STORY/ADULT EXCERPT

Elain lay on her stomach on a towel by the pool, trying to relax in the sun. When the huge, black, green-eyed wolf crept out of the nearby woods, it soundlessly leapt over the fence surrounding the pool and stalked her.

Moving silently, it circled around her until it pounced and started frantically humping the back of her leg.

“I don’t give a crap how much I love you,” she mumbled, not moving, not even opening her eyes. “If you want to fuck me, Brodey, you damn well better shift back. You try to make me do it like this, I’ll dope your dinner and shave you bald. You’ll look like a freaking mutant Chihuahua next time you shift.”

The wolf changed into a naked man, who stretched over her. He laughed and kissed her between her shoulder blades. “Would you really do that to me, baby doll?”

“You know I would. Ain and Cail would help me.”

“You’re probably right.” He made her roll onto her side and kissed her. Wolf or dog, he was still fricking hard. “Is this better?”

“Much better, furball.”

“How did you know it was me?”

She wrapped her arms around him. “I heard you.” The middle brother of the Lyall triplets had gorgeous green eyes that always melted her.

Who was she kidding? All three brothers could turn her insides into melted marshmallows, whether Beta Brodey’s green eyes, Gamma Cailean’s sweet brown gaze, or Prime Alpha Aindreas’ piercing grey intensity.

“I didn’t make any noise!”

“Your mental drooling. I heard you before you ever left the woods by that pond. You kept thinking, ‘Jesus, I’m so fucking horny,’ all the way over the fence. Practically screaming it by the time you got to me. I’d have to be deaf not to hear that.”

He sat up. “No shit? Really? You heard me that far away? By the pond?”

She nodded. “Yeah. Why?”

Apparently this news was enough to distract him. His stiff cock softened as he looked contemplative. “I mean, that’s totally unusual.”

“Well, according to Ain I’m screwing up the high end of the bell curve by already hearing you guys in my brain this soon to begin with.” She’d only been with the brothers for four days. It was still difficult for her to think of herself as their “mate.”

“No, honey, you don’t understand. Normally a mate can only pick up thoughts at a really close distance.”

“You were close.”

“As in the same room. Sometimes, only within feet. Not a quarter mile away or more. That’s where the pond is.”

“No shi—shinola?”

He grinned and nuzzled her nose. “I won’t tell Ain if you swear. It doesn’t bother me like it bothers him.”

“I thought you had to abide by the Prime’s edicts?” she groused. Elain still struggled to learn all the ins and outs of being a mate to the triplet shape-shifter brothers. All three men were Alphas. When Prime Alpha Ain set down an edict, the others, and now Elain as well, were compelled to abide by it.

“He didn’t issue an edict about you swearing. He just told you he wanted you to clean up your mouth.” He laughed and grabbed her hand, stood, and pulled her to her feet. “Come on.”

“Where are we going?”

“We need to tell Cail. This is incredible.”

Even more incredible was that she could still walk after the recent events. Less than two weeks ago, she’d let a large black wolf-like dog with gorgeous green eyes ride back to the TV station with her and her cameraman after it had jumped into their van at the First Annual Arcadia Highland Games. When two days later she reunited him, Brodey, as it turned out to be, with his “owner” Aindreas Lyall, she had no idea that the three hunkalicious brothers had instinctively picked her as their mate, their “One.”

That first meeting with Aindreas, Elain thought he came across as a standoffish jerk even though the other two brothers seemed like sweetheart cuties. When Brodey and Cailean showed up out of the blue at the station a few days later to take her to lunch, it had ended in a quick tryst in the parking lot that left her, well, perpetually horny.

That had led to them inviting her to dinner a few days later at their cattle ranch in Arcadia, an invitation she couldn’t refuse. Hours later, her world had rolled over one hundred and eighty degrees on its axis. Shape-shifters were real, and she’d essentially married the three brothers, who happened to be over two hundred and thirty years old. Despite looking maybe thirty, their jet black hair was untouched by grey. Also not a bad deal considering they were rich and hunky.

And they only had eyes for her.

They found Cail in the study where he did paperwork and bookkeeping for the ranch operations. Brodey wrapped his arms around Elain and nibbled on the back of her neck.

She argued with her knees to keep them supporting her. Dammit, the men seemed to know exactly what buttons to push to melt her body into a puddle.

“Guess what, Cail,” Brodey said.

He didn’t look up from his computer. “You’re horny.”

Elain laughed. “Guess what else?”

He finally sat back and turned, smiled at her. “What?”

Brodey explained. Cail frowned, looked contemplative. Even though only minutes younger than his two brothers, he had a more thoughtful nature. “That’s…unheard of.”

Brodey nodded. “I know! Isn’t it great?”

Cail caught her hand and gently pulled her from Brodey’s arms and into his lap. She wore a one-piece bathing suit she suspected wouldn’t stay on her long. “It’s not bad. It’s just…weird.”

“Gee, thanks, Cail,” she snarked.

He kissed her. “You’re not weird, babe. I mean I’ve never heard of a non-shifter mate able to pick up thoughts that far away.” He stroked her thigh as he stared at Brodey. “We should call Ain and tell him.” Aindreas was supervising the daily activities on the other side of the ranch where the business end of things took place. Just because the brothers now had their One didn’t mean they could slough off their daily duties.

“He’ll be back soon enough,” Brodey said. “No reason to bug him, I left him in the northwest pasture. He’ll just get pissed he has to go back out later.” Brodey tried to pull her from Cail’s lap but he held on.

“Ahem, boys? I’m not a doggy tug toy.”

“I wanted to play with her,” Brodey whined.

“Oh, Goddess, you fucking baby,” Cail scolded. “You got to spend a couple of nights alone with her that me and Ain didn’t.”

“Yeah, and I was shifted the whole time, too. It’s not like I got to have fun with her. No offense, babe.” He still held her hand. His cock had started inflating again. “C’mon, Cail. Give her back.”

She pulled her hand free and stood up. “All right, stop it. Both of you.” She tried to stay irritated and couldn’t. The sweet look on their faces melted her reserves.

Elain made a big show of rolling her eyes and dramatically sighing. She walked toward their shared bedroom. “All right. If you boys absolutely, positively can’t wait—”

The men raced past her, beating her to the bedroom. Cail was naked by the time he landed on the bed next to Brodey.

She laughed. At least she felt wanted, no denying that.

As predicted, the men quickly rid her of her bathing suit, not that she minded. Cail kissed her while Brodey dove between her legs. She sighed, content, as he eagerly laved her clit with his tongue. This part of their unusual relationship had, surprisingly enough, been the easiest to wrap her mind around. The boys had already proposed to her even though she would legally marry only Ain.

Spending an extended life in the arms of these three men wouldn’t be a sacrifice, that’s for damn sure.

Cail broke their kiss and dropped his head to her breast, teasing one nipple with his tongue while his fingers tweaked the other. She wrapped her fingers in his hair as she let out a hungry moan. Brodey gripped her thighs with his large hands and fucked his tongue inside her before slowly dragging it across her clit. Then he switched to feather-light flicks with his tongue that soon had her shuddering and crying out as she came.

She’d had more sex in the past few days than she’d had in the past few years. Best sex of her life, too.

“That’s what I wanted to hear,” Brodey said with a chuckle as he kissed his way up her body. Cail sat up and held her as Brodey lifted her feet to his shoulder.

Elain smiled. “Going back to work will be a vacation from having my legs in the air,” she joked.

A brief frown flitted across his face before he slowly stroked his stiff cock inside her. “You think so, huh?”

She loved the feel of any of them inside her. “Yeah.”

As horny as Brodey was, he didn’t last long. She turned in Cail’s arms and kissed him, stroked his cock. “What about you?”

He smiled. “What about me?”

She gently squeezed his cock. “Anything you want taken care of?”

He laughed. “What did you have in mind?”

Elain grinned and bent her head to his lap and enjoyed the feel of his hands fisting in her hair as she sucked his cock deep into her mouth.

Brodey moaned. “Jesus, that’s gorgeous!”

“Shut up,” Cail growled. “You had your turn.”