel him behind my eyes. In my soul. Deep in my sex. It was terrifying. It was heartbreaking. It was exhilarating.
“Allie.” Liam’s eyes had begun to clear. He gripped my ass with powerful hands and began to match my rhythm. His hands ran up my back to my hair. He pulled my face to his. Our kiss was like nothing I’d ever felt before. If it was possible, it was even better than his cock inside me. Our tongues touched. Gently at first. Then with more hunger. Then with absolute need.
Liam wrapped his hands around my back and pulled my close. He pushed deeper inside me than I thought was possible and held it there, just slightly moving his hips. He was stirring me up, and I ground my clit against his pelvis. I cried out as I lost myself in an orgasm. He growled deeply and happily in my ear. Then he started to move again and I thought I would die from the pleasure. My breasts pressed against his chest as he held me. I never wanted to leave this spot. I never wanted to move.
“Allie,” Liam said. His voice was gravel and power. I pressed my hands against his chest to steady myself and met his gaze. His eyes were completely clear. The shift that had begun had reversed. He was rock hard inside me. I knew he was getting close. There was nothing that I wa
nted more than to feel him cum inside me.
He suddenly grabbed my ass and arched his back. I could feel his warm seed fill me, but he would not stop. He pulled his length nearly all the way out of me, then back inside. Shallow at first, then deeper. I knew I was coming to cum again. His thumb pressed against my clit as he moved his cock in me. How is he still so hard?. Then my own orgasm hit me like a caressing punch, and suddenly I was afraid. I lost myself for a moment and crying out his name was the only tether keeping me from unravelling completely. I nearly sobbed at the intensity of the joy.
Liam pulled me close and I slowly came back to myself. So dizzy. So different. Everything was so different now. There was something about this man. The thought of getting up and breaking contact with him filled me with sadness so sweet that I felt tears well up. Every gasp of breath brought a new picture of a future together. A fantasy of what might be. What the hell is wrong with me? I was losing my mind. I was happy being alone. Thrilled, even. I loved my life. And yet my skin on his told me that my old life was over and I would never be alone again.
We held each other for what seemed like a long time. An eternity. But was probably just a few seconds.
He stroked my back. “Are you okay?” he asked.
“I don’t know,” I said. “Something…happened just now. I…” What? What was it? My instincts told me I was in love, but I don’t fall in love. And definitely not with some dude I’ve known less than a week. It felt like fate.
Oh shit. I pushed myself up on my hands and looked into his smiling face. Some deep part of me threw a tantrum as my skin pulled away from his.
“It feels like fate,” I said. I didn’t think it was possible, but Liam’s smile grew wider.
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