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Do it, Lily commanded.
Odd, considering that Lily never wanted to shift back to human.
Instead of overthinking it, I trusted my wolf and shifted back, hurriedly grabbing the flannel, yanking it on, and buttoning it as fast as my shaking fingers could manage.
Great.
Now I was covered in his scent.
Just f ucking great.
“Safe?” Mr. Dangerous inquired.
“That depends on your definition of safe,” I replied, placing both hands on my hips in a warrior stance.
I might not be as big as him, but I was powerful enough to go toe-to-toe with him, and my stance needed to reflect that.
Plus, if he showed any danger, I could easily shift back into my wolf form and rip his throat out.
Man versus wolf was never a fair match-up.
He turned, crossing muscular forearms over his chest, looking me up and down. “You look good in my flannel. Matches your eyes.”
To which I rolled said eyes and remained silent.
“I’m Braden.” He stuck his hand out. “And you are?”
“Not shaking your hand.” I kept my hands on my hips. “How did you know what I am?” I demanded.
“Like I said, I scented you. I haven’t been around any wolf shifters since the Great War, so once I smelled one, I had to find it.” Cc Xander “Oh my go d. There you are!”
Alice launched herself into my arms, squeezing me around the waist as tightly as she could and burying her face in my chest. I hugged her back just as tightly, and I could feel the tension leave her body as she finally relaxed her muscles from the fight or flight response she’d clearly been in for the last day and a half.
Zane followed me into our quarters and stood behind Alice, kissing the top of her head and massaging her shoulders while she melted into our touches.
“Shhh, it’s okay. We’re here now,” he murmured to her. “We’ve got you, and nothing will ever take you away from us again.”
“I was so scared,” she sobbed, “I know, baby. I know. But I told you I would figure it out, to trust me. And look? Now you’re our mate,” I cooed gently.
“Your second mate,” she sniffed.
“The only mate that matters,” I replied.
“Agreed,” Zane echoed. “And now…it’s time to complete the claiming.”
He gently extricated her from my arms and turned her toward him, grinning lasciviously.
She looked back and forth to each of us, her eyes shining, and she nodded. “Yes. Let’s hurry and do it before anything else can happen.
I agreed wholeheartedly. “Once we’ve claimed you, no one can take you from us.”
Her blue eyes turned to the darker sapphire they always did when she was turned-on, and her lips curved up in a s exy, teasing smile.
She stepped back from us, reached behind her, and unzipped her dress, letting it pool at her feet. “Well, what are you waiting for, boys?”
With a giggle, she turned and ran toward the bedroom, launching herself on the bed and laying in the middle, Just like she’d done a thousand times before. My heart expanded, but there w a s…s om ething else tapping at the back of my head. Something I didn’t know how to classify, and it shook me a bit.
It wasn’t second thoughts about claiming her, but there was something…almost uneasy maybe?
I shook it off and divested myself of every stitch of clothing as quickly as I could, Zane doing the same. Seconds later, we were stretched out on either side of Alice, and she was stroking both of us at the same. time as we each lavished a nipple.
Her hand on my c ock felt amazing, and I shoved down the thought that something was missing, that something was different. It was just claiming nerves, and I wanted to make sure everything was perfect. “Stop thinking so hard,” Zane said. “Your energy is all over the place right now.”
I tried to relax, pausing a moment and wondering if I should even saying anything, and then the words were flowing out. “Something feels different.”
I lifted my mouth from Alice’s nipple to look at Zane, and he lifted his mouth as well. Our eyes met for a brief second, but I saw all I needed to in his expression.
He felt the same way.
“It’s just nerves from finally being able to claim her, and stress and tension from everything that’s happened yesterday and today.”
I wasn’t sure I believed him.
“Why’d you stop?” Alice lifted her head, and her hands paused their movements on our c ocks.
Zane waggled his eyebrows at her. “Just planning what we’re going to do to you.” He captured her mouth.
with eyes, and she moaned into his mouth and squeezed my co ck.
I tried to concentrate on her fingers wrapped around me, but it was no good.
Nothing was going to break me away from this ni ggling thoughts. I couldn’t get far enough outside of my head to just enjoy her, to just revel in the three of us finally having what we’d been waiting two years for.
My dic k went limp, and Alice’s hand froze. She pulled away from Zane and looked at me in confusion.
“Xander?”
I had no clue what to say. This had literally never happened to me before. Ever.
“Zany?”
I looked over and saw that Zane’s c ock had wilted as well.
Zane “What the f uck just happened? Is this some sort of Alpha/Beta Jedi mind trick where your di ck makes my di ck do the same thing?”
Xander and I were still in bed, listening to Alice weep through the closed bathroom door.
Xander just shook his head and shrugged.
“Answer me,” I demanded.
“I don’t have a f u cking answer for you,” he snarled. “I told you something felt off.”
I ran both hands through my hair and then back down to my face, pressing my palms against my eyes.
“F uck,” I groaned. “I can’t sit here and listen to her cry.”
Xander thunked his head up and down on the pillow in frustration. “Maybe it’s the heat thing. We’ve never been with a female in heat.”
I nodded. “Yeah, it has to be that.”
“I mean, what else could it be? We’ve never had this issue before.”
“We’ve also never had sex like we had last night,” I hedged.
Xander groaned. “Don’t remind me.”
“What the f uck are we going to do? We have to do something. How the f uck are we going to claim her if we can’t get hard to f uck her right now? Can we claim her without the sex aspect?”
We both paused and thought about that for a minute.
“I don’t see why not… The biting is what matters, not necessarily the sexual component.”
“Do we want to try?” I asked:
Xander looked toward the bathroom door, where Alice’s so bs had starting to subside and were now faint hiccups.
“Couldn’t hurt…”
Lanie
“Did you just say the Great Wars?”
Braden stared back at me, shifting his weight from one foot to the other. “I did. I helped fight in them.”
What the hell? The Great Wars had been over twenty years ago, before I was even born. There was no way this guy was old enough to have fought in them. He looked thirty, tops.
And if he wasn’t a wolf shifter, he didn’t have the same extended lifetime we did, living up to a few hundred years. *I can see the wheels turning.” He grinned. “You’re wondering how the hell I could have fought in them.
when I don’t look old enough barely be out of diapers when they happened.”
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