Talia's Match [Coalition Mates 2] (Siren Publishing Ménage Amour)

by Sarah Marsh

  Talia didn’t really know where the conversation was going, but she was relieved that they seemed to be as fond of her as she was of them. She was completely shocked, however, when he ask her the last portion. She could only assume that it was some kind of permanent relationship, but she didn’t want her desire for these two men to have her jumping to assumptions and agreeing when they could just be asking her to be the nanny or surrogate for their children, for all she knew!

  “I’ve grown very fond of you both as well, but what does that mean, exactly, becoming your third?” she asked tentatively.

  “Well, you would belong to us as we would belong to you. We would become a family unit,” he explained.

  “Oh,” she said as she blushed, “I thought you and Grae only liked…umm, well, men.”

  Ash laughed out loud at that, taken by surprise which, in turn, caused Grae to look over from where he had shifted back to his humanoid form and was now being jumped on by child and baby animal alike. Just seeing the smile on his face put her heart racing in her chest again with desire.

  “I assure you, love, both Grae and I are very interested in women. Well, one woman in particular, that is.” he said with a wink. “We have had female lovers over the years, but have never felt a real connection to anyone, until we saw you.”

  Grae must have known what Ash was going to ask her about this afternoon. She felt his hands on her shoulders before she even heard his approach, then she felt him kiss the side of her neck and she almost moaned at how good it felt to have him touch her.

  “Yes, lovely, will you be ours?” Grae whispered next to her ear before he continued nibbling his way down her neck.

  She sensed Ash moving closer as he stroked his fingers further up her arm to the crook of her elbow. Feeling his fingers dance lightly over the sensitive skin sent goose bumps up the rest of her arm and down her torso, causing her nipples to harden, and she could tell both men noticed when they groaned at her reaction to their touch.

  “You’re not exactly playing fair now, are you?” she said with what little oxygen she had left in her lungs. “What woman could deny men as beautiful as you?”

  “Is that a yes, love?” Grae asked as he nipped at her earlobe.

  Talia giggled at his persistence. At this point, she didn’t think she had any blood left in her brain at all with these two seducing her. “Yes, that’s a yes. But can we just see how things are between us without having to make anything permanent? I’d hate to wake up one day and find that you two had grown bored of me.”

  “Of course, Talia, whatever you are comfortable with. But I assure you, we would never tire of you,” Ash said before he brought his face in close and placed a tender kiss on her lips.

  “Now that we have that settled, the shuttle is waiting for us around the corner. We should get back to the palace so we have ample time to get ready for dinner,” Grae said as he stood and pulled Talia to her feet and into his embrace. There was nothing tender about the kiss he gave her, and when he pulled away, she whimpered and tried to follow his mouth.

  Ash laughed and took her hand. “We have all the way home to play, my love, and then we will make sure you are thoroughly prepared for tonight’s dinner,” he said with a waggle of his eyebrows in Grae’s direction. This had both men laughing and Talia couldn’t help but think their idea of “preparation” was going to be much more enjoyable that hers!

  Chapter Thirteen

  As they stepped onto the shuttle, Grae plotted the course home and the two men sat on each side of her. Talia felt like a kid on Christmas morning. She had so many things she wanted to do to these two men, but she didn’t know where to start.

  Ash leaned in to kiss her softly, teasing her lips, and Grae began to massage her shoulders while he nibbled his way along her jaw and down her neck. Talia felt Ash’s hands on her waist, slowly moving up her rib cage. Her heart was beating a mile a minute when they reached her breasts, and he traced the sides of her breasts with his thumbs, barely touching her. That feather-light touch seemed to turn her on more than actual sex with her last boyfriend, and it seemed as though Ash was determined to tease her beyond recognition.

  When Talia groaned into Ash’s mouth, he increased the pressure on her breasts as he fully cupped them in his hands. Gods, they fit perfectly. He tried to move on the seat to give his cock a bit more room, and he could see Grae doing the same the more Talia moaned and sighed at their touch. There was only so much privacy to be had in the shuttle. Both men knew they couldn’t strip Talia and fuck her until they had made it back home.

  Ash hadn’t felt this desperate to be inside someone since the first time he kissed Grae all those years ago. It was impossible for the three of them not to get lost in the grinding and kissing, and before they were aware, the shuttle had made its way back to the palace. When the door opened and the steward stepped forward to help them with their packages, his eyes went rather wide before he dipped his head and cleared his throat to announce himself.

  Talia didn’t think she’d ever been so embarrassed in her life. She’d been caught groping and kissing not one but two men like a nymphomaniac. God, she hoped that she hadn’t been begging out loud for them to fuck her! That had just been the voice in her head, right? She stood and took the hand Grae offered, then made sure her clothes were put back into their proper place. She gave him a dirty look at the goofy smirk on his face. Apparently, the man found this situation rather amusing!

  When Talia glanced back at Asher, she could see he was at least managing to keep a façade of neutrality, but as she turned back to step out of the shuttle, she saw out of the corner of her eye Grae waggle his eyebrows at Ash and a smile break through on the other man’s face. It was all she could do to not smile in response to their boyish antics, so she quickly turned and proceeded into the palace toward their rooms.

  Ash smacked Grae on the back of the head as they followed Talia into their rooms. Obviously, Talia had been embarrassed to have been caught with them in the shuttle and irritated at their obvious humour about it. They had only managed to get her to agree to give their bonding consideration not even an hour ago, and they had already pissed her off! Grae merely looked back at him and shrugged his shoulders.

  “What? She’s going to have to get used to us wanting her all the time anyways. I thought it was funny! Did you see the look on Gelly’s face? I thought he was going to expire on the spot!” Grae laughed back in a voice quiet enough that Talia didn’t hear.

  “Well, she’s not exactly going to let us pick up where we left off now, then, is she?” Ash responded irritably in a low whisper.

  “Oh, crap.” Grae’s face fell immediately.

  Ash had thought to announce to his family at dinner that they would be courting Talia formally, but he didn’t know that she would be very pleased with that now. Perhaps they would have to wait. The least they could do was apologize, and then perhaps she would not be upset at dinner. They continued on into her room when they did not find her in the bathing chamber, and saw her sorting through the packages on the bed.

  “Have you two come to embarrass me some more? Perhaps you’d like to go have sex in the garden in front of the gardener?” Talia asked with no small amount of sarcasm, and had to look back down at the bed to hide her smirk when both men turned a dark red.

  Ash was the first to come over to her and pull her to sit down on the bed beside him, followed by Grae.

  “Talia, we are truly sorry that we embarrassed you. We should have been more aware that the shuttle had arrived,” he said, quite apologetically.

  “Yes, love, and Gelly and the other staff are very discreet. They will not discuss it with anyone else. Our people see no reason not to show affection in an open manner. There would be no judgement made. It just no doubt surprised old Gelly, as we’ve never shown our affection to another outside of our relationship before,” Grae added as he took her other hand.

  “That, and normally it would be announced that we are courting you before being see
n in public together in such a manner,” Ash added.

  Talia finally raised her head and smiled at them mischievously. “It’s not that I didn’t enjoy it a lot, you guys. I just don’t want to announce to the entire palace what we’re up to when we still aren’t really sure ourselves.”

  Talia could see both men stiffen at her comment, but wasn’t sure why her being cautious about their privacy would upset them at all. Must be a cultural thing.

  “Well, we’d better get ready or we’ll never make it to dinner at this rate, and I don’t want to meet your family looking like crap!” she said as she got up and moved toward the bathing chamber.

  Grae and Ash were slower to follow her, both deep in thought from her comments. Earth customs were obviously greatly different from the customs here on Adoan. She wanted to wait to declare their intentions to mate to see how it progressed, when on most of the Coalition planets, intentions were declared before courting.

  Without formally declaring their intentions to court, it would leave Talia open to various issues they’d rather not have her go through, such as other suitors or males approaching her, and even being more vulnerable to slavers who frequently targeted un-declared women without family to notice their disappearance. Both men knew she would be safe from abduction here at the palace, but it still bothered them that they wouldn’t be able to announce their courtship tonight at dinner.

  Chapter Fourteen

  Talia was already in the bath when the two men walked into the bathing chamber. She tried to hide her body’s excitement at the thought of them shedding their clothes and joining her. She had turned around to give them privacy while she washed her hair, only noticing they had silently joined her when she felt Grae at her back, close enough that she could feel the warmth of his chest against her.

  “Let us help you, love. Lean back,” Grae said in her ear as he bent her back over his arm.

  She saw Ash beside her with a pitcher and closed her eyes as he rinsed the soap from her hair, running his fingers along her scalp, massaging as he went. She gasped when she felt Grae bend over her chest and his tongue reached out to lightly flick one of her nipples, then he closed his lips around it and she couldn’t resist opening her eyes to watch him. Ash had directed them to the side of the pool, and was now massaging her other breast, watching Grae as well, who sucked at her like she was the best thing he had ever tasted. As the men stepped in closer, to her she could feel them both hard against her hips. Ash brought her head up with a finger and leaned in to kiss her, slow, sensuous kisses that made her head swim and her body ache for more from them both.

  “Oh god, do we have time before dinner?” she asked when he moved down to nibble at her neck.

  Grae had now moved on to kissing his way down her body and she squealed when he abruptly lifted her out of the water to sit on the top step of the pool, and knelt in front of her.

  “We have just enough time to see to your pleasure, baby,” Grae said with a wink. “We wouldn’t want you to suffer through dinner, now, would we?”

  Ash pushed her arms up to rest on the side of the pool while his hands explored her body. He ended up teasing her hard nipples, pinching and pulling on them until she was moaning his name.

  “God, I need you both so badly.” She groaned when Grae parted her thighs to expose her to their hot gaze.

  “Love, once we get inside that hot little pussy, we don’t plan on leaving for a good long while, so that will have to wait until after dinner,” Ash whispered in her ear.

  Talia hadn’t had a lover that was into talking dirty to her, so it took her by surprise how the words turned her on. When Grae lowered his head to her dripping pussy, she almost came from the first swipe of his tongue along her folds. Ash latched onto one of her nipples and was sucking almost in unison with Grae once he put his lips around her clit, and before she could stop herself, she was screaming their names, a climax stronger than she’d ever had making her body buck and thrash in their arms.

  When she was finally able to think again, she saw with surprise that the men had finished bathing, and Grae was carrying her out of the bath where Ash was waiting with a big towel to wrap her up.

  “Oh my god, I don’t think I’ve ever come so hard in my life,” she said to them in a sleepy voice. What she wouldn’t give to be able to have a nap right now instead of going to dinner.

  It was obvious how pleased both men were with her comment, and to her surprise, neither of them would stop touching her. She supposed it was because they hadn’t come, but she revelled in their attention. It also began to ramp up her libido once more, and she started looking forward to getting this dinner over with as soon as possible so they could get back to their bed!

  As the men helped her to look through her now-stocked closet for the dress they had bought for tonight’s dinner, she couldn’t help but be distracted by the fact that they were both stark naked and noticeably still quite aroused from making her come in the bath. Neither man seemed to have a problem strutting around naked in front of her, but with every step they took, their cocks bounced and she was having a difficult time faking interest in clothes. She could swear she saw smirks on both of their faces when she finally cleared her throat.

  “Umm, guys, I think we have time to take care you before dinner. You can’t be comfortable like that,” she said, trying to stop the blush that ran across her cheeks. She didn’t know why she was so shy around them, but as she stepped up to both men and reached forward to wrap a hand around each of their very hard cocks, she was suddenly feeling like an inexperienced virgin. Having had a male lover for so long, how could a woman’s touch compare when they already knew what the other felt?

  “Sweet Mother, that feels so good to have your hand on me,” Grae said through gritted teeth as he wrapped his own hand around hers and tightened the grip, showing her the rhythm and pressure he liked.

  “Tighter, love. Make me imagine it’s your tight little pussy that I’m buried inside of,” Ash said as he brought his hands up to cup and massage her breasts.

  Both men moved in closer and began thrusting harder against her, and Grae moved to take her mouth in an aggressive kiss while Ash kissed and nibbled her neck, telling both her and Grae how good they felt against him. Both of her men raised their heads to look straight into her eyes when they came against her skin, then they took turns kissing her softly. Ash left them to go into the bathroom while Grae stood and held Talia against him.

  “We want you for our mate, Talia. We are sure of this,” Grae said quietly while Ash was gone. “Normally, in our societies, I would have marked you already and Ash would have announced his intentions to court you before even our first kiss. We are waiting for your comfort, but this also means you will not be claimed in the eyes of other males, so please follow our instructions tonight.”

  She was lost in thought, wondering what Grae meant by this and why he seemed so serious about it, when she felt Ash return and clean them all off with a soft, wet towel.

  “This is for your safety, Talia. Unclaimed females must be careful no matter which planet they are on,” Ash said once he was done cleaning her and Grae.

  “I understand. Who am I going to be meeting tonight?” she asked as the men got dressed in formal suits that they hadn’t donned since that first night she’d seen them at the auction.

  “We will be dining with my family and the King tonight. Not a large party, but I wanted to introduce you to my brothers and sister-in-law before any formal court events so you would be more comfortable,” Ash said as they took her hands and led her out of their suite and down the hall.

  Chapter Fifteen

  Talia was beginning to get nervous as they got closer to the formal dining room. She’d never met a King and Queen before, and realised she had no idea how to address them. She began to fidget, and the men must have noticed.

  “Relax, Talia. My older brother Caxill may be King, but he is still my brother. He will like you. His wife Misha has been waiting to meet you as well. Sh
e is quite excited to have another female about the palace,” Ash told her, rubbing his thumb along her hand, trying to soothe her.

  “What’s your younger brother like?” she asked.

  “Dhover is the Captain of the Guard. He used to be quite a handful when he was younger, but he has grown into a rather quiet man,” Ash said with a slightly sad look on his face.

  “You mean he’s a right bitter bastard now, don’t you?” Grae said in a jesting manner, trying to lighten the mood.

  “He has his reasons, love, never doubt that,” Ash replied with a rather irritated look toward his consort.

  Talia could tell that Grae immediately regretted his words, and she wondered what had happened to make Ash’s brother so unhappy and Ash so protective of him.

  “Life as a Royal comes with sacrifices to be made, but we cannot let them mould us into something we are not,” Grae said as he took one of Ash’s hands.

  “Some sacrifices should not have to be made,” was all Ash said before they walked through the large doors into the breathtaking dining hall, leaving Talia wondering what the hell they were talking about.

  As they walked into the large room, a beautiful woman met them and both men bowed low in greeting. The woman broke out into a large smile, and Talia was instantly jealous. She was dressed in a deep maroon gown which offset her glowing opal skin and dark, shining hair, which was half pinned up and crusted in jewels. She was so striking that Talia found herself staring, wondering if her men found this woman more attractive than her. She was surprised when Ash stepped forward and hugged the stranger.

  “Sister, it is good to see you! How was your trip to see your family?” Ash asked as he let her go into Grae’s arms for the same treatment.