Their Chance at Redemption

by Maia Dylan

  “Dude.” Josie looked up at the sound of Violet’s amused tone to see her leaning on the door jamb. “What the hell are you thinking about that you feel the need to take it out on a poor, defenseless vegetable? What’s that carrot ever done to you?”

  Josie winced when she glanced down and saw what was left of the mangled carrot on the board. “Nothing.”

  Violet stepped closer. “I call bullshit, best friend o’ mine. You had the look of a woman needing a little somethin’ and not getting it.”

  Heat swooped into her face, and she growled. “Hell, if it’s so damn obvious on my face, why the heck can’t Kieran and Liam come to that same conclusion?”

  Violet grinned as she reached out to grab a carrot from the pile beside the board. “Probably because they aren’t psychic. Have you told them that your lady bits are hankering for a little hard loving attention from the men who claim to be yours for life?” The sound of her taking a bite out of the crunchy vegetable adding emphasis to her question.

  Josie laughed. “My lady bits? Hankering for a little hard loving? Jesus, Violet, is that how you talk with your men?”

  Violet nodded as she chewed. “Hell, yes! Well, at least I certainly don’t censor what I say to them if that’s what you mean. What you see is what you get with me. Besides, we are mostly still at the physical cues portion of our relationship.”

  “What does that mean?”

  Violet waggled her eyebrows suggestively. “It means that in the moment I first set eyes on my men, they either have me against the nearest wall, or I’m climbing them like they’re the hottest things in the world, and I’ll literally drown if I don’t get them to fuck me as soon as humanly possible.”

  “Violet!” Josie pressed a hand to her flaming cheek.

  Violet laughed at her obvious discomfort. “Honey, if you can’t even hear the word without blushing like a nun who walked into a brothel, then how the hell are you going to be able to ask for it?”

  Josie was quiet for a moment while she thought that through. “You think that’s what I need to do? Simply ask them to f-fuck me?”

  Violet’s smile softened. “You’re going to have to actually say the word without the stutter, Josie my friend. Your men just need to hear what you need, Josie. Kieran is one of the most honorable men I know. Liam is in that category, too, despite a few blemishes on his aura. They are your mates. The need in their eyes when you walk into a room is almost freaking palpable. You tell them you want to take this to then next step, and I can almost guaran-damn-tee that you’ll get what you want in a matter of minutes.”

  Josie’s heart rate accelerated at that thought. “Minutes?” She desperately wanted to know what that would feel like.

  “Seconds.”

  Josie gasped, spinning in the direction of the door that lead into the back garden to where Liam and Kieran stood in the doorway, their expressions filled with hunger.

  “It wouldn’t be minutes, Josie-girl. It would be more like seconds.”

  Liam’s voice had heat pooling low in her abdomen. She should be mortified that they had heard her conversation, but from the way they were looking at her, she was finding it hard to feel anything but anticipation and a desire that seemed to match theirs.

  “All you need to do is give the word, sweetness,” Kieran said in a voice that sounded a little strained, and Josie started to think that maybe he and Liam had been holding themselves back from her. “One word from you, and we will show you that you are the center of our world, and will do everything in our power to prove that we can be that for you.”

  “Looks like my job here is done! I’ll get the rest of them outta here and leave y’all to getting it on like Donkey Kong!”

  Josie heard Violet’s voice, understood the words, despite being slightly confused over their meaning. All she really cared about was the fact that she was about to be alone with her men, and they knew what it was that she wanted. And she knew beyond a shadow of a doubt that they wanted it, too.

  “I want that,” she whispered, feeling empowered by the joy she watched flare in both men’s eyes. “I want both of you in the worst way.”

  ****

  That was all it took. As if released from a spell, Liam and Kieran stepped toward their mate at the same time. Liam used his shoulder to push Kieran out of the way and got to their mate first. He heard Kieran’s growl of displeasure at the dirty tactic, but as far as Liam was concerned all was fair in love and war. Especially when it came to their mate.

  He pulled Josie into his arms and swooped in to claim her mouth. Rather than demanding her submission, he coaxed it from her. Over the past hellish six days of learning more about his mate and falling for her in a thousand different ways, he had taken every opportunity to kiss her. He’d learned that when he worked for her submission, coaxing it from her, it had an arousing effect on both of them. It didn’t take long for Josie to acquiesce and melt against him.

  When he felt her shiver against him, he knew Kieran had opted to get involved rather than sit back and watch. Liam couldn’t blame him.

  Josie moaned into his mouth, and he smiled, pulling back to stare into her beautiful face. When her eyes flickered open, he reveled in the arousal he saw swimming there.

  “Christ, Josie-girl, you are so fecking beautiful,” he whispered.

  Kieran growled against her neck and Liam caught Josie’s quick inhalation. “You are perfect, sweetness, and I for one cannot wait a second longer to see you in all your naked glory, knowing that you are finally going to be ours in truth.”

  With that, Kieran swept their mate into his arms and strode toward the master suite at the back of the house. Liam followed in his wake, and couldn’t keep the shit-eating grin off his face. His patience had been stretched thin waiting for everything and everyone to fall into alignment. And now that they were it felt almost surreal.

  Kieran didn’t stop until he stood at the foot of the massive bed that sat against one wall of the bedroom. Since they had brought Josie back from that shelter, this had been her room, and the scene of more than one sexually charged fantasy of his in the last few days.

  Kieran placed Josie gently on her feet, and Liam moved so that he blanketed her back as his cousin stepped closer to her front.

  “Will you let us undress you, baby?” Kieran asked, his lion clear in his tone.

  Josie nodded immediately. Liam slid his hands around her waist and went straight to the button fly of her jeans as Kieran tugged the soft cotton long-sleeved shirt she was wearing up and over her head. Moving as one, the two of them had their mate naked between them in a very short amount of time.

  Kieran ripped off his own shirt, and Liam followed suit, both of them opting to leave their jeans on for the moment. No doubt his cousin had the same damn thought he had. If there were no barriers between them, then either he or Kieran, or hell, both of them, would be balls deep in their mate in a matter of seconds.

  Kieran glanced over at him, an intense look on his face. “Why don’t you make our mate feel good? I’ve discovered that I have a pretty large voyeur streak, and I want to see you take her over the edge.”

  Never one to waste an opportunity when it was presented to him, and especially not when it concerned his mate, Liam dropped immediately to his knees. Stopping only long enough to lift her left leg and place it over his shoulder, he settled in, rubbing her soft, wet pussy with his nose, taking the scent of her arousal deep into his lungs. “Holy sweet Mother of God, you smell delicious, baby.”

  Unable to wait a single moment more, Liam swept his tongue along her slit, reveling in the way she cried out his name, her hands gripping his hair. Her exquisite flavor burst across his tongue, and he growled at the flavor and went to work, taking everything she had to offer. He alternated between fucking her deep with his tongue and using the pointed tip against her clit. Listening to the sexy sounds she made and the way she directed his movements with her hands, he drove her quickly toward her release. In a short amount of time, he could fee
l her shuddering against him, and knew she was on the edge of shattering.

  Reaching up to grip the fantastic globes of her phenomenal ass, he tugged her closer, then closed his lips around her swollen clit, sucking it into his mouth and pressing his teeth against it. Josie screamed her release and his name, and he felt ten fecking feet tall. He stayed with her as she rolled her hips against his mouth, taking what he had to give her, and not wasting a drop of what she had to give him.

  “Fuck, you’re beautiful when you come, sweetness,” Kieran’s voice was strained, and Liam knew Kieran was just as turned on as he was. “Liam, take our mate. Show her what she means to you.”

  Surprised, Liam swept one last long lick along her still-quivering pussy, and looked over at where his cousin stood leaning against the wall beside the bed. Kieran was the older of the two, and very much the Alpha. Custom would dictate that he be the first to make love to their woman.

  “What? I thought you—”

  “No,” Kieran said in a firm tone. “I lost that right when I hurt our mate.”

  “Kieran,” Josie’s voice was raspy as she breathed heavily. “You have every right when it comes to me. You only did what you thought was right, the honorable thing. I understand that. I told you I would ask you for forgiveness at some point, and that time is now. Forgive me, my love.”

  Liam heard his cousin inhale sharply and he stood up as Kieran moved quickly to their mate. “Sweetness, I told you then that you have it. You do. And it was about honor. My honor. And I need this, for me. Let Liam take you first, but I promise you, I will have you tonight. More than once.”

  Liam watched his mate and his cousin share a long look. When Josie smiled shyly at Kieran, his cousin swooped in and kissed their mate.

  Liam looked at his cousin when they finally broke apart, then nodded. It would normally be the oldest and more dominant of the males in a triad such as theirs who would claim their mate first. He understood why Kieran would feel that way, but he was fairly certain he couldn’t be that magnanimous. He lifted Josie into his arms and carried her to the bed. This was the moment he’d waited his entire life for and never knew.

  Chapter Ten

  Josie struggled to get her breath back, her entire body still humming with the aftershocks of the most explosive orgasm she’d ever had, her heart full of the love she felt for her men. Kieran, so strong, so honorable, it was so like him to forgo something that from the sounds of things, should be his right. Oh, she was definitely going to have both her men tonight, and she didn’t care who she had first, but he felt Liam should take his place as the first to join with her.

  She looked up at Kieran where he stood beside the bed, stroking himself slowly from root to tip, his eyes locked on her, and Josie swallowed hard at the intensity in his stare. An idea came to mind, one that had her reeling at the thought.

  “K-kieran?” Josie heard the hesitancy in her tone and was not surprised when both men froze.

  “Sweetness, everything’s going to be okay,” Kieran reassured her. “Liam is going to take really good care of you.”

  Josie nodded, reaching up to where Liam had frozen above her, and tugged him closer. “Oh, I know that.” Christ, was that her voice that sounded so sinful and smoky? “And to be honest,” she turned to look up at Liam, loving how arousal darkened his brilliant green eyes, “he already has. I loved what you did to me, Liam. But I want Kieran, too. Can’t I have the both of you at the same time? According to Josie, it’s the shnizzel, whatever that means.”

  Liam huffed a laugh. “Oh, Josie-girl, you are most definitely going to get both of us this evening, of that I can assure you. And I’m pretty sure that the schnizzel means you’ll enjoy the hell out of having your men at the same time. Or at least we hope like hell you will.”

  She heard no movement, but turned as the mattress moved beside her. Kieran had stepped silently to the bed, removed his jeans in a seriously quick move, and lay on his side beside her.

  “But not tonight,” Kieran said, and she couldn’t miss the determination in his tone. “We need to prepare you, and that will take some time. But soon, my love, you will get the both of us at the same time.”

  Josie inhaled sharply. “You promise? At the same time?” she squeaked, her gaze flitting between her two men.

  “At the same damn time,” Liam growled, lowering his head to nibble and lick against the sensitive skin of her neck making her shiver.

  “Wow.” This time it was more whisper than squeak.

  “Hell, yes, it’ll be wow,” Kieran said with a grin. “One of us will take that beautiful pussy of yours, and the other will take your ass. And you can sure as hell bet on the fact that it will be me who gets that ass first.”

  She felt rather than heard whatever Liam growled against her neck, but Kieran must have understood completely because he laughed. “Too damn bad, cousin. Now, take our mate and show her how much you love that beautiful body of hers.”

  Liam had nestled closer to her, making a place for himself in the natural cradle of her hips, and Josie could feel the evidence of his erection pressed against her body. When he pulled his hips back, he dragged the length of his cock against her clit, and despite having orgasmed not more than a few minutes before, she cried out at the spark of pleasure that rocked through her.

  She began to pant in anticipation, her body softening. She wanted this, wanted Liam more than she thought possible. She felt like she’d been doused in cold water when he froze a second time, the blunt head of his cock pressed against the sensitive skin of her pussy.

  “Liam? It’s okay if you’ve changed your mind.” Josie felt like she had to give the man a way out.

  Liam jerked back. “What the hell are you talking about? Of course I haven’t fecking changed my mind. I want you more than I want my next fecking breath. But I need to know if it’s okay to be inside you with nothing between us.”

  Josie frowned for a moment before she realized he was asking about protection. “You don’t have to wear a condom if you don’t want to. I’m safe, and it should be a safe time for us, and even if something were to come from this, our being together, I think I would like that. No, I would love that. So, you don’t have to wear protection if you don’t want to. But you might. So you can if you want to. I mean, I’m clean if that’s what you’re worried about. I can go and get—holy shit!”

  Josie arched up off the bed as Liam slid into her with one sure thrust. She instinctively wrapped her legs around his waist as he dropped a little more of his weight down on her.

  “Don’t talk shit, love,” Liam growled, rolling his hips against her, causing explosions of pleasure to erupt within her. “I’ve never been inside a woman without a condom before. Only you. And the thought of having something between us, even something as thin as a piece of latex, offends me.” Josie groaned as he withdrew then pushed back into her, and she reached up to wrap her arms around his shoulders a little tighter. “The thought of you pregnant with our cub, feck Josie, that’s a damn dream come true.”

  “Then do it,” she groaned a little breathlessly.

  Liam grinned wickedly down at her, and she loved how playful he was. “Do what, love? This?”

  Josie couldn’t keep from crying out when he slammed back into her, rotating his hips in a move that was positively sinful.

  “Yes!” she cried out, digging her nails into his shoulders. “Take me, Liam, and show how much you love me.”

  Liam stilled for a moment, his expression morphing to one that shone with an emotion that had her heart swelling to bursting proportions within her. “I do, Josie-girl. I love you with everything I am.”

  Josie desperately wanted to respond to his declaration, but the only sound she made was one that rang with need. Liam accurately translated that, and he began to move within her. She tried to move with him, to be an active participant in their lovemaking, but she was unable to keep up with the fast rhythm that he set. It was a frenetic pace that had her release spiraling out of control w
ithin her. The heights she was pushed to, the intensity of the release she could feel building, were almost frightening. She held on to him, locking her gaze to his when she felt that release hovering before her, opening an abyss of pleasure she knew she would tumble into at any second.

  Liam slammed home one once more, holding himself tight within her, then circled his hips and that was all it took. Josie screamed his name as she flew over the edge, her body convulsing as shockwaves of bliss slammed through her. She felt Liam tense against her, and had she not been mindlessly screaming in pleasure she might have been a little taken aback by how wantonly she rolled against him, taking what she needed from his body to heighten her own pleasure. She heard him roaring her name and cried out as he came with her, the hot pulses of his essence triggering a second smaller release within her.

  Breathless, drawing in great gulps of air, Josie fell back against the mattress, loving that Liam was slumped against her. They both groaned a little as he slid from her body. She smiled at the open-mouthed kiss he pressed to her neck, the heat of his breath against the sensitive skin making her shiver.

  “Jesus, Mary, and Joseph, Josie-girl,” Liam murmured against her. “For someone so slight, you pack one hell of a punch.” He pulled back to look in her face, and Josie smiled at the mixture of joy and satisfaction that shone in his expression.

  “You, too, my love,” she whispered, loving how his eyes widened with the endearment, and she couldn’t help put lean up and press a soft kiss to his lips. “Thank you, Liam.”

  Liam grinned wickedly as he shook his head. “No thanks necessary for that, darlin’. That was absolutely my pleasure.”

  Josie was still smiling as Liam moved to lie beside her, and she turned her head toward where Kieran sat against the headboard, watching them. She hadn’t been sure what reaction he might have or how he might be feeling, but she hadn’t been prepared for what she encountered when their gazes locked. Where there might have been jealousy, horror, or disgust, there was only love, desire, and a yearning that had her body crying out for more.