Tri Mates

by Lauren Dane

  Tracy drowned in the intensity of her need for them. Her hands bound, it was Nick who held her up. Her eyes closed against the sight of Gabe, so beautiful in his sexuality that she couldn’t bear it. It was Gabe’s hand at her neck and shoulders that gentled her.

  Into her pussy Nick would thrust, and down her mouth descended over Gabe’s cock. Nick’s gasp when she tightened around him was echoed by Gabe’s moan as she took him as far back into her throat as she could.

  Each man filled her to the point of nearly overflowing and that fullness was soul deep. She was a strong woman, and yet submitting to them in the way she was felt so right too. Giving herself over to them both took trust, yes, but she had no hesitation in doing it.

  Gabe watched her through half-lidded eyes. Watched her mouth take his cock deep over and over. Was entranced by the way her lashes fell against her cheeks. Loved the way her breasts moved each time Nick thrust into her pussy, causing the little bead in each nipple ring to swing forward.

  She was gloriously beautiful to him. He loved her scent and the soft sounds of pleasure she made around his cock. So much had clicked into place that despite the utter chaos of the Pacific Pack and whatever the hell Ben and Sarah Lawrence were hiding, he’d never felt more right.

  The heat and wet of her mouth sent him hurtling toward orgasm, and by the look on Nick’s face he wasn’t far behind.

  “Make her come, Nick,” Gabe murmured. Nick’s mouth curved at one corner and he slid his hand from her hip to her lips.

  “Wet my fingers, baby.” He reached down to where her mouth was. His fingers slid against Gabe’s cock and electricity shot up his arm. His gaze locked with Gabe’s for a moment before Tracy pulled off his cock and sucked Nick’s fingers into her mouth, wetting them before he took them to her pussy, stroking over her clit.

  He sucked in a breath as her pussy fluttered and tightened around him. “Mmmm. That’s it, baby. Come for me.”

  Gabe moved his hand from her neck to roll one of her delicious little nipples between his fingers, pulling the ring in the way he knew she liked. He sure as hell knew she liked it at that moment because she made a soft sound of pleasure around his cock and lost her rhythm for a few moments.

  Her clit was hard and swollen beneath Nick’s fingertips and her thighs began to tremble as she pressed back against him harder to take him deeper. “Oh that’s good. Give it to me.”

  “Fuck,” Gabe hissed as he began to come, body tightening as he pinched her nipple tighter, feeling as if his whole body was shooting out the head of his cock into her. “Oh I do love you.”

  Tracy made a surprised sound as her orgasm hit her full force. Waves of intense pleasure buffeted her, threatening to pull her under. Her hands were bound and there was an element of letting go there as she let Nick do the work of holding her up and gave over to the feelings rushing through her body and her heart.

  She felt the muscles in Nick’s thighs and abdomen tighten and he hoarsely whispered her name as he came deep within her body.

  Muscles still twitched and small aftershocks of pleasure still racked her body as she dimly felt Nick remove the belt. Gabe rubbed her wrists and they lay her down on the carpet, each man settling in beside her.

  * * * * *

  After a few minutes more she finally opened her eyes and saw Nick above her, smiling down. She reached up to touch his cheek and run her fingertips through his hair. “Wow.”

  Gabe laughed beside her and kissed her shoulder. “Yeah, wow is an understatement, I think.”

  “No offense to you both or anything. You are both extraordinarily handsome and strong and the utter hotness and all, but I think this mate thing is like a sex amplifier.” Her words were still slightly slurred. Each time they were together as a threesome she drowned in the pleasure until she was drunk on endorphins. It was still amazing when it was one-on-one, but as a triad the energy they put out together was tremendous.

  “Is that a complaint?” Nick’s smile was arrogant and she couldn’t help but blush.

  “Hell no. I wish I could bottle it up. We’d make a billion dollars.”

  A cell phone rang in the distance.

  “That’s me.” Gabe groaned as he rolled up onto his knees and got up to go to his pants and dig out his phone.

  Tracy half listened to the conversation as she turned back to Nick. “So when are we going to get over to the Pack house?”

  “I’ll call my father to set it up. I’m going to call Josh and get him and a few others who are loyal to me there just in case.”

  “Are you going to challenge Ben?” She sat up and grabbed her shirt, pulling it back on.

  “If I have to, yes.”

  “Okay. I’m going to call Nina to get her help on something.”

  He frowned when she put her shirt back on and sighed when she handed his over. “Nina’s help on what?” He put the shirt back on and she stood, holding out her hand, and he grabbed it to stand with her.

  She walked down the hall and into the bathroom and he followed her, leaning against the door, watching her clean up and pull panties and socks back on, followed by a pair of jeans.

  “Damn, those are fine jeans. I think you should wear something baggy. I saw the way Josh was looking at you last night. I can’t kill him, I need him at my back right now.”

  She looked shocked for a moment and then rolled her eyes. Kissing him on her way back out, she put extra sway in her step just for his amusement.

  “This is just between us, but Nina was the shit back in the day. She’s a superstar computer hacker. That’s how we found out all that shit about the embezzlement of our Third and the involvement of that twisted fuck, Warren Pellini.”

  “Pellini?” Gabe walked back into the room, having changed his clothes and finished his phone call. “Why are you talking about him?”

  “Last year our Third was embezzling money from the Pack to pay back a huge debt to the Pellini Family. He stole some of the lycanthropy virus and sold it to the rogues. Then he killed Nina’s brother and nearly killed her too, in a challenge at the Pack house.”

  “I remember hearing about that. But she got a gun and nearly killed him, right?” Nick remembered hearing about it and having a swell of admiration for Nina Warden.

  Tracy nodded. “But not before the sick bastard bit her. There’s still a lot of major resentment from Nina on this whole thing.”

  “That Carter tried to kill her? Or changed her illegally? He was stripped of rank, right?” Nick watched her put her boots on and noted she chose the Doc Martens with the thick sole. He smiled, knowing she’d chosen them in case she had to throw down.

  “That, but also that she was a human and nearly killed while the Pack stood there and didn’t help. That Lex and Cade didn’t help. Although Lex did have to be disarmed and held down by several other wolves while he screamed that he was going to rip Carter to shreds when he got free. It’s been a big issue between them.”

  “She’s right. I think the whole notion is messed up. Cade should have stopped it.” Gabe leaned against the counter. Tracy’s eye was drawn to him. Long and tall and broad-shouldered. Substantial. The sun streaming into the hallway glinted off the reddish highlights in his caramel hair and she could see the strands of gray here and there as well as his salt-and-pepper at the temples. She loved the lines around his eyes, those deep brown, very serious eyes. He was dignified and elegant and sensual. A shiver rode her for a moment as she caught his scent.

  “Cade has a responsibility to his Pack to maintain order. She was a human and therefore had no rank in the Pack. His Third had every right to challenge, even if it was cowardly. If Cade had stopped it, how could the Pack ever depend on him to make hard choices for the good of the whole Pack in the future? He can’t choose his anchored bond over the Pack.” Nick couldn’t imagine watching Tracy be challenged like that. Thank god she was a wolf and had his protection and rank.

  “Oh bullshit. Being a wolf in this century means we can let go of some of the old ways t
hat used to be so life and death. We can afford to change. We have to. I understand the other wolves standing aside. Cade is clearly an Alpha that holds his Pack, it would have been impossible to disobey his orders. But Cade didn’t have to make that choice. Cade was free to stop it. In not doing so, he held to the old ways, which strangle us and keep us from moving forward.”

  Tracy understood Gabe’s point more than she would have before she became so close to Nina. But Nick was old school. He’d been born a wolf and into a ruling family. Of course he’d see a need to uphold tradition, it’s how he would have been raised and educated. But Gabe hadn’t started out a wolf, he had a human sensibility, and she agreed with him that it was important for Packs to democratize.

  “Okay, anyway,” Tracy interrupted the argument, “I think it’s an interesting discussion and I have my own feelings on the issue but right now let’s get back to the topic. Nina the super hacker. I’m going to ask her to snoop around in the Pack accounts to see what she can turn up.”

  “Nina’s a hacker?” Gabe grinned. “She’s a woman of many talents, I see.”

  “If you say anything else about her with that look on your face I’ll scratch your eyes out,” Tracy growled and both men started at the change in her mood.

  “Oh you can’t do that unless you’re going to be bending over the arm of the couch so I can fuck the sense back into you.” Gabe moved toward her, his wolf aroused at her display of dominance.

  “I can do whatever I want if you think you’re going to talk about another female like that in my presence.” Eyes narrowed, she moved to him and his mouth was on hers, hand in her hair, holding her to him so that he could devour her.

  He broke the kiss and looked down into her face. Her head was back, neck exposed to him fully, eyes still sparking at him. “Woman, what you do to me,” he murmured and skated his lips over her jawline and down her throat. “You wreck me as much as you complete me.” Moving back up to look into her face again, he caught the curve of her lips in a smile of utter female satisfaction.

  “It does cheer me, yes, to know I have that effect on you.”

  “We’ve created a monster,” Nick said in the background.

  “Mmm-hmm. You’d best keep me satisfied then, hadn’t you?” Tracy winked at Nick and stepped out of Gabe’s embrace. “Now, I’m calling Nina. Do you have any basic info like a checkbook or account number where she can start?”

  Nick swallowed hard as he followed her into the office. That bit of dominance play she’d engaged in out there with Gabe had fried his circuits. Pulling out a file from a drawer, he placed it on the desk in front of her. “This is all I’ve got. I’m going in the other room to call my father.” He leaned in and brushed his lips over her forehead and left, closing the door.

  Gabe nipped in a moment later. “I’m just going to watch you work. I have some suspicions about Pellini that I’d like to discuss with you later.”

  She nodded and picked up the phone to call Nina.

  After explaining the situation, Nina got down to business and asked a million questions and promised to look into it and call her back when she found out anything.

  Nick came in to tell them that a meeting had been arranged for the following day at the Pack house and Tracy told him Nina was looking into the account information.

  “Whatever will we do for the next twenty-four hours?” Nick’s eyebrow rose.

  “Go to Seattle so I can get my house in order and get my dog. Get some furniture for the new house. I’m calling Cade right back to arrange to come up. We’ll stay at my house tonight.” Tracy grinned and neither man had the heart to stop her, she looked so damned happy.

  Chapter Six

  They drove straight to Tracy’s. Nick was impressed by the explosion of color when he walked into the living room. Orange and red and blue and yellow, it should have been too much but she’d made it work. He made a mental note to let her have free rein in decorating the house.

  He frowned though, as he caught sight of the dozens of pictures all over the place with her and various people, various male people. “Who are these people?” he called back over his shoulder.

  “Friends and family.” She amazed him. She was one of the most efficient people he’d ever met. She’d already called a moving company on the way up and they were due to have dinner with her family at Cade’s shortly. She was looking through her stuff and distracted but still doing three things at once.

  “Friends?”

  She looked up and saw his look and snorted a laugh. “Yes, some of them are friends. Others are…were friends. Don’t worry,” she held back a smile, “I won’t hang them up at the house.”

  “You’d better not or your eyes might get scratched out,” Gabe called out from the couch, where he’d been on the phone.

  “Ha! I’ll drive over to Cade’s in my car. We’ll bring Milton back here tonight and he’ll ride down with me tomorrow morning.”

  Nick stifled a sigh and just nodded. “One of us will ride with you too.”

  “Why?”

  “Safety.” He said it like she was simple, and she understood Nina’s frustration with Cade a lot better.

  “You gonna protect me from poor gas mileage?”

  Gabe watched, amused. Nick was a dumbass, handling her the way he did. Gabe had the wisdom that came with age and knew that a frontal attack was the wrong way to deal with her. Of course he wanted to protect her as well, but he knew it would happen a lot easier if it was a spur-of-the-moment thing instead of a patronizing command. Oh pup, watch and learn. He smiled in Nick’s direction, knowing he’d swoop in tomorrow, butter her up and ride back, having her all to himself.

  “Enough, children. Let’s go to dinner, shall we? And then we’re going to talk about Pellini and what I’ve learned today.” Gabe stood up and they all headed out.

  * * * * *

  Nick tried to ignore what an insane driver Tracy was, but it was nearly impossible with his life flashing before his eyes every three minutes. Since Gabe had been in the backseat on the way up, he rode in the backseat now and was glad to not have to watch out the front windshield as she careened all over the place.

  “Holy shit, woman. You should think about driving NASCAR or something,” he mumbled and Gabe heard him, barking out a laugh.

  “Shaddup, Porsche boy. Anyway, we’re almost there so you can stop digging your fingers into the seats. Jeez, I’m gonna have to charge you for the damage.”

  She pulled up a long drive and approached big iron gates.

  “Some setup.” Gabe was clearly impressed with the situation.

  “Not bad at all, huh?” She rolled down the window, keyed in a code and the gates swung open to admit the car.

  Around the curve in the drive the house came into view and both men gave low whistles.

  “Wow. Yeah, of course he’s a fucking amazing architect too. Can’t just be the best Enforcer. Oh no, he’s got to be superwolf. It’s enough to give a man a complex.”

  She pulled into one of the garage bays and turned off the car. Turning around, she crawled into the backseat and onto his lap. “Hey, you, hot Enforcer guy with the totally hot mate. Lex has nothing on you, so stop it. I love you.” She leaned in and brushed her lips over his and closed her eyes as the warmth of contact spread through her.

  Gabe growled. “Honey, this is not the time. You start it and I’m gonna want to finish it. Right here in the garage of your brothers’ house.” He turned in the seat, watching them both.

  Nick laughed at the idea of getting caught in a threesome by her family.

  Tracy sighed. “Okay, you’re right. But did you know that the counters at my house are about your waist height?” She said this as she got out of the car and both men groaned before following her.

  Milton came bounding in as the three of them entered the house. Barking excitedly, he gave Tracy a goofy grin and head-butted her until she knelt and hugged him, kissing his head.

  “Milton, my darling boy! Mommy has missed you. But
guess what? We got a house just for you and you’re coming home with me tonight.” She continued to babble to the dog while both men looked on and finally up to see Lex shaking his head.

  “Nick, Gabe, welcome. You two want a drink? The whole family is in there, I’d suggest a double.” Lex shook their hands and leaned down to kiss Tracy’s head. “Hey, pumpkin. How are you?”

  She stood and he hugged her tight. She knew that he had to wrestle down his impulse to order Nick and Gabe out of there and make her stay so he could protect her. It touched her deeply but they both knew it wasn’t his job anymore. He stepped back and tipped her chin up to look into her face closely.

  “I’m good. Despite all of this other stuff, Lex, despite it all I’ve found the other parts of me. They’re good, that’s good. It’s all this other shit that sucks.”

  He nodded and looked over at Nick and Gabe with a slight narrowing of his eyes. “Come on in then, let’s get everyone a drink.”

  Nina held back and hugged Tracy. “I’ve found some stuff, sweetie. I don’t know if Nick is going to be happy about it.”

  “Oh god, that bad?” Alarm raced through her.

  “I don’t know. It’s dodgy, no doubt about it. But let’s talk it out. Gabe told Cade that there was some stuff about Pellini he wanted to discuss. I think we need to lay it all out on the table and see what we’ve got.”

  Suddenly Gabe was standing there, having sensed her distress. “Honey? Is everything all right?”

  “I don’t know, Gabe. Let’s go in and eat and then we’ll see.”

  * * * * *

  Dinner was a fairly raucous event. The very long table was lined with every Warden sibling and his or her mate, if there was one. Tracy’s parents and grandmother were there as well as her niece and nephew and three cousins who were part of Cade’s security detail.

  The din was pretty deafening at times, and it amused Tracy to watch them all in action and Nick’s and Gabe’s response to it all. Nick seemed to be at home around such a loud table but there was sadness around his eyes. She hoped very much that they could figure all of this out to save his family. Gabe seemed entertained and slightly overwhelmed. She realized that she didn’t know much about him and resolved to draw out his story. It brought home just how new their relationship was. The beauty of the mate bond was deep love and connection but she didn’t know either one of her men very well.