by Becca Van
“Do you think someone living here knows about the drugs?” Pepper gazed at everyone before locking eyes with Tarik when he cleared his throat.
“No,” Tarik answered emphatically.
“How can you be so sure?”
“Because I know every single man, woman, and child on this island. None of them would be interested in making money illegally.”
“Isn’t there another town on St. Lawrence Island?” Pepper asked. “Maybe someone living there knows what’s going on.”
“It’s possible,” Hodge said.
Tarik shook his head. “I have a friend living in Gambell. If there was anything illegal going on, he’d know about it. Especially after what happened with Celeste.”
Celeste nodded. “Since that crazy stalking wolf tried to kidnap me, the people in Gambell have become very vigilant.”
Wolf? Were they talking about a werewolf? She’d have to ask about that later. Pepper brought her mind back to the present. “That doesn’t mean everyone is on the straight and narrow.”
“Pepper’s right.” Cal smoothed a hand up and down her back. His touch was making the lusty embers smoldering in her belly flare up. It was hard to keep her mind in the game with him and Fin touching her, and while she tried to push her desire aside, it wasn’t possible. “Can you get Farrell to keep an eye out?”
“I will.” Tarik gazed at Celeste when she covered her mouth and yawned. “It’s time for your nap, baby.”
“I don’t want a nap,” Celeste whined as Tarik stood, taking his mate with him.
“Then you can just relax and read for a bit,” Hodge said with a smile.
“We need to head out, too.” Tammy rose to her feet. Phelan and Hopper stood, as well. “The townspeople will be wondering why you’ve closed the shop. Kat, are you ready for another session?”
“Sure,” Kat replied. “Ward and Serge need to get to the clinic. Some of the locals have the flu.”
Ward and Serge helped Kat to her feet and then left.
Jenny finished off her tea, gathered the empty mugs as well as the chocolate wrapper, and hurried toward the kitchen. After she’d put the dishes in the dishwasher and disposed of the trash, she turned toward her, Cal, and Fin, waved, smiled, and walked away.
“Are you okay, sweetness?” Fin asked.
Pepper nodded, but she wasn’t sure she’d ever be okay again. There was so much going on, she didn’t know which way to turn first. Instead of pondering over her dilemma, she decided to focus on someone and something else. “What did Tammy mean by another session?”
Cal smiled as he cupped her face in his hands. “Tammy’s a painter. She’s currently working on Kat’s portrait.”
“Oh, that’s nice. I hope she sells some of her work.”
When Fin chuckled, she gazed up at him. He looked so carefree with his head tilted back and his handsome face alight with humor. Her eyes were drawn to his Adam’s apple as it bobbed up and down. That quickly, the hunger heating her veins began to shoot through her blood until her legs were weak and trembling. Her breasts swelled, her nipples hardened, and her pussy softened and moistened.
“She already has, baby. Stealthy has made quite a name for herself in the art world,” Cal said.
“Tammy is Stealthy? Oh. My. God.” Pepper covered her mouth with her hand, shocked that one of her new friends was on the road to fame and fortune.
“Tammy isn’t the only celebrity in town,” Fin said.
Pepper frowned as she tried to figure out who he was talking about, but since it had been storming and she hadn’t met any of the locals besides the members of the stealth, he could have been talking about anyone. “Who?”
“Ever heard of Celestial?” Fin asked.
“Yeah, wasn’t she a super…you’re talking about Celeste, aren’t you? Shit! I’ve seen her on covers of magazines. Why didn’t I put two and two together? She must think I’m an idiot.”
“I doubt that very much, baby.” He leaned down and kissed her on the forehead before straightening and meeting her gaze again. “Katerina was prima ballerina in the Russian Ballet Company.”
“They’re all so amazing,” Pepper said and tried to hide the stab of envy that pierced her heart. Those three women had lived with fame and fortune. Pepper was only a pilot. She was nothing like them.
“Whatever you’re thinking, stop.” Cal caressed the sides of her neck with his thumbs. “Don’t compare yourself to other people, baby. You are a remarkable, accomplished woman. You’re special, Pepper Silverton.”
“Cal’s right,” Fin said as he shifted until he was behind her again. He wrapped an arm around her waist and pulled her back against his big warm, muscular body. “You are the most amazing woman I’ve ever met.”
Pepper’s heart filled with emotion. No one had ever told her she was special, remarkable, or amazing. Tears stung her eyes, but it was the surge of heat in her body that had her pressing back against the hard ridge in Fin’s pants.
She couldn’t hold back anymore. She wanted, needed these two men like she needed her next breath.
Chapter Eleven
Cal felt and saw the change in Pepper as her gorgeous brown eyes hazed over with desire. The scent of her musk was stronger than ever before, and from the way Fin was gritting his teeth, and the way she was shifting her body slightly from side to side, she was pressing against Fin’s hard cock.
“What are you doing, sweetness? You’re playing with fire, Pepper.”
Her breath hitched, and when she wiggled against Fin again, she moaned. She closed her eyes, and her breathing sped up as did her heartbeat.
“Pepper?” Cal wanted to ask her if she was going to accept mating with them, but his throat was constricted with emotion, and all he managed to say was her name. His cock was hard and throbbing in his jeans. Fire coursed through his veins, and while his inner beast was going crazy, he was able to keep a tight rein so he didn’t burst free.
Pepper opened her eyes, and when she licked her lips, he groaned and closed his own eyes. He couldn’t watch her do that again, or he was going to lose it. Just seeing that small pink tongue swiping across her full lower lip had his mind going straight to the gutter. All he saw was his mate licking and sucking on his hard dick, and once that image was there, he couldn’t seem to dislodge it.
“Yes!”
Cal’s whole body stiffened with tension at that single word. There was acceptance and need in her voice, and though he knew she was answering the question that had been in the forefront of his and Fin’s mind since they’d first met her, he needed the words.
“Yes what, baby?” He stopped breathing as he waited to hear what felt like long-awaited words. It didn’t matter that they’d only known Pepper for just over twenty-four hours. It didn’t matter that they all still had a lot to learn about each other. This was right. This connection between them was fated. Cal and Fin were about to have all their dreams come true. He’d been hoping and praying that the wooing game they were playing with their mate would have a quick ending, but he’d never imagined she would accept them so quickly.
“Yes what, sweetness?” Fin nipped at her earlobe before sucking the soft tender morsel into his mouth.
Pepper gasped and moaned, and she dug into Cal’s chest as she shivered with need.
“Yes, I’ll mate with you.”
Air exploded from Cal’s lungs as she finally spoke those wonderful life-changing words, and while he wanted to scoop her up into his arms, race toward the bedroom, strip her down, and sink his hard, aching cock into her hot, wet cunt, he needed to make sure she knew what she was dealing with.
“If we do this, you’ll be ours forever, mate. You’ll be living here, on this island, in this town, with us for the rest of your life. We can’t and don’t want to ever live anywhere else. Can you handle living on a freezing desolate island?”
Cal held her gaze as he awaited her answer. She swallowed audibly and then sighed. “Can I still work?”
“Yes.” Cal and
Fin answered simultaneously.
“We need food and other things delivered every week. If you want, we can start up our own freight and passenger company. The only rule we have is that you are home to sleep in our bed every night.” Cal quirked his brow.
“I can’t afford to buy my own plane.”
“You don’t have to,” Fin said. “We have some cash. We’ll put up the collateral to start the company, and you’ll be the pilot.”
“I can’t ask you—”
“You’re not asking.” Cal pushed a strand of hair behind her ear. “We offered, and you’re going to accept.”
“On one condition.” Pepper held up her finger for emphasis.
“What condition?” Fin asked in a growly voice.
“That we ask Jarvis to relocate with his family so he can pilot for us.”
“Done.” Cal smiled. He, Fin, and the rest of the stealth members liked Jarvis a lot.
Pepper nodded, and when her gaze dipped and locked onto his lips, Cal couldn’t hold back any more. He didn’t want to, and since she’d accepted to be his and Fin’s mate, there was no reason to.
He lowered his head slowly, giving her time to draw back if she wanted, but his mate surprised the shit out of him by going up on her tiptoes and meeting him halfway. Cal opened his mouth over hers, licking in between her lips, sliding along, and then swirling around her tongue with his own. She gasped and groaned as she threaded her fingers into his hair and clutched tufts as if to prevent him from pulling back. Didn’t she know he would never deny her anything? Didn’t she know that he had been starving for her for so long and now that she was feeding him, he wasn’t going to deny himself until he’d glutted on her?
No, he wasn’t stopping until he had her screaming his name and she was his, bonded to him.
* * * *
Pepper was on fire. She kissed Cal with all the pent-up passion that had been building over the last couple of days and still it wasn’t enough. She was pressed up against his big brawny body, yet it wasn’t close enough. Her sob of frustration was muffled since they were devouring each other, but with each passing second, each twirl and glide of their tongues, she was getting more and more frantic.
Her legs were trembling and weak, and she wasn’t sure how much longer she would be able to bear her own body weight. Her breasts and pussy were throbbing so hard it was almost painful.
She cried out with frustration when Cal broke the kiss, and then she gasped with surprise when he swept her off her feet, turned toward the doorway, and raced across the living room, down the hallway until they entered the bedroom. She glanced over at Fin when he closed the door and whimpered when his hungry glowing gaze locked with hers.
She shifted her gaze back to Cal’s when he lowered her to the floor, his hands on her hips to steady her, which was a good thing since her equilibrium was all over the place. Emotions swelled in her heart at how moralistic, how good and kind these two men were. She’d never had anyone concerned over her welfare before, and the simple gesture to keep her on her feet had her falling a little more in love with Cal.
“Last chance, baby,” Cal rasped out, his voice deeper and more gravelly than normal.
“I want this.” She licked her lips. “I want to be mated to you and Fin.”
She couldn’t deny the sparks flying between them any longer. She couldn’t deny the feelings swelling and warming her heart and soul. She couldn’t and didn’t want to deny either of them a second longer.
Pepper was so eager for them she decided to take matters into her own hands. She wasn’t giving them a chance to stall or back out of something they all needed more than the air in their lungs. She took a step backward, Cal’s hands falling from her waist, and just as the hungry expression on his face blanked out, she tugged the sweater and top she was wearing up and over her head, before dropping them on the floor.
“Sweet mother,” Fin breathed out as he moved to stand beside Cal.
“Sexy as fuck,” Cal rasped.
Pepper flicked the front clasp of her bra open, shimmied her shoulders to get the straps to fall, and then flung the lace garment aside. She pulled the tie on the sweatpants, hooked her fingers into the waistband of them and her undies, and shoved them down her legs.
And then they pounced.
She shrieked as they came at her, but before she could move out of the way, they hooked a hand under her arms and lifted her up onto the bed. Fin crawled up beside her, cupped her face in his hand, turning her toward him, and slanted his mouth over hers.
Cal tugged the sweats and her panties off the rest of the way, and then he removed her socks. She shivered in the cooler air of the room, not because she was cold, but because she was so turned on, she was being consumed by the fire burning inside of her.
She whimpered with pleasure when Fin’s tongue danced and dueled with hers, firing the burn in her blood until she felt as if she was about to boil alive.
Fin lifted his mouth from hers and then rolled from the bed.
“Where are you—”
She didn’t get to finish her question because she was moaning with pleasure. Cal was lying on his belly with his arms hooked around her now spread legs and licking her pussy.
She writhed under the sensual carnal onslaught, wondering if she would survive much more when she was already consumed with intense, pleasurable hunger. Pepper hadn’t even noticed she’d closed her eyes until she felt the mattress dip beside her and she opened them.
Her breath caught in her throat when her gaze landed on a broad, muscular naked chest. She didn’t even need to think about moving. Her body seemed to have a mind of its own. She sighed with pleasure as her hand landed on Fin’s warm toned chest before caressing over as much skin as she could. Just as she smoothed her hand over his pectoral and felt the small bronzed-colored hard nipple stab into her palm, she froze.
Cal had her clit caged gently between his teeth and was flicking the sensitive bud rapidly with the tip of his tongue. Her internal muscles clenched, juices leaked out and trickled down her ass, and she bucked her hips up toward his mouth.
He shifted a hand to her lower belly, holding her down and just as he sucked her clit into his mouth, he pressed two long, thick, manly fingers into her pussy.
Pepper cried out as the nerves along the walls of her pussy lit up like a display of fireworks. Air was sawing in and out of her lungs, and liquid pooled hotly in her womb, pussy, and belly.
Cal gently thrust his fingers in and out of her sheath, licking and lapping at her clit, and the pressure inside her grew.
Fin cupped one breast, kneading and molding it with his palm before strumming his thumb over the throbbing nipple as he leaned down and sucked the other nipple into his mouth.
The fire inside blazed out of control.
Cal pumped his fingers in and out of her faster, harder, and deeper, his knuckles rubbing over a very sensitive spot on the top wall of her vagina. Fin changed breasts, sucking on the nipple he’d been rubbing and pinching, and plucking at the one he’d been suckling.
The coil inside grew to immense proportions. Every muscle in Pepper’s body grew tauter and tauter, and just as she thought she was going to tip over the edge, both men stopped.
“What…why…how…”
She groaned when Cal removed his fingers from her pussy, and Fin released both of her breasts before scooting closer to the edge of the mattress. Cal shoved up to his feet and shucked his clothes faster than she ever seen anyone strip off before.
His glowing blue eyes locked with hers as he stepped closer to the bed again, and Pepper let her eyes wander over every glorious naked inch. He was pure perfection with his wide muscular shoulder, bulky pecs, bulging biceps, toned torso, ripped abs, and his long, thick cock jutting out from his body.
Pepper’s whole body shivered convulsively as the heat spread deep into her womb and belly, causing her sex to clench with greed.
Cal lifted his knee to the mattress and then the other before he fell forwa
rd, catching his weight on his hands as he hovered over her. The second he bent his elbows and lowered his body toward hers, Pepper surged up and wrapped herself around him. She looped her arms around his neck and their mouths met in a hot, carnal, passionate kiss, and she hooked her legs around his waist.
His groan harmonized with her moan when his hot, hard cock pressed against her slick folds. When he began to rock his hips, gently moving his cock up and down her soaked tissues, she gasped. The head of his cock was nudging against her sensitive, aching clit, and each time he rubbed against it, her internal muscles clenched. However, it still wasn’t enough. It wouldn’t be enough until he was buried deep inside her dripping core.
“Cal! Please?” she asked after breaking the kiss.
“Do you want me inside of you, baby?”
“Yes. Now!”
Cal shifted back onto his haunches between her splayed thighs, pushed his hands under her, and gripped her ass cheeks. He locked gazes with her and then started to push in.
Pepper groaned as her wet flesh stretched around the broad, bulbous head of his dick, relishing the slight burning pain that seemed to enhance the undeniable carnal pleasure.
“You’re so fucking tight,” Cal rasped out. “So hot. Wet.”
“Oh.” Pepper moaned and started to rock her hips, urging Cal to go faster, deeper.
“Hold still, baby.” Cal leaned forward and kissed her before lifting his head again. “I don’t want to hurt you.”
“Please. I need…oh!”
“I know what you need, mate. Just relax and enjoy.” Cal slowly drove his cock into her pussy, inch by exquisite pleasurable inch until his pelvis was pressed against hers. “You feel so damn good, Pepper.”
“You, too.” Pepper dug her fingers into his shoulders and wriggled her hips, hoping to get him to move. She could feel his cock throbbing and flexing inside of her, which caused her pussy to clamp around him in response.
“Fuck. Hold on, baby. I can’t hold back any more.”
