She snuck a glance at her mates who sat beside him. They were now members of the council. Apparently that made them powerful here in Paradise, not that she cared about that either. All she cared about was that she was the happiest she had ever been before. Two men adored her and she was about to settle in what appeared to be a perfect little town with her two best friends in the world. Life just couldn’t get any better.
It wasn’t easy to pay attention when all she could think about was what the three of them had shared over the last hand full of days. The carnival would leave in a few days and she would stay here with Milla and Nadya, as long as the alpha and council accepted them. Even if they didn’t, she was Wade and Ryker’s mate.
According to the men, there wasn’t much that anyone could do once they completed the ritual. That was tonight and she couldn’t wait. After four days of making love to her males in every way possible without double penetration, she was more than ready to feel them both ramming inside her. In fact, she couldn’t wait.
“Welcome to Paradise, ladies,” Adam said as he stood.
She didn’t know what else he’d said, she hadn’t been paying attention. Alexa had been too busy admiring her men.
“Please accept our hospitality and stay at the lodge, at least until after the faire is over and the carnival leaves. We have reason to believe you aren’t safe until this Perry fellow has gone.” He smiled as though to soften his warning. “We have people watching him. Don’t worry.”
He turned to say something to Ryker and Wade before they stood up and left the long table. Eight men had sat at the table. Her mates, Adam and his partner Nick, Matt and Merrick, Gemma’s mates and the two other men who followed Nadya around sniffing at her. They had to be her mates. Alexa hoped so. She wanted her friend to find the same happiness that she and Milla had found here.
“Shall we go?” Wade asked as he kissed her cheek and took her arm.
“I think we should.” Ryker took her other arm, kissing her other cheek, as well.
Alexa’s face heated. She knew that these other men either had mates of their own that they shared, or they were looking for a mate to share, but it didn’t help her be any less self conscious of the fact that she had two men who wanted her and with whom she spent her nights. They were relatively sleepless nights, as well. The thought made her shiver.
“Are you thinking of our bonding later?” Ryker whispered the question in her ear.
“Yes.” She shivered again. “I can’t wait. Not because I want to be one of you, and not because I want to stay here in Paradise, but because I can’t wait to express my love for you both.”
“Darlin’,” Wade said, squeezing her arm. “You do that every day. Just as we attempt to express our love for you every day.”
Two triads walked in as they approached the door. “Alpha,” one of the men said as he took Adam’s hand.
“Fish,” Adam said as he glanced around. “What have you found out?”
“Well, the ladies say that the man is a dream stalker. He’s much like a dream weaver, as they are. The gift is similar. While they use theirs for good, he uses his only to better himself. He stalks people’s dreams, finds out their secrets and blackmails them. Whether it’s for money, power or possessions. In more common words, he cheats people out of their lives. In fact, he cheated the couple who ran the carnival out of their livelihood. If you don’t mind, we’d like to try to find them and bring them here. We think the carnival folk would be better off with them in charge again.”
“It sounds like a plan.” He looked at the six newcomers and raised his brow. “Do you have a plan to get him to step down?”
“Oh, yes, Alpha,” one of the women said, her smile wicked.
Alexa could only guess these were the sisters that Wade and Ryker told her about.
“Boy do we have a plan,” her sister agreed with a little giggle.
Adam moved closer to the one who was glaringly pregnant and rested his hand on her protruding belly. “Just as long as you don’t do anything to endanger the little one, Samantha.” He grinned. “Or the little ones, as the case may be. You and they are more important. You always will be.”
“Don’t worry, Alpha. We’ll be careful. I know how upset everyone will be.”
Samantha’s dark caramel skin glowed with happiness. It was a testament to how well her mates and the people in this town treated her and her sister after all they’d been through. Ryker and Wade had told her the abuses the sisters had suffered at the hands of the Tudra madmen who had killed Adam’s parents and taken over Paradise. It was nothing short horrifying.
“Okay, everyone. This meeting is over. We’ll see you all at Nina’s party in two days. Have a good time at the faire, if it’s possible after all we’ve learned, and take care of your women.” He gave Nadya a glance and raised a brow at the two men whom Alexa was sure were her mates as though to tell them to get busy.
Alexa grinned and followed her men out of the room. “I think we should stop by the diner and get something to eat. It wouldn’t be fair for us to stuff ourselves at Gemma’s afterward. The kitchen is closed that late and we shouldn’t be raiding her fridge after midnight. She has got to be wondering where in the heck the food is going.”
An hour and a half later, they were back in the room they now shared. Alexa, now unashamed of her full-figured body stripped down in front of her mates and headed for the hot tub in the corner of the room. “I don’t know about you two, but I need to relax some sore muscles first. I’ll just be in the tub soaking the aches away for a bit. You two go ahead and do whatever it is you important council members do while I’m busy.”
She knew they would join her. There was never a doubt in her mind. No matter what she thought of her body when she first arrived in Paradise, they loved it. They always had and they never hid that fact from her.
Her clothes hit the floor in various places as she left a trail to the corner of the room where she knew Gemma had filled the tub for them at her request. Stepping into the tub, she closed her eyes and groaned when the water hit the muscles she knew would be aching even more in the morning. Not because her men abused her, but because she was now using muscles she hadn’t used in ages, if ever.
The shifting of water had her opening her eyes to see Ryker standing before her in all of his naked glory. He held his cock in front of her face, his hand slowly stroking the length from base to tip.
A tiny drop of pre cum leaked from the slit and she licked her lips. Before, the thought of sucking cock had turned her off. She hated the sensation and she hated the taste, but it was different now. She wanted that burst of flavor when that tiny pearl of moisture hit her tongue. In fact, she couldn’t wait to get him into her mouth.
Reaching up, she cupped his sac, taking him gently into her hands. Leaning forward, she licked the head of his cock, lapping up that tiny drop and sucking it into her mouth with the mushroom-shaped head of his cock.
He groaned when she wrapped her lips around him, slowly sliding him deeper and deeper into her mouth. She fisted her hand at the base of his cock, sliding her hand up and down the length as she took him as deep into her mouth as she could.
Wade entered the tub beside her, he lifted her onto his lap where he nuzzled her throat, tonguing the shell of her ear and lightly biting the flesh where her shoulder met her neck.
Alexa groaned. He knew how she loved that. She leaned back against him when he reached around, pulling and tugging on her erect nipples. Nothing felt better than being with her mates, no matter how they spent their time together. This was one of the more enjoyable past times. It was probably why they found themselves doing it so often. She smiled around Ryker’s cock and let it pop free when he pulled away.
“It’s your turn and this is something we should move to somewhere other than the tub.”
Wade winked at him. “I agree. Perhaps we should try that position we discussed earlier. The one we agreed to surprise her with.”
“Yes. My thoughts exactly.” Ryker stepped out of the tub, grabbed a towel and dried every inch of Alexa’s body while Wade toweled himself dry.
“What are you two up to?” She glared at them through narrowed eyes. “I thought you said you wouldn’t be able to keep secrets from me if we were mates.”
“We will have a difficult time doing so, yes,” Wade agreed. “Once we’ve gone through the ritual. That will happen in about…” He paused to check his bare wrist, much as he did the day when she’d first met him. “One minute.”
Wade reached out and palmed the back of her head. Pulling her closer, he slanted his lips over hers and then lifted her in his arms.
“Wrap your legs around his waist, love. We’re about to take you on a ride you won’t soon forget,” Ryker said as he moved up behind her, his cock brushing against her rear, teasing her back hole.
He reached around her, pulling and twisting her nipples. A flood of moisture slid from her channel coating her thighs and the head of Wade’s cock as it pressed intimately against her damp folds.
Wade’s tongue swept into her mouth, and was mapping her teeth as he pulled her tighter against him. His cock slid against her nether flesh, the moist heat making him slick and ready for entry.
With one long, slow stroke, Wade slid his cock deep inside her channel. Each stroke pushed deeper as he held her, measuring his thrusts as he stood with her in his arms, his cock gliding deeper and deeper inside her.
Finally, when he was balls deep inside her, she felt Ryker spread warmed oil over her back hole and work his fingers into her, preparing her for his entry.
Alexa closed her eyes. She wanted this. It wasn’t because she would eventually become younger after they turned her. It was because she couldn’t wait to feel them both inside her. She’d wanted to know what this felt like for years, but had never been brave enough to try it with a one night stand.
It was already difficult enough to expose herself to someone she didn’t know. It was almost impossible to do so with two people. The only reason she’d been able to do so with these two was because of the interference of the mating heat. Had it not been for that strange heat driving her, she was sure she wouldn’t have made it this far with them, either.
Ryker pressed against her. The thick head of his cock rested against her rear and she took a deep breath. “Do it. Just do it.” It didn’t matter how big he felt, it didn’t matter if it hurt. All that mattered was finally feeling the real thing. She wanted it, she needed it. She’d needed it since the first time she’d seen that video. Had her body known, even then, that she was destined to be their mate?
Wade held her still, his strong arms holding her tight against him as Ryker pressed deeper and deeper inside her until she was so full, she was certain she would split open any minute. Still, she knew better. If her body could stretch enough to squeeze a baby out of her, it could stretch enough to wrap comfortably around the two men who loved her so selflessly.
Before she knew it, Ryker’s hips pressed against the cheeks of her ass. He was all of the way inside her and she held both of her mates deep in the warmth of her body.
“Are you ready, love?” Wade said against her ear.
“Yes.” She nodded. “Please. I-I can’t wait. My body burns. It’s on fire. I think it’s the heat.” It was the heat. She was sure of it. “We need to finish this once and for all. I don’t know how much more of it that I can stand. It feels as though someone is burning me from the inside out.”
“Let us know if we hurt you. We would die before we purposely harm you. You know that.” Ryker had his face pressed into the crook of her neck. “Tell us to stop and we’ll find a way.”
“You don’t understand. You’re moving too slowly. It’s your concern that you’ll hurt me that’s hurting me. Fuck me. Please!” She sobbed against Wade’s shoulder as the burning pain blew through her like a blow torch.
Wade levered her from him only to drop her back down. Ryker pulled out to plow back in when Wade pulled out. It took a few minutes, but they worked out a rhythm that managed to help take a bit of the heat away. At least she didn’t feel it as much as she grew closer and closer to orgasm.
Just when she was certain that she would never be able to come, Ryker reached between them, his expert fingers finding her clit and finally took her over the edge. A tidal wave of pure sensation washed over her as the men continued to pound into her thrust after powerful thrust. When she came a second time, they each leaned forward and bit her in the sweet spot where her shoulder met her neck and she screamed through another orgasm so intense that she barely noticed when they each pressed a bloody wrist to her mouth, giving her a bit of their shifter blood and completing their bond.
Her mates carried her to the tub, placed her in the warm water, and washed her gently. She was too spent to do so on her own. Rkyer leaned down, pressing a soft kiss to her lips. “I love you, Alexa. You’re the best thing that has ever happened to me.”
“And I love you, too, mate,” Wade said as he kissed her forehead. “You’re my life—our life and we’ll cherish you forever.”
Alexa smiled. “I love you, too,” she said as she smiled sleepily. They pulled her from the warm water, dried her off, and carried her to the bed where she finally succumbed to the oblivion of sleep.
Epilogue
“So you guys are officially mates now?” Nadya said over a breakfast of cold cereal and milk. She looked down at her bowl. “You know, cereal is a disappointment after the huge breakfasts Gemma has been feeding us every morning, but apparently, someone broke in last night and stole everything she had planned for breakfast.” She frowned into her bowl. “Who would do such a thing in this perfect town?” She looked up with a lopsided smile. “Maybe it’s not so perfect, after all, huh?”
“I don’t know…” Alexa stared at her bowl, her face burning with mortification. We really ate everything?
Yes, love, but Gemma understands. She went through the same thing with her mates, after all.
Good grief! How would they ever repay her? She didn’t even remember staying in the kitchen long enough to cook a burger let alone a bunch of bacon eggs and sausage.
How did we cook all of that without someone smelling it?
We didn’t. Ryker glanced at her, his brow raised. We ate it raw.
Oh, God. How could I eat bacon and sausage raw?
Wade patted her hand. You didn’t. Your cat did. Now stop worrying about it. Gemma will understand and we’ll reimburse her and her mates for the food.
Gemma hurried into the dining room, cheerful as usual. “I’m sorry for the cold breakfast, everyone, but it seems that there was a recall on most of the stuff in the fridge that I didn’t know about. Merrick just informed me to tell you all that he is to blame for your cold breakfast, but better safe than sorry, right?” she glanced at Alexa with a smile and winked. “We all go through times like this on occasion, I’m sure. I promise that you’ll have a wonderful dinner to make up for it.”
She hurried back to the kitchen with an empty coffee pot. At least they hadn’t eaten the coffee. That would have been a tragedy.
Adam and his friend Nick walked in, stopping just inside the archway from the great room. “Your co-worker, Perry, has been caught trying to stalk someone’s dreams. We have set a trap for him. Please be certain that you all spend the night here in the lodge. Samantha and Sabrina will be here to protect your dreams and keep the man from entering your thoughts while you sleep. Should he make another attempt, they are prepared to make an effort to strip him of his gift. Do not interfere. To do so could strip any of you of your gifts and possibly harm you if they can’t stop in time.”
Turning he left the room, presumably to find Merrick since they left by the way of the kitchen.
Nadya leaned over to whisper, “Do you think they really can strip him of his gift?” She snorted. “I hope so. It couldn’t happen to a better person. What kind of monster haunts people’s
dreams, anyway?”
About the Author
Dear Reader:
If you’re reading this, I hope it means that you’ve just enjoyed reading one of my books. Always a romantic, I started weaving little fantasies for my friends at the tender age of fifteen.
After complaining to my husband that my favorite authors didn’t write fast enough, he asked a fateful question. “Why don’t you write one of your own while you’re waiting?”
Once I started, he couldn’t stop me. I write in the morning, before work, and during my breaks at the day job, and I write at night when I should be relaxing. I’ve even been known to write in my sleep. Sometimes it even makes sense!
I grew up in Southwest Florida where I met and married the love of my life. My husband was in the Navy for twenty years, so if you wonder where I have gotten some of my ideas, I blame him. I suggest you do the same. He’s always saying he has wide shoulders. Let’s load them up, shall we?
Currently, I live in Michigan, seven miles from the nearest grocery store. I love living in the country. It gives me the peace and quiet I need to continue to write these stories for you. It also shows me a lot of natural beauty that I try to share with you in my books. While my titles may be dedicated to certain individuals who have touched my life in differing ways, please remember, every one of them is written for you.
My most recent dream is to continue what I do—to share more stories with anyone willing to read them. My new dream is to be able to pursue both my writing and my husband fulltime. Do you think he’ll run?
More of Tianna’s Books:
Gate To Fate series
The Paradise series:
Brianna’s Prophecy
Dragon Bound series:
The DARE series
The Endowed Series
The Chosen Series
Hidden Breeds
Highland Bears
Where to find Tianna:
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