Babies for Nikki (16 page)

Both men could feel Nikki’s body tensing, coiling with desperate need for release. They were happy to oblige. With one last thrust, Butler’s canines dropped, and he bit down on Nikki’s shoulder, using every bit of his control to hold back and not break the skin. Alex increased the pressure on her swollen clit and growled, biting down on the other side of her neck, not enough to puncture, but hard enough to make a mark.

Nikki screamed her release, her body consumed with tremors as she found the ecstasy both men were determined she achieve. All strength left her and she was glad to have Alex behind her to catch her. His strength surrounded her and she accepted it gratefully.

Butler’s cock swelled and pulsed, sending Nikki into another orgasm. His seed shot from him in long spurts, each one drawing another moan from both of them. The feeling he had of total happiness intensified with each release, and the fragile mating bond tightened the ribbons of joining through the three of them. Alex’s arms surrounded Nikki and included Butler in his embrace. Butler could feel the total joy emanating from Alex and couldn’t contain the happy grin that covered his face.

Nikki leaned forward to rest against Butler’s chest, her breathing erratic as her heart raced. The warmth of his skin beneath her cheek soothed her, and she turned her face into the solid wall of muscle, kissing him gently and snuggling against him happily. She looked up and smiled at Butler, kissing his lips gently. “That was wonderful. Thank you.”

Butler’s eyes sparkled with humor. “Are you going to thank us every time we make love, sweetness?”

“Probably,” Nikki answered tiredly, yawning. “As long as you do a good job.”

Butler laughed out loud. He looked across Nikki’s shoulder to Alex and was glad to see his best friend chuckling.

They caressed her body tenderly as they calmed down. Butler was careful to pull out of Nikki with utmost tenderness. They slowly lowered her against the pillows and kissed her lightly. Alex held her in his arms as Butler pulled away.

“Butler, don’t go,” Nikki called to him immediately, reaching out to him in a panic.

“I’m not going anywhere, sweetness,” he promised her. “I just need to take care of you.”

Nikki’s brow furrowed in confusion as Butler slid down her body and settled himself between her legs. She relaxed as he touched her inner thighs and pushed gently to open her legs, and leaned in to breathe deeply of their combined scents before licking at her swollen pussy. She moaned at his ministrations and touched his head gently, his concern for her once again touching her heart. After a moment, she tugged on his hair until he was once again lying beside her.

She let out a whimper of need as Butler left the bed silently, feeling the loss of him immediately. When he returned with a warm, wet cloth, pushed her legs open carefully, and proceeded to gently wipe away the seed that was escaping her body, she was stunned into silence. No words could express the way she was feeling right then. Both men’s consideration and tenderness astounded her. She didn’t feel worthy of their ministrations.

Butler returned the cloth to the bathroom then took his place beside her in bed, pressing against her and drawing her tightly against him. He sighed contentedly against the back of her neck and took a deep breath against her hair.

Alex pulled the sheets over them and both men snuggled against Nikki tightly, just the way she liked it. Within seconds, Nikki was asleep and both men were well on their way as well. A feeling of total peace and contentment filled them.

Nikki was more than they could have ever hoped for. She was strong in character and loyalty. She was gentle and loving. She stood up to them without fear—something that made them respect her and know that she was indeed a strong mate who was the perfect match for their dominant personalities. She brought humor into their lives—something that they never thought would be such a natural and wonderful part of their mating. And soon, very soon if the men had their way, she would be filled with their cubs. After all, their vision had shown them that she would give them two.

They just had to convince her to complete the claiming. Both men looked at each other in silent agreement. They were going to be relentless in their pursuit.

The sun was barely peeking over the surrounding mountains when Nikki awoke. She stretched slowly, relieved that her back felt so much better. Except for a dull ache in her vaginal walls, she actually felt pretty fantastic. Her eyes still closed, she smiled at the memory of the two men who had made her body soar last night. The two men she could feel pressed up against her tightly.

“I hope that smile is for us, darlin’,” Alex’s voice, rough with sleep, spoke against her ear right before he kissed her neck and laved at the mark he had placed on her shoulder the night before.

She moaned in approval. She felt as if the nerve endings around the love bite were extra sensitive. His mouth sucking at it and biting down on her gently sent her womb into spasms. She could feel the rush of cream that escaped her and blushed at the answering growl that both men emitted.

Butler rolled on top of her, settling easily between her parted thighs and kissed her lightly. “Good morning, sweetness,” he whispered gently against the softness of her lips. “Did you sleep well?”

Nikki opened her eyes and couldn’t prevent the blush that colored her cheeks as she looked up at one of the men who had made her scream in ecstasy. She looked to her right and saw Alex watching her, a knowing smile tugging on his lips.

“You look like a woman who has been thoroughly loved,” Alex told her gruffly. He reached out with his hand and carefully brushed back the softness of her black hair as it partially hid her eyes from him. Realizing how small she looked beneath his hand brought back the worry that he had hurt her during their lovemaking.

Nikki smiled slowly, ignoring the comment about love. She was not about to go there just yet. She argued with herself that the men couldn’t possibly have that intense a feeling for her so quickly. She didn’t understand how, but she did sense Alex’s worry for her. Reaching up, she took his hand in hers and drew it to her mouth to place a tender kiss on his palm, turning her head to nuzzle into his caress.

“I can feel your worry, Alex,” she whispered. “You have no cause to worry. I loved every minute of what we did.” Alex smiled and she could see the relief cross his features immediately.

“I did, too, darlin’,” he whispered.

“Want to do it again?” Butler teased, leaning forward to kiss his love bite and bite down on it again with just enough pressure that Nikki moaned and arched up into him.

“Butler.”

Nikki’s voice reached out and surrounded him with such happiness, he thought his heart would explode from the emotion. Her arms wrapped around him, and he leaned into her hug, feeling a sense of peace filling him and making him unbelievably happy. He could feel the waves of contentment rolling off of Alex as well as the joy that encompassed Nikki reaching out to them so they could feel what she was feeling. Their bond may be new, it may be fragile, but it allowed them all to know the total happiness the three of them felt by being together.

He pulled back and looked down at their woman. By the Fates, she was beautiful! And she was theirs.

“You belong to us, Nikki,” Butler told her seriously. “We’ll give you all the time you need to accept our claiming, but you already belong to us.”

Nikki’s blue eyes widened as she looked first at Butler and then at Alex. She saw the same look of determination on Alex’s face that she saw on Butler’s. “I have a say in who I belong to,” she told them stubbornly.

“Yes, you do,” Alex agreed with her. “Just as long as you say you belong to us.”

Nikki blinked in surprise. Could this serious, hulking man, who took everything so seriously, who exuded power and fierceness, have actually made a joke? A bad joke, but a joke nonetheless. A slow smile crossed her lips. His happiness rushed through her with such warmth, she thought her chest might actually burst into flames. Looking toward Butler, she could sense his happiness, too.

“I want you both to lie down for me,” she told them quietly.

They looked at each other briefly then moved to lie on their backs beside her. She used their chests to push herself up so that she was sitting, and turned her body so that she was on her knees facing both men as she looked down at them.

The immediate lust in their eyes made her smile, and she allowed them to caress her shoulders and run their hands tenderly down her arms to caress her breasts. She couldn’t prevent the moan that escaped her when they brushed their thumbs over her hard and aching nipples. Reaching up, she took both of their hands in hers and gently pushed them down onto the bed to rest beside their heads.

“Don’t move your hands,” she whispered. “I want to touch you.”

Both men growled as she caressed their chests, lightly rubbing her fingers across the brown disks of their nipples, flicking at them lightly with her fingernails. She smiled and reached up to cradle their faces and card her fingers through their hair.

“Don’t ever cut your hair short,” she told them as she let the soft silkiness of their hair fall through her fingers. “I love your hair exactly like this.”

Alex looked at her with such aching need, her heart fluttered with want. Butler’s smile told her how much he enjoyed her touch and her words.

“I didn’t get a chance to touch you very much last night,” she told them quietly. Running her hands down their chests, she pulled at the silky strands of hair that covered their torsos, her body clenching at the pure masculinity of both men.

My men
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She heard the words in her head, but she pushed them aside. She would not allow that thought to take root in her mind or in her heart. She couldn’t risk it.

She followed the happy trail down their bodies, tracing the delineated muscles of each man’s abs and pelvis, to the thatch of hair that surrounded their already hard and leaking cocks. Taking their lengths in her hands, she pulled up on them gently, smiling at the moans that escaped them as she did so. She ran her thumbs up the underside of their shafts, tracing the thick veins with just the right amount of pressure. Both men watched her intently as she took her index fingers and gathered the drops of pre-cum that pooled at the heads of their shafts. Their eyes followed the path of her hands, mesmerized as she released them so she could bring her fingers to her mouth, tasting first one drop, and then the other.

Their tastes exploded in her mouth, and she couldn’t contain the sound of pure pleasure that escaped her as she experienced each man’s flavor. “You taste so good,” she whispered, her eyes dilating with passion. “You taste as good as you smell.” Her brilliant smile lit her face at her admission.

Looking down at both of them, she thought about their kindness and gentleness as well as their strength. They were exactly what she had always wanted in a companion and a lover. She was not ashamed to admit that everything about them drew her to them. She just knew she had to keep her thoughts to herself in order to protect her heart. Only time would tell if she was right in her feelings about these men. She truly hoped that she was.

It took all of their strength for Alex and Butler to remain motionless while their mate explored their bodies. They wanted to reach out and pull her beneath them and fill her with their cocks and make her scream in ecstasy as they filled her with their seed. It took every bit of control they had to remain still beneath her hands, but they wanted her to know that she had the right to touch them any time she wanted, and they would respect her request to remain still—even though it was killing them.

“I like touching you,” she told them quietly. “I like when you hold me tightly, too. I like when you fill me up and come deep inside of me.” She looked at them, unable to keep the worry from her eyes as she looked down at them. “I don’t know why I feel like we belong together, the three of us. I never thought I could be with two men. But it feels right. I don’t feel guilty about it.”

“Baby, you feel right about it because the Fates have chosen you for us,” Alex told her quietly, reaching out to touch her cheek lightly. “It’s the way of our pack as well as many of the surrounding packs. It has always been that way. We don’t know any other way to be.”

“You’re part of our triad, Nikki, just like our alpha and beta have found that Laurie is part of their triad. Our queen has told you about the triad relationship she’s in with Jace and Jackson, hasn’t she?” Butler asked her gently.

Nikki nodded and was rewarded with Butler’s warm smile. He reached out and held her hand with such tenderness she nearly cried. She looked at both men and wanted more than anything in the world to believe that the three of them were indeed fated to be together. Pushing aside her negative thoughts and worries, she focused on the men before her.

“I have to get used to Laurie being queen of your pack,” she teased, looking down at the men who lay so trustingly before her. “Just as I’ll have to get used to the type of relationship everyone seems to have here. It’s going to be difficult not to feel like I’m doing something wrong by being with you both. I have a lifetime of lectures from my mother about how to behave and what a horrible person I am to get over.” Both men’s growls of anger startled her and she smiled sadly. “It’s okay. Most of the time I don’t believe her.”

“You are a wonderful person, Nikki,” Alex told her angrily. “I forbid you to ever speak to her again.”