Pedigree? He did not just say that.
Marcus lifted a hand, shaking his head quickly. “Poor choice of words.”
“I’m not a show dog or some prize sow. Jesus! Do all shifter men need lessons in communication? Or at the very least, to think before they speak!”
Eli and Nick stifled a chuckle but sobered when Marcus shot them a look.
“My apologies.” Marcus ran a hand over his thinning hair. “What I was trying to say is your bloodline is the answer to healing the wounded honor of two proud families. The Hunts and the Stantons are both strong lines. Honorable, selfless and hardworking, for the most part. A few bad apples nearly destroyed that legacy, and in doing so, forced an innate bond to suffer.
“In order to rekindle that bond and start Red Oak on the path to unity, a catalyst was required to spark an explosion. But not any catalyst. One with strength and a certain irresistibility. My plan was to throw you together with Nick and EJ, but fortunately fate intervened, and they each met you quite on their own. What developed afterward was completely organic.”
“Organic?” Her head was spinning. “Do you actually hear what comes out of your mouth? You play with people’s lives and then stand there using words like organic and catalyst?” Mikki paced. “I’m a person, and so are Eli and Nick. We’re not game pieces.”
“I assure you this is no game. This was for the greater good. I even consulted your brother.”
Mikki’s eyes bugged. “Jordan? He knew about this setup?”
“He knew your bloodline came from both the Hart and the Stanton line, and that you of all people would be the healing element we needed. He wanted you both to rediscover your roots. Like you, your brother resented your family keeping your shifter side suppressed.”
Too stunned to reply, Mikki sank into a chair in front of the lawyer’s desk.
Nick moved to the front of Marcus’s desk, squatting so he was eye to eye with Mikki. “When you were together with me, and then with Eli,” Nick began cautiously, “you felt something connect. Deep down.”
She met his gaze. “So what if I did?”
“Drawing blood forced our alpha and omega bond to rekindle. That couldn’t have happened without that deep connection,” he continued.
Eli moved to stand at Mikki’s side. “There’s no animosity between Nick and me. Not anymore. We realized pack leadership didn’t have to be either or…that we’re free to set our own parameters. To define our own alpha and omega link.
“Exactly,” Nick agreed. “We are equal, but separate. Yet still symbiotic.”
Eli grinned. “Like the sun and the moon.”
Nick rolled his eyes and it was Mikki’s turn to stifle a chuckle. She was still pissed, but both guys were still the same men she had fallen for head over heels. Equal, separate, and symbiotic. Especially when it came to her.
“You two suck. You know that?” She stood from her chair, and Nick straightened as well. “To think I’ve agonized over you. Lost sleep over you. All the while trying to wrap my head around feelings I have for you both. Fantasizing about each of you, separately and together—”
Marcus coughed, but shut up when she shot him a look.
“That’s just it, Mikki. That’s the answer,” Eli replied, a hopeful smile spreading on his mouth.
Nick made the first move, taking her hand. “You don’t have to choose. You can have us both.”
“Body and soul,” Eli added, reaching for her other hand.
Mikki’s mouth opened, but nothing came out. It was suddenly hard to breathe. Weak-kneed, she held onto the arm of her chair knowing she would have crumpled if not for both men holding on tight.
“I think you three need some alone time. I’ll be downstairs if you need me.” Marcus gathered papers from his desk and shoved them into his briefcase before heading for the door.
All her anger left in that moment, but a different kind of tension coiled in belly. A delicious, forbidden kind. That is if she understood what they were proposing correctly. Was this really happening?
Chapter Eighteen
“What are you saying to me? That we should be a threesome?” She blinked, more to prove she wasn’t dreaming than in disbelief.
“Threesome makes this sound dirty,” Eli objected. “What we’re proposing isn’t some X-rated movie ploy.”
Nick slid his hand over her forearm, caressing the spot where he and Eli bore marks. “For an alpha and an omega, our skin carries the promise of a triad from the time we’re born. It is our soulmate who brings that promise into reality.”
Soulmate?
Am I dreaming?
She looked at them both. “Triad. Sounds like a demonic syndicate.”
Downplaying the significance of what they said was a crappy move, but she needed time process.
“If you like to play out of the box, who are we to argue?” Eli waggled his eyebrows. “Lots of juicy fun to be had on the dark side.”
“Okay, Ew.” She bit her cheek not to laugh. “I’m going to ignore you said that.” She winked. “For now, anyway.”
“There’s my girl.”
“Can you two give it a rest? Mikki needs to understand. A triad is a bonding of body, mind and soul between the alpha, the omega and the alpha female of the pack.”
Eli saluted, clicking his heels. “Yes, sir!”
“Now I’m really going to ignore him.”
“Hey!”
“Mikki, you told Marcus your full name makes you sound like a member of the royal family. Joining this triad will make you just that. Pack royalty. Your mixed bloodline makes it your birthright as much as mine or EJ’s, but ultimately, the choice is yours.”
Her eyes took on a skeptical stare. “You’re actually saying I would live and love with you both. Share a bed, together and separately, and no one will be jealous or feel slighted?”
“Exactly,” Eli reiterated. “Shifter sister wives, but in reverse.”
“If I was to agree to this,” her eyes searched each man’s face, “and I mean if…how would we…I mean, how?”
Nick caressed her forearm. “Would you like to find out?”
“What would do I have to do?”
Eli brushed her hair from her shoulder, letting his fingers linger. “Exactly what you fantasized.”
Both men took her by her hand, and the two led her to a private room off of the office. Inside was a sumptuous bedroom with a large ensuite bath.
Nervous butterflies winged around her stomach making her giggle like a teenager. “Private office. Right, Marcus. It’s always the quiet ones.”
Nick stood back, letting Mikki fully survey the room.
“Lady’s choice.” Eli gestured, first to the California king bed, and then the sumptuous bathroom.
A threesome.
With two of the hottest men she’d ever met.
Right there for the having.
Holy hard bodies! If she hadn’t fallen hard before—
Picturing their threesome in either place was shiver-worthy, but picturing herself sandwiched between Eli and Nick, both men slick with water and soap was almost too much. She walked back and forth just for show, before pivoting on her heel for the bathroom.
“That was quick,” Nick chuckled.
Snapping on the light, she licked her lips at all the possibilities. The long, smooth vanity. The thick oval rug over the tile…a shower big enough for an elephant, or a deep, marble soaking tub.
Eli ran his hands over her arms. “The million-dollar question, then. Shower or soaking tub?”
Mikki took off her jacket and tossed it at him before turning on the rain head above the soaking tub. The bathroom swirled with steamy tendrils, ramping up the anticipation.
“You two. Over there.” She pointed to the long vanity.
Relishing the way their eyes followed her every move, she peeled off her clothing. Piece by piece, each garment dropped to the floor.
For the first time in her life she felt truly sexy. Wanton. Her reflection in t
he mirror behind the guys captured the moment, and she squealed inside.
She stood in front of them, naked, her eyes daring them to make every fantasy she had about them both, come true.
“My God, Mikki. You are so beautiful.” There was no teasing humor in Eli’s voice. Only need. Thick and urgent.
She inhaled. Their combined scent was saturated with hunger, and the knowledge sent jolts through her belly.
“Your turn.”
Adrenaline zinged through her body as she watched them shed their clothes.
“Better than Christmas,” she mumbled, as wide chests and muscled torsos appeared.
“Care to unwrap the rest?” Nick asked, unzipping his pants to reveal a chiseled v-line.
Holy Adonis Belt!
Before she could move, he was toe to toe. His lips were a breath from hers as he placed her hands on his hips. “You do the honors.”
His mouth took hers, soft and teasing. He covered her hands and together they pushed his pants over his thighs, freeing his thick member.
Eli positioned himself behind her, his fingers trailing her bare waist. “Me next,” he murmured, nipping the back of her ear.
Her fingers trailed Nick’s corded flesh even as Eli trailed kisses along the back of her neck.
Eli spun her around, and she slid her hands beneath his waistband to cup his ass before pushing his pants from his hips as well.
“This can’t be happening,” she whispered as Nick pressed himself to her back, molding every hard inch to her softness.
“Oh, it’s happening, babe,” Eli replied, cupping her breasts. “And it’ll happen as many times as you can stand.”
Their hands explored every line of her curves. Dipping to stroke and caress, to tease and excite.
“You’re scent is a drenched as your pussy, love. Maybe we should slick up the rest of you as well.” Nick scooped her up and stepped down with her into the tub.
He stood with her under the rain head. Mikki tilted her head back, letting the hot water cascade over her breasts and belly.”
Lifting her, Nick pivoted so her body slid over his, skin on skin, until her feet hit the tile.
Every hard plane and rippled muscle sent electric shivers across her flesh. His mouth took hers as Eli joined them in the heated spray, sliding in behind Mikki once more.
He slipped one arm around her waist, kissing the back of her neck while his free hand roamed the full curve of her ass and between her legs.
She moaned, breaking her kiss with Nick to turn and let Eli claim her mouth.
Every sense was alive and careening toward overdrive. Her inner cat purred and scratched, sending the sensations rippling through her body.
Eli’s hands cupped her breasts from behind. “I smell you, little cat scratch.” Rolling hardened nipples between his fingers, he pinched the stiff peaks and she gasped.
Nick gripped his long, corded cock, dipping his mouth to her throat. “My cock is aching for a taste of you, Mikki.” He pushed her legs apart and cupped her sex, sliding his fingers between her slick folds.
Mikki reached down to cover Nick’s hand as he worked his thick shaft. They moved in time over the ridged mass, and he groaned.
He pushed her thighs wider, curling his fingers into her wet cleft. “Christ,” he ground out. “You’re so fucking slick.”
The warm water cascaded over them as they worked her body, sending shivers down her thighs until her legs shook.
Eli moved to her side from behind. “Sit.” It was part order, part need, as he helped her to the lip of the marble tub.
“Open for me, Mikki. Spread yourself for Nick but I want your luscious lips around my cock.”
Eli fisted his cock, pressing his swollen head to her lips. “Suck me, baby.” Eli’s voice was rough and deep. “Take my whole length. I want you to taste what’s coming.”
She gasped at his words as she circled his head with her tongue before taking his full length. She molded the flat of her tongue against his ridged core, milking him to his balls.
Eli sucked a breath through his teeth. “Holy fuck!”
She cupped his sack, releasing his length slowly only to plunge again. He groaned, fisting his base to work his shaft as she curled her tongue under his rigid head.
She covered his hand at his base and worked his length from there, sliding her fingers up and down around his thick girth as her mouth worked him in and out.
“Oh, baby.” He fisted her hair, thrusting in time with her mouth.” Keep this up and you’ll swallow more than just my cock.”
Nick knelt between her legs without missing a beat and pushed her knees wide. His tongue darted to her clit before spreading her tender folds.
“You’re juice is so fucking sweet, Mikki. You’re pussy is as drenched as your hair.”
His fingers curled deep again as he licked her seam, circling her hard nub. Ringing her clit with his thumb, she tensed. Sizzles and jolts spread across her thighs and into her lower belly.
Nick grazed her clit with his teeth, nipping the hard nub. A choked gasp left her full mouth as her body jerked, rocketing higher.
“Easy, love!” Eli flinched, pulling back. “If you want to draw blood, give a guy some warning.”
He let go of her hair, but she slid her teeth over his flesh again, just for fun.
“Ow! Hey!”
She released his cock with a pop. “Don’t tease the animals. They bite.” She smirked, wiping her mouth with the back of her hand.
“What do you want, Mikki?” Eli asked, leaning in for a kiss. “You’re scent says you’re so close, but something’s holding you back. I know you want to be fucked. You want us to stuff you good and hard.”
The words were so sexy and raw, they left her body quivering with the thought.
“Are you ready for us both?” Nick pulled his hand from her slick slit, licking each digit. “I’m waiting,” he said, wrapping his slick fingers around his thick shaft. “Rock hard ready.”
He slid back and reclined longways in the tub, his hand sliding over his cock.
Mikki got to all fours and crawled cat-like toward Nick to straddle his hips. The tip of his dick teased her slick entrance, his full head rubbing against her clit as she hovered.
Eli knelt behind her, cupping her cleft, his thumb ringing her tight hole at the rear. At the rough feel, she cried out. Eli pulled his hand back as she plunged herself onto Nick’s full length. Her inner walls convulsed, and she arched back with a shudder.
Eli pressed his hard bar to her ass, gripping her breasts as she rolled her hips. Her breath hitched, drawing out the last of the climax, before she relaxed into Eli’s arms.
“You’re so damn sexy when you come,” Eli whispered, nipping her ear.
Nick’s eyes blazed. “Your scent when you come makes my dick jerk. I’m still inside you and I’m still rock hard.”
“You said don’t tease the animals, but in your case, the signs all say feed the animals, and feeding you inches is what you need…and just so you know,” Eli teased, “we bite back.”
Nick put his hands on her hips and moved her up and down, thrusting slow and deep, increasing his motion and momentum until Mikki gasped.
Her sex was drenched and slick and Nick put his hand on her back, easing her forward for a kiss.
“We can be yours from now on, Mikki,” he whispered above her lips “A triad is a commitment for life.”
With deep thrusts, her body took him balls deep. Her back arched again and she gasped, her body shuddering as his hands worked her tits and waist, slipping over her hips to take hold as she rode him.
Eli knelt behind her, letting slick fingers trail over her ass and between her cheeks. “Have you ever been stuffed, Mikki?”
She groaned, rolling her hips as Eli soaped her crack and circled her tight hole.
“That’s it, cowgirl. Ride that cock,” Eli whispered, ringing her tight rim. “You’ve heard of double-stuffed cookies, after today you’ll never look at them sam
e way.”
Nick’s hands slipped to her waist as Eli hooked onto her hips. “Feed her inches he said, and teach her well,” Eli murmured, pulling her up and back.
His fingers worked her tight slick ring, relaxing her body one finger at a time. She groaned at the decadent feel at first, but her whole body tensed when he pressed his bulging head to her hole, testing her readiness.”
Nick kissed her mouth, harder, hungrier, teasing nipples with both hands. She groaned again, rolling her hips once more, but this time pressing back against Eli’s thick member.
“Fuck, yes!” He slipped his swollen head inside her snug entrance but held. “I got you, baby. Trust me.”
Mikki’s eyes flew wide. She froze for a moment at the alien feel, until both men teased and pleased in tandem, each riding her closer to the line where pleasure and pain blur into ecstasy.
“God damn, Mikki! You’re so slick and tight.” Eli moaned, slipping his cock deeper, inch by inch. “Watching my dick disappear into your close channel is so fucking HOT!”
Nick sucked and nipped her stiff peaks, drawing his length in and out in tandem with Eli’s thrusts.
Mikki’s head spun. The feel of them both inside sent her inner cat into a frenzy. A feral sound unlike any she’d heard formed in her throat, and both men went rigid and tense.
Breath froze in Mikki’s lungs. The sensations swirled and combined, nearly overwhelming her as her body sizzled with each thrust and bite and kiss.
Knowing they were so close, her body strained, throbbing with pleasure as Nick and Eli filled her front and back. Her legs went boneless and her fingers dug into Nick’s shoulder. Her body was theirs and they took!
“Together, love,” Eli murmured, clutching her around her waist. “If you could watch yourself right now…swollen and pink, flushed with pleasure, you’d be ours in a heartbeat.”
She gasped again, and her words rushed out in a breathy moan. “I am yours. Both of you.”
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