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She pushed him back a little and looked up
with a slight frown marring her exquisite face.

“Seriously, what did you mean by that?”

Jack smiled down at his lover, and an
amazing feeling of relaxation passed over him. His eyes were heavy, and his
shoulders were releasing their stress.

“I mean, I’m used to women who just want to
use me to gain a release. But you’re not, are you? You honestly want
me
.”

Ash nodded, redness
coloring
her face.

“Of course I want you! You’re amazing!
Generous, selfless, confident and funny! I’ve only known you for one day and I
already feel closer to you than I do some of the people I’ve known all my
life.”

She picked up one of his hands and pressed
a kiss to his rough palm, the touch of her soft lips erasing the pain of those
past moments of so-called intimacy he’d had with others.

“Thank you, sweetheart.”

He cleared his throat with an
embarrassed
cough. Shit, his voice was all rough. He
captured her chin in his hand and held her face still while he rained kisses
down on her soft skin. Her cheek, her nose, her forehead, and those lips
that were
sweeter than the purest honey.

“I’m going to love you so
well,
you’ll never leave me, Ash.”

She gasped against his lips and Jack pulled
back, his brain stuttering over the words he’d just said. Before today, he’d
only told one woman in his life that he loved her—his ex-wife.

This was the first time it felt right. He
now knew that it hadn’t been true, pure love before.

Ash’s face began to transform. The cloud
that had been hovering over her face disappeared, leaving behind a clear
beauty. Her blue eyes seemed to light up, the lines around her
them
opened up, and a smile like the summer sunshine broke
out across her face.

She began to laugh and he just lay there
and watched her. Tears were leaking down her face as she let go of whatever
she’d been holding on to. When she finally stopped chortling, she wiped the
tears away and looked at him with a warm expression bordering on wonder.

“Why do I actually believe you?”

He growled and rolled on top of her,
pinning her gorgeous body beneath him and settling between her thighs.

“Because I never lie.”

Chapter Six

Jack bent his head to suck on
Ash’s neck, loving the feel of her heartbeat fluttering beneath his lips.

He couldn’t claim her
today,
he knew he couldn’t, but the need to do so rode him
hard. Despite Scott’s reservations about the whole perfect pair mating thing,
Jack knew now that the legends were true. They needed Ash, and would never be
happy without her.

“How are
you feeling about the idea of being both my and Scott’s mate?”

Ash frowned and lifted her
hand, using her fingertips to make circles on his shoulder.

“I don’t really know, to be
honest. If you’d asked me last week how I felt about threesomes, I would have
been horrified. But having seen my cousin with her two husbands, and knowing a
bit better how the dynamics of it all works, thanks to you…I…”

Ah, so she was struggling
with the fact that she now didn’t mind the idea. Women were so bloody contradictory.

“All I’m asking, Ash, is for
you to keep an open mind about it. I know, in theory it seems strange, but I
have faith in the legends of my people.”

She cocked her head and
smiled up at him.
“Your people?”

“
Mmhmm
.”
He hummed and began kissing her again, not wanting to
reveal all of their secrets yet. It would be hard enough for her to accept both
him and Scott at once, not to mention the fact that they could both turn into
Rocky Mountain lions whenever they felt like it.

“My turn.”

Ash wiggled out from beneath
him as she spoke and pushed on his chest as though she wanted him to roll off
her.

“Huh?” He followed her lead
and moved to
lay
on his back beside her. He stared at
her as she began to kiss down his chest, her soft, wet lips like little
electric shocks against his skin.

Her tongue flicked out and
licked at one of his nipples, and lightning zinged through his chest.

“Hey, come up here, beautiful
girl.”

Jack was uncomfortable but
wasn’t quite sure why. He reached down with the intention of pulling her up
against him but stopped when she glared up at him.

“No, I want to touch you too,
Jack.”

He chuckled and
lay
his hand over where hers gripped his bicep.

“You are.”

She shook her head. “No, I
mean I want to be able to enjoy your incredible body without you distracting me
or stopping me.”

His face heated and for the
first time Jack was glad for the dimly lit room.

“You don’t have to pay me
back, Ash. I’d prefer just to pleasure you.”

And he honestly did. Why was
she acting so strangely about it?

Ash giggled and moved over to
his other nipple, this time sucking it into her mouth and making him gasp as
his cock twitched against his thigh.

It didn’t make sense that
such a simple thing could feel so good.

Ash continued to move down
his body, kissing over his torso and making him instinctively suck in his gut.
He was getting a bit thick in the waist, perhaps he’d start running again since
he now had Ash to impress.

“You have the most
magnificent body I have ever seen in real life.”

Ash punctuated her words with
slow kisses over his abs, and Jack laughed.

“As long as you want what you
see, sweetheart, I’m happy.”

She looked up and gave him a
big smile, the sort that made him clench his teeth against the need to come.
She was too beautiful. Where had she been all of his life?

She looked down and before he
realized what she planned, she took his already excited cock into her mouth. He
hissed through his teeth as she wrapped her hot fist around the base and sucked
the sensitive head into her mouth, sending hot streams of sensation through his
cock and into his body.

“Oh wow, that feels
wonderful.”

He forced his eyes open as he
watched her work him. Feeling the wet heat and suction was hot enough, but
looking down on her was the most erotic sight he’d ever seen. Ash, his mate,
and the most beautiful, intelligent, caring woman he’d ever met, had chosen to
take his cock in her mouth. She actually wanted to give him attention. Life had
never been so good.

She flicked her tongue out
and licked the slit, making him groan and clench his hands into fists. His
orgasm was teasing at him, his balls tightening and drawing up against his
body.

He held on to his control,
enjoying the fight as Ash’s beautiful mouth licked and teased him.

She began moving her hand,
squeezing his shaft and stroking him as she sucked him. The heat began to move
over him like a wave and he grabbed at her hands.

“Stop, stop.”

He tried to pull away but she
gripped him harder, pulled her mouth off with a wet
pop,
and pinned him with a glare.

“Why?”

Tendrils of pleasure were
licking at him, threatening to overwhelm him as she moved her hand on his rock
hard flesh.

“I’d rather not come like
this. I’ll wait until tonight, or until I can be inside you. It’s better if we
wait a bit longer to make love, I think.”

He practiced the principles
of Tantric usually and didn’t mind pulling himself back from an orgasm. Also,
he really wanted to come with her pussy wrapped around him, and the wait would
be worth it.

Ash continued to stroke him
with her hand and stared up at him.

“Why would we wait? Don’t you
want me?”

“Ah…” Trees, water, ice. Jack
pulled up as many images of non-arousing things as he could think of, rather
than the picture Ash made with her hand around his cock and her tempting mouth
oh-so-close.

“Of course I want you! You’re
fucking gorgeous! But if you really do want to try to be a family with my twin
and
I
, the legends encourage the first mating to be
all three of us.”

He panted and gasped as she
kept up her perfect pace.

“I suppose that makes sense
to me, as much as any of this does.”

Ash grinned and kissed the
crown of his cock. The traitor
weeped
a pearl of
white
precum
out the tip as another wave of arousal
ascended.

“No, I don’t think so. If we
can’t have sex, then I want you to come now, like this.”

She engulfed his cock down to
the base in one movement and the pleasure picked him up and crashed him against
the shore.

“Oh fuck!”

He made one last attempt to
pull away but Ash held on tight as he began to orgasm. White lights flashed in
front of his eyes and, as sweat broke out across his forehead, hot cum spilled
out of him, making his entire body shudder.

She swallowed him down,
continuing to lick and hum, making her throat ripple around him. His orgasmic
shivers continued, vibrating along his arms and legs.

“Oh wow. Oh wow.” His brain
was stuck on a loop. He couldn’t believe how good he felt.

Ash let his softening flesh
slip from her mouth and began kissing a pattern back up to his face. His arms
felt like lead but he forced them to rise and wrap around her warm body as she
settled against him and kissed his chest.

Bliss descended, making him
black in and out several times before his body relaxed and he chuckled softly,
unable to keep his happiness inside.

“Thank you, sweetheart.”

He kissed the top of her
head, smiling against her strawberry-scented hair.

“Do you want to just hang out
tonight? We could get some dinner later, maybe try to pin Scott down?”

Ash nodded and hummed,
nestling into his side and relaxing against him.

He glanced over to the clock
across the room and saw that it was only three thirty.

“Maybe a
nap first?”

He rolled to the side and
drew her body flush against his. Her breath was against his chest as she
nuzzled into his shoulder and got comfy.

“Yes, please…”

Jack let his body relax and
sink down into the darkness. For the first time in his life a soul deep
happiness fell over him, wrapping him in its warmth.

****

Scott blinked his eyes open,
groaning as the late-morning sun hit his overtired body. His shoulders hurt,
his thighs were tight, and his head was so foggy he could barely manage one
clunky thought at a time. He’d barely slept a wink last night, which even for
him was bad. He usually managed at least a couple of hours of solid sleep, but
last night he’d tossed and turned, even reaching down to stroke himself to
orgasm around five in the morning, hoping the lethargy would knock him out. No
such luck. He’d seen every minute of the clock tick over until seven and must
have fallen asleep after that.

He ached everywhere and if he
hadn’t been in perfect health last night, he’d think he was coming down with a
virus of some sort.

“Oh, for
fuck’s sake.”
He couldn’t ignore the pain in his lower abdomen a moment longer. He rolled out
of bed and staggered to the toilet, his head pounding and his knees shaking as
they struggled to carry his weight.

He growled and stretched in
front of the mirror, noticing the black circles beneath his eyes.

“Bloody
Jack.”

Something was up with his
twin. Scott had only felt this terrible a few times in his life, and it had
always been linked to something massive happening to his brother.
Stupid damn mystical twin
connection.
Was something threatening him?

Scott showered and dressed,
his lion pushing up at him for a run. It’d been so long since he’d let his animal
shifter loose, probably too long to be healthy.

He stripped his clothes back
off his tingling body and opened the back door. It was time to embrace his
lion. He let go of his humanity and let his shifter take over.

Cinnamon-
colored
fur sprouted in place of his skin and he dropped to all fours as his body and
face transformed into a Rocky Mountain lion.

The animal itself was quite a
loner, but his shifter family was closely knitted together, liking the comfort
of others above the solitary existence of the real animal.

The wind rustled his fur and
he took a deep breath through his nose, smelling the fresh scent of spring. The
rich dirt, the crisp leaves, together with the promise of a light rain.