Bear Seeking Bride: Thorn (Bear Canyon Brides Book 6) (BBW Paranormal Bear-Shifter Menage Romance) (5 page)

Once his bear took over, he roared into the night and ran as fast as he could, away from the house. Their mate had rejected them, and his heart felt as if it had been ripped out of his chest.

***

Hawk watched Ava pick up the downed stool and stare out the open door into the canyon. The sun had already started to set, and visibility was limited, but he knew Gavin was long gone. He walked to the window and closed the door.

“I’m sorry, but I honestly don’t know what’s going on,” she said. “What just happened?”

“That is a classic example of a bear losing control,” he said, sitting on the stool Gavin had vacated. “Don’t worry, he doesn’t normally act like that.”

“I am worried, but only because it was so extreme. Truthfully, I would expect you to lose your cool before Gavin,” she laughed.

“I might have,” he laughed with her, “but I figured it out before he did.”

“Figured what out?” she asked.

“You’re not dumping us,” he said, “but you think we’re still searching for a mate.”

“Dumping you?” she asked. “How can I dump you if we’re not together?”

“That’s the problem,” he told her. “In our eyes, we are together. You’re our mate, Ava.”

“But…that can’t be right,” she said. “Bree and the girls said a mated bear is possessive, dominating and extremely…hands on. Except for our first date-night together, neither one of you has even tried to touch me. I though you both just wanted to be friends.”

“That’s where we went wrong,” he admitted. “In an effort to convince you to give us a chance, we decided to give you time to get to know us, to trust us, before we did anything physical. Unfortunately, it’s been very difficult to control ourselves and you’ve just witnessed a negative result. Please don’t judge him, Ava. He loves you…and so do I.”

“Oh, Hawk,” she said. “I love you both, too. Very much.”

He leaned forward, placed his hand on the nape of her neck and slid his hand into her hair. His lips crashed down on hers, and when she opened her mouth slightly, he shoved his tongue inside her mouth. She eagerly met him stroke for stroke with the same desperate force, and his dick hardened to the point of pain.

He moved his chair closer and wrapped her hair around his fist like he’d longed to do since he’d first laid eyes on her. It was softer than he’d imagined, and she moaned and leaned in closer, placing her hand on his thigh. His cock twitched, aching to rest in her hand, and he broke the kiss. He couldn’t go any further without Gavin. Not their first time.

“Go get him, Hawk,” she whispered, as if reading his mind. Her chest heaved, as if begging for his caress, her freckled cheeks held a soft pink glow, and her blue eyes sparkled, revealing her arousal. His mate wanted him as much as he wanted her and he’d never seen a more beautiful sight. “Go find my other mate and bring him back home.”

“I shouldn’t be too long,” he said, standing.

“Good,” she said, following him to the door. “Can I see your bear before you go?”

His heart swelled at her request, and he gave her a quick, chaste kiss on the lips.

“Of course.”

He stepped outside and called his bear. She watched the full thirty second shift, and then pet his head and tugged on his ear. Her fingers felt like heaven and it took all of his control not to shift back and forget about finding his brother.

They shouldn’t have waited so long to touch their mate.

He nudged her thigh with his muzzle, urging her to go back inside the house.

“Okay, I’m going.”

She held her hands in the air, to prove she no longer touched him, but she didn’t leave. Instead she leaned down and placed a kiss on top of his furry forehead.

“Be safe.”

He waited until she went back inside their home and closed the glass door, and then he ran.

His giant paws ate up the canyon floor as he dodged through trees and bushes, looking for Gavin. He ran along the edge of the small stream, knowing how much his brother loved the cool water, and along the way he checked two caves they liked to nap in, but they were both empty. He ran another mile before he picked up Gavin’s scent, and then spotted him near the water at the edge of town.

The bear lay on the canyon floor, swirling the water with his paw. When Hawk approached, he grunted and continued playing with the cool liquid. Hawk shifted into his human form and Gavin reluctantly followed.

“I’m sorry,” Gavin said, still staring at the stream.

“I know,” Hawk said, “and Ava does, too. She’s not leaving us.”

“What do you mean?” Gavin asked.

“I only figured it out a few seconds before you started yelling, but she never intended to leave us. She also didn’t know we still wanted her as our mate. Some of the girls told her how aggressive mated bears are, and when we weren’t, she assumed we were still looking.”

“That’s why she hesitated about the gala,” Gavin said more to himself than to Hawk.

“Yeah,” Hawk agreed. “She loves us, Gav, and she’s staying. Let’s go home.”

He started walking away from the stream so they could shift and run, but Gavin didn’t budge.

“She’s staying?” Gavin called after him.

“She’s staying and she’s waiting for us right now,” Hawk called over his shoulder. “Oh, and her lips? They feel like nothing we’ve ever experienced before.”

Hawk called his bear and started running. The animal took over thirty seconds later, and it wasn’t long before he heard his brother’s paws fast approaching on the canyon floor.

They raced back home, playfully roaring and using their weight to throw the other off his feet. When they got close enough to see the house, they both stopped at stared at the sight of Ava in their kitchen. She stood by the window, staring out into the night, and the light behind her made her look like an angel.

She watched from the inside until they were close enough to see clearly, and then she opened the door and walked out to welcome them home.

Chapter Five

Ava smiled as the two identical bears lumbered up to the patio and sat down in front of her. In contrast to their dark human hair, their bear coats were light brown with blueish grey tips. As if she’d seen their animal forms several times before, she easily identified who was who.

She remembered laughing when Bree told her she couldn’t tell the doctors apart, but then she’d arrived at their office a few minutes early the following day for lunch. The little interaction she saw with the staff and patients had surprised her. It wasn’t one thing, but overall they just seemed weird. She later found out
weird
meant
professional
.

When they’d first opened their practice, many patients had preferred Gavin’s upbeat personality compared to Hawk’s quiet one. In an effort to keep their workload even, they’d developed their
professional
faces. In short, Gavin had toned down his smiles and Hawk had made a conscious effort to smile more.

They’d been doing it for so long, they’d forgotten to warn her.

“It doesn’t matter if you’re at work, home or in your bear forms, I can always tell the two of you apart,” she said, rubbing her hand over Gavin’s furry head. “I’m glad you came back to me.”

Both men shifted back into their human forms, and Gavin grabbed her hand. He kissed her palm and placed it on his cheek.

“I’m sorry,” he said.

“I forgive you,” she said, simply.

“If you agree to stay, we’re marking you tonight,” he said. “I can’t bear to live another day without touching you.”

She placed her other palm on the other side of his face.

“Gavin?”

“Yes?”

“I’m staying. Forever. Now, kiss me, my mate.”

As if the string holding him back had snapped, he pressed his lips to hers, hard and unyielding. His palms cradled her head as he planted kisses on her cheek and down her neck.

She could feel the slight tremor in his touch, and silently rejoiced. His barely leashed control was exactly what she’d imagined when the girls had described their primal, insatiable men.

She heard Hawk open the sliding glass door, and before she knew what was happening, Gavin picked her up and threw her over his shoulder. Her sandals fell off, and she squealed in surprise, but she didn’t squirm or try to get away. He carried her to the master bedroom, and Hawk followed on his brother’s heels.

Gavin set her down, placed his hands on her waist and kissed her again. This time her lips parted immediately, and he slid his tongue inside her mouth. He took his time, tasting and exploring, and she whimpered at his gentle caress. Hawk pushed her hair to one side, held onto her shoulders and peppered her neck with soft kisses, licks and nips.

She’d learned about the mate mark from her new friends, and she knew his tiny bites were nothing like the real thing, but being touched by both of her men felt fantastic. Her pussy tingled, desperate to be filled by one or both of them, and liquid heat soaked her panties.

Gavin broke the kiss and moved his hands to the front of her capris.

He unfastened her pants and pushed them down over her hips at the same time Hawk pulled her shirt over her head. Gavin kneeled down to help her step out of the confining material, and Hawk undid her bra and let it fall to the floor. He pressed his front to her back, gathered her round, soft breasts in his hands, and rubbed her hard nipples between his fingers. She reached her hands back, latched onto his hips and pulled him closer. His hard dick pressed against her ass and she moaned and rubbed against him. She turned her head to look over her shoulder, and Hawk caught her lips in a searing kiss.

“You are so beautiful,” Gavin said.

He inched her panties down her thighs, and forced her legs apart. She felt her essence slide down her inner thigh as Gavin traced her wet hole with his large finger. He slowly slid the digit inside her cunt and she cried out and reached for him, pulling his hair. He moved closer and kissed her mound before adding another finger to her warm channel.

She broke the kiss with Hawk and opened her legs a little wider. Gavin kissed and caressed her stomach with his free hand while he fucked her cunt with the other. It had been so long since she’d been with a man, and even longer since she’d been with anyone other than David, but she didn’t feel the usual need to hide that she’d always felt with a new lover.

Hawk and Gavin worshiped her body with hard, possessive caresses, and she suddenly realized what she’d been missing out on by settling for a lazy lover. In the last three years, the only reason she’d orgasmed had little to do with her former partner, and everything to do with her own efforts.

“You are perfect, baby,” Hawk whispered in her ear. “You are the only one who can complete us.”

Her entire body tingled and she felt her orgasm fast approaching. She ground against Gavin’s hand, sucking him deeper into her channel, and suddenly, they both pulled their hands away. She cried out and swayed, but Hawk caught her, scooped her up and carried her to the bed.

His lips brushed against hers sweetly before he set her down, pulled back the covers and ordered her to crawl into the center. She pouted until they both started undressing, and then she obeyed his command and looked her fill. She’d always known they were sexy, but without clothes, they were lethal. Their smooth, taut skin covered muscles she didn’t know existed and they moved with natural grace as they stalked her like prey.

Gavin grabbed her ankles and crawled up the center of the bed between her legs. He traced her folds with his finger, gathering up some of her essence and rubbing it over her clit.

“I love that you shave this sexy pussy,” Gavin said. “I like to see every part of you.”

Oh fuck!

Her pussy fluttered, as if calling out to him, and he smiled and swiped his tongue from her wet hole to her clit. He sucked the hard nub into his mouth, and then flicked his tongue against it, causing her to cry out. She spread her legs wider and laced the fingers of one hand through his hair, grinding her cunt against his face. He abandoned her clit and jabbed his tongue inside her pussy, pushing his nose against her jewel.

Hawk kneeled on the bed next to her and pushed two fingers into her mouth as he closed his mouth around one of her hard nipples. He alternated between sucking and swirling his tongue around the candy sized pebble before he scraped his teeth over the sensitive flesh, and then transferred his attention to her other breast. She sucked his digits, ran her free hand down his hard chest and wrapped it around his long and thick hard dick. She stroked him feverishly as he continued to love her breasts.

Her pussy tightened with every jab of Gavin’s tongue and a white hot blast of heat seemed to spread over her entire body. Every touch, every sensation, felt like they were branding her, marking her with their lips and hands. When she thought she’d explode from pleasure, Hawk let go of her breasts and Gavin replaced his tongue with his cock.

He entered her slowly, allowing her to adjust to his size, and she accepted all of him. The only thing missing was Hawk, but she didn’t need to worry. Gavin wrapped his arms around her and rolled, still buried deep inside her, until their positions changed and she was on top. He held her in place and kissed her slowly.

Hawk kneeled behind her, and she felt the cold shock of the lube seconds before his fingers rimmed the small star opening of her bottom hole. He slowly applied more and more pressure until one large finger slipped inside. When he could move the digit in and out easily, he added another. She didn’t feel the burn until a third finger entered and stretched the tiny hole even wider.

She winced from the pain and ground against Gavin, pulling him deeper into her core. She felt his cock throb wildly, and he placed a chaste kiss on her lips and rubbed his hands up and down her back.

“Shhh… It will only hurt for a minute. Let’s wait for Hawk.”

She wasn’t an anal virgin, but it had been a long time since she’d let anyone fuck her there, and she’d never had both entrances filled by two men at the same time. She knew the pain would pass quickly, and she took a deep breath to steady herself.

Hawk added more lube and replaced his fingers with the tip of his cock. He slid into her slowly, giving her time to adjust and accept all of him.

“That’s it, baby,” he said, easing into her. “Take all of me.”

When he was fully seated, he praised her again and kissed her spine.

With both men filling her up, she couldn’t move without a surge of pleasure racing over her skin. Luckily, she didn’t have to.

Her men created a rhythm, alternately sliding in and out of her warm channels until noises she’d never heard before escaped her lips and every nerve ending hummed with pleasure.

She saw Gavin’s upper and lower canines elongate and then she felt Hawk’s bite on the right side of her neck. Gavin followed by biting her on the left. She screamed in both pleasure and pain as the men held on tightly and continued pumping in and out of her. Seconds later, they both let go of her neck and roared their releases.

They all collapsed in a heap, and then the guys gently licked her bite marks. Hawk pulled out of her bottom slowly, and then Gavin rolled her off of him and positioned her in the center of the bed.

“Be right back, love,” Gavin said.

She immediately missed their warmth, but she couldn’t muster the strength to raise her head, or form the words to ask where they were going. She closed her eyes, and smiled when Hawk returned to her side and wrapped his arm around her waist. A second later, Gavin spread her legs and carefully removed the evidence of their love-making with a warm washcloth. He then laid on her other side.

“You are the best thing to ever happen to us,” Hawk said. “I love you, baby.”

“You belong to us now, love,” Gavin said. “Forever.”

She turned her head to kiss Hawk, and then looked the other way to kiss Gavin.

“I love both of my mates,” she said, sleepily. “For always.”

***

Gavin stared at the ceiling and listened to the gentle breathing of his mate, and the deep contented breaths from his brother. The stars dotted the sky and their light peeked through the curtain, casting an ethereal glow around the room.

God, he couldn’t believe what an asshole he’d been earlier. If he had flipped out on anyone else, she would have been gone before he got back from his little rant. Luckily, he and Hawk had chosen well when they’d picked Ava’s response to their ad.

She’d learned to tell them apart almost instantly, a feat that took most people years, if ever. Only a true mate would be able to identify them so easily, especially while they wore their professional faces. The three women on their staff didn’t know who was who half the time, and they’d been working with the women for nearly five years.

He glanced at his mate’s neck and his dick started to harden when he saw the two permanent mate marks. He loved the way the puncture wounds stood out on her pale, freckled skin. The marks wouldn’t turn her into a bear, or give her any bear-like abilities. Their only purpose was to brand her as the mate of a bear, and tell the world who she belonged to.

He and Hawk had failed miserably in expressing their feelings, and explaining the mating process to her, and when she’d accepted their marks, he’d silently vowed to never keep anything from her again.

He felt grateful his patient had reached out and friended Ava in her time of need. The woman, Bree Mallory, had welcomed Ava into her close group of friends, and he appreciated her kindness. His heart ached when he thought about how lonely she’d been before she’d answered their ad, and how she’d desperately wanted their companionship, even though she thought their relationship would soon end.

He and Hawk had to work in the morning, but he couldn’t fall asleep. He wanted to call in sick and lay in bed all day with Ava, but he wouldn’t. He’d hate to have to cancel and reschedule all of his patients, especially those who depended on him to be there.

The ring they had hidden in the nightstand flashed in his mind and he whispered a curse. They’d picked the setting Monday afternoon, and they jeweler had delivered it yesterday morning. It had been burning a hole in his pocket ever since.

“What are you swearing about?” Hawk asked.

“Sorry,” Gavin said. “Go back to sleep.”

“What time is it?”

“It’s almost two.”

“Why aren’t you sleeping?”

“I was thinking…about everything,” Gavin admitted. “We forgot to give her the ring.”

“We’ll give it to her tomorrow morning,” Hawk said.

“Yeah, I—”

“There’s a ring?” Ava asked.

“Hi,” he said, facing her. “How are you feeling?”

“Fantastic,” she said. “You mentioned a ring?”

“Now you’ve done it,” Hawk laughed. “Turn on the light and give it to her.”

Ava sat up and giggled like a kid in a candy store, and Hawk sat up next to her. Gavin switched on the light, pulled the velvet box out of the nightstand, and handed it to his mate.

She opened the lid and gasped.

“Oh my god,” she said, her voice wobbly. “It’s perfect.”