Wrapped Up in Stripes

by Sarah Marsh

  “Yes,” she smiled first at Mason, and then back at Wade. “I’m ready.”

  He slipped the silky-soft material over her eyes and then let his hands trail lightly down her neck and across the smooth skin of her collarbone. Her breath caught in her throat when his fingers lightly danced along the swells of her ample breasts contained in the deep vee neckline of her wrap dress.

  “Can you feel it, love?” Mason’s low voice carried just far enough to reach their ears only. “Can you feel their eyes on you?”

  Wade’s own cock was now full and aching in his pants just from watching their pretty little mate bite her lip as her own desire grew to new heights from Mason’s words. He could smell the sweetness of her honey and his tiger paced inside of him, begging for a taste.

  When Mason’s hands moved up from her knees to push the pretty green material up and out of his way, Wade had to stifle a groan as they both got a look at the tiny black panties that were already wet with her desire—this also gave them an idea of what kind of spa services they’d paid for today as the swollen lips of her sex were now devoid of all hair, leaving the material clinging to them in the most decadent way.

  Mason’s growl when he saw the same thing was a surprise, but then again, Wade had never seen his best friend react to any female the way he did to Heidi. When his partner leaned down to blow hotly against Heidi’s wet, cloth covered mound, the moan that left her lips tested both of their control.

  Wade moved on to the next step of the plan they’d discussed while waiting for their date to be ready this afternoon, softly moving his palms over the firm globes of her breasts before stopping at the tie at the side of her dress. One quick tug and it fell loose, allowing him to slowly draw it apart, revealing a black lace demi bra covering her milky white skin. Her nipples were taut against the lace, just begging to be sucked, so Wade made himself at home, nipping and sucking at one breast through the fabric as he used his fingers to pinch and play with the other.

  ****

  Sweet Mother Goddess, they can all see me writhing on this chair like a wanton—and I fucking love it.

  Wade was so right about the blindfold. With the distractions all around her gone, their touches felt like they were amplified a hundred times. Mason ripped her panties off with a low growl, and she could barely keep her ass on the chair. She needed his mouth on her pussy more than she needed her next breath.

  “So pretty and smooth, love,” Mason’s voice rang low, “I think this is something we will have you do all the time.”

  Heidi held her breath as his fingers traced her wet slit and gently pulled apart the swollen folds. The first touch of his tongue wasn’t tentative at all—he took a long, hard lick from the bottom of her entrance all the way up to the sensitive bundle of nerves at the top and she moaned out his name, desperate for him to do it again. Which, much to her everlasting delight, he did.

  “Oh, Goddess, more, please, more.” Her head was beginning to lean back and when Mason suddenly sucked hard on her clit while spearing into her with two of his fingers, she felt a familiar heat begin to bloom in her abdomen. She could hear the wet noises his mouth and hand made against her sex, and if she could hear it, then most likely everyone else around them could, too, and knew exactly just how wet she was.

  She felt Wade undo the clasp of her bra and peel the cups away before his mouth was back sucking on her nipple while palming her other breast.

  “Very nice,” she heard a strange man’s voice come from the left of her, reminding her of their audience, causing a new gush of wetness to reward Mason’s talented fingers.

  “Everyone sees how beautiful you are, baby,” Wade whispered in her ear. “Are you ready to come all over Mason’s fingers for us?”

  “I want to taste you first, Wade.” Having her hands and feet tied up this way was making her desperate to have contact with them, and the thought of taking Wade’s hard cock into her mouth was almost enough to push her body over the edge into bliss … but not quite.

  “Are you sure?” his voice was a low rumble, and she could tell her request made him burn.

  “Yes, please.”

  “You couldn’t be more perfect, little cat,” he murmured, before he kissed her firmly and pulled away.

  Heidi heard the rustle of his clothing and then she could feel the warmth of his body close to her face, right before the wet tip of his cock nudged her lips. She greedily ran her tongue over the slit on the top, collecting the salty offering there before opening up fully to take him in. Wade’s fingers tightened in her hair as he began a slow rhythm moving in and out of her mouth. She gladly relinquished all control to his thrusts and was rewarded as he groaned out her name.

  “Yes, take it all in, little one.” Wade’s pace grew faster. “Suck me down with that beautiful mouth of yours. Show them all who you belong to.”

  At that exact moment, Mason thrust one more finger into her sheath as he wrapped his lips around her swollen clit and rubbed it furiously with the tip of his tongue. Heidi moaned around Wade’s thick cock as her body finally tipped over into glorious orgasm. Warmth radiated out from her womb, moving through every muscle in a wave of bliss. She drew hard on the plump head of Wade’s cock and he thrust two more times before the hot pulses of cum shot down her throat.

  He withdrew from her mouth and leaned down to give her a lingering kiss, but her brain was still foggy. Wade removed the blindfold, while Mason gently pulled her dress back down and then undid the ankle and wrist cuffs. Then Wade wrapped her in a soft, warm blanket and carried her to a smaller lounge area nearby, where the music was much quieter and the lights a pleasant low amber. Then he settled her on his lap on a small couch while Mason went to the bar to retrieve drinks.

  “Did you enjoy yourself, baby?” The soothing feel of his hands rubbing up and down her arms was almost hypnotizing.

  “Oh, yes,” she answered sleepily, “it was wonderful.”

  Heidi couldn’t help the smile that spread across her face as she snuggled closer into Wade’s chest. She looked up to see if Mason was on his way back and spotted him on the other side of the room still at the bar. A tall blonde woman stood next to him and she almost dismissed it, until the woman turned and locked eyes with her. Then, a bitchy smile twitched on the other woman’s lips before she turned back to Mason and placed her hand on his arm, leaning in ridiculously close to whisper something in his ear.

  Heidi’s lioness reeled inside of her to see another female touching what was theirs, and why the fuck wasn’t Mason moving away from her?

  “Who is that woman with Mason at the bar?”

  “Who?” Wade looked up and his concern certainly didn’t seem to match hers. “Oh, that’s one of the event coordinators that works on board. Her name is Serena.”

  “Oh.” She took that in as Mason finally seemed to extract himself from the clingy woman and was on his way back with three bottles of water. She was tempted to ask more about this Serena woman, but it would have been normal for passengers to deal with an events coordinator during their stay, so she just pushed the concern away and tried to enjoy the blissful aftermath of their activities tonight.

  Chapter Twenty

  Heidi had had all sorts of intentions on ravaging her mates when they got back to their room that evening, but much to her embarrassment, when they gently removed her clothes and tucked her into bed with their warm bodies on both sides, she’d passed right out and not woken until morning. Though it was certainly not the wake-up call she’d imagined.

  “Wakey, wakey, eggs and bakey, Sunshine!” was all the warning she got before Julie’s body was soaring through the air to do a belly flop on top of her.

  “Oof, what are you doing here this early?” She tried to pull the duvet high over her head, but dang if that wolf didn’t excel at a game of tug.

  “Today is our shopping day, remember?” Julie pulled the blanket fully off the bed, luckily leaving Heidi with the sheet, since she was naked underneath. “And look what your Prince Charmi
ngs left us?”

  Heidi saw Julie holding up a credit card, her eyebrows waggling.

  “We are not going on a shopping spree with their cards.” She put her foot down. “What do we really need anyway? We bought a whole crap ton of stuff before we left.”

  “That’s not the point and you know it, Heidi.” Julie crossed her arms over her chest and glared. “Besides, we won’t know what we need until we find it in the stores! Now, move your huge ass and get in that shower.”

  She giggled as she threw off the sheet and bounded out of bed, causing Julie to shriek and cover her eyes in feigned shock. “My mates love my huge ass.”

  “I’ll just bet they do. You have twenty minutes to get ready!”

  ****

  Five hours of shopping later, Heidi was taking a time-out on a comfy sofa while Julie tried on a giant-sized pile of sundresses. They’d been in this last boutique for what had to be two hours, and Heidi was pretty much done for the day.

  “I think I need an iced coffee or something, lady. Are you done yet?” she yelled into the change room.

  “Oh, coffee, yes!” Julie yelled back. “Just let me finish this last one, I think it’s a winner.”

  Heidi rolled her eyes as she grabbed the two dresses she was going to purchase and made her way up to the cashier. She was surprised when she saw the blonde woman from the club last night already there, furiously whispering with the cashier.

  “Oh, wow,” she overheard the tacky blonde gush as she approached the counter, “I just had the hottest three-way with two tigers at The Black Cat. Damn, did those two work me over. I came so hard I almost blacked out.”

  Heidi’s gut churned at her words—surely, she was talking about two other tiger shifters, not her tigers. But then her entire world imploded as the blonde turned her way and gave her a wink.

  “You know what I’m talking about, don’t you, girl?” the heinous woman continued on like Heidi’s heart wasn’t shattering at this very moment. “I saw you with those two at the club last night. As a matter of fact, that show they put on with you was what convinced me to accept Mason and Wade’s offer this afternoon … and they certainly didn’t disappoint, so thank you.”

  This couldn’t possibly be true. The things that she felt—the things they’d told her they’d felt. They’d said they were her mates, that it was fate that brought them together.

  “No…” her voice was small and quiet as she tried to deny what this woman was saying, but the horrible creature just continued on, discrediting the very argument her heart tried to make.

  “And then, of course,” the blonde rolled her eyes, “when it was all over, they tried to tell me that I was their ‘mate’.” The air quotations Serena used made the lioness inside Heidi snarl in fury. “Like I was some naïve girl on her first vacation who would fall for that one—plus, Diane behind the bar warned me that these two have a thing for playing the whole mate shtick. Getting sweet little things to fall in love with them before they move onto the next conquest.”

  “That’s hilarious that they thought you would fall for that, Serena,” the woman behind the counter laughed, “as if you were ever that innocent.”

  “Well, there is that.” Serena smiled before she turned fully back to Heidi, and the heartbreak she saw on her face must have been obvious to see. “Hey sweetie, what’s wrong? Oh, no. Don’t tell me you actually believed they were your mates?”

  “What the fuck is going on here?” Julie came storming up to the counter and, seeing the look on Heidi’s face, turned back to Serena and snarled, “What the hell did you do?”

  “I just clarified something for your sweet little friend there, before she really got hurt.” The concerned expression on the blonde’s face only seemed to enrage Julie more. “You can’t blame me if she was naïve enough to fall for their games.”

  Heidi felt numb all over. The place in her chest where her heart was supposed to be now felt like an empty cavern that had just been exhumed. But even through the haze, she could see Julie losing control of her wolf, the loud growl told her that her friend was getting ready to beat on someone.

  “I think there’s something wrong with your dog…” the blonde sneered at them and the growl coming from next to her only got louder.

  “Yeah, she’s about to get a new squeaky toy.” Julie bared her teeth at the cheetah.

  Heidi reached out and grabbed Julie’s arm, “Julie, let’s just go—I need to go home. Now.”

  Julie looked back at her and whatever she saw in her face must have been enough, because Julie took her arm and led her out of the store and back to their room.

  Immediately, Heidi went to work, frantically packing up all of her things.

  “What’s going on, Heidi?” Julie tried to make her sit down. “What happened in there?”

  That’s when the tears started, and she fell to her knees sobbing as Julie’s arms came around her.

  Several minutes later, she could finally get the words out.

  “It wasn’t true,” she quietly confessed. “They weren’t my mates. Apparently, it's just a game they like to play with women who are stupid enough to believe them.”

  “Hey,” Julie sounded angry, “you’re not stupid. And it certainly seemed to me that it wasn’t a game to them. Are you sure that bitch wasn’t lying?”

  “I saw Mason talking to her last night at the club,” she answered, thinking back to what Wade had said as well. “And Wade knew her, too. Goddess, Julie, am I really so pathetic that I believed the first men who showed up talking about fate and mating? I can’t believe what an idiot I am. I should have known they were too good to be true.”

  Julie just held her for a moment, “Yeah, well, mating isn’t always what it’s cracked up to be anyway. You can trust me on that.”

  Heidi looked up at her friend and wondered what she wasn’t telling her, but before she could ask Julie just shook her head in denial.

  “Some other time, I’ll tell you all about it.” Julie helped her to stand up. “But if you’ve really had enough of this vacay, then we’d better shake a leg, because the boat hits port in Mexico in an hour. We can be home by tomorrow, safe and sound, back in boring old Blue Valley.”

  “You wouldn’t be mad at me for bailing early?”

  “Nah, we can just spend the rest of the week drinking in your back yard. Making your brothers bring us drinks.” Julie hugged her one more time. “I’m sorry this turned out so crappy, sweetie.”

  “Me, too.” She answered quietly. Her heart was officially, completely shattered. Served her right for dreaming too big, thinking that she could have some fairy tale ending with men like Mason and Wade. Now all she wanted was to go back home and never leave town again. There was no need to look for another man—she’d never trust one again anyway.

  Chapter Twenty-One

  When Heidi didn’t come back to their suite after her shopping trip, Mason and Wade made their way down to the girls’ room to see if they wanted to go for an early dinner. They’d arranged a romantic harbor cruise to take Heidi on tonight and were planning on asking if she was ready for them to claim her yet. Mason still didn’t want to rush her, but he hoped that she cared for them as much as they did for her.

  When they arrived at her room, the maid was just finishing up and the door was wide open.

  “Hello, are the two ladies who are staying in this room here?” Wade asked the woman.

  “No, they checked out right before the boat docked.” She answered, gathering new toiletries to stock the bathroom. “This room is empty now.”

  Mason frowned, double checking the room number, “No, there must be some kind of mistake. They’re here until the end of the week.”

  A look of sympathy crossed her expression.

  “Maybe you can go confirm it at the customer service desk,” she said gently.

  “Thank you, we will.” Wade dragged him away and they all but ran straight to the main service desk in the foyer.

  “Can you please tell us if
Miss Heidi Jennings in room 210 has checked out?” Mason tried not to scare the woman at the desk, but his tiger was beginning to panic at the thought of their mate fleeing.

  “Certainly, sir. Yes, it seems that Miss Jennings had an emergency come up and needed to leave the ship as soon as we docked.”

  “Emergency? Was she all right?” Wade cut her off, then an entirely unwelcome voice rang out from behind them.

  “She was fine, just licking her wounded pride, I’d say.” Serena was standing there, looking smug and Mason didn’t have any patience to pretend left.

  “What are you talking about? Did you see her before she left?” he demanded.

  “I simply pointed out to her that two worldly, fine males such as yourselves wouldn’t settle for chuck steak when they were offered filet mignon. Your game of hard to get has worked, and now I’d like to collect my prize.” She tried to step closer and touch him, but Mason reached out and grabbed her wrist, stopping her cold.

  “Heidi is our mate.” He tried to control his rage, but what had this vile female done? “I’m sorry if you imagined there was more between us than there was, but we only want our mate. We have zero interest in you.”

  Mason could hear the rumble of Wade’s beast beside him as his friend battled with containing his anger as well. He let go of the cheetah’s arm and turned back to the desk attendant.

  “We are checking out. Please have our rooms packed up and everything delivered to the address on our account. We are leaving immediately.”

  The look on Serena’s face as they walked straight past her on their way to disembark the ship was almost laughable. But she wasn’t worth even one more moment of their time. They’d made their reports to the police and the corporation’s lawyer, and the rest would be taken care of. There was only one thing on Mason’s mind now—they were going to Blue Valley to get their mate back.