by Bryce Evans
Selena was walking toward her bedroom when the maid stopped her, asking if she would need more towels for her room.
Jacob heard Selena out in the hallway. He started to panic but grabbed the laptop, stopped the file transfer, put the flash drive back into his pocket, then got under the bed. Jacob got under the bed just as Selena entered her bedroom. She walked over to the closet and got something out. As she was starting to leave, she noticed her laptop lying on top of her bed.
“That’s funny. I don’t remember leaving it there.”
Adrianna was walking into the bedroom when she heard Selena talking to herself. “Hey, what’s the hold up? I still have to meet Mace in a few minutes. Plus, I have a lot to do with the plan,” Adrianna said, as she looked around the bedroom.
She smelled Jacob in the room; she knew by the smell that he was under the bed. If he was caught, then it would be her fault and she couldn’t allow that to happen. Adrianna hoped that if Selena smelled Jacob in her room, then she would just think that Jacob had previously been in the room setting it up before they arrive.
Selena was looking at her laptop when Adrianna grabbed her hand. “Hey, really I do need to hurry, Selena. I need for you to show me the spell so I can go meet Mace.”
Selena frowned and then shrugged. “Guess Afton moved it.” She picked up her computer and took it with her.
Jacob waited until he didn’t hear Adrianna anymore. He knew she would keep Selena occupied so he could get out of the bedroom. As Jacob was walking out of the bedroom, as Damen and Afton were walking back into the hotel.
Afton looked up and saw Jacob walking out of his office. “Jacob, were you looking for me?” Jacob jumped when he saw the Supreme Alpha.
“I’m sorry, Jacob. I didn’t mean to scare you. I was just asking if you were looking for me.”
“Yes sir, well, no sir, I was looking for Adrianna,” Jacob stuttered.
“Oh, well she is out in the backyard practicing with Selena,” Afton said as he walked past Jacob opening up his door.
“Thank you, Alpha.” Jacob bowed his head in submission.
Damen and Jacob waited by the door silently speaking of waiting for Adrianna. “Did you get it?” Damen asked in a whisper.
“I got a lot of it before Selena came into her bedroom looking for something. She noticed her laptop on her bed instead of the dresser where she left it. Adrianna came in and got her out of there so I could leave. That’s when you and the Alpha saw me coming out of his door.”
“Scared the shit out of you, didn’t it?” Damen softly laughed.
“Yeah, it did. I hope I got what you needed. She is very meticulous,” Jacob said.
“Who is, Jacob?” Damen inquired.
“Selena, she had everything in order on her computer. She had a lot of files with everybody’s names on them. I saw your name, Damen.” Jacob looked up at Damen worried.
“Really. Well I can’t wait to see what she wrote about me,” Damen said as Adrianna walked back into the house. She looked at Damen and Jacob and asked if they were ready to go to McDonald’s Pub.
“Yeah, were ready, let’s go,” Damen said as he ushered Adrianna and Jacob out the door. Damen looked back at the hotel when he got in the SUV and saw Selena looking at them from the porch. He waved and then drove off.
Adrianna, Damen, and Jacob walked into McDonald’s Pub looking for Mace. “Hey, we need your computer, Mace,” Adrianna said to him.
“Well, hey to you too, Sissy.” Mace smirked.
“Hey, Bubba. Sorry, but we need to use your computer.” Adrianna smiled at her big brother.
“Sorry, but I sent it out for repairs,” Mace said.
“Okay, well then let’s go to my house and look at it there. Probably best anyway. My mates will be mad if I stay gone too long,” Adrianna said.
Adrianna and the others got back into the vehicles and made their way back to Adrianna’s house that she shared with her mates. Adrianna felt nervous going back to the house with the tension between her and her mates. The mating pull was playing havoc on her libido. She needed her mates. She couldn’t concentrate with the uneasiness she felt with them. She knew she loved her mates, but she knew they were only with her because of the mating pull. They didn’t feel the same about her.
The protection detail got out of the car looking around while Adrianna, Damen, Mace, and Jacob got out of the SUV. Adrianna walked into the house looking for her mates.
“They are in their office, Adrianna,” Percy Jones informed.
“Thanks, Percy,” Adrianna said as she pointed to another room they could use.
Mace looked at Damen, wondering why Adrianna wasn’t going into her mate’s office to use one of their computers. They walked into another room that had a desk with Adrianna’s laptop on it.
“Here Jacob, use my laptop to plug in the flash drive.”
Jacob sat down at Adrianna’s desk as the rest surrounded Jacob, watching his actions.
Samson and Cade heard Adrianna come into the house. They heard Percy inform Adrianna where they were but she never came into their office. Cade looked at Samson, he knew Mace and Damen were with her, he wondered why she didn’t come in.
“What are they doing?” Cade asked Samson.
“I don’t know but I’m going to find out. I don’t like being kept in the dark.” Samson bristled.
They walked into the living room looking around when Percy told Cade that Adrianna and others were in her office. Samson and Cade stomped into the office frowning. When they entered the office, everybody was leaning over, watching Jacob work on a computer.
“What are ya’ll doing?” Cade asked looking at Adrianna.
Mace spoke first, telling Cade and Samson that Jacob had copied Selena’s files from her computer and there were a lot of files with their names on them. Samson made eye contact with Adrianna frowning at her. She looked away and into the eyes of Cade who was frowning at her. Adrianna looked away from her mates and looked back down at the computer. Adrianna knew they would be mad since she didn’t tell her mates what she was doing.
“Stop there Jacob, at my name. Pull that file up for me. I would like to see what she has on me,” Mace said in a clipped tone.
Samson and Cade came closer; leaning in to see what was on the computer. Mace read what Selena had wrote aloud so everybody could hear.
“Mace McDonald is Alpha of the Ashland Pack. He is the brother of the Trinity. He has powers that he has yet to tap in to. He will not use his powers. He is too arrogant to use them,” Mace whispered in shock.
Then underneath the paragraph about Mace, Selena had his weaknesses and the packs weak points. Mace turned red when he started reading those. Mace growled and everybody stood still, they knew Mace’s wolf had come to the surface. Mace was trying to control his wolf when Adrianna cast a calming spell toward him.
“Bubba,” Adrianna said calmly as everybody looked up at her. There was no warmth in Mace’s eyes. He eyes glowed yellow showing how close his wolf was.
“We need you to take a deep breath. I need you calm because you need to look at this in a positive way.”
Before Adrianna could finish, Mace yelled, “Positive, how can this be positive, Adrianna?”
“Well, now we know what she knows about the pack and about you. I can teach you how to use your magic. She won’t know that, Bubba. We can also fix the weaknesses she thinks we have. She will be caught off guard and we can use this against her when she comes for us.” Adrianna walked to her brother and caressed his cheek, calming him down.
Mace immediately calmed down with Adrianna caressing his cheek. She put her head on Mace’s shoulder as he took deep breaths.
“Let’s take a break, everyone. We need to eat and then talk about this. She’s right, Mace. This is a great advantage for us,” Cade said as he walked over to Adrianna pulling her close to him.
Samson asked if they could have a moment with Adrianna. “Jacob, can you show everyone to the kitchen and set out the meats a
nd breads on the table? We will be in there shortly.”
Everybody filed out of the office leaving Adrianna with her mates. Samson closed the door and locked it behind him. Adrianna stood there quietly, watching her mates. The mating pull was playing havoc on her. She could feel herself getting wetter just watching them.
“Adrianna, why are you mad at us?” Cade asked as he started walking toward her.
“I’m not mad. I just think it will be easier on you if I’m away more than I’m here with you,” Adrianna whispered.
“Away. Why would you say that shit? You are our mate, Adrianna. We want you with us all the time,” Cade growled.
“Funny Cade, that’s not what you said the other day. I know it’s the mating pull. I know you can’t love me. I don’t want a life without love. So I’m fighting the pull. I deserve to be loved by someone and since I’m not going to get that with my mates, then I feel I need to distance myself. I won’t just fuck you Cade, or you Samson, anymore if I can deal with this mating pull. I may have to use magic to help us. I’ll try to research it; maybe we can reverse this mating. I know you want that,” Adrianna explained, as she looked everywhere else but at her mate’s faces.
Cade and Samson couldn’t believe what she was saying. She wanted to try to use magic to dissolve their mating.
“Why, Adrianna? Why would you do that?” Cade pleaded.
“Why? Cade, I’m not what you want. You don’t want a mate. I’m a problem for you and Samson. If he doesn’t become the next Leader of the Vampire Council, then he will always blame me. I won’t be blamed for it, so I know that’s what he wants and I want him to be happy and you too, Cade. I know I’m not mate material for Alphas. I’m a Protector and I’m not submissive enough for either of you. It’s not working. Look, just let me try to reverse this. I think you will both agree with me in the end that this was a mistake. I love…” Adrianna couldn’t finish. She was about to tell them she loved them. Good going, Adrianna. You just about made a fool out of yourself.
“Look, we have a lot of work to do before Selena plays her next card; so let’s go eat and finish the planning.” Adrianna stated as she grabbed the door. Adrianna kept her back to her mates before saying, “If the mating pull gets too hard and you need me, I’ll be there, but I’m going to sleep in one of the spare bedrooms. I think that will help.” Adrianna opened up the door and walked out, leaving her mates in shock.
Cade and Samson both felt as if they had been hit in the heart with a sledgehammer. Cade sat down quickly in a chair before he fell to the ground. He loved Adrianna, but she wanted to dissolve the mating. “What just happened?” Cade asked Samson.
“I think she is trying to give us a way out. We screwed up,” Samson said shaking.
“Samson, I don’t know about you, but I’m going to fight for my mate. I love her.”
“I know and I do too, but getting her to believe it is another problem. We have to show her and make her understand that we love her and we will wait forever until she loves us.” Samson knew Cade would work just as hard at getting Adrianna to fall in love with them. They sat to begin their planning to win their mate’s heart.
After everyone had eaten lunch, they sat and planned a different strategy on how to handle Selena. While Jacob was reading what Selena had written about everyone, Adrianna sat silent at the table. It was like she was in a trance. At first, nobody noticed that she wasn’t participating until Samson looked at Adrianna and felt something strange.
“Adrianna, are you alright?” Samson asked, getting up from his chair and going to stand next to her.
Adrianna didn’t answer; she continued to stare into space. It wasn’t until Cade came to stand on the other side of her that she came out of the daze she was in. She shook her head then blinked looking up at her mates. “What did you say?” Adrianna asked.
“Adrianna, where did you go? We were calling your name for a few minutes,” Cade said as he caressed her face.
“I think we need to implement this plan starting tomorrow. Selena needs to be brought in. I know the spell on how to trap her until the Twister’s Council can get here. She will be sent to a prison with them,” Adrianna stated as she got up and moved away from her mates.
“Tomorrow doesn’t give us much time, Adrianna,” Damen advised.
“I’m tired of waiting on her to take us out, or me out for that matter. She wants me for some reason. We set a trap for her, using me as bait.”
“No!” Samson and Cade said at the same time.
Adrianna’s face turned red. “Why, because you two don’t think I can take care of myself? Well mates, you just watch what I can do. Never underestimate me.”
Adrianna looked pissed off as she flicked her wrist and everybody that was in the house was outside with the wind blowing hard. Then tree limbs started popping up out of the ground, surrounding everybody.
Mace yelled at Adrianna, to get her to stop, “Adrianna, stop this now!”
It was as if she was in a trance and she finally snapped out of it. Adrianna looked up at Mace with fear in her eyes. She flicked her wrist again, the roots retreated into the ground, and the wind stopped blowing.
“Oh Mace, what did I do? Did I hurt you or anyone else?” She ran over to Damen to see if he was okay when he stepped back from her.
“I’m fine!” Damen said sharply.
Adrianna jerked her hand back and looked around at her mates who stood staring at her. “I…I’m so sorry. I could have hurt you, all of you. I need to leave, then she will follow me and she can’t hurt you. I won’t be able to hurt you either.” Adrianna ran into the house, desperate to get away from her family.
“Adrianna, wait. Adrianna!” Mace yelled.
Cade and Samson ran past Mace. They told him to take everybody home. They would take care of their mate. She wasn’t going anywhere without them.
Adrianna ran to her bedroom, grabbing clothes and putting them in a small suitcase that was left out. She had tears running down her face. Cade and Samson ran into the bedroom, closing the door behind them.
“Adrianna, where do you think you are going?” Cade asked as he came to stand beside her.
“I’ve got to leave alone. You saw what I did. I could have killed all of you. If Mace ha…” She couldn’t finish because Cade jerked her hands away from the suitcase.
“Listen Adrianna, it’s the mating pull. I’ve heard of people who tried to stay away from their mate and they started going mad. You are not mad, but if you keep pulling away from us, then you may become mad. Listen honey, I know you think we don’t care, but we do. I love you, Adrianna, more than anything or anyone. I truly love you, and if you left then I would surely go mad. So don’t leave me, my love,” Cade whispered as he looked into Adrianna’s eyes.
“I thought you didn’t want a mate. I thought you couldn’t love anybody,” Adrianna said pleading.
Samson jerked her around and kissed her with so much passion that Adrianna’s legs gave out from under her. She kissed him back, missing the feeling of her mate’s mouth on hers. Samson pulled away from Adrianna, looking into her eyes. She saw the flair of his nostrils as he breathed in her scent. “Adrianna, my lovely Adrianna. What will we do with you? We love you, silly. I fell in love with you the first time I saw you. I tried to fight it, but I couldn’t fight fate. You were made for me, my angel. No more running, Adrianna. Tonight we come together as the triad we were meant to be.” Samson said as he kissed Adrianna up and down her neck. “Do you hear me, Adrianna? I love you.”
“We both do.” Cade agreed with Samson.
“I love you too,” Adrianna said crying.
Samson jerked her shirt open, kissing down Adrianna’s neck to her breasts. Buttons flew out over the floor. Adrianna gasped as she felt the passion building up inside her like a volcano about to explode. He ripped her bra in the middle so he could suck on her breasts.
“My love, I’ve missed you,” Samson said as he continued to place butterfly kisses on her breasts.
/> Cade came up behind Adrianna, kissing down her back and spine, when he reached her pants, he let out one of his claws, ripped her pants, as they fell away from her. Adrianna was about to explode while she waited for Cade to do something more. She needed her mates in her now.
Adrianna moaned when Cade slid a finger inside her. He continued to kiss up and down her back. Cade grabbed her ass, squeezing it as he added another finger inside her. Adrianna screamed with her first orgasm. The orgasm was so powerful she fell to her knees. Cade caught her before she could hit the ground.
Still shaking from her first orgasm, Samson picked her up and carried her to the bed. He fell down beside her, continuing to suck her breasts, teasing her mercifully. Samson reached up and grabbed her head, bringing her lips to his, needing to explore her mouth, taking her tongue into his mouth, deepening the kiss.
Cade continued pushing his fingers in and out of Adrianna while massaging her clit with his thumb. She pulled away from Samson, dragging in air to fill her lungs.
“I need more. I need you both,” Adrianna cried out.
Cade pulled his hand away from Adrianna, crawling up the bed. Cade grabbed Adrianna up then placed her onto Samson, telling her to straddle him. Adrianna couldn’t wait any longer. She slid herself down onto Samson, gasping as she slammed herself down on him until there was nothing between them. Samson growled as he grabbed her waist shoving up into her.
He looked at Cade and told him, “You better hurry. She isn’t going to last long and neither am I.” Samson and Adrianna’s breathing had become more labored as they matched each other’s thrusts.
Cade pushed Adrianna down as he placed his thumb to her private star, rubbing circles around it. Adrianna moaned louder, telling Cade to hurry. Cade pushed one finger inside, twisting it, then adding another finger inside. Adrianna’s moans got more desperate. Cade removing his fingers then slowly pushing them back inside Adrianna, as she began groaning and gasping from the burn and then pleasure she was feeling. Cade stilled, his breathing becoming harsher.