No one said anything, and she asked, “Are ya’ll mad? How bad did I fuck up?” When no one said anything, she took a breath, turned her back to them, and admitted, “Everything was upside down with all of you gone. Nothing went right, nothing worked. I’ve been fine on my own all of my adult life, until this past week.”
Mac stepped to her and pulled her into his embrace, turning her so she faced him as he cocooned her in the safety of his arms.
Jonathan took one step towards them and froze as he said, “Not threatening you, Mac, just making sure Bethany is safe.”
Mac took a breath, let it out, and said, “She’s safe.”
“Doesn’t look like it to me, can you step away from her, please?”
“No,” Bethany said, looking at Jonathan. “His wolf likes me, and is backing away so Mac can be around me. Don’t threaten him and we’ll be fine. You weren’t here earlier, but Mac came to the cabin as a wolf and turned to human on purpose. It took a lot longer than Ranger, but he did it. He said his wolf likes me and wants me safe, and he’s backing off so human Mac can hold me and be near me.” She looked at Mac, snuggled back into his warm arms, and asked, “What were you going to say?”
“The relationship’s new, and we had to leave kind of fast. I believe you when you say you were only contemplating dinner, but how would you’ve felt if you got a hit because one of us was contemplating having dinner with a college cheerleader, or a Broadway dancer?”
She tried to pull out of his arms, but he held tight. She looked down, ashamed, but then decided she wasn’t a coward, so she met his gaze and said, “It would hurt my feelings, and I’d wonder how serious you were.”
He tilted his head and lifted his eyebrows, and she said, “Yeah, okay. I fucked up, and I’m sorry.”
Mac was still holding her, still accepting her, so she leaned into him, put her cheek against his chest, and added, “I really like all three of you, and not just because of the sex, though I have to admit it’s pretty out-of-this-world.” She shook her head and let Mac hold her a few more seconds before stepping away.
“I don’t do relationships, and I’m not really sure what I’m doing here, and I might screw up a few times before I get it right, but I’m willing to give this a shot.” She looked at Jonathan. “I don’t like being so far from work, but I know you’re closer to Sophia when you’re home, since she lives on Lookout Mountain, too, so I’m not really sure how to resolve where we spend the majority of our time. I have plenty of extra bedrooms and closet space, but…” She trailed off, suddenly unsure of what she was suggesting.
“Are you inviting us to move in with you?” Ranger asked.
“I don’t really know what I’m saying, except I missed ya’ll while you were gone. It’s too soon for you to move in, but maybe you can move some clothes and toiletries in? I have furniture and a kitchen table.”
“And a kick-ass bathroom,” Jonathan added as he stepped to her, pulled her hair from the ponytail holder, ran his fingers through her tresses, and kissed her forehead. “How about we all move some stuff to your house and try it a few weeks. If it works, then a month from now I’ll see if some of my team wants to rent my house, as that’ll put them closer to Sophia. I’ll keep a room for the times I only have a few hours to rest.”
“And we’ll all chip in on your mortgage and utilities,” Ranger told Bethany.
Bethany shook her head. “Mac won’t be working for a while, I can’t ask him to.”
“I’m good, Cupcake,” Mac said as he layered sausage over beef on his pizza. “I have enough saved I could take a three year vacation if I wanted, though I wouldn’t know what to do with myself. I’ll pay my way.”
Ranger put one of the pizzas in the oven, pulled her into his arms, and said, “I love that he could tell you cared about me, just by watching and hearing you talk to me. You know we can smell truth and a lie, and while our feelings are a little bruised, we know you’re scared shitless about your feelings for us, but we also know the emotions are real.” He kissed her nose and added, “Mac and I will go on a nighttime run tonight, and no matter how good he’s doing around you now, I don’t think the three of us should try to share you this evening. It won’t take much to set his wolf off, and after the way he reacted to Jonathan, I don’t want to risk it so close to the full moon. If you want some time with him, you should do it now, while we’re waiting for the pizza to cook and then cool. Just the two of you, while it’s still daylight, before the moon rises.”
She hadn’t expected to be able to be near him, and her heart somersaulted into her throat as Ranger’s words sank in. She looked at Mac, worried it might be awkward, but he gave her the perfect bad-boy rogue smile and she went back into his arms, easy as pie.
Chapter Seventeen
Three months later
Bethany pulled into her driveway to see heavy equipment in her yard, and rolled her eyes. The house came with a perfectly good two car garage, but her harem had decided to build a four car garage onto the back. Thank goodness she had a huge back yard.
Bonus, though, was the sunroom and workout room they were also adding, as well as another deck with a kickass six person hot tub.
She’d moved her schedule around and now worked slightly longer hours Wednesday through Saturday, as this allowed the most time with all of her guys.
Mac’s control was good enough he occasionally worked for Drake security, and he could sleep with them except the five or six nights a month around the full moon. The foursome now had a bed with a king and queen mattress side by side, strapped together with a big fluffy cushion on top so no one felt the ridge between the mattresses. Ranger made a bed, and it totally kicked ass. Their sheets had to be custom made now, though.
There had been problems, but nothing they couldn’t solve with a lot of communication. Bethany had received a few pointers from Cassie about how to survive in a testosterone filled house, though their situations were different since Cassie’s three guys were bisexual.
None of Bethany’s harem were homophobic, so they didn’t freak if there was inconsequential touching, but they never pleasured each other. She was solely responsible for keeping all three happy. As a self-professed sex addict, ninety-nine percent of the time she had no complaints, and the other one percent? The guys quickly learned when to leave her the fuck alone. They could smell her arousal or lack of it, and forcing her to safeword to get some peace on the rare occasion she needed time alone just pissed her off.
Jonathan was gone a lot, and even when he was scheduled to be home, if Aaron was called away on an emergency in the middle of the night, Jonathan had to go to Sophia. Ranger was often called in to help Aaron with those emergencies, which left just Mac and Bethany at home. Some nights Mac and Ranger were on a job, so it was just Jonathan and Bethany together, and occasionally Mac helped Jonathan when Sophia had a personal appearance at night, which meant Bethany had some alone time with Ranger.
Tonight and tomorrow, they would all be home, and had made it clear they weren’t on call. Tomorrow was Memorial Day, and tonight they were doing the blood-promise thing again — and Jonathan had agreed to be fully included this time.
Tomorrow night they were invited to the Rolling Thunder Motorcycle Club’s big Memorial Day Bash, and during the day they’d be attending a huge party thrown by Aaron and Sophia Drake.
Mac opened the front door as Bethany walked up the front steps. He was dressed in nothing but a faded pair of blue jeans, and he was pure muscle and all man. Her body reacted to him as it always did — with fire and heat. As the door closed behind her, he pressed her against the wall and angled his mouth to hers for an incredible welcome home. She didn’t fight him, didn’t ask questions, but let him overwhelm her senses with his kiss. When he finally let her up, they walked towards the rear of the house together, hand-in-hand.
“I missed you, too,” she told him, and heard Jonathan chuff from the den.
She looked to Mac with a question in her eyes, and he shrugged. “He’s
been cat a few hours. I’m gonna go out back and work on the deck until Ranger gets home. Why don’t you see what’s up with the feline?”
He gave her another peck on the cheek and went out the back door, and she went to the den. Jonathan was lying on one of the huge pet cushions they kept on the floor, and his eyes watched her like prey as she stepped into the room.
“If you’re trying to creep me out, you’re succeeding. Everything okay?”
He looked the other way, ignoring her as he twitched the very tip of his tail, and she sat in a chair so they could see each other.
“It took me a while to agree to this new blood bond thing tonight, so I totally get the whole cold feet thing.”
He shook his head as if he’d just come out of the water, and just to be sure she got the message, growled. He wasn’t getting cold feet, apparently.
Bethany looked at him a few seconds and said, “Okay, then. I’m not a mind reader. When you’re ready to talk let me know. Meanwhile, I’m going to get a shower.”
For the longest, she had to come home and shower before Mac could be around her much, because the smell of her massage clients on her skin had bothered his wolf. He could handle it okay, now, but she still tried to shower soon after arriving home.
She hadn’t been under the water long when Jonathan arrived in his human form, and she let him help with her hair without talking. It was a comfortable silence, and he would let her know when he was ready to talk.
Finally, he said, “Not getting cold feet, Raggedy. If anything, I want more than we’ve agreed to, but it can happen in due time, doesn’t have to happen this year.”
She knew he wanted to bind them all together financially and legally as much as possible, so she didn’t have to question what he meant. Instead, she asked, “Then what’s wrong?”
“My cat isn’t happy about blood bonding with wolves, and I needed to assure him he can be himself all day with no problems.” He tilted her face up with a single finger, held eye contact a few seconds. “It has nothing to do with you or the guys, just something I needed to do for the cat. I spend some time around Sophia as a leopard, and you know my cat loves snuggling with you at night when it’s just the two of us, but he needed more today, so I gave it to him.”
“Is Mac going to be okay? Bonding to a cat? Is he strong enough to push his wolf to do it without losing control?” She knew it was a big deal, but thought they’d all come to terms with it. If Jonathan’s cat was having issues, how could they expect Mac’s wolf to deal with it?
Jonathan leaned down, sucked her nipple into his mouth, and sent her blood straight to boiling as he teased it with his tongue. Too soon, he let it go to reach for the soap. “All of us are crazy about you, as are our animals. You already know Mac’s wolf behaves for you when he won’t for Mac, sometimes. Now, sit down and let me shave you, get you ready for our evening.”
They’d all agreed no one would orgasm today, in preparation for tonight, but she hadn’t counted on them teasing the hell out of her.
* * * *
Three hours later, Bethany was reclined on Ranger’s hard body, her back to his front, her knees in the air and her feet pressed into Ranger’s thighs, with his thick cock up her ass. The guys couldn’t give her diseases, since they couldn’t catch them, and she was on the pill. She loved the feel of skin on skin, and never wanted to go back to condoms.
They only gave her a few seconds to acclimate before Mac slid into her pussy, and then Jonathan straddled her and slid his cock between her slick, bound breasts.
All four had a drop of everyone’s blood over their heart, and now they were all connected through Bethany.
Ranger reached for her left hand with his left, and for Mac’s with his right. Jonathan reached for Mac’s other hand, and then grasped Bethany’s free hand. They now formed a circle with their arms, as well as being plugged into the sole female of the group — the one who joined them and made them a family.
Jonathan isn’t an Alpha, but the King of the Lions had gifted him energy yesterday, so Jonathan could act as one today, and he started the silent ceremony. Bethany felt something like a small electrical current flowing from both his hand and his cock, and she groaned as the metaphysical voltage seemed to focus on her nipples before it spread through the rest of her body. It wasn’t sexual, it was powerful, and something primal in her brain wanted to run from it while the part of her that loved Jonathan wanted to give herself to him.
Ranger’s energy joined Jonathan’s, and she jerked as the tingle of electricity went into her ass also. When their combined energy reached Mac, it streamed from his cock into her pussy, and then she couldn’t think anymore.
Awash on a sea of energy, at one with her men, Bethany felt the very essence of who they were, and it touched her on a soul level. It was magical, spiritual, and felt as if the four of them were one being, one creation, one entity.
She knew their thoughts and feelings, and could see their love for her, their caring and respect for each other… not just as humans, but as their animals, as well. They were seven personalities — two wolves, a cat, three men, and a woman — and yet they were one.
One what?
It came to her, as it came to the rest.
One family.
Jonathan and Ranger slowly stopped pouring energy into the ritual, and as the foursome gradually came out of it, the men started moving, but this wasn’t fucking.
It was making love, and Bethany’s heart soared as if it’d been given wings.
Her eyes met Jonathan’s as he moved above her, and her breasts strained in their bonds as his hips worked his cock back and forth between them. They were bound at the base, and medical tape held them together at the top. As the group let go of each other’s hands, Jonathan braced his palms against the outside of her breasts and pushed them even closer together.
The dark arousal in his eyes gave her another punch of adrenaline, and she wanted him to take what he needed from her body, use her for his pleasure.
Mac moved in her pussy, slow and deep, but Ranger was motionless, for now. Someone had put classical music on before the ritual began and it still played in the background — a soundtrack to their lovemaking.
A long, low groan escaped her throat, and she felt and heard Ranger echo it below before he said, “God, Bethany. Love being in your ass, especially when someone else is in your pussy.”
Her harem had demanded Bethany learn to pleasure them all at once, and while it was still overwhelming, it was no longer impossible for her to keep up with everyone.
Jonathan picked up speed, and the look in his eyes told her he wasn’t far from coming. The goal tonight was for all of them to come on her the first time, and in her the second, and she knew there’d be some kink in between the sex.
Jonathan’s first spurt hit below her chin, and then he pulled out and removed the medical tape in one motion as he came all over her breasts. When he finished, he rubbed it in, taking his time and driving her mad by torturing her nipples as he rubbed his seed into her.
With Jonathan off to the side, now she could see into Mac’s eyes, and she once again fell into his gaze, lost in him, lost in the movement, the sensations, as he made love to her.
Ranger’s hands roamed her body, occasionally moving to the area around her clit without actually giving any stimulation.
She registered a slight change in Mac’s movements, and then her heart flip-flopped as his eyes went dark and he said, “Hold her for me, Ranger.”
Ranger’s arms went around her, pressing her arms to her sides as he held her upper body motionless, and Mac used the opportunity to pull all the way out, brush his hands over her pussy, and then ram into her. He was fucking her now, slamming into her again and again with his strong hips and thighs, his stomach muscles rippling with the exertion, his corded forearms taught as he held her legs in the air.
Overwhelmed, she sucked air in and then tried to breathe between the times he slammed into her and knocked the air out. Her mouth
formed the word, “more,” but instead of pounding her harder, he changed angles and made her eyes roll into the back of her head.
Her scent must have changed, because all three men groaned at the same time, but Bethany couldn’t react in any way — her body was frozen in a permanent state of bliss as she lost all motor control.
When she finally came, Bethany thought the top of her head might come off, as it was impossible to contain so much pleasure in one body. The instant her orgasm waned, Mac pulled out and came on her stomach, and once again took his time rubbing it in.
However, when he backed off, Ranger sat on his knees without dislodging his cock from her ass, and twisted her as she went backwards. The next thing she knew, she was flat on her back with her knees pressed to the mattress beside her shoulders, and Ranger was making love to her, his cock in her ass instead of her pussy.
His cock grew as he moved, and her head went side to side, her eyes begging, but he only gave her a sadistic smile and said, “How much do you think you can take, today?”
As a powerful shapeshifter, Ranger had the ability to make his cock smaller or bigger, longer or shorter. Today, he was slowly making it thicker as he took her ass, and the stretch went from discomfort to a fiery burn, just on the edge of more than she could handle.
“Please no more, Sir?”
“Shhhh,” he breathed, his hand stroking her cheek in a tender caress. “I know how much you can take. Trust me to make it good for you?”
She nodded, but still whined and moaned. Her guys might enjoy causing her pain, but they never pushed past what she could handle, and her orgasms were always through-the-roof powerful.
Ranger slid back and forth, in and out, another dozen times before he went in and held again, his cock a hard flame inside her. She felt another pulse as it thickened yet again, and she screamed as her asshole went wider than she thought it’d ever been.
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