Astrid Cielo (13 page)

"Get
up."

His whole body
hurt from the punishing exercises.
 
Skylar
lay
prone on the ground his breath
stirring the blades of grass beside his face.
 
Didn't his father realize that he couldn't get up?
 

"Get
up."

Skylar groaned
and moved slowly to his feet, but he never got there.
 
Boots kicked him ruthlessly in the side and
he fell over panting.

"Your enemy
won't give you a second chance.
 
You'll
be dead."

Not for the
first time Skylar wished his father would just do normal things with him, like
running in the woods or throwing a ball.
 
It was normal for an eight year old to want those things, right?

"Get up,
Skylar.
 
That's enough for today.
 
Go wash and come to supper."

Skylar nodded
unsure if he could keep the tears streaming down his face from his father.
 
He didn't like the training sessions, because
his father always had an intensity that often scared him.
 
Skylar waited for his father's footsteps to
fade before struggling to his feet.
 
He
ran and showered every muscle protesting any movement.
 

He sat at the
table, the smell of whiskey already starting to saturate his father.
 
It was like clockwork at his house.
 
Training, supper and then his father got
drunk and passed out.

"Eat up
Skylar."

Skylar shoveled
the food into his mouth his little belly so empty after the hour of
training.
 
But what was he training for?

"Dad, what
is all the training for?"

His father took
a swig of the coffee laced with whiskey and regarded him with wolf's eyes.

"You're
going to be an agent one day, son."

Skylar
nodded.
 
It wasn't exactly what he
dreamed to be when he grew up.
 
He still
wanted to be a racecar driver, but he didn't argue.
 
He ate with his dad in silence and
waited.
 
He'd wondered for years about
his mother.
 
Wanted to know something
about her, but there wasn't even and picture of her hanging in the house.
 
His father's eyes glassed over and his
posture relaxed.
 
It was time.
 
His father was drunk enough to answer
questions but not drunk enough to pass out mid sentence.

"Dad, can
you tell me about my mother?"

His father's
eyes closed and for a moment Skylar thought he'd been wrong and he was drunker
than he first appeared.
 
But he answered
his voice almost like gravel.

"I've been
meaning to tell you, son, but I was hoping you were a little older.
 
You were left on the council's doorsteps and
I took you in.
 
We don't know who your
parents are."

Skylar sat in
shock as his whole world crumbled.
 
All
that he'd known was a lie.

Aspen
woke stretching her body aching, wanting and needing.
 
Three whole days since she'd told her mates
that she needed, yet here she lay, unmolested and horny as hell.
 
She shivered at the cool breeze to her back
and frowned when she turned to find that Skylar wasn't there.
 

He'd
been distant lately; the case he was working on was getting to him.
 
She could tell it in the way that he
disappeared throughout the night.
 
Xavier
had assured her that this was how Skylar's brain worked while he was on a case,
but she wanted her Skylar back.
 
The one
she'd fallen in love with almost instantly.
 

Well,
maybe not instantly.
 
Months of watching
him before she'd had the courage to approach him had endeared him to her.
 
Then she'd spent an incredible night with
him.
 
She wouldn't dwell on the three
months she'd spent lonely and confused.
 
They each had a part of the blame to shoulder for that one.

Hands
tightened their hold on her when she tried to scoot away and Aspen smiled.
 
She still had Xavier.
 
He'd rarely left her side since
Skylar’d
taken over the case.
 
She settled into his side, the easy rise and
fall of his chest told her he still slept.
 
She ran her hands over his chest, the feel of his musculature only
making her hotter.
 

She'd
come to know Xavier in the three days they'd spent hoping for their mate to
come back to them.
 
And, though it was
hard to believe loving two men at once, there was no denying that she loved
Xavier as much as she loved Skylar.
 
Her
anger at Skylar had faded quickly and now the awkwardness of having two mates
seemed almost laughable.
 
She had two
mates and her cougar purred at the thought of claiming them both.
 
Hell, she allowed the purr to break forth
because she couldn't wait to claim them for herself.

Aspen
kissed Xavier's chest, then licked a line between his pectorals.
 
Her purr deepened and she fought back a moan
at the taste of her mate.
 
And he was
hers, hers and Skylar's.
 
Eager for
another taste, she slowly wiggled out of his arms and kissed each nipple before
snaking her tongue out to taste each one.
 

He
shifted in his sleep, but still didn't waken.
 
Aspen smiled, her exploration becoming bolder when she kissed a trail
down his abdomen to an impressive erection that tented the sheet.
 
Aspen bit her lip and pulled the sheet down
exposing his long, hard cock.
 
Where
Skylar's dick was thicker, with little to no curve, Xavier's was longer, a
little less thick and had a curve that Aspen could only imagine would smooth
over all the right places deep inside her.
 
She looked up and wanted to cry when he stared down at her.
 

This
was when he would stop her; tell her again that they needed time.
 
She was sick of time.
 
Aspen wanted him and she wanted him now.

"Aspen?"

His
voice sounded strangled and Aspen decided not to give him a choice in the
matter.
 
He was her mate.
 
She could taste all she wanted.
 
She grasped his cock in her hand and wasted
no time licking at the mushroom shaped head.
 
She began to purr again as his flavor burst on her tongue.
 
He tasted so good.
 
So right.
 
Aspen took him into her mouth, gliding her
tongue over the bottom of his cock.
 
She
nearly protested when his hands tangled in her hair, thinking he'd pull her
away.
 
Make her stop.
 
She smiled around his dick when he tugged her
hair, his hips rising to feed more of him into her mouth.

"So, good baby."

Aspen
continued to purr and using her free hand she cupped his balls rolling them
gently between her hands.
 
He plunged in
and out of her mouth and she wanted to taste him spill in her mouth.
 
She needed to see him lose control as he had
with Skylar.
 
But, he tugged pulling her
off him and she cried out in frustration.
 
She was pulled to lay on her back his face hovering inches from hers.

"
Shh
, baby, we aren't through yet."

Aspen
smiled and opened her mouth instantly when he kissed her, his tongue snaking in
to duel with hers.
 
He broke the kiss too
soon, but Aspen didn't complain when he sucked at the flesh at the base of her
throat.
 
Her thighs fell open and he
crawled between them, his cock settling at the seam of her pussy.
 
Her hips jerked and she cried out when his
cock bumped against her clit.

Unhurried
he left her throat and sucked in the flesh at the top of her breast.
 
It was torture.
 
Pure and simple.

"Xavier,
please I-"
 

The
scraping of his canines against the swell of her breast halted her words.
 
She wanted to beg him to take her but she
couldn't find the willpower to say it when his teeth only needed to clamp on
her flesh to claim her.
 
Bite me became a
mantra that resounded in her head, but no bite came.
 

Aspen
whined when he moved, but she yelped and arched her back when he sucked a
nipple into his mouth.
 
She hissed at the
pressure, her breasts more sensitive.
 
He
lightened his suction, reducing the pain and increasing her pleasure.
 
Her hips moved restlessly against his cock,
hoping, wanting and needing it to be inside of her.
 
But she couldn't speak, not with the moans
that she couldn't control.
 
He took his
time at each nipple, his tongue bathing each gently.
 
Her breath came in pants and she could feel
the wetness growing between her thighs.

Xavier
stopped his ministrations and his face hovered over hers, his brown eyes
holding her captive.
 
He bent to her ear
and sucked the ear lobe lightly nipping with his teeth.

"Aspen,
are you sure?"

His
whispered words were laced with need and she smiled.
 
It was like Xavier to be concerned.
 
He'd always been the most attentive.
 
She loved him, so why wouldn't she be sure.

"I
need, Xavier."

A
hand cupped her cheek, his brown eyes now glowed his restraint obvious.
 

"I
know, sweetheart, but you've got to be sure.
 
I can't lose you."

Aspen
nodded.
 
"You never will."

He
bent and nipped at her shoulder and she was disappointed when he didn't break
the skin.
 
But her disappointment turned
to anticipation when his cock head lodged into the entrance of her sheath.
 
Her whole body stilled waiting for him to
join them.
 
She waited for him to take
her like she'd needed since they'd met.
 
Had it only been a mere five days ago that he'd held her in his lap when
she went to the emergency room?
 
It
seemed as though she'd waited a lifetime for this moment, and in a way she
had.
 
She'd been waiting for her mate--no
mates.

Aspen
clung to his shoulders and went lax beneath him.
 
She'd seen the struggle for power that Skylar
and Xavier exhibited when they'd made love in the clearing that night.
 
She'd felt the satisfaction Xavier got from
her submission to him, and if that was what he needed how could she not give it
to him?

Xavier
growled and licked her lips.
 
He moved
slow tunneling through her sheath filling and stretching her.
 
She released her breath and moaned when he
bottomed out deep inside of her.
 
She
looked into his brown eyes and smiled.
 
Finally.

***

Xavier
growled as he bottomed out inside of Aspen, her vaginal walls squeezing his
dick.
 
It'd been so long since he'd been
with a woman.
 
Thought he would never
want a woman like this, but his first scent and sight of Aspen changed his
mind.
 
She was soft and small where
Skylar was rough and large.
 
Not that he
was complaining.
 
He wouldn't change his
mates for anything in the world.
 

He
pulled his hips back and Aspen moaned her eyes closing.
 
He bent and nipped at the swell of her breast
and her eyes fluttered open.

"Keep
them open, baby.
 
I want to see you as I
fuck you."
 

He
winced at the crude word, because this was more than just a fuck.
 
This was his Aspen.
 
He cupped her face and kissed her gently.

"I
want to see your eyes as I make love to you."

Aspen
smiled, her claws scoring his shoulders.

"I
need you to fuck me Xavier.
 
With us it
will always be in love."

Her
legs wrapped around his hips and she tightened her hold drawing him back into
her welcoming core.
 
She pulled his head
down to hers and kissed him, just a small peck.
 
Her grey eyes glowed and her small fangs flashed a moment before she
sank her teeth into the flesh between his shoulder and neck.
 
Although she was careful not to break his
skin, this snapped any control he had.
 
His hips snapped back and he tunneled himself just as quickly back into
her core.
 
Her teeth released him and she
cried out.
 
Her nails scored him lightly
as he pounded into her over and over.
 

He
wanted this to last forever.
 
Feel the
pleasure of her vaginal muscles milking his cock when he tunneled in and out,
wanted to hear her moan, and to see her eyes dilate and glow from pleasure but
he knew he wouldn't last.

The
tingle at the base of his spine signaled the beginning of the end, and he
sighed in relief when she keened her body jerking and her vaginal muscles
nearly choking his dick as she came.
 
His
clarity left him when he found his own completion, their scents mixing set him
on edge and he clamped his teeth on the delectable piece of flesh between her
shoulder and neck.
 
Blood coated his
tongue drawing out his orgasm while he continued to slowly move inside of her.
 

He
licked at the wounds on her throat a sense of dread and rightness settling at
once.
 
He'd claimed her, but she'd not
done the same.
 
He rolled off of her his
mind a mess.

She
rolled into him and placed her head on his chest.
 
He didn't dare look at her.
 
He wasn't sure what he'd find there.
 
He felt her move to straddle him and he moved
his arm.
 
Her smile blinded him.
 
She bent down and kissed him, her small
tongue licking at his lips.
 
He kissed
her back grateful that she didn't hate him.
 
The kiss ended and she laid atop him a purr vibrating her body.

"You
claimed me."

"I
did.
 
I lost control.
 
I should've waited for Skylar, we should have
claimed you together, but I'm not sorry."

"Good, because I'm not sorry
either."

Aspen
slid down and her ass bumped his already hardened shaft.
 

"Again?"
 
Her smile was breathtaking and her tone
unmistakable.
 
She wanted him again.
 
And she proved it by straddling his hips and
taking him deep inside of her where he belonged.
 
This time he allowed her to move unhurried as
she flexed her hips taking him in and out of her body.
 
Her breasts bounced with her movements and it
made his mouth water to take her hardened nipples into his mouth.
 
She braced herself on his chest, her hips
keeping to the slow and sensuous rhythm.
 
Their initial frantic joining had slowed their ardor so they could just
enjoy each other.
 

Aspen's
rhythm faltered and Xavier placed his hands on her hip to move her.