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Twice the Sass
By Melanie James
Summary
Cursed by the Fates at birth, Tad and Taavi Olsen have until their twenty-fifth birthday to find the one true mate they must share for an eternity. With the deadline hanging over their heads, they finally catch the scent of their fated mate. Will she accept them in time to save their lives, or will they prove to be too hot for one curvy female to handle.
Table of Contents
Books by Melanie James
Acknowledgements
Dedication
Prologue
Chapter One
Chapter Two
Chapter Three
Chapter Four
Chapter Five
Chapter Six
Chapter Seven
Chapter Eight
Chapter Nine
Chapter Ten
Chapter Eleven
Chapter Twelve
Chapter Thirteen
Chapter Fourteen
Chapter Fifteen
Chapter Sixteen
Chapter Seventeen
Chapter Eighteen
Chapter Nineteen
Chapter Twenty
Epilogue
Sassy Mates Kindle World
About the Author
Books by Melanie James
Sassy Ever After Kindle World
A Hot Piece of Sass
Twice the Sass
Black Paw Pack
Fur Ever Yours
Fur Ever Witched
Literal Leigh Romance Diaries
Accidental Leigh
Serious Leigh
Hopeful Leigh
Haunting Leigh
Joyful Leigh
Disastrous Leigh
Tales from the Paranormal Plantation
Gertie’s Paranormal Plantation
Back to the Fuchsia
Karma Inc. Files
Karma Inc.
Mission Impawsible
Shame of Clones
Magic and Mayhem Kindle World
When You Witch Upon A Star
Éveiller Drive
Ava & Will
Kara & Dave
Laura & Alan
Jamie & Brad
Ashley & Jeff
Valerie & Greg
Éveiller Drive Boxed Set
Riverton Romance
A Valentine’s Surprise
A Deadly Obsession
Stand Alones
Conjuring Darkness
Snowflakes, Exes & Ohs
Acknowledgements
Milly – Thank you for another amazing opportunity!
Teri – Love you!
Tricia – Thank you. So very much.
Elayne – I don’t know how ever I lived with out you!
Claudy & Bob – I love you guys.
Dedication
To all of my readers -- Thank you for your continued support and love. This book is for you.
Prologue
Sylvi Olsen sat wide-eyed and in disbelief. She had just given birth to the only set of identical twin males the Black Paw pack had ever known, but she knew her initial joy was too good to be true—for the Fates could never be trusted when it came to matters of the heart. She had no hope that her story would be any different.
Her ancestors had warned her: What the Fates gave, they often took. She wanted to scream at them, to curse them, but she knew better than to mutter so much as a single peep.
There wasn’t a soul alive who had challenged the Fates and lived to tell the tale. Her boys needed her. They had to be her priority. That thought alone was enough to keep her mind and heart in check when it came to dealing with the Fates.
Kirk wrapped his arms around his mate. “We’ll find a way to save them. I will not allow the Fates to take either of our boys from us.”
“You heard the prophecy, dear one.” The words of the soothsayer rang in her mind:
“With hearts of gold and silver
One of light, the other of dark
If by the eve of their twenty-fifth year they haven’t found a single mate
One will be destined for an evil fate.”
“What does that mean? That one is destined for an evil fate?” Sylvi asked.
“I don’t know my love, but together we will figure it out.”
Chapter One
Taavi Olsen dashed through the desolate forest, searching for the origin of the sweet bouquet that lit his blood on fire and scorched his soul. His wolf, in full control, he was on a mission more urgent than any he’d ever been on.
His ears twitched as he paused to sniff the ground. A long howl sounded off in the distance, alerting him that his twin, Tad, was closing in on the scent they’d waited what felt like forever to find. Taavi raced toward his brother, knowing time was of the utmost importance.
“Hurry, brother. Failure is not an option. We have less than a week before the prophecy comes true, and I’m growing sick of the chase.”
Tad huffed. “You think I don’t know what’s at stake? We’ve been tracking her for hundreds of miles. If we cross into another pack’s territory, shit is going to hit the fan. You know that, right?”
“Of course, I know. Trust me, it’s all I think about most days. As for crossing into another pack’s territory, we’ll cross that bridge when we come to it,” Taavi agreed, praying to Odin they’d catch their mate sooner rather than later. He didn’t want to think about the very real consequences if they failed to find her.
The prophecy had been preached to them at every waking moment throughout their childhood, and well into adulthood. They had to find their mates before their twenty-fifth birthday or else the Fates would seriously fuck with them. Yeah. It really didn’t sound like the kind of fun they had always sought out.
“We lost her. Again.” Tad confirmed their fear. She had managed to slip away once again.
“We have to find her. Our lives depend on it.” Taavi’s frustration grew to epic proportions. They had been close to finding her once before, but she seemed to disappear into thin air, leaving a cold trail and no way to track her. The twins’ hopes were crushed once more.
“Now what?” Tad asked
“Looks like it’s back to square one…again.”
“Fuck.”
“Double fuck.” Taavi shifted to his human form and glanced around at the landscape, his thoughts turning to the prophecy. He didn’t know how he would continue living if his brother Tad turned evil. He didn’t even want to think about it, but there it was, popping into his head with no recourse to stop it.
Tad had always been the one with a pure heart and soul. He was the one who had kept them out of trouble—not to mention alive—during their crazy teenage years. Taavi, on the other hand, had always been the hell-raiser, wanting to push every last boundary that had been set for them. If only one of them could live a happy, normal life, he prayed it would be his brother.
Taavi’s thoughts had been dark and twisted for as long as he could remember. His warped desires were the very reason he and his brother had shared every sexual conquest.
When Taavi had learned that he and his br
other were destined to share a mate, that part of his life had finally made sense. He’d had many opportunities over the years to hook up with various women on his own, but he had no desire to spend a night alone with them.
Other males in the pack called him perverse and a deviant. He, himself, believed there was something fundamentally wrong with him. His brother, who didn’t seem to share the problem, had sensed his issue and found a woman who was more than willing to let them both have their way with her. Taavi’s jaw had hit the floor when Tad first plucked the idea from the deepest, darkest corner of his mind and made the suggestion. But he should’ve known Tad would be able to sense his needs. They had always shared a special bond that enabled each of them to know when something was wrong with the other. Not only that, their wolves were always in sync—almost as if they shared the same beast.
That night had been the first time he’d ever experienced passion, love, and understanding. The act of sharing a lover with his brother was more erotic than he had ever imagined it could be… and he had imagined it many times.
It wasn’t until the Alpha’s mother, Grace, had learned of their prophecy that they regained hope of living past their twenty-fifth birthday. She had been the only one to figure out that the riddle meant Tad and Taavi were to share a mate—something that was unheard of at Black Paw.
When Grace had made the discovery, Taavi felt relief—maybe, just maybe, he and his brother would find a way to beat the Fates at their own game.
Thus began the never-ending journey to find their mate: Hooking up with every single female who would agree, in hopes of finding their fated mate and breaking the curse. Then one day, out of the blue, it happened. They were out hunting when suddenly the wind shifted, and their mate’s scent knocked them both on their asses. Their wolves, anxious to find her, bolted into the forest without a second thought—only to arrive too late. She had already gone.
That had been the story of their lives for the last month. No matter how fast they ran, they always seemed to be a day late and a dollar short.
“Do we head back to Black Paw or keep going and hope we pick up her scent again?” Taavi asked.
Tad shifted to his human form and stood beside his brother. “I vote we keep going. She seems to be leading us somewhere.”
“Where?”
“I have no idea. My gut tells me that she knows we’re following her. I could swear I heard her giggle before she disappeared this last time.”
Taavi looked at Tad like he was nuts.
“You’re kidding, right?”
“Nope.” Tad shook his head. “She’s playing with us.”
“Son of a bitch.” Taavi kicked a rock expecting to watch it fly off into the distance, but it flew only a few yards before disappearing in mid-air.
“What the—”
“Fuck! Did you see that?” Taavi finished Tad’s sentence as they cautiously approached the spot where the rock had vanished.
Taavi took a few more steps before he noticed a shimmer in front of them. “Do you see that?” he asked Tad.
“Yeah. What the hell is that?”
“I don’t know.” Taavi reached out, intending to place his hand on the shimmer, only to see his hand disappear inside it. “What the—”
“What is it?” Tad followed his brother’s lead, lifting his hand to the shimmer before watching it vanish.
Chapter Two
Nya MacBreen gasped as the males approached her hiding place. They shouldn’t have been able to see her, or the thin veil she hid behind. Only another faerie should have the powers needed to discern her location. It was how her race managed to stay concealed while observing the humans, and it was the only reason her parents had let her embark on her journey to begin with. At the age of twenty-one all Fae were permitted to explore the world, to see what life was like outside of the High court.
The twins had become a fascination for her after she’d accidentally stumbled upon them one afternoon while out for a walk. Once she spotted them, there was no taking her eyes off them—though in all reality she probably should have given them some privacy.
In her defense, she had never watched someone have sex before. And it wasn’t just the plain old run of the mill boring sex. Oh no. She stumbled upon the kinkiest, sweatiest, sexy sex she could have ever imagined. Nya had tried several times to avert her eyes, but found it impossible when they’d stripped bare, showing off ripple after ripple of muscle covering not one but two of the hottest males she’d ever run across.
The woman they were with was gorgeous in her own right, with long wavy red hair falling halfway down her back. Her toned, sleek body screamed sexiness in Nya’s head. The woman represented everything Nya had ever hoped to look like: Tall, skinny, firm ass, and perky tits.
Nya had watched in anticipation while the woman circled the men as if she were eyeing up steaks at the market, inspecting the quality of the meat before she purchased it. A tingle of excitement passed through her when the woman stopped to playfully slap the backside of the first male, then the second. Good Goddess, her hands trembled at the thought of slapping those tight asses!
Finally the hotties turned around to give Nya a full frontal view. Her nipples pebbled under her shirt that suddenly felt too tight when she saw two hard cocks standing proudly away from their bodies. They’re going to split that poor girl in half with the size of those things! she thought.
How she would have loved to switch places with the red-headed beauty! The idea of having two of the sexiest men alive touching, tasting, worshipping every inch of her…It was Nya’s ultimate fantasy.
She looked down at her curvy body in disgust. As it was, she had enough trouble finding one guy who wanted to worship her. There was no way she would ever find herself in Ms. Redhead’s position. Which happened to be sandwiched between the twins, moaning like a banshee.
She gasped in surprise as one hand and then another slipped through the veil, pulling her from the erotic memory. How is this possible? Nya intended to scoot farther back into the veil, keeping her hiding place a mystery, but something nudged her forward. The strangest feeling passed through her. More than anything, she wanted to touch them, if only this one time. She wanted to know if the heat from their skin would set her body ablaze. Would there be a softness in their touch hidden behind their calloused hands?
She tiptoed forward. Just a tiny touch, she thought. Instead, she found herself holding hands with one of the males. A jolt of electricity passed through her body, heading straight for her core. Never before had a single, innocent touch from a man sparked such an inferno in her body. Would it be doubled if I touched them both at the same time?
With that thought Nya reached for the other hand. Sure enough, the sensations multiplied. She tried to pull back, but only managed to succeed in tugging both of the men into her hiding spot. Suddenly face to face with the objects of her desire, Nya found herself frozen, unable to move. It took all her willpower to force oxygen in and out of her lungs to keep her from passing out.
The twins, much like her, stood there unmoving and in shock. However they seemed to recover much faster than she was able to. The looks on their faces started off as what the hell just happened, and quickly changed to hey, girl sup’.
What have I done? Face to face with the males, Nya knew that what she was about to do was strictly forbidden. As a member of the Fae court, the punishment would be swift and the shame severe if anyone were to find out about what she was about to do, but once again, when it came to the twins she couldn’t stop herself. She had to be brave, even if it were the only time in her life. She had to know what they tasted like.
Pushing herself forward, she approached the first male. Arching up on her tippy-toes, she gently pressed her lips against his. Astonishment tore through her when he wrapped his arms around her and pulled her flush against his hard body. When she opened her mouth to protest, his tongue slid inside, taking her breath away.
His kiss was hot and demanding, scorching her soul. Shiver
s of anticipation raced over Nya when she felt a second warm body press against her as the second male moved in behind her. Goosebumps covered her arms when his fingertips danced gently down her sides. She wanted to protest when the kiss ended, but before she could say a word the second male spun her around, his lips crashing over hers.
God, he tastes just as good as the first one. Her core flooded with heat and her blood boiled in her veins, scalding her. Not that she’d had all that many, but Nya couldn’t recall a kiss ever tasting so damn good. She panted for air as the second kiss continued to consume her.
The male behind her kissed a blazing path over her shoulder and up her neck, stopping right in the center. She moaned in ecstasy, having never believed such intense pleasure was possible from a kiss. Then it happened: His fangs pierced her neck.
Fear and shame snaked through her veins. Nya twisted out of their hold, and slowly backed away. “What have you done?” Hot tears streaked down her face.
“You’re our mate.”
Chapter Three
“What the hell just happened?” Tad shouted, looking around for their amethyst-eyed mate.
“She got spooked and took off. Why the fuck did you give her a mating mark? We don’t even know her species, let alone her name or why she ran in fear.” Taavi paced back and forth.
“I had no intention of marking her as our mate. I don’t know what the hell happened. One second I was enjoying the moment and loving the feel of her body between us, the next second her blood was flowing down my throat. Sweet Freyja, I’ve never tasted anything like her.”
Tad’s thoughts were a mess. They were so close, so freaking close to breaking their damn curse. They’d finally come face to face with the only female on the planet who held the power to save them—only to have her vanish again before their very eyes.
He’d never forget the look of fear on her face or the tears that had streamed from her beautiful eyes. His wolf remembered what it felt like to have her pressed up against them. He needed more. And soon.
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