Her Cowboy Bears (BBW MMF Menage Shapeshifter Romance) (2 page)

“That’s probably because you sleep like the dead,” she
said. “You didn’t see them leaving at weird hours of the night”

“You probably dreamed that,” I told her while I kept
my eyes on the road.

“I swear I didn’t,” she insisted. “Those two are up to
something. Probably a pot farm way out at the edge of the ranch or something.
They take off at like midnight on their horses and don’t come back ‘til
morning. It’s really weird.”

“They’re probably checking on the cattle,” I told her.
“That’s kind of part of owning a ranch, you know.”

“Then why not get us to help them?” she asked. “If you
guys are there to work, then why not put you to work? It doesn’t make sense.”

I hated to admit that she had a point there. I didn’t
want her to be right. Eli and Austin were nice guys and they made the
butterflies in my belly dance. I liked working for them, I really didn’t want
them to be doing anything illegal.

“And don’t get me started on the weird noises at
night,” Ophelia went on. “Those aren’t normal animal sounds I keep hearing.”

“I’ve never heard anything,” I told her, and breathed
a sigh of relief when I saw the turn off for the airport. I wanted to be rid of
the girl. I wanted to be rid of her right now.

“Because you sleep through it!” she said. “Seriously,
tonight, stay up as late as you can and watch. They leave in the middle of the
night and then they don’t come back until morning. And the noises, damn. I
cannot wait to be out of this stupid state.

I almost told her the feeling was mutual, but I pulled
up to the passenger drop off and gave her the politest good-bye I could muster
before I was finally rid of her.

“Good riddance,” I whispered when she walked into the
airport. All her excuses were so stupid that I had to laugh.

Yet on the trip back to Hollyhock, I couldn’t stop
thinking about what she’d said. What if she was right? What if Eli and Austin
weren’t exactly what they seemed? I didn’t want to believe it, but I knew I
would have to find out the truth if I was going to be able to look them in the
eye again.

I didn’t even bother with my planned fast food trip on
my way home from the airport. My time I got back on the highway, my head was
too lost in itself to do anything but drive and the sun had set before I got
back to the ranch to find the four guys sitting around the kitchen table
playing cards.

“Hey Caitlyn,” Eli greeted me when I walked in the
door.

“How did it go?” Austin asked.

“Fine,” I lied. “She apologized for leaving and then
got out of the truck.”

“Well, it’s for the best,” Eli said. “Want to join us?”

“Nah, I’m good,” I told them. “I’m going to go lay
down I think.”

“Good call,” Austin agreed. “A drive like that will
wear you out pretty quick.”

“Yeah,” I mumbled before I started climbing the
stairs.

I said I was going to bed, but I didn’t even get under
the covers. I had to know if Ophelia was pulling my chain and I waited for
everyone else to go to bed before I sat down by my window and watched to see if
anyone would leave the house.

The clock in my room ticked and ticked and I almost
gave up when midnight ticked by, but then I heard footsteps downstairs. Not
even a couple minutes later, two figures left by the back door and headed
toward the stables.

“Oh crap,” I mumbled. Ophelia had been right. They
were taking off in the night. But why?

I had my coat on before I even realized I was moving.
I kept telling my feet to stop, to stay put and go to bed, but I couldn’t. It
wasn’t any of my business, but I had to know what was going on and I made my
way downstairs just in time to see the riding off into the night through the
kitchen window.

Now what?
I silently asked myself.

The answer should have been to go back to bed and
forget what I saw, but I couldn’t do it. I had to know exactly what was going
on and suddenly I was outside and racing for the stables myself.

I’d only been there a week, but I’d already gotten
very good at saddling the horses and I was out of the barn in minutes,
following in the direction my two bosses had gone. I had no clue where I was
headed, but I was about to find out.

I had lucked out – the moon was full and it was easy
enough to follow the tracks in the bright light. That was one thing I didn’t
think I’d ever get over – how bright the moon was out in the country. It was just
enough light to see by to keep my horse trotting along through the pasture.

My bum was sore by time I’d found the other two
horses, but they’d been left tethered to a tree by a watering hole and I did
the same with mine. I had no clue where I was going, and I couldn’t see ahead
of me where the ground started to roll with hills, but a strange noise caught
my attention just before I gave up.

I couldn’t place what it was, and I wasn’t sure if it
were animal or human, but I had to find out. With my cowboy boots on and my
jacket pulled tight, I climbed the closest hill and froze when I discovered
what was waiting on the other side.

It wasn’t Eli or Austin, or anyone human for that
matter. What I discovered were two huge bears rolling around in the dust. They
snarled and snapped at each other, their claws and teeth bared, and I realized that
the two ranchers must have been out there somewhere hunting for the bears.

That’s where they’ve been going,
I told myself
as I watched them scrap. They probably didn’t want to scare us by admitting
there were bears roaming the property.

But that thought died instantly when the bears stopped
fighting. There was no winner, no loser, but something totally different and
totally unexpected.

“No...” I mumbled to myself when the bears stood up on
their hind legs. For a second I thought they’d seen me and were coming to
attack me, but instead they started to change.

It was impossible, it was crazy, it had to be a
hallucination brought on by a lack of sleep. Bears didn’t just change!

But that was exactly what they did. Their fur melted
way and left tanned skin and strong muscles. Their snouts shifted and
transformed into human faces, and their claws became fingers. They weren’t men,
they weren’t bears, but something in between.

“How you feeling?” I heard Eli ask Austin as the two
men stood naked in the moonlight. Their voices were faint, but I could just
barely make out what they were saying

“A lot better,” Austin said. “Sometimes I just need to
blow off steam.”

“There are other ways to do that,” Eli said and then
everything got a whole lot crazier.

I thought I’d seen everything, but suddenly Eli’s lips
were on Austin’s and the two men were kissing. Not just gently, but hot and
furious kisses that awoke a strange fire within me.

“Oh shit,” I said, but I realized too late that I’d
actually said that out loud.

The kissing ended instantly. They were suddenly
staring right up to where I was hiding at the top of the hill and I didn’t know
whether to run or scream or what. All I could do was stay frozen in place while
they made their way up to me.

“Caitlyn,” Eli called to me as he made his way up the
hill. It was a cold night, but he was still completely naked and didn’t appear
to notice the chill at all.

“Stay away from me,” I called back and finally found
my footing. I moved to run, but the men were faster than me and I barely made
it ten feet before they blocked my path.

“Please don’t be afraid,” Austin said as he raised his
hands to stop me from running.

“We won’t hurt you,” Eli assured me. “We just want to
talk to you about what you saw.”

“You’re monsters,” I spit out, unable to think of anything
else to say. “You’re bears, or monsters or something!”

“Actually, we prefer werebears,” Austin said. “And we
don’t hurt people. Ever.”

“But... how?” I managed to mumble as they slowly but
surely walked me back to the clearing where Id first seen the bears.

“It’s an old curse around these parts,” Eli informed
me. “Punishment early ranchers got for settling land that wasn’t theirs to
take.”

“And they passed it down. Both our fathers carried the
cursed gene and we ended up like this,” Austin explained. “So we bought a ranch
together to be able to be ourselves. Together.”

“So you
are
gay,” I said. That was a whole lot
easier to swallow than the whole werebears thing.

“Not exactly,” Eli said. “We prefer the term
pansexual, or even bisexual, if you prefer.”

“Huh?” I asked.

“We don’t care about gender,” Austin went on to
explain. “All we care about is sexual attraction.”

“Oh,” I said.  “Um, so you won’t hurt me? Should I
just go back to Chicago now or something?”

“Of course not,” Austin said. “Unless that’s what you
really want.”

“We actually had something else in mind,” Eli said.

“Like?” I asked.

“Like maybe the three of us...” Austin began before he
said his fingers around my curvy waistline. “Have a little fun.”

“Me?” I asked, somehow more shocked by that than
anything else. Werebears or not, they were the hottest men I’d ever known and
back in Chicago I couldn’t even get a date. Now they both wanted me?

“We have to admit you caught our eye when we read your
application,” Eli said. “We both prefer our women to have a little something
more.”

“Curvy women make the best lovers,” Austin agreed
before his lips met the flesh of my neck and sent a shiver down my spine.

“I... I’m not sure I’d be as good as you want...” I
tried to admit. “I’m not... experienced.”

“Even better,” Eli said. “To be your first, now that
would be something very special indeed.”

I couldn’t believe what was happening. Two men, two
werebears, and they both wanted me? I should have laughed in their faces,
walked back to my horse, and rode all the way back to the airport, but instead
I only mumbled, “Okay.”

There was no denying that I was nervous of what I’d
just said yes to. I was scared, confused, but above all else – I was excited.

Austin’s kissed were gentle as they moved down my
neck. He eased me into what we were doing with the most supple, delicious
caresses of his lips and I was moaning before we’d barely even gotten started.

While Austin kissed down my neck, Eli worked the
zipper of my coat and slipped it off my arms. I worried that I would be cold
without the thick down jacket, but the heat coming off the two men was more
than enough to keep me warm while their hands began to explore my curves.

“You really are beautiful,” Eli moaned as he kissed
across my shoulders, then down my spine while Austin worked the buttons of my
plaid shirt.

I was at a complete loss for words. I’d never been
even close to a situation like this and I let the two men guide me as they
slowly, methodically slipped off my clothes and it wasn’t long before I was as
naked as the two of them.

But while they were hard and confident in their
nudity, I couldn’t stop from trying to cover myself with my hands.

“Don’t,” Austin said as he took my hand in his and
placed it on his already hard cock. “You’re beautiful. Don’t ever forget that.”

That was easier said than done, but it became possible
as both men explored my body with their hands. Gently they massaged me, forcing
moans out of my lips as fingers met my breasts, my bum, my neck, and then
slowly began to trace their way to my inner thighs.

“Are we really your first?” Eli asked before his lips
met mine in a hot and hungry kiss.

“Yes,” I admitted. I was ashamed of being a virgin at
twenty-three, but it only made Eli and Austin more excited.

The night was cold around us, but the heat coming off
their bodies kept us warm. While they kissed and caressed me, I found the
courage to run my fingertips down Eli’s muscular chest and then I turned my
attention to Austin and did the same.

Their muscles were harder than I expected and touching
them ignited a fire in my belly. I really did want this, more than anything I
wanted this, and when they laid out my thick jacket and helped me onto it, I
complied readily.

The jacket was thick and soft and with both men beside
me, I had never felt more at ease and more nervous at the exact same time. With
gentle kisses, Eli worked his way down the swell of my belly and kissed across
my thighs until I opened them for him.

“I bet you taste delicious,” he moaned as he kissed
across my thighs and worked his way to the exposed lips of my sex.

I didn’t answer him, he didn’t give me a chance to.
Instead he slid his tongue along my silky folds and sent a wave of pleasure crashing
over my body.

While Eli made love to me with his mouth, Austin took
my nipple into his mouth and began to suck.

“Oh,” I moaned, my voice filling the night air as
pleasure grew within me. The men knew exactly what I needed and soon I was
writhing in pleasure while their lips and hands gave me everything I never thought
I needed. It was perfect, it was insane.

It was just the beginning.

“Are you ready?” Eli asked as he removed his tongue
from my lips.

“Yes,” I managed to moan to him, my breathing hard and
heavy with excitement. With my thighs open and my body ready, I could barely
stand to wait for him any longer.

He was gentle, slow, and careful as he pressed the tip
of himself to my waiting lips. I didn’t know what to expect – save pain – but
when he entered me it wasn’t the blinding agony that I expected. Instead it was
a strong heat that rippled through my body and made me grit my teeth.

“So tight,” Eli moaned. “So tight and hot.”

“And beautiful,” Austin said as he stroked my hair. “Are
you ready for one more?”

“Yes,” I moaned for him. I wanted them both. I wanted
the fullness of having them take me together. It was taboo, it was naughty, and
it was so hot that I could feel my orgasm coming at just the thought of it.