Peata [Eminence Shifters 2] (Siren Publishing Ménage Amour)

by Ashley Malkin

  “I made sure that all my sons were quite capable of cooking and cleaning for themselves. A mate is a gift to be cherished. She is not supposed to be a servant,” Neva stated. She was eerie. It was almost like she knew what Peata had been thinking.

  “I’m going to have cooking lessons with Melanie, starting tomorrow morning, I want to learn to cook,” Peata said. “Once I’ve mastered something, I hope you’ll all join us for a meal.

  “That would be our great pleasure, Peata. We will look forward to it,” Neva said. She smiled warmly at her and kissed her on the cheek. Linking their arms, Neva led her up to the house.

  Chapter 21

  Calder had been gone all evening, and although Peata was kept busy watching and learning as Axel and Neva cooked supper, she was anxious to know where he was. She couldn’t work out what she had done to make him leave.

  Axel and Max were obviously on edge too and she now had chest pain from holding in her anxiety all evening. Neva had been lovely and welcoming, promising to come over again in a day or two.

  “Your mother is a wonderful person,” Peata said, “but really spooky, can she read minds?”

  “No, I don’t think so, I think she is just really good at reading body language,” Max answered, laughing. They were standing on the porch watching their parents truck disappear into the darkness of the night, only their taillights now visible in the distance. Peata was standing between Max and Axel and they both had and arm firmly around her.

  “I think she’s a witch who can definitely read minds,” Axel said. “I could never get anything past her when we were growing up.”

  “That’s because you suck at lying, moron, plus Calder blamed you for everything you two ever did wrong,” Max said, chuckling at Axel’s shocked expression.

  “I blamed him for everything. No wonder she knew exactly what we’d done.”

  At the mention of Calder’s name Peata felt herself stiffen and tears pricked her eyes.

  “Do you want me to go and get him, honey?” Axel asked her.

  “No, I just wish I knew what I did wrong. Then I won’t do it again,” Peata said. Her voice was husky and the tears finally broke free to roll down her cheeks.

  Axel tore off his clothes and shifted, leaping from the porch and disappearing into the darkness. It had all happened in a matter of seconds. By the time the gasp broke free from her mouth, Axel was gone.

  Max picked her up and carried her inside, sitting her on the sofa and kneeling between her knees.

  “You didn’t do anything wrong, baby, you are perfect. Calder, on the other hand, is an asshole,” Max said in a soothing voice.

  Calder burst through the front door at that moment, completely naked. He strode to Peata and scooped her up, carrying her up the stairs. “We’re taking a bath. See you in a while,” Calder said.

  Peata snuggled into the heat of his naked flesh. It felt good to have him here after worrying all evening.

  After he had started the bath he sat her on the bathroom cabinet and stared down at her, his eyes still holding a hint of their amber glow.

  “It tore me up inside when Axel told me that you were under the impression I was not pleased with you,” Calder said, his eyes boring into her.

  “I received some news that upset me and I reacted badly,” he continued, “I should have talked to you, or said good-bye. I’m so sorry, sugar. Being mated is new to me too. I will make mistakes, but I will try to learn from them.” He paused, his eyes suddenly blazing amber. “I love you, Peata. I love everything about you.”

  Peata felt her heart squeeze in her chest. “I love you, too. With all my heart, I love all of you.”

  He cupped her cheeks in his hands and kissed her gently on the lips. Peata was having none of that, not after his declaration of love. She wrapped her arms and legs around him and drove her tongue between his lips, stroking her tongue along his elongating canines.

  He groaned and deepened the kiss, his hands sliding down her back to cup her ass. He pulled her tight against him, the hard length of his cock rubbing against her jean-covered pussy. The friction was enough to make her clitoris swell and throb. Her pussy clenched and felt strangely empty.

  Breaking their kiss she looked straight into his eyes, trying for a sexy smile. She pushed him away a little. Sliding quickly off the cabinet she kneeled between his feet, their eyes still locked together. Taking his hard length in her hand, she stoked him gently from root to tip, his groan of pleasure making her pussy start to leak onto her panties. She rubbed the head of his penis along her lips, using the pre-cum as lip gloss, then licking it off with her tongue.

  His eyes were now glowing bright amber and his whole body vibrated with his growls. It turned her on so much to pleasure him this way.

  Taking his cock between her lips, she slowly sucked him to the back of her throat, swirling her tongue around the head of his cock as she pulled her head back. She cupped his tight balls softly with one hand and wrapped the other around his length. She found a rhythm that seemed to please him, his pre-cum a sweet, slightly salty stream on her tongue. Within a minute his cock swelled in her mouth, and he roared as his cum shot down her throat. She swallowed convulsively, determined not to choke.

  * * * *

  Calder sat in the overfull bath with Peata on his lap, his legs still shaking from the blow-job she had given him.

  “You are amazing, Peata. I came so hard I think you broke my cock,” he said, nuzzling his mark on her neck. She shivered her response, and he teased her hard nipple with his thumb and forefinger.

  “It doesn’t feel broken,” she said, wiggling her ass over his hardening shaft.

  “Luckily I heal fast. Plus, you’re so sexy I’m hard all the time.”

  He knew that Max and Axel didn’t want her to know about the investigation, and how close the corrupt officers were to finding her. But Calder felt if she knew, then she would better cooperate with all their security measures.

  “You are surprisingly incurious for a female,” he said. “Don’t you want to know what upset me earlier?”

  “Yes, of course, but I trust you. If I need to know, you’ll tell me.”

  “I can scent that you’re lying, sugar, but we do need you to know. We should have told you straight away.”

  He told her what he had learned from Hunter that afternoon, including the fact that the whole pride was now involved in her protection.

  “I’m astounded I’ve lasted four days without them finding me. I really did a bad job of disappearing didn’t I?”

  He was surprised by her calm response. “Setting fire to a barn seems to be the last on a long list of mistakes going by what the FBI have found out. Those fuckers have been about twelve hours behind you all the way here.”

  When they entered the bedroom after their bath, they found Axel and Max waiting there. They both had towels around their waists and their hair was wet from their showers.

  “How are you, Peata?” Max asked. “We didn’t want to scare you, but Calder was right, you needed to know.”

  “I could get used to those words,” Calder said. “I may get you all, ‘Calder is right,’ T-shirts.”

  * * * *

  Peata laughed and elbowed Calder in the stomach. He was still surprised at what a funny guy his brother was. He had a knack for lightening the mood.

  “I heard a rumor that Calder has a broken cock, so the duty falls to Max and I to ravish our mate.” Lifting a laughing Peata, he carried her to the bed.

  He unwrapped the towel from her body. As her generous breasts were revealed, he kissed his way down her neck to one of her nipples, pinching it before laving the small hurt with his tongue. She moaned and arched her back toward him. He sucked hard on the offered nipple. A glance sideways showed him Max was attending to her other breast.

  He scented the sweet aroma of her arousal, and it drew him to her pussy like a magnet. Resisting the urge to plunge his throbbing cock straight into her, he kissed his way down her softly rounded abdomen
, spread her thighs wider and settled himself between them. He licked down the dew-spotted folds, growling as the taste of her electrified his taste buds.

  “You’re so fucking delicious,” he moaned into her pussy.

  “Axel, please, I need to come. Don’t stop,” she cried out.

  Calder had taken his place, and was torturing her nipple with his mouth and fingers. She was holding their heads to her breasts. God she was sexy.

  His cock was painful as he squashed it beneath him, but she would come on his tongue before he succumbed to his own raging need. Circling her entrance with his finger, he sucked lightly on her clit. She bucked her hips off the bed and he used his free hand to hold her still. He pushed his finger into her wet pussy and it clamped down on the digit, the walls fluttering in mini-spasms.

  She was so close. Using some of her juices to lubricate his ring finger, Axel pushed it into her tight anus while sucking hard on her swollen clit.

  She screamed his name as her orgasm broke through her, her pussy and ass pulsing hard on his fingers. He pumped them into her, and licked softly at her clit to prolong her pleasure, her moans slowing to a low keening.

  “You are so beautiful when you come,” Calder said with a growl.

  “Oh God, that was wonderful,” she murmured to no one in particular. Not that it mattered. Axel was sure he was sporting the same satisfied, masculine smile as his brothers.

  “You ready to play some more, honey? I want to feel you come all over my cock this time,” Axel said. Lying across the end of the bed he waggled his eyebrows at her.

  She kissed Max and Calder and crawled on top of him, rubbing her swollen nipples against his sparse chest hairs, and moaning.

  “I never realized that my nipples were connected directly to my clitoris.” Dropping her head to his chest she laved one of his nipples with her little pink tongue. His cock jumped in response to the sensation.

  “Minx,” he growled, guiding his cock to her entrance. It slid into the hilt as she pushed down onto him with a sigh. “You feel so damn good.”

  “This will feel cold,” Calder said, and Peata was gently pushed flat to Axel’s chest.

  Axel kissed down her neck, and licked across his mating mark while Calder prepared her ass. He gripped her hips firmly, holding her still as she wiggled and moaned above him.

  “I’m in now, sugar,” Calder said, and they both began to move.

  “You are so fucking tight, and so wet,” Axel groaned. “You like it when we fill you like this?”

  “Yes,” she breathed, grinding herself against them. “Please move, I need you to move now.”

  “Open that sexy mouth for Max, sugar, then we’ll move,” Calder said.

  Peata reached for Max’s offered cock.

  Axel began to thrust slowly into the sweet torture of his mate’s body. He gripped tightly to her hips, wracked with the need to pound into her, as she bobbed her head on Max’s cock.

  When Max finally ground out her name as he came, he and Calder released their restraint and pumped into her. His cock spasmed with his imminent orgasm.

  “Yes,” she breathed, and bit hard into his shoulder, holding the skin tight between her teeth. The feel of her biting him, was so arousing to his cat that he sank his canines deep into her neck.

  The bite sparked Peata’s orgasm and she screamed, her pussy clamping down like and erotic vice on his cock. The delicious taste of her blood ignited his own orgasm, the pleasure intense as his cum burst from his cock. Calder’s roar sounded faint, over the pounding of his own blood in his veins.

  Peata collapsed onto him, and three sets of hands caressed her as she came down from her orgasmic high. By the time Axel could move, Peata was breathing slowly and deeply, having drifted to sleep.

  “She’s everything to me,” Calder said. “I can’t lose her.” He had returned with a warm cloth and he wiped Peata clean before lifting her from Axel and placing her on the pillows.

  “We know, Calder, we’ll keep her safe,” Max said, lying next to Peata and pulling her against him.

  Axel lay down next to Peata. He would enjoy the feel of her against him for the next few hours. As the pride’s best trackers, he and Calder were tasked with leading the search for Peata’s pursuers. They were leaving for Grand Springs before sunrise to start their search. They needed to find the fuckers before they got any closer to her.

  Chapter 22

  Max had lain awake watching Peata, after Axel and Calder had left for their hunt. She was curled up against him, her arm thrown over his waist, the warm caramel scent of her wrapped around his heart and his cock. Even with the stress of the day ahead, he still wanted desperately to bury himself in her. Or perhaps it was because of the stress.

  “They’re gone aren’t they?” Peata murmured against his chest, not opening her eyes. “I can’t smell them, only you.”

  “We smell, lover? I was under the impression we had very good personal hygiene,” he said, kissing the top of her sleep-mussed head.

  “No, silly, you all smell delicious. But you all smell a little different.” She opened her eyes and smiled at him. His heart clenched, he loved her so much.

  Max lowered his head and kissed her. As he rolled on top of her, she wrapped her legs around his hips, opening herself to his straining cock.

  “I love you so much,” he said, pushing slowly into her until he felt his balls hit her ass.

  “I love you, Max,” she said with a moan, her eyes fixed on his.

  He started to move, pounding into her in deep, rapid thrusts, her words unleashing all his restraint. Her nails dug into the flesh of his back, the bite of pain making the cat in him growl its approval.

  His growls seemed to spark Peata’s orgasm. She moaned his name and bit down on the skin of his chest, her pussy clenching him in rhythmic waves. He roared as her bite made his own orgasm peak instantly.

  Once their breathing had slowed he rolled to his back until she was lying on his chest. She ran her finger over the small bite mark on his chest. It made his cock twitch. His cat felt marked.

  “I think I bit Axel last night, too. I was afraid I’d scream. You make me feel so good I can hardly stand it,” she said, her cheeks coloring.

  “Go ahead and scream, lover. We don’t hold back with our roaring. We can’t, you make us come so damn hard.”

  “Are they going to be okay? What if they get hurt?”

  Max didn’t pretend he didn’t know she was asking after Axel and Calder. He was worried about them too. The men they were hunting had already killed a child. They would think nothing of killing more people to escape justice.

  “We’re hard to kill, baby, and they are just tracking them. They will notify Hunter as soon as they find them. Honestly,” Max reassured her. The word “honestly” burned his tongue. He had yet to tell her about the night he took her virginity.

  “I wanted to talk to you about the night we first made love. I discovered something that night that I think you deserve to know.” He felt her tense under him and he caressed down her back to cup her buttocks.

  “It was the best sex of my life, and it just keeps getting better, lover, so relax and let me finish.” He nibbled on her ear, reassured when he felt her responding shudder of arousal. “I just thought you should know that I took your virginity that night.”

  She was quiet for several long minutes as Max continued to caress her back and buttocks soothingly.

  “I never did know exactly what they did to me,” she finally said. “Thank you for telling me. I’m glad you were my first.”

  “I was always your first, baby. I was the first man you ever gave yourself to.”

  His cell phone ringing interrupted his plans to make Peata late for her cooking lesson with Melanie.

  “Saved by the bell, lover. You get dressed and I’ll see you downstairs,” he said, tapping her lightly on the ass.

  He was pacing the kitchen when Peata joined him ten minutes later. He was pleased to see she was fully dressed and
ready to leave.

  “What’s happening, Max?” she asked, her expression worried as she responded to the anxiety he must have been throwing off.

  “That call was from Doc’s brother, Samson. He was doing a sweep of the town when he saw two of the fuckers pursuing you leave The Eminence Inn. All of the pride have copies of their pictures. He identified them as officers York and Turner. He’s following them now.”

  “If you need to go, Max, I’ll be fine. I want this over,” Peata said, running to him and wrapping her arms around his waist. “Are Axel and Calder there too?”

  “I’m not leaving you here alone, baby. I’m taking you to Melanie’s. Dane is there with her and they’re expecting you. Axel and Calder are shifted, but they’re in contact with Cooper. As the pride enforcer he’s coordinating everyone. They’re certain they’re on the detective’s trail, so are sticking with it.”

  As Max drove away from the Frederick’s house ten minutes later and headed into town to help, he felt only elation that this was nearly over. He would check with his brothers first, but he wanted to ask Peata, tonight, if she would marry them.

  Chapter 23

  Peata was greeted warmly by Melanie, and herded into the kitchen. She was worried about her men, plus all the men of the pride really. She had caused a lot of trouble for them.

  “You’re worth it you know?” Melanie said, handing her a mug of hot chocolate. “Now that you are mated, their very lives are dependent on you staying alive, remember. They will die, for real, kick the bucket die, if you’re killed.”

  Peata had been told this before she accepted them as mates, but put that way it was shockingly sobering.

  “That’s not the reason they’re doing it though is it? They’re not doing it to just save their own lives?” Peata asked slowly, the realization of what they had been telling her, from the moment they met her, hitting her hard.