by Becca Van
“Answer, April. Now,” Ben whispered quietly in her ear.
“Yes,” April replied without looking at Ben. She was so scared of what she saw in one of the panther’s eyes she began to shake. She just hoped letting Ben claim her, as well, was the right thing to do.
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Ben leaned his head down and sniffed at April’s shoulder. He called on his beast and let his teeth elongate, then bit into her shoulder next to where one of the panthers had claimed her. He licked the drops of blood from her wound and groaned out loud as the taste of her life force erupted onto his taste buds. His cock throbbed and hardened even more in his pants. He had to struggle with his beast until he had it pushed back down and he was once more in control.
The roar of two panthers pulled him back to his surroundings, and he knew he was going to have a fight on his hands. He was about to place April safely on the tree limb then climb down to confront his two friends, but they beat him to it. They leapt up and were on the tree branch on either side of him and April before he could blink. He knew they wouldn’t put April in danger, so he was quite happy to stay where he was for the moment.
He watched as Gage and Saxon changed back to human form. Gage reached over to April and plucked her out of Ben’s arms. He heard her whimper with fear as she literally flew through the air but stopped when she landed on Gage’s naked lap.
“What the fuck do you think you were doing, Ben? You knew we’d claimed April first. You had no right to claim her, as well!” Gage growled.
“Well, that’s where you’re wrong, buddy. I asked April. I actually gave her a choice, not like some others around here. Her answer was yes,” Ben replied.
“Is that true, April?” Gage asked. Ben saw Gage place a large finger beneath her chin, raising her face to his.
“Yes,” April replied belligerently. But she was clinging to Gage with her arms and legs, still afraid of being off the ground. Ben wanted her back in his arms so he could offer her comfort but knew Gage wouldn’t relent in his present mood.
“Why? Why did you do that? You belong to us.” Gage growled.
“I belong to no one. I am my own person. I am not a prize to be fought over. I am a human being with feelings. You scared the hell out of me, Gage. You and Saxon marked me, claimed me, without my consent. What are you going to do next? Are you going to offer me up to have sex with the rest of your men? I can’t believe you made me enjoy what you did to me. I don’t even know you. Now get me out of this fucking tree before I scream,” April yelled.
“Honey, calm down. I don’t want you falling. Come here and I’ll get you down,” Ben said, holding his arms out to her.
Ben heard April sob and saw her push against Gage’s chest, trying to get him to release her. He nearly laughed at her feistiness when Gage he didn’t let go. She punched him on the chest as hard as she could, but it didn’t seem to faze Gage at all. By the way she shook her hand, Ben could tell she only ended up hurting her own knuckles. April held her arms out to Ben, and he pulled her over to his lap, challenging Gage with his glare. Ben swung her over onto his back and began the rest of the climb down to the ground.
Once they were on the ground again, Ben swung April around into his arms, cradling her against his chest, trying to comfort her. He knew it was going to be a fight to get her, Gage, and Saxon together, but he was determined to make it happen. He intended to woo April and then bring Gage and Saxon into their relationship. He knew he was going to have his work cut out. He would need to get Gage and Saxon alone and explain his plans. He had a feeling he could use Saxon, as well, in trying to tame their mate, since she had only said Gage had scared her. She didn’t seem adverse to Gage’s younger brother. In fact, if he was correct, and he knew he was, April was covertly watching the two Alphas from the panther clan, and from what he could see, she was looking at them with hunger in her eyes.
Chapter Four
April was outraged to find herself back where she had virtually started. She was back in the room of the palatial mansion, with the huge canopied bed and luxurious bathroom. If it wasn’t for the fact she now had food, water, and the amenities she so desperately needed, she would have thrown a temper tantrum the size of a mountain.
April sighed, sat down at the table located near the large window, and picked at the food someone had thoughtfully left for her. She wondered where Ben, Gage, and Saxon were, but then pushed them from her mind. Gage had scared the absolute living shit out her when he had changed into his panther form. She had been so scared of his beast and knew neither she nor Saxon would have been able to stop him, not that she had really wanted to. She was very wary of him now and knew it would be a long time before she trusted him. She picked up her third glass of water and guzzled it down. She was still replacing the fluids she had lost while wandering in the rain forest. She pushed her plate of food aside just as the doors to her room opened. She turned her head and saw Ben heading toward her.
“Hey, honey. How are you feeling?” Ben asked, placing a kiss on her cheek. He pulled out the chair opposite her and sat down, studying her intently.
“Okay, I guess.”
“What can I do to help you, April?”
“Help me find a way to go home. I don’t belong here, Ben. This place is so different from where I come from.”
“How so?”
“I live in a city, Ben. I work at a small publishing company and earn my own living. I’m independent. I can’t stay here, can’t you see that? I’ll never belong in this place.”
“Come here, honey,” Ben stated, holding a hand out toward April.
April stood and walked around the table to Ben. She took his hand in hers, and he gently pulled her down onto his lap. She heard Ben sigh as she curled up on his lap and burrowed her face into his bare chest. She kissed his chest spontaneously. She wasn’t as inimical to any of them as she tried to make out. But there was no way in hell she was giving in to them too easily. Especially Gage. He’d made her so mad when he had licked her pussy in his beast form. Ben sat holding her for a long time. She felt safe and content in his arms and didn’t want to get up. Her eyelids were heavy, and she was so tired. She closed her eyes and gave in to her weariness.
April woke up in the dead of night. She was plastered up against Ben. Her pussy was aching, and she had one of her legs over his crotch. She could feel his long, thick erection throbbing against her in response. She slowly began to ease her leg off of him, then began to inch her way to the side of the bed. She didn’t get far, because Ben tightened the arm he had wrapped around her waist and pulled her back against him. She gave up the struggle of trying to move away from him. She lay awake listening to the comforting beat of his heart against her ear and feeling the heat of his body wrapped around her own. She had never felt so safe and secure in her entire life.
April knew she was falling for Ben, and in a big way, but she knew she couldn’t stay here. She didn’t belong here. She had her life waiting for her, back in her own world. She had her own space, was independent, and answered to no one. She had never been so alone or lonely in her life. April’s eyelids eventually became too heavy to keep open. She gave up the struggle and let sleep overtake her once more as she slipped into an erotic dream.
Large, warm hands were stroking her body, creating a heat so fierce, she was afraid she would erupt into flames if the fire building in her wasn’t doused. Hands kneaded her breasts until she arched up into the pleasure they were giving her. She moaned in her throat, begging for more of the desirous sensations running through her body, from her breast down to the throbbing, wet core of her pussy. Fingers plucked at her hard nipples, shooting electric sparks straight to her clit and womb, making her muscles clench uselessly, her pussy begging to be filled. A warm, wet tongue laved over one of her sensitive nipples, making her arch up to get more contact with the pleasure-inducing appendage. The mouth drew on her hard, sucking her nipple in between warm, moist lips. Teeth bit down on her gently, holding her nipple still, while the t
ongue flickered back and forth across the surface, making her cry out with pleasure and need.
Another mouth took her other breast into its depths, giving her the decadence of having both her breasts pleasured at the same time. She felt large, warm palms run up the inside of her thighs, sliding up and down, getting closer and closer to the juncture of her legs. April bucked her hips up, needing to be touched, the fire raging in her body needing to be quenched. She sighed with relief when she felt that large, warm hand cup her mound, relieving a small amount of her throbbing need. Fingers separated her labia, and then one of them dipped into the well of her dripping, creamy hole. That same finger slid up between the slick folds of her cunt until it reached the top of her slit, massaging around and around her clit but never giving her what she needed most. She growled with frustration in the back of her throat and bucked her hips up, trying to get that finger to touch her aching clitoris. She heard a masculine chuckle, but didn’t give it another thought. She was too far gone. She needed to be touched, needed her pussy to be filled, and was determined to get what she wanted.
April slowly opened her eyes to find herself surrounded by all three men. Her body was out of control. Her vagina was clenching, her juices dripping from her, making her thighs and ass wet. She looked down the length of her body to see Gage staring up at her waiting for her approval, and when she gave a small nod, his fingers began massaging her pussy, and his head was only inches away from her hot cunt. He didn’t move. April knew he was waiting for her to move away from him, or to yell at him, even though she had just given him permission to touch her. When she didn’t move or speak, he slid his fingers down through her pussy lips, slowly pushing one of his large, thick fingers up into her cunt. She turned her head when she saw movement at her sides near her chest. Ben and Saxon were lying on either side of her, not touching her, just waiting for her to decide what she wanted. When she relaxed her head back on the pillow beneath and closed her eyes, she knew she was in for a wild ride.
“Please, touch me,” April sobbed, giving them permission to take her body where they wanted to lead.
April couldn’t hold back the moan building in her throat as Gage bent down to her pussy and breathed over her hot, wet flesh. She felt goose bumps rise up over her skin, making her nipples pucker and stand up even further, just begging to be touched. Saxon and Ben leaned over her. One of them took a hard nipple into his mouth and sucked on her to the point of pain, while a finger and thumb plucked at her other elongated nub. She opened her eyes just as Ben took her mouth beneath his own, opening her lips using the firm pressure of his own lips. He thrust his tongue into her mouth, tasting every nook and cranny of her cavern, not leaving one inch of her untasted. He slid his tongue along hers then curled his muscle around her tongue, drawing it from her mouth into his and suckling on her flesh.
April moaned, unable to prevent the sound from escaping as Gage ran his sandpaper-textured tongue over her clit, swirling around the little bundle of sensitive nerves protruding out, eager for more. She had never felt so small and feminine, so sexy, so needed and wanted. She knew she shouldn’t be letting them do this to her, but it had been so long since she had been touched, held. In fact, she couldn’t remember the last time she’d had any kind of contact with another human being, besides verbally. She needed to feel needed, like she never had been before. She pushed the thoughts from her mind, letting the pleasure she was receiving from three of the sexiest, most masculine, dominant men she had ever met take her over.
They were consuming her. Gage was lapping at her clit as he slid a finger in and out of her wet sheath. He was torturing her with pleasure. The movement of his thrusting finger was so slow, April sobbed out her frustration. Saxon was sucking and plucking at her nipples, and Ben was ravishing her mouth. April could feel the beginning warning signs of an impending climax, so she thrust her hips at Gage’s mouth, urging him to give her what she wanted, needed. April’s womb began to coil into a tight spring as the three men claiming her as their mate played her body like a violin. The coil gathered in on itself, getting tighter and tighter, pulling the muscles in her abdomen and thighs rigid. When she thought she wouldn’t be able to stand anymore, thinking she was about to snap, all movement ceased. Their hands and mouths withdrew from her tautly coiled body.
April screamed with rage, bounded up from her back to her knees with a lightning move. She pushed Gage back on the bed, catching him off guard by the surprised look on his face. She grabbed his massive prick in a firm grip, straddled his hips, and impaled herself on his hard shaft. He was so big she was only able to get a quarter of him inside her. Gage grabbed her around the waist, pulled her down to his chest, tilted her face up to his, and stared into her eyes. The heat, hunger, in his eyes was so potent, April felt singed by it. He lifted his head to her and possessed her mouth with his own. The kiss was so carnal, she felt like she was burning up from the inside out. As he devoured her mouth, he began to thrust his hips up into hers, holding her firmly, pulling her hips down to meet his own. Gage stopped intermittently, giving her time to adjust to his penetration, but she wanted none of that.
April began using her legs. She slid up and down his hard, thick shaft, pushing harder and harder until he was completely filling her cunt. April moaned out loud at the burning feel of his hard cock stretching her to the point of pain. She relished the feeling of being filled as she had never been filled before. She was in heaven and hell, needing to move, but wanting to savor the feel of his hard rod separating her tight muscles. She couldn’t wait anymore. She had to move, and she had to do it now.
April began to ride Gage’s cock like there was no tomorrow. She was totally out of control but didn’t care. She wanted to feel her flesh gripping around his hard shaft as she reached orgasm, so she picked up her pace until her ass was slapping into his hard, muscular thighs. She needed to take the edge off of her fire, before she burned alive.
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Gage couldn’t believe the wild woman who had just jumped him. April had been fighting him and Saxon, keeping them at arm’s length. Something had changed, and now she was like a female panther in heat. She was now slamming herself down on his rock-hard, pulsing shaft. He wanted to stop her and savor the feeling of her flesh gripping his own tightly. He couldn’t hold back the moan as she plunged down onto his cock again. The friction of her wet flesh sliding over his hard, pulsating shaft was nearly more than he could stand. He gripped her hips and held her down on his cock, not letting go as she tried to rise up again. He pulled her body down over his until she was covering him from chest to the tops of his thighs. He spread his legs wide, taking hers with him, giving Saxon or Ben access to her ass. Gage knew the three of them would all have to join their bodies with April’s together to make their claim on her work to its proper completion. He knew he could be a selfish bastard and not let Ben join April’s body with him and his brother, but he had a feeling a greater force was at work here. He just didn’t know what. Even though he knew it was possible for more than one kind of shape-shifter to be able to claim a woman, it was very rare for different species to be able to claim a mate once she was claimed by another, even if they hadn’t marked her with their seed, as well.
Gage saw Saxon give Ben the advantage of being able to take April’s ass. He knew if it was him, he wouldn’t have been so selfless. He wondered why his brother was giving Ben the first opportunity of burying his cock in their mate’s little pucker. He didn’t ask, though. For the Goddess truth, he was having trouble just breathing. April had claimed his voice when she had claimed his flesh. Gage watched as Ben produced a bowl of fragrant oil, which had been left on the table. He watched his bond mate place the bowl on the table beside the large bed then strip his clothes from his body. All the while, Gage was trying to keep April from squirming up and down on his cock.
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Ben dipped his fingers into the oil and coated his massive cock. The throbbing in his cock was so bad, the ache made him want to plunge his h
ard length into their mate and ride her hard and fast to completion. But he knew he was going to have to be gentle with their mate, so he took a few deep breaths, releasing them slowly as he tried to regain control of his rampant desire. Once his cock was coated liberally, he dipped two of his fingers into the bowl of oil once more, moved up onto the bed behind April, and slowly began to massage her little, dark pucker. He nearly shot his wad when April sobbed with pleasure from the touch of his finger to her ass. Ben breathed evenly and deeply as he massaged the sensitive hole of her anus and gave a growl of approval when her little hole relaxed and opened up to him. Ben pushed the tip of one finger into April’s ass and held still as her muscles clamped down onto his digit like a vise. He began to pump his thick finger in and out of her hole, spreading the lubricating oil over her internal walls by wiggling his finger around as he slid it in and out a few times. He slowly withdrew his finger again, dipped into the bowl for more oil, and then began to push two fingers into his mate’s ass. She opened up to his penetration as she tried to buck back onto his fingers. He moved his other arm around her waist to hold her steady. He pumped his fingers in and out of her ass until her muscles were used to his invasion and her asshole opened up some more. He pushed those fingers into her canal all the way, then began to scissor his fingers, stretching her tight anal muscles. When April began rocking her hips back and forth, he withdrew his fingers from her hole. Looking down at her heart-shaped ass opened wide for him was such a turn-on. He thrust three fingers into her anus, pumping them in and out, spreading his fingers once more to help stretch her.
The sight of his own fingers moving in and out of her tight hole was nearly his undoing. He released his arm from around her waist, grabbed onto his large balls, and gave them a sharp tug. The pain was just enough of a bite to hold off his impending climax. Ben grasped his dick in his hand, aligned it with April’s asshole, and began to push into her body. He had to push hard to get the tip of his cock through the tight ring of muscles of her sphincter, and he couldn’t hold in his moan of pleasure as his cockhead popped through those tightly clasping muscles. He grabbed his balls again, giving them another sharp tug, breathing in and out deeply as he tried to control his raging lust. Once he had his body back under control, he slowly but surely pushed into his mate’s anus until he was buried balls-deep. He wrapped his arm around her waist again, holding her back against his chest as he moved her to a sitting position between himself and Gage.