The Wolves Next Door (8 page)

“Julie,”
he said softly, cupping her face and pressing his lips to the corner of her
mouth. “I want you far more than I should.”

She
trembled, fingers digging into the sheets. “I want you, too.” Her breathing
matched his; uneven, hurried, as if they were both running at break-neck speed
while they remained still as statues.

“Do
you?” he said huskily. His body half-rested on hers and that sensation of being
crushed beneath him only made her more turned on. She loved the aura of
dominance he exuded that had nothing to do with force or angst as Tre’s had
done. Thinking of Tre in that moment felt like such sacrilege and she pushed
any memory of him to the furthest depths of her mind.

“Yes,”
she replied with firmness. He nuzzled at her throat and she arched off the bed,
hands slowly lifting to reach around his gloriously muscular frame. Gushes of
arousal poured from her center and she almost whimpered as she said, “I think
I’ve wanted you – wanted this, forever.”

Ryan
growled deep in his throat, his lower body grinding into hers. The thick, rigid
length of his maleness rubbed into her belly and she could feel the cool, wet
trails of his pre-cum on her flesh. That alone was enough to make her inner
sheathe quiver to be filled and stormed by his granite-hard member.

“I
can get a little rough sometimes…but I’ll never hurt you or cause you pain,” he
said on a raspy whisper, each word ringing true in her ear. “Just trust me to
take you to heights of pleasure you’ve never even imagined.”

“Oh
yes, please,” Julie whispered, unabashed by her sweltering desire for this man.

“Now,
turn over, baby – and let me give you a taste of what I’ve been thinking
of doing to you for the longest time.”

Ryan’s
commanding, husky words would have normally filled her with consternation but somehow
Julie knew that there was nothing to worry about. She chose to trust him, just
as he asked. She could never imagine him hurting her, certainly never like Tre
had done.

Slowly,
she rolled over and rested her face against the pillows, her whole body
trembling with anticipation.

“Beautiful,”
Ryan whispered, and Julie could only imagine the view he was getting; the
spreading length of her thighs, her curvy bottom and then the long, supple line
of her back. She grew wet thinking he could just see the pulpy mound of her sex
in between her slightly parted legs.

“I
want to taste you all over. I missed that the last time and it’s all I’ve been
thinking of since then,” growled Ryan, his breath fanning her ear. Julie closed
her eyes and focused her other senses solely on the man whose voice and words
made love to her in ways that sent chills of pleasure down her back. His hands
smoothed over every inch of her, and his lips and tongue traced the same spots
of his fingers. It was like a full body massage but all the more electrifying.
She was dripping on herself by the time his lips reached the crevice in between
her splayed thighs.

“Your
scent has the power to drive me crazy,” Ryan said thickly, his hands cupping
the globes of her ass and spreading them open so he could kiss her labia. Julie
moaned helplessly. He inhaled her aroma and let out a rough growl of desire.
His tongue came out and quickly swept from one length of her slit to the other.
The pleasure of that alone had her whole body convulsing and she gripped
tightly on the pillows.

“Mmm,”
she purred with shameless delight. Ryan’s mouth there…and there, was the most
carnal of pleasures. He licked her to an almost fiendish moistness. He drove
that skilled tongue as deep as it would go inside her, using its stiff tip to
manipulate the sensitive edges of her inner folds. Reaching his arm beneath her
belly, he drew her up slightly so her bottom was arched in the air and his
tongue could reach her hooded clit. He teased her with masterful determination.
If Julie cried out any louder or longer, she’d be hoarse. Pleasure became
almost agony as her clit came to feverish life beneath his tongue. And just
when she thought it couldn’t get any more intense, she felt him spear her
entrance with first one finger, then two.

“Ryan…ooh,”
she cried, the sound fading into a half-sob, “Oh please.”

“Please
what, Julie?” Ryan paused in his thrusting of her depths to ask. “Please stop?”

“No.”

“Then
tell me what you want. Tell me exactly what you want me to do to you,” he said
in that voice that was all smooth silk and rough gravel.

“Take
me,” Julie gasped out, hungry to be filled by him in ways that his probing
fingers couldn’t do.

Ryan
had brought her to a point where all reason left her, and something told her he
felt the same. Yet when she felt his hands guide her hips even higher and
bringing her up on her hands and knees, she felt a slight trepidation. The
sheer size of him, claiming her at that angle might prove more than she could
handle.

She
felt Ryan’s body at her back, leaning over her and covering her with heat, and
want. His hand gently scooped her hair and he pulled her head back, just enough
so he could seek her mouth and snake his tongue inside. Moaning, she welcomed
his kiss, inflamed yet calmed by it. His other hand covered one of her breasts,
squeezing passionately and causing her nipples to grow taut and achy.

With
his fingers attached to the tingling nub at the tip of her breast, and his
tongue thrusting into her mouth, Julie almost got distracted from the fact that
his big, hard member probed at her entrance from behind. She came to her senses
and let out a low whine against his lips.

“Shh,
my love. Let it happen. You’re already so wet and open for me. You’ll love it,
I promise.” He kissed her again, more deeply and possessively than before. When
he drew back slightly, he gazed deeply into her eyes. “You know I love you,
don’t you?”

“Yes,”
sighed Julie. “And I love you.”

Julie
meant the words with all her heart. This felt so right, she thought without
question. It was true that every part of her was molten and ready for him,
wetness coursing from her sex. She would take him, all of him and revel in
being claimed in a way that was no-holds-barred, elemental and uncaged. Moaning
in encouragement, she ground her hips back against him.

Ryan
let out a groan of appreciation, but made no other sound as he rose up behind
her and seized hold of her hips. In one fluid surge he thrust, sheathing
himself to the neck of her depths. Julie gasped aloud, her whole body almost
jolted forward from the powerful impact. Embedded inside her, he made himself
known in every inch of her walls. She drew in much needed air as for a few
moments, he held still inside her. Enough for her to get accustomed to his
girth, her muscles stretching to take him as deep as he wanted to go. Soon, her
body wanted more, and she moved with sensuous enticement, one Ryan did not
mistake.

Without
further delay, he began to drive himself in and out of her ready heat till he
built a tempo that made Julie go wild. With him so fully encased inside her it
should have hurt, but the slight discomfort was overshadowed by the immense
pleasure he gave with each purposeful stroke. Her moans of ecstasy grew louder,
earthier, and she could feel that they spurred him further. His thrusts came
more rapidly, his shaft throbbing with each squeeze of her powerful inner
muscles as the sweet delight of their passion rose higher.

Yet
each time Julie felt close enough to the edge to fall over into the depths of
unstoppable ecstasy, Ryan slowed down his rough, taking thrusts, easing into a
grinding pace that sent a blinding wave of pleasure over her body.

Time
and again he drew them back from the peak, till Julie felt she couldn’t take
anymore. Crying out his name, she begged for release as she arched her back, her
arms stretched full length beneath her. She heard Ryan’s low, thick growl in
response to her plea, before he reached underneath and maneuvered his fingers
to find her pulsing clit. When he coupled his thrusts to match his strumming of
her clit, Julie knew she was finally lost.

As
she gave in to the flood tide of their relentless coupling, Julie was relieved
that Ryan didn’t hold back for long, letting go just moments after her
explosive orgasm ebbed into shudders and twitches. She felt each imprint of his
fingers digging into the flesh of her hips as he pounded to a finish, sending a
torrent of his hot, liquid essence deep into her womb.

In
Julie’s sated state, she was almost insensible to the fact that when they fell
to the bed they were still linked as one. Ryan had his arms wrapped around her
and spooned against her quivering body. His gentle kisses on the top of her
head sent her to sleep for the second time that day.

* * *

Once
Julie’s breathing grew low and steady with slumber, Ryan carefully extricated
his body from the softness of hers. Leaving his mate lying so tantalizingly in
those ruffled sheets was the hardest thing Ryan had to do. But she deserved her
rest, especially after the exertions of pleasing both her demanding lovers.
From the blissful expression playing on her sleeping features, Ryan figured she
had no complaints in that regard.

Smiling,
Ryan bent to pick up his clothes but didn’t try to put them on as he left the
bedroom quietly. It took moments of sniffing the air to know Caine wasn’t in
the cabin, and he knew where he would be. Tossing his clothes to the floor,
Ryan crouched and phased into his glorious wolf form, taking off in direction
of the dense woods to join his brother wolf in an exultant run. They’d made it
past the first stage of claiming their mate. Soon, she’d be ready to take them
both at the same time. And in quick succession, she’d be prepared for the final
step of being mated to them forever.

Caine
was glad to see the happy smile on Julie’s face when she emerged from the
bedroom, wearing one of his favorite t-shirts. It hugged to all her curves in
the way that made his throat dry, stopping just above her knee and exposing her
beautifully toned and creamy legs.

She
moved easily into his arms and kissed him full on the lips. Caine was rock hard
in moments.

Fighting
back his ever ready wolf lust, he tightened his arms around her for a moment
before releasing her reluctantly.

“Where’s
Ryan?” she asked curiously, looking around at the den where she’d come looking
for them.

“He
went back into town. He’ll get to your place and bring a few things: your
clothes, for one. Although…left to me you’d be fine walking around with nothing
at all on,” he growled, pulling her back against him to steal one more
irresistible kiss.

“Good
thing it’s not left to you, then,” she said wryly. A deep sigh escaped her and
she began slowly, “Caine, these last few hours…”

“I
know. We shouldn’t have put such a strain on you. But we’ve held back so long
and it was hard not to give in to how we felt. If we tired you out…”

“No,
I’m fine,” she said, her cheeks looking hot as she swept her lashes shyly down.
“In fact, I’ve never felt so…alive. No, what I truly wanted to ask is…what
next? Is this supposed to be some ongoing thing, a relationship, or…”

Caine
cupped her face gently and compelled her to meet his gaze. “I’d rather wait
till Ryan’s here so we can explain what we’re hoping for. But I can tell you,
this isn’t some fling or whatever. We’re playing for keeps, Julie. It might
seem unconventional to the outside world, but this is the way we choose to
share our future. With you. Just you.”

Julie
was staring at him, eyes wide. “When you talk of the future, you mean like
marriage? How is that possible since there’s two of you? That’s um…illegal.”

Caine
smiled. “Obviously. Ryan’s the elder so basically you’ll wed him, but you’ll
belong to both of us. Our children, our family, will be as one. Can you picture
a lifetime of being with the two men who are determined to make you the center
of their world?”

“I…,”
she began, her expression lost. “It’s…I never imagined this would ever happen
to me. I just don’t feel that I deserve you both.”

Caine
let out a chuckle as he scooped her up into his arms. “You deserve much more
than us, Julie. Though we’re hoping you’ll give us the chance to earn your love.”

“I
already love you both,” she breathed, resting her cheek against his shoulder.
“More than I’ve ever loved anyone.”

“I
won’t tell you that everything will always be easy,” Caine said reluctantly.
“There’s still a lot that you need to know before you agree to stay with us.
But like I said, I’ll wait for Ryan before getting into that.”

She
looked up at him then, and her smile was trusting, adoring. Caine felt a pang
as he wished with all his heart that she’d always look like that, look at them
with trust and love and never doubt that they had her best interests at heart.
They’d find a way to take care of Tre, and then they’ll let her know the truth
about their Lycan heritage and how she was going to play her part as their
mate, lover and wife till all eternity.

This
wasn’t exactly how Julie had imagined her life would be; yet she was happier
than she ever thought possible, and it was only getting better.

Here
were two absolutely incredible men, whom she’d fallen deeply in love with, and
who adored her and wanted a future with her in return. They were working so
hard to make sure they could be together with nothing standing between them.
Here, in these dark woods she had spent hours getting to know them better and with
each passing minute, she could see a clearer future with the three of them blissfully
happy.

The
only problem was what to do about Tre.

“He’s
never going to stop coming after me. I realize that now,” she said in a far-off
voice, sitting in between Ryan and Caine on the comfortable leather sofa in
front of the crackling fireplace. More than a week had passed, and she wondered
how long it would be before they would have to leave the safety of their
private cabin.

“We’re
working on a way to bring him down,” Ryan replied through gritted teeth. “He
may have tracked you to our town, but this cabin is the last place he’ll ever
find you. In the meantime, it’s our goal to link him to the attempted abduction
at that restaurant. The prints on that gun didn’t match anyone on record, but
that’s a search narrowed to our area. We know Tre’s original base was the city
you used to live in, so it wouldn’t be hard to prove that he sent his men in an
attempt to kidnap you or worse. He already has a motive, since you decided to
leave him. The police would want to know why he was so keen on getting you back
at all costs.”

Julie
huffed. “Well it wasn’t because he actually cared about me. He just hates to be
thwarted. I’m just a toy he doesn’t want to let go of just yet,” she said
bitterly. “I still can’t figure out how he found me though. Maybe I unintentionally
left some sort of paper trail that led him to me. I thought I was careful. To
think he had his men outside, watching us eating at that restaurant.” She shook
her head and shuddered. “They had guns and would have used them. You can’t
imagine how relieved I am it never came to that.”

She
smiled when both men leaned in, planting kisses on her cheek and nuzzling her
closely.

“It
will be okay,” Caine said, his voice just as strained with anger as Ryan’s had
been. “I’m just glad you didn’t get carted away just to keep them from shooting
at us. Because it would have killed us to think of you sacrificing yourself
like that for us. Promise us you’ll never do that again, Julie.”

“I
promise,” she replied quietly, sighing when Caine’s lips shifted from her cheek
to her neck. Her heart pounded in instant excitement as he nuzzled her with a
tenderness that grew more passionate, his lips opening over her flesh. As she
moaned, her parted mouth was captured in a ravenous kiss by Ryan, his fingers
raking through her hair to cup the back of her head. She shuddered helplessly
as both her lovers began a passionate assault on her senses.

She
couldn’t think straight whenever this happened. And it had happened many times
over the last week. That night of the dinner at Caine’s place hadn’t been a
dream, she only just found out. Ryan had confessed when she’d prodded. Told her
that they had been unable to resist giving her a taste of how it could be
– but had chosen not to take further advantage. As both men began to kiss
and fondle her body, Julie could only groan with desire, allowing her two
lovers to claim her as their own.

The
heated exchange of lips on lips and hands on flesh grew more charged with
energy. Clothes were ripped away only to fall to the floor, joined soon enough
by their entwined bodies. Laid gently on her back on a sheepskin rug, Julie was
taken to an all-new plane of carnal delights when both Ryan and Caine teased
her heated body like never before. Her hard breasts were pulled into Ryan’s
hot, demanding mouth and Julie let her head fall back to the floor as moans of
sweet agony raked through her body. One large hand pushed in between her thighs
to search out her wetness and the sensitive button that promised unbridled
pleasure. As Ryan stroked skillfully at her breast, suckling hungrily on her
left nipple, Caine kissed downwards from her right breast to her soaked slit
and licked her skillfully to frenzied levels of ecstasy. Just at that moment
she would have exploded in a forceful rush, Caine rose over her and drove his
thick, long cock in to the hilt, stretching her with his rigid maleness.

“Oh!”
she cried, loving the swift, decisive staking of claim. Her core felt plumbed
to the full and she reveled in the rhythm of each thrust that swelled the
raging lusts within her to titanic proportions. She opened her eyes groggily
when she felt a movement, to find Ryan kneeling beside her head. She only had
to turn her cheek and her lips would come in contact with his thick, jutting
erection, so beautifully carved she felt her mouth begin to salivate, wanting
to suck hard and deep on his gorgeous shaft.

She
didn’t even have to think twice about what to do. Her fingers wrapped around his
thick, silky base and her tongue lashed out to taste his sweet pre-cum. The
sound of Ryan’s deep groan filled her with desire. Greedily, she opened wide
and welcomed his cock into her hot, wet mouth, inch by delicious inch.

“Mmm,”
she purred, savoring the feel of Ryan expanding her lips with his beautiful
cock, as she eagerly pleasured him. Caine stretched her just as fully at the
heat of her core, with his shaft plowing in and out of her blazing hot pussy.
The music of their mutual moans and linked bodies grew louder as their dance
became more frenzied, passionate, intense.

“Oh
God… It feels so good to be inside of you, Julie,” Caine growled, leaning close
enough to lick her nipple with his hot tongue. Julie moaned in response, the
sound vibrating around Ryan’s shaft.

He
too, let out a deep growl of pleasure, fisting her hair gently and using it as
a harness to guide her back and forth on his rock-solid length. “And having
your beautiful mouth wrapped around me, pleasuring me – is enough to make
me go crazy. I’m so close, Julie,” he rasped.

“Me
too,” Caine agreed, huskily. He sucked hard on a nipple, latching his mouth tightly
around it while his thrust ramped to a piston-like tempo. Julie could only
whimper, desire washing over her body, buzzing in her belly, her mind blown by
a thousand sensations. Ryan thrusting in and out of her mouth at the same pace
as Caine grinding powerfully inside her velvet-lined walls had her whole body
dissolving into helpless quivers. Pleasure was a single most cataclysmic entity
threatening to rupture her to pieces.

“Keep
going like that, sweet one and I’ll be exploding down your throat. Is that what
you want, baby?” Ryan asked, holding Julie’s head in place with both hands as
he looked deeply into her eyes, his expression one that clearly illustrated his
incredible hunger for her. Julie’s answer was to stroke her fingers faster on
his base, dragging in one last breath through her open mouth, which she pushed
down on his shaft till she almost engulfed him whole. Her throat muscles worked
convulsively and the vibrations as well as her strongly sucking lips had Ryan
letting go of the last shred of his control as he erupted in full stream into
her mouth.

The
sight of Ryan bursting forth inside Julie’s mouth and watching her swallow every
drop was enough to push Caine over the edge as he came deep inside her
clenching walls, his seed filling her until it was dripping down her thighs. He
had to hold tight to her hips which began to spasm with her ensuing orgasm as
his almost manic thrusts sent her into orbit. On and on she climaxed, and just
watching her let go for them was a vision they were desperate to burn into
memory. Ryan reluctantly withdrew from her mouth so she could draw in much
needed air, his hands combing gently through her hair as she rested back
against the soft rug, her body sated, still twitching with reflexive tremors.

As
she lay back, chest heaving and eyes closed tight, her two lovers came to lie
on either side of her, their hands and lips gliding over her face, lips and
body to calm her into a pleasure-induced slumber.

* * *

“I’ll
be fine. You two don’t have to worry about me. If there’s somewhere you need to
be, then go,” Julie said.

She’d
walked in on them talking about some meeting with the ‘alpha’ and though she
didn’t fully understand what that meant, she sensed that being here with her
had been keeping them from certain obligations.

They
turned to face her as she entered. She was wearing one of the dresses Ryan had
bought her days before. It was flirty and hung on tiny straps, the hem barely
skimming past her curvy thighs. She giggled as they ran their eyes over her
with unconcealed masculine admiration. It felt as though they were undressing
her with those hungry eyes, but Julie couldn’t be sidetracked. They’d made love
in every room and possibly every position known to man and still they couldn’t
seem to get enough of her. The craziest thing was, Julie felt an equal rise of
excitement coating her inner thighs and knew that she’d never get enough of
them either.

She
marveled at the way her once low sex drive now matched those of her two skilled
lovers. She’d become absolutely insatiable and even her body had become
accustomed to the many physical demands of pleasing two highly sexed, powerful
men who couldn’t get enough.

Still,
she kept her attention on the matter at hand. “You guys told that this hideaway
is safe, remember. Which means I’ll be perfectly fine being left on my own
while you go do whatever it is that you need to take care of.”

“It’ll
only be for a few hours,” Caine agreed, advancing to her side and taking her
hand to lift it to his lips for a soft kiss. “But Ryan and I have never left
you here alone. Either of us has always been home to make sure you…”

“I’m
not a child, okay? I don’t need babysitting,” she teased, with a smile. No one
had ever come around the place since they’d arrived nearly two weeks ago. She
finally felt safe, and she was certain that nothing would happen to her if left
alone in their secret hideaway. She just wanted life to get back to normal and
that meant, being able to handle herself without her men hovering around like
bodyguards twenty-four hours of the day.

“Julie,
we bought this place knowing that one day we’d need a location we could make a
home with our chosen mate – I mean wife,” Ryan explained, also coming
forward and then cupping her face in his strong hands, his masculine fingers
skimming her heated skin. “Here, we’ll be safe from prying eyes and people that
just don’t understand our lifestyle. But we never want you to get the
impression that you’re being locked away, or imprisoned. For one thing you have
a career and we respect that. When the time comes, we intend to do what’s not
just best for us, but you as well.” He kissed her lips softly. “We just need
time to get some things straightened out, okay? And this meeting will help with
that.”

Julie
nodded, looking from Ryan to Caine with trusting eyes. “I know there’s still so
much you aren’t telling me,” she said softly, eyes downcast. “But you can’t protect
me from the truth forever. Over the past several days I’ve overheard you both
whispering. I know you’re both hiding something important from me and I’m
confused. I thought you didn’t want anything or anyone to come between us.”

Julie
glanced up to see them share a quick look. Her heart ached and she wondered why
they felt that she couldn’t handle the truth – whatever the truth was.

“You
have nothing to fear with us, Julie,” Ryan replied, looking straight into her
eyes. “Yes, there’s more you need to know about us but we promise, in good
time. Just know that we would never, ever hurt you.”

Julie
drew in a deep, shaky breath, and nodded. Somehow, she believed them. She had
to. Who else could she turn to? She was tired of running, fed up with being
alone. Just this small taste of being cherished by not one, but two devoted
lovers wasn’t something she wanted to give up. Whatever the cost, Julie vowed she
would see it through, that she would give her heart to the most beautiful men
she’d ever known. No matter the risks.