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  “I think we should get you checked into the lodge. Your friends will be there and we’ll be able to keep an eye on you without having to worry that this Perry person will be able to get to you in any way.” He gestured toward the front of the trailer where he assumed her bedroom was and said, “Go pack your things. If you have anything that’s important, I would suggest bringing it, as well. We’ll post guards on your things but we have no way of assuring that your things will be safe unless they’re in the lodge with us.”

  “How can you make sure they’re safe, even then?” She frowned at them as she made her way toward her room. “I mean, they’ll be in a hotel.”

  “Yes, but it’s a hotel for shifters, owned by shifters. Also, two of the owners are retired Army Rangers and one of them is the sheriff of Paradise. Believe me when I say that you’ll be one of the safest women in town while staying there.”

  “But I don’t really have the money.” She stared at the floor and bit her lip. “If I’m going to stay here, I’ll need every penny I have to rent an apartment.”

  “Darlin’,” Wade interrupted with a smile. “Don’t you worry about a thing. We’ll pay for your stay while you think about our offer. No pressure. You don’t have to pay us back no matter what you decide. Just stay there, knowing that we want you to be as safe as you can be while you’re here. We’ll be there with you, so there’s no need to worry.”

  “I think there’s every need to worry.” Alexa grinned. “It’s great that you want to keep me safe from Perry and his men, but who’s going to keep me safe from you two?”

  Chapter Fifteen

  Two days later, Alexa sat at the breakfast table with the rest of the guests. As usual, Gemma, the owner, served what she liked to call a restaurant style breakfast with eggs, bacon, sausage, pancakes and biscuits and gravy. There were pancakes one day and French toast or waffles the next. She wasn’t sure how the woman did it. By Alexa’s reckoning, the woman could use a boatload of help. How she always seemed so relaxed and in control was a mystery.

  “This is a delicious breakfast, as usual,” she said to Gemma who stopped at her right to refill her coffee. “How do you do it all? I’d think it would be too much for a woman in your condition.” Alexa eyed Gemma’s large belly. It was obvious to the world that the other woman was very pregnant. She looked as though she was about to pop.

  “Keeping busy helps keep me from going insane.” Gemma grinned. “Besides, the guys do most of the work. I just tell them what I want and they make it happen.”

  Milla leaned over. “I want that.” She glanced at the two men who followed her around like a couple of lost puppies. “Don’t you want that?”

  Alexa took a bite of her pancake and watched her men out of the corner of her eye. “Yes. I think I do.” She turned her attention back to Milla just in time to see her grin before she leaned in the other direction to ask Nadya the same question.

  It only took two nights of sleeping alone, imagining what things could be like with her two men, to make up her mind for her. She wanted them with a passion she never thought possible. What’s more, she needed them. She needed to know they cared for her, and she needed to feel their touch.

  She was sure it was what they called the mating heat, making her feel this way, and she didn’t really care. All she cared about was knowing that they wanted her and needed her at least as much as she needed them.

  Where else could she go and even find one man to love her and cherish her the way these two men did? Though they never said so, she knew they loved her. It was obvious in every heated look and the way they saw to her every need. Wade and Ryker were the men for her and Paradise was definitely where she wanted to stay. Why would she even want to try to find another town when she had already found the place perfect for her?

  It didn’t take long to figure out that this was what she wanted. She didn’t need to think about it any longer. After breakfast, when everyone else went back to work, she would tell them and, with luck, she would finally get to make love with one of them in her room—or their room—hell, it didn’t matter just so long as she finally got laid.

  Her stomach flip flopped as she thought about what she would say when breakfast was finally over, she barely ate after finally making up her mind. The guys noticed. She knew they did. They noticed everything about her. They were so attentive. She hoped she wouldn’t grow to hate it, though now she loved the attention.

  When breakfast was over and everyone filed out to go to the carnival, Alexa dragged her feet. She didn’t really have anything to do this morning. Her shift at the ticket booth didn’t start for another six hours. She had plenty of time to get to know the men who said they wanted to spend the rest of their considerably long lives with her.

  “What’s wrong, darlin’?” Wade grasped her shoulders and looked deep into her eyes. “You look worried.”

  “I’m not worried.” She looked away and bit her lip. “Not really.” She felt her face heating as she thought about asking one or both of them to make love with her. “I’m just nervous.”

  “Nervous, worried, it’s pretty much the same thing in my book.” Wade palmed the back of her head as she leaned back to look up at him. “What’s wrong?”

  “Nothing’s wrong.” She cleared her throat. “In fact, everything should be very right.” She gave a little nervous giggle. “I wanted us to stay behind so I could tell you that I’ve made up my mind. I’ve decided to stay here with you.”

  “You’re agreeing to be our mate?” Ryker asked from behind her as Wade continued to stare at her, searching her gaze.

  “If you still want me.”

  “Oh, we still want you, baby. Make no mistake about that,” Wade said just before he slanted his mouth over hers in a passionate kiss.

  Alexa’s legs almost gave out when Ryker pressed against her back and nuzzled the side of her neck. Nothing felt so decadent as loving two men at the same time, and there was no mistake. She loved these two men. As impossible as it seemed for her to fall in love with even one man so quickly, Alexa knew that she had fallen in love with these two men in a matter of days. Heck, she might have loved Wade the moment she saw him in that salon in Mason.

  Though she had never believed in love at first sight before she met these two men, there was something about them that drew her to them like iron to a lodestone. What she didn’t understand was what took her so long to finally make up her mind that she didn’t want to live a life without them in it.

  Wade swung her up in his arms and took the stairs two at a time until they reached the third floor.

  “We could have taken the elevator, you know,” she said with her eyebrow raised. She didn’t know what else to say. The man practically ran up the stairs while carrying her and he wasn’t even out of breath.

  “I didn’t want to wait.” Wade grinned down at her. “Now will you believe that you’re not too heavy?”

  “For you, maybe, but for a human man I’m enormous.”

  “You don’t need to be thinking about human men now that you’ve agreed to be our mate, baby,” Ryker interjected as he used his key to open the door to their room. “You only need to think about how we feel and what we think and we think you’re beautiful. You’re not old and you’ll see that soon after we mate.”

  “How does mating change that?”

  Wade carried her through the door and gently set her on the bed. “The mating doesn’t change you. The blood exchange we’ll make during the mating ritual is what will change you. We’ll bite you and ingest a bit of your blood. In turn, you’ll bite each of us, ingesting our blood.”

  “If you don’t bite us, we’ll nip ourselves and draw blood. You’ll only need a drop. It’s not as though we’ll expect you to drink gallons of it,” Ryker added with a chuckle when she wrinkled her nose at the idea.

  “But first, we’ll have to make love to you one at a time. We need to prepare you.”

  “Prepare me for what?”

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p; “For the mating, when we both take you together.”

  “We want to be sure that we don’t hurt you,” Ryker replied as he moved to check the night stand. “You must be prepared. We don’t want to cause you any pain.”

  “You don’t have to worry about that. I might be single, but I’m no nun and I’m no prude. I’ve been using toys for years.” She felt her face heat as she thought about telling them her biggest secret. “I’ve also been using two toys on myself at the same time. I’ve been rather curious about the whole double penetration thing since I saw it on a video once.” She cleared her throat as she stared down at the fingers she twisted in her lap. “I’ve wanted to know what it felt like ever since.”

  “You see, darlin’?” Wade moved to sit next to her. Reaching up, he brushed the hair out of her face. “Your body has been telling you that you are our mate for a while now. Don’t let it embarrass you. We like the fact that you say you’re ready for us, but don’t be upset with us if we decide to make sure, okay?”

  Alexa, face burning, only nodded. She knew what they said was true, but it didn’t make it any less embarrassing.

  Slowly, the men undressed themselves. She wasn’t sure if it was to give her a good show, or if it was so she would have the time to back out. Either way, she got a good look and was able to ascertain that the bulge in the front of their jeans was all them and not a pair of socks stuffed in the front to make them look as though they were well endowed. She remembered correctly all right. She definitely hadn’t been imagining things the other day when she saw them naked. They really were packing!

  She closed her eyes and took a deep breath. This was going to be something else. It was one thing to use toys on herself. It was something else, entirely to participate in an actual ménage—especially at her age.

  Chapter Sixteen

  Ryker watched their mate as she stared at their bodies. He knew they looked good. It wasn’t as though he was conceited about it. They took care of themselves, not that it was difficult with their metabolism, and their bodies looked good as a result. Though, if he were to be honest, all shifters had awesome bodies. It was their metabolism. They could literally eat a cow and not gain an ounce.

  He would miss the little extra padding their mate had once she was one of them. If they were lucky, her body would decide that she needed that little extra and keep it. He was certain she wouldn’t like it, though. He knew that she, like most women, fell into the trap that human males laid that they weren’t healthy or attractive with a little extra weight. That somehow, they were less than human beings because they didn’t conform with the social norm.

  In his lifetime, he’d seen many women who had carried a little bit extra with them and they were healthier for it. A human’s body stored fat because it knew it would need it at one time or another. One woman that his mother knew, would have wasted away to nothing during her cancer treatment had it not been for the extra weight she’d put on just before she took ill.

  A person’s body was always right for them—especially if they were the type that just couldn’t take off the extra weight no matter how they tried. That was his opinion, anyway. Whether he was right or wrong didn’t matter. All that mattered to him, at the moment, was getting the beautiful woman on the bed in front of him as naked as he was.

  “Are you ready, baby?” Wade asked as he kicked his pants into the corner across the room.

  “I think so.” She nodded and licked her lips. He loved when she did that. It made his cock jump.

  Ryker watched as she squirmed, rubbing her thighs together. The scent of her arousal wafted up and made him groan. He wanted nothing more than to settle himself between her thighs and lap up the thick cream he knew slid from her channel to coat the inside of her thighs. He was certain it had already soaked through her panties, especially if she wore one of those nearly non-existent thong things he’d seen in the stores.

  She squirmed again and Ryker reached down to take her hands. “Stand up, sweetheart. It will be easier for us to undress you.” He smiled when she whimpered. This woman was definitely the one. Nothing could make a woman so aroused as her mates and Alexa was definitely aroused.

  Slowly, they stripped her clothing from her body, kissing each newly exposed inch of creamy flesh. Her arousal grew stronger, her scent more heady with every press of their lips against her silken skin. He couldn’t wait to get to her shorts, when he could pull her panties down, settle between her luscious thighs and lap at her wet slit.

  His heart sped up when Wade reached around her and unbuttoned her flimsy shorts, sliding them down her long legs until they pooled into a little green puddle at her feet.

  Kneeling, Ryker grasped the tiny sides of her lacy panties and pulled them down, his breathing quickened and his mouth watered as he leaned forward to remove the last garment from her perfect body.

  “You’re so perfect, baby,” he said as he lifted each foot in turn to remove her panties completely and throw them across the room where they joined Wade’s pants in the corner. “I can’t wait to settle you on the bed, crawl between your silky legs and lap at your dripping pussy. Tell me you want it, too.”

  “God, Ryker. It turns me on when you talk to me like that. No one has ever talked to me like that before.”

  Wade pulled her into his arms and nuzzled her neck as he slowly walked her back to the bed and lowered her down onto the thick comforter. Wade wasted no time, once he had her down on the bed, he kissed her passionately, his hands cupping her breasts while his thumbs thrummed over her erect nipples.

  Unable to wait another minute, Ryker settled himself between her legs. Putting her legs over his shoulders, he blew warm air against her wet slit before he stuck out his tongue and gave her a long, slow lick.

  Moving lower, he started over, pressing his face against her heated center, he licked upwards, savoring her delicious taste. He swirled his tongue around her clit, sucking it into his mouth as Alexa stiffened and screamed. Orgasm after orgasm washed over her as he licked and sucked at her hardened nub.

  He glanced up to see Wade pulling and tugging one nipple while he sucked the other deep into his mouth. It was at that moment that Ryker realized they were both put on this earth to pleasure this one woman. To make her life complete with their love as they made her theirs in every way.

  Alexa’s body stiffened, rocked back and forth as she reached for another orgasm, one that would be harder, harsher than any that came before it. A thin sheen of perspiration shone on her skin as she moaned beneath him, her fingers deep in his hair, scratching his scalp and pulling him tighter against her quivering mound.

  Ryker didn’t stop, he didn’t even slow when she screamed out another release. He continued suckling her clit, flicking the sensitive bud with the tip of his tongue as he speared two fingers inside her, and then three. He curled his fingers, pushing up against the elastic wall of her channel massaging her G-spot and waited for another explosive orgasm to wrack her beautiful body.

  It didn’t take long. She came screaming, her body strung as tight as a bow before she collapsed on the bed, panting as he moved up the bed to lay on her other side.

  “Oh-oh…God.” She panted a bit, most likely trying to catch her breath. “No one has ever made me come like that.” She raised up on her elbows and smiled at them both. “I can see that this is the beginning of a beautiful relationship.”

  Reaching out, she grasped both of their cocks in her hands. “I want to pleasure you both at the same time. Right now.”

  “It won’t be a true mating,” Wade replied. His hips jerked as she stroked him. “We each have to take you twice. The second time is the true mating.”

  “Perhaps, but it won’t make this time any less fun, will it?” she asked with a saucy wink.

  “No, it won’t, but I thought we should warn you, just the same. Once we make love, the el calor will intensify and make us all burn with the need to mate. We wanted you to know that.”

  “I
don’t care. I want you both. I-I need you both. Right now.” As though to cement her decision, she sat up, pushed Ryker flat onto his back and straddled him. “I can’t wait, damn it. I don’t know why. Maybe it has something to do with that mating heat you keep talking about. Whatever it is, I want you both now.”

  With that, she lowered herself over Ryker with a sigh. “God you’re big. I can’t wait to feel you both inside me.” She leaned forward and bobbed up and down, stroking him in and out of her at her own pace until Ryker grasped her hips and helped her by lifting himself and ramming his cock deep inside her.

  “Come here, Wade,” Alexa said, crooking her finger.

  Wade did as he was told. He moved closer, getting on his knees his cock level with her mouth.

  Ryker heard the other man groan when she licked around the thick head. He held himself in one hand, no doubt terrified that he would lose control and harm their mate by ramming his cock deep in her throat. She was still human, after all.

  It didn’t take long for the sight of her full lips surrounding Wade’s thick cock to drive him to the edge. It had been years since he’d had a release and he was afraid he was about to spend himself too quickly, like an untried youth.

  It was the sound of Wade’s growl and Alexa’s telling scream that sent him over the edge. He knew that their mate’s ride and talented mouth had brought both she and Wade to orgasm and he was no longer able to keep such a tight rein on his own desperate release.

  He came with a growl, following his mates over the elusive precipice of complete satiation.

  Chapter Seventeen

  Alexa glanced at the alpha mayor, or whatever they called him, and squirmed. Would he think she was staying with Ryker and Wade just for acceptance? She hoped not. She didn’t know if she could handle him thinking the worst of her.