Silles, Mynxe L. - CatNip [CatTales] (Siren Publishing Ménage and More)

by CatNip (lit)

  His wounds would have to be dealt with later. Pushing himself even as the blood pumped out of him, Adonis finally reached the small aircraft. He shifted back. It hurt like hell. He quickly took the pilot’s proffered hand, pulling himself up through a force of sheer willpower and survival instinct. The engine roared to life. Adonis flung himself into the helicopter, panting, agonizing pain knifing through him.

  ~ CatDown ~

  A scant ninety meters behind him, Daniel burst into the small clearing right as the plane streaked across the clearing and took off. Disappointment sizzled in his veins, but adrenalin still surged. The freedom of his new form was exhilarating.

  He flicked his tail as he bent to sniff the heavy blood trail Adonis had left behind. Good, the slimy saber-tooth might not make it after all. He watched, and his eyes narrowed as the helicopter above picked up altitude only to dip again. The chopper was headed farther out, growing smaller on the horizon. Ruefully, Daniel turned around and took off in a flat-out run.

  Minutes later, the sound of the day’s third explosion rocked Daniel’s ears. This one was loudest of all, though it didn’t come from the ranch ahead of him. The leopard could see a fiery trail of smoke where the helicopter must have crashed.

  Adonis could not have survived that, surely.

  The crash site too far away, Daniel’s leopard turned and loped back towards the ranch.

  Chapter 32

  Daniel’s return was welcomed. Although, by the time he got back, the epic battle had played out. Leo spotted him as he came out of the woods. They had waited on him.

  Daniel shifted back. Naked, he signaled to Leo the sign for hold on. Leo just rolled his eyes. He grabbed his clothes from the fence and moved back behind the small copse of trees and brush. Dressed again, Daniel walked with Leo over to where Colby, Drake, Ethan, Javier, and Demar stood.

  Eagerly, the men filled in the blanks Daniel had missed while chasing Adonis.

  Leo had shredded one of the saber-tooth’s throat. But that had left the biggest saber-tooth still to contend with.

  Leo joked, “We would’ve made short work of him, too, but crack-shot Ethan over here didn’t give us a chance.”

  Ethan shot Leo a clearly decipherable smirk.

  Leo smiled.

  Daniel chuckled at their interaction. Leo and Ethan had always gone head-to-head in the sharp-shooting games COBRA staged with the unit. It was a competitive challenge between them that Leo must remember and probably missed.

  “You should’ve seen and heard it, Daniel,” Javier added. “It’s true, the bigger they are, the harder they fall.”

  “We need to get back to the house,” Leo interjected. “I need to call Trey to come over as soon as he can get here. Craig was injured when two of Adonis’s pack tried to ambush him. Lynx, Roberto, and Felice are at the house.”

  As the men headed back to the house, Leo recounted that as soon as he had finished fighting, he’d spoken telepathically with Lynx and the others at the house. Craig had told him that Lynx bravely shot not just one, but two saber-tooths.

  Daniel could hear the sheer pride in Leo’s voice.

  As the men walked in, Leo hurried to Lynx. She sat by Craig in the kitchen. Leo gathered Lynx into his arms. Daniel could see she still looked white as a ghost, but Craig appeared to have gotten the worst of it. Craig gripped Lynx’s one hand, but his other arm was streaked with blood and sported a makeshift bandage.

  Felice was on the nearby couch, holding Roberto’s hand. Demar moved over and stood protectively behind the couple.

  Relieved that his sister and the others were well, Daniel glanced over to where Colby and Drake stood. Colby had sustained several jagged scratches. Still, there were no gores that he could see.

  Colby only begrudgingly allowed Drake to help him. They stood by the kitchen sink. Daniel watched from a stool at the kitchen’s bar.

  “Don’t be such a pussy,” Drake growled as Colby protested. “I’m just going to disinfect the wound. I’ll let Trey deal with patching up your smart-ass.”

  Colby shucked the ripped shirt off. Even wounded, Colby looked buff. Daniel could see the long scratch that ran from his muscled forearm, over and across Colby’s chest. The scratch ended somewhere below Colby’s jeans in the soft whorl of hair.

  Daniel glanced down, assessing the wound. He glanced back up. Colby’s eyes met his and held as he lifted his arm for Drake and held it over the sink.

  “Do your worst, Drake,” Colby answered, his eyes still fixed on Daniel. To Daniel, they felt like laser beams.

  Colby continued sarcastically, “But if I had to guess, Drake, the good doctor would rather patch your smart ass.”

  Daniel saw Drake’s lips tighten briefly, and then he flashed a wicked smile at Daniel. “That’s only because I’m better looking, bro.” With those words, Drake turned and poured alcohol over Colby’s wound.

  “Fuck,” Colby gritted out, “you’re such a bastard sometimes, Drake.”

  “I know,” Drake murmured, “that’s because I’m your twin.”

  Daniel, Leo, Lynx, and Craig all laughed as Colby shot Drake a mutinous look. Colby had been struck, for once, utterly speechless.

  ~ PussyPyre ~

  Leo, meanwhile, reluctantly released Lynx’s other hand to call Trey as Daniel reiterated his story of Adonis’s escape by helicopter and the subsequent crash.

  Leo got off the phone and sat back down by Lynx. “Trey’s on his way to the ranch right now.”

  Drake paced the room, looking anxious.

  Ethan spoke up. “Javier and I don’t want to wait any longer. We’re going to take the Cobra-Hawk back out. Hopefully, we’ll bring back Adonis’s body.”

  Leo was of the same opinion. “Good luck and thanks, Ethan, Javier. I’d be more than happy to bury Adonis tonight, too. I hope your reconnaissance mission’s a success.”

  “I’ll help bury him,” Craig muttered.

  “Not with that arm, you won’t, Craig Marozi.” Lynx leaned in to kiss Craig. Craig surrendered gracefully with a shrug and a stifled groan.

  “She’s right, Craig,” Leo said, smiling over, “I’m sure you don’t want to be laid up twice as long because you over-did it. Besides, there are at least three, if not four, other men here, to help with that.”

  Leo eyed Colby speculatively. Colby nodded. “Yeah, count me in,” he muttered good humouredly, “I’m not a pussy.”

  Drake snorted, but the doorbell rang, and Drake jumped up.

  “Ha!” was all he said. Colby’s grin, Leo noted, looked a tad malicious. If he were Drake, Leo knew he’d be on the lookout for one of Colby’s pay-back pranks.

  Trey made quick work of treating Roberto and Craig’s more serious wounds. Colby protested, but Trey insisted on an antibiotic injection for him, too.

  “Can I give it to him, Doc?” Drake asked, giving his brother a devilish smile. Yeah, Drake was in for it, judging by the innocent smile Colby sent back to Drake. Drake and Colby never failed to amuse him with their brotherly rivalry and antics.

  “Well, I guess it’s time to take out the trash,” he said, letting go of Lynx’s hand. Leo stood up and bent to kiss Lynx’s head. “You just stay here with Craig, kitten. This shouldn’t take too long,” he added.

  Colby, Drake, Demar, and Daniel followed Leo up the stairs. Somehow, they managed to drag the two saber-tooth carcasses from the upstairs bedroom. It wasn’t easy. Getting the huge, leaden bodies down the stairs again and out the back door was a feat of strength.

  Leo promptly went to recover the farm’s hay wagon from the back field. In unison, they hoisted the huge bodies onto the back of the wagon. After recovering the other bodies by the barn, he and the other men built a large pyre of hay around them and set fire to it.

  Mort’s body wasn’t on the pyre. They owed him a private burial. Everyone agreed with him on that. Sheila, his housekeeper, had been devoted to Mort. She deserved the chance to mourn. In truth, they all did.

  The tired and sweaty group made
their way back to the house. Everyone needed to clean up.

  “Go ahead,” Leo offered, “I can wait.”

  The other men divvied up the available showers.

  Leo found Lynx momentarily in the kitchen. He pulled his damp shirt up and off and tossed it over a chair. “Honey, I’m home,” he whispered, as he backed her up against the wall.

  ~ CatSearch ~

  Before supper, Trey slipped Felice the pre-natal vitamins he’d remembered to grab as he raced out the door headed for the ranch. “Felice, I brought these for you,” Trey said quietly, handing them to her. Trey pushed a lock of his thick, blond hair back. “Roberto’s going to be fine, you know,” he added finally.

  “Thanks, Trey, you’re right, he will. I’ll take care of him, too,” Felice said softly.

  Trey nodded, the lump returning to his throat. He knew the couple had mutually decided to accept the pregnancy for the gift it was, on its own merits. Trey glanced over at Demar, who watched Felice like a protective, but hungry hawk. Trey recognized that look. He sighed. Time would tell.

  Right before dinner was about to be served, Ethan and Javier returned. Ethan made the call to Captain Slater. He turned on the speaker phone. The others listened in silence.

  “Captain, we couldn’t locate Adonis’s body, and the only evidence we found of him was a blood trail leading to the clearing where they took off. Yes, their helicopter went down as we suspected. Adonis was possibly with it. We didn’t find a body, so we don’t know if he made it out alive. If he did, he probably wouldn’t have gotten far without help.”

  “Are you done searching for the night?” Slater queried.

  “Yes, it’s already dark. We will be up at dawn to see what we can find.”

  “Hopefully, Adonis’s dead carcass,” Demar muttered from where he sat.

  “That’s doubtful. We didn’t find any blood trails at the crash site,” Ethan admitted. “Unless we get lucky and his body turns up, we have to assume it’s possible he is still alive.”

  Ethan went on to relay the condition of Adonis’s chopper. It had been destroyed. By Daniel’s account, Adonis had suffered tremendous blood loss even before the crash.

  Ethan hung up the phone.

  He could see the exhaustion that edged everyone’s faces. Was Adonis dead or alive? Trey glanced over at Drake. At the moment, he just thanked the goddess. Everyone he cared most about had survived this day.

  Chapter 33

  The day’s victories were something to celebrate, but supper was a subdued affair, considering.

  Leo and Lynx dished out, and then took up some of the beef stew for Craig. Back in the room, Lynx couldn’t help but stroke Craig as he rested. Trey had given Craig a powerful pain killer. Craig dozed right off before finishing his stew. Lynx sat back on the bed, gazing at him. She set the spoon back in the bowl and handed it to Leo. He set the bowl down on the end table.

  “At least his wound isn’t as bad as we thought it might be,” Lynx whispered to Leo. “Trey said that the wound was shallow and shouldn’t take too long to heal.”

  “Mmm…” Leo nuzzled against her. “I know. I would hate for anything to have happened to Craig, too, kitten. Not just because he was protecting you, baby. I enjoy having Craig here with us. It feels right, like having you in my arms.”

  Lynx reached over and kissed Leo, and then slid in beside Craig. She motioned Leo to her. She drew Leo down to her and kissed him deeply.

  Night sounds wafted through the open window. Even the air felt subtly different as the breeze rustled the curtains. Peace drifted over her.

  Leo stroked her nape and shoulder with idle caresses, spooning behind her. Lynx turned to face Craig, her head resting slightly against Craig’s uninjured shoulder. Lynx gently stroked Craig’s thigh, unthinking.

  “Hey,” Craig said sleepily, “you guys don’t have to worry about keeping me awake. I might not be in the shape to do some things properly, but I have never minded watching.” Craig chuckled. “Just promise not to get upset if I should accidentally conk out at some point. Trey gave me the good stuff.”

  Craig grinned. It was a lazy, lascivious grin. He looked more than a little dopey. “Not that I think I could fall asleep watching that, mind you. Some things are just too stimulating to be unconscious for,”

  The invitation wasn’t lost on Leo. Before she could tell Craig he needed his sleep more, Leo tilted her back on the mattress beside Craig. His tongue invading her lips and swallowed her moan of half-hearted protest.

  As he slowly rubbed her lace-covered breast, he scraped the lace back and forth over her engorged nipple. Leo deepened the kiss until she was moaning again. Only this time, there was no protest in it.

  Breaking from the kiss, Leo bent his head to the curve of her neck and nibbled his way down her throat. She gasped as his mouth closed over one sensitized peak through the delicate scrape of lace there. She arched towards Leo’s mouth. It felt too damn good.

  Lynx reached for Craig’s hand beside her. He was breathing heavy. Craig took her hand and moved it down his torso with a groan.

  Her fingers closed over the velvet-soft skin, deceptively so, she realized. Craig was hard as a brick, his cock achingly erect.

  She stroked Craig in time to Leo’s sweet, long pulls at her breast.

  “I’ve got it, little Minx,” Craig finally groaned. “If you don’t stop now, I’ll lose it too soon. I want to watch some more first,” he admitted with another dopey smile. Lynx gave Craig’s cock one last teasing stroke before she reluctantly released him.

  Her hands were captured by Leo. He slid them above her head and held them there, restraining her firmly. He bent, ravaged a nipple beading through the peek-a-boo lace.

  Lynx groaned and arched.

  “I love watching you get pleasured,” Craig said huskily. Craig grabbed his cock, and then winced at the twinge of pain.

  “Are you okay, baby?” Lynx gritted out as Leo’s teeth scraped across her nipple. Her panties were soaked. An involuntary moan left her lips.

  “I’m wonderful, kitten,” Craig crooned. He slid his hand back and forth over his aching cock in a long and slow motion.

  Leo let go of Lynx’s hands momentarily, sliding down her body and bathing her skin with warm, wet strokes of his tongue. But that was only until he reached the apex of her thighs at the edge of her lacy panties. He left them on her, licking over the straining nub of flesh through the thin material.

  Lynx could not help but writhe under the assault of his tongue. “Like that, do you little, Lynx?” Leo purred, briefly stopping to look up at her.

  “Don’t stop,” she gasped. She strained for his mouth. Leo’s hands moved down her torso, tracing the satiny skin. Then, his finger parted the slick folds below the lace, finding her center.

  “Baby, you’re so wet,” Leo groaned out before plunging his finger inside her. Leo lowered his mouth down to her.

  Lynx twisted, straining for more. Leo stopped again, removing his finger. “You’re better than my favorite candy, sweetness,” Leo said as he slowly withdrew his finger from inside her. Leo brought his finger to his lips and licked it slowly. “Mmmm, so sweet,” he growled.

  “I want to taste her, too. Again. Soon.” Craig growled. His hand stroked up and down faster. The sight of Craig’s excitement sent more shivers up her spine. She loved it when they told her what they wanted to do with her.

  “I’ll watch you sip her sugar soon,” Leo said. “You’ll get your turn, Marozi,” he joked.

  Leo reached down and wriggled Lynx’s panties down her thighs before stopping mid-way.

  “What are you doing, Leo? Don’t stop now.” Lynx gasped.

  “I’m admiring the view,” he answered.

  Lynx lay there, legs open, panties half on and half off. What was his damn hold-up?

  “But Leo,” she started to protest. Leo didn’t let her finish the sentence.

  “First, kitten, I’m going to eat you.” His hands gripped her bent legs as he plunged his t
ongue into her. Her breathing hitched.

  “The taste of you on my tongue is almost as good as the feel of you on my dick. I don’t think I can wait much longer, though, kitten. I need so badly to feel you on it,” Leo admitted. He moved beside her, parting her lips with his tongue.

  On his kiss she tasted herself.

  Leo pulled away, moving up beside Lynx. “How about we let Craig get a taste, kitten,” Leo suggested.

  “Lynx, slide over him.” Leo rumbled a deep purr in her ear as they all switched around. Hungrily, Lynx drew Craig’s hard shaft to her lips.

  Leo moved behind her. Lynx felt the swollen shaft start to sink in, excruciatingly slowly, inch by hard, heated inch. Heat flooded her pussy. Leo’s cock fired, then fed her fever. He slid in and out on a succession of thrusts. His thrusts rocked her against Craig’s greedy mouth, hands, and cock. She tried to concentrate on Craig, but the sensations were too much.

  Her pussy clenched. Her muscles were tense and aching in anticipation. The first burst of pleasure tore through her as hard and swift as a cork exploding from a bottle of champagne. Moans welled in her throat and spilled over Craig’s cock. Intoxicated by pleasure, Lynx’s juices flooded out in orgasmic, blissful shudders.

  ~ CatRewards ~

  He would never get enough of her. Lynx’s potent essence saturated his senses. His taste buds craved every ounce of satisfaction wrung from this woman, their woman. His eardrums craved her caressing cries of ecstasy. Her sweet nectar filled him, and her body’s offering was everything he’d ever hoped for or ever dreamed of.

  Waves of love crashed over Craig. Intimate and powerful, love squeezed his heart like a vise. He was breathless in love’s grip.

  She was the fire that made his body burn. He felt it all when he was with her. And she gave him all, from emotions and feelings to the more sensual pleasures. Lynx spread liquid fire in his veins and made his heart melt at the same time. She was warmth and heat to him. She was goddess of his- their hearth, home, and hearts.

  Her groans as Leo fucked her, well that was just the sweet cream icing he couldn’t resist.