Bear Seeking Bride: Thorn (Bear Canyon Brides Book 6) (BBW Paranormal Bear-Shifter Menage Romance)
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“It doesn’t matter if you’re at work, home or in your bear forms, I can always tell the two of you apart,” she said, rubbing her hand over Gavin’s furry head. “I’m glad you came back to me.”
Both men shifted back into their human forms, and Gavin grabbed her hand. He kissed her palm and placed it on his cheek.
“I’m sorry,” he said.
“I forgive you,” she said, simply.
“If you agree to stay, we’re marking you tonight,” he said. “I can’t bear to live another day without touching you.”
She placed her other palm on the other side of his face.
“Gavin?”
“Yes?”
“I’m staying. Forever. Now, kiss me, my mate.”
As if the string holding him back had snapped, he pressed his lips to hers, hard and unyielding. His palms cradled her head as he planted kisses on her cheek and down her neck.
She could feel the slight tremor in his touch, and silently rejoiced. His barely leashed control was exactly what she’d imagined when the girls had described their primal, insatiable men.
She heard Hawk open the sliding glass door, and before she knew what was happening, Gavin picked her up and threw her over his shoulder. Her sandals fell off, and she squealed in surprise, but she didn’t squirm or try to get away. He carried her to the master bedroom, and Hawk followed on his brother’s heels.
Gavin set her down, placed his hands on her waist and kissed her again. This time her lips parted immediately, and he slid his tongue inside her mouth. He took his time, tasting and exploring, and she whimpered at his gentle caress. Hawk pushed her hair to one side, held onto her shoulders and peppered her neck with soft kisses, licks and nips.
She’d learned about the mate mark from her new friends, and she knew his tiny bites were nothing like the real thing, but being touched by both of her men felt fantastic. Her pussy tingled, desperate to be filled by one or both of them, and liquid heat soaked her panties.
Gavin broke the kiss and moved his hands to the front of her capris.
He unfastened her pants and pushed them down over her hips at the same time Hawk pulled her shirt over her head. Gavin kneeled down to help her step out of the confining material, and Hawk undid her bra and let it fall to the floor. He pressed his front to her back, gathered her round, soft breasts in his hands, and rubbed her hard nipples between his fingers. She reached her hands back, latched onto his hips and pulled him closer. His hard dick pressed against her ass and she moaned and rubbed against him. She turned her head to look over her shoulder, and Hawk caught her lips in a searing kiss.
“You are so beautiful,” Gavin said.
He inched her panties down her thighs, and forced her legs apart. She felt her essence slide down her inner thigh as Gavin traced her wet hole with his large finger. He slowly slid the digit inside her cunt and she cried out and reached for him, pulling his hair. He moved closer and kissed her mound before adding another finger to her warm channel.
She broke the kiss with Hawk and opened her legs a little wider. Gavin kissed and caressed her stomach with his free hand while he fucked her cunt with the other. It had been so long since she’d been with a man, and even longer since she’d been with anyone other than David, but she didn’t feel the usual need to hide that she’d always felt with a new lover.
Hawk and Gavin worshiped her body with hard, possessive caresses, and she suddenly realized what she’d been missing out on by settling for a lazy lover. In the last three years, the only reason she’d orgasmed had little to do with her former partner, and everything to do with her own efforts.
“You are perfect, baby,” Hawk whispered in her ear. “You are the only one who can complete us.”
Her entire body tingled and she felt her orgasm fast approaching. She ground against Gavin’s hand, sucking him deeper into her channel, and suddenly, they both pulled their hands away. She cried out and swayed, but Hawk caught her, scooped her up and carried her to the bed.
His lips brushed against hers sweetly before he set her down, pulled back the covers and ordered her to crawl into the center. She pouted until they both started undressing, and then she obeyed his command and looked her fill. She’d always known they were sexy, but without clothes, they were lethal. Their smooth, taut skin covered muscles she didn’t know existed and they moved with natural grace as they stalked her like prey.
Gavin grabbed her ankles and crawled up the center of the bed between her legs. He traced her folds with his finger, gathering up some of her essence and rubbing it over her clit.
“I love that you shave this sexy pussy,” Gavin said. “I like to see every part of you.”
Oh fuck!
Her pussy fluttered, as if calling out to him, and he smiled and swiped his tongue from her wet hole to her clit. He sucked the hard nub into his mouth, and then flicked his tongue against it, causing her to cry out. She spread her legs wider and laced the fingers of one hand through his hair, grinding her cunt against his face. He abandoned her clit and jabbed his tongue inside her pussy, pushing his nose against her jewel.
Hawk kneeled on the bed next to her and pushed two fingers into her mouth as he closed his mouth around one of her hard nipples. He alternated between sucking and swirling his tongue around the candy sized pebble before he scraped his teeth over the sensitive flesh, and then transferred his attention to her other breast. She sucked his digits, ran her free hand down his hard chest and wrapped it around his long and thick hard dick. She stroked him feverishly as he continued to love her breasts.
Her pussy tightened with every jab of Gavin’s tongue and a white hot blast of heat seemed to spread over her entire body. Every touch, every sensation, felt like they were branding her, marking her with their lips and hands. When she thought she’d explode from pleasure, Hawk let go of her breasts and Gavin replaced his tongue with his cock.
He entered her slowly, allowing her to adjust to his size, and she accepted all of him. The only thing missing was Hawk, but she didn’t need to worry. Gavin wrapped his arms around her and rolled, still buried deep inside her, until their positions changed and she was on top. He held her in place and kissed her slowly.
Hawk kneeled behind her, and she felt the cold shock of the lube seconds before his fingers rimmed the small star opening of her bottom hole. He slowly applied more and more pressure until one large finger slipped inside. When he could move the digit in and out easily, he added another. She didn’t feel the burn until a third finger entered and stretched the tiny hole even wider.
She winced from the pain and ground against Gavin, pulling him deeper into her core. She felt his cock throb wildly, and he placed a chaste kiss on her lips and rubbed his hands up and down her back.
“Shhh… It will only hurt for a minute. Let’s wait for Hawk.”
She wasn’t an anal virgin, but it had been a long time since she’d let anyone fuck her there, and she’d never had both entrances filled by two men at the same time. She knew the pain would pass quickly, and she took a deep breath to steady herself.
Hawk added more lube and replaced his fingers with the tip of his cock. He slid into her slowly, giving her time to adjust and accept all of him.
“That’s it, baby,” he said, easing into her. “Take all of me.”
When he was fully seated, he praised her again and kissed her spine.
With both men filling her up, she couldn’t move without a surge of pleasure racing over her skin. Luckily, she didn’t have to.
Her men created a rhythm, alternately sliding in and out of her warm channels until noises she’d never heard before escaped her lips and every nerve ending hummed with pleasure.
She saw Gavin’s upper and lower canines elongate and then she felt Hawk’s bite on the right side of her neck. Gavin followed by biting her on the left. She screamed in both pleasure and pain as the men held on tightly and continued pumping in and out of her. Seconds later, they both let go of her neck and roared their releases.
“Be right back, love,” Gavin said.
She immediately missed their warmth, but she couldn’t muster the strength to raise her head, or form the words to ask where they were going. She closed her eyes, and smiled when Hawk returned to her side and wrapped his arm around her waist. A second later, Gavin spread her legs and carefully removed the evidence of their love-making with a warm washcloth. He then laid on her other side.
“You are the best thing to ever happen to us,” Hawk said. “I love you, baby.”
“You belong to us now, love,” Gavin said. “Forever.”
She turned her head to kiss Hawk, and then looked the other way to kiss Gavin.
“I love both of my mates,” she said, sleepily. “For always.”
***
Gavin stared at the ceiling and listened to the gentle breathing of his mate, and the deep contented breaths from his brother. The stars dotted the sky and their light peeked through the curtain, casting an ethereal glow around the room.
God, he couldn’t believe what an asshole he’d been earlier. If he had flipped out on anyone else, she would have been gone before he got back from his little rant. Luckily, he and Hawk had chosen well when they’d picked Ava’s response to their ad.
She’d learned to tell them apart almost instantly, a feat that took most people years, if ever. Only a true mate would be able to identify them so easily, especially while they wore their professional faces. The three women on their staff didn’t know who was who half the time, and they’d been working with the women for nearly five years.
He glanced at his mate’s neck and his dick started to harden when he saw the two permanent mate marks. He loved the way the puncture wounds stood out on her pale, freckled skin. The marks wouldn’t turn her into a bear, or give her any bear-like abilities. Their only purpose was to brand her as the mate of a bear, and tell the world who she belonged to.
He and Hawk had failed miserably in expressing their feelings, and explaining the mating process to her, and when she’d accepted their marks, he’d silently vowed to never keep anything from her again.
He felt grateful his patient had reached out and friended Ava in her time of need. The woman, Bree Mallory, had welcomed Ava into her close group of friends, and he appreciated her kindness. His heart ached when he thought about how lonely she’d been before she’d answered their ad, and how she’d desperately wanted their companionship, even though she thought their relationship would soon end.
He and Hawk had to work in the morning, but he couldn’t fall asleep. He wanted to call in sick and lay in bed all day with Ava, but he wouldn’t. He’d hate to have to cancel and reschedule all of his patients, especially those who depended on him to be there.
The ring they had hidden in the nightstand flashed in his mind and he whispered a curse. They’d picked the setting Monday afternoon, and they jeweler had delivered it yesterday morning. It had been burning a hole in his pocket ever since.
“What are you swearing about?” Hawk asked.
“Sorry,” Gavin said. “Go back to sleep.”
“What time is it?”
“It’s almost two.”
“Why aren’t you sleeping?”
“I was thinking…about everything,” Gavin admitted. “We forgot to give her the ring.”
“We’ll give it to her tomorrow morning,” Hawk said.
“Yeah, I—”
“There’s a ring?” Ava asked.
“Hi,” he said, facing her. “How are you feeling?”
“Fantastic,” she said. “You mentioned a ring?”
“Now you’ve done it,” Hawk laughed. “Turn on the light and give it to her.”
Ava sat up and giggled like a kid in a candy store, and Hawk sat up next to her. Gavin switched on the light, pulled the velvet box out of the nightstand, and handed it to his mate.
She opened the lid and gasped.
“Oh my god,” she said, her voice wobbly. “It’s perfect.”
They’d gone for a simple, one carat, princess cut diamond guarded on each side by two smaller princess cut emeralds. The three stones were set in a platinum gold band.
Hawk removed the ring from the box and slid it down her finger. Seeing her hand garnished with their ring made his cock harden. He wanted her again.
“Thank you.”
She leaned forward and kissed him gently, swiping her tongue across his lips. He opened his mouth and allowed her to leisurely explore. Too soon, she broke the kiss and granted Hawk the same exploration. Hawk leaned her back onto the pillow, and slowly slid his hand down her stomach and over her ass. Gavin knew is brother’s next move, but Ava’s stomach decided it was hungry again, and the intimate moment was ruined by the three of them falling into a fit of laughter.
Ten minutes later, Gavin and Ava sat at the island laughing while Hawk hovered over a skillet full of scrambled eggs, cheese and ham. Ava had worked the toaster and he’d set the table and given everyone a bottle of water.
They gobbled up the hot food in silence, cleared the table, and then shuffled back to the bedroom, exhausted. They resumed their original positions, and Gavin saw the evening light reflect off of Ava’s ring. The three dots of color shone on the ceiling, and he smiled and closed his eyes.
This time sleep came quickly.
Chapter Six
Ava finished drying her hands and admired her reflection in the bathroom mirror of the fancy hotel where the Literacy Gala was being held.
Earlier in the week, she’d gone shopping with Bree and the girls and they’d helped her pick a dress for the evening. The dark blue, semi-formal, satin cocktail dress accentuated all of her curves. It was sleeveless with a square neckline and two inch wide straps, a form fitting top, and a skirt that flared out slightly with the help of a tulle petticoat. A black satin belt completed the classic look.
She wore a modern style black satin shoe with a two inch heel, and her late mother’s diamond solitaire necklace and earrings. Her wild curls looked only slightly under control, but she didn’t care. Her men liked wild, and they’d reminded her of it every day since they’d officially marked her and claimed her as their own.
The cut of the dress left nothing to the imagination when it came to her marks, and she wouldn’t have it any other way. She was proud of her men, and of their triad, and she didn’t care who knew. The ring on her finger shone in the mirror, and she smiled. The emeralds were a constant reminder of her men and their love.
It had been a little over a week since their mating, and she couldn’t believe how drastically her life had changed. Gavin and Hawk had worked the morning after their mating, and she’d checked out of the hotel and moved her first few things into their home. The weekend had involved several trips to the city as they packed up her apartment, and her old life.
Not surprising, the men didn’t mind the stairs at all.
They’d easily found a perfect rhythm as she, Gavin and Hawk permanently occupied the master bedroom. Hawk had kept his office upstairs, and they’d deemed the empty room next to Gavin’s office a guest room. The two empty rooms on the top floor would be for their cubs, when they had them.
The guys supported her idea of opening an honor library, but she wasn’t rushing into anything. Right now she only wanted to spend time with her men.
She turned to leave when the door to the stall behind her opened and Claire walked out. The bookstore had never earned enough money to purchase plates at the benefit, and she doubted it was doing any better since she’d left.
She hid her surprise and smiled.
“Hello, Claire.”
“You look ridiculous with those marks on your neck,” Claire said.
“Funny, I don’t remember asking for your opinion.”
Her sister had always been a bitch, but Ava was of sic
k of not sticking up for herself.
“Whatever,” Claire said. She washed her hands and reapplied her lipstick. “You might think you’re something special, coming here with two dates, but those men will never stay with you. In fact, as soon as they get a good look at me, I’ll prove how easy it is to steal them away. Just like I did with David.”
“They are nothing like David,” Ava said smiling, “but go ahead and give it your best shot.”
“I plan on it.”
Claire flipped her hair and walked out of the restroom.
Ava rolled her eyes, double checked the mirror and excited the room. She wasn’t worried about Claire approaching the guys. She was confident in their bond, and in herself.
Everyone had gathered for appetizers in the bar before the dining room opened, and on her way down the hall, David blocked her path.
“Ava, you have to come with me. I need your help,” he said, reaching for her arm.
She stepped to the side and he collided with air.
“I’m not going anywhere with you,” Ava said. “What are you and Claire doing here anyway?”
“I’m trying to secure a backer for an expansion, but Claire made a bad first impression,” he said. “If you don’t help me, we’ll lose the bookstore.”
“That stopped being my problem six months ago.”
She stepped around him, leaving him behind, and walked into the bar. Gavin and Hawk stood with their backs to her, but she could tell by their posture they were annoyed. A short, petite woman stood in front of them talking, and she didn’t have to see the woman’s face to know that it was Claire.
Hell, the woman had probably run past David to get to them before she could. The vision made her smile. Claire and David had both betrayed her, and they’d both gotten exactly what they deserved.
As she approached the trio, she heard Claire’s voice first.
“Wouldn’t be fun to go find an open storage room, or coat closet somewhere, and have a quickie while everyone else is sitting down to dinner?”
“You’re right,” Hawk said, deadpan, “that would be fun.”