“Then maybe you should have went with that.”
He smiled and she wobbled as the breath was knocked out of her. “Why don’t you come back again, and maybe I will.”
~
“Nova, he’s perfect!” Lila rushed into the mansion and called for Nova as she looked around the kitchen for the perfect snack.
“And you can tell his after what, ten minutes together?”
She had the grace to blush but she would not be deterred. “Oh, be quiet. I was out exercising when I saw someone on the property. I changed back and approached him.”
“Naked?” She was naked now, so it was a reasonable assumption.
“Yes. But all he did was look his fill and make utter a few expletives. He was a perfect gentleman and…he’s an artist!”
Nova was skeptical. They had been through this too many times, disappointed each time, for him to get his hopes up. “And that makes him perfect for us?”
“Well, he’s an option, and that’s more than we had yesterday, wasn’t it?” She knew it was a stretch but she was wildly attracted to the man and that was enough to put him on the list. That wavy brown hair with the matching melted chocolate eyes instantly had her body reacting. He was big, well over six feet, with broad shoulders, a narrow waist and strong hands. Lila loved strong hands.
Nova wasn’t impressed but he wouldn’t say no after their attempt at intimacy a few days ago. If his attraction to men was stopping him from being fully with Lila and giving them children, he would do anything. “Okay but I have an idea.”
“Me too. You go first.”
“I think we should just be honest with this guy, let him know what a relationship with us would entail, so we don’t get invested before he splits.”
Lila nodded in agreement. “I’m with you so far.”
“Good, because I think we should each get to know him. Separately.”
“Why?”
“Because, Lila, we are two separate people and we need to make sure we all fit as a duo as well as a trio. Think about it. You and I get along splendidly but what if this guy hates me but only tolerates me to be with you? Or what if the opposite happens with the next one?”
Lila stopped cutting the sandwiches and let his words sink in. “You make an excellent point. I agree. But I don’t know how to bring that up.”
“Yeah, me either. But invite him inside.” He crossed to her and removed all the sandwiches from the tray. “I’ll make something better than this and in an hour, you’ll ask him if he’d like to come in for a snack.”
“What are we supposed to do for an hour?”
Nova gave her a look of disbelief. “Lila, I can smell how turned on you are by this guy. I think you could use the hour.”
“Oh, shut up!”
Nova laughed and draped her in a silk robe decorated in bold colors. “That’s all the covering you need. Now go out there and get us a man! And take this instead.” He shoved a chilled bottle into her hands along with two glasses, and took the glasses back. “Things will be better without these, trust me. No man can resist those breasts.”
Lila laughed and stepped outside where the sun was now bathing the property in light. She couldn’t believe she was nervous. This man had seriously made an impact on her libido. She was vibrating with need for him.
“I thought you’d forgotten about me.” Damn, that rich, deep voice was more than enough to get her off.
“Not likely. I don’t even know your name, and I couldn’t forget you if I tried.” She watched, mesmerized, as his head fell back and he laughed.
“Soro. My name is Soro.” He extended his hand to her.
She accepted it and jumped back at the shock she felt. “Lila,” she whispered breathlessly.
“Lila. That name is almost as sexy as you are.” He took the bottle from her and his hands wrapped around the cork, slowly easing it out in a twisting motion.
She watched, hypnotized by the bunching of the muscles in his arms and back, as he worked the cork free. “I am in so much trouble,” she mumbled as he finally freed the cork and bubbles spilled over his hand.
He held the wet hand holding the green bottle out to her. “Ladies first.”
“Thanks,” she breathed out and grabbed his wrist.
Lila licked her lips as he brought the bottle and his hand to her mouth. Her tongue snaked out and slowly licked the excess champagne from his fingers, one by one, until no trace of the sticky liquid remained.
“Yum.”
Soro groaned at her bold move. He was so turned on he wanted to rip that silky little robe from her body and pound into her until they were both sated and lying limp on the grass. But he was done with sex for the sake of sex.
“Damn, but you tempt me, Lila.”
“Join the club. I shouldn’t even think of having sex with you right now, but it’s all I can think about.”
He laughed lightly. “That was surprisingly honest.”
“I’m a very forthright person.”
He laughed at her serious tone. “Good, I like that. Look, Lila, you’re the sexiest thing I’ve seen outside of my dreams and I want nothing more than to taste your pussy and fuck you into oblivion, but I don’t have sex just to fuck something anymore.” Idiot, his cock berated him.
“Good, because I don’t want to fuck you just to fuck something. I want to fuck you and I want to get to know you. And still fuck you, just so we’re clear.”
“Just like that? You met me twenty minutes ago and you’ve decided I’m someone you want to get to know?”
She nodded and came closer, running her hands up and down his well-muscled torso. “You’re handsome and you’re an artist. Any man who not only loves art but creates it, is someone I’d like to get to know. Besides, you might be a lousy lay and then we can still be friends.”
He doubled over with laughter. “I can assure you, Lila, I’m the best lay you’ve ever had. But I’m cool with the rest of it.”
“Good. Come in and let’s get to know each other over food.”
Three
“You’re married? Look, I don’t know what kind of shit you two are into, but you can leave me out of it.” Soro threw down his napkin and stomped out of the dining room. He should have known a woman that sexy already belonged to someone else. People were all the same. Maybe it was time to just take a break from women and men and fucking.
“I can tell you without a doubt Soro, I belong to no one.”
He stiffened at her voice. It sounded different and he hadn’t said anything aloud, so she must’ve read his mind. Great, now I’m going crazy.
“You’re not going crazy, Soro. Turn around.”
He turned and saw her standing there, still wearing that robe that barely covered any of her curves. It was a blessing and a fucking curse right now.
“What do you want?”
His eyes widened when her voice sounded but her lips didn’t move. “I want to explain things to you, Soro, so you’ll better understand. Please give me a moment and it will all make sense to you.”
He rubbed both hands over his face, trying to make sense of what he was seeing and what he knew to be true. “Ten minutes. You have ten minutes to explain why you think it’s okay to ask a perfect stranger to become your sex toy!”
“Calm down, Soro.” Nova entered the hallway and stood next to Lila, his mouth flattened in a straight line.
“This is fucking nuts, but hey, let’s hear it.” He followed them into a large room with sun shining through two walls and the roof. He took the only chair in the room and waited expectantly. “Well?”
Lila took a deep breath and stood in front of him. “Have you ever heard of shape shifters? Those who are part human and part animal?”
He scoffed. “In this town? I’d have to be an idiot not to.”
“Nova and I are dragons.” She closed her eyes held her arms out to her left and right. Her wings appeared.
Soro’s brown eyes widened and he sat back. “Wow.”
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��Don’t be afraid. I wouldn’t hurt you, no more than you would hurt me.” She retracted her wings and shook her arms out with a smile. “This will help you understand. You see, Nova and I are mates. We have been fated to spend our lives together.”
“So you are married?”
She shook her head at the same time Nova did. “No. Nothing as mundane as that, but we are mates and partners.” She sighed heavily. The next part would be more difficult to explain.
Nova stood and paced. “We have a problem, and that’s where you come in—if you’re interested, of course.”
Soro leaned back and crossed his arms over his massive chest. “Is this the part where you tell me your sex life has grown dull and you need something more exciting to get your motors running?”
“Not if you shut up and listen.” She glared at him and motioned for Nova to continue.
“Look, Soro, I love Lila. She’s been my best friend since I was a child. She’s gorgeous and I’m turned on by her. I just can’t have sex with her.”
Soro looked at the look of sorrow on the handsome blonde’s face and his heart went out to him. He’d be pretty fucked up too if he couldn’t have sex with Lila. He looked up when they both snickered at him. “Dammit, stop doing that!”
Lila stepped forward and rested her hand on his shoulder. “This is important, Soro. We’re only listening to your mind because we need to make sure you’re open to a relationship. A true, open and honest relationship with both of us.” She ran her fingers up his neck and through his hair. “If you’re not open to getting to know both of us, having sex with both of us, then this won’t work.”
“Why don’t you two just separate?”
“We can’t. Plus, we’re best friends and being apart isn’t an option. We just need someone to complete us.”
“Just think about it and let us know what you decide.” Nova turned and headed for the door. “You can stay in one of the guest rooms for as long as you need.”
“Yeah, thanks.”
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“I know this is a difficult decision, but Lila thinks you can handle it.”
Soro walked along the cliff and let the sound of the water crashing against the wall below sooth his hammering heart. “Yeah, and what do you think?”
“You want to know the truth?” Nova stopped and turned toward the ocean. “I think you can handle it if you want to. You already have strong feelings for Lila and—”
“I’ve known her for exactly three days. Calling my feelings 'strong' is a stretch.”
“You forget, Soro, I can hear your heart speed up when she’s near. I smell your scent get stronger with arousal the closer she comes to you, and I see your pupils dilate. Your feelings are strong, whether or not you want to admit it. So, you have strong feelings for her, but it’s me you’re unsure about.”
Soro chuckled. “Actually, that’s not it at all. My concern is more about you and Lila as a couple. You have history that I can’t compete with, so I’ll always be the outsider in this relationship.” It was the one thing that had him going back and forth about this whole scenario.
“Only time can prove you wrong about that. If we just wanted someone to have sex with, we could have kept any number of men. We want someone to make new memories with, to build a life with and grow old with.” He picked up a few stones and threw them over the cliff. “You’re really not concerned with sex with me?”
Soro shook his head. “Not at all. I’ve had relationships with men and women, random sex with men and women, sometimes at the same time. You’re a good-looking guy with big muscles, plus that whole tall sexy Viking thing you’ve got going. Fucking you won’t be a hardship.”
"You have to tell Lila something soon, she’s going crazy thinking you’ll leave before she gets to have you.” He laughed and clapped Soro on the back. “She’s crazy about you and thinks sex will help you see how right you are for us.”
He smiled. “I’m sure it wouldn’t hurt. But tell me, Nova, are you really okay with this?”
“Of course I am. Lila and I haven’t always lived together like this. We lived apart for three or four decades before she bought this place. She fell in love with a Duke in the 1800’s and realized what was missing from our own relationship. So in the 1920’s, she packed up, came to America and made this our home. In that time we’ve both dated individually and as a couple. It never worked out. Hell, we never even made it to the sex part.” He laughed, lost in thought. “Most people want one of us but is willing to tolerate the other, and that can’t last.”
“Yeah, but you don’t want to go all dragon and rip apart any guy that touches her?”
“At first, I really did. But Lila saved my life, and I know right now that I’m not capable of giving her what she needs.” He told Soro about their mating ceremony and how she’d recognized his problem before he did. “If not for her, they would have killed me and tossed me into the sea.”
“So you’ll be alright sharing with me, and so will she?”
“Yes.”
Nova grabbed Soro by the neck and pushed him against the wide tree, cupping his face and attacking his mouth with a passion he’d never felt toward anyone but Lila. Tongues clashed as their mouths battled for dominance. Nova bit his lip and soothed it with his tongue, taking advantage of Soro’s gasp of surprise and sucking his tongue into his mouth.
Soro’s hands roamed the broad landscape of Nova’s broad chest, gliding over his shoulders and down his back before settling on his firm ass. He pulled Nova in close until they got just enough friction to make things interesting. His hands snaked up Nova’s shirt and he relished the feel of the hard muscles under his touch.
Nova stepped back panting, his pale green eyes a dark emerald with arousal. “Wow.”
Soro chuckled. “Told you it’d be no hardship for me.”
~
“Oh! I’m so happy to hear that!” Lila jumped up from her seat, nearly knocking over the wine, unsure who to go to first.
“Lila, calm down or you’ll scare him away before you can sink your talons into him.” Nova laughed into his wine. “Go to the man, for Christ sake!”
She did as Nova said, flinging herself into Soro’s lap and kissing his neck. “I thought I was going to lose my mind waiting for you to make up yours. What made you change your mind?”
“Who says I was going to say no?”
“You forget we can read your mind?”
Shit. He had forgotten. “Okay, fine. But if you want to know, it was Nova. We had a long talk and he soothed my worries.” And kissed the hell out of him. He smiled.
Lila gasped. “You dirty boy, Nova! You told me to keep my hands off and you go and kiss the hell out of him?”
Nova laughed at her excited antics.
“Sweetie, he was more likely to say no because of me than you. I just needed to be sure. I am.”
“And you have to stop invading my mind. It’s not cool, since I can’t do it to you.” His hands gripped Lila’s hips. She leaned in and took his mouth in a kiss that had his dick hard in less than five seconds.
He groaned and took over the kiss, his tongue caressing every inch of her mouth inside and out. His tongue licked at her bottom lip, lulling her into submission before his tongue parted her lips and kissed her until she was a quivering mass of want and need in his lap.
“Holy shit!” Her laugh was nervous, but she was so turned on she could drop to her knees right now and take him into her mouth. She groaned thinking about sucking his thick cream down her throat.
Soro squeezed her again. “Sweetie, even I can read your mind right now.”
Nova laughed and she realized she had been staring at his cock the entire time.
“Oh.” She looked from Soro to Nova and back. “I have an idea."
Four
In the spirit of getting to know each other with their clothes on, Lila suggested a day on the back end of the property. Well, not totally with their clothes on, since Nova and Lila shifted to their dragon form and flew
high above the property and the ocean. It was a magnificent sight to behold, and Soro sat back and sketched them. He’d spent the past few days working on his new series, drawing inspiration from his new partners. Soro’s fingers were tingling, the same sensation he got whenever he knew he was working on something great. This work, it was better than great.
And if he was being honest, he’d never felt so exhilarated or so fulfilled in any of his traditional relationships. Lila was exuberant and full of life, always bouncing from one activity to the next. He’d painted a nude of her on the gold settee with the sun at her back. A coy look over her shoulder perfectly captured the innocently seductive smile she wore.
And Nova was a breath of fresh air. He was honest and laid back, always willing to help when it was needed.
“Hey, man, you spend all of your time with your head in a sketchpad and you’ll miss something great up above.” Nova strolled over to him in all his naked glory, looking like a bigger, hotter version of Thor. He was semi-hard and Soro’s mouth watered.
“Yeah, yeah, you both are such spectacular flying specimens. I didn’t miss it, see?” He stood, brushing against Nova along the way and showed him his new drawings. “I’m thinking of turning these into paintings, a series of mythological creatures doing everyday things.”
“Mythical?” He cocked a nearly white eyebrow in Soro’s direction.
He chuckled at the irony of his statement. “Yeah, well, if I say you’re real, then I’d have to change the name of my series. It works better with the whole myth iconography.”
“Ooh, look who’s getting all arty over here.” Lila walked up with her mocking voice to wrap and arm around each man’s waist. “That was a refreshing fly!”
“You looked good up there, sweetie.” Soro wrapped both his arms around her waist and took her lips in a sensual kiss that quickly heated up to scorching. His hands slid down her back and cupped her ass until her legs wrapped around his waist.
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