Alpha's Mate: A Steamy PNR Shifter & Fantasy Romance Collection (Hot Shifters Book 3)

by Casey Morgan

  Far from the cottage, I found myself on the beach sitting on a rock. I rubbed my face and then looked out over the ocean watching the sunrise. Maybe this was what an adult relationship really looked like. It was full of hard choices that could impact you the rest of your life.

  Over the course of centuries, great men and women had to endure punishment for not fitting the norm. We would have to endure talk and gossip for sure. Would I hold up? Would Keira? Maybe in the end, only I would be standing. Keira and I would go off together, finally a “normal couple”. But where would that leave mi brothers?

  It felt strangely right to be with her and them at the same time. Something about it made me think it could work. But we barely knew Keira. She said she wanted to stay with us, but maybe she was lying. Maybe this was all a laugh to her. Perhaps she’d return to America with great memories and sexy stories.

  Maybe I’ll just see this to the end. I shouldn’t worry while we’re having a good time. Right? Maybe circumstances would tear us apart, but until that time we could enjoy each other’s company.

  Perhaps I’d have to make a list of all the pros and cons.

  Pros: The sex was pretty spectacular.

  Cons: I’d have to always share Keira with mi brothers.

  Pros: It’s mi brothers.

  Cons: I don’t always get along with them.

  Pros: I’ve really fallen for Keria.

  Cons? I don’t know.

  If I was truly going to give this a go, I had to set aside my own preconceived notions. I also had to trust that there were good people out there that would accept us and our relationship for what it was. Maybe someday, people wouldn’t even question a relationship like ours. Or maybe it was close enough to a normal one they wouldn’t have to.

  I headed back to the cottage feeling better about myself. My little pep talk had put it in perspective. I had spoken truly last night. I was ready for this. I would have to treat this relationship just like any other one. I would listen, try and communicate and be as honest as I could. What else could I do?

  There was a lot to like in this relationship. Keira was a wonderful person and I wanted to get to know her as well as I could. I loved her and wanted to know every bit about her life. And who knows, maybe having the lads around would make the relationship easier, not harder.

  When I got back to the cottage, I could smell breakfast. The innkeeper must had brought us some food.

  Keira met me outside, she was just pulling on a coat and shutting the door when I walked up to the inn’s door. She looked a little surprised to see me.

  “I was just coming to find you, baby,” she said, pulling her coat tighter around her shoulders. “Are you okay, Connor?”

  I took her into my arms and ran my hands up and down her arms till they warmed up. She snuggled into me, putting her strawberry-blonde head onto my chest.

  “Of course, luv,” I told her. “Just wanted to take a walk.”

  She looked up into my eyes, searching for a lie. “You sure?” She asked. “I figured that you were rethinking what you said last night about being ready to be in this relationship.”

  I kissed her cold, red-tinted nose. “Nope,” I reassured her. “I’m all in. Come on. Let’s get inside and see where that magic sheep of yours is sending us today.”

  When we got back to our room, I saw that the innkeeper had indeed brought us food. The lads were sitting happily around the table tearing into some kind of quiche. Ronan and Tavish gave me a look but I just smiled at them and didn’t let up that I had been thinking. Tavish gave me a slight nod, which I returned and understanding passed between us.

  “Let’s see were we are off to today!” Keira announced. She held the little black ram keychain in her hands and held it in front of her. “Little magic sheep,” she intoned. “Where is the next closest orb?”

  Her eyes went distant as the location spell took over her body. “Okay,” she told us. “I’m in the ruins of a castle. There’s lots of tourists around. There is some weird railing… Oh wait, this lady is hanging upside-down! It’s the Blarney Stone! I know that one!” She came out of the spell and blinked her eyes at us a few times. By her grin, I could tell that she was excited.

  “Then Blarney Castle it is today,” Ronan announced, all smiles. “We should get going soon. I could get us on a special tour.”

  “You’ll like this, Keira,” I said, happy to be going somewhere historical. “If you kiss the Blarney Stone…”

  “I know, you get the Gift of Gab,” she interrupted.

  I must have made a face, because she mimicked my pout and then jumped into my arms. She kissed me until I laughed.

  Excited we all headed out to the van and drove towards Blarney Castle. I was super excited to be going to some ruins that I knew. There was so much that I could tell Keira. She was going to love my lecture this time.

  We crossed the River Martin and the castle came into view. It’s tall stone walls rose over the town. The gardens around the castle were still lovely even at this time of year, even though the trees were mostly bare. Outside of the main building there was an entranceway that had a lower tower that was circular. I just loved the architecture of castles.

  As the road curved around, we could see the part of the battlements that held the stone itself. I couldn’t wait. Blarney Castle was impressive enough, but the fact that the Blarney Stone was there and its connection to Irish history; that just made it all the better.

  But then the parking lot was packed. I frowned, and Keira groaned next to me. “This is going to take forever,” she whined. “There is such a long line to get in.”

  Ronan got on his phone and stepped out of the van.

  Seth patted Keria on the arm. “Don’t worry, lass. We’ll just have to be patient. We need to get that orb. It’s the last one, right?”

  Keira thought for a minute. “It’s the fifth. There were either five or six orbs I can’t really remember.”

  “I wonder if the number of orbs is based on the number of witches that cast the spell or the number of helpers Ailbe had,” I said thoughtfully, scratching my chin. “If it was number of witches then there would be six orbs, but number of helpers than it would be five.”

  Keira shrugged. “I figured that I would continue to ask the little sheep keychain until it didn’t work anymore.”

  “Aye,” I agreed. “That seems easiest.”

  Ronan knocked on the window of the van and waved for us to get out. “I talked to a friend of mine,” he explained. “He’s the head of tourism here. He’s going to get us in next, but we have to hurry up and meet him.”

  Keira rose up on her tiptoes and kissed him on the cheek. “You’re the best, Ronan,” she told him. “It would have taken me forever to do this on my own.”

  We ran towards the entrance and just when we were about to hit the long line to get in, a man opened a side door and waved us through. Ronan’s friend couldn’t stay to give us the tour, so I took over. As we looked over the castle’s grounds for the orb, I told them a bit about its history.

  “The Queen of the Banshees told Cormac McCarthy to kiss the first stone he found on the morning on the way to court,” I explained. “He was embroiled in a dispute and had to plead his case. He kissed the Blarney Stone and pleaded his case and won.”

  “Why did he put it all the way the fuck up here?” asked Seth pointing to the location of the stone midway in the wall that made up the battlements. “That sure as hell isn’t a convenient location.”

  “I don’t know,” I admitted with a shrug. “I suppose so no one could take it from him.”

  “Since we were able to cut the line, I want to kiss the stone,” Keira told us smiling.

  Seth grabbed her hand and pulled her towards the stairs. “Come on, lass. Let’s get you to kiss something else that is hard and Irish.” Keira giggled, and he winked at her.

  We made our way to the narrow stone walkway that overlooked the courtyard, a black metal railing the only thing that was keeping us fro
m a three-story drop. Keira laid down on the walkway and stuck her head into the hole in the battlement’s wall. Tavish and Ronan held her, so she could kiss the stone. She kissed it quickly and asked to be pulled up; her fear of heights kicking in. Once she was standing again, she held onto Tavish tightly.

  “That was a little more dizzying than I was expecting,” Keira admitted with a weak smile. “Let’s find the orb and get lunch somewhere.”

  “Did you make a wish?” Seth asked.

  “I wished that I never have to leave Ireland or my boys,” she told us.

  We all smiled at each other, touched by her love. Tavish kissed her on the head.

  “It’s not a wishing well,” I tried to explain.

  “Can’t hurt,” Keira said. “Did you boys already kiss it?”

  “Yeah,” said Ronan. And the rest of us nodded.

  “No wonder you all got such great tongues!” she laughed.

  The mood was getting lighter now, we headed down to the lower levels and started to look around for the orb. As we walked the castle grounds a bit, I cited more of the history. Keira listened intently smiling at me. She must love history as much as I do.

  It was a little harder to search for this orb with all the tourists around. We looked in bushes and under rocks, all the while trying to not look suspicious. A few fold gave us odd looks but we just smiled at them and no one asked questions.

  “Hey,” Seth called. He waved us over to the corner of one of the rooms in the castle.

  When we gathered around, we could see the orb laying discreetly among some fallen stones from the battlements.

  “Grab it and let’s go,” Keira ordered.

  We all turned around and pretended to be looking at a piece of the architecture, while Seth bent down, grabbed the orb and put it into his pocket. He tapped me on the shoulder and I led the way back to the parking lot.

  “Oh! This is so exciting,” Keira grinned. She practically skipped towards the van. “Don’t get me wrong, this has been a super fun adventure, but having a curse on me has been weighing on my mind.”

  I put my arm around her shoulders. “Aye, lass. That would be a burden for anyone. Let’s get into the van and work the dissipation spell.”

  Seth climbed into the backseat of the van first. Keira followed, and I pushed Tavish out of the wat to climb in after her. Once she had the orb in her hand, she turned to me to work the spell.

  Dissipation spells were easy. I gathered the magic around us into my body and started. First, I touched the tips of my thumbs to the tips of my pinky fingers; then I pulled my thumbs down the length of my pinkies, while wiggling my other fingers. After opening my hands fully, I twisted my thumbs up and over my index and middle fingers to touch my ring fingers. Finally, I flicked all my fingers outward.

  The orb wavered and started to turn hazy. Then, it was gone with a loud pop. That was five of the curses’ spell orbs gone. We all sat in the van expecting something to happen, but nothing did.

  “Should we say something? You know test to see if it’s gone?” Tavish asked.

  “You mean like…”

  Keira stopped Seth’s mouth with her hand. “No,” she said. “Let’s just consult the sheep instead. Less likely that I will get a headache that way.”

  Seth nodded, Keira’s fingers still pressed to his lips. He took her hand in his own and kissed it.

  Keira fetched the little sheep keychain out of her pocket and looked at it fondly. “I’m really going to miss this little guy when we are done.”

  Seth chuckled. “Ya can keep it, honey. I have dozens more at mi shop.”

  She nodded and held the little black ram in her hands before her. “Oh, little magic sheep,” she intoned. “Where is the next closest orb?”

  Her eyes went distant. “Oh, no,” she breathed. “There’s another one. Damn.”

  I reached out to comfort her. “That’s okay, lass. Just describe to us what you are seeing.”

  “It’s a large body of water. Looks like a lake. It’s on a beach there.” Her eyes went back to normal and she blinked at us a bit sad.

  Seth put a hand on her shoulder. “Another beach,” he reminded her. “You like beaches.”

  She nodded and put her hand on his.

  Ronan turned to face us from the front seat of the van. He had his phone out. “Lucky Lake is the closest by here. They have a campground. I rented us a caravan for the night. We can find the orb in the morning.”

  Keira smiled. “A night of camping with my guys. Sounds perfect.”

  I could tell she was a little sad, but we would make it up to her. We headed to grab food and find the camp ground.

  Chapter 20

  Seth

  Ronan rented a caravan, so we’d be roughing it in a camp ground. It was a bit small, but cozy. Ronan really got the deals on all this tourist stuff. I felt like a tourist in mi own back yard running about like this!

  We were sitting around the campfire in the dark. Tavish looked thoughtfully at Keira and then announced that he was on board with the relationship as it was. He wanted to share her permanently, as he stated. Now I was the last hold out.

  “C’mon, Seth,” said Connor, looking at me. “What’s the hold up?”

  “Look, I know ye can understand this,” I said, looking my youngest brother in the face. “We come from a huge family. We’ve had to share everything all our lives with our brothers. Clothing. Beds. Toys. Food. Everything.”

  “So what?” said Tavish, not understanding. “It’s not like some of us don’t have siblings. We are used to sharing.”

  “I don’t know,” I said. “It’s just that, I got mi shop and business. I’m independent, now. I never imagined sharing mi wife.”

  Keira shifted her weight and looked away sadly. I guess she thought I was out, but she was wrong.

  “Lass, look at me,” I said. “Sharing ye is better than not having ye at all. I want ye to stay and be with all of us. Will ye do it?”

  She kissed me, so I took that as a yes. Things started to get hot and heavy very quickly after that. We retreated into the caravan where there was just enough room for us to maneuver. Keira stripped off my pants and underwear and started stroking me as she kissed me. I could hear the other lads getting undressed and bumping into the walls of the caravan.

  Fortunately, there was one big bed if you arranged things correctly with the cushions and furniture. I was getting used to the idea of the other lads in the room with me. At first, it was a bit weird, but you can get used to anything I suppose.

  “Ah, fuck it all,” I said exasperated. “I didn’t buy any more condoms.”

  “Not a problem,” assured Keira with a naughty smile. “I’ve been on the pill the entire time anyway.”

  “But we were using condoms,” I pointed out.

  “Hey, they can fail,” she said. “Besides, it also protects me from other things. But now that we’re making a real commitment here, I’m not worried about that.”

  Well, that was a bit of good news. I can’t tell ye how much I wanted to fuck her without a condom on. The difference is astronomical when you get right down to it. The sensation would be new now. More close and intense. I think the other lads were as excited as I was.

  We undressed Keira, touching her everywhere as we did so. She turned her body, her arms and her legs to let her clothes slide off easier. She had one of those bodies that looked fantastic naked. Some people just don’t. They sag or droop or use their clothes to enhance certain features. Keira was naturally beautiful completely naked. Like a fairy straight out of a folktale with everything but the wings.

  She got on all fours on the bed, straddled my cock and then lowered down on me.

  “That’s the stuff,” I gasped.

  I wasn’t going to last long without a condom, but I had to hold out. I was at the bottom of the pile now. Connor came up behind her and, straddling both of us, stuck his cock up her ass. This time he had lubed it ahead of time, so he went right in. The expression on Keira
’s face changed and it was clear she was enjoying the penetration. Tavish and Ronan got on either side of us and she started sucking and stroking them alternatively. I did my best to give her a little thrust from underneath, but I wasn’t in a good position to do much of anything.

  Suddenly, we felt the caravan shifting. There was too much weight on one end of it.

  “Wait! Wait!” I yelled. “Tavis and Ronan, you’ll have to get off for a bit. Do ye feel that?”

  “Oh, shit, he’s right,” said Tavish, trying to keep from losing his balance.

  The lads climbed off the bed and immediately the caravan shifted back to where it was supposed to be. It was all right, I wasn’t going to last long without a condom, that’s for sure, so they wouldn’t have to wait long for their turn.

  Connor started drilling her harder and harder as she bounced on my cock. She got louder and louder with every moan. As she came all over my cock, she practically screamed in joy. I couldn’t hold back any longer, I shot my cum deep into her love box. God. It was so hot. Connor came right behind me.

  Keira appeared to be overwhelmed by the sensation. She gasped and shook all over her body, like a woman possessed. She slapped her hand against the wall of the caravan to steady herself, but just ended up falling forward on top of me. She was panting and trying to make words, but it just came out as half-said nonsense.

  “Fuckin’ hell!” exclaimed Connor. “That was magical.’

  “Oh, aye,” I agreed. “Ye all right, darlin’?”

  She was still shaking. The bottom part of her mouth was quivering, like she was trying to regain control of it. She pushed herself up, but when Connor pulled out, she started up again. She just fell forward moaning into the pillows.

  “Yes. Yes,” was all I could make out.

  There was no denying that Keira was an intensely sexual woman with great appetites. She was also incredibly orgasmic; more than any woman I had ever been with. There were so many ways to turn her on: touching her breasts, licking her nipples, kissing her neck. Even touching her on the leg or wrist; you could tell she would become flushed and ready.