Finding Hope (The Others Book 2)

by Sabrina Rue

  Eyes closed, her fist moved on Talon’s length. His hands in her hair brought her back. Whimpering, she fell on him like a woman starved, taking his cock as deep as she could, slurping and moaning around him.

  Two cocks inside her, four hands on her, but it still wasn’t enough. She made low sounds in the back of her throat and tried to get more of them.

  Her Mate read her distress. Reaching into a side table, he removed a bottle of lube and tossed it to Phoenix.

  “Get her ready. She wants more.”

  Slick fingers rubbed around the entrance of her ass and she released a muffled sob of need around Talon’s cock.

  “It’s okay.” Phoenix continued to shuttle in and out of her as he gently pushed his fingers into her ass. “Let him get you warm and slick and we’ll fill you all the way up, Mate.

  He grunted and pulled her off his cock. She tried to fight him. “I can’t fill your pussy if I’m in your mouth. Come here, pretty girl. Let us get you some relief so you can rest.”

  Phoenix pulled from her and Talon dragged her up his body. Straddling his hips, he told her, “Put me where you want me, Hope. I need to be inside you.”

  Shaking violently, she guided the thick head to the warm channel his Second had been fucking moments before.

  One side of her brain questioned the situation. The other reminded her they were Weres, not humans with often unusual boundaries about sex.

  “That’s it.” Talon pushed as deep as he could go and stilled, tugging her down to his chest. “Lay here, let us help. Two doses should ease the Heat long enough for a nap.”

  At her ear, Phoenix said, “A little pressure, some pain, Hope.”

  “I don’t care. Hurry.” He pressed the head into her ass and she whimpered in a combination of need and discomfort. “Don’t stop. I need it.”

  He worked slowly into the tight entry and she panted against Talon’s chest as her Wolf decided she’d had enough gentle.

  Digging her claws into their skin, she snarled, “Give to me!”

  “Hope…”

  Lifting her face, she stared into Talon’s eyes, her Wolf scratching and clawing to get out. “Are you my Alpha? Am I your Mate?” His teeth extended. “You fuck me right now. You show me who I belong to!”

  They showed no mercy.

  Growling, their Wolves battered her body between them, holding her too tight, scratching her with the tips of their claws, and plunging as deep as their cocks could get with every thrust.

  It was painful, it was primal, it was spectacular.

  None of them had any control and Hope dared them to keep going. “Wolves do not quit. Wolves take what they fucking want. Wolves never hold back. Give me what belongs to me!”

  They gave her more.

  Talon held her hair in his fist as he sank his teeth into the Mating Mark he’d given her. Pulling back, he stared into her half-lidded eyes with her blood at the corners of his mouth.

  “Phoenix is going to Mark you, Hope. My oldest friend, my closest ally. You’re going to wear it for the rest of your life beside mine. Every time you enter Heat, we’re going to Mark you again so your Wolf never doubts who she fucking belongs to!”

  Reaching between their bodies, Phoenix massaged her breast and said at her ear, “This Heat, our first Heat together, we’re going to tear you down and build you back up. Your body will ache, your mind will be exhausted, but we’re in control here, Hope. Not your Wolf.”

  He sank his teeth into the muscle of her shoulder two inches from Talon’s Mark. His hips drove into her harder, harder still, and then he went motionless as his cock knotted and he filled her ass with his scalding release.

  Moaning low in her throat, she babbled incoherently as the pleasure of the knot destroyed her ability to speak.

  “Not. Done. Mate.” Talon rammed her from below as he licked up the column of her neck and brutalized her mouth. Releasing her with a snarl, he grabbed her shoulders to seal her as tightly to his groin as possible. “Take every drop.”

  His cock knotted her pussy just above where Phoenix was knotted in her ass. She screamed, her body arching painfully as her orgasm rocked over her in a wave.

  The howls her Mates released sent chills over her skin and she went limp between them.

  * * *

  A long time later, Talon carried his Mate to the shower and kept the water cool to bring down her body temperature.

  Delirious, barely conscious, she gently licked over the bites and scratches she’d left on his chest. “Sorry. So sorry.”

  “No apologies, Hope. When Heat takes control, you can’t help what you need. We’ll take care of you. Don’t worry.”

  He settled her on the cool bench so he could rinse her hair. It didn’t make sense to wash it since they’d have to take several showers throughout the following days and nights.

  The water stung the scratches she left on him but served as a reminder of the best and hardest fuck he’d ever experienced in his long life.

  Since Male Weres started fucking young and kept at it with every willing female until they Mated, he had a lot of orgasms to compare it to.

  It felt like his heart had been pulled through his cock.

  Phoenix stepped into the shower with a bottle of soothing oil she’d need to keep from getting raw during her Heat, giving her natural healing abilities time to work.

  They worked together to clean her, playing the removable showerhead between her legs to rinse away evidence of their violent coupling.

  Talon leaned her back and held the back of her knee so his Second could crouch between her legs and smooth the oil over her swollen, sensitive flesh.

  “This will cool you down and ease you while your body heals between waves, Hope.” Phoenix covered every inch of her front to back. When he went to lift his hand, Hope locked her fingers around his wrist.

  “Don’t go,” her eyes were glazed and small growls rumbled rapidly from her chest. “Give me.” She panted.

  Their Wolves were so very greedy.

  Phoenix suckled her clit between his lips until both her hands moved into his hair. Her hips rocked against him in a slow roll that put the pressure where she needed it.

  Talon scrubbed up fast and pulled her against his chest, raking his nails lightly over her collarbone and between her breasts.

  Their eyes locked. “They ache. Make it stop.”

  His knuckles skimmed over her silken cheek and he gave her a soft smile. “Okay, sweetheart. Let Phoenix take the edge off then we’ll dry you and order food. Would you like that?”

  She nodded and worried her lip between her teeth, barely keeping her eyes open as Phoenix worked his magic over the folds of her pussy. When he slipped two fingers into her tight sheath, her hips lifted of their own volition from the bench.

  “Yes. So good. More, please. Don’t stop.”

  One hand lifted to grip Talon’s arm, her nails digging in as she fought for an anchor. She stared at Phoenix.

  “Your pussy is like melted wax around my fingers. I want you to breathe slow and deep, focus on each place you’re being touched. Don’t let the ache control you. You’re in control.”

  She slowed her breathing gradually and he rewarded her with a long suckle around her clit.

  “I could eat you all day, sweetheart. Like honey with a lick of fire. You focus on breathing and I’ll make you feel good.”

  “That’s it, Hope.”

  Talon watched her fight the effects of the Heat, her eyes lucid for a moment as she brought one shaking hand up to touch his jaw. His large hand covered hers.

  “You’re doing great. Don’t let your Wolf take more than you can handle. Three or four days of letting her run things is going to hammer your body. We don’t want to hurt you. Just make you feel good and keep you safe.”

  Glancing down her body at Phoenix between her thighs, she alternately tugged and smoothed his hair from his forehead. His eyes lifted to hers and her breath caught in her throat.

  It was erotic watching
him eat her and her heart hit a hard gallop. “I’m going to come. Phoenix…”

  He never slowed, never stopped as her climax took her. He pushed her through it and over another. Small kisses along her inner thighs and across her belly before he rinsed her again.

  They worked together to dry her, holding her body weight between them. Carrying her back to the large bedroom, Phoenix sat with her on the couch while Talon called the kitchen for a tray and to check on the kids.

  Stroking her back, his Second worked to settle her.

  The purrs started again and Talon grinned as he listened to the report from the twins’ tutor.

  “More,” Hope demanded. “Give to me.”

  “Eat first. Then more,” Phoenix told her firmly.

  “No food. Your seed in my belly is better.”

  She slipped from his lap to the floor between his legs and took his cock in her mouth. Moaning around him, she set a hard rhythm and it was easy to see that Phoenix was struggling to remind her about control and consuming nourishment.

  “You should take her again, Talon. She won’t be satisfied with just my release.” His best friend’s voice was hoarse as he watched her move up and down his dick. “I, on the other hand…dear gods.”

  Kneeling behind her, Talon smoothed his fingers over her clit to the tight pucker of her ass.

  With a growl, he grabbed the lube. At her ear, he said, “I’m thicker but I want your ass.”

  Releasing her toy, she fisted it with both hands and looked at him over her shoulder with glowing green eyes.

  Hope’s Wolf was running the show.

  “Alphas don’t ask for what they want. They take it.” She spread her knees and lifted her ass to him with a small movement side to side. “Is this what you want?” She went back to sucking Phoenix’s cock without another word.

  Talon’s Wolf growled and took what he wanted.

  CHAPTER TWENTY

  For three days, they fucked her, calmed her, washed her, and curled around her when she collapsed in sleep. They did their best to get their Mate to eat.

  On the morning of the fourth day, Talon watched as her face was slowly lit with morning sun. She’d been asleep for five hours, the longest since the start of her Heat.

  No lover had ever held every part of him in the palm of her hand. She’d given him so much in their short time together.

  A family. Something to live for at long last.

  When her sister was still with them, Talon started noticing an unmistakable scent from his Mate that made his blood boil and his cock hard around the clock.

  Harmony was certain Hope believed herself infertile which would have nullified future Heats. He refused to entertain the possibility she might have more children since it was uncertain given what she’d endured.

  Justice and Juliette were more than enough for him to love.

  He sent word to his Second to get back to the compound before she fully entered her Heat and he’d barely gotten to the house in time.

  While he would have preferred for his Mate to have time to get to know Phoenix, the Purist attack in Utah was too critical for his best friend to return earlier.

  He hoped she wouldn’t resent his presence when her Heat broke. Either way, her Wolf would crave her other Mate.

  Sighing, she opened her eyes and he could see she was fully in control. She reached out and slipped her palm along the side of his neck.

  He gathered her close because it was all he ever wanted to do.

  Stretching her body against him, she whispered, “It’s not Heat anymore. I just want you, Talon.”

  The words made his heart thump hard. Without a word, he gathered her close and pulled her over his body.

  She sat up, braced herself on his ribs, put him inside her, and started to move. He clenched his teeth against the pleasure.

  Her hair was in a wild cascade to her belly button. They’d kept it clean but hadn’t gotten far when they tried to brush it.

  Stroking his palm over her thigh and up her torso, he cupped her breast and watched her ride him. The other hand settled over her clit and she moaned softly.

  “I love having you inside me.”

  “I love being inside you, Hope.”

  He could see her orgasm building slowly, flushing her skin and making her pant. When it crashed over her like a gentle wave, he tightened his control to keep from following her.

  The way she gripped him, it was all he wanted.

  “Don’t stop, Talon,” she asked softly.

  Sitting up, he wrapped his arms around her and rolled them over. He stared into her face as he made love to a woman he used to worry would never appear in his life.

  Her hands coasted over his back and down to his ass. Staring into his eyes, she whispered, “You’re so beautiful.”

  Dropping his lips over hers, he matched the rhythm of his hips. They kissed and her little moans of pleasure drifted on the quiet air of the morning.

  Hugging him close, she nuzzled her face against his. “I love you, Talon. I didn’t know I could love someone so much who wasn’t my children or my twin.”

  Thrusting gently in and out of her body, he told her, “I knew I’d love you more than my own life.”

  Tears filled her eyes. “My sister knew for years but I never…I thought it would never happen for me.” Her palm settled over his heart. “I can’t imagine what the wait was like.”

  “Painful the first decade. Then I resolved to stop obsessing.” One side of his mouth lifted in a smile. “When I was looking frantically, you weren’t even born yet. I’m really old, Hope.”

  “No,” she replied. “You’re perfectly seasoned.”

  “We’ll have less time together because of the difference in our ages.” He bent to kiss her lips. “Decades less.”

  “It would never be enough. Not ever. And I’m going to work hard to make you the longest-lived Were in history.”

  He blinked against tears.

  “If you leave me too soon, I don’t know what I’ll do.”

  He frowned. “You’ll have Phoenix when I’m gone, Hope. He’s almost twenty years younger.”

  “The grief will still burn out my insides and then I’ll suffer his loss as well.” She shrugged one shoulder. “Eventually, I’ll be alone and I won’t continue without my Mates. Not if our children are grown and our affairs are in order.”

  He stilled. “Hope, what are you saying?”

  Lifting her head, she kissed him. “That you’d better take damn good care of yourself, Talon. Both of you. I’m a descendent of Slade Kassis and I can tell you from experience, we don’t deal with the loss of our Mates well. At all.”

  He hugged her hard enough to hurt her but couldn’t stop himself. “I’ll keep breathing as long as I can.”

  “Thank you.” She inhaled deeply at his neck. “Make love to me, Talon. No more talk of serious things.”

  So, he did. When he was knotted deep inside her, she drifted back to sleep and he met the eyes of his friend beside her.

  Phoenix had tear tracks on his cheeks. He rolled to his side with his cock still locked inside her and his Second sealed himself to Hope’s back.

  He buried his face in her hair and their arms crossed around her body.

  Hours later, Talon climbed from the bed to shower and check on the children. He stepped into the large stall and Phoenix joined him on the opposite side.

  Talon grinned tiredly, “Is this what you thought it would be?”

  Rinsing the shampoo from his hair, Phoenix laughed. “Better. I’m fucking exhausted. I didn’t know it was quite so hard on them. We’re taught, of course. We’ve seen females choose men to protect and serve them during Heat. We’ve both participated.” He shook his head. “This is different.”

  Meeting his Second’s eyes, he said, “You feel the change, don’t you?” Phoenix nodded carefully. “You’ll never be able to Mate another now. I took your choice from you.”

  “I made my own choice, Talon.” Wrapping a towel a
round his waist and slicking the water from his red hair, he added, “I’ve never been as proud to be your Second.”

  Phoenix shrugged. “I never considered my future with a family, children, while that was all you ever talked about. The odds are against most of us Mating but I didn’t mind before. Now, I can’t think of anything else I want more.”

  Hope stepped into the shower stall and stretched up to kiss Talon as she passed him to wrap her arms around Phoenix.

  “Good morning.”

  “Good morning, Hope.” He hugged her back firmly.

  She licked over his nipple. “It’s not Heat. I just want you inside me.” She nudged him to the bench and sat on his lap, her back to his chest.

  He positioned the head at her pussy and pulled her back to lay on him. “Take everything I want to give you, Phoenix.” Tilting her head back and up, she waited for his kiss and he didn’t deny her. “After you make love to me and I take another little nap, I’ll introduce you to the kids.”

  * * *

  An hour later, the three of them emerged from the master suite clean and ready to face their day.

  Her lady bits were more than a little sore and she felt like she could down a full gallon of water but Hope would never dread her Heat again.

  Sure, she couldn’t accomplish anything but orgasms but that was no hardship and it was nice not to worry about hiding.

  There was no sign of her children in the house and Hope wanted to panic but stopped herself.

  Controlling her breathing, her facial expression, she went in search of them.

  The children and their tutor Gerald were gathered around a small puddle of water that had run off from one of the ridges. They held test tubes and tweezers that they’d taken from a large case opened on the ground beside them.

  The young man glanced up with a wave. “Hello! We’re collecting tadpole samples for the mini lab at the house.”

  Exhaling slowly, Hope smiled. “That’s wonderful. D-don’t let me interrupt.”

  “You’re welcome to join us, Alpha. Tadpoles are fascinating little critters.” Handing the glass tube to Juliette, he said, “You get the last sample and see if you can’t wiggle a couple more in there. Try not to scrap the bottom of the puddle. There’s a lot of sediment.”