The Wolf's Mate Book 3: Callie & The Cats (33 page)

Jason sounded slightly annoyed, "What the
hell is the matter with you today, Cades?"

She felt her eyes well up and before she
could stop the words from leaving her lips she said, "It's not
supposed to be like this!" It came out on a wail, followed closely
with, "She's supposed to be miserable and want to come home; she's
not supposed to be happy!"

Jason looked completely shocked at her
outburst. And then she realized with a sinking feeling that they
weren't alone.

"That's a fucking thing to say," one of the
twins said with an angry growl. Callie stood open mouthed, shocked,
between the two.

She flushed with embarrassment. "Callie,
I'm," she struggled to find something to say that would fix it, but
the look on Callie’s face said she'd done irreparable damage.

"Maybe you should head back to the hotel,"
the other twin said tightly as they turned Callie around and moved
her back inside. It looked like she'd lost the ability to walk and
they were supporting her. Cadence could guess that she was
crying.

"Fucking stay here. I'll get the pack." Jason
growled with authority and Cadence had no choice but to obey.
Mortified, she waited dutifully until their party came out and they
went back to the hotel. No one talked to her, but she could feel
Jason's anger at her outburst and she was angry, too. Angry that
she’d asked to come here. Angry that they’d come. Angry that she’d
hurt Callie. And most of all, angry that she’d lost her. She could
see that much now. Her friendship with Callie was all but a memory
now.

Chapter 23

**Callie**

She wrenched her hands into Ethan’s shirt and
wept. She knew that something was wrong with Cades the minute she
walked into the restaurant, but to know that she expected her to
still come back to Allen, even knowing she was pregnant and about
to be married, just boggled the mind.

Eryx rubbed her back while Ethan cuddled her
close on his lap on the small couch in the bathroom. There was a
knock at the door and it opened slowly, and Lisa stepped inside.
“We’re packing up, we’ll get everything to go and eat at the
farmhouse. Whenever you’re ready.”

“Thanks, Lisa.” Ethan sighed.

When they were alone again, Eryx tilted her
face up and wiped her cheeks gently with a cool, damp paper towel.
“She’s just jealous, love.”

She gave him a disbelieving look. Ethan
added, “No, he’s right. Not just jealous but selfish, too. She
wanted you to be so miserable that you’d be begging to go back to
Allen. She clearly misses you, baby, and can’t stand that you’re
content.”

She took a few deep, calming breaths. She
hated crying. It made their already compassionate natures go
haywire trying to soothe and protect her. It was a bad night to
have a meltdown. In just three more hours, they were going to leave
her alone in their home until tomorrow afternoon at 3:30. She’d
felt their tension when Cades had insulted her on the patio. They’d
wanted to protect her from Cades. It had warred with them to walk
away from Cades without saying something to stand up for her. In
the end, taking care of her had won over their instincts to tell
Cades off and that was probably for the best. Then Jason would get
involved, and well, no one wanted a showdown between the wolf pack
and the mountain lion pride.

“Let’s go home.” She said with a voice as
calm as she could muster.

Outside, Eryx tossed the keys to the jeep at
his father. “Will you drive us, dad? We’d like to sit in the back
with her, together.”

“You bet.”

Sandwiched between them, she rested her head
on Eryx’s strong shoulder and held Ethan’s hand tightly. There was
no safer or more comforting place for her than with her mates.

“You know the old saying,” James met her eyes
in the rearview for a moment, “that you can’t go home again? I
think your friend was counting on you to still rely on her for
support, to need a place to call home because you weren’t happy
where you put your roots down.”

“I don’t know why she would rather me be
miserable, though.”

“I think she really misses you.” Ethan said,
stroking the top of her hand with his thumb.

“She can’t miss me and still be happy for
me?” She snorted.

Eryx tipped her chin until she was looking
into his eyes. “You know, I think more than missing you, I think
she was jealous. Of your life now and how well you've done without
the pack and what you've found with us.”

“She’s using the fact that we’re cats as
something to pick at, but I think it’s more likely that she’s upset
that you found what she didn’t by leaving the only thing she ever
wanted to be part of.” Ethan offered, bringing her hand to his
mouth. Even in the darkness of the jeep, she saw the flicker of
heat in his eyes and then felt his tongue dart out for a heartbeat
to lick the top of her hand and her stomach flipped and twisted
pleasantly and her pulse started to race.

“Are you trying to distract me?”

He hummed noncommittally in his throat and
turned her hand and pressed his mouth to her wrist, swirling his
tongue along her pulse point.

Eryx smoothed her hair over her shoulder to
expose her neck and kissed the space behind her ear. She shivered
and then jerked in awareness of their surroundings. She growled.
“Okay, a) that’s not fair because we’re not home and b) we’re
definitely not alone.”

James chuckled from the front seat, but said
nothing else and her face went hot with blush. She felt Eryx’s hand
cup her ultra sensitive breast and squeeze gently. He whispered in
her ear, “When we get home, love, you’re going to be so well
distracted you’ll forget your name.”

Ah, now that was something to look forward
to. She did her best to resist their gentle kisses and caresses, as
Ethan kissed up the inside of her arm and back down, nibbling on
each finger as if her skin tasted like candy, and Eryx kissed her
neck and simply held his hot hand against her breast through her
dress. It was enough to make her come completely undone, except
that their father was driving them so it was just through sheer
willpower that she wasn’t lifting the skirt of her dress up over
her hips and asking them to take her hard.

When they stopped in front of their home, she
shoved Ethan’s shoulder to get him to move out of the truck faster.
They now only had two hours until midnight. Not nearly long enough
in her book. They laughed at her eagerness and James handed them
her boxes of food and said he’d see them at his home after
midnight.

She wasn't sure she said goodbye to him, she
wasn't sure she did anything except tow them through the house to
the stairs and snarl every time they tried to drag their feet. They
were teasing her and she wasn’t in the mood, damn it!

Their new favorite way to wring pleasure out
of her was to each take a side and work her together as a team. She
could barely handle it, it worked her up so fast, but she loved it.
When they were naked, they went on their sides, looping one of her
arms behind each of their necks while she lay on her back. They
hooked her knees and spread her apart, draping her legs over their
hips so she was spread wide and totally at their mercy.

The first kisses were gentle and teasing as
they alternated between her, a taste of things to come, and then
slowly they abandoned her mouth and began to work her breasts,
first pinching and tugging on her nipples until they were even more
sensitive than usual and then dragging them slowly into their mouth
with torturous pressure. The first time she’d ever come with their
mouths on her breasts was under similar circumstances. The orgasm
that flowed through her as they relentlessly tugged on her tight
buds locked her body in a spiral of pleasure that made her dig her
nails into their backs and scream.

They hiked her legs higher on their hips and
Ethan began to flick her clit fast and hard as Eryx slid two
fingers quickly inside her. He timed his thrusts to Ethan's flicks,
and her body quivered and twitched between them. She couldn’t do
anything except blink through the stars in her eyes and listen to
the sound of their hands working her. With her body spread wide and
hooked over their hips, she couldn’t move at all, helpless to their
increasing rhythm until they drove her to a hard climax that made
her breath catch in her throat. She cried out and dug her nails
into their skin as Eryx added another finger and Ethan increased
the pressure of his finger on her clit. Her body wept for them and
she clawed their backs as she arched off the bed, thrashing and
desperate.

She begged, “Please, please!”

Ethan and Eryx looked at each other over her
writhing body and reached a silent decision. Although she was still
unable to find her voice, when Ethan rose to his knees she
whimpered for the loss of his warmth.

He smiled, gently but wickedly, and lifted
her from the bed against his chest. Eryx slid over where she had
lain in the middle of the bed and stretched out on his back and
Ethan set her down on her knees between Eryx's legs. Pillows went
airborne between the two men and Eryx beckoned her forward with a
lust filled smile and she prowled up his body and he met her in a
hard, demanding kiss. She felt Ethan pushing the pillows underneath
her body, one at the top and bottom of her growing belly as he
tugged on her hips gently and she moved back towards him. She knew
that they were planning to take her together, because time was so
short.

She would have protested that they could be
fast, that she could take them one after the other so she could
have them both, but they never did much care for the quickies, and
they both wanted her. And damn it, she would give them anything
they wished because they gave everything to her. Ethan, on his
knees behind her, helped position the pillows a final time so she
was comfortable, massaging his hands into her hips gently. Eryx's
hot cock, wet with pre-come, beckoned her and all rational thought,
all thought at all, went spiraling out of her mind with dizzying
speed as she sucked his cock into her mouth and Ethan drove himself
into her.

Eryx squeezed her shoulders gently and ran
his fingers through her hair, voicing his pleasure because he knew
how much she loved to hear him lose control. Ethan thrust hard and
fast into her, gliding inside her tight, wet heat, swiveling his
hips with each pass until he found her sweet spot and brought her
to a fast orgasm. She moaned around Eryx's cock as pleasure raced
through her veins. Ethan's hand slid around to her mound and he
began to rub her sensitive clit in time to his rhythmic pounding.
Eryx's body tensed under hers as she scored her pleasure into his
thighs and swallowed his cock, reveling in the throaty growls that
poured from his mouth.

Her climax hit her like lightning in a clear
sky, catching her by surprise so she dug her nails into Eryx's
flesh and screamed around his length. He howled as he came, his
hips pumping wildly under her as she swallowed each delicious drop
of his come. Ethan gripped her hips hard and shuddered as he came,
pounding into her wildly and shouting her name until his voice
cracked and it became a reverent whisper.

Ethan, panting hard, dropped to the bed next
to them as Eryx pulled her up his body and hugged her. Shifting her
between them, Eryx kissed her ear, smoothing his hand down her
sweat slicked side, “What’s your name again, love?”

“I’m not sure about anything; I’m still
floating in the clouds.”

A beep broke through their quiet laughter and
they both stiffened. “That’s ten minutes to midnight, we almost
didn’t make it.” Ethan sat up, kissing her gently on her lightly
bruised lips.

Eryx lightly massaged her jaw as Ethan
inspected her hips. A glance down showed fingertip shaped bruises
from where he had held her tightly and she batted his hand away.
"You know I love it when you hold me tight," she murmured, nipping
at Eryx's bicep lazily and yawning.

When her eyes opened, she peeked down Eryx's
body and saw that she had indeed drawn blood on his legs. Before
she could apologize for losing control and scratching the hell out
of him, he tickled the space behind her ear and parroted back, "You
know I love it when you scratch me, angel."

She knew they both did, in fact. Bites,
bruises, and scratch marks were part and par of making love to a
were-animal, and although they were incredibly careful and gentle
with her especially now with her babies, none of them ever escaped
without a little love bite at least.

Eryx sat up and kissed her as Ethan got up
and dressed, whispering, “We need to go, sweetheart."

“I’ll miss you.” She was tempted to say that
she didn’t care about traditions, that she thought it was stupid to
spend a night apart when they’d been living together for three
months and she was having their babies. She kept the thought to
herself, because she knew that the boys really did want to do all
of the wedding traditions, because theirs was the first mountain
lion wedding.

“I love you, sweetheart. Tomorrow afternoon
we’ll be married and then we never have to spend another night
apart.” Ethan promised, kissing her.

Eryx dressed and took his place, leaning over
and kissing her gently. “I love you, too, baby. I can’t wait for
you to be mine forever.”

She told them both she loved them and watched
them leave the bedroom after reminding her that dinner was in the
fridge and they loved her and missed her already. Truly happy and
blissed out, she lay in bed for almost an hour and thought back
over the last few months of her life and the surprising twists that
brought her to this place. A rumbling tummy drove her from bed and
she donned Ethan’s robe and headed downstairs. She never gave his
robe back, and he wore it every now and then for her so that his
scent stayed within the fabric. She loved how he smelled, both of
them, male and heat and sex and just hers. And in about 14 hours,
she was going to marry both of them.