by Emma Dean
Niko didn’t question her. He just nodded and gave her another heart-melting kiss. Then he left and Piper closed her eyes under the spray, enjoying the way the water felt as it ran down her body, between her breasts, teasing her sex, and then running down her thighs with Niko’s cum.
Another hand touched her breast, cupping it before a warm mouth covered her nipple. Piper gasped as he sucked and the sensation sent a pulse straight to her clit until she was nearly shaking.
She kept her eyes closed but reached for his face, pulling him up so she could kiss him. Those full lips did such terrible things to her. “I love you, Xavier,” she whispered as his hand cupped her sex.
“You better,” he murmured, slipping a finger inside her. “Because I love you more than anything in this world.”
“Show me?” she asked, feeling needy and desperate.
Xavier dropped to his knees and hiked one of her knees up and over his shoulder, exposing her completely to him. The feeling of his mouth against her was electric. She bucked and had to hold onto him as the pressure built slowly.
He took his sweet time, licking and sucking and then he put another finger inside her. God, she wanted it hard and fast, but Xavier wouldn’t let her take control. He was way too strong and when her other knee threatened to buckle he threw that one over his other shoulder and lifted her up – just like Caleb had.
Pressing her against the wall he devoured her. Xavier’s hot mouth on her shoved her to the edge, but his slow pace kept her from orgasming. She begged, but nothing dissuaded him. Then Caleb suddenly had his hands on her and Xavier passed her over to him, dick so hard and massive it was all she wanted until Caleb thrust inside her.
Piper gasped as he filled her. Caleb was also gentle and slow. “Don’t want it hard and fast?” she asked him. Looking into his eyes as she rode him. He held her up, taking all her weight so she didn’t get tired. At this pace she could go all night, but that’s not what she wanted.
“No babe, I want to make sure you’re too tired to have any more nightmares. I would take you out of the shower and lay you down, but that would make you dirty.”
“I don’t care,” Piper said, her fingers tightening in his hair. She trailed her mouth along his jaw, scraping his bristles with her teeth. “Please, take me to bed?”
His growl was more than enough of a response. Suddenly there was cold air and then the feel of her sheets against her skin. Niko was on one side with Xavier and they watched as Caleb took her slowly, sweetly. There was a strange look of awe on their faces, like they’d never thought Caleb could ever be sweet.
But she’d known. The pain of those losses told her how deeply he felt that he had hid it away, tucked behind a stoic mask.
Without her having to say anything Niko shifted so he could watch while he gave Xavier a blowjob. Piper flexed her fingers on Caleb’s arms and lifted her hips to meet his. The extra force had her right on the edge. “Please Caleb,” she whispered.
Her request had the big alpha growling and swearing as he picked up the pace. Piper felt herself on the edge and then she fell over, throwing her head back as the pleasure completely consumed her. Caleb came with her which only prolonged the sensation until she was nearly limp from it all.
Xavier shouted and Piper watched Niko suck him dry, swallowing everything.
If she wasn’t so tired she’d do something about the desire watching that had sparked in her.
“I want you all to claim me before we leave for Crescent City,” she murmured, letting Caleb roll them over so he could hold her in his arms.
“Whatever you want, babe. Now go to sleep,” Caleb said, smacking her ass gently.
Niko and Xavier chuckled and then snuggled in close just like they had the other night. Piper could easily get used to this. She’d never felt safer than when she had three massive leopard shifters completely surrounding her.
Piper sipped her coffee as she watched Niko show Caleb how to build one of the witch balls of doom. They talked together in low voices and with her human ears she couldn’t hear them, but she’d bet a million bucks that Caleb had cracked a joke based on the surprised laugh from Niko. It was wonderful to watch them together.
She scooted to the edge of the couch and inspected the completed Falcon on her coffee table. It was massive, taking up the entire thing at about three feet across. Piper didn’t have the heart to take it apart yet so she liked to rearrange the little figures when she noticed one of the boys had changed them from the position she’d left them in last.
Piper snorted when she found Han boinking Leia from behind in the cockpit. “Did you do this?” Piper asked Xavier.
Cat Solo was happily purring in his lap, the traitor.
“Who me? I would never do something so crass,” Xavier said in an exaggerated voice. Then he winked and sipped his coffee, scratching Solo’s favorite spot behind his ears.
“You just throw them,” Niko said and she glanced over at her dining room table again as she rearranged the figures again. “It sends out smoke and this crazy pink electricity that zaps everyone. It’s not enough to take anyone out, but it hurts enough to give you a bit of extra time.”
“We’ll have to keep these away from Charlotte,” Caleb muttered.
“Yeah no fucking kidding,” Xavier muttered. Then he leaned over her to see what she was doing. “Is that Chewie and…Han? You’re so bad.” He chuckled and pinched her ass, not hard enough to hurt, but enough she squealed.
The sound instantly brought Caleb and Niko over. Solo growled and hissed at Niko and then retreated to her room, presumably for a nap. Caleb sat on the ground and leaned against her legs while he toyed with one of the droids.
“We’ll be packing up and leaving this afternoon,” Caleb told her. “You got everything settled for the next week?”
Piper nodded and sat back. Then Niko moved the coffee table so it was pressed up against her TV. When he knelt in front of her and slid her bottoms down Piper gasped. “I thought we had things to do today.”
“Oh we do,” Caleb chuckled. “But this is the most important.”
“You ready for the claiming ceremony?” Xavier growled softly in her ear as he slid her robe from her shoulders. “Can’t be claimed with your clothes on.”
“How do you claim someone exactly?” Piper asked, watching with wide eyes as Caleb stood and stripped, quickly followed by Niko.
“Well, all it takes is a bite to claim you. You accept the mate bond, as do we. With cat shifters all three of us need to claim you – it’s not comfortable, but the pain won’t last long I promise,” Caleb explained, tugging her shirt over her head.
Piper had assumed it would be something like that, but still the idea of it made her nervous. “Are you going to bite me as human or cat?”
Xavier stripped next and then all four of them were completely naked and Piper’s heart started to pound with nerves, but also desire as she felt how wet and slick she was just from seeing them completely nude.
Niko chuckled. “We can partially shift our teeth so they will be sharper. All we have to do is break the skin and that’s it. One bite from only one of us isn’t enough. It has to be all three.”
She blinked in surprise but nodded.
After deciding this was the route she wanted to go – that she wanted her own strength and power…Piper knew this was the right choice. She knew she wanted to accept the mate bond, but she also knew this was frickin’ scary. “Okay let’s do this.”
“It’s not as terrible as it sounds,” Caleb murmured, brushing the hair back from her neck. He pressed a kiss to her throat. “We usually do this as a sexual act to ease the pain.”
She shivered at those words and her eyes widened as Xavier and Niko came closer. Their hands ran up her legs and trailed over her sensitive center. Piper was captivated by their touch, by the knowledge that at the end of this she would be one of them, and permanently be theirs.
“What do you want, Piper?” Caleb asked.
That damn qu
estion again.
“It’s my turn for the ass-play,” she said breathlessly, kissing first Xavier and then Niko. “I want Caleb inside me, and one of you.” Piper shrugged as Caleb pulled her against him so she could feel just how hard he was. “Then one of you takes my mouth. I don’t care which.”
“Whatever you want, my queen,” Caleb murmured into her ear. Then he was sitting on the couch and turning her so she faced him.
Piper felt completely alive for the first time in her life as these three prepared to love her body while they claimed her as theirs. The anticipation – the knowledge that at the end of it she would be bound to them forever…Piper wanted it more than she’d ever wanted anything.
Caleb lounged against the couch and just smiled at her with a cocky alpha smile that made her knees weak. Piper climbed on top of him when he beckoned and she eased slowly down onto his cock, already so wet and ready. His hands on her hips didn’t direct her. He let her ride him. This small allowance had her shaking and she felt her pussy clench around him in response.
Then Xavier had his hand on her ass, spreading her, slicking lube over her asshole, sliding in his pinky to test her. Piper moaned and slammed against Caleb hard enough he cursed. “Slow down babe, you’re not making this easy.”
Niko ran his hand up and down her spine, kissing her neck and playing with her nipples while Xavier slowly slid his fingers in and out of her.
“Oh you’ve definitely played back here before,” X murmured, quickening his pace just a little while he slid in another finger. “Our naughty little librarian.”
Niko groaned at that and knelt down so he could suck on one nipple and rub his thumb over the other. Piper could barely stand all the sensations at once. All three worked as one, keeping time with her as she ground against Caleb.
Right when she was about to come Caleb stopped her so he could lie on his back on her couch. Xavier’s fingers slid out of her and Piper moaned, wanting more. Piper kissed Caleb hard as X climbed up on the couch behind them. She then leaned back to wrap her arm around Xavier’s neck, pulling him in for one too. Then she smiled at Niko who was gripping his cock hard.
“While they’re both inside me,” she said to him. “I want you to claim me.”
“Fuck,” Niko whispered. “First claim.”
Caleb growled in annoyance, but he didn’t argue. He just ground her against him until she was on the edge again, dripping all over him. Xavier pressed the head of his cock to her asshole and she slowed down as he moved so carefully.
Piper moaned as he kept sliding in farther and farther, filling her completely and she could feel the strange friction inside as his dick rubbed Caleb’s through the thin wall separating them. “Now you all are first at something,” she said, panting as Caleb and Xavier timed their thrusts to match and she pulsed, ready to explode.
Niko came over and ran a hand up her leg, over her ass, along the curve of her spine, and then held the back of her neck. He angled her head ever so slightly and then pressed his mouth to her skin. Piper gasped in anticipation, feeling the flicker of anxiety and anticipation like she did every time she got a shot.
First he kissed her, and then licked the spot tenderly. Caleb’s thumb went to her clit and she moaned. That’s when Niko bit down and the sharp sting hurt. He licked the blood she could feel trickling down, and her heart rate picked up as her skin began to tingle strangely.
Any residual pain disappeared when Caleb and Xavier picked up their paces, distracting her with the pleasure. Then suddenly Xavier took her hand and brought her wrist to his mouth at the same time Caleb sat up, carefully adjusting all three of them with his impressive strength.
Piper watched as Xavier and Caleb shared a look – it was deep and meaningful and downright hot as they held each other’s gaze and together they bit down. Caleb claimed a breast and Xavier her wrist. It didn’t feel great, but Niko distracted her by taking her mouth. He wrapped his hand around the back of her neck and kissed her like it might be the last time he ever saw her – like they may not make it through whatever came next.
Then X and Caleb were both pounding into her again and she screamed as she came. The sensation of both of them inside her was everything she’d thought it would be and more. Piper collapsed on top of Caleb’s chest, completely spent.
But then reached out for Niko.
He obliged and she pulled him into her mouth as she lay on top of Caleb. Niko’s cock was close enough to the big Alpha he reached over and grabbed Niko’s balls gently while Piper swirled her tongue around him.
Caleb and Xavier worked themselves inside of her until she was about ready to shatter again. She sucked hard, wrapping her hand around Niko so she could control him better. When he came in her mouth, bucking at both her and Caleb’s touch, she kept sucking until Niko’s knees went weak.
Then Xavier thrust into her and shouted her name, filling her ass and Caleb hardened at the sensation. She could feel how close he was just by the way he stretched her even more. Xavier pulled out and collapsed on the couch and Niko slumped next to him.
Then suddenly Caleb lifted her up and flipped her over until he had her bent over the arm of the couch. He pounded into her and she screamed for him. The moment he came she did too, feeling completely exhausted and satisfied.
All three of them had made their claim.
The strange tingling on her skin settled into her bones and then disappeared. Piper checked her wrist and saw it was completely healed. It was just a glittering white scar like the cut Morgan had healed.
When the mate bond snapped into place she gasped. All three of them were tied to her, like an anchor in her chest with three ropes wrapped around it. If she plucked one it would lead her to the mate on the other side. Piper rolled over when Caleb pulled out and looked at the three of them.
Piper grinned. “Well at least the couch is leather.”
All three of them laughed and wrapped their arms around her. Piper loved how they didn’t shy away from each other – how Caleb was slowly getting used to the other two. She could see the way they were forming into a solid unit and Piper adored it.
“Let’s get you cleaned up,” Xavier said. “Then I’ll make something to eat before we pack up and go.”
Piper was too happy to argue. She wanted a nap and more time to cuddle with them, but she supposed they could do that at the house in Crescent City. Soon she would be safe and they would have a few days before chaos ensued. She planned to enjoy every moment until then.
Chapter Nineteen
Caleb
“So I found this spell, and I thought we could try it out real fast?” Piper said with a piece of paper in her hand.
Her hair was still wet and she smelled like tea tree and coconut with a hint of her natural lotus blossom scent. Beneath all of that was the blooming scent of leopard. She would be able to shift soon and then they could all go running together through the property.
Caleb touched a stray curl. He couldn’t believe she was theirs. That this was going to be his future.
“Caleb?” she asked, smiling a little.
“Yes, if the spell doesn’t take long we can do it now.”
Xavier chuckled as he passed by with two bags in his hands. His shoulder brushed Caleb’s and for the first time ever he didn’t bristle at the contact. Feeling the other leopard inside Piper with him – it had been a life changing experience.
All three of them were in this together. And now that they’d officially made their claim he felt a slight tether to the other two as well as the strong anchor of Piper in the center of their triangle – the strongest shape in nature.
Niko came over with Cat Solo in his arms to peer at the spell. The two had come to some kind of strange truce which may have something to do with Piper’s scent all over him. “What’s this?” he asked, pointing to the underside of the spell.
Piper blushed. “It’s nothing. Do we have everything we need for the spell, Niko?”
“Is that us crawling all over y
ou?”
Caleb turned the paper over and then laughed. It certainly was them. Their mate was so delightful. “We should have everything on here.”
Niko nodded. “It doesn’t call for a specific phase of the moon, or time of day so we can do it right now if you want. Let me get the supplies.” Then suddenly Cat Solo reared up and attacked Niko’s hand, making the leopard curse and drop the domestic. “For fuck’s sake, and here I was thinking we’d made progress.”
Piper covered her mouth as she laughed, watching the two of them.
“Here, be useful,” Niko teased, tossing her the chalk. “Sketch that pentagram exactly as it is on your coffee table.”
Caleb watched her kneel down and start moving the Falcon. Christ…this woman was his mate – and soon she’d be one of two females in his pride. He was the luckiest Alpha alive. Somehow he’d managed to bring his pride back from the brink of death and all it took was one hard as nails woman to give him the hope to do it.
“Who did this to the porgs?!” Piper shouted, pulling the weird-looking creatures from the exhaust ports.
He chuckled and kissed the top of her head. “I promise it wasn’t me. I’m going to help Xavier pack up. Need anything else, darlin’?”
Piper didn’t look up as she carefully set the Falcon onto the ground. “It was you wasn’t it Niko.”
“They’re weird!” Niko yelled from the kitchen.
Piper shook her head and started on the sketch for the pentagram. She shook her head and smiled. “No, I think I’ll survive despite the atrocities you three commit on these poor characters. Just don’t forget Cat Solo or that box of books.” She pointed to the box in the corner and then finished a rune.
“I’m not sure we should bring demon texts.”
That sassy little look she threw him made him melt inside but Caleb crossed his arms over his chest and kept his face straight.
“Eisheth will take them back for me if I can’t get them to the library in time,” she said. “And not all of them are demon texts.”