Shifters of Shadow Falls Collection (Books 1-3) (17 page)

“I love hearing all of this.  Don’t stop.”  He chuckles at my soft words and kisses the tip of my nose. 

“Jude was more difficult.  He’s more reserved.  We saw him while we were hunting.  Like Caleb and Dom, he followed.  But he stayed in wolf form and didn’t approach us for nearly a week.  A few times I thought he’d changed his mind and decided we weren’t the right pack for him.”

“Why?” 

“I’m not sure.  I never asked and he hasn’t offered his thoughts.  It’s not my place to question his hesitation.”  I part my lips to object, but decide to keep quiet and let him continue with his story.

“When he did finally confront us, he came to me in human form and asked who we were.  I told him and offered him a place in our small pack.  We were all just barely men, but we were a strong pack at this point.  He nodded and asked, ‘when will you be taking your home back?’”  He sighs in memory.  “I looked at my small pack and knew it was enough.  I decided that day to turn around and take my home back.  Well I burned it to the ground actually.  It was too easy to take over.  Most of the children were dead or sold.  Half of the pack was unconscious from whatever drug they’d taken.  I challenged the alpha, but the coward just ran.  We torched everything to the ground and started over.  When the authority heard, they came and agreed that I had the right to challenge for the territory.  Alec helped us financially until I got my footing in stocks and a few start up businesses.  For years, making our pack a stable home was my only objective, until we had far more than enough.  And then I started dreaming of you.  I started living for the day that I’d meet you.” 

My heart clenches at his words as his strong hand tilts my chin and he leans down to softly kiss my neck.  “I want sons Ariana.  I want a family.  A strong, healthy family.”  His silver eyes find mine and seem to fill me with his longing need.  “I understand that you’re young and haven’t fantasized of this like I have.  But it’s all I want.”  He shifts onto his knees and trails kisses down my body to my stomach.  “I would trade it all just to see you swollen with my pups.”  He kisses just below my belly button and the sight makes my body heat.  I can see him holding me, rubbing along my body as he listens to our unborn child growing inside of me.

“I-” I don’t know what to say.  I speak without thinking, “I want that too.  I do.  But not yet.  I don’t think I can be a mother yet.”  My voice pleads with him for understanding.  He closes his eyes and kisses my stomach again. 

“I understand.”  He nods his head as he lays next to me again, rubbing soothing circles on my back.  “I do, sweetheart.  And it’s alright.  In fact, it may be for the best that we wait.  I may have to leave soon.  I need to talk to the authority about this new development.” 

“What does that mean?  I don’t understand,” I’m overwhelmed with concern.  “Leave as in for a day; for how long?”

“I’m not sure yet, sweetheart.”  He rests his forehead on mine and smiles.  “But as soon as I know, I will tell you.  I promise.”  I can’t help the pleased smile that grows on my face. 
Progress.

“Thank you.”  I breathe out the words before finding his lips with mine and pushing my body against his.  He chuckles at my lack of subtly.

              “You’ll be too sore for the claiming.”  I shake my head, but refuse to leave his lips.  I nip his top lip and rub my thigh over his hip.  He groans as my heat rubs against him.  “Once more.”  He breaks away and waits for me to meet his gaze.  “But then you’ll have to wait.  I don’t want you to be hurting.” 

              “It’ll be a good hurt.”  I rub my cheek against his chest.  He laughs again and rolls me onto my back, caging me in with his strong, hard body.

              “One more time, sweetheart.”  My head falls back against the mattress in incomparable ecstasy as my mate makes love to me, with long, gentle strokes until we peak together, finding our release in each other’s arms. 

Chapter 3: Lizie

“Baby girl, wake up.”  I hear Caleb’s words as I groan in displeasure.  I was having such a wonderful dream, but for the life of me, I can’t keep a grasp on it and it leaves me without permission.  I push against his hard chest.

“Five more minutes.”  I hear him and Dom huff a masculine laugh at my reluctance to wake up. 

“Up little one; do you feel your wolf?”  My eyes spring open at the mention of my wolf.  She came to me.  I
felt
her.               

“You healed while you were asleep.”

“All my hard earned marks are gone.”  Caleb pouts playfully, but I can see the overwhelming happiness in his eyes. 

I quickly throw the bit of blanket remaining on my body off and turn to look at my ass and thighs.  I nearly cry when I see that she healed me.  She came back to me.  I close my eyes and try to feel her, try to talk to her, but I feel empty and alone.  My lips pull down and a sadness flows through me.  I don’t want to hope that she’ll come back.  I don’t want the disappointment. 

“Hey baby girl, don’t frown.”  Caleb tugs my bottom lip with his teeth and kisses me. 

“Do you think she can hear us?”  I nearly react to Dom’s unspoken words.  The muted voices in my head ask, “Can you hear us little one?”

“Can you hear me baby?” 

I keep my eyes closed and will them to hear me.  Admitting the words I’m afraid to say aloud, “I love you.  I love you both so much.” 

“Give us a sign if you can hear us.”  I hear Dom’s voice and I furrow my brows.

“I can hear you!”  I nearly yell in my head.  “I love you!  Listen to me!”

“Are you alright baby?”  Caleb asks out loud and it causes tears to form in my eyes.  They still can’t hear me.  I shake my head and let the tears fall as I sob in his arms. 

“It’s alright babe; it’s a good sign.”  I sob and try to speak, but I give up when I realize it’s no use.  I need to calm myself down.  For so long I thought she’d left me.  I thought she’d died.  And now she came back, but left me again.  She didn’t give me a chance to heal her. 

“We need to talk to her about the ceremony.”  Dom’s voice echoes in my head and I do my best to settle.  Caleb’s right.  It’s a good thing.  It’s a good sign that she came out at all.

“Baby, we need to talk about how you want us to claim you.”  My eyes open at Caleb’s words.

“What do you mean?”

“Well there are two of us so we’re not quite sure how we’re going to handle each other.  We don’t want to be rough with you or fight over you.”  He runs a hand through his thick hair and looks past me at Dom before continuing.  “When the moon is at it’s peak, we may be difficult to deal with.  It brings out our wolves and our primitive side.”  He looks at Dom again and opens his mouth, but closes it and purses his lips. 

“We weren’t sure if you wanted us to take you like that,” Dom places a gentle kiss on my shoulder before adding, “for the first time.”

“Oh.”  My pussy clenches and the rush of arousal dampens my core.  The thought of them having my body, sharing me, taking turns giving me pleasure and taking theirs from my body, it makes my entire being heat with anticipation.  I lick my lips and arch my head to look at Dom over my shoulder.  His eyes steady on my exposed neck before he meets my blue-eyed stare.  “We’re you thinking it would be better to,” I hesitate.  ‘Fuck me’ doesn’t sound appropriate to use when referring to me giving them my virginity.  I don’t have to finish my question though.

He swallows, holding my gaze.  “We may be more gentle.”

“The sooner the better.  Your heat is coming on strong now.  It’s fucking killing me to wait.”  I smile at Caleb’s impatience.  I look between my two mates. 

“How?”  I don’t have to elaborate.  They look at each other before Dom answers.

“We want to break your hymen together.”  My eyes pop open with disbelief.  Both of them?  Together?  “No, no.  Sorry.”  He chuckles looking down at the bed before looking back at me.  “With our fingers.”  His smile widens at my obvious relief.  “We don’t want to hurt you.  And I think we can all agree that, for your first time, that may be a bit much.”  The words, “for your first time” linger in my head as I stare back at my beast of a mate.  My body heats and cools at the same time as I remember him stroking his huge cock over my stomach.  I lick my lips again with anticipation. 

“Do you want to do it now?”  I bite the inside of my cheek as my lower lip worries.  I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t nervous.  “It’s going to hurt isn’t it?”

“Only for a little bit.”  Caleb gets on his knees and leans down to the crook of my neck.  “We won’t leave you in pain baby girl.”

“We’ll take care you.” 

I nod my head and settle down on my back, between my mates.  I look between my savage beast and skilled hunter.  Both of them hold expressions of longing and desire.  I run my hands up both of their chiseled abs and watch as Dom shivers and Caleb leans in for more of my touch.  I bend my knees and part my legs for them as another wave of heat flows down my body, it pools in my core, causing my clit to throb.  Caleb’s fingers travel down my tummy, leaving goosebumps to cover his path.  He gently presses on my clit, rubbing small circles on the sensitive nub. 

“It’ll only hurt for a minute.  Then Dom will take you and then me.  Okay, baby?”

              I nod with my eyes closed as the numbing tingles flows from my core to my limbs, making my body stiffen with the need to release.  He dips to fingers inside of me and the slight stretch is welcomed.  My pussy clamps down on his fingers, needing more of his movement to get me off.  Dom joins with two fingers and the added girth makes me stretch to a point of slight pain.  I wince and wiggle involuntarily as I relax around their shallow movements.  They slowly finger fuck me, moving together and putting pressure on the sweet, rough spot on my front wall.  The pain quickly subsides.  I arch my back and moan as my skin heats and toes go numb.  My heels dig into the mattress as I push myself into their hands. 

Dom’s other hand moves to my clit and he rubs my own arousal against the throbbing nub in strong, unrelenting circles.  I buck against the overwhelming sensation.  “Yes!” 
Fuck, yes! 
Caleb’s hands hold my hips down as they finger fuck me harder, no longer in unison as my need to cum has me thrashing against their hold.  The building waves, threaten to crash against me.  The slowly rising heat holds my body still and as I feel a pinch of pain followed by the enormous weight of pleasure wracking through my body.  The waves crash against me as I feel Caleb kiss my shoulders and Dom move between my legs. 

              I feel a slow, stinging pain as he pushes his thick cock inside of me, stretching my walls to the point of pain.  The pleasure subsides and my heels dig into the mattress, my eyes close and I try to relax around his enormous size.  I feel so full and so hot; the heat is nearly unbearable.  He pulls out slowly, not all the way.  At first there’s relief, but my body immediately misses his touch.  He rocks into my body pushing more of himself into my aching core.  His head falls onto my shoulder as he groans, “you feel so fucking good.”  He leaves an open mouth kiss on my collar bone before rocking in and out of me again.  I moan at the heated sensation pulsing through my sensitized body.

              “You’re doing so good baby.”  My head lazily rolls to the side so my hooded eyes can focus on Caleb and the sweet kisses he’s leaving down my shoulder and onto my breasts.  He suckles a nipple into his mouth while pinching and kneading the other.  Dom’s fingers pinch and circle my swollen clit.  My two mates work together to overwhelm my senses with undeniable pleasure.  My body bucks off the mattress as Dom pushes all the way into the hilt and stills inside me.  I feel my pussy pulse around his cock and my arousal leak down my thighs as I cum violently, trembling beneath their touch.  Dom’s hips push against mine as he thrusts short, deep, steady motions into my aching heat, prolonging my release.  I scream out in pleasure as he picks up his pace.  His massive body hovers over mine before his forearm reaches around me and he lifts my small body off the bed.  His large hand grips the nape of my neck, helping him to fuck into me with ease.  Each forceful pump of his hips sends my body into a heated shock.  White lights dance in my vision and my voice is stolen as I silently scream my pleasure.

              He pulls me to his chest as he lays down on his back.  His strokes slow as Caleb approaches behind me.  My numb body sparks to life as Dom stills deep inside me and Caleb presses the head of his dick into my ass.  I push off of Dom’s chest, but he holds me still.  “Shh, push against him.  It will help” I whimper at the foreign sensation, but do as Dom tells me to.  Heat flames my sore body as Caleb slowly pushes himself into me.  I feel overly stretched and full.  And hot.  So damn hot and full.

              I shake my head on Dom’s chest, “too much.”  He holds my hips steady and kisses me with a tenderness that soothes my nerves.  My body shakes and a cold sweat covers my body as they move, first Dom and then Caleb, in and out of my over-used body.  I tremble as another wave of heated numbness over takes my body =, starting at my toes and building more and more in the pit of my stomach.  Caleb’s fingers rub my clit and this other hand pinches and pulls roughly at my nipples.  Their pace speeds up as I pulse and cum brutally from their unrelenting touch.  Wave after wave of intense pleasure hits me.  Each greater than the last as they continue to use my body, claiming it as theirs, thrusting ruthlessly, taking their pleasure from me.  It feels like an endless orgasm shocking my numb body over and over again.  Time stills as my orgasms flow together.  At last they finally cum, each buried to the hilt inside of me.  I drift off as they each kiss me, my lips, my neck my shoulders, whispering soft words of love and devotion.