Mountain Men II: Primal Hunger (11 page)

They collapsed together in a
jumbled pile of bodies, arms, and legs. Happy to be together and so
intertwined. Bain cupped the back of her head to his chest and
Gavin nuzzled the nape of her neck from behind. She intertwined her
fingers with Gavin’s where his hand rested on her hip. Bain did the
same to their fingers and let them rest on his chest.

The room was saturated with the
scent of their sex mingling in the air. The scent eased much of the
emotional scars the past twenty four hours had inflicted on them.
Maura sighed, deeply content. She must have dozed off because she
woke with a start when Gavin pressed a warm washcloth between her
legs and softly wiped away residual stickiness from her body. She
was still covered in their combined scent and turned to settle her
cheek on his chest when he nestled back into bed.

Bain spooned in close from behind
her and she snuggled down deeply between her two men. She felt
small and petite pressed between two great walls of male muscle.
She smiled to herself and sighed contently when Bain played his
fingertips lightly along her nape and shoulders. Gavin traced
fingertips lightly along her hip. She felt deliciously tender in
all new places but it was a sweet and pleasing ache, one she looked
forward to experiencing again.

Maura felt her heart swell. She was
irrevocably lost to these two men. Bain and Gavin had found their
way not just into her body but into her heart. She would never
really be able to leave them, not because they could, and would,
track her down but because she would never feel complete without
them. They filled her both body and soul and soothed emotional
scars she never thought she would recuperate from.

She, fat Moo-ra Maura, was in love
with two men.

Chapter Seven

Maura woke in much the same way she
fell asleep, nestled between Gavin and Bain. They were still a
tangle of arms and legs. She was toasty warm and deliciously tender
in all new places. Bain was curled behind her plastered against her
backside with and arm thrown around her waist. Gavin was on his
back, his arm cushioning her head, his fingers tangled in her hair.
Her fingers were entwined with Bain’s and rested on her stomach and
she had one leg tucked between Gavin’s thigh.

As she slowly became aware she also
felt a pressing need to go to the bathroom. She slowly, carefully
extracted herself from the two men and tiptoed to the toilet. After
relieving herself and washing up, she splashed her face with cold
water. Maura stared at herself in the mirror. Somehow she felt like
she should look different. She felt different.

Maura still couldn’t shake niggling
doubts about the future they had together. She knew they cared
about her. Hell, they had taken a bullet for her, but that was now.
What about a week, a year, a few years from now? Would they still
feel the same? She didn’t know how she would recover if they left
her. She would be devastated. What would she do if they decided
another woman was a better fit down the road. It would kill her to
see them with another woman.

What if this three way balance went
awry and they couldn’t function as a unit together? She loved both
men and couldn’t stand to cause a rift between them. Doubts swamped
her and she felt her throat close. She was still in there, staring
at herself when her men came in the bathroom.

Maura knew her uncertainty was
written all over her face, Gavin and Bain could already read her
like a book. She averted her eyes, not wanting them to see so
deeply in her thoughts.

"Maura." Gavin made her name sound
more like a warning.

She answered with a noncommittal
sound of her own.

Bain sighed heavily. "You might as
well just get it out now. You know he doesn't give up when he
thinks he knows something."

Gavin shot Bain a scathing
look.

"Talk to us."

Maura took a moment to collect her
thoughts and figure out the best way to tell them what was bouncing
around her head. She didn’t want them to get the wrong idea but she
was so unsure. She knew she loved them both but, would that be
enough?

"I'm just unsure of what happens
next. Will this work? What happens if you realize someone else is
better for you or you want them more in the future? What if someone
thinner, younger, or more attractive comes along?"

"Maura," Bain began, rubbing the
back of his neck, clearly working to give her the words she needed.
"Maura it's you, every bit of you. Everything about you calls to
us. There’s no loving you despite what you look like. You’re
perfect for us in all ways."

She felt stunned. They loved her.
They
loved
her.
She knew they wanted her, yes, but love hadn’t been mentioned yet.
Mating had been discussed, but not love.

"Love?"

Gavin and Bain looked equally
exasperated.

"How could you not know we love you,
woman?"

Maura's eyes watered and threatened
to spill over.

"You never said .... I didn't ....
I wasn't sure .... I mean ...."

Maura stumbled over her words, not
really knowing exactly what it was she was trying to
say.

"Do you think we do this often? Did
you not hear when we said you were our mate? That it was for the
long run, not just for now. Mating is more serious to us and more
permanent. Marriage can end in divorce, matings are
forever."

Bain ran his fingers through his
hair in a way that was becoming very familiar and endearing to her.
Gavin fiddled with his hair, frustrated, but he would pull out his
pony tail and refasten it over and over. She wondered if they even
realized that they did it.

"Maura," Gavin began, "There is no
'unless' or 'until' with us. It's not a situation where we amuse
ourselves until we get bored, too old, or unless someone else comes
along. You were fated at from the moment your soul was formed, to
be the embodiment of everything Bain and I would need in a mate.
You were supernaturally designed to be the perfect match for both
of us. You complete our soul and balance our beast like no other
ever will. Love is a paltry description for the depth of what we
feel for you."

"Have you ever thought," Bain
growled, "that maybe the reason that no one man was right for you
before, is that you were made to be loved by two?"

Maura's heart swelled, there
were
two
men who
thought she was the most precious, most beautiful thing on Earth.
More than that, the way they treated her and looked after her every
comfort was testament to how much they cared. The way both men did
it was second nature, not something they called attention to or
demanded compensation for or preened over, her well being was
something they insisted upon.

Gavin and Bain had both gone out of
their way to show her how beautiful and strong she was, and battled
back the cruel voices of the past. She felt worthy for the first
time in her life. She knew that it would be an unconventional
relationship by many standards but she wasn't willing to let that
affect her.

All her life Maura wanted someone
to see the value in her. It never felt like too much to ask for
just one person to see what she was inside rather than just the
extra pounds she carried. Gavin and Bain had awakened her both in
and out of the bedroom. They challenged her to test her boundaries
in strength, adventure, and in sex.

Maura was tired of seeking the
approval of people who could care less about her and broke her
heart. There was really no deciding what she wanted, her heart only
called out for two things, Gavin and Bain. As long as they looked
at her with eyes full of pride, desire, and love, everyone else
could shove their opinion up their ass.

Both men watched the emotions
flicker across her face but it was Bain who finally
spoke.

"We want you for forever."

Tears welled in her eyes again as
she pictured the future of what their house full of their love
would be like. Maura could not contain the overwhelming sensation
of rightness that it all had. She began crying uncontrollably. Both
men stared, shocked, not quite sure how to gauge the
reaction.

Gavin looked like he was going to
be sick . "Maura, I was abandoned by my mother. I don't even know
who she is or what she looks like. Bain' s mother took me in,
against the laws of the Bear counsel. Years later, when they
discovered what she had done, they killed her and tried to kill us.
I lost the only family I had ever known and caused Bain to lose the
only family HE had. We have only had each other since then. We
fought in the streets for money and survival. To be able to create
a family of our own, with our mate, is the only thing we had to
cling to. It was thoughts of a better life and future family that
kept us warm on nights we slept covered in snow. It was what kept
us going when there was no food and we couldn't sleep from the
rumbling in our belly. It was you, Maura."

Maura reached for them and gathered
them both in her arms, one wrapped around each neck. She told them
the only way she could and nodded, hoping they would understand
what she was incapable of saying right now.

"That's a yes?" Bain asked
hopefully. "Tears of joy?"

She continued to nod laughing
through her tears at the look of boyish exuberance that glowed from
both men. Bain swept her up in a bear hug, lifting her off of her
feet and spinning her around. He kissed her soundly and set her
down in Gavin's arms.

Gavin, cupped each cheek with his
palms and claimed her mouth. It was more than a kiss, it was taking
possession of her mouth. She reveled in the masterful way he showed
her how much he desired her, this level of intensity would forever
be hers alone. These men would never have eyes that strayed because
she was too fat or too old, she was the only keeper of their heart
and soul. The only one there ever would be.

It was a heady, powerful feeling to
be so confident in their devotion and she loved them all the more
for giving her that, too. She would rather carve out her heart than
leave them. In fact, leaving them would essentially carve out her
heart anyway.

Her mates stripped her slowly and
worshipped every inch of her body. She was licked, nibbled, and
kissed in places she never even knew she had, but felt like she
glittered from head to toe. Their first coming together was hectic,
passionate and impatient in the desire to delve into one another as
mates. Bain let his canines lengthen and bit into her neck marking
her there.

Maura cried out at the initial
sting of the piercing of her flesh, but it quickly became cries of
ecstasy as liquid fire filled her veins. It was very much like a
volcanic eruption within her body, the explosion threw her headlong
into climax. Her pussy clenched in delicious orgasmic aftershocks
with every continued pull he took of her from her neck.

Gavin marked her as well but placed
his mark in a less publicly viewable place. While Bain kissed and
stroked her from behind, Gavin knelt before her and licked her
thighs. She eagerly spread them aching for his tongue on her most
intimate spot. His rough tongue worked it’s magic, bringing her to
the brink of pleasure and as she began to be pitched into mind
shattering climax, his fangs sank into the artery in her thigh,
marking her there also.

Bain wanted his mark seen as a
warning to other males, particularly other shifters, to stay away.
Gavin wanted his mark to be something that was more like a secret
between the three of them. It was so intimately placed, these two
men would be the only ones to ever see it. They made slow and
passionate love together dozing and waking only to begin again.
Every time she felt more precious, desired, and loved. In between
lovemaking they lay and chatted about plans.

Maura would move up here and begin
organizing the medical files of the clients that attend the retreat
as well as examine the filing and efficiency of the office and make
improvements. As much as the newly independent woman balked
somewhat about quitting her job for a guy (or two), she also knew
that other women who quit for men weren't the spiritual mate of two
supernatural beings and ordinary rules need not apply.

Bain and Gavin would go with her at
the end of the week to pack her things. During the breakup six
months ago her ex got most of the furniture, what she had was
mostly hand me downs till she got more. Most of which could be
donated or just left behind. Bain promised to make her whatever
furniture she wanted since she loved his carved pieces so
much.

It was almost sad to think how easy
it was to leave her old life behind. But when faced with a future
like this, why would she want anything else? They were made me make
each other happy. She was made for Gavin and Bain and they for her.
She really was made for two.

THE END