Astrid Cielo (22 page)

Warmth
spread from her head to her toes, softly banked arousal spurred to life at the
thought of them taking her, and it made her even needier to know they took her
in love.
 
She nodded and this time she
would do whatever they said, because she trusted them with her heart, body and
soul.
 
She felt so free.
 
All the nights she watched her parents fight
and wished upon shooting stars, every candle she blew out, and every eyelash
she lost had finally come true.
 
She was
loved and the best part was she wasn't loved by one man, but two incredible
men.

Aspen
looked between her two men and a shiver of anxiety and arousal mixed flowed
through her.
 
No words were spoken, but
they moved in tandem and she was certain this time she wouldn't have the energy
to think.
 

***

She
looked so fucking beautiful.
 
Her black
hair spread across the pillows and her pale skin seemed to almost glow.
 
She lay naked in front of them with no shame,
and Xavier wanted to taste each and every inch of her.
 
Again he couldn't believe how attracted to
her he was, since for years he'd been certain he was gay.
 
Sure as a teen he'd had his share of females,
but he'd always preferred males.
 
But
with Aspen, she was female, mate and everything he could want.
 

Skylar
moved taking her breast into his mouth and his cock hardened again.
 
He was torn between tasting Aspen and tasting
Skylar.
 
So, he decided he'd have both.
 
They were both his to touch, love and fuck,
so...
I don't mind if I do.

Skylar
lay between Aspen's thighs, his muscled arms keeping him from placing too much
weight on her.
 
If he could get Skylar on
all fours then they would be in the perfect position.
 
Xavier slapped Skylar's muscular buttocks
playfully and he released Aspen's nipple with a pop.
 
Aspen's low whine announced her unhappiness
with the inattention to her hardened nipples.
 
"Rise up on all fours, Sky."

Skylar
gave him a look, but complied.
 
Xavier
felt his smile.
 
Crazy dominant wolf
didn't like taking orders.
 
Well, this
would be on order he would be glad he took.
 
Xavier took his place between Aspen's thighs and didn't waste any time
licking the cream gushing from her core.
 
She jerked and he sucked her clit into his mouth torturing the little
bud for a few seconds before releasing it.
 

Then
he switched his focus from Aspen's tasty pussy to Skylar's erect cock.
 
He turned on his back and wrapped his arms
around Skylar's hips and brought that fat cock to his mouth.
 
Xavier took him to the base, his throat
swallowing reflexively as the head of Sky’s dick hit the back of his throat.

God
he loved to hear the little noises that Sky made when he sucked his dick.
 
Holding onto Sky's hips he guided his mate
into a rhythm.
 
He used his tongue to
tease the underside of his cock as Skylar worked his cock in and out of his
mouth.
 
Aspen cried out, and Xavier
wished he could see what caused her such pleasure.

"
Zay
, you have to stop or I'm gonna come."
 

Xavier
smiled and released his cock with a pop before returning to Aspen's dripping
wet folds.
 
Skylar moved over them and
slapped his ass.
 
He groaned as the pain
turned to pleasure and couldn't help but to raise his ass in the air hoping for
another slap.
 
It was something they'd
never talked about, but sometimes when Skylar felt especially playful he'd
spank him.
 
And though he’d never
admitted it aloud, Xavier found Sky’s spankings almost as pleasurable as
sex.
 

Xavier
wasn't disappointed when another slap hit his opposite cheek.

"What
do you want Aspen?"
 
Skylar.

Aspen
cried out as Xavier sucked her clit back into his mouth, using his teeth to
graze lightly over the tight little bud.

"I
need, um...I want, inside me."

"You
heard her,
Zay
."

Yes,
he'd heard and he was only too happy to accommodate her.
 
But what exactly was Skylar up to?

It
didn't matter because Aspen writhed beneath him and he couldn't wait to feel
the squeeze of her vaginal muscles as he sank balls deep into her pussy.
 
He kneeled between her thighs and couldn't
resist the lure of her mouth.
 
He braced
himself with his hands on either side of her face and took her lips.
 
She moaned in his mouth as he rubbed his engorged
cock through her folds.
 
So wet and so hot.
 
She wrapped her arms around his neck and let him lead the kiss.
 
He felt powerful from all the moans and sighs
she gave him.
 

Xavier
bumped against her clit another couple of times before pulling his hips back
and finding her entrance.
 
Her core
clenched and squeezed his cock head.
 
He
groaned and pulled his mouth from hers to explore her neck paying special
attention to his mating bite.
 
Her hips
undulated beneath him and Xavier took the invitation and sank deep within her
willing flesh.
 

"Yes,
please don't stop." Aspen.

"I
wouldn't dream of it, baby."

Xavier's
hips jerked at the feel of hands squeezing his ass and Aspen cried out her
fingernails digging into his shoulders.
 
He relaxed into the feel of Skylar squeezing and feeling his ass and
back, then parting his ass cheeks to tease his asshole.
 
Xavier moved slowly within Aspen's channel as
he waited for what Skylar would do.
 

"Please,
Xavier.
 
Please I need you to move."

Her
hips moved restlessly and her breaths came uncontrolled pressing her breasts
against his chest.

"
Shhh
, Aspen, I'm prepping Xavier then we'll both fuck you
like you need.
 
We won’t take you
together like we want one in your pussy and one in your ass until after you’ve
had the baby, but I will fuck Xavier while he fucks you.”

Aspen
moaned and moved her hips fucking herself in small increments on Xavier's
cock.
 
The feel of her surrounding his
dick and Skylar's fingers tracing over his asshole was going to kill him.
 
He clenched his jaw and willed his climax to
hold off--he had a mate to pleasure first.
 
Cold gel dribbled over his rosette and he instinctively tensed then
relaxed his muscles.
 
He stilled his
small movements and waited for Skylar's next move.
 
Fingers breached the tight ring of muscles
and he relaxed and pushed out to ease their way in.
 
Skylar
scissored
his fingers to stretch him for the much bigger
size of his dick.
 

Xavier
leaned in and sucked on Aspen's neck when the broad head of Skylar's cock
pressed against his back entrance.
 
Everything stilled as Skylar pressed slowly, but firmly into his body
until he felt Skylar's hips flush against his ass.
 

"Please
tell me that you're going to fuck me now," Aspen said.

Xavier
laughed and bit her neck gently as he pulled his hips back and pressed back
into her body.
 
Her legs tried to wrap around
his waist, but she couldn't quite get them around both of their waists, so she
let them fall back to the bed and opened herself further.
 
Then Skylar took over.

In
and out Skylar drug his cock through the tight muscles of his ass and with each
movement he fucked Aspen in tandem.
 
It
was like they were one person.
 
The
pleasure seemed to wind out of control, Skylar's dick bumping against that
special spot inside him and Aspen's sheath strangling his dick in wet
warmth.
 
He needed Aspen to come, before
he lost himself inside of her.
 

Xavier
licked the bite mark he'd left claiming her as his mate, swirling his tongue in
time to the increasing pace of Skylar's thrusts.
 
So.
 
Fucking.
 
Good.
 
Then he sank his teeth deep into his mark, reclaiming the beautiful
woman that would be his forever.
 

The
reaction was instantaneous.
 
Her screams
echoed the room and her core clenched almost violently on his cock.
 
Skylar drove in hard one last time and Xavier
felt the warmth of Skylar's release bathe him inside.
 
Then white-hot pleasure burst through him and
he was emptying himself in Aspen's still quivering sheath.
 
Xavier licked the wound where her shoulder
and neck met and groaned when Skylar's softening cock pulled from his nether
hole.
 
He felt boneless as he pulled from
Aspen's body and fell to the opposite side of Skylar to pull Aspen as close as
possible to his mates.
 
Xavier
immediately took inventory of her wounds and breathed a sigh of relief when he
noted they were not bleeding.

"Are
you okay,
baby
?"

Aspen's
eyes opened and she smiled.
 
"I'm
better now."

Skylar's
father was a large man, but given his son's size Aspen was silly to be
surprised.
 
His brown hair, so similar to
Skylar's, held streaks of gray, and where laugh lines should be she could tell
this man frowned a lot.
 
She'd been told
the story, and her heart broke for this man.
 
Now that she'd found her men she couldn't imagine losing them.
 
She placed her hand over her growing belly
and frowned.
 
She couldn't imagine having
to raise her son without his fathers.

"My
daughter," Skylar's father said pulling her from her morose thoughts.
 
His arms wrapped around her and she
sighed.
 
It felt good to be hugged by
someone who would be her father.

"Hi Mr. Ashmore."
 

"Call
me Dad."

Aspen
laughed.
 
"Yes,
sir."

"Charles,"
Skylar's cold tone confused her.
 
She
knew they weren't on the best of terms, but this was his father.

"Hello,
Skylar.
 
I was just getting to know my
daughter.
 
It took you long enough to let
me see her."

Skylar's
lips pressed into a hard line.
 
It had
been a week since the attack and they'd spent the first three days of that week
dancing around each other, but the other two.
 
Aspen smiled.
 
The other two were
spent in unspeakable pleasure.
 
She still
ached slightly from the--finally--unrestrained lovemaking they'd shared before
Skylar had told her to dress.
 
Then
Skylar had confessed that he'd been keeping his father at bay from meeting her.
 
She didn't understand it and at the time she
was too sated to care, but now she wondered.

Xavier
placed a hand on Skylar's shoulder and Skylar tensed.
 
Mr. Ashmore frowned and Aspen knew.
 
Skylar's father didn't approve of Skylar and
Xavier's mating.
 
Xavier pulled his hand
away from Skylar's shoulder as though he'd been burned, and in a sense, Aspen
guessed that he had.
 

Xavier
turned and left the living room.
  
It was
their house now, his living room.
 
But
Aspen still saw the hurt in his eyes.

Skylar
bent and pressed a kiss to her forehead and she sighed.
 
She loved her mates so much.

"I'm
going to talk with your father for just a second, okay."

Skylar
nodded, but his eyes narrowed on his father.
 
In warning?

"I'm
going running with Xavier.
 
He and
I..."

Aspen
stood on her tiptoes and kissed Skylar on the cheek.
 
"Go.
 
Give him a kiss for me, okay."

"I
love you."

Aspen
smiled.
 
She'd never get tired of hearing
that.
 
She'd come close to losing it too
many times to count.
 
"I love you,
too."

Soon
she stood in her living room alone with the man who'd hurt one of her
mates.
 
The predator in her screamed for
retribution.
 
Luckily, she had her human
side to call upon.
 
She wouldn't slice
and dice--not yet.
 

Aspen
looked up at the man who reminded her so much of Skylar, yet--didn't.
 
Silence stretched before them, so Aspen
began.

"You
loved your mate didn't you?
 
Why?"

He
stared at her and she thought he wouldn't answer but when he did it sounded a
lot like the answers Skylar and Xavier had professed to her.
 

"I
loved her because she was kind but strong.
 
She never backed down from a challenge and it didn't matter that she was
human...she was mine."
 

Aspen
smiled. "And did you ever once stop to think that maybe Skylar loves
Xavier for all those reasons or maybe even different reasons?
 
Skylar loves Xavier and Skylar may not show
it in public but I think it's because deep down you've made him ashamed of his
love.
 
You accepted me so readily, but
you couldn't accept Xavier and
he's
been mated to your
son for three years.
 
How could you not
want him for a son?
 
I know Xavier and I
love him so much that sometimes it hurts.
 
How could you make his other half ashamed of him?"
 

He
didn't answer and she didn't care.
 
She
gave him a hug and walked away.
 
It was
up to him now.

***

Skylar found him sitting beside a weeping willow,
two headstones on the opposite side.
 
He
took a seat beside him and clasped his hand in his.
 
Xavier had never pulled away from physical
contact, and Skylar figured it was because he always did.
 
But this time, Xavier jerked his hand
away.
 
Skylar sighed.

"You shouldn't let him bother you."

Xavier laughed.
 
"I'm used to people turning their noses up at me, hell, if my own
parents did it, then what did I expect?"

Skylar fought for the right words, but how could he
possibly bridge the gap he'd created unintentionally for the past three
years?
 
He'd mated Xavier and in doing so
had promised to be one with this man, a man that he loved dearly.
 
But so far he'd been a terrible mate, not to
one, but both of his mates.

"You know, I still remember the first time I
saw you.
 
I wanted to protect you and
keep you safe, always, but after you healed you didn't really need me to
protect you.
 
I remember thinking, how
could anyone possibly hurt this man for his sexuality, let alone your
pack.
 
Then, today I realized I'd been
hurting you all along."

Skylar twisted the blades of grass around his
fingers and waited.
 
The silence seemed
to stretch endlessly.
 
Xavier slowly
relaxed beside him and twined his hands in the grass beside him.
 
It wasn't the conversation Skylar had hoped
for, but at least Xavier was loose now.
 
Skylar relaxed against the tree.
 
Now what was he supposed to do?

"Every time I execute a shifter I vomit.
 
The other agents said it would get better,
but it never has.
 
I'm not sure why it
hasn't, but I've always believed that I was weaker for it."

Xavier came to sit on his knees in front of him and
cupped his cheek.

"It doesn't make you weak to feel bad for
taking a life, no matter the reason.
 
I
think it would disturb me more if it didn't affect you."
 

Xavier dipped his head and took his lips.
 
Skylar reacted instantly and tangled his
hands in Xavier's hair, pulling him closer into his body.
 
Like always, their kisses turned almost
volatile.
 
A meshing of lips and tongue
as each fought for dominance.
 
Skylar
broke free of Xavier's lips to catch his breath.

"I'm so sorry,
Zay
."

"We still have lots to cover, Sky, but we have
our whole lives to discover everything about each other, besides we're bound to
make mistakes.
 
After all, we are human
too."

The wind blew and her scent preceded her appearance
beside Xavier.
 
Aspen squealed when
Xavier grabbed her by the waist and pulled her down into his lap.
 
She cupped his cheek and smiled.

"All better?"

"I am now."

Skylar watched as Xavier claimed Aspen's lips, their
bodies straining to get closer.
 
Skylar's
cock which was already hard from Xavier hardened even more at the sight of his
mates enjoying each other.
 
Aspen and
Xavier pulled apart, their eyes dilated and their chests heaving with the
effort to breathe.
 
Aspen's lips were red
and swollen, and all Skylar wanted to do was lay her on the ground, undress her
and feast on each and every inch of her.
 

"I've got to get everything for the wedding
ready," she said her eyes wide.

Xavier laughed.
 
Skylar stood and pulled her to her feet.
 
Before she could turn away he took her mouth and his gut tightened with
her satisfied sigh.
 
She melted against
him and he loved it.
 
It wasn't enough,
but he knew she had a lot to accomplish in only a couple of days, so he
released her lips.

"I love you."

Aspen smiled and cupped his cheek.
 
"I love you, too," she turned to
Xavier and hugged him around the waist, "and I love you."

"With all my heart," Xavier said and
kissed her forehead.
 
Brown eyes met his
and no words were needed.
 
Xavier loved
him, but Skylar knew that, and he would spend the rest of his life ensuring
that both of his mates knew just how much he loved them.

***

Caleb
watched his mate paced the floor her cell phone in hand.
 
It was sexy as hell watching her ass move in
those yoga pants.
 
She'd gained a little
weight from the pregnancy and it was fine with him.
 
Her ass had never looked so juicy, especially
with those exact words printed over it.
 

"Mama,
I just don't think it would be a good idea to have the wedding in a couple of
weeks.
 
I mean, Aspen was almost killed
and we've gotten some disturbing news the pride in Fair Oaks..."

Caleb
frowned.
 
Miranda may have moaned and
groaned when her mother made her go all over town for odds and ends for the
wedding Miranda had assured everyone she didn't want, but he'd seen the gleam
in her eyes when she'd tell him at night about all the details.
 
His Miranda wanted a wedding and that's
exactly what she would get.
 
Hell, he'd
even invited the whole damn pack.
 
Elias
wasn't such a hard ass once you got to know him, and allowing the whole pack in
on what could be considered a private pride affair--well he'd be stupid to pass
up this olive branch.

Caleb
stepped into her path, pulled the phone from her hands, and cut off her protest
mid-sentence with a kiss.
 
He ignored her
mother's voice coming from the phone and pulled his mate into his body.
 
He released her lips and smiled at her bright
brown eyes and the way her breasts pressed against him with each breath she
took.
 
She was speechless.
 
Excellent.
 
He put her cell phone to his ear and
immediately pulled it away at her mother's shrill tone.

"Mom,"
he said.

"Oh, hi dear.
 
What's this nonsense about no wedding?"

Caleb
chuckled.
 
"Exactly
that, nonsense.
 
The wedding is
still on and I'm sure Aspen will be fighting mad if you don't allow her to cook
for it."

Caleb
placed a finger over Miranda's mouth to stop her protests.

"Now,
if Aspen is hurt, then I can find other arrangements-"

"Mom,
don't worry.
 
Just call Aspen and see if
she still wants to do it.
 
Miranda and I
will be ready at noon the day after Thanksgiving to say our vows.
 
Now, get some rest, okay."

"Yes, dear.
 
Tell Miranda I said goodbye."

"Of course."

Caleb
hung up the cell phone and laughed at the glare Miranda was giving him.

"Caleb,
we can't expect-"

"Baby,
I lived for years like life couldn't go on because my parents died.
 
I won't allow you to give up things that you
want just because we've hit some rough patches in the pride."

"But-"

Caleb
kissed her again because he had too; her reddened lips from his previous kisses
were just too tempting to pass up.
 
He
nibbled at her bottom lip.
 
She had that
dreamy look he loved.

"But nothing, Miranda.
 
You taught me not to put my life on hold, so
the day after Thanksgiving we will say our vows at noon and be married in the
human way.
 
And don't pretend you don't
want to wear that lovely wedding gown, because I'll tell you that you're a
liar."