Trixing Your Mate

by Sara Spark

  Trixie let everyone calm down for a few moments.

  “That was an ‘F’, which is a pity, since you started out as an ‘A+’!”

  Keo’s mouth twisted. “Are we getting graded now?”

  “I’m just pointing out the obvious.”

  Hudson laid back on the pillows and Trixie wiggled onto her stomach, bracing onto her elbows so that she could see them both.

  “I’m not sure that sharing a woman is the best idea for you two.”

  Hudson took a slow deep breath and she saw something flicker across his face. Regret, hurt, a touch of sadness. Something.

  The men looked at each other for a moment and then turned to look at her.

  “It’s important, Trixie.”

  “Very.” Hudson cleared his voice. “Very important.” His warm brown eyes didn’t look warm right now they looked a little hopeless.

  Trixie cocked her head looking at both of them. Thinking. “I can tell that you feel that deeply. Both of you.” She held up a finger. “Let’s try something. Let’s see how bad the problem is.”

  “Keo, you roll on to your side. Sí. Now, no touching, okay?”

  With a puzzled frown, Keo gave a short nod.

  “Hudson, you stay still.” Scooching over to him, Trixie lowered her head until she could just graze her lips against his. Hudson’s arms started moving around her to lock her in place.

  “No! I am in charge.” She turned her head to make sure Keo was watching. Keo was propped on his side, saying nothing, but his eyes were speaking volumes. What exactly was in the volumes, she didn’t know.

  “Then come to me, beauty,” Hudson rumbled quietly.

  Leaning over Hudson again, Trixie looked deeply into his eyes. It was like dipping into warm milk chocolate. His eyes were sweet, and affectionate. Trixie could feel the emotions radiating from him. This was more than lust. Her body vibrated in tune with his. She felt the heat flowing back and forth, as if there was a gossamer web strung between them connecting a thousand different points on him to a thousand spots on her. She could almost see it shimmering in the air, delicate, responsive, yet strong. Lowering her mouth, she gave light suckling kisses from one corner of Hudson’s slightly full lips to the other.

  “Quit teasing.” That was more growl than speech.

  “I am just conducting some field tests.” Trixie sucked in a grin.

  “Then fucking test with a real kiss!” There was a fierce frown on Hudson’s face which was made darker from the shadows cast by her hair hanging down on one side of his face.

  Trixie brushed her mouth against Hudson’s again, but this time flicked her tongue lightly across his mouth until he parted his lips in order to capture the teasing instrument. And then their mouths were clashing together in a ferocious kiss, lips sucking, and taking. Lips giving and caressing. Tongues rubbing and stroking. Neither one wanted to stop.

  Trixie was eating up all his passion like it was an all-you-can-eat buffet. She tried to rub her breasts on Hudson’s broad, muscular chest to help ease the mind-consuming ache that was occurring. When she felt a gush of moisture that made her panties wet, well—wetter, she pulled back, afraid to fall down into the passionate black hole that was kissing Hudson.

  Only then did she realize that Keo had been holding up one side of her long black hair so that he could see them. Keo slowly tucked her hair behind her ear and stroked delicately across her cheek. His thumb lightly swept over her kiss swollen bottom lip.

  ******

  Trixie and Hudson were both breathing heavily so she took a minute before asking, “What did you think?”

  Hudson worked on controlling his hands that wanted to stray all over Trixie’s body.

  Keo cleared his throat for a moment. “Like. I liked it.”

  Trixie’s brown, deep as midnight and twice as seductive, eyes flicked over Keo’s face and then moved lingeringly over his body. “That’s not quite right.” Her eyes flew back to his. “Is it?”

  Both men froze for a second. “What does that mean, Trixie?” Hudson asked with a frown.

  “I can tell that Keo isn’t telling me everything. ‘Like’ isn’t right. I can tell he doesn’t really believe that.”

  Hudson exchanged a glance with Keo. Trixie was their mate and as a mate she could detect their emotions and whenever they tried to lie. Mates could not lie to their mate. It was virtually impossible. Emotions, and the truth were prettily easily detected across the mating bond.

  But that was after they had been mated! Not before! They hadn’t made love to Trixie nor bitten her, nor exchanged blood. Nothing. Yet, she was already picking up on their emotions and was able to discern half-truths.

  Briefly, Keo gave Trixie a hard, hit-n-run kiss. His lips took control of Trixie’s for a millisecond and then released her. Hudson’s hands clenched a little on Trixie’s waist, enjoying the hitch in her breath as Keo kissed her. She was amazing.

  “You are right, minx.” Keo pulled back from her a little to gaze at her. “It was more than like.”

  “Were you angry that Hudson was kissing me?”

  “No.”

  “Did you want to grab me away from Hudson?”

  “No.” Keo answered slowly.

  Trixie arched an eyebrow. “Were you bored?”

  “Hell, no!”

  “Just checking.” She smiled slightly. “What did you want to do?”

  “Fucking touch you!”

  “How?”

  “I wanted to pet and stroke that round ass of yours. Were you wiggling it just to torture me?”

  “No!” Trixie lowered her voice. “I, uh, I wasn’t aware I was wiggling.”

  “Any more bouncing up and down and you would have felt my teeth sinking into those luscious curves.”

  Hudson watched Trixie lick her lips. “Oh.” Hudson couldn’t see what Keo was describing, but he could imagine the sight. Rumbling deep in his chest, Hudson slowly slid one hand down to cup one cheek and press her a bit harder into his body. Trixie sucked in a shuddering breath.

  Keo watched Hudson’s hand. Then his blazing eyes lifted to Trixie’s and he captured her in his stare. Hudson blinked for a moment. Were Keo’s eyes glowing?

  “Let’s try that. You kiss Hudson,” Keo’s eyes swiveled down to her butt again and his hand came up and squeezed the cheek not taken. “And I will stroke—“

  “Hey, Keo? You still up here?”

  Keo moved so fast to intercept the guard that Hudson was sure that Trixie would start screaming ‘not human’ any minute. Not that Hudson disagreed with Keo’s action. He didn’t want the guard, nor any unmated male within 50 miles of Trixie. Yet, he didn’t think that Trixie was especially ready to hear the truth about Chimera. However, instead of screaming, she was just blinking and shaking her head.

  Hudson stood up, taking her with him, easily setting her on her feet. Bending down, Hudson gave Trixie a gentle kiss. “Let’s get you warmed up.” And they gathered their things to leave the rooftop.

  Chapter 5

  When they made it back to Trixie’s room, she hurriedly threw their phones at them and shooed them out saying that she had to get ready to meet Rimie. Shopping trip. Both men stood in front of Trixie’s door for a moment, reluctant to leave. Hudson scratched the back of his head as they walked to the elevators.

  “She’s our mate.”

  “Yeah, so let’s try not to fuck it up.” Keo eyed him with annoyance.

  “What the hell does that mean?”

  “All this fighting over her. She doesn’t like it.”

  “All you had to do was let me have my turn kissing her!” Hudson said defensively.

  “We are not going to sit and take turns like we are in kindergarten!”

  “Then what do you suggest? My bear wants her. Now. Like yesterday isn’t soon enough.”

  “Same with my owl.” Keo seemed lost in thought.

  “She’s beautiful. All that long hair and curves.”

  “Yes, we are blessed by the Mater.” K
eo tugged on his ear a little. “When she scrunches her brow together, it’s all I can do not to swoop down and kiss the frown away.”

  Hudson grunted. “It’s when she gets nervous, for me. She starts rubbing her thigh, then all I am thinking about is her hand next to her thigh, next to that luscious smelling pussy of hers.”

  “Fuck! Her scent! It’s all I can do to put two words together when her pussy starts getting all hot and wet. Smelling all delicious.” They walked out of the elevator onto the ground floor.

  Hudson nodded. “Didn’t expect to find a mate and co-mate this weekend.” His tone was neutral.

  “Yeah. It was a shock for me, too.” They stood together awkwardly in the large, open lobby. “Do you have to get back to the nursery?”

  “I’ve got someone covering for me until Monday morning, but I wouldn’t mind dropping in and checking on a shipment of pre-emergent that was supposed to arrive.”

  Keo nodded. “Let’s meet back here at 5pm and take Trixie to dinner.”

  The problem with that plan? They didn’t plan it with Trixie.

  ******

  That night Trixie disappeared. Became like a mythical pot of gold. They kept traveling from place to place with no luck finding her. Yet, someone at the next location would say, “Oh, I saw her just going into that store.” Or “Last I saw her she was swimming with Rimie downstairs.” They missed her in her swimsuit?! For two days, they tried to find Trixie. She left Stone Tower and went back to her apartment. Rimie wasn’t answering any text messages about Trixie, and was just as difficult to track down.

  Monday morning meant going back to their routine, and come Monday night after taking care of any urgent situations at work, they met to once again search for Trixie. They were tense and strung taut. Neither one liking this separation with their mate when they had just found her. Keo was all for using his clan’s digital resources to find her. Unfortunately, they couldn’t track down any available security guards since they were all on high alert from some suspicious activity in the area.

  After searching all over Stone Tower for over an hour, they managed to catch Keegan who was just coming into the security area. They followed him into an empty briefing room.

  “Where’s Trixie?”

  “How the hell should I know? I’ve been busy trying to check out not one but two suspicious vehicles that have been circling this area in the past few hours. At this rate, we are going to have to move the Alpha family back to Stone Ranch. We’ve had multiple reports of suspicious activity in the past three days. Ever since they arrived here from the ranch.”

  “Can you ask the security detail?” Keo pressed insistently.

  Keegan gave an aggravated sigh. Putting a hand to his ear. “Landon, are you with G9?” They tried not to refer to their Alpha family by name on the air. “Yeah.” Listening to his earpiece, he nodded. “Is friend of R3 there?” He listened some more. “Affirmative.” He clicked off his earpiece.

  “Friend is with the Alpha family.”

  “And where is that?” Hudson asked impatiently. His bear was riding him hard. Should have never left Trixie to check on things at the nursery. He squashed down the roar building in his chest.

  “Club on Sage Brush drive and 12th street.”

  Keo and Hudson were out the door before Keegan finished talking.

  ******

  Walking into the club “Flying Monkeys”, they were not excited to see Trixie in the middle of a group that consisted of several males one of whom had his arm around her.

  “What the fuck!”

  Keo grabbed Hudson’s arm. “Easy.”

  Hudson’s head whipped around to Keo. “That mother fucker is touching our mate!”

  Keo’s jaw clenched. “I know. We will handle it, but don’t go in there like a bull in a china shop.” Keo’s glare at the unknown man hardened. “We don’t know the situation. We will get her away from him. But she didn’t like us fighting over her. She’s not gonna like us fighting with that human over her.”

  Hudson grunted. “I am a bear, not a fuckin’ bull…but you’re right.” He scowled. “I still don’t like it.”

  “Hey, Keo, glad you could make it.” His Beta, Trac, gave him a friendly shove as he was standing near Magnus and Rimie.

  “Keo. Hudson.” Nodding, Magnus intoned where he sat next to Rimie.

  Trixie looked at them as a big, entrancing smile spread across her face. It faltered when neither male smiled at her.

  Hudson couldn’t smile, even though her smile made him want to lick her from the top of her piled up hair to the tips of those bright copper toes. Hudson shifted on his feet. It was all he could do to not dive across the table between them and rip that guy away from Trixie.

  “Come on, kitten, let’s go show ‘em how it’s done.” Trac started leading Rimie to the dance floor. Magnus signaled for a waitress.

  Keo sat in one of the empty bar chairs clustered around the high tables. “Trixie.” Keo coughed a little. “Won’t you introduce us?”

  Starting at the end, Hudson only half listened to Juanita Sánchez, husband Esteban and his brother Eduardo, Pablo, Olivia, etc. The names went on and on. Hudson was just watching Trixie and that son of a bitch’s arm along her shoulders. The guy nodded his head at them at one point, but Hudson missed the introduction.

  “Trixie, would you like to dance?” If Hudson had turned into a poultry hen, he couldn’t have been more surprised. And the words had come out of his own mouth! What the hell was he thinking? He wasn’t a dancer.

  Trixie hesitated. Hudson held out his hand, wanting her touch, needing to touch her. Standing up, Trixie put her hand in his and suddenly he felt like he could draw a deep breath again. Gently he pulled her into the middle of the crowd of bodies.

  Although the music was not really a slow pace, Hudson pulled Trixie into his arms. His hands on either side of her hips. Her arms went slowly around his waist, and Hudson could feel the knot in his chest loosen now that he had her in his arms. Keo’s shadow touched them seconds before he cuddled up to Trixie’s ass, his arms sliding around her waist.

  Trixie sucked in a sharp breath.

  “I want to dance, too.” Keo whispered in Trixie’s ear as his hard cock snuggled against her butt. “Yes, Trixie?”

  She said nothing for a moment. There was a brief time when Hudson’s hands were pulling her against his hips at the same time that Keo’s hands above her waist were pulling her backwards to him. She was tugged in two different directions. Trixie made a noise, almost a sound of protest, but then their rhythm evened out and the three of them slid together sexily.

  “Trixie, ok?” Hudson asked this time.

  “Yes,” Trixie’s voice was husky. She kept one arm around Hudson’s waist, but slid the other one behind her a little to touch the top of Keo’s thigh and keep him pressed to her.

  Now the only issue was her scent, which was delicious, sexy and heating up, but the problem was the other male’s scent was on her shoulders. As Hudson leaned down to nuzzle the top of her head, the scent of the other male hit him and his bear pushed forward angrily. Subvocal growling started building deep in his chest. Across his face, he felt a flash of fur as his bear protested the smell of another male on his mate. He jerked his head up afraid that his face had turned more into a muzzle than a nose and mouth.

  Keo caught his eye and nodded slightly, changing his position. He wrapped one arm around the front of Trixie’s shoulders and cupped her neck tilting it gently so that his lips could touch behind her ear and slowly descend towards her shoulder. Nudging aside the collar of her silky, coppery blouse, Keo rubbed his face against her several times, trying to rub off the scent of the other man.

  Grateful that Keo was distracting Trixie, Hudson took deep breaths to clear his head.

  Get the fuck back, bear. I got this.

  Mate! Ours!

  Yes, she’s ours. Now, get back and let me handle this. Shit, we cannot transform in the middle of a dance floor! A dancing bear only happens i
n a circus!

  His bear snarled but then reluctantly allowed the man side to push back into control.

  Trixie’s low, sexy moan snapped his attention back to her and the vision of Keo sucking on her bared neck and her blissful expression as she wallowed in the pleasure was like taking a jolt of electricity to his dick. He about busted out of his jeans. He noticed that his bear had no problem watching Keo kissing and nibbling on her shoulders right where a claiming bite would go.

  The way it should be. Our mates. The bear replied simply.

  Sigh. Yeah, yeah. He got it. Keo was part of this. But can’t fault a guy for wanting to take Trixie on a solo mission.

  No. Bird supposed to be here. Our mates.

  Hudson couldn’t resist joining them any longer. Bending way down, he brushed his lips against Trixie’s, relieved to scent Keo and Trixie’s scents combined rather than the other male’s. The scent of both Trixie and Keo together settled his bear even more.

  Lowering his head, Hudson brushed his lips against Trixie’s tasty lips again. Her deep, bottomless eyes flicked open to look at him and they stared at each other. The longer he looked the tighter he got and the further he pushed into her soul. The connection between them was thick and lush and when he thought about it, yes, Keo was an integral part of it. He could feel the unique imprint of his co-mate throughout the connection.

  Her eyes dropped to his lips and it was if she had licked his cock, the strike of pleasure straight to his balls was that untamed. He cupped her face angling it for maximum pleasure, moving slowly so that she had plenty of time to pull away if she didn’t want this. His lips touched hers and he couldn’t get enough. He sucked and caressed her delicious lips for all of 3 seconds before the music changed to a raucous fast paced song, lights began flashing frenziedly and someone bumped into the side of them hard.

  Snarling, he turned to face the unknowing dead man who had dared to touch his mate. Unsuccessfully, he tried to close his lips around the fangs that had instantaneously appeared in his mouth. He felt a hand on his shoulder and didn’t need to turn to know that it was Keo’s. Keo was shepherding them off the dance floor, down a corridor. Hudson was just trying to reign his bear back in. His fangs were slowly retracting as the noise and all the scents of the humans faded into the background. His claws kept snapping in and out of his fingertips as Hudson took deep breaths and followed where Keo’s hand was steering him.