“My brother?”
The surprise in his voice and the shocked look on his face were enough to make Drew chuckle. “Looks like your brother and Wade have found their mate.”
Carter had to sit down. He pulled out the tall stool in front of the counter and sat down heavily.
“Wow! You weren’t kidding that Jace and Jackson finding their mate was going to create a mating frenzy!”
Drew chuckled to himself. “I was just making an observation based on pack history.”
“So, who’s my brother’s mate?”
“Suzie’s best friend Meeka.”
Carter smiled, remembering how protective Reece and Wade had been as they stood beside Meeka and her son Eric when they had arrived at Drew’s office the night they had brought Suzie home. He had seen the fear in Meeka as she stood beside the men, but he had also seen the comfort level his brother and Wade had with her and the little boy. That alone should have tipped him off.
“Meeka has her job cut out for her,” Carter said softly. “Neither Reece nor Wade will be open to a mating.”
“See, that’s the funny thing about the Fates,” Drew told him, smiling. “Reece and Wade can argue or deny it all they want. They’re not going to have a damn thing to say about it. What’s meant to be will be. It doesn’t matter how reluctant or stubborn they are.”
Carter grinned, happy that his twin brother and his brother’s triad partner had finally found their mate. “I’m going to love watching that mating play out.”
“Me, too. So until Jace arranges for the shopping trip, we’ll just keep Suzie close. We can see if we can borrow some clothes from some of the other women of the pack until we can buy her more,” Drew told him.
“I think we should just keep her naked,” Carter spoke up seriously.
Drew’s bark of laughter filled the kitchen. “And just how to you think that will go over with our mate?”
“What? You don’t think she’ll want to be naked with us?” Carter’s voice was indignant. “I think she will.”
“Yes, I think she will in the confines of our home and our bedroom,” Drew told him, his voice filled with humor. “Do you think she’ll want to visit with Meeka or the rest of the pack members naked? Do you really want the other men of our pack to see her beautiful body on display?”
Carter’s wolf reared up inside of him as jealously took firm hold. “No,” he growled.
“Didn’t think so,” Drew told him, smiling.
“Don’t be so smug.”
“I’m not being smug. I’m just as jealous as you are.”
Carter’s wolf backed down, realizing that there really was no reason to be angry. “Okay. She can get clothes.”
“That’s very magnanimous of you.”
“Drew, don’t be an ass!” Carter snapped.
Drew smiled, wiping at his face tiredly. “I’m sorry. I was only giving you a hard time.”
He grew very serious as he leaned forward and rested his forearms on the counter so he could look directly into Carter’s blue eyes.
“What?” Carter asked, Drew’s seriousness making him worry.
“I tested Suzie’s blood samples today,” Drew told him.
“Is she okay?”
“Better than okay,” Drew told him immediately. “There’s been a dramatic change in the silver levels over the last forty-eight hours.”
“How dramatic?”
“The silver content within Suzie’s blood is barely discernable. That means she’ll be completely healed very shortly.”
“That’s great,” Carter told him, reaching out and squeezing Drew’s forearm as relief flooded him.
“You know what that means, right?” Drew asked him.
“What?”
“It means we’ll be able to work on getting her pregnant, and our cub will be safe growing inside of her.”
The smile that came to Carter’s face lit the room. The memories of their shared visions filled him, and he knew that Drew was seeing the same pictures of Suzie pregnant with their daughter.
“We need to ask Suzie if she’s ready to have a cub with us, Drew,” Carter told him softly. “We just got her back. She may just want time to share with us and get used to us all over again before we take that next step.”
Drew nodded. “I agree, but I think she wants a family as much as we do.”
Carter leaned back and sat against the high back of the stool. “She can tell us when she’s ready, but we should tell her we want cubs with her. She needs to know.”
Drew stood and crossed his arms across his chest, looking down at Carter seriously. “Yes. She does. And we’ll tell her as soon as the opportunity presents itself.”
Carter stood and started walking toward the wide staircase that led upstairs to the bedrooms. “I’m going to check on her.”
“Carter, be prepared to take her hard if her wolf demands it,” Drew called to him.
Carter stopped in his tracks, his cock going instantly hard. He turned to face Drew and saw the serious expression on his triad partner’s face.
“How hard are we talking, Drew?”
“Hard.”
That one word was said with deep conviction.
“Hell!” Carter whispered.
Suzie’s wolf was instantly awake as she scented their mate. She clawed at Suzie’s chest as she demanded another claiming. Suzie turned over in bed and opened her eyes, searching the shadows for the figure of the man she loved.
“My Carter?” she whispered, sitting up and reaching out her arms to him, the blanket falling away from her body.
Carter’s mouth salivated as the creamy softness of their naked mate’s body was revealed to him. Going to the bed, he knelt beside Suzie and reached out to take her face between his large hands. Suzie’s arms embraced him tightly, drawing her to him and holding on tightly as he claimed her mouth in an exquisitely tender kiss.
“I missed you, Suzie Q,” he whispered against her lips, reaching out to trace the heart shape of them with his tongue before delving inside and moaning against her mouth as she sucked on it firmly.
She pulled at his uniform, ripping it with abandon, determined to have him naked within her arms immediately. She needed. Only his naked body pressed against hers, and buried deep within hers, would satisfy her.
“Carter, I need you,” she whispered, her voice desperate despite the softness.
“I know, baby,” he told her, leaning back and looking down at her. He saw how the color of her eyes had turned golden and knew that her wolf was close to the surface. “I’m here.”
He tried to pull away from her, but she refused to let him go. Lying back on top of her, he pressed heavily down upon her, forcing her to submit to him. Only when he was successful in holding her still did she relinquish control to him. He could feel the soft growls emanating from her, and he smiled at the strength of her wolf. Leaning forward, he opened his mouth, allowed his canines to drop, and lunged for her shoulder, biting down and pinning her in place. Her soft whimpers of need filled the room, but she stilled beneath him, allowing him to hold her in place and show her that he was strong enough to win her.
Her heart pounded against his chest, and he could feel his own need building. This woman was his mate. She belonged to him, and she belonged to Drew. There was nothing and no one that would ever keep them apart again.
Pulling back, he laved at the slight puncture wounds on her shoulder and looked down at her. She stared up at him with eyes that searched his, and he knew she was struggling to focus on his shadow. He felt a moment of sadness filling him as he thought about how she had lost her vision because of the cruelty of their old alpha. He and Drew felt more than responsible for the years they had lost and the atrocities she had suffered.
Don’t, my Carter, Suzie’s loving voice whispered in his mind. What we lost was not your fault. It was not Drew’s fault. I’ve already told Drew the same thing.
Suzie, I love you so much it hurts.
He could feel t
he emotions filling his chest, and he was afraid that he wouldn’t be able to be the man she needed—the man she deserved.
I’m just a humble man who loves you with all my heart.
That may be true, Mate, but you’re also a man who protects those he loves, gives of himself without hesitation, and cares for many without even knowing who they are. You have become the healer I always knew you were meant to be.
“Suzie,” he whispered, leaning forward and kissing her lips lightly. “I need you, baby.”
Suzie’s immediate growl filled the room as her arms wrapped around him and she scored her nails down his back. He arched into her touch and knew a moment of pure lust as her wolf came out to play.
He pulled her arms from around his body and pushed away from her. Stepping off to stand beside the bed, he tore his clothes from his body. When she made to move before him, he stopped her with a growl of warning.
“Get on your hands and knees. Now!” he demanded.
She rolled over and knelt on all fours without hesitation. His growl of approval made her smile. In no time at all, she felt him against her back, his naked body hot and hard. She whimpered with need, gasping with pleasure as he wrapped his arm around her waist and covered her mound possessively.
“Who does this belong to, Mate?” he demanded of her.
“My Carter and my Drew,” she whispered, gasping as his fingers parted her folds, and he sank into her waiting wetness.
“You belong to us body and soul,” he told her, growling possessively. “Don’t ever forget that.”
The whine that left her was involuntary. The power of him behind her, the roughness of his hand against her, and the thickness of his fingers inside of her, made her give up any control she thought she might have. This man, this wolf, owned her completely—just as Drew owned her completely. There was no doubt or hesitation in her mind. She knew it, and her wolf knew it.
Carter bit down on her shoulder lightly to hold her in place as he pumped his fingers into her sheath. He growled against her skin, loving the feel of the wetness that awaited him. His wolf pushed at him to take, to dominate, and to claim, and he wasn’t about to refuse him.
“Don’t move, Mate,” he told her, growling in her ear.
Suzie remained frozen in place. She felt his fingers leave her pussy to drag over her swollen clit just long enough and hard enough to bring her to the edge of release. Just as her body tightened and coiled, well on its way to completion, he pulled away.
Taking his hard and leaking cock in hand, he brought it to her nether lips, swiping it through the wetness there in three consecutive moves. He growled in appreciation as he scented Suzie’s arousal. He reached down with his free hand to wipe up the wetness that dripped from her and saturated her inner thighs to coat his cock with her juices.
“Now, Carter,” she demanded, her wolf losing patience.
Reaching out, he grabbed the back of her neck and pushed her down onto the pillow below her so that her ass remained high in the air, presented to him nicely. He growled as his wolf reveled in the submission. Taking firm hold of his cock, he pressed it between her swollen folds and pushed inside of their mate in one desperate plunge, not stopping until he was fully seated and he could feel the tip of his cock touching the mouth of her womb. Leaning forward so that his chest covered her back, he licked at her cheek and kissed it tenderly, his sweet action in direct contrast to the hard claiming of her body.
“I love you, Mate,” he whispered.
“I love you, my Carter,” Suzie told him softly.
“Good.”
Without hesitation, he pulled himself up and began a series of thrusts and retreats that were hard enough to push Suzie repeatedly against the top of the bed. Although he made sure that her head was sufficiently protected by the three pillows that belonged to all of them, he wasn’t about to hold back his deep need to take her.
Suzie moaned as his cock plunged deep inside her channel, needing the strength of him and the deepness with which he filled her. Her body tightened with anticipation of each filling, craving and demanding the length and girth of him as he slammed home over and over again. She could feel every ridge, every vein, and every curve of his cock—and she loved it.
“More!” she demanded, reaching back and clawing at his thighs to pull him closer.
She nearly cried when he pulled out of her totally, gasping with surprise as he reached down and grabbed her hips to flip her over, spread her legs, and plunged back inside of her. He hooked her legs over his forearms, tipping her hips just slightly so that his thrusts hit her G-spot on every inward dip and dragged across it at every outward pull. She thought she would lose her mind from the pleasure.
Carter’s plunges grew harder and deeper with every movement. He needed to show her just how much he loved her and that she would always be where she was meant to be—by their side as their mate. He saw her eyes become completely golden then soften to a clear hazel with the edges remaining golden. Woman and wolf were equal partners in this mating.
He released her legs, allowing them to drop down to the bed. Plunging into her once more, he reached down and pulled Suzie up into his arms as his hips snapped with unrestrained fury. He wrapped his arm around her hips and held her tightly against him as he continued to pump up into her, refusing any movement on her part. He was in charge, and her wolf better know it.
When he looked down at her and saw that her canines had dropped and she was looking up at him with a pleading expression on her face, he knew he couldn’t deny her need any longer.
“Do it!” he demanded, gasping with pleasure as she immediately struck and bit into his chest, reclaiming him. For each draw of his blood into her mouth, a gush of seed left his cock, filling her completely.
Suzie moaned against his chest, grinding against his pubic bone as her own orgasm took flight. She screamed against his chest, her canines still embedded deep within his pectoral muscle. Another orgasm raced through her as his cock knotted deep inside of her, and he dragged his nails down the length of her back. All the feelings threw her into sensory overload, and she fell against him, blackness threatening to overcome her as she fought to stay conscious.
Was that hard enough for you, baby? Carter’s gentle voice teased her mind.
It was okay. You can try harder next time, old man.
Carter opened his mouth, his canines dropping, and struck, laying claim to the woman who brought complete happiness and contentment to his soul.
Chapter 20
Drew walked toward their bedroom, standing in the doorway and watching Suzie and Carter as they slept. The room smelled of lovemaking, and his wolf growled with happiness that their mate had been claimed once again.
There was something that settled inside of him as he realized the way their home was now filled with the scent of their mate. It was as it should be. Suzie was a part of their home and their future, and very soon, if the Fates were kind, they would be filling their home with a little girl who looked just like their Suzie, and soon after that, she would be carrying their son. It was a future he craved.
Walking forward slowly, he stood beside the bed and smiled down at the adorable woman who belonged to both of them. She was lying on her back, the sheet folded at her waist. Carter’s hand was possessively covering her abdomen, and Drew felt a surge of longing fill him at the thought of the miracle of their cub within her body.
“I can hear you thinking,” Carter whispered, snuggling closer to Suzie and kissing her temple lightly.
“Sorry,” Drew answered softly. “Can’t help it.”
Carter opened his eyes and looked at Drew sleepily. “I think about it, too,” he admitted. “I hope Suzie will be ready to be a mom soon.”
Drew unzipped his jeans and pushed them from his body, sliding in beside their mate and resting his hand gently against her hip. He felt peace overcome him at once. There was no better place than beside their mate—except inside their mate. Carter’s soft chuckle let him know that he
had projected his thoughts to him once again.
“How rough was your joining?” Drew asked him, leaning in to nuzzle against Suzie’s head and kiss her cheek, making sure not to wake her.
“Pretty rough,” Carter admitted. “I was a little worried about it, but she seemed to do okay with it. In fact, she pushed me for more.”
“She did the same with me,” Drew told him. “I hope she hasn’t suffered physically from the both of us taking her so hard.”
“Maybe you should check her to make sure,” Carter told him, worried.
Drew nodded and leaned in to whisper against Suzie’s ear. “Suzie, honey, Carter is going to hold you while I check to make sure we didn’t injure you during our lovemaking. Okay, baby?”
Suzie moved sensuously between them, stretching languidly as she fought to understand Drew’s words. “Okay,” she told him, her voice heavy with sleep.
Carter sat up and settled against the headboard, reaching down to gather Suzie in his arms and pull her up so that she sat between his legs as she leaned back against him. He smiled as she snuggled against him, pulling his arms around her body so that his forearms rested beneath her breasts.
Drew smiled up at their mate, loving the easy way she had settled back into their lives. He reached out and took her right leg in his hands and lifted it carefully to gently place it across Carter’s right thigh. He did the same to her left leg until she was spread out before him. He saw that she was damp with Carter’s seed and smiled at the thought of her body accepting both of them so willingly.
“Is she okay?” Carter asked, worried when Drew remained still as he looked at Suzie’s body.
“She’s a little swollen,” Drew told him, wincing as he reached out and touched her folds carefully, concerned when Suzie’s soft moan of discomfort left her lips. “I’m going to get a warm cloth to clean her up then we’ve got to help her. We should have done it as soon as we loved on her.”
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