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“Harder. Give it to me harder.”

 
Jake snarled,
slipped out of her, and flipped her so she was on all fours. He spread her legs
and draped himself over her before thrusting home over and over. Jake moved a
hand to her hands to help keep her still while he moved. He rubbed her clit
with the other. Jake nipped her neck as he thrust into her in a mindless
frenzy.

“I’m…coming. I’m…please.” Her head fell back against him.

He growled loudly as he let go and bit down on her
shoulder.
Sandy
screamed and quivered around him.

“Jake.” Her head fell forward, and he felt her legs
tremble.

He emptied himself into her, groaning against her shoulder.
They fell forward, and he nuzzled her neck. “You okay, Little Red? I wasn’t too
rough?”

“
Mmmm
, you need to let go more
often.”

He chuckled and held her tighter, knowing he was the
luckiest man in the world.

****

For the last two weeks she’d been working at Zack’s shop
and loving it. The variety of people they got in was awesome. Everyone was on
alert for the shifter killer, and no one was ever left alone. Zack and Jake
were driving here crazy, and to piss her off more, her brothers and father
agreed with them.

Looking up from the phone, she noticed an elegantly dressed
lady tapping her manicured fingernails on the desk. Smiling at her, she said to
the contractor on the phone, “Could you give me a moment?” She waited for the
okay before she placed the phone down and spoke to the woman in front of her.
“Hello. May I help you?”

The lady’s eyes
narrowed,
and she
looked at her over the table. “You’re not much. You’re not what I expected at
all. I have no idea how you can handle two of the Bear men.”

 
Sandy
’s back stiffened as she figured out who
stood in front of her. She stood up and looked the lady up and down just like
she’d done. “Well, you’re exactly what I expected. If you wait here a moment, I
will tell him you’re here.”

 
She made sure her
back was straight as she walked to the back booth where a pretty blonde gazed
up at Zack as he tattooed a unicorn just under her underwear line. She waited
for Zack to stop and look up.

“I know she’s here. I heard her. Give me another fifteen
here, and I will be there to see what she wants.”

 
She nodded and
looked at the girl who hadn’t taken her eyes off Zack.
Great.
This is what I have to put up with.
She studied the tat. “That is
beautiful.”

The girl finally looked up at her. “Yeah, Zack’s the best.
He did my first ever tattoo last year on my ass.”

She shot a glance at Zack to see if he showed any
recognition of the woman, but he showed no interest in the pretty blonde that
she could see. To be on the safe side, she leaned down and kissed his cheek.
“Love you.”

He chuckled, and his eyes lit up.
Crap. He knows I’m jealous.

Taking a deep breath, she went back out to Zack’s mother.
“Take a seat. He’ll be with you in fifteen.”

Sandy
watched as Zack’s mother looked around the shop
and sat on the seat closest to her. His mother sat quietly for a good ten minutes
while she worked on the computer organizing schedules for all the artists.

“What drawings are my son’s?”

Sandy
grabbed Zack’s folder and walked around to pass
it to her. As soon as she was close enough to hand it his mother, the woman
took a deep breath in only to screech, drop the book, and stand to tower over
her.

“He mated you. I thought he was joking when he said he
had.” His mother yanked at her shirt, ripping it off her shoulder. She growled
and started to grow. “He is not your only mate.
Who else?”
The woman shook her, picked her up, and breathed her in, only to shriek and
drop her against the book table. “Who is it?
Because you are
pregnant.”

Sandy
felt the color drain from her face and
scrambled back against the reception desk. Zack and all the other artists came
running to her aid.

Zack snarled at his mother and dropped down beside her.
“Firebird, are you okay?”

Sandy
had no idea if she was okay, but she nodded
anyway.

Zack yelled, “Call an ambulance.”

She grabbed his arm. “No, please don’t. I’m fine.” She
tried to get up, but he wouldn’t let her.

Zack patted her down, and she told him she was okay. He
carefully picked her up, cradling her in his arms, and turned on his mother.

“Get out of my shop now. I don’t ever want to see or hear
from you again. This is the last straw. I disown you.”

Sandy
gasped and looked at Zack’s mother who turned
white and shook her head.

“Zack, I’m fine. She came here to see you and got a shock,
that’s all.”

The front door of the shop burst open and Jake
came pounding in. “What happened?
Why is she bleeding?”

Sandy
noticed her shoulder bleeding from Zack’s
mother’s claws. And the woman gave a sardonic laugh.

“Oh, this is brilliant. What the hell is going on with the
universe at the moment? Jake, have you told your family yet? Your sisters are
going to love this. They’ve had friends ready for you for years. Is the baby
yours or my son’s?”

Okay, this woman is starting to
piss me off.
Sandy
still winced when Jake turned to Zack’s
mother. “You are not my mother, thank God, so if you come near my mate again,
Adele, I will rip out your throat.”

 
The woman must have
some good sense because she looked between her son and Jake, nodded, and backed
out of the shop.

Sandy
closed her eyes and took several deep breaths
before opening them. “How did you get here so quickly?”

Jake looked sheepishly at her. “Since you started working
here, I have had an alert out on the shop. If anything happens, I’m radioed
straight away.”

 
She looked up at
Zack as he walked with her in his arm to his office. “You’re okay with that?”

Zack nodded.
“Yep, anything to keep you
safe.”

She sighed as he sat in his office chair. “So is your
mother right?”

Both their eyes narrowed and they said, “About what?”

“Am I pregnant?”

 
They both nodded.

“Why haven’t you told me?”

Zack groaned. “Because you’re our mate we didn’t know until
now. Remember I told you we can’t tell stuff like that with our mates.”

“But other shifters can?” she asked.

“Yep,” Jake said.

Sandy
sat up and held her clothes on. She needed to think.
She needed her friends. “I’m going home now. I need a shower then I’m going to
go visit Susie and Sammy.”

She didn’t give either of them a chance to respond. She
reached in the drawer, grabbed Zack’s keys and her bag, and walked out the
door.

****

Zack sat in the obstetrician’s waiting room with
Sandy
. Jake sat on her
other side.
Sandy
didn’t touch either of them. Her arms were crossed over her chest, and she shot
glares at Jake and him.

Sandy
had tried to book an appointment and not tell
them about it. After she’d come home from Susie’s, she’d been quiet.
Sandy
told them on the
weekend she would be going out and having a girl’s night, and if she saw either
of them once, she would cut off their balls.

Zack reached for her hand again only for her to snarl at
him. “Come on, Firebird. We want to be here to hear the good news and know if
there is anything you need.”

“I could have told you when I got home. I wanted to come
alone and not with two men.”

“Why?”

“Because I don’t want everyone looking at me like they are
now.”
Sandy
’s
voice lowered. “You need to both stop touching me. If I’m pregnant, I have no
idea who the father is. I was just going to tell my doctor unknown because it’s
the truth. I’m scared already that in nine months’ time, one of you is going to
leave me because the baby isn’t yours. I love you both too much to lose either
of you. So at the moment, I need time to think about everything this baby will
change.”

Jake muttered, “How long
you been
holding all that in?”

Sandy
shrugged and wiped at the tears falling down
her cheeks.

Zack looked around him, noticing that many of the women
were staring at them. Not caring where they were, he lifted her off her seat
and sat her on his lap. She let out a quick backhand, hitting his chest.
Turning her face to his, he stroked her cheek and leaned down to kiss her tears
away.

“
Sandy
,
we are never leaving you no matter what. If the baby is Jake’s, I will still
love it just as if it were my own. We could always work for the next one to be
mine. But even if all the children you have are Jake’s, that won’t make me
leave or love you or the children we have any less. I love you so much,
Sandy
. I would marry you
in a heartbeat.”

She gasped and her eyes went wide. She wrapped her arms
around him, and she relaxed against him.

Jake nodded to him before grabbing
Sandy
and placing her on his lap. He
whispered in her ear, “That goes double for me. I even have a ring for you at
home. Yesterday I got my first tattoo.” Jake sat her forward and pulled up his
shirt. Over his heart it said, “
Sandy
’s
forever.”

“I—”

Sandy
was cut off as a doctor said, “Sandy
Silverman.”

She got off Jake’s lap, stood up straight, and turned to
them holding out both her hands. Zack let out a breath he hadn’t realized he’d
been holding. He and Jake both got up and grabbed a hand before following the
doctor into the room.

****

The doctor confirmed what he and Jake already knew, told
her the vitamins she needed to have, and the food and drinks she couldn’t. He’d
been a really nice doctor and didn’t even blink when
Sandy
said they were both the fathers. He
nodded his head and told her that when she came back in four weeks’ time, they
should be able to do a scan and hear the heartbeat.

They were all home now snuggling on the lounge and watching
a movie.
Sandy
lay happily between them. Zach stroked her hair, and Jake rubbed her feet.

Every now and then
Sandy
would stare at her hand and the two diamond rings. Zack’s ring had a stone in
the middle surrounded by blue sapphires. Jake’s ring fit perfectly with his
just the way they’d designed it with diamonds and blue sapphires alternating in
a curve around his ring.

They had cooked her an early dinner, and at the end both of
them got down on one knee and asked her to marry them. She’d jumped up to hug
them, and they’d moved to her bedroom to celebrate.

A knock on her back door had
Sandy
jackknifing up.

“Who on earth is that? It can’t be my brothers. They just
barge in.”

Sandy
moved to get up, but Zack held her to him and
Jake went to the back door. Minutes later
Sandy
’s
brothers and father come in behind Jake. Zack watched her as she cocked her
head to the side and her brow furrowed.

“What’s going on? You never knock.”

Sandy
’s father cleared his throat a couple of times, looked at
Zack and then at Jake who’d taken his spot next to
Sandy
.

“Ah, well, you boys have been here for well over a month,
and we…I just wanted to know what intentions you have toward my daughter.”

 
Zack winked at
Sandy
. “Jake and I are
almost done with her here. We all just need to find a bigger place of our own.
You have nothing to worry about. She’s not our girlfriend anymore.”

Her father turned bright red and sputtered. “Sandy, baby
girl, do you want your brothers and me to get rid of them?” He came forward,
but Philip’s eyes widened and he held his father.

Sandy
burst into giggles, and got up. “Dad, he’s just
playing with you.” She held out her hand to show him her rings. “They asked me
to marry them, and I said yes.”