Tala moaned, totally caught up in the multiple sensations between AJ’s intimate play and Mik’s tongue against hers, Mik’s cock filling her, his hands holding her face as he kissed her senseless.
It was AJ’s mind that linked to Tala’s first, his arousal almost beyond conscious thought as he prepared her for greater penetration. Tala saw through AJ’s eyes, and with AJ’s perception realized how turned on he felt to know he was going to enter a woman this way.
A first for him, though he’d had vaginal sex with a woman before, and she sensed his fears along with his desire. Felt the solid grip of AJ’s hand around his own cock, the odd sensation as he pressed the hard, smooth crown against her tight opening, and she experienced it from her own perspective as well as from his.
As if aware of his mate’s hesitation, Mik slowed his thrusts and tilted his hips, lifting Tala just a bit higher. She stilled all movement for AJ and concentrated on relaxing her muscles to make his entry easier.
When he first breached her opening, Tala gasped with the sharp, burning pain. She took short, shallow breaths and pushed back against the head of AJ’s cock as her tight passage stretched to allow him entrance. She wanted to fight him. He was big and it hurt. Then the pain slipped away, replaced by a dark, delicious sense of fullness. Slowly, as AJ pressed deeper, Tala realized her trembles of fear had given way to shivers of pure ecstasy.
The moment AJ’s groin pressed against her rounded bottom, when he buried his cock alongside Mik’s, all three of them sighed in unison.
Tala giggled. Nervous giggles, but once she started, she couldn’t stop. She felt Mik’s chest bounce beneath her, heard AJ snort.
“That’s not the reaction I was expecting.” AJ tried to sound offended, but Tala wiggled her butt against his groin and laughed.
“Well, it’s a first for me, too, and I was nervous, okay? I’ve never had two men as big as you inside me at once and I wasn’t sure you’d both fit. It’s not like you’re normal sized, or anything like that.”
AJ laughed and slapped her butt lightly. The small sting sent a shiver up Tala’s spine. She turned and looked over her shoulder, intending to glare at him, but damn! AJ Temple was so gorgeous he just about took her breath away.
His jaw was clenched. Sweat bathed his muscular chest and the veins in his arms stood out. For all his teasing, AJ looked like a man on the edge of losing control.
He wrapped his long, narrow hands around Tala’s hips and slowly withdrew, then once more filled her. Mik matched AJ’s stroke, going deep in counterpoint. Moving slowly and carefully, teasing strokes that aroused Tala, that took her slowly but surely to a place she’d not reached before.
This time when their thoughts invaded hers, she was ready. AJ was the clearer. His quiet vulnerability as he worried about hurting her, about coming too soon, was more of a turn-on than Tala would have expected.
Mik’s arousal was so powerful, his fight for control so strong, it carried her along. She felt powerless, yet filled with power, her body as much a vessel as a shrine in the minds of these beautiful men who loved her so thoroughly.
It was all that and more, here in this rumpled bed in a hotel somewhere east of Phoenix, her past a mystery, her future just as unknown. Here, sandwiched between two amazing men who loved one another, who included Tala in that same overwhelming love.
She’d not known love before. Wouldn’t believe it now, but dreamed it was hers, took their shared feelings for each other, the love Mik and AJ accepted as their due, and made it her own.
It was only a little fantasy, but it had power. More power than Tala had ever experienced. Riding the wave of Mik and AJ’s love, she arched her back and screamed, felt her body clenching, holding tight to the men who filled her.
The link persisted, took her through AJ’s powerful climax, carried her along with Mik when he finally gave in to sensation, cried out and arched his hips, thrusting deep inside Tala, filling her body with his seed, and her mind and heart with love.
Shit. Mik still pulsed deep inside Tala, his cock separated from AJ’s by nothing more than a thin wall of moist tissues. Tala’s muscles clenched and released, so tight and hot, so damned good he wondered why he’d always preferred men.
And that was the problem. Before he was Chanku, Mik always used protection. After he’d turned, there’d only been AJ and the Chanku immunity to most human disease including everything sexually transmitted.
That didn’t mean he couldn’t get a woman pregnant. Every pulse of his cock reminded him how stupid he’d just been. Even now, one of his busy little spermatozoa might be wending its merry way deep inside Tala’s womb. Finding an egg to fertilize.
A baby to make. Shit, shit, shit.
Tala raised her head off Mik’s chest and smiled at him. AJ peered over her shoulder, but he wasn’t smiling. If she’s Chanku, she’ll be able to control fertilization.
What if it’s too late? What if she doesn’t change in time and ends up pregnant?
Tala frowned. “What are you two talking about?”
Mik blinked, startled by her comment. “Could you hear us?”
She shook her head. “No, but you’re obviously staring over my shoulder at your buddy, here, and leaving me out of something. Kind of rude when you’re both still stuffed inside me, don’t you think? What’s going on?”
Mik kissed her. Thought about lying. Couldn’t. “I didn’t use protection. I’m sorry. It’s always just AJ and me, and we’re both clean.”
“And neither one of us has to worry about pregnancy.” AJ kissed her shoulder and winked at Mik.
“I’m sorry.” Tala turned her gaze away from Mik and her body stiffened. “I’ve got an IUD, so I won’t get pregnant, but I never thought about STDs. Those guys yesterday could have given me anything. They’re all a bunch of losers, and they sure as hell didn’t use protection…” Her voice drifted off and she tried to shift away from Mik. Impossible with AJ still sprawled over her, his penis deep inside her body.
Mik wrapped his arms around Tala, including AJ in his embrace. “Hush. Everything will be fine. We’ll be more careful from now on.” He kissed Tala and nuzzled the tender skin behind her ear. “I’ve discovered I like the feel of your body holding mine.”
“Me too.” AJ wriggled his hips just a bit, then slowly withdrew. He lifted himself away from Tala, kissed her shoulder, and headed into the bathroom.
Slowly, regretfully, Mik pulled out as well, but he cuddled Tala close against his chest and kissed the top of her head. “You have nothing to be sorry about. What happened to you was wrong and it was horrible, but it was not your fault. Jimmy Cole has a lot to answer for. I almost hope he finds us.”
“I don’t. I don’t trust him. Sometimes he carries a gun.” Tala shivered and pressed close against Mik. He wrapped his arms around her and held her tightly. Protected her.
A few minutes later, AJ came back into the room with a warm, damp washcloth. When he bathed Tala, washing gently between her legs, she knew the feelings she’d had during sex weren’t make-believe. They weren’t a fantasy.
Whether Miguel Fuentes and Andrew Jackson Temple loved her or not didn’t matter.
Tala realized she loved them both. Loved each man equally with every cell in her body. Loved them both and would never, ever let them go.
Sun streamed in through the window and the day was growing late, but Tala slept in the midst of the rumpled sheets and neither AJ nor Mik had any desire to wake her. Instead they leaned back against the headboard, one on each side of her, watching her sleep.
AJ glanced at Mik and shook his head. What if she’s not Chanku? You know what the boss says…
Mik shrugged. I’m not killing her, that’s for sure. We haven’t said anything at all about what we are.
We told her we’re telepathic.
Mik turned and stared at him. AJ almost laughed. It wasn’t often his mate got so intense. Right now Mik was definitely intense. Even his words in AJ’s head sounded intense.
T
hat’s not the same as telling her we can turn into wolves.
AJ shrugged. We need to be really careful until we know for sure, that’s all I’m saying.
I’m going to call Shannon.
AJ thought about that for a moment. It made sense. Shannon Murphy had only recently become Chanku, helped along by their packmate Jacob Trent. Jake had given Shannon the same dietary supplement AJ and Mik were giving to Tala, going on blind faith she carried the Chanku genes. He’d been lucky. Hopefully Shannon could shed some light on the situation with Tala.
Mik quietly rolled off the bed and reached for his cell phone. I’ll go outside, but I need to talk to her. She can tell us what to look for, how to recognize the signs of Chanku in a female.
AJ nodded. Good idea. And while you’re talking to Shannon, ask what we should do if there aren’t signs. Are you willing to walk away from her?
Mik looked down at Tala sleeping so soundly, looking so innocent and young, and shook his head. No. I think it’s too late for that.
AJ sat beside Tala while Mik went out to make his call. If anyone could help, it would be Shannon. Even though she was clear across the country, living in Maine now with one of their packmates, she’d always have a place in AJ’s heart.
Jacob Trent had given Shannon the pills without telling her why, and in so doing, had almost lost her. AJ wondered if they faced the same risk with Tala if she turned out to be Chanku, but he didn’t think so. At least he hoped she wouldn’t hate them.
How could anyone hate a person for giving them such a gift? The ability to shift from human to wolf in a heartbeat. AJ thought about that first meeting with Ulrich Mason so long ago. Thought about the sense of disbelief he’d felt when the prison warden said he was free to leave, that his sentence had been reduced to time served.
The only caveat being he had to go with Ulrich Mason, an imposing ex-cop with a most improbable story. A tale of creatures who were half human, half wolf, who could shift at a moment’s notice, once their bodies had received the right combination of nutrients.
It all had sounded so absurd, but he’d eaten those delicious grasses, realized they were tastes his body had always craved. And then, just a couple of weeks later, he’d done it. Shifted from human to wolf, run through the forest on four legs for the first time in his life. Made his first kill, an aging buck that went down with a broken neck when AJ caught it by the throat.
Would Tala hunt? Would she find the same pleasure in the kill that the rest of them did? AJ found it hard to believe Tala could kill anything. He watched her sleep and wondered at her hidden past. Wondered why and how she’d ended up with Jimmy Cole.
It had to be the sex. That was one thing they all had in common…an almost insatiable sex drive. Suddenly it all made sense, the reason Jimmy might actually follow Tala until he brought her back. Her sex drive made her the perfect whore. A woman always in search of sexual gratification, driven by an overwhelming need, constantly aroused, always ready.
Chanku. Finding satisfaction only when they were mated, only when they finally found and connected with the other half to their whole.
AJ thought of the amazing relationship he and Mik had. How the hell were they going to add another half? AJ ran his fingers through the long, dark strands of Tala’s hair and couldn’t help but grin at his convoluted thinking. No one had ever heard of a three-way bond among the Chanku. Of course, the history of their kind had been lost for hundreds of generations. Maybe it was time to create an entirely new culture, a new set of rules.
Rules that joined three as one. Wrapping the silken strands of hair in his fingers, AJ hoped Mik might find the answers they needed.
Mik returned just a few moments later and sat on the bed beside Tala. Shannon told me what to look for. She’ll start rubbing her arms, especially if she’s upset about anything. Her dreams will become truly vivid…not nightmares, but unsettling because they’ll feel so real.
AJ ran his fingers along his forearm, remembering. I’d forgotten about that damned irritation, the feeling my bones wanted to crawl out through my skin. I remember scratching bloody furrows in my arms and legs before my first change.
Then it ended, right? I was the same way. The dreams scared the shit out of me at first. What about you?
Shaking his head, AJ smiled. Not really. I’d had dreams about being a wolf since I was a kid. Didn’t you? They got more vivid, but they were still much the same.
Of course I dreamed of wolves, but my grandfather was Sioux. He raised me for many years after my mother died. Mik shoved his hair out of his eyes and looked over Tala’s sleeping form, directly at AJ. I was supposed to dream of wolves. If I’d dreamed of rabbits or mice or frogs, he would have disowned me.
AJ reached over Tala and pretended to punch him.
Mik just grinned, eyes twinkling. Shannon said to watch for the dreams, for her to start rubbing her arms and acting nervous. Her human senses will become more acute, so she might react to loud noises or bright lights differently. If she starts craving blood-rare meat…well, that’s a definite sign, too. Shannon said she was practically a vegetarian before the first pills.
Mik tilted his head and his long hair mingled with Tala’s, flowing over his shoulder to her pillow. AJ’s first thought was how similar the shade yet how different the texture. Tala’s was every bit as dark as Mik’s but the strands looked like fine silk next to his mate’s.
The two of them would make a beautiful pair. A perfect match. Both of them his. How long will it take?
That’s the interesting part. Mik wrapped Tala’s hair around his fingers and seemed to compare it to his own before he looked up at AJ. I don’t know about you, but it took me almost two weeks. Shannon made her first shift just three days after her first pill and said it seems to happen faster with women. She suggested we not go back to San Francisco right away. I’m thinking we get on 395 and head up to the cabin. It’s quiet and isolated and we can be there in a day if we push it.
AJ had to agree. The pack’s cabin, located in the northeastern part of California in the Sierra Nevada mountains, would be the perfect place for Tala to make her first shift.
That was assuming, of course, she was Chanku.
Tala sat up in bed and rubbed her eyes, then studied her arms and hands for a moment. Normal hands, regular fingers. She shuddered, then looked around. The room was fairly dark, but then the shades were drawn so it was hard to tell if it was day or night. The TV was on with the volume turned low. Both AJ and Mik seemed absorbed in a baseball game.
“What time is it?”
“About three. So, you decided to wake up after all, eh?” AJ turned around grinning.
Laughing, Mik spoke to AJ, not Tala. “I told you she was avoiding us. Probably hoped we’d give up and be gone by the time she woke up.”
Tala shook her head. “No. I can’t understand why I’m so tired, though.”
Mik winked at AJ. “Well, I could offer an explanation…”
Tala felt the blush creep across her cheeks.
“Did you sleep okay?” AJ stood up and stretched. He was bare chested, his jeans unbuttoned and riding low on his slim hips. Tala’s fingers practically itched, she wanted so badly to pull those jeans just a little lower, to follow that trail of dark, curling hair to its source. She had to swallow back a groan before she could form a coherent answer.
“Fine, actually. In spite of some of the strangest dreams.”
AJ stopped in midstretch. “What kind of dreams?”
Tala shrugged as if they were nothing, but she couldn’t get the sense of something deeper, something amazing, out of her mind. “Weird shit. I’ve always had them, at least as long as I can remember, but these were much more vivid than usual. Dreams about running, only I’m not really me. I’m some kind of an animal.” She crawled out of bed and headed for the bathroom. “I think I’m a wolf, but these dreams were so real, I was afraid to wake up. Afraid I’d still be a wolf.”
She closed the bathroom door behind her and lea
ned against it. Her hands were shaking. In fact, her entire body shook and her skin crawled like she had ants running over it. Rubbing at her forearms, Tala squinted against the bright bathroom light and stared at herself in the mirror. She hoped she wasn’t sick. Hoped like hell she hadn’t contracted some deadly disease from the bastards in the bar.
That all seemed like nothing more than a bad dream, hazy in the way of incomplete memories. The dream she’d just had, of racing through damp forests and across a wide-open grassy plain, hearing night sounds and feeling cold air blowing across her back…now that was so damned real it was creepy.
Tala peed quickly and washed her hands. She smoothed the T-shirt over her hips, then used Mik’s brush to work the tangles out of her hair. She knew it was his by the long strands of black hair caught in the bristles.
She stood there a moment, staring into the mirror but seeing Mik. Feeling him making love to her. Remembering the hard length of his cock buried all the way to the hilt.
Buried deep inside, right along AJ’s equally massive erection. Good lord! Two men hung like bull elephants and she’d managed to take them together. Both of them gorgeous and built and sexy as hell, and so damned nice to her.
She couldn’t figure out which one turned her on the most.
Mik was the first man she’d ever had sex with who had hair longer than hers. Imagining those long, silky strands trailing across her breasts and between her legs made Tala’s pussy clench. Then she thought of AJ. Damn! He’d been so gentle, such a thoughtful lover, but he’d taken her places she’d never gone, filled her so completely she wondered if she’d ever again be satisfied with just one man. They’d had sex all morning and here she was, wanting them both all over again.
AJ and Mik didn’t seem like they were in any hurry at all to leave. Tala had thought they were going to San Francisco today, but then they’d ended up in bed together and the last thing Tala remembered was the warm, soothing sweep of a soft, damp cloth between her legs. AJ bathing her after sex.
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