by Bec Adams
“I have another assignment for you,” the alpha said in a tone that suggested arguing would be fruitless. Donovan ground his back teeth together and waited to hear the details. It was very clear to him what the alpha was trying to do. What wasn’t clear was how he should react to the old dog’s manipulations. “The alpha of the Dry Creek pack has asked for our help to set up better security. You’re one of my most experienced wolves when it comes to electronic surveillance. I want you to lead the crew I selected.” He gave Donovan a look he couldn’t quite interpret. “It shouldn’t take more than six months. You move out in two hours.”
He wasn’t certain what to do, so he stayed calm and tried to shove aside his emotions as he considered the ramifications of the alpha’s move. Sogarn deserved to be happy. A mate and pups would make acceptance by the pack far more likely.
“Can I say good-bye?” Donovan asked in a quiet, respectful tone.
“Of course,” the alpha said with a sympathetic smile.
Donovan turned to leave, already wondering what he would say to the man he loved and the woman he’d grown to care for deeply, but the alpha’s next words stopped him in his tracks.
“I know you care for Sogarn, but if you truly love my son, you’ll do what’s best for him.”
Donovan looked over his shoulder, nodded once in acknowledgment, and left before he could give away how deeply doing what the alpha thought was right affected him.
* * * *
Sogarn startled awake, Donovan’s name on his lips and Wendy lying in his arms.
“I think he went to check on Polly,” she said sleepily, snuggling more comfortably into his embrace.
“Where are you?” Sogarn asked telepathically. He could feel his lover’s distress, but he also got the sense that he was trying to hide it from him.
“I’m on my way back to you and Wendy,” Donovan replied even as Sogarn heard the back screen door slide open.
“What aren’t you telling me?” Sogarn asked as sadness flooded his system. He didn’t understand where the emotion was coming from, but he knew it had something to do with Donovan. Had making love with Wendy made his man feel unloved? Surely Donovan knew how he felt. The telepathic link they shared made it difficult to hide anything from each other. But it seemed that was exactly what Donovan was trying to do. “Donovan, please talk to me. Tell me what’s wrong.”
“Nothing’s wrong,” he said as he stepped into the bedroom. “In fact, the alpha just put me in charge of a new assignment.”
“So where are we going?” Sogarn asked, pulling Wendy closer. Wherever they got sent, he had every intention of asking Wendy to come with them.
“Not we. Me,” Donovan said as he sat on the edge of the bed in front of Wendy.
“You?” Sogarn asked as confusion swirled through him. “Surely the alpha knows we’re a team.”
“The alpha,” Donovan said in a quiet, inflectionless, monotone voice, “wants you to stay and supervise the completion of this assignment.” He reached a hand out to touch Sogarn’s face but hesitated and then dropped it back to his side. “I should only be gone six months or so.”
“Six months?” Wendy asked in surprise. “Surely he knows how close you two are.”
“He knows,” Sogarn said, grinding his back teeth as he realized what his father planned to do. “He’s trying to separate us in the hopes that I’ll claim you.”
“Me?” Wendy asked in a small voice. “But you barely know me. You and Donovan have been together for decades.” She rolled in Sogarn’s embrace. “I’m not even a wolf.”
“That can change,” Donovan said as he reached out to touch her cheek. “Sogarn would be welcomed back into the pack if he had a mate—a wife—and pups in his future.”
“But what about you?” Wendy asked Donovan worriedly. Sogarn took comfort in the fact that she didn’t immediately dismiss the idea of a future with him, but it was Donovan’s determination to do the “right thing” according to the alpha that worried him. Sogarn could feel the despair already permeating Donovan’s heart.
“I’ll be fine, sweetheart,” Donovan lied. Perhaps he was trying to put on a brave face for Wendy, but Sogarn knew what the words were costing him. From that moment nearly sixty years ago when they’d first come together, Sogarn had never doubted that Donovan loved him with everything that he was. And he wasn’t going to give that up without one hell of a fight.
“I should get going,” Donovan said as he tried to move away.
“No,” Sogarn said, moving off the bed and standing between Donovan and the doorway. “You’re staying right here while I sort out my father.”
“Your father?” Wendy asked, looking from one to the other. “The alpha is your father?”
Sogarn nodded.
“It’s okay,” Donovan said quietly. “Sogarn, I want you to be happy. Pack life is important to you.”
“Not as important as you are,” Sogarn said, moving to take his lover in his arms. Donovan stood stoically for a moment, obviously fighting his instincts to hold his lover close, but when his arms did wrap around him, they shook with barely leashed emotion. “I love you, Donovan, and I’m not going to let a bigoted, narrow-minded asshole dictate our future.”
“But life would be much easier without me.”
Sogarn laughed humorlessly. “Life wouldn’t be life without you. Either my father accepts me for who I am—and everything that I am—or he lives without me.”
It took a moment to realize that Wendy had slid off the bed and was quietly trying to leave the room. Moving faster than even he realized he could, Sogarn snagged her around the waist and dragged her into the middle of his and Donovan’s embrace.
“But I should g–go,” Wendy said shakily.
“No.” Sogarn captured her chin in his fingers, gently lifting her face so she looked him directly in the eyes. “You belong here with us. With both of us.” She shook her head, but tears filmed her eyes. “Wendy,” he said, gently touching her face as her emotions washed over him. He had no idea how it was possible, but the link he had with Donovan was already growing between him and Wendy. “I know I’m rushing you, but I feel what’s in your heart. I know you love us both. Stay. Let us love you and build a life together. Marry us both. Have our babies.”
Wendy nodded shyly, overwhelmed by everything he’d just told her but brave enough to reach for what she wanted.
“Make love to Donovan, sweetheart. He needs to feel you wrapped around him.”
“But what about the alpha?” Donovan asked. It was clear that his lover wanted only what was best for him. The alpha didn’t have a clue what that was. Fortunately, Sogarn did.
“The alpha isn’t important. Not here. Not now. What’s important is that you and Wendy need each other.” He pulled them both closer to him, pressed a kiss to Wendy’s lips, and then pulled Donovan’s head toward him. “And I really need to watch you together.”
Wendy blushed, perhaps finally realizing that she was still naked.
“Is that okay with you, sweetheart?” Donovan asked Wendy as he leaned back to see her face. She nodded, lifting her face up so that Donovan could kiss her. Sogarn didn’t wait for them to break apart before he started to strip away Donovan’s clothes. He had his lover naked in no time, and then he guided them both toward the bed as their kiss grew more passionate.
Donovan lay on his back, pulling Wendy down over him, his fear of hurting her fragile human body very obvious in his and Donovan’s telepathic link. Donovan continued to kiss her, his hands roaming over every inch of her body, the scent of their combined arousal permeating Sogarn’s head and his heart. He loved them both with everything that he was, and he wasn’t going to let anyone dictate who he could or couldn’t have in his life.
* * * *
Wendy moaned as Sogarn lifted her hips slightly, his warm hands joining Donovan’s as they raised her arousal to fever pitch. Never in her life had she felt such desperate need to join with a man the way she needed Donovan and Sogarn.
/> She heard Donovan groan as Sogarn’s hand wrapped around his cock, his other hand lifting her effortlessly as he fit the two of them together. He held her suspended, obviously far stronger than he looked, teasing them both as he let her take just the head of Donovan’s cock into her pussy. She gasped softly as he finally lowered her onto Donovan’s thick, hard cock. Donovan lifted up, capturing her mouth with his own, kissing her passionately even as he reached for Sogarn.
Sogarn came to them willingly, lying down beside them, caressing them both as Wendy started to move. Donovan groaned, lifting up higher, driving his cock deeper as she reached a hand out to Sogarn, gripping his fingers hard as sensation started to overwhelm her.
“That’s it,” Sogarn said as they both started to move faster. “We’re going to claim you, Wendy. Mark you as ours for the entire shifter world to see.”
She nodded, not certain where her confidence came from, but somehow knowing that both men loved her dearly. She even knew what claiming her entailed. She turned to Sogarn, her movements stilling as she realized the source of her knowledge.
“How can I know that?” she asked, even as a part of her understood the answer.
“You share a telepathic link?” Donovan asked, wrapping his arms around them both. He stopped moving but stayed thrust to the hilt inside her.
“Not quite,” Sogarn said, making certain that they could see both see his face. “But I think it will grow stronger when we claim you, Wendy. I’m hoping that you will even share the link with Donovan.”
She glanced at the man underneath her, her eyes widening when she realized she could sense his thoughts and emotions, too.
“What does it mean?” she asked just a little nervously. The emotions she sensed weren’t a reflection of her own. They were stronger, deeper, perhaps even more intense, but they were aimed at her and Sogarn. Yet underneath the loving and protective layers was the fear that he could hurt them both.
“It means that we’re true-mates,” Sogarn said with a smile for both of them. It was clear in his tone that he’d only just realized, that the answers were only now flooding into his mind.
“I thought that was just a myth,” Donovan said, his entire frame shaking as he absorbed what Sogarn meant. Somehow Wendy could sense that, too. She didn’t even need to ask her next question out loud. Before the thought was fully formed in her head, Sogarn leaned over to answer it.
“Yes, you’ll be stronger as a wolf, and there would be much less chance of Donovan and me accidentally hurting you.”
She went to ask several of the questions vying for attention in her brain, but the answers were there before she could voice them. A very small part of her wondered if she was being foolhardy to believe that she was actually linked to both men telepathically, but Sogarn’s warm smile and whispered, “Now?” made it seem so very natural.
She nodded, smiling wider when she heard both his and Donovan’s reassurances that even though the change would take a few days the bite wouldn’t hurt for more than a moment.
Wendy gasped breathlessly as Sogarn’s sharp teeth sank into her shoulder, the wound tingling as something strange started to happen. Again without words, she heard Donovan’s reassurance that what she was feeling was normal. Her heart pounded harder as something traveled through her system, her blood thumping in her veins, the adrenaline-type rush surprisingly unexpected.
“Wow,” she whispered, her voice sounding different to her own ears.
“Feels amazing, doesn’t it?” Donovan asked as he started to lift his cock into her pussy once more. It didn’t take but two strokes to bring him back to full hardness, his erection suddenly seeming to touch parts of her she’d never noticed before. She moved as well. Sogarn’s teeth were still embedded in her neck, but she was unable to hold still as her arousal grew out of control.
Donovan fucked her harder, his grip on her hips controlling her movements, taking her to the edge before pulling away once more. She tried to move, wriggling in his embrace, desperate to claim the orgasm Donovan held just out of reach.
She sensed their intentions before Sogarn moved, his teeth gently easing from her flesh and his warm hand touching her face a moment in reassurance. Sogarn eased her forward, his hand caressing her spine as he leaned over and grabbed the lube from beside the bed.
His fingers were cold, the slippery liquid making her shiver with both nervousness and anticipation. The first touch was strange, the sensation of his finger pushing into her ass neither painful nor particularly pleasurable.
“Relax,” Sogarn said as he slid a second finger in beside the first. “I promise you’re going to love this.” She could sense Donovan’s concern that even though Sogarn had started the process it would take time for her to gain the strength of her wolf, but she could also feel Sogarn’s reassurance to them both. In some ways it was like she was inside both of their minds.
“It gets better,” Donovan assured her as she felt him telepathically touch her mind. “Soon the connection will be so strong we’ll be able to have entire conversations over quite a distance.”
“Not that we plan to leave you alone anytime soon,” Sogarn said as he slid a third finger into her ass, the muscles pulsing slightly as the sting grew a little uncomfortable.
She felt Sogarn’s determination to keep the three of them together for a lifetime—a very long, werewolf lifetime. Wendy was still grinning at Donovan when he moved his hands to her ass, separated the cheeks, and held her open as Sogarn smoothed lube onto his erection.
The first touch of his cock had her squirming between them, but it was the incredible feelings that she somehow shared with them both that had her groaning in ecstasy. She wriggled, impaled on both cocks simultaneously, her arousal growing higher as her mates started to move. Donovan groaned, holding her close as Sogarn’s cock caressed them both.
“We love you, Wendy,” Sogarn whispered into her mind. Unable to control the connection, her concerns leaked through.
“Sweetheart,” Donovan said as he placed his big hand at the back of her head and urged her forward. “It will all work out. I promise you.”
“So do I,” Sogarn said, leaning his weight against her for a moment, his loving possession of both her and Donovan very clear in his mind. Sogarn bit into Donovan’s shoulder, claiming him as he started fucking her in earnest, his movements more forceful, his thrusting much deeper.
He licked over the tiny wound as Wendy sensed the link he’d created between himself and Donovan. “I love you both,” he said as held her suspended just enough for Donovan to slide a hand between them. His fingers found her clit, touching her swollen nub gently, making her shake all over.
“Come for us, sweetheart,” Donovan said. Unable to deny the beauty of the moment, Wendy did exactly as he demanded, her orgasm flowing through her body even as their enjoyment of her orgasm and the beginnings of their own flowed into her mind. Somehow, she felt it all—her emotions and theirs. She shuddered as they both sank their teeth into her, this time the sensations different, more intense, a sense of their souls melding together permeating every part of her body and mind.
They held her then, breathing hard as the incredible emotions swirled between them all. The urge to bite them both, to claim them, too, was overwhelming. She felt Sogarn’s happiness, sensed his smile, even though she couldn’t see him. He placed a hand at the back of her head, guiding her mouth to Donovan’s throat.
“Go ahead, sweetheart. We’re your wolves.”
She nodded, her mouth opening over Donovan’s flesh. She marveled briefly at the sharp canine teeth that were somehow there when she wanted them, but it didn’t interfere at all with the incredible moment of claiming a man she loved. Donovan groaned, holding her close, his cock twitching inside her despite having come just moments ago. Sogarn pulled free from her body, moving closer, offering his throat as she claimed him as well.
“I love you,” she whispered, knowing that they already knew, but needing to say the words out loud. She even knew
what came next. She could sense it with every cell in her body. Wendy lifted away from Donovan’s growing cock, giving him the chance to claim the man he loved as well.
She stayed close, touching them both as Sogarn lowered himself onto Donovan’s cock and leaned forward, letting their mate bite him on the opposite side of his neck to Wendy’s mark. Sogarn groaned loudly as the connection between all three of them settled into place. Donovan grinned and then started to move, holding Sogarn’s hips tightly as he lifting up into him again and again. Their joining was hard and fast, both of them sweating and breathing harshly as they raced toward fulfillment.
Wendy closed her eyes, savoring the moment that both men climaxed, before succumbing to the weariness that would not be denied.
* * * *
Donovan held them both close, his body exhausted, his mind a jumbled mess of half-formed thoughts. He sensed the moment Wendy fell asleep, her body slowly adjusting to her new life as a werewolf. It would take days, perhaps even weeks, before she would be strong enough to change into a wolf, but he had no intentions of ever leaving her or Sogarn now—no matter what the alpha might want—so he knew he’d be there to help her through it.
“Don’t worry about the alpha,” Sogarn said as he tried and failed to lift away from him. He rested his head against Donovan’s heart, a position they’d slept in often. But it was the sticky cum squished between them that finally had them moving apart.
“Shower time,” Donovan said as he helped Sogarn climb to his feet. He considered letting Wendy stay in the bed but knew she’d be more comfortable if she got cleaned up first. She snuggled into his arms, her pure trust in them both still clear in their mental link even though she remained fast asleep.
They rinsed off quickly, too exhausted to do anything more than get clean. He wrapped Wendy in a towel, holding her close as Sogarn stripped the bed and changed the sheets. Donovan slid into bed beside Wendy even as he sensed his lover’s intent.