Mated to Three (3 page)

The noise was too loud. She couldn’t think.

“Make it stop. Make it stop. It hurts.”

“She can hear everything,” Draco said. He was a nice man, tipped well, and she never got his order wrong.

“A newly turned wolf,” Mischa said.

We don’t like her. She’s a bitch.

The wolf paced through her mind, and the anger, the rage, and the hurt combined together, and she directed her focus on Mischa. The woman who, in the past, did everything she could to humiliate her at the café. “You’re not welcome near me.”

The three men gasped, and she glanced at them.

“Her eyes, look at them,” Alex said.

“They’re wolf eyes. They’re so beautiful,” Reese said.

Both men were nice, only she got Reese’s order wrong.

“She’s a bully. I want her gone. Get her out. Get her out!” She screamed the words, trying to bring focus back to herself but when they didn’t move fast enough, she took over and shoved at the woman. Rushing out of the bed with a speed that scared her. She stood in front of Micha and pushed hard. The woman tumbled. “I said get out!”

“Reese?” Mischa asked, sounding terrified.

Why was she terrified?

“Get out, Mischa.”

“I need to call the pack. They need to know we’re under attack.” Mischa got to her feet, and the wolf inside Bethany didn’t like it. Before she could do anything, Draco and Alex grabbed her. Reese grabbed Mischa, and started pushing her back.

“I’m the Alpha. I say what goes, and if for a second you think of telling them what is happening, I will make sure you suffer.”

“She’s not normal,” Mischa said. “She has to be destroyed.”

“She’s perfect,” Reese, Alex, and Draco said, at exactly the same time.

Bethany didn’t know what was going on. They were all looking at her. Their eyes flashing a weird color, and with the noise and the fear, everything went black.

Alex stared down at the woman who had passed out in his arms. He couldn’t believe it, but the feelings inside him were real. The bear inside him was desperate to hold her, claim her, love her. Bethany had been working for him so long, and he’d not experienced any of these feelings, and yet the urge to mate was fast calling upon him. He lifted her up so that she was supported between him and Draco as Reese took care of the petulant little wolf.

Carrying her back to the bed, they placed her on top and he knelt beside her, as did Draco.

“You feel it, too, don’t you?” Alex asked.

“Yes.”

“We have a problem,” Reese said, coming into the room.

“You’re little alphette wannabe going to hunt the rest of the pack?” Alex glanced toward him.

“No. Do you three see what is happening right now?” Reese gestured to all three of them.

Alex saw what was happening.

They all had the urge to mate with Bethany. Looking at Draco, he saw the need within him, just as he held the need, and so did Reese.

“This can’t happen,” Reese said.

“Why not? She’s a woman. A wolf woman, I admit, but she’s also human.”

“This isn’t right.”

“For heaven’s sake, Reese, neither is a woman turning into a wolf, but I scent her. I smell the change inside her, and if you think for a second I’m going to let you take her, you’re fucking wrong.”

“We all have mated with her,” Draco said, finally speaking up.

“We haven’t, not yet.” This came from Reese, who started to pace up and down. “I won’t allow this to happen.”

“You don’t have a choice. This is what our beasts want. You can’t come in the way of that.”

“I’m not going to let you hurt her.”

Draco got to his feet. “Do we look like we’d hurt her? We held her before she dropped to the floor. This is all too much for her.”

“I saw her first!” Reese yelled the words.

“No, I saw her first. I gave her a fucking job.”

“Wait, if you all want to start going on that, I saw her first, I was in school with her!” Draco said.

She whimpered, and they all froze.

“Let’s take this outside,” Alex said.

They all walked outside, and he stared up at the moon. As a bear shifter, he never felt the calling of the moon. He was an alpha in his own right, and because of that, he could turn at any time. Reese could as well, and he felt the calling of the alpha.

“So, we all want her?” Alex said.

“We don’t have a choice.”

“Fuck off,” Reese said, glaring at Draco. “We all have a choice.”

“You telling me you’re not happy about this? For months you’ve been coming into my café wanting to mate with her.”

“She’s mine!”

“No. She’s not just yours,” Draco said. “You can feel it, too. If you didn’t feel the calling of all three of us, you would have slaughtered us right here, right now. Bethany belongs to all of us.”

“We don’t even know what she is,” Reese said.

“She’s ours. That’s what she is. The reason she is different, she’s destined to be mated to three rather than just the one.” Alex had heard of some women needing more than one mate but that was across shifters, from wolves to coyotes. Some women were weak, and the need for three mates was essential to her staying alive.

Reese was the alpha of his pack, Draco the second in command, and Alex was also the Alpha of his bear pack. Only there weren’t many bears around.

“What do you suggest?” Reese asked.

“We all mate her,” Draco said.

“What if she doesn’t want it?”

Alex was growing angrier by the second. “We’re not rapists, Reese. She will have a choice. We’re not going to rush into the bedroom, wake her up, and fuck her. She’s still a person.”

“With a wolf inside her,” Draco said.

They glared at him.

“I just wanted to point that out. She is part wolf, and one day she will feel the mating heat.”

The mating heat was a lot stronger in the wolf pack than the bears. Alex had seen how desperate the women get, and they will fuck all night long, whatever man will have them to ease the burn. Knowing Bethany, it would destroy her. She wasn’t the kind of woman to invite anyone into her bed, whether she had a choice or not.

“Her senses are alive. She can’t go back to work, at least not yet.”

“No. She can’t,” Alex agreed with Reese.

“She’s going to have to stay here,” Draco said. “We’re going to have to look after her, take care of her, and offer her the support she needs during this time.”

One look at Reese, and Alex saw he didn’t like it.

“None of us are going to try to take her away, Reese.”

“I’ve wanted that woman for so long.”

“I know, and you’ll have her.”

Silence fell between them, and Alex wished he could read minds. He wanted to know what Reese was thinking.

“Did you know? Did you have this connection to her?” Alex asked.

“I knew I wanted her, that was it.”

“What about you?” He turned to Draco.

“I was always close to her. I hated the thought of anyone hurting her but I just put that down to being a nice fucking guy,” Draco said.

“So all of us have been wanting Bethany, protecting her, and it’s only now we’re all realizing she’s our mate?” Alex asked.

They all looked at each other and knew there was no way back from this. Bethany belonged to all of them.

* * * *

From the moment Reese took over as Alpha of the Riser Woods pack, Draco had been there by his side, offering him support and his loyalty. He visited the café where Bethany worked, and he’d wanted to ask her out. Of course he held back as he’d noticed his Alpha’s interest.

Now, there was no holding back.

Bethany had three shifters at her beck and call.

“She’s going to be nervous,” Alex said.

“We have to come up with a plan for this to work.” Reese paced.

“She’s a wolf. She’s frightened. Her world has just turned upside down.” Draco ran fingers through his hair, remembering everything being heightened, intense, sexual. “She’s going to need us.”

“Your pack needs to be kept at bay,” Alex said. “If they feel threatened they will kill her.”

“Mischa knows not to say anything,” Reese said.

Draco snorted. “You think that is going to keep her at bay, you don’t really know her. She’s been wanting to be your female for a long time. Now that Bethany is in the picture, she knows it’s not going to happen.”

“I’ll handle it.”

Reese’s eyes changed color, and Draco held his hands up. He wasn’t interested in starting a fight with his Alpha. All he wanted to do was make sense of everything that was happening.

His woman, his mate was laying in his Alpha’s bed, and there were two other men with the need rushing through them.

She screamed so suddenly that they all charged toward the door at the same time. Draco crushed through, and the others followed behind him. Rushing into the bedroom, he saw she was on her knees on the bed, holding her head.

“I can hear everything. The scratches, the scurrying, the howling. All of it. I want it to stop.”

Climbing on the bed, he covered her hands with his. He didn’t care if he upset the other two men. Bethany needed him.

“Take a deep breath and focus. Look at me, Bethany, focus on this room.”

“I can’t. It hurts.”

He shouted her name and she gasped, looking up at him. “Focus on me. Listen to my voice. You’re safe now. You’re in Reese’s cabin. You can turn it off. Just turn it off. Forget about them and think of the silence.”

She closed her eyes and slowly lowered her hands.

Bethany gasped, opened her eyes, and threw her arms around him, dropping him to the bed. “It’s quiet. It’s so quiet.”

Draco fell, wrapping his arms around her so that he didn’t hurt her.

“I’ve got you.”

“I couldn’t think. I didn’t understand what was happening, and I was so scared.”

“You’ve got nothing to be afraid of now. We’ve got you.”

“We?”

She looked up.

Alex and Reese were beside the bed.

“What happened?” she asked. “I know something bad happened. Everything went so dark, and the pain was out of this world.”

“I’m going to have to ask you to trust us,” Reese said.

Draco ran his hands down her back. He always found her curves sexy. The wolf women were so slender. He’d fucked a couple of them, and their bodies were all hard edges, and no real meat on the bone. Bethany possessed some wonderful hips, and her tits were huge. He couldn’t wait to see them naked, swinging in front of his face as he ploughed into her tight cunt. His dick thickened, and his mouth watered for a taste.

“What happened?”

“You were attacked, Bethany,” Alex said.

She sat up, straddling his dick. Draco was more than happy with the change of position. Cupping her hips, he tried his hardest not to thrust up against her. She felt so good.

The only way it could be better was if they were both naked, and she was riding his dick.

Bethany glanced down at her ruined clothes. Her flesh showing through. Draco stared into at her face and saw the faint traces of the claw marks across her face. The lines were faint, he wondered if it would stay like it.

“I remember. It was a large wolf, black, evil. I tried to save that woman. She was a tourist, I think. She’d come to the shop. She didn’t make it, did she?”

“No,” Alex said. “She was torn apart.”

“Why am I not in the hospital? Why am I here?” She looked at all three of them. Draco understood her confusion. Any other day, he’d have been equally confused. He was so happy, ecstatic. This woman currently straddling his dick was his fated female. He no longer had to fuck random pack women to find that connection. This was his connection. The flame that would only keep on building as they grew old together.

“You weren’t attacked by just a wolf, Bethany. You were attacked by a special kind of wolf,” Reese said. “This was a werewolf.”

She jerked. “A werewolf? They don’t exist. That’s not funny.”

“Show her,” Alex said.

Silence fell between all of them.”

“Draco,” Reese said. Draco looked toward his Alpha, still on his back, holding Bethany’s hips. “Keep hold of her.”

Seconds later, his Alpha showed his wolf side, and Bethany gasped. He expected her to scream, to panic. She simply stared at Reese. He was a large wolf, grey with black highlights. Even Draco had to admire the beauty that was his Alpha.

“You’re a wolf,” she said.

“I’m a bear,” Alex said, shifting his skin so that a large brown bear stood in his place. She looked down at him.

“I’m a wolf. I’m beta to Reese. I’m not turning, though. Wolves exist. We’re real. You were bitten, and instead of dying like humans do, you didn’t.”

“You’re turning,” Reese said, standing before them as a human once again. “The bite. It infected your blood, and now you’re going to become a wolf, full form.”

She shook her head, laughing. “This figures, doesn’t it!”

Her laughing turned to tears, and any sex that he had on his mind disappeared. Draco was more interested in comforting his woman than he was in getting his rocks off.

The following day Bethany stepped outside, and took a quick inhale of the great outdoors. She’d taken a shower, and spent the longest hour of her life staring in the mirror. Her body was the same. She still possessed the same curves, the same definition. Only now she had a lot of scars covering her body. They were faint, and it told her even more that what Reese, Alex, and Draco had said was in fact the truth.

She had been attacked by a wolf, and now she was turning into one. Draco had helped her to focus and to cut off all the noises. Once she was able to do that, she could think. She could process, and she was damn happy about that.

Taking a deep breath, she closed her eyes, and simply basked in the enjoyment of being alive.

“It’s beautiful, isn’t it?” Alex said, coming to stand behind her.

He’s so big.

She smiled. The voice inside her head was the brown wolf who liked to come and visit her. It was strange to have these kind of thoughts, but now that she knew who the voice was, she liked it.

“Yes, I always thought so.”

“How are you feeling today?”

“I’m breathing. I’m alive, and right now I’m thinking that is a good thing.” She glanced behind her, noticing he stood close. “What’s happening with the café?”