Evelyn nodded her head. “I know they planned to go slower, but sometimes when things don’t go as planned, it’s for the best.”
Avery laughed as she nodded. “It’s insane really. The rational part of me says this is crazy. I should call the police and run away, but my heart says to stay. Something special is happening.”
“That is one of the gods assuring you that you are where you are supposed to be.”
“Gods?”
“Sure.” Evelyn smiled. “Look up into the stars at night. They guide our way and even draw pictures for us. The night that they revealed you as my sons’ fated mate, they shed their light upon your house, Avery. They also make sure that your bond is firmly cemented before they leave you alone. This is the special bonding time where your souls crave to be close to one another. If you tried to leave, it would be painful for you all.”
“Physical pain?” Avery’s eyes widened.
“Yes. Some say it’s the pain of your heart breaking. Once the bond is solid between the three of you, it won’t be so intense.”
“What about you? How come you never bonded with your mate?”
Her face held so much sadness, Avery nearly cried. “My parents decided to pick my mate for me. Don’t get me wrong, he’s a good man, but not the man I would have chosen, and he has the same feelings.”
Avery took her hand. “I’m so sorry. Is he cruel to you?”
“No. Never. Alred is an honorable Lycan. He’s just a bit cold. His life was decided for him as much as mine was for me. We’ve made the best of it, and I would say we’re even friends now, but we’ve never bonded or loved one another as you do my sons.” Evelyn kissed her cheek. “I have to get going now. I see my escort is here. I will see you in North Carolina, dear.”
Avery kissed her cheek and glanced up when movement at the door caught her attention. A large man in a black suit stood in the doorway holding Evelyn’s bag. “Bye. I will see you in a few days.”
“Enjoy the Dawsons. I hear they are a very dear family.”
Sam walked in, and Evelyn gave him a hug before walking out.
When Sam approached her, she asked him, “Who is that?”
He followed her gaze. “He’s one of my father’s enforcers. He makes sure Mom is safe when she is away from him. They may not love each other, but he is still serious about protecting her. He’s an honorable man, after all.”
“Then why doesn’t he stay with your mom?”
“He has a pack to run, and my mom loves to travel. One way he takes care of her is allowing her the freedom she craves.” Sam paused for a moment. “My mom told me about what you saw.”
She glanced at him, confused for a moment as she browsed through their conversations. “Here?”
“Here and when that asshole brought hell home with him.” He threaded his hands through her hair. “It sounds like those were coyotes, pretty much the losers of the paranormal world. Some of them are with Mortef now because he feeds them. Also, Dylan found Mortef is with the same motorcycle gang that hurt you and Rylee.”
She nodded. “Collin had some guys with him that I’d never seen before. Then there were the ones that”—she paused and swallowed hard—“changed.”
“From what you told me about how the police reacted, it sounds like Mortef used some of his Vampires to make sure there weren’t any loose ends.” His head rested against hers. “I’m so glad you came here, Avery. They would have gotten to you otherwise and, if you were lucky, just killed you.”
She moved her head slightly and met his gaze, and she saw the truth in his eyes and shuddered. There were things worse than death. “Fate,” she breathed and smiled. “So, why didn’t it work for your parents?”
“Their parents forced them. They used a very old law to join their houses. They were downright miserable for many years, but they get along quite well now.”
“If he doesn’t love her, why does he try to make her happy?” She gazed into Sam’s dark eyes and saw a smile lighten his face.
“Because, that is who my father is. A good Lycan and Alpha takes care of those under his care. He puts his mate’s comfort ahead of his own, like any good Lycan would.”
Avery let that swirl around her mind. She’d never experienced this before, at least not until now. “Did your mother have two husbands like you and Gage are to me?” Her face heated as she flushed. For a split second, she braced herself for Sam’s anger that she would dare to call him her husband. Instead, he pulled her close, and she saw the love shining in his eyes. “Yes. There were two at first. Sadly, my other dad died in a skirmish between Lycans and Vampires. It happened days after their mating, so it’s always just been my mom and dad.”
“That must have been hard.”
Sam nodded. “Yes, but it is one reason females take two mates. If one dies, there is another to protect and care for her. Our world is very different from yours. We don’t send our females out into the world alone. We cherish and protect them.”
“What if she wants to go out into the world though? What if she wants a job or something to make her feel like she’s accomplishing something besides having babies and making men happy?”
“Then they help her find whatever it is that will make her happy. The North Carolina Pack’s Alpha has her own bookstore. She’s gotten a lot of the females there hooked on the same books you read.” Sam nuzzled her neck. “Speaking of those books, I can’t wait to explore with you in the club.”
Avery shivered with delight.
“Devon, while not a Lycan, is a powerful ally of ours. His and Kieran’s mate, Rachel, has her own real estate firm. She started in a real estate office, but now she works for herself and almost exclusively for Supernatural families.” He kissed her neck, and then her cheek, before moving to her lips. His were soft against hers, and she closed her eyes at the silky feeling of his lips against hers.
Avery wrapped her arms around him as he deepened the kiss. Her head was spinning as if she’d been drinking by the time he ended the kiss. He placed a few loving kisses against her nose.
“What is it you want to do, Avery?”
Her eyes widened. No one had ever asked her what she wanted to do. She’d always either done as she was told, or what she had to in order to survive. “I don’t know. I work at Velkman’s now, but I can also work a bar pretty well.”
Sam’s eyebrows rose. “Is that what you truly want to do with your life, Avery? I won’t think less of you if you would like working in a bar. Gage owns one after all.”
How had he seen right through her? No, that wasn’t what she wanted to do, but that was what she knew how to do. Velkman’s was more respectable than a bartender, but the tips at a bar made immediate money that sometimes allowed her to feed Rylee when she was between paychecks. “No, not really. I’m good at it though. I’ve tended bars for five years now, since I was twenty-one and right before I got pregnant with Rylee. I do enjoy visiting, but I hated all the hands-on shit. You know, men grabbing my ass as I walked by.”
Sam’s eyes darkened and he growled. “If you chose to help Gage, no male would dare put his hands on you, not if they wanted to keep them anyways.”
Her eyes widened. Would she want to? Gage’s bar was very different from the one she worked at in St. Louis.
“What is it you’d love to do? If your dream is to stay home and raise Rylee, it’s what we will plan for. Gage and I both make more than enough money to support us and whatever dream you have.”
She studied his face for any hint that this was some trick. It was so hard for her to believe that this was really happening. She could stay at home and just be a mom, or she could explore some of the things she dreamed about. Stuff that took money and time she couldn’t spare.
It sounded wonderful as she thought about it. No more working until three in the morning and being dog tired the next day when Rylee got up. No more putting Rylee in a back room of a loud bar when she couldn’t find a sitter or the sitter didn’t show up. “I’d love to just be ho
me with Rylee for a while, but I also love fixing up old houses. It’s why I fell in love with that house.” She pointed at her now destroyed home. “It was my fresh start. I was going to make a new life for us in that house. I quit bartending, and got that job at Velkman’s, and I was going to put the past behind us. I’d hoped that Rylee would come around.”
Sam took her chin into the palm of his large hand. “She will. The healer explained that there is damage that the other healers can fix. Chiron hasn’t worked on a lot of younglings, so we’ll go to where there is a healer that can.” Sam lowered his head slowly until their lips met.
Avery closed her eyes and sighed. It would be okay now. Everything would be fine. The weight of the world evaporated off her shoulders as Sam lifted her into his arms. She glanced in the room Rylee slept in and worried she would wake up scared and alone.
“She’ll be fine. Chiron gave her some tea that will help her sleep as she adjusts to this as her new home. She should sleep for several more hours while I give you the aftercare I should have done yesterday.”
“Aftercare?”
“Did you not pay attention to any of those books, darlin’? The Dominant cares for his sub to make sure she feels safe. I want to make sure you feel loved and cherished. This is not some one-sided thing where you kneel at my feet and I don’t give anything in return.”
Avery didn’t feel it had been one-sided at all. She’d had more orgasms that night than she’d had in her entire life, or at least it seemed that way.
Avery placed her hand on his cheek. “No, you don’t have to. I’m fine.”
Sam’s eyes darkened. “The first rule is you don’t argue with your Dominant mate. Gage may let you get away with it, but I won’t. I think we’ll see how well you like spankings later.”
Avery’s stomach clenched as desire blossomed in her pussy. Arousal coated the folds of her cunt, and she fought not to moan as a jolt of arousal made her core spasm as she thought about Sam spanking her. Would it be as good as she read? She hoped it would be. She’d read several stories of women coming with just a spanking. She’d fantasized many times about a strong man holding her down and spanking her ass until she came.
Sam grinned as if he saw her erotic fantasy for himself. “Yes, I do believe we will have some fun with Dominance and submission tonight.”
* * * *
Avery moaned as Sam’s hands massaged out a knot of tense muscles in her back. When he’d said they’d have a night of Dominance and submission, she didn’t envision them both naked as he massaged scented oil into her body. His hands glided down the firm globes of her ass and down to her thighs.
She moaned again. Dear god this felt so good. She couldn’t believe she nearly turned this down. He worked her calves and then her feet before he worked his way back up to her back.
The door clicked, and then she heard clothing rustling. “I laid Rylee in her bed. The tea worked like a charm. I think I rocked her for about five minutes, and then she was out,” Gage said just before the bed dipped under his weight.
Avery relaxed even further with Rylee sound asleep. She had been worried it would be a long night with Rylee scared to go to sleep away from home and her bed. Glass coated most of their belongings, and Sam didn’t want to risk her getting cut. They’d just order a big dumpster and throw away the stuff that had glass imbedded in the fabric.
“So beautiful, and all ours.” Gage traced her spine for a moment before he turned her over. “I believe we now have to deal with our naughty sub.”
“Oh yes, she was very naughty and she will be punished thoroughly,” Sam agreed.
“What did I do?” Fear started to engulf her. Had they changed their minds about her? A dark and cold shadow passed over her heart. She was ready to pull her walls up, but then relief swamped her when Gage held up some rope. They meant punishment as in the type she read in her book series.
“You ran off. You put yourself in danger by walking home in the middle of the night. We keep a pretty tight town here, but criminals drive.”
Avery sat up and stared at the rope. She licked her lips and decided that she wanted them to punish her. If she hated it, she’d say so.
“Before we begin, love.” Sam stroked her nipple and pinched it just hard enough for her to throw her head back and moan. “We need to establish a word you can say that will stop us.”
“You mean like red and yellow for stop or slow down?”
Sam smiled. “Exactly. Good girl. I’m proud of you for paying attention. The club we will visit has the red, yellow, and green system, so we will use that since you know it already. If you say red, everything stops and we try to figure out what pushed you past your limit. Yellow means you need a break. It means a pause and you can either rest, or we will talk about what is happening.”
Avery sat up straighter and smiled. “So, if I say yellow, you’ll let me catch my breath?”
“Yes, and red ends a scene. You only say red when you are done.”
She nodded. “Okay.”
“Some Dominants want to be called Sir or Master. Gage and I aren’t that formal. Hold out your hands to Gage, love. He’s excellent with a rope.” His deep voice sent shivers down her spine as she held her hands out.
Gage winked at her as he tied the soft rope around her wrists and pulled them over her head. He laid her on the soft bed. “Remember your safe word, darlin’. Anytime you want to stop, you say red.”
“I remember.”
Gage pulled out a set of clamps and held them out for her. “These will look so pretty on your tits, don’t you think?”
She swallowed hard, but then nodded. If he said so. She’d read they hurt, and she was afraid for a moment until she remembered she had a way out. She could say stop or even slow down, and they would.
“Such a good girl.” Gage stroked her cheek. “I’m so proud of you for being brave.” He sucked her nipple into his mouth while Sam’s lips kissed a fiery trail from her stomach to her pelvis.
The two sensations melded, and Avery wiggled under the two of them.
“So beautiful and responsive.” Sam licked her thigh and stopped right before her pussy, where she wanted him to touch her the most, and then he nipped at her skin.
She whimpered in need as her pussy ached for them to fill her.
Gage put the first clamp on just as Sam licked the slit of her hot pussy. Her hips jerked, and she cried out as the pain and pleasure morphed and she couldn’t tell where one began and the other ended.
Gage went to work on the other nipple while Sam’s fingers dug into her thighs to open her wider for him. Just as her nipples really started to ache, Sam latched on to her clit and sucked it into his mouth.
She rose her hips off the bed and cried out as Sam feasted on her cunt, and Gage helped hold her still, so all she could do was take whatever Sam gave her. He licked her slit from her wet folds to her throbbing nub, before he stabbed his tongue into her hole.
Her body jerked and her hips gyrated as her orgasm spiraled up higher. Just as she thought she may go over, Sam and Gage flipped her over onto Sam’s lap. Her hands were tied, and Sam’s strong hand held her down over his lap. She was helpless to do anything but surrender, and she did. It was strange to trust a man this much not to hurt her in a way she didn’t enjoy, but she trusted Sam and Gage with her life.
A sharp swat impacted her ass, and she screamed more in surprise than pain. Heat radiated off her ass for a split second, but it didn’t hurt. Then Sam swatted her again and again. Each time was in a different spot, but it didn’t take long for both of her cheeks to feel like they were on fire. Her cries of surprise turned to cries of pain, and she tried to move away. Just as she started to think about saying yellow, Gage placed something cold and wet onto her clit, and her pussy lit up. She went from aroused to ready to come in an instant. She tried to rise up off Sam’s lap, but he held her in place.
“Don’t move, Avery.”
She clenched her teeth as she moaned and struggled not to move
as Gage moved the rocket vibrator against her clit. She was going to come any second, and she pressed her mouth against Sam’s bare leg and bit him. Just as the first tendrils started, he moved the vibrator away.
“I wanted this to last longer, but you had to go and give me a love bite,” Sam growled.
Gage lay down on the bed, and Sam picked Avery up. She squeaked and flailed her arms as she tried to catch something to hold her steady. “Sam!”
He placed her over Gage, and he wrapped his arms around her.
“Ride my cock, baby.” His hands gripped her sore ass and massaged her tender skin as his cock thrust up into her wet cunt. Avery couldn’t stop herself. She rested her mouth against the soft flesh over his pectoral muscle. She winced as his sweet blood filled her mouth, and she expected him to scream in rage or pain. Instead, he groaned and tightened his grip on her.
“Oh yes. Fuck, baby, that’s so good.” His hands thrust her down harder and faster on his cock as she sucked on his blood.
Sam leaned over and bit the back of her neck. The heat sent shockwaves of burning lust through her veins as he drank her blood. When he released her, he kissed her back several times.
She released Gage and rested her head against his chest. Her muscles went limp even as Gage continued to stroke in and out of her spasming pussy. The bed dipped as Sam straddled her and Gage. Cold lube on her anal opening made her shiver. Seconds later, his cock pressed against her back passage.
“Relax and take me.” Sam spread the cheeks of her ass and pressed in.
Avery forced herself to relax against Sam’s cock thrusting into her. “Sam.” She gasped for air and dug her nails into Gage’s flesh.
“The pain will pass in a second.” Gage held her as her breath huffed in and out of her chest. “Take the pain for your mate.”
He applied more cold lube around her burning back entrance, and she shivered before his pubic hair brushed against the globes of her ass.
“All in, baby. Hang on.” Sam’s voice was an animalistic growl, and then he pulled out before thrusting in again. His fingers dug into her hips as Gage and Sam formed a rhythm while Avery did as Sam commanded and held on.
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