Upon the Threshold (25 page)

“But we like touching you,” Kraven said softly. Then he growled and nipped at her neck. “But I do want to slide my cock into your tight little body and have you squeeze me so hard I never want to leave.”

“Oh, I love having you touching me too. I love the feeling of having both of you inside of me. The way that it feels when you are both stroking in and out of my pussy and ass. It’s an incredible feeling that I never want to give up.”

“Up on your knees,” Lukkis said. He pulled his fingers free, flicking her clit in the process, and then held his hands out to her. “I want in that gorgeous pussy, now,” he growled, licking his lips slowly and making her clench in need.

“Good.” She growled right back at him. She moved so that she was on her knees before them. “Now what?” She watched Kraven’s cock as it rose from semierect to full-on hard. “I love how hard the two of you are all the time.”

“It’s all you,” Kraven told her. “Straddle Lukkis and let him take your weight. Wind your legs around him and lean in so I can slide my cock into your sweet little ass. Then” —he brushed a kiss across her shoulder— “all you need to do is enjoy the ride.”

Eli looked down at Lukkis and grinned. She moved to do just as she was instructed, a leg on each side of Lukkis’s broad thighs, and bit her lip as she slowly settled herself onto his cock. Leaning in, she kissed Lukkis’s and smiled. “I do so love riding you.” It was the truth. She loved anything with these men.

He growled softly and flexed his cock, smiling slowly at her moan. “Wrap your legs around my waist,” he instructed her. He lifted up on his knees to let her swing her legs around. “It will give Kraven the room he needs to take your sweet little ass.”

Eli did just that. She wrapped her legs around Lukkis with a little help and whimpered. “That feels amazing.” The position she was in forced Lukkis’s cock even deeper. She looked back to Kraven and grinned. “Come on, big boy. I love having you inside of my ass, so take me already.”

“Lean into Lukkis,” Kraven said, a hand between her shoulder blades.

Lukkis leaned back, changing the angle again so she was stretched out over him. Cupping her ass, he grinned at her. “Just relax, I have your weight, so all you need to do is be at peace and let Kraven take you.”

And Kraven was right there, his cock bumping against her anus, his heat along her spine. She felt Kraven’s fingers rubbing the waterproof lube against her tight hole. He worked the liquid into her body carefully, ensuring she was well ready for him.

Doing as instructed, Eli laid her cheek on Lukkis’s shoulder and closed her eyes. She trusted them. They would never harm her, and she knew it. Relaxing fully, at least as fully as she could, she felt the slide of Kraven’s cock into her ass and shuddered. “Oh my,” was all that she could think to whisper. It always felt like this, the stretching, the feeling of rightness, the feeling of perfection. She loved it.

Kraven slid a hand over her belly and up between her breasts, lifting her as Lukkis straightened. They both shifted then, up onto their knees so the water just caressed her bottom and legs. Slowly, they began to thrust, each holding her up to take their cocks repeatedly, the water lapping at her skin an extra sensory contact.

Eli held on to Lukkis and rubbed her cheek to his. After several moments, she whispered one word into his ear. “Harder,” was all she said and began to move right along with the men.

Chapter Seventeen

“We have clearance to land,” someone called out.

“Begin approach,” Kraven ordered. Then he turned to face her. “Ready?” he asked, moving closer.

They were about to land on his and Lukkis’s homeworld. A planet she hadn’t even known existed until she met her mates. A culture she was still trying to wrap her head around. And she had to recreate the same mating ceremony they’d already had in front of a bunch of people she didn’t know.

He chuckled softly and shook his head. “You look more panicked now than when we left the planet. There is nothing to worry about, Elisabeth. Lukkis and I will be with you the entire time. Just look to us if you’re ever unsure. This is strange and new, I get that, but we’re not going to let anything happen to you.”

Eli took a deep breath and nodded. “I know,” she whispered and then smiled just for him. “I’m trying to regain my nerves, but I think I lost them when there was that flux in gravity.” She had been in cryo-sleep the last time she was in space and found that she didn’t have the stomach for it, really at all. “I just hope I don’t puke on your boots.”
Again
, she added silently. Poor Kraven had been holding on to her when she’d gotten space sick, and his boots were now ruined because of it.

“I have other boots,” he said softly. Which was true. He was currently wearing a clean, without-any-puke pair. “All that matters is you, Elisabeth. If you at any time need for us to take you out of there, just tell us. We are more concerned for your well-being and happiness than for anyone else.”

“Thank you.” Leaning her head on his shoulder. “I am truly the luckiest woman in the world to have the two of you in my life. To know that the two of you love me as much as you do,” she said with a smile.

“In two worlds actually.”

A throat clearing had them both looking to the young officer trying to be discreet.

Kraven growled softly, all fierce and protective in an instant as he took the offered data pad. He flicked his thumb over it and stared at it for a time before nodding and handing it back to the officer. “Let them know that is acceptable,” he said.

“Right away, sir.” The officer spun away.

“What was that all about?” Eli asked as she looked up at Kraven. “And do you know you growl softly when another male comes within arm’s distance of me? I find that very sexy.”

“Just those on the ground checking in with the schedule of events. They have to clear it through me since I’m one of your mates,” he told her. “As for the growling.” He shrugged. “I have absolutely no idea to what you might be referring.”

Looking up at him with a grin on her face, Eli shook her head. “Oh, you are a very, very bad man. You do too. I don’t mind it though. As I said, I find it incredibly sexy. I love it when you growl. I wouldn’t be opposed to you doing it more often, truthfully.”

He lifted a brow and shook his head slowly. “You are a strange and wonderful woman, Elisabeth. Most do not like a Droushanian male growling at them, and yet you actually do. Very unusual and sexy, I think.”

“I didn’t say I liked any Droushanian male growling at me. However, I love it when you and Lukkis growl at me,” she admitted. “I think that anyone else making those sounds at me would have me scared spitless.”

“I doubt that,” he said quietly. “I think you’d just tell him to behave or you’d do something to make him behave. Besides, any male who growled at you would know he’d eventually have to deal with Lukkis or me. Or both.”

“Yeah, I don’t think that there are very many males out there who would be willing to cross that line. Thankfully. So for now…” She grinned and moved in just a smidge closer. “You have me to deal with. Think that you can do that?”

“I think it’s entirely possible,” he said. He moved closer until every breath either of them took had her nipples brushing over his chest. A small shudder worked through the floor plating beneath her feet, and he looked away for a moment. “We’ve landed,” he said softly.

“I do love you,” she whispered as she realized what he had done. He had ensured she was distracted enough so that she wouldn’t know that they were landing. “And you are a truly brilliant male for thinking of how to keep my mind off of things.” Now if only she could set her worry aside, life would be better.

Shrugging, he tapped the end of her nose. “Again, I am afraid I do not know what you are referring to, little mate.” He smiled slowly and leaned in to kiss her lips lightly. “Let us go and collect Lukkis. We need to disembark first, as it is protocol.”

“You backed me to the wall, got my hormones kicking in and desire and hunger coursing through me so that I didn’t notice we were landing. That’s what I’m talking about, Kraven.” She leaned into him and up on her tiptoes. “And you don’t kiss me like that. Kiss me like you really mean it.” Okay, so that was pushy, but she was feeling desperate and needy, and didn’t understand why.

He cupped her face and took her mouth, feasting on her as he pressed her tighter to the wall at her back. Kraven didn’t just kiss, he took, demanded, and gave everything of himself. He surrounded her, his body hot and hard against hers as he held her jaw with infinite tenderness.

The kiss was exactly what she needed, only it fueled the desire even more. When they parted, she was panting. “Goodness,” she whispered. “I think we should do that more often. I happen to love your kisses.” Okay, so she was trying to delay getting off the ship, but she was so very nervous it wasn’t even funny.

“There is no reason to be so nervous, Elisabeth,” he said quietly.

Right, she should have known he’d figure out her motives. He and Lukkis were damned hard to pull anything over on.

His thumb brushed slowly over her skin. “We will be with you at all times. No one is going to harm you. This I swear to you, little mate.”

“I know they won’t even come close to me, so that isn’t my worry. My worry is the same as any woman’s would be. Coming to a new land. A new world. Trying to learn new traditions, and all without embarrassing her mates.”

He growled at her with a little menace to it this time. Still hot though. “You will not embarrass us,” he said. “Even if you did, who cares? You are our mate, and we love you just as you are, Elisabeth. We do not care what anyone thinks about you, just as we have never cared what they think about us. All that matters, the only ones who ever matter in a relationship are those in the relationship. You, Lukkis, and myself, that is it.”

That had her smiling and she leaned into him. “As I said, you are too good to me.” She touched her fingers to his lips and winked. “All right, I think I’m ready to hunt Lukkis down so we can go and I can see my new homeworld for the first time.”

“Good,” Kraven said softly. Slipping an arm around her shoulders, he tucked her close to his side as they walked. Not back to their quarters but deeper into the vessel and down a couple of levels. They found Lukkis checking locks on a bunch of cabinets in a very large, well-lit room with likely the longest table she’d ever seen set down the middle.

“What is this place?” she asked and touched the heavy metal table in the center of the room. Turning around, she hopped up on the table so she was facing her men, her feet dangling as she sat there. “Where are we?” She had never been to this part of the ship before. It was odd but smelled like Lukkis, so she was going to assume it was the armory, perhaps?

“Armory,” Lukkis said, confirming her guess. “All the cabinets contain weapons. I was just locking up before we disembarked. Mainly to not give Kraven any ideas about shooting anyone.”

“Like you could stop me,” Kraven said.

“I can when I hid all your weapons and I’m the only one with the key.” Lukkis smirked.

That got a very nasty-sounding snarl out of Kraven that seemed to reverberate through the room. Very interesting acoustics.

Eli shivered and crossed her legs. “Heavens.” She was seriously sick in the head when a snarl from Kraven and the answering growl from Lukkis made her panties wet. “I really think you boys should growl and snarl more often because it’s evidently a very serious turn-on for me.” She watched both of their noses flare as they turned in unison to look at her. “Hey, don’t blame me. I think that you are both drop-dead sexy, and that Beast side of yours turns me on like crazy.”

Lukkis stepped in closer to her, trapping her by pressing his hands to the table by her hips and leaning in. “You are our mate. You should be turned on by us. It is a natural thing between mates. But…” He inhaled again deeply. “There is definitely more to it. You are close to your cycle, where you will go into heat.”

Eli shrugged. “Whatever it is, I like it.” She reached out and snagged his uniform, tugging him closer. “Can we be late? Maybe half an hour at most?” She had things in mind for this table, just as she had already done with Kraven and his desk in his office off the flight deck. “I really think I need my mates before we get off the ship, don’t you?”

“We can’t be late,” Lukkis said. “There are procedures upon a docking or landing. We open up, or they come in with force, and we all end up in restraints. Which would not go over well with Kraven and I. To see you locked up and touched by another male, I mean.”

“It wouldn’t go well for me either.” She sighed and nodded. “But we will be able to have time later, right? We will be able to squelch this need later?” Good heavens, she felt as if she were about to melt into a puddle. Even on the world they landed on, she hadn’t felt this desperate for her mates as she did right now.

“Yes. We will meet everyone, do the official crap that comes with landing, and then head into the capital. You will get to meet some more high-ranking people before we have a little time to freshen up. After that, we redo the ceremony for public record, eat, and drink, and then we will have the night to ourselves.”

“Good. As long as it won’t be too awfully long.” She fanned herself and shook her head. “Heat, why did you call it going into heat?” Human women didn’t go into heat. They had their peak cycle days for the possibility of pregnancy, but heat wasn’t something a human woman experienced.

“The Droushanian male’s hormones tend to make a female’s cycle more—” Lukkis broke off and shrugged. “Well, more.”

“You will find you are more sensitive to scents, our touch, and many other things,” Kraven said softly. “It can be quite uncomfortable the first time since it is different for every female, so there’s really no guideline.”

“Oh, heavens,” she nearly whimpered. “Okay. I can do this. Just don’t be shocked if I grab one of you and drag you into the nearest closet or something.” She was teasing, mostly. “We will get through this meet and greet, get through the secondary ceremony, and then we will go home, right?”

“Yes.” Lukkis said, nodding when she looked Kraven’s way.