Werewolves with Chocolate
By Shauna Aura Knight
INTRODUCTION
Werewolves with Chocolate is the sequel to Werewolves in the Kitchen, where Jake and Kyle mate with Ellie while all three are living at the SpiralStone retreat center. Moira, a powerful priestess and mage, helps defend Jake, Kyle, and Ellie from the Hagalaz pack of werewolves. However, the Hagalaz are known to hold a grudge….
CHAPTER ONE
Just under her skin, Ellie could feel the seething heat of lust from her two werewolf lovers. Being mated to the two shifters had its advantages, but when all three of them were pent up, their desire for each other was sexual torture. She was human, but the metaphysics of the mating bond meant that she felt a ghost of their emotions. Sometimes even a phantom brush of physical sensations they were experiencing. Kyle and Jake had mated her less than a year ago and she was still getting used to what she thought of as the echo effect.
For the past weeks she’d been busy at the University lab analyzing information from the observation of thousands of stars and galaxies. As she had transferred into the school and was the newest person in the astrophysics program, she got one of the crappier data crunching jobs. Not that she really minded; she’d just been thrilled to be able to return to school to finish her degree. The shy geek she’d been before wouldn’t have minded the long days at the lab at all.
But, now that she had Jake and Kyle…the two randy shifters ratcheted her libido up to an eleven. They hadn’t been together in nearly two weeks because of their various work schedules. Between classes, homework, and additional hours in the lab, Ellie typically got home, ate, and dropped into an exhausted sleep. She realized she hadn’t gone a whole week without sex since she’d mated Jake and Kyle the summer before.
Finally, however, she had an actual weekend off. She still had homework, but she didn’t have any major assignments due.
Just thinking about the two of them, Ellie had to bite back a groan. Her pussy was plump and ripe as she imagined Kyle dipping his dark blond head down to kiss her, black-haired Jake nibbling at her neck…Kyle’s defined muscles pressing against her front before he lifted her up to slip inside her…Jake grinding against her from behind, his hand curving around to tease at her nipples while Kyle took her harder.
She thought about the last time all three of them had been in bed together, their hands all over her, the veins and muscles and the spirals of the tribal tattoos up their arms….
“Hey, do you have the figures yet on cluster M-486?”
Ellie looked up at Ted and shook her head, freeing her brown hair from the clip at her neck. “Sorry, my mind was in outer space.”
Ted laughed. “You and everyone here.”
“I’ll have it for you in about fifteen minutes.”
“Take your time. I’m blowing out of here.”
“Hot date?” she asked.
Ted grinned. “My boyfriend has demanded I leave the lab and join him for dinner and a movie. So yes.”
“That’s awesome.”
“Don’t stay too late. I bet those two men of yours are dying to see you.”
Ellie flushed to her neck. Ted was one of the few people she could tell about Jake and Kyle. Neither she nor Ted were out with most of the people in the program. While it was unlikely Ted would face discrimination, he didn’t want to chance it. Neither did Ellie; she and Ted had occasionally commiserated and wondered which one of them would face more discrimination. He was male, but gay. She was female and heterosexual, but had two boyfriends. Well, mates…but it wasn’t a word humans used. And they weren’t her husbands, given she wasn’t married to either of them
The two werewolves seemed to feel their mutual biting and mating ritual had constituted a formal bond. However, Ellie couldn’t think of herself as married to the both of them without some kind of formal ceremony.
She thought about a “traditional” wedding and shuddered. The thought of inviting her family, Kyle’s family, and Jake’s family was bad enough. In her case, she’d have to tell her mother that she wasn’t going to invite her stepfather. And of course explaining to her mom she was marrying two guys…the entire scenario was rife with disaster.
Maybe they could just host a wedding with friends at SpiralStone. Moira, the priestess who ran the spiritual retreat center and intentional community, would let her. And the three of them had plenty of friends there who wouldn’t bat an eyelash at a triple wedding. She could rope her friend Angel into helping since Angel still lived at SpiralStone. Of course, then she had to approach the guys about a wedding. She was pretty sure it wouldn’t occur to them to propose to her. While Ellie didn’t care for outdated gender conventions, she had to admit she did fantasize on occasion about their proposing to her the old fashioned way.
No, if they were going to get married, she was the one who was going to have to bring it up, and she wasn’t ready to deal with that. For the moment, she just needed to focus on school. She could think about the longer-term complexities of her relationship later.
Blinking at the clock, she groaned, and dialed the number for home.
“Ellie?”
“Hi Jake. Ummm…I’m sorry, but—”
“You’re running late at the lab.” She could hear the smile in his voice.
“I’m sorry.” This was a conversation they had a lot. “I’ll be home soon though. I just need another hour to wrap up. Maybe less.”
“Take your time, babe. We’re finishing dinner.”
Of course the two were cooking. When she’d met them, they ran the catering kitchen at the SpiralStone retreat center. They both seemed convinced she needed to eat more, which was ridiculous. She was going to have to get a gym membership to lose the ten pounds she’d gained just from their feeding her. But she loved that they took care of her, and that they put up with her schedule shifting all the time. “Oh, I’m still going to hurry home. I miss you.”
She could hear the low, bass rumble of Jakes’ growl. “We miss you too. And we’re going to demonstrate that to you in several very visceral ways.”
Her lips parted and she felt herself creaming just at his words. “That’s…good.”
“Sorry. I shouldn’t torture you. What exciting things have you discovered about the universe today?”
“This work is so cool, Jake. We’re working with data…it’s not just the observation of the expansion of the universe, but specifically, the cluster of galaxies moving in a recognizable pattern from the moment of the Big Bang. We’re creating a map of something so huge, we’ll never actually be able to see it. And we’re doing it through observations of galaxies, through what’s called the Hubble Constant. We’re looking at the movement of entire galaxies in a cluster. It’s breathtaking.”
“You are such a geek, sweetheart.”
Ellie laughed. “Well so are you!” The three of them loved camping out on the couch and watching sci-fi movies of any kind.
“I’m the kind of geek who likes to watch Star Trek. You’re the kind of geek who could follow Geordie into the engine room and help fix the warp core.”
“Fixing the warp core is more of an engineering thing. I’d probably serve better over in Stellar Cartography—”
“Baby?”
“Yeah.”
“Finish up and come home.”
She laughed. “All right.”
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“She running late?” Kyle asked.
“Yup.”
“Hmmph.”
Jake snorted. Kyle tended to get more miffed when Ellie ran late. But then, of the two of them, Kyle was more likely to be sexually tense. “Hey, we could use an extra hour. This chocolate needs time to cool.”
“All right. Why don�
��t you dip the strawberries and I’ll start cutting up the fruit.” Kyle looked Jake over. “You’re going for the suspenders and jeans look again, huh?”
Jake stiffened. “She likes the suspenders.”
Now Kyle snorted. “She likes pulling them off of you.”
“I’m not going to argue there.” Jake stirred the chocolate. “You know she’s going to tell us we’re trying to fatten her up again.”
“It’s just a few truffles, and strawberries in chocolate.”
“And cheesecake, and fruit, and—”
“This was your damned romantic idea!” Kyle fumed, flinging a piece of peach at Jake.
“Oh, it’s still a good idea.” Jake let out a growl. “Not like we need to turn her on any more than she already is.”
“I trust you to know more about human intricacies than I do. I don’t get their courtship dances.”
“Obviously.” Jake smirked.
“You asshole.”
“Sometimes we do things that still intimidate the crap out of her.”
“Well, that’s obvious. You know, I have a wolf nose too. I can smell it when she’s about to bolt.” Kyle piled the peaches onto a platter and started peeling oranges.
Jake shrugged and pulled the leaves off of more strawberries. “She’s not used to our directness, I think.”
“Let’s face it. Neither of us are very good at some of the human subtleties she’s used to. And yeah, yeah. I admit it. You’re better at it than I am.”
“Trust me, Kyle. She’s going to love this.”
“I just want her to feel better about having mated us. I know we still make her nervous. I want her to feel safe”
“She does love us.” How was it that Kyle could be bold and brash and still need that reassurance?
“I know,” Kyle grumbled.
“Are you still upset she hasn’t introduced us to her mom? You know most humans are pretty uptight about the monogamy thing. And it’s not like threesomes are common with shifters.” Jake wanted her to trust them too, but he understood the complexities. Plus, Ellie’s stepfather was a jerk.
“I know. And it’s not like we’ve been taking her to family gatherings.”
Jake barked out a laugh. “Yeah…that would freak her out. She needs a little more time with just us before we start exposing her to more shifters.”
“Yeah. She’d just get that deer in the headlights look.”
“Mmmmm.” Jake privately enjoyed that particular look in Ellie’s eyes. Usually it was a look she gave them right before the two of them ravished her until all three of them fell asleep exhausted and sated.
“Dammit, stop letting the little head do the thinking,” Kyle snarled.
“Fuck.” Jake was dripping hot chocolate all over the place as he attempted to roll the dipped strawberries in the mini chocolate chips.
“Don’t daydream. We have to get this done by the time she’s home.”
“We’ll be fine. She hasn’t even left the lab yet.”
Kyle started chopping up some cantaloupe and swore, nicking his finger. “You better light the candles. I’m too wound up.”
Jake rolled his eyes. “Some wolf warrior you are.” Though, not as if he was much better. With almost two weeks without being able to touch Ellie, both of them were practically ready to split their skin. He hoped Ellie was as turned on as they were, because tonight was going to be a long night.
CHAPTER TWO
Ellie let out a low moan as she walked along the sidewalk. It was only two blocks from the bus stop to the apartment, but she was so swollen, so achy. Her clit was hard enough that the friction of walking made her want to scream. She resisted reaching a hand into her pants. A few good rubs and she’d go off right there.
She really hoped Jake and Kyle were as pent up as she was, because she needed them fiercely.
February in Minneapolis meant hip-deep snow. She was lucky the sidewalk was as shoveled as it was. Sometimes the campus practically required snow pants. Though despite the frigid temperature, she didn’t seem to be cooling down at all.
With a whimper, she made it into the apartment doorway. The porch wasn’t ever locked but the inner door was and she fumbled for her keys. She was sweating, but her fingers were numb.
The door opened and Kyle swept her into his arms for a scorching kiss. She felt him growling and realized she was making a soft, desperate sound, practically climbing him. Jake closed the door, then ended up behind her. He bit the back of her neck and she almost came right there.
“Bedroom,” she rasped.
“Oh no, beautiful. We have surprises for you first.” Kyle set her down.
“Surprises?” She asked, trying to pull Kyle back to her.
Jake turned her around to kiss her. “Welcome home, sweetheart.”
“I missed you.” She threaded her fingers through his long dark hair and he laughed when she tried undoing his pants.
“We created a monster.”
He looked into her eyes and she found herself staring, as always. Jake had the best eyelashes, so dark he looked like he was wearing eyeliner. She had told him once she was jealous of his eyelashes.
Jake captured her hands and drew her into the living room. She blinked; they’d lit candles, and the two of them had filled an entire coffee table full of chocolates and fruits. “Wow. What’s all this?”
They both looked at her with what she privately thought of as their confused wolf look.
Kyle spoke first. “It’s Valentine’s Day, silly.”
“We know the holiday that’s a big deal for human women.”
“We were expressly told not to forget it.”
Her brows furrowed. “That’s not until next week though.”
“Well. You’ll be in school and at the lab, and we all have the next two days off. So we thought we’d make you a few treats.”
Ellie bit back a groan. Trust the wolves to not get that it was the actual date most people found to be important. She didn’t mind their enthusiasm, but she had prepared a surprise of her own for the holiday and it wasn’t ready yet. She had gone shopping to buy lingerie weeks ago and had asked her friend in the University theatrical costume department to make her an costume to go with it. She had hoped to tease them into a puddle of desire for Valentine’s Day.
Well, it looked like they would get to celebrate twice at this rate.
Jake pulled her red wool coat off and then Kyle drew her down to the huge purple velvet couch. When they had moved to Minneapolis last fall, Jake had procured the couch on Craigslist and the two of them hauled it up the stairs…and then they’d promptly ravished her on it. Ever since then Ellie had learned to leave a throw blanket on the couch that was easily thrown in the wash. She was nothing if not practical.
“Let’s get you warmed up and show you our delectable selection.” They sat on either side of her, Jake warming up her hands with his while Kyle brought forth a platter of chocolate-dipped strawberries.
“I think you need one of these.” Kyle brought one to her lips.
Ellie moaned, biting into the fruit. They really were going to torture her like this.
“Come on.” Jake pulled off her scarf and Kyle fed her another. She licked the dark chocolate off her lips. “Is it good?”
She let out a sigh of bliss. “You know it’s amazing.”
“Yeah, but we like to hear you say it.” Kyle pulled her sweater off and Ellie tried to climb onto his lap.
“Not so fast. You haven’t tried the truffles yet.”
“Truffles?”
“Of course there are truffles. We wouldn’t give you cheap candy box chocolate.”
“Nope. You get the real thing.”
“You two are so sweet.” Nobody had ever done anything this nice for her. She felt tears welling up in her eyes.
“Ah, crap. Did we do something wrong?” Kyle asked, giving her that searching look.
“No, it’s perfect.” When she kissed him he groaned and she managed to maneuver herself
onto his lap. She felt Jake pulling her jeans off and she helped him by wriggling until he’d dragged most of her clothing from her body. She started unbuttoning Kyle’s shirt and Jake shrugged one suspender off his shoulder. Ellie turned and pulled the other one down, and Jake stripped his shirt off.
Kyle finished unbuttoning his shirt and Ellie helped him pull it off while Jake slipped her panties down. Jake hauled her onto his lap, her back facing his front. She arched back against him and he grunted, then he spread her thighs. “Now, we want to have a treat too.”
“But we want ours to have a special flavor only you can offer to us.” Kyle’s eyes glowed golden as he lifted a bowl of warm chocolate from the table and began drizzling it over her.
“Oh gods,” she gasped as Kyle bent to lick the chocolate off of her nipples.
Jake dipped her finger in the chocolate and put took the digit into his mouth. His tongue caressed the pads of her fingers and between them until she writhed. He held her in place and did it again.
“You are the very best seasoning,” Kyle rumbled as he nibbled down her body to her calves, lapping the chocolate up. He licked and nibbled her thighs but wouldn’t touch her where she wanted him most.
“Please,” she begged.
Kyle chuckled and blew a soft breath across her pussy. Jake reached over to find a slice of peach and offered it to her. She bit into the juicy slice just as Kyle lapped once across her clit. She let out a scream.
“I think she needs cheesecake.” Jake took a slice from another plate.
“You aren’t going to make me eat everything before you fuck me, are you?” she asked.
Jake laughed and brought the cheesecake to her lips. “You don’t like it when we tease you.”
“I can’t eat all of this.” She couldn’t resist taking a bite of the sumptuous confection. “But this does taste really good. Ooh, there’s chocolate in the cheesecake. This is epic.”
“I’ll show you epic.” She whimpered as Kyle finally sucked her clit into his mouth, doing the thing with his tongue he did that brought her close to the edge. She moaned, bucking up against his mouth as Jake teased her nipples. Kyle was panting and leaned back. “You taste better than chocolate, baby,” he murmured, then lapped at her clit again, sucking her labia into his mouth until she was crying out, pressing up against him.
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