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STORY EXCERPT

Lorcan leaned closer to his companion and whispered, “Did you make sure no one would miss her?”

His wolven life-partner, Tarin, grinned. “I paid her uncle’s men a visit.” He leaned back with a satisfied smile. “I don’t think we’ll ever see them again. They didn’t seem to like the eyes of my wolf much. I think I scared the shit out of them.” He glanced behind them and grimaced. “She looks like hell wearing that outfit. What did she do to her beautiful golden hair?”

“Apparently, she didn’t want her uncle’s men to recognize her. I wish we could have told her there was no worry of that.” He shrugged. “But the telling would have given our plans away, and she would have panicked. Remember, she thinks she is going out west to meet a husband.”

A woman sitting a few seats away gave them a suspicious look. Lorcan switched to telepathy. “What she doesn’t know is that she is meeting two prospective husbands instead of the one she expected.” He glanced her way again and shrugged. “She will clean up well enough. The color change is not permanent.”

Lorcan fought the urge to look back at their prize and closed his eyes on a silent prayer. “Once we’re certain that their kind is compatible to ours in the mating, we must tell the others how to find this place so they, too, can procure a mate.” In his mind, he and Tarin were certain. Deep down, he knew the woman was their mate and would accept her regardless of her ability to breed.

Tarin nodded his agreement then reached into his pocket to pull out his stunner and check its charge.“How long before we can use this?”

“As much as I hate to have to wait that long, we should wait until they are all asleep, hit her with the stun beam, and call the ship to pull us out of here.”

“I wish we didn’t have to stun her.” Tarin looked almost guilty just thinking about it.

“We must. If the way she felt about her uncle’s plans are any indication, she’s not going to go with us willingly. In her mind, what we have planned for her will not be any better than the fate she believes she just escaped.” Lorcan fell silent as he stared out through the windows at the passing scenery.

It was difficult to believe that this planet, as large as it was, still hadn’t gone through an industrial revolution that opened the humans’ minds to space travel. It was obvious that others of wolven kind had come here before them, nearly a millennium ago, and these people had barely made progress.

Were they content to sit here on their lonely planet not knowing about the other worlds out there, or did they believe they were alone in the universe? Lorcan took a deep breath and sighed, certain it was most likely the latter. Sometimes, humans were so dense.

Perhaps it was a good thing these humans hadn’t embraced progress. Had they discovered space travel, this world may no longer be here. Humans tended to be an arrogant lot, picking fights they couldn’t possibly win against enemies much stronger and more advanced. Still, as arrogant and self-important as they may be at times, humans were the preferred mating breed when a wolf couldn’t find another of his kind.

Lately, things on Taos had gotten so bad, hardly anyone found mates, and when they did they took multiple partners—sometimes three to five men to one woman or up to five women to one man. He glanced at Tarin and smiled. He was glad it was just the two of them to share Dana Worley, the golden woman of Earth.

If they were lucky, she would test positive for breeding as they suspected she would, and they could make their way home to Taos. Now that they had scared off her relative, there was nothing anyone could do to stop them.

Closing his eyes, Lorcan leaned his head back against the seat. There was no reason they couldn’t take a nap. Their trip was long. Studying the human woman had taken time, and waiting for the mail to reach her was intolerable, even though they had sped it along. Yet here they were on the final leg of their journey, about to abduct the woman they would make their mate and the mother of their children.

“Get some sleep, Tarin.”Lorcan expelled an exhausted sigh. “There is no guarantee we will get much done very quickly once we get her on board. Something tells me she’s going to be a hellcat.”

“I think that is an understatement, old friend.” Tarin chuckled and leaned back in his seat. “But I’m certain she’ll be worth every trying moment of it.”

ADULT EXCERPT

What was this she submitted herself to? This bliss, this ever-building crescendo within her was strange and wonderful all at the same time. Wrapping her arms around their heads, Dana did the only thing she could think of and held them to her as they took her to heaven and back again.

Why didn’t the girls at Agatha’s tell her about this…this all-consuming need she felt when they caressed her? Was it something she experienced because her men weren’t of her world? Did they know something the men on Earth did not?

Tarin caught her when her knees buckled, and he carried her to one of the thick mattresses on the floor, Lorcan following behind them.

Dana wasn’t prepared for this. She didn’t know how to tell them that this was too much for her. The pleasure, the decadence of what they did, carried her to the edge of some precipice she had no idea how to keep from toppling over. She sensed that soon, very soon, something would drive her close to that edge and she would fall. Her question was, would she survive?

“Did we ever tell you how beautiful you are?” Tarin asked as he moved up her body to press his lips gently against hers. Finally, he kissed her. She was beginning to wonder if they kissed on their planet, and she had wanted to know what it felt like.

It felt…heavenly. Dana sighed into his mouth, and he took the opportunity to thrust his tongue between her lips. Her eyes flew open with surprise. No one ever told her about that! With a slight smile, she wrapped her arms around his neck and deepened the kiss. No matter. She liked it. He palmed the back of her head, his fingers sifting through her wet hair as he kissed his way across her collarbone to the side of her neck.

Dana panted with need. Her lungs labored to draw breath as their mouths made a leisurely journey over her quivering flesh.

Lorcan moved to breathe into her ear. “You are the most beautiful woman we have ever seen.”

Dana gasped as he thrust his tongue into her ear then suckled the lobe. Whatever came of this night, of this bargain that she had made with these two men she’d just met, felt right. It felt as though she’d known them forever. Whatever happened, tonight was hers and she refused to regret it.

“Open your eyes, love.” Tarin breathed the words against her skin. “We want you to see us, to look at us, to know that we are your mates and that we will never harm you. In fact, we both would die for you.”

Smiling, Dana reached up to cup their cheeks, her thumbs feathering over their bottom lips. “I hope it never comes to that. I think I’m going to like being your wife.”

“We can only hope so, baby,” Tarin said before he lowered his head to her breast once again. Slowly, he moved his hand down over her stomach. Dana sucked in her breath as his hand skimmed over the sensitive skin, moving lower still to the curls at the apex of her thighs.

She gasped when his fingers dipped lower into her sex, his experienced fingers circling her clit. With a groan, Dana instinctively spread her legs, allowing him easier access to her sex.

It wasn’t until Lorcan moved from her side to crawl up between her legs that she had any worry at all. With no warning, Lorcan settled himself between her thighs, threw her legs over his shoulders, and lowered his head to her already sensitive flesh.

Dana screamed when his mouth made contact with her sex, his tongue laving the hard nub between her legs. He lapped at her like some great cat licking cream from a saucer. A great pleasure-pain built within her as he continued to take her to the edge, repeatedly teasing her with the promise of release before slowly bringing her back down.

Tarin continued to alternately kiss her and suckle her nipples as his friend continued to ruthlessly bring her to near orgasm again and again until she was ready to scream out her frustration.

Finally, when she was ready to beg for release, Lorcan raised his head and looked deep into her eyes. “Come for me, Dana,” he said just before he lowered his head, his lips circling her clit. He pulled it ruthlessly into his mouth, suckling hard as Tarin’s mouth tugged at her breast. It gave her exactly what she needed to finally reach the summit, and Dana dove headfirst into the dark abyss that awaited her.

A scream bubbled from her throat as the world burst into a million tiny shards of light. Her body arched up off the bed, pressing her breasts tighter against Tarin’s warm mouth. She screamed again when he bit gently down on her sensitized nipple, as he reached across her and tugged on the other hard nub.

For a moment, Dana lay on the bed, quivering with aftershocks while her men kissed their way back up her body. What was next?