Her Protectors (Peacekeepers Book 2)

by Tamsin Baker

  “Are we right, brother. Is she our mate?”

  Ashten turned her around so that she faced Raylock, her beautifully curved body a feast for his eyes. Ashten’s lips went to her neck, his hands to her breasts. “Kiss her and taste the perfection, brother.”

  Hell, yes.

  “I don’t… why can’t I think…” Jacky’s whispered words floated over him and he shuddered at how right the sound of her voice was to his ears.

  Raylock stepped forward and reached for her face, cupping her soft cheeks. It was time to take his first kiss from his mate. He took one moment to stare at her already red and swollen mouth, then pressed his lips against hers.

  Her taste exploded across his senses and a ripple of pleasure flooded through him.

  She moaned and grabbed at his shoulders, thrusting her tongue against his lips. Impatient little one.

  He growled in approval and opened for her, tasting her tongue and her passion as she began the mating dance.

  Oh my god! She is divine.

  His cock was straining against the fabric of his jeans so strongly, he was sure it would burst right through the zipper any minute. He broke off from her lips, grabbed her arms and stared down into her lust-drugged eyes.

  “My mate. Our mate. We must claim you.”

  “Damn straight,” Ashten said from behind her, stepping away to pull the covers off the bed in preparation for their next step.

  “Yes… Yes… Please.” Her voice was breathy, needy as she trembled beneath his hands. He picked her up, marveling at how perfectly she fitted into his arms as he carried her to the huge bed in the middle of the room.

  “What… why can’t I… I need you.”

  She was rambling a little and nipping at the skin of his neck. He’d been told about the effect his and Ashten’s pheromones would have on their mate, but to see it was a much stronger thing. She was delirious and there was only one cure for her fever.

  He placed her down on the bed, ripping at his clothes until he stood completely naked over her. She needed his cock, and he needed to give it to her. He was burning up from the inside out, his skin felt too tight, as though it didn’t belong on him, containing all the fire.

  But first…

  “I need to eat your pussy before I take you. Open your legs for me.”

  Jacky spread her creamy thighs, pure pink heaven coming into view. Raylock growled as he dropped to his knees and pushed her legs apart.

  Ashten moved around to the top of the bed and began adoring her breasts, sucking and licking on the pink tips until she was trembling and groaning.

  Raylock dropped his head and sucked her clit into his mouth. Honeyed sweetness exploded through him and his cock throbbed for release.

  Soon. Very soon they would have their mate. Forever.

  He continued to eat her like a feast after the desert, his first drink of something purely nourishing. The essence of his soul. He consumed her flavors, her wetness, her screams, until he was certain she was close enough to take all of him.

  As he heard her voice start to reach a crescendo, he stood up, lined up his cock and thrust deep inside. She came all over him, her pussy squeezing in orgasmic ripples. He couldn’t stay still, the fire was on his back. He grabbed her arse and pumped into her, her perfect body wrapping him up, cradling him, calling for his seed.

  Heaven consumed him and he couldn’t hold back. He leant forward and bit into the left side of her neck as he came, squirting his cum up inside his mate to bond them forever.

  She held him tight and he lifted his head to kiss her for a moment before regretfully withdrawing and stepping aside. He could feel his brother’s presence behind him and knew that this time, they both needed to mate with her in the same way.

  Ashten slid straight down on top of her, sheathing her with his cock and making her scream out afresh.

  He pumped into her with short, fast thrusts. Jacky scratched at his skin and arched her back, crying out her second release.

  Ashten followed soon after, groaning and biting down onto the right side of Jacky’s neck—the mating part of her flesh, between her neck and her shoulder.

  They moaned and sighed together and Ashten rolled her so that they were facing each other, offering Raylock her back.

  Raylock knelt on the bed and pulled up the thin blanket, then slid down behind her, and spooned his mate from behind. The triad was complete. They had their mate.

  As the realization sunk in Raylock shuddered, feeling a corresponding ripple through Jacky and Ashten, the connection between them now intertwined permanently.

  Jacky sighed as he kissed her back, nestling her arse back into his groin and quickly falling asleep.

  Raylock lifted his head and shared a contented look with his brother and together, as a newly mated triad, they all fell into a contented sleep.

  Chapter 2.

  Jacky couldn’t move. Literally. But she had to. She was squashed between two huge men, both with the temperatures of a scorching fire. Which explained why she was sweating, even though it was bloody freezing outside.

  “Um… I…”

  The two men she had just had sex with, rolled a little away from her and popped their heads up.

  “You’re awake. How are you feeling? Can we get you anything?”

  Ah… A bucket to throw up in, coz I’m like totally ashamed of myself.

  “I need to pee.”

  The men jumped up and Jacky scrambled for the blankets, pulling up a cover over her own nakedness.

  She hated people seeing her without the cloak of darkness. What would they think about all her lumps and bumps?

  The men grinned and waited for her, and she got another good look at their naked bodies. The tightness in her belly melted away as they stood still for her to enjoy them.

  Faarrr out!

  They were built in every way you could dream of! Their bodies belonged on a billboard somewhere selling underwear, not in a lodge in outback Canada.

  “Bathroom’s through there.” One of them pointed to a door to the left and she slowly hopped up, pulling the blanket around herself so they didn’t see her huge arse.

  You shouldn’t really be worried about that now! They’ve already seen everything!

  Despite that fact, she couldn’t bring herself to just saunter over to the bathroom, so instead she scuttled across the room.

  “Thanks.” She nodded at the smaller one who was closest to her and slammed the door shut.

  Fuck! I don’t even know their names! How pathetic is that.

  She practically fell down onto the toilet and put her head in her hands. She’d just had sex, hang on, magnificent, life-altering sex, with two complete strangers. What on earth had come over her?

  And was it the same thing that had happened to Karen when her two blond guys had come at her? She’d thought her best friend crazy at the time, but if Karen had felt that same all consuming passion at first sight, she didn’t blame her at all for jumping Brad and Duncan.

  “Ohh crap, what have I done?”

  “You alright, Jacky?” a male voice called out to her through the door and she jumped. He better not come in.

  “Ah... yeah. Coming.”

  She took a deep breath and sat up straighter. She couldn’t stay in here forever, she was better off facing the possibly uncomfortable situation waiting for her in the main room and working out what was going on.

  They must have fallen into some sort of alternative universe, because no way in this lifetime would she had fucked two men without even a how-do-you-do.

  Two guest robes were hung up next to the door and she grabbed one and pulled it onto her naked body, tying the belt securely. She was a big girl, always had been, but her arsehole ex-boyfriend had made her look at her body quite unfavorably. She couldn’t believe she’d been so uninhibited with these men.

  Jacky checked her hair in the mirror, smoothed down some of the wildness and took another settling breath.

  You can do this.

 
; She opened the door and her two Vikings were sitting on the bed, still stark naked, waiting for her. One was slightly smaller in build and a head shorter. The larger one was simply huge, his shoulders rivaling any footballer she’d ever seen.

  They turned towards her as she moved around to the foot of the bed, their twin smiles making her belly jump with recognition and excitement. Which made no sense at all. How could she feel like she’d known them forever when she’d only just met them?

  They both went to get up and she panicked. She didn’t want them towering over her, or worse, kissing her senseless again. She needed answers and she needed them now.

  She held up her hands and took a step back. “Can you just wait a minute, please. No more touching until I ask you a few questions.”

  They laughed, the deep chuckles so sexy they caused a curling heatwave to flow through her belly.

  The larger one gave her a smug grin. “We will be touching you all day and all night forever, our mate.”

  What is he talking about? And what’s with all the mate stuff? Brad had used the same words in regards to Karen.

  “What does that mean? Mate? Like an animal’s mate? Or like an Aussie friend, mate?” She waited a moment for them to answer, but they were too busy burning in her dressing gown with their eyes. “Would you please stop looking at me like that? I don’t even know your names!”

  The slightly taller and bigger one to her left stood up. He had bright blue eyes and spikey blond hair. “I am Raylock. This is my brother, Ashten. We are Peacekeepers, a special type of supernatural being that are caretakers for all the other paranormal creatures. We have been waiting over a century to find our mate and we are so grateful to have finally found you.”

  She stared at the big mountain of a man, her mouth literally falling open. How long did he just say?

  “A century? You’re kidding me?” That’s impossible. “You guys are crazy.”

  Ashten stood up and stepped forward. Unlike his brothers, Ashten’s eyes were actually more green than blue. “We’re not human, Jacky, we live for a lot longer than you think.”

  She crossed her arms across her chest and frowned at him, giving him her best ‘you’re lying’ look of derision.

  Ashten chuckled. “It’s probably best that we show you what we are, but you must promise not to scream.”

  She let her arms drop, their serious tone making her wonder what on earth was about to happen.

  “What are you going to do?”

  The brothers shared a look and a grin. “Do you know why we can promise you that you will always see a polar bear when you stay at our lodge?”

  “No… but that was the main reason why I booked it.”

  “You want to see one?”

  She nodded, her heart beginning to pound like a drum in her chest. Something was about to happen and she wasn’t sure what it was.

  “Ready?” Ashten asked her. When she nodded, he grinned and his eyes began to blacken, his blond hair growing whiter by the minute.

  “What the…” Her eyes didn’t even dare to blink as she watched Ashten sprout white hair, grow three feet in height and become… A polar bear.

  Bloody hell!

  She blinked rapidly, goosebumps springing up all over her body as her mind struggled to process what was going on in front of her. It was all too unbelievable.

  She stumbled, her ankles and calves hitting the coffee table and she tumbled backwards, hitting her hip on the table and bumping onto the floor. “Ow, shit!” She rolled and rubbed and the throbbing pain on her side and faced Raylock and a huge white polar bear.

  “I don’t understand… how the hell?”

  She couldn’t stop staring at the huge animal in the room. He was eight foot tall at least, and as shiny as newly fallen snow.

  Raylock walked over and put out his hand to her.

  “Come sit on the couch, beautiful. Ashten. Back to human.”

  She looked between Raylock’s big meaty hand and Ashten’s shrinking form, her mouth opening and closing like a fish.

  “Ah…”

  “Get up, beautiful.” This time Raylock, who was obviously the bossier of the two brothers, picked her up and sat, pulling her into his lap.

  Ashten was now human again and naked, with not a single sign on his body that he had been a polar bear only moments before. He sat in the chair opposite, his eyes guarded as they both seemed to await her response.

  “I… don’t know what to say. I can’t believe it.”

  And she didn’t. Her brain was as blank as a fresh sheet of white paper.

  “Why? Um…”

  Ashten nodded at her. “I will explain more. My brother and I are almost two hundred years old. We are Peacekeepers. Which means it is our job to keep the balance in the other paranormal beings in the country. Vampires, werewolves, other shifters.”

  She gasped, horror constricting her stomach in a painful clench. “You mean all those stories… they’re real?”

  “Yes, most of them. Peacekeepers work in pairs like myself and Raylock, and Brad and Duncan, but we love in triads. We have always known we would have one mate to love and share, but we’ve been waiting for you… forever.”

  Jacky looked between the men, waiting for the punchline.

  When they said nothing more, she gaped at them. “You’re really not kidding?”

  The shook their heads. “No.”

  “Well… fuck me…”

  They chuckled and Raylock grunted in her ear. “Okay.”

  She jumped in his lap and his arms tightened on her like a seatbelt, refusing to let her move anywhere else.

  “Ah, no—it’s just an expression. I can’t believe it. So, how come I jumped you as soon as I met you, and Karen did the same thing with those other two guys. I mean... not meaning to offend you or anything, neither of us is that sort of girls.”

  Raylock kissed her head and began nuzzling and stroking her with soft but sure hands. Ashten continued talking. “That is what happens when we meet our mate. We could smell you as soon as we got close to the ranch. The sweetest, most beautiful scent ever encountered. We assume you would have had a similar reaction to our smell. We secrete pheromones that make ourselves irresistible to our mates—after all, you are the other half to our souls.”

  She swallowed hard. That was heavy, very heavy.

  And yet… beautiful.

  “I would never have done that normally, I mean, I didn’t even think about any of the consequences of what was happening… or…” Freak out about the fact I was going to bed with two men.

  “It’s not your fault, Jacky. The pheromones make sure the mating happens quickly. Then we can’t lose each other once we’ve found each other. As our pre-destined mate you can’t resist, it would be literally impossible.”

  “Ah… what do you mean by our mating? Do you just mean the sex, or… Was what we did last night… binding in some way?”

  The brothers shared a look and she jumped up from Raylock’s lap, his arms relaxing enough to allow her out. There was something they weren’t telling her.

  “Tell me! Did I do something irreversible?”

  Other than have the most incredible, unprotected sex, ever.

  Oh shit.

  She pushed that thought aside. She had enough to deal with today. Raylock stood up, his six-foot-four or five-inch height making her tilt her head to look up at him.

  “Technically, no. We are mated to you, we will die to protect you, and never find another woman to love if you leave us. But yes, you may leave if you must.”

  Raylock’s voice was tight as he spoke, and she looked from one brother to the other. They were both vibrating, literally shaking, their mouths pulled down into identical tight frowns.

  “But that would be bad for you?”

  They nodded sharply and she relaxed a little. She liked the fact that this was important for them, that she was important to them. “Okay… so I stay for the moment and we see if this works.”

  After all, what
did she have to lose? She wanted an adventure in the wilderness and this was exactly that, an amazing holiday with polar bears.

  “Yes. And we will use all of our persuasive techniques to get you to stay.”

  Ashten’s hands were on her breasts, Raylock’s lips at her neck, their growly, sexy tones rolling around her. She let her eyes close and the groan in her throat vibrate and rumble in acknowledgement of the heat between them. She took a deep breath in through her nose, the sweetness of their scent filling her up and destroying everything else but where they were touching her.

  ****

  “Can you show me around the property today? Please, please, pleeeease?” Jacky jumped up and down next to the bed, having managed to get up and get to the bathroom, thus washing and dressing without the two men stopping her. An act she had always taken for granted before, and not a mistake she would make again.

  Her logic had been that if she wasn’t naked, she had a much higher chance of getting the men to take her seriously, and hopefully, they’d have a harder time getting her back into their bed.

  Ashten groaned and rolled onto his side, his hair sticking out at a slightly odd angle from sleep and making him look even more adorable than normal.

  “Now, gorgeous? Why can’t we just stay in bed until next week? I can tell you that’s where Brad and Duncan will be keeping your friend Karen.”

  Jacky ran to the window and threw open the heavy grey curtains, sunshine streaming into the room. Sex was incredible with Ashten and Raylock, but she couldn’t stay in bed any longer. Other than the fact that her pussy actually ached from all the orgasms she’d had, she was dying to explore the forest!

  “Don’t compare us, that’s so not fair. Karen wouldn’t know the difference between a willow ptarmigan and a pigeon!”

  She’d studied the willow ptarmigan before leaving home; it was the state bird of Alaska and she couldn’t wait to study one in its natural habitat.

  Ashten cocked his head at her. “You do?”

  She threw up her hands and marched away. “Grr… fine. I’ll go without you.”

  She opened the door and Raylock was suddenly behind her, grabbing her arm and shutting the door once again.