by Cara Adams
Wolf Pack Mates 5
A Mate to Treasure
Werewolf shape-shifter brothers Edward and Robert Clarke just want a mate to treasure. Bethany Rees is three quarters panther and one quarter human, and she was rejected because of her mixed heritage. She came to the Interspecies Mating Party hoping that here she would be accepted for herself, but can she find the courage to risk heartbreak again?
The men know they aren’t rich or powerful, but they are prepared to love and cherish her forever. But Bethany is wary of committing to anyone yet, and besides, maybe their pack would reject her anyway. Cautiously she gets to know the men and spends time with them in bed and in a BDSM scene, not knowing that other dangers surround her, too. She still can’t take that step of placing her life in their hands. Will they be able to win her love and her trust before the week-long party is over or something tragic happens?
Note: There is no sexual relationship or touching for titillation between or among siblings.
Genre: BDSM, Contemporary, Ménage a Trois/Quatre, Paranormal, Shape-shifter
Length: 35,023 words
A MATE TO TREASURE
Wolf Pack Mates 5
Cara Adams
MENAGE EVERLASTING
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Table of Contents
Title Page
Copyright Page
Chapter One
Chapter Two
Chapter Three
Chapter Four
Chapter Five
Chapter Six
About the Author
A MATE TO TREASURE
Wolf Pack Mates 5
CARA ADAMS
Copyright © 2013
Chapter One
“This might be your only chance to ever find a mate, so do not fuck it up. I expect you back here next week with a daughter-in-law for me to meet. Always remember I reared you to be gentlemen. Open doors for every woman there, bring them cups of coffee and take the time to make it exactly as they want it. Always ask about cream and sugar, pay attention to their answers, and be respectful. Manners will get you a woman. Ladies expect to be treated nicely. Show every woman there you’ll treasure her and you’ll find yourselves a bride over all those other bossy, arrogant wolves with no manners. Are you listening to me, sons?”
“Yes, ma’am,” replied Edward Clarke.
“When a woman dances with you, always thank her, even if she can’t dance and isn’t the woman of your dreams. Her best friend might be your dream woman, so remain respectful. And if she is the woman of your dreams, be sure to give her flowers the next morning. Understand?”
“Yes, Mom.” This time it was Robert Clarke who replied. They’d heard this lecture twice already and Mom had asked them at least a dozen times if they’d packed enough dress shirts to have a clean one for every night’s party. It was driving him insane, but he knew it was because she loved them and really hoped they’d find a mate at the mating party. Officially the event was called an Inter-Species Mating Party, but it was mostly werewolf shape-shifter males and human women with a few wolves and other species as well.
Fortunately their mom’s advice had helped them both pass the pre-registration assessment. They’d had to watch a bunch of videos and answer questions about women. Some of the questions had been very subtle, but his mom’s lectures had saved his ass because he’d heard her tell him what to do and how to behave often enough over the years. He thought it must be hard for some of the other wolves though, to determine the difference between loving and protecting a woman, and not letting her have enough freedom to truly be herself.
Oh well, he and Edward had both made it though the assessment and the reference checks. As the younger brother, he’d been worried their pack Alpha wouldn’t let both of them go, but they were more than willing to share a woman. Hell, it was so hard to find a woman willing to mate with a werewolf, sharing one with his older brother made excellent sense. Between the two of them, they had a much better chance of attracting one of the women at the party.
Neither of them was stupid. All the stunningly beautiful girls would have been mated long ago. But a woman with a warm, caring heart, and an intelligent mind would suit both of them just fine, and his mother would love her simply because she’d agreed to mate them both.
His mom had finally stopped lecturing them. Edward gave her a hug and kiss good-bye, and so did he. They picked up their heavy suitcases and a pile of smaller bags, and loaded them into the trunk of their car.
Robert shook his head as he added the package that contained deep purple satin sheets and pillowcases, and half a dozen lavender-scented tea candles to the almost full trunk. He’d nearly had a heart attack when his mother
had given them to him and his brother. And then he’d had to bite his lip to prevent himself from laughing when she’d given them both a lecture about making sure their cabin was spotlessly clean before inviting Ms. Right inside it. Even the most naïve son had to guess the sheets and candles were intended for a high-power seduction scene that involved them all getting naked. Really, his Mom shouldn’t even know about that kind of stuff. Not that he’d object to getting the right woman naked, of course. A few decent orgasms might smooth the path of the romance. But really, it wasn’t something a man wanted his mother to know about.
Edward was already sitting in the driver’s seat, so he jumped in the passenger side and buckled his seatbelt, before waving at his mom through the window. She was still standing on the stoop of their house as they drove down the road and turned the corner, so he waved again.
“With all her advice and helpful hints, we have to be able to convince one of the women there to mate with us,” he said.
“Well, I don’t fancy coming home and telling her we failed, so I reckon at tonight’s ball we dance with as many different women as we can—”
“Always thanking them politely and pulling their chair out for them to stand up and sit down again.” Robert couldn’t help interrupting. He couldn’t help the laugh that bubbled up inside his throat.
“Yeah, that, too. Then with perhaps an hour of the party still to go we decide which woman we want most and go after her immediately. I reckon a lot of the wolves there will take several days to decide which woman suits them. We need to get in as fast as we can to have the best chance of getting our first choice.”
“What if we don’t agree on a woman? What if we choose two different ones?” asked Robert, wondering if Edward, as the older brother and also a Dom would insist on his choice.
“Women don’t have to choose several men. If they want one of us we could have one each. So if both of them are happy with just one of us that’d be great. If one of them insists on sharing, I don’t think I’d be happy sharing with anyone but you, so we’ll need to work that out. But we have very similar interests and tastes. I’d like to think that not only can we agree on a woman, we can actually win her affection for both of us as well,” added Edward.
Yeah I hope that, too. I sure as hell don’t want to have to come home without a woman. And it’s not just for Mom’s sake, but for ours. We need a mate to build a future, to be complete. We’re adult men and it’s time for us to stop acting like adolescents and take our place in the world as mature adults. Mated men.
* * * *
Bethany Rees was three-quarters panther and one-quarter human. As a child she’d lived with her parents and two brothers in a panther pack and had thought that’s where she belonged and where she’d be forever. Until the pack had gotten a new Alpha who hated anyone not a pure-blood panther. Their father had thrown them all out of the family home and her older brother, David, had gone one way, and she, her other brother Ben, and her mother the other.
The three of them had ended up in Texas where she’d lived for the past few years, but it wasn’t home to her, so she’d made her way back north until she’d learned where David was living and had visited with him. He was mated into a ménage with a human woman and a full-blood panther man, and the three of them lived in a BDSM community called Carnal Connections.
Staying with him there had opened Bethany’s eyes to the knowledge that shape-shifters and humans could live together and form relationships. Some of the people there were fully human, like Jill, who’d come with her to the DADISP, some were panthers, or part-panther part-human, and others were wolves or part-wolf part-human.
She and Jill had laughed over the name of the mating party, the Desperate and Dateless Inter-Species Party, but had chosen to register for it to see if any of the wolves there was a man they believed they could live happily with forever. Or even two or three men. Bethany had to acknowledge, having seen some of the ménages at Carnal Connections, that the idea of two men making love to her was very appealing.
Although she was only twenty-one, Bethany had packed a hell of a lot of living into the last few years of her life since her father had thrown them all out of the family home, and she was more than ready to find a genuinely caring man—well, wolf—who didn’t mind that she was a mixture of big cat and human.
The women at Carnal Connections had insisted that both Bethany and Jill have a new and different dress to wear to each night’s party. Bethany now stood staring at the dresses hanging in the closet of the cabin she and Jill shared.
“I’ve never had so many new outfits at one time before. How am I supposed to choose which one to wear tonight?”
“I might have had seven new dresses at some stage in my life, but I agree with you in that if I had, I can’t remember it now, and it certainly is a strange feeling looking at them all. I think I’ll save the nicest one for the last night, and wear the second nicest one tonight to make a good first impression,” said Jill.
“Why save the best until last?” asked Bethany.
“I don’t really know, but it just seems wise to me not to use all my ammunition at the start.”
“Okay. That makes sense.” Bethany rearranged the dresses in her closet, ordering them by which ones she thought were the nicest to the least nice, although least nice was kind of stupid as they were all beautiful. It took her a while, but when she was happy with the order, she pulled out the second one. It was shimmering silver and fitted tightly to her breasts, waist, and hips, with a slit up the sides to her knees so she could dance. She liked that it wasn’t a high slit. She didn’t want to give away all her secrets on the first night of the party.
She even had several pairs of new shoes to go with her new clothes, so she bent down and picked up the sparkly silver sandals that matched this dress. It was impossible not to be excited about going to an event when she had new and pretty clothes to wear, a friend to hang out with, and the knowledge that for every woman attending the party, there’d been three men invited. And the men weren’t there just looking for a bit of fun, either. They were all serious about finding a life partner. It was the absolute opposite of what usually happened at a party where there were likely to be far more females than men, and half the men there were only looking for a woman to hook up with for one night.
As soon as she’d heard about the mating party, Bethany had been intrigued. It had shattered her world when she’d learned that as a part-blood panther she was not socially acceptable. Up until then she’d believed people liked her and were her real friends. By the time she, her mother, and Ben had found a panther pack to settle with in Texas, she’d learned a lot about human nature, and had seen every hope and dream in her girlish heart trampled, stomped on, and destroyed. The woman who’d made her own way to Ohio to find her older brother had been a much tougher person inside, hardened by all the rejections and hatred she’d experienced. To find herself accepted and appreciated once again was wonderful. To know she had a future was her every hope fulfilled. Well, almost every hope. Finding a man who really did love her for herself would complete her spiritual and mental restoration.
“You’re going to be the most beautiful woman at the party tonight. It’s just as well there are so many men invited, or there’d be no one to look at a fat old lady like me,” said Jill.
Bethany looked across to her friend and hoped she was teasing. “You’re neither fat nor old, and the strong colors of your dresses are just what you need to stand out in the crowd. I could never wear that strong red or a plunging neckline like that. You’ve got the boobs and coloring to carry off that style and that dress proves it.”
Where she was a slender blonde with light blue eyes, Jill had shoulder-length dark hair, dark eyes, and a curvaceous body. She was in her midthirties, so not a kid perhaps, but not old either. “If we stay together, we’ll give men the chance to pick their choice of hair color,” she said.
Jill laughed. “Besides, all the men who miss out on dancing with you may decide t
o ask me to dance as a means of getting to know you, so the system will work for us both.”
“Almost two hundred men and only sixty women. It’s every woman’s dream party. And we have a whole week here. You know, this will be the longest vacation I’ve ever been on. Even when we lived as a family we never had more than three or four days away, because Dad hated not knowing what was going on in the pack.”
“He was the old Alpha’s second-in-command, wasn’t he?” asked Jill.
Bethany nodded, feeling the pain in her chest that always came as she remembered her childhood. She swallowed hard and said, “Yes, that’s why the new Alpha picked on my family. He wanted to start fresh with his own men in positions of power, but my dad just blamed Mom and us kids for his troubles. He was horrible to all of us, but worst with David. David hadn’t even known he wasn’t Dad’s son until then. To find out when my dad was in a fit of rage was terrible for him. I’m so glad David still accepts me. He was always a wonderful big brother when I was little.”
“He’s a good man, your brother. He had some strange ideas about society when we first knew him, but he learned fast and was soon demonstrating his true and generous nature.”
“So all we need to do now is find ourselves a good man just like him.”
“Or two men. I really like the idea of two men,” replied Jill.
“Fuck yes. I do, too.”
* * * *
Edward looked around the cabin he shared with his brother at the DADISP. Theirs was one of the more distant cabins which suited him fine. He rather liked the idea of finding their mate and fucking her to a screaming orgasm. He hoped for a woman of passion, a woman who would scream her joy and rake his back with her fingernails. Being in one of the farther cabins meant screaming was more possible than one of the closer ones when too many other people might overhear.