“She experienced many similar things as you—unexplained rain for one, and a smaller earthquake for another. She could have left town. Hell, she’s even human. Every aspect of this weirdness was new to her. But she didn’t. She held her ground—stomping and complaining until the bitter end.”
Laurie’s head was spinning as she tried to make sense of all this. “What about your mating? You saw several spirits also.”
“Yeah, that was different, I’ll admit. I knew instinctively they were there to warn me. I even thought something was about to happen to the casino site. I assumed it would be weather related again. It wasn’t. Our intuition isn’t an exact science. It’s a guide. I knew with my very soul that Keegan was in danger on that site. He’s stubborn. It took forever, and he almost lost his life, but I finally got through to him.
“In the end, lives were saved. If that casino had been built, who knows how many people would have died in the next earthquake. The structure would have collapsed and taken everyone inside down with it. Instead, it was never completed.
“Now we’re in a new phase. Are the spirits warning you of some sort of natural phenomenon that’s about to occur? Or is it human stupidity the spirits are worried about? I’m not sure. But what I am sure of with one hundred percent certainty is the spirits didn’t intend for you to interpret their presence as insinuating you needed to leave town.”
“Why don’t they come to me now, then? I’ve been here long enough. If one of those black auras wanted to pay me a visit and get me to return, why not face me here? I’ve been home all day. I could have taken the visitor in stride,” she mocked.
“Not sure. But I can say the sightings have not been this far from the two counties at any point. In fact, they were originally only spotted in high-altitude locations in the mountains. The fact they came down into our towns and homes is disconcerting. But they have not strayed farther than that.
“Perhaps their goal was simply to impress upon you that you too had the powers of the women of our family. Perhaps they put weird weather occurrences in your path to get you to pay attention to them and not the other way around.
“We may never know for sure. But I’m pretty intuitive, and I’m going to insist that your warped idea is wrong.” She tugged the jeans back that still lay on Laurie’s lap and shook them in the air. “Get dressed. I’m not fucking kidding you.” She shivered. “I don’t know about spirits visiting people this far from home, but I do know that my skin is crawling with the need to return with haste. So let’s get a move on.”
Laurie paused. She blew out a breath in defeat. “Okay.” Reluctantly she pulled herself to standing and shrugged into the jeans. They chaffed against her pussy even with the cotton panties between them as a barrier.
She pulled a sweater out of her bag and yanked it over her head next, not bothering to remove her T-shirt or put on a bra. She was too exhausted for either.
“Good. I’ll tell Mom we’re leaving.”
“Why doesn’t she come with us? Maybe we could use her.”
Laurie smiled. “I totally agree. And I hope I can convince her of that soon. But she has a life here that needs to be wrapped up before she can skip town. Your brothers both live nearby. Her mate has a job. It’s complicated. I understand that totally.
“We need her just as badly in Sojourn, but she has to pull her shit together in her own time. When it is right, she’ll join us. I have every faith she’ll be there when needed. It’s just that way with Fate.”
Laurie nodded. She couldn’t deny anything Melinda had said. Defeated, she pulled on her shoes and stood. “Fine. Let’s go.”
As Laurie stepped into the family room behind Melinda, she saw her parents at the front window.
Her father let go of the curtain and turned around. “Oh. Were you planning to head back tonight?”
Melinda nodded. “Waiting any longer only makes things worse.”
Their mother spoke next. “I think you’re going to have to wait until morning. It’s snowing too hard out there. Until it lets up, it’s not safe.”
Laurie pushed past her sister and opened the front door. It was practically a blizzard. And the streets were covered with snow. Triumphantly she turned around and smiled. “See. The weather even follows me.” She glanced around, half expecting to see a spirit aura oozing into the room also.
Chapter Nineteen
Zach paced the living room until he should have been exhausted. And physically, he was exhausted, but his mind wouldn’t shut down long enough to even sit, let alone sleep.
His aggravation was beyond anything he’d ever experienced. After a day of attempting to occupy himself at work, he was so sexually frustrated, he couldn’t think of anything except his mate.
And the night had been horrific. He’d been elated when Melinda went to talk sense into his mate, but snow during the night had prevented them from returning. Thank God it had let up enough this morning that they were on the road. If he really had to spend the weekend without Laurie, he might have gone over the deep end.
Corbin sat on the couch, his hands behind his head, his leg bobbing up and down, his eyes closed. His face was tight, tense.
Zach understood exactly how he felt.
“How much longer?”
Zach shrugged, though Corbin wasn’t looking. “Maybe half an hour.”
“Half of me wants to spank that woman first and ask questions later.”
“Yeah. I agree. But until we’ve fucked some sense into her, we can’t even address the other issues.”
Corbin chuckled. “Do you suppose she has suffered as much as we have?”
“Judging by her early return, I’d say yes.”
“And now she won’t open the line of communication even to let us know if she’s close.”
Zach grabbed the edge of the fireplace mantel and leaned his forehead against his hands. He muttered toward the ground. “Probably for the best. If I heard her voice in my head, I would buckle at the knees.”
The door burst open, and Zach jerked to standing, twisting around to face the entrance.
Corbin jumped to his feet.
Laurie stood in the frame, breathing heavily as if she’d run home when they both knew she had followed Melinda in her rental car.
She dropped her bag and stepped in farther, kicking the door shut, her gaze darting back and forth between her mates. Finally, she spoke. “I’m sorry.”
“Where’s Melinda?” Zach looked over her shoulder, hoping Melinda had not bothered to get out of her car, but needing affirmation of that fact before he ripped his mate’s clothes off and fucked her senseless.
“She headed to the resort. Apparently they’re shorthanded. The snow is perfect today.” For half a second Zach felt like a heel for not touching base with his family. They probably needed him at the resort. But this was more important.
Silence filled the space while all three of them heaved for oxygen and the room filled with the sweet scent of Laurie—her pheromones calling out to both men. Pleading. She was so aroused that the scent of her pussy was palpable.
Suddenly, both men dashed forward.
Zach grabbed her face in his hands and kissed her hard, his tongue reaching into her mouth to taste her with an urgency he’d never felt.
He released her just as quickly and grabbed the front of her coat to tug the zipper down while Corbin pulled off her gloves.
Zach yanked the sleeves off her arms.
Corbin bent to remove her boots, and then he slowly lifted his face up her body, brushing his cheek along her thigh and pressing his nose into the V of her crotch. He inhaled deeply and moaned, the sound making Zach’s cock stiff with the renewed need to claim her.
Corbin grabbed her hips and pressed her into the door, burying his face farther into her pussy. He nuzzled her sex through her jeans while Zach pulled her sweater over her head and dropped it to the floor.
She stood before him in a white tank top—no bra. Her amazing breasts looked swollen, her nipples t
ight. He popped the button on her jeans and lowered the zipper between Corbin’s face and her pussy.
While Corbin tugged the denim down her legs, taking her panties with it, Zach shrugged out of his own jeans and whipped his T-shirt over his head. His cock bobbed free, pleading for release.
He’d never needed to come so badly in his life. He’d never craved a woman with this level of intensity. Even the day they met couldn’t compare to the way he felt right now.
Corbin straightened to his full height and popped his own jeans open.
Zach couldn’t stand another second. He had to have her. He grabbed her face again in his palms and slammed his mouth down over hers roughly. She tasted amazing, her personal flavor filling his mouth. He devoured her, flattening her hard against the front door.
He grabbed her hands in his and dragged her arms over her head, pinning her.
When she moaned, he broke the kiss and heaved for breath while he stared down at her gorgeous body. He stepped back so the only parts of them touching were his hands on hers. Her breasts were raised high on her chest, her nipples a deeper shade of rose than he’d ever seen.
Her mouth hung open, and she rolled her head back and forth against the wood, moaning.
“Spread your legs, Laurie.” Corbin’s voice was rough, low.
She stepped out and arched her hips forward, trying to make contact with Zach.
He held his body away from hers several inches, still warring in his mind how he wanted to handle this. His hands itched to spank her. His cock pleaded otherwise. He’d never spanked a woman before, and he had no idea where the thought came from. But the concept made him stiffer.
“Fuck me,” she moaned. “Please. Oh God.”
Zach furrowed his brow in frustration. He couldn’t deny her the request because he couldn’t deny himself either. In a sudden shocking movement, he released her hands, grabbed her hips, lifted her off the ground, and spun around so that he leaned against the door. “Wrap your legs around me, Laurie.”
She grasped his shoulders with both hands, squeezing tight.
“Now. Your legs. Around my hips,” he gritted out.
She did as he commanded, her forehead falling against his.
He plunged up into her in one thrust. His entire body came alive. His cock tingled with the need to come. He grabbed her ass and kneaded her cheeks in his hands, spreading them.
She pressed down on his cock, embedding him farther while Corbin plastered himself to her back and thrust upward, impaling her tight hole.
She screamed, her head rolling back onto Corbin’s shoulder. “Jesus… So horny.”
Zach stared at her beautiful face, her eyes glazed with lust. He lowered his face to see her breasts, so full and round and soft.
“Fuck me. Oh God. Please fuck me,” she begged.
His cock pulsed inside her. He would come in two thrusts. It was worse than the first time they’d taken her.
Corbin met his gaze over her shoulder and nodded. He didn’t need to communicate with words or telepathically as he lifted her by the waist and let himself slide almost out of her, leaving just the tip of Zach’s cock inside her sheath at the same time.
When Corbin lowered her back into place, both men slid back inside.
She screamed again. “Jesus. That’s so amazing.”
Corbin did it again.
Zach couldn’t hold back. His dick swelled to the point of pain. He’d been hard for so long there was no way to keep his orgasm at bay. He gritted his teeth and shouted through his release on the next thrust.
He knew Corbin was right behind him. He could feel the man’s cock pulsing against his through the thin barrier between them.
Corbin continued to lift and lower their mate through the orgasm and after until she stiffened her legs around Zach’s waist and held her breath.
Zach recognized the signs indicating her own orgasm was right there. She remained motionless while her body gripped his cock in a steady rhythm as she came hard.
When she was done, she hung between them limply, her face landing on Zach’s shoulder, her fingers loosening their grip on his biceps. “I’m so sorry,” she finally muttered. “Such an idiot.”
“You’re here now,” Corbin said, brushing her hair back from her face and then tugging it so that she lifted her gaze. Corbin leaned in to set his lips on her ear. “Don’t ever fucking leave us again.”
“Never.”
“I nearly died,” Corbin admitted.
“Me too,” she said.
“I need you again. And then I’m going to need you again. Got it?” Corbin asked.
She nodded, her eyes opening to stare at Zach, her lower lip between her teeth. Her pussy grasped at his cock.
“Do you know what I want to do to you?” Zach asked, his voice raspy, almost unrecognizable as his own.
She shook her head.
“Spank your ass. And then fuck you from behind to my own satisfaction.”
Her eyes went wider. Her face turned beat red, and her nipples jumped to attention, deepening in color further. She moaned.
Fuck me.
Using his hands still on her ass, he lifted her off his cock, dislodging Corbin at the same time. He stepped farther into the room, set her on her feet on the thick rug in front of the couch, and pressed on her hips. “Get on your hands and knees, baby.”
She hesitated.
“Now. I wasn’t kidding. And I might not have followed through on my threat if it hadn’t made you so goddamn horny. But the scent of your renewed arousal is filling the entire condo, my dick is far from satisfied, and your ass is way too white for a woman who pulled a stunt like yours. Hands and knees,” he repeated when she didn’t move fast enough.
Corbin groaned as she lowered herself to the floor and set her hands on the carpet in front of her. “Jesus, you’re so fucking sexy like that, babe.” He kneeled at her side and set a hand between her shoulder blades. “Don’t move. Let Zach take your pussy again. And then I’m going to take your tight ass again.” He leaned closer.
Zach could see the sly twinkle in his eye as he whispered additional requests in a lower voice, slowly enunciating every word. “Do. Not. Come. Not this time.”
She wiggled her ass, moaning, her head lowering to the ground.
Zach kneeled between her legs, nudging them wider. His cock was already as stiff as it had been moments ago. It would take several orgasms to relieve his erection.
He grabbed her hips firmly and plunged into her pussy again. The mixture of his semen and her arousal made the passage slippery.
She gripped down on him and groaned.
Corbin gathered her hair at the back of her neck again and tugged. “Do. Not. Come,” he repeated.
Zach pulled out, released her hip with one hand, and swatted her behind.
She squealed, leaning her body forward.
“Stay still,” Corbin commanded.
Zach spanked her other cheek and then thrust back inside her. He needed contact with her smooth ass against his hand, but he needed to be inside her pussy with equal passion.
Two more thrusts and he withdrew again. He opened his palm and swatted her right at the juncture of her cheeks, low, near her tight rear hole.
She stiffened, but her arousal filled the room stronger than ever. “I’m gonna come.”
“No, you’re not,” Corbin said. “If you do, I’ll make you suck my cock for a week without giving you anything in return.”
She panted, turning her head slighting in the grip he had on her hair to face him. “You wouldn’t.”
“Try me, babe.” He grinned.
Zach didn’t dare touch her clit, though he wanted to rub it until she screamed. He agreed with Corbin though. Let her suffer. They’d spent so many hours with blue balls in the last two days, she needed to learn a lesson.
He didn’t care how badly she too needed to come, and he assumed she hadn’t managed any better than they had while she was gone. He was afraid to ask. If the woman had
been masturbating to her heart’s content for the last two days, he would probably have an aneurysm.
He spanked each ass cheek one more time, admiring the pink prints of his hand. He could get used to this idea. It wasn’t one he’d ever considered in the past, but then again, it also hadn’t ever occurred to him that his mate would not just like it, but love it.
He didn’t see how she was going to keep from coming even under the threat of being summarily denied for doing so.
Zach thrust back into her. She wouldn’t have to hold herself together long because he was going to empty his seed into her again in about half a minute. He gritted his teeth as he fucked her harder. His cock engorged more by the second. And then he came for the second time with such force, he was almost knocked off his knees.
“That’s it, babe. Grit your teeth. Hold your breath. Do. Not. Come.” Corbin tormented her with his words.
Laurie swayed forward when Zach pulled out.
She pulled her knees together.
“Keep your legs wide, baby. Open. Let my come run down them. Feel my need on your thighs. That’s what you do to me.”
She moaned, inching her legs open again.
“Good.” Zach hobbled to her side on his knees and wrapped his hand around her hair above Corbin’s. He pulled her head back to plant a kiss on her lips as Corbin crawled between her legs.
Before Zach released her lips, she was dislodged from him by Corbin thrusting into her ass. “Jesus. She’s still so tight.” His words were clipped. He thrust a few more times, his head leaning back so he faced the ceiling. “Best. Ass. In. The. World.”
Zach reached under Laurie’s swaying body to cup a breast. He juggled it loosely in his hand, not wanting to push her too close to the edge, but needing to feel the weight of her breast in his hand.
She arched her neck. Her lips were pursed. Her eyes squeezed shut.
She needed to come.
Somehow she managed to hold back. A normal female might have been able to simply orgasm silently and keep her partner from knowing. Wolves didn’t have that luxury. Her pheromones would have filled the room with her come. She didn’t have the ability to fake not coming any more than she could fake coming.
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