The Love of Twin Wolves

STORY EXCERPT

Bobbi’s bones vibrated at the deep timbre of the male voice. She screwed the photo tight in her fist and turned away without looking up at the person who’d spoken. She didn’t like strangers talking to her. She looked like a young man and had found that most strange men who approached her were sick fuckers looking for a rent boy. She definitely wasn’t what this guy wanted.

She’d only taken one step when the deep voice called out her name. “Bobbi?”

“The fuck it is?” said another deep voice.

Bobbi kept her voice soft and deep as she dared a glance over her shoulder. “Are you looking for Bobbi?”

She saw only broad chests covered in tight black T-shirts. She turned, staggering a little as the pain in her side intensified. She looked up, and up, seeing broad shoulders, thick necks, strong jaws, and finally, handsome faces framed by short black hair. Two sets of black eyes stared straight at her from their identical faces.

“You’re her,” the twin on the left said softly. “Holy fuck.”

“Someone has hurt you,” the one on the right stated. Their eyes, both sets, seemed to flash with color in the light of the bus station. Flash red.

“Please give Sam a message from me.”

“We’re here to take you to her,” the one on the left said harshly.

“No, please.” Bobbi saw muscles ripple under their tight shirts as both men clenched their fists. “No more…” Tears stung her eyes as she looked down at the size of those clenched fists. She wouldn’t survive a beating from fists that big. She took a step back, holding out her shaking hands.

The photo fell to the ground, and Bobbi’s vision blurred as she stared at Sam’s smiling face in the crumpled photo. She was finished. “Tell her I love her, that she’s my sister in everything but blood.”

* * * *

Tucker had never been at such odds with his wolf. They normally functioned as one, even though they were disparate halves of a whole being. But that was before he’d encountered her. Before he’d seen her, scented her. Bobbi was not merely a battered woman in need of protection—she was his mate. His heart, his life.

Tucker was vibrating with anger as he stared down at the small, fragile-looking woman. He growled, the sound deadly and menacing. Bobbi’s already white face paled impossibly further as her gaze darted around the bus terminal, no doubt looking for the wild animal about to attack her. The wild animals were standing right in front of her, only they wanted to attack—no, kill—the man, or men, who had laid their hands on this delicate creature and hurt her.

“Tucker,” Kai whispered in warning. “She doesn’t understand what we are.”

“Or what she is to us.” Tucker stretched out his arm, his hand palm up in a universally nonthreatening gesture. “Miss. I’m Tucker, and this is my brother, Kai. I believe you’re expecting us. Drew sent us to collect you.”

That this was Bobbi was a certainty. Even though she was much changed from the curvy, voluptuous woman with long hair in the photo Drew had sent them, he knew it was her. Her eyes, big brown eyes that shone right now with pain and fear, were the same. Kind eyes. Someone had seen those gentle eyes and still brutalized her.

“Who the fucking hell did this to you, sweetheart?” Now it was Kai who shook with his wolf’s anger.

Tucker was losing the battle to contain his beast, and as he took in every fading bruise on his mate’s face, the way she was hunched and hugging her abdomen, he just slipped deeper into a primal rage.

“Oh.” Her mouth remained open as she stared at him. He knew from the heat behind his eyes that they would be turning red—his wolf was pushing to be free. It wanted to hunt. It was good at hunting. It would find its prey, and it would kill without remorse.

“Did Drew tell you we work in the Redmere police department with him?” Tucker managed at last. Tucker let his wolf have the freedom it wanted. He saw no reason to contain it anymore—they wanted the same thing. They wanted the person or persons responsible for Bobbi’s injuries, whatever they were, to die. “We’re detectives, as well. We can help you, Bobbi.”

She shook her head and stepped back. “This is nothing. I fell. I fell over. That’s all. I need you to tell Sam good-bye. I’m not going to contact her anymore.” She shook her head as tears started to roll down her face. “I can’t go with you. I was wrong to agree to Drew’s request.”

Her voice shook as she stepped back again. Tucker wanted to warn her, but only a soft growl came out. She shouldn’t push his wolf away right now. It was too close to breaking free, and it didn’t like her putting any added space between them. He closed the gap with one stride and was immersed in the sweet scent that was all mate, along with the acid sting of her fear.

“I can’t come to Redmere. I’m sorry to have put you to any trouble.”

Kai’s hand was firm, then painful, on his shoulder as Kai gripped him and tugged him back a few inches. “Bobbi, isn’t it? I’m Kai. We’ve been policemen too long to believe the injuries you’re wearing are from a fall.” Kai was all wolf as he spoke now, his tone hard, cold, deadly, and uncompromising. “We can talk here or in the truck on the way to Redmere—your choice. Know this though, sweetheart, we are not leaving here without you. No one is ever going to lay their hands on you in anger again, not while Tucker and I draw breath.”

ADULT EXCERPT

He looked desperately to Kai. “We started the mating.” Kai’s frantic words confirmed his fear. Even though they’d already claimed her as theirs, it seemed nature would not be denied their full commitment any longer. The mating, once started, would lead to pain and death for all three of them if they failed to cede to the demands it was making on their bodies.

Pushing his fear aside, he sought to reassure and calm his mate. Bobbi would always come first for him in matters of her protection and her happiness. She was now his to care for. He would be the mate she deserved, the mate she needed. With that in mind, he looked into her eyes and was calmed by what he saw there. He was the mate she desired. This joining would seal their hearts and souls in a bond they both craved. His years of anguish and shame seemed inconsequential when she was here as his reward.

“Together forever.”

“Forever,” she echoed as she reached for him and pulled him into a kiss that sealed both their fates. There was no turning back. He let his instincts guide him as he deepened the kiss and moved to lie between her thighs.

She arched up against him, her entire body branding him with the heat of her need. He’d never imagined he could feel so much pleasure just from holding a woman in his arms. His cock grew harder, pulsing as the rigid length slid against the dewy folds of her core.

Her legs wrapped around his hips, tipping her pelvis and allowing the head of his cock to slide straight into her pussy.

She broke their kiss and pressed her small body tight to his. “More, Tucker. I want you so badly.”

“We’re here,” Kai soothed, gently cupping her cheek and turning her head. “Tonight, our lives together truly begin.”

She moaned as Kai’s lips took hers. Tucker tucked one hand under her ass and supported his weight on the other, fearing he’d crush her. “Mine.” He licked over his mark, and Bobbi’s pussy tightened as he thrust slowly inside her, not stopping until he was buried as deep as he could go.

“Heaven,” he murmured against her neck as she rocked her hips, urging him to move in a silent plea.

Kai released her lips but stayed by her side, stroking her cheek as he muttered endearments. Bobbi locked her gaze with his, and in that instant, they were joined completely, body and soul, as he began to stroke into her. Her eyes fluttered closed as she moaned and matched his rhythm.

“Stay with me,” he commanded, his voice sounding tortured and rough as his balls drew up tight, his cum churning as he fought to delay his orgasm until they came together. She obeyed, her eyes opening and a small smile stretching her luscious lips.

“So bossy.”

He thrust harder, deeper and faster, her smile slipping as pleasure made her moan with each drive of his hips. He was close, but so was she. He felt the spasmodic flutter of her inner muscles as they gripped his cock tight.

“Come,” he commanded, lowering his mouth to her neck. He let his canines extend and sink into the fresh wound of his mark. She cried out her pleasure as her sweet, intoxicating blood filled his mouth.

He came hard, the first few pulses painful as his cum shot deep inside his mate. They rode the wave of their orgasms together, their movements discordant and languid as they shared their pleasure.

He pulled his canines free of her flesh, then sealed the wound with his tongue, confident that the mark was now a permanent brand of ownership. The exchange of blood for his seed completed both the mating and the claiming. His wolf howled. They were bonded for life, their mate a gift that ensured their future happiness would be graced with strong, healthy offspring.

“I love you,” Tucker said. Bobbi stared up at him, and he frowned as he saw insecurity in her eyes.

“You are more than I deserve, little one, but you’re mine now, and I’m keeping you. I adore you.” Her smile washed the small fear away and made his breath catch at the sight of her sheer beauty. “That was incredible.”

He’d said the right thing, her body relaxing as a slight blush colored her cheeks. Tucker never said the right thing.

“For me, too. I never knew sex could feel this good.”

“Wait until we take you together,” Kai said. Tucker smiled as Bobbi’s blush deepened to a dark red.

“Not tonight, little one.” She smiled at his reassurance. “But soon. Tonight, we complete the mating. Tomorrow, once you’re healed, we complete the claiming.”

He glanced briefly at Kai, who nodded his understanding. Their instincts had been right: they did indeed share a mate. The pain of decades of anguish and guilt at their birth pack’s assertion that they were in some way flawed was now gone for both of them. Bobbi was here and she was theirs.

In the Company of Wolves

STORY EXCERPT

Wade paced outside the tent where Kai and Tucker had just married their mate, their pregnant mate, apparently. He wanted to congratulate them, wanted to be happy, but his wolf was on alert. Something had happened, and it had changed the relaxed and joyous vibe of the reception in a nanosecond. Wade had had a bad feeling all day that something was about to happen, and his feelings were never wrong.

Paxton approached with Angus and Kai. And here it comes. Bad news.

Angus’s face was set in hard lines. His jaw was clenched and his shoulders were stiff. “Jules and Walker have missed two of their scheduled check-ins,” Angus said without preamble.

Two? This meant they were either unconscious, incapacitated…or dead.

“Wade, I want you and Kai to go to Vegas and find my men.”

“Alpha,” Paxton said immediately. “I want…”

“I want my pack safe, all of them, and that means you need to remain here, Paxton.” Angus’s hard expression softened as he put a hand on Paxton’s shoulder. “The pack needs you here. I need you here.”

Wade and Pax had spent years together in the army’s Special Forces, but they didn’t need to be together to be effective. Paxton nodded at Angus in understanding.

“Watch him, Kai,” Paxton said as he gave Wade a hard stare that told him he better not fucking die or Pax was going to come and haunt him in the afterlife. “If you don’t, he’ll have you doing all the work and then thanking him for the privilege.”

Kai barked out a laugh, but Wade embraced his older brother and slapped him on the back. “I’ll be careful, Pax.”

Paxton shrugged from his hold and nodded stiffly. “When you find them, kick their asses for me.”

Wade nodded and turned to follow Kai and Angus to the Alpha’s truck, leaving the wedding and the guests without a backward glance. “Hell of a honeymoon,” Wade muttered as he climbed in beside Kai.

“Bobbi is safe with Tucker and the pack. I’ll have my honeymoon when Jules and Walker are back home with us.”

There was no regret, no censure, in Kai’s softly spoken vow. Kai may not be their brother by blood, but they were pack, and pack was family. As far as Kai was concerned, they were both going to get their brothers back.

“When was your last contact with them?” Kai asked.

“Seventeen-thirty hours. They were following Lawrence Gilchrist after he’d dumped the body of an unknown subject into the trunk of his car.”

“Christ,” Wade said. “We were waiting for him to do something suspicious. That certainly qualifies.”

“They were supposed to call me every hour, but I’ve heard nothing from them since.”

“That was three hours ago,” Kai said. “We can get to the airport in Denver in an hour and a half, two and a half hours flying time—if you have a jet ready and waiting—and then, assuming Boothe has worked his magic and has a bead on one of their cell phones…”

“It’s still too fucking long,” Wade interjected. He growled in frustration as he refused to say out loud what they were all thinking.

“This is not going to be a body retrieval,” Angus ground out. “Remember, we’re not alone in the fight to keep our world hidden from the humans.”

Wade shook his head, despondency refusing to release its grip on his heart. They were simply too far away to help his brothers, assuming they were even still alive.

“You’ve called Finn, the Alpha in Eminence,” Kai said slowly. “I heard they’d acquired a few jets when the Pollocks came home.”

Wade’s gaze shot to Angus, but he didn’t need to see the Alpha’s tight smile as confirmation, he could hear the distinctive roar of a jet engine. “No way…”

“Wes will be landing on my back paddock in less than a minute.”

Wade could now see the lights of the approaching jet shining brightly in the clear night sky. “How soon can he get us to Las Vegas?” His wolf growled inside his head, the hunt taking on a renewed sense of urgency.

 “Where are they?” Wade asked, his mind already formulating scenarios for the upcoming rescue.

“They’re deep in Death Valley National Park. The jet won’t be able to land.”

“Can they drop us off?” Wade asked, his eyes burning hotly with the fire of his excited wolf. They both liked to hunt, and this hunt was more important than anything they’d ever attempted. He was going to bring his brothers home alive. I have to. I won’t live with the alternative.

“I’ve never done a night drop,” Kai said with a smirk. The pack sentinel was never one to back away from a challenge or from a hunt.

“We’ll do a tandem jump,” Wade said. “I’ll need…”

“It’s already on board,” Angus said. The Alpha swung off the highway and tore up the dirt road of his property. “You’ll find you have everything you need. The pride in Eminence has Samson Reed as their quartermaster.”

Wade nodded, a smile twitching at his lips as hope surged through him. He knew Samson Reed well, and also knew he lived up to his reputation as the most lethal warrior in the shifter world. There would be enough equipment on board that jet to fight a small army. Good. “Those cops in Vegas aren’t going to know what hit them.”

Wade refused to let the fear take root and fester. He had a job to do. He had to keep himself and Kai alive through a difficult night incursion and then pull his brother’s asses out of whatever trouble they’d gone and landed themselves in.

Easy.

ADULT EXCERPT

Jules tore his lips from hers and kissed her cheek. “You’re killing me, Evie. Tell me to stop or I’ll be inside you before we reach the bed.”

“Don’t stop.” The husky voice sounded nothing like hers. She meant it, though. She sucked at Jules’s neck, her pussy getting wetter as his steps faltered and he moaned deeply.

“Fuck.”

She was hoisted higher against his body as he supported her with one arm. She released his deliciously spicy skin to protest when she heard fabric tearing. One tug against her own clothing and hot, steely flesh pushed against her opening. She didn’t think, didn’t hesitate, didn’t speak. She pushed down, her leaking juices making him slide deeply and effortlessly inside her.

She clung to him and moaned as pleasure rocked her. She felt her pussy stretch and fill as his cock filled her in one sensuous slide. He sank a little deeper with each of his strides, and she shivered as his cock bumped the entrance to her womb in a sensation that teetered on the very edge of where pleasure morphed to pain. Her Jules was a big man. Big everywhere.

Her head span as she was lowered onto her back, Jules following her down, his arms braced to hold his weight off her.

“Too perfect, Evie. Tell me you want to be my mate?”

His eyes bored into hers, the wolf alive in the dancing red sparks that lit the blue of his irises. She wanted him. Wanted them all. Wanted to be with them.

“I don’t know how it happened so fast, but I love you. I know I love you. All of you.”

Evie heard the soft growls and saw movement around her. Walker, Paxton, and Wade were there. Jules moved inside her, and she felt the tears fill her eyes. It was so good. So much better than anyone had a right to feel.

Paxton wiped away a tear as it ran into her hair. “You didn’t answer his question.”

“I can’t be your mate.”

Jules stopped moving and seemed to have turned to cold, hard stone above her.

“What?” Jules husked.

Evie knew she’d ruined everything. Was making a mess of her explanation. “I have to leave. Have to bury Oscar and be with my parents for as long as they need me.”

Jules’s breath whooshed out as he closed his eyes and sighed. “Fuck, Evie. You nearly killed me.”

Evie took in the deathly white color of Jules’s face and shivered at how cold his body had become. She suspected he wasn’t speaking figuratively when he said she’d nearly killed him. She needed to get this right, make them understand.

“We told you we’d come with you,” Walker said. He knelt by the bed, stroking her leg as his gaze burned her with his need. “We will be wherever you are. Always.”

This was what she didn’t want. “I want you all, but I can’t ask you to leave the pack when they need you. Bobbi, Samantha, little Corey. They need all of you. I will be your mate when I come back.”

Jules went to rise but she clung to him. “Don’t stop,” she begged. “I want you so badly.” She looked at Walker, then Paxton and Wade. “I want to make love to you all, but I can’t bind you to me until I come back.” She swallowed as pain tore at her heart. Even thinking about leaving them was agony. “I can’t do that to your pack.”

“So, you’ll make love to us,” Wade said slowly, his gaze flicking briefly to Walker as Walker growled. “But you don’t want to complete the mating.”

Evie’s eyes slammed shut, and she moaned as Jules thrust deeply inside her. “You will torture us by allowing us to claim this body as ours and mark you with our seed but deny us the bite that will bind our souls.”

Evie felt too much. She was hot, too hot. Her clothes rasped painfully against her skin. She tore at Jules’s shirt, desperate to feel his warm skin beneath her hands. “Yes.”

Jules wrapped his arms around her back and held her snugly as he lifted to kneel on the bed. He sat on his heels and she ended up straddling his lap as he thrust slowly and deeply inside her. 

She ripped his shirt open, sending buttons flying as she smoothed her hands up his perfect chest, delighting in the feel of him as she pushed his ruined shirt down his arms. He was beautiful. Hard, sculpted muscles and caramel skin. Her fingers tingled just from the feel of him.

“Can we do that? Is it allowed?” She whispered the words, dreaded asking in case it was impossible. Jules thrust deeply as he lifted the sweatshirt up over her head, trapping her arms until Walker pulled the garment free.

“It’s allowed,” Wade said, lifting his hand to show her one wickedly curved claw. “It’s not what we want.” She watched as he lowered that claw to her pants. He ran it down her leg, and she gasped as the material parted instantly. “It’s just not the way it’s usually done.”

“Our mate, our rules,” Paxton said, gripping her cheeks softly in his big hands and taking her mouth in a kiss that left her in no doubt that she was being claimed, even if she wasn’t going to allow them to bind themselves to her with their bites.

Evie wanted them. Wanted them so badly she nearly changed her mind when Paxton released her lips and Jules lowered her to the bed. She felt him everywhere, and it was heaven. His hard, hot flesh slid over hers, and her pussy gripped him tightly as her orgasm came rushing up on her.

“Look at me, Evie,” Jules said. She forced her eyes open, her pussy fluttering as Jules thrust faster, harder inside her. His arms were still under her, his hands wrapped around her shoulders, pinning her in place, locking her against him. “You’re mine.”

“Yours.”