The Keeper (6 page)

             
Donovan’s whispered, “Damn that’s hot” finally got Jed’s attention.  He was ready to rip her pants off and fuck her on the kitchen counter when someone would be here any minute to fix her door.  He pulled back and rested his forehead on her shoulder.  It was only then that he realized how ragged
the breathing in the room was.  Not only from him and Lex, but Donovan as well. 

             
Donovan was the one to speak.  “Her bedroom door has a lock on it.”  He watched Lex closely as he said it.  She looked a little nervous, but not scared, as she raised her eyes to look at him. 

             
“Sorry I hit you, D.”  She looked away for a split second, but caught herself and brought her gaze back to his with a half-grin on her face. 

             
Damn, he was already hard as a rock, but that little grin brought him to the point of pain.  “No problem, Lex.”  He rubbed his hand over his jaw.  She was the only woman who had ever punched him.  He had been slapped a few times, but never punched.  “I think I probably had that coming.” 

             
Jed still had not moved his head from her shoulder.  He couldn’t believe the look in her eyes when he threatened to spank her.  It wasn’t fear at all.  The woman was intrigued.  He took a deep breath and raised his head and took her hand.  “Please, Lex.”  He pulled her to the bedroom and she followed, willingly.  Donovan
was
close behind. 

             
Donovan didn’t
really have a problem with this.  H
e and Jed had shared a few women in their day.  The problem was that he had always been able to use his mind to relax them.  He already knew that he would have no control over Lex’s mind.  He didn’t know if it was because she was so strong-will
ed
or if it was due to the fact
she was his mate, but he was scared to death she would refuse them if they pushed too hard.  Not to mention the fact that he had never seen her with a man.  As far as he knew she had never had
a relationship which meant
she was a…  “Fuck.”

             
Donovan
had said it quietly but he knew
Jed heard it. 
Jed
had been walking Lex backwards to her king-sized bed.  He paused long enough to look back over his shoulder. 
Donovan
held his fingers apart in a Vulcan hello against his thigh hoping Jed would get the hint. 

             
Jed saw what Donovan was doing and when paired with the explicative that had escaped his mouth, Jed froze.  He turned back to Lex. 

             
She could read the shock in his eyes and the guilty expression on Donovan’s face just before he turned to close and lock the door.  “What?”

             
“Lex, honey,” he cupped her face in his palms and ran his thumbs over her lips, “I need to know something
before this goes any further.”

             
She looked back and forth between both men.  “Okay..?”   The yellow in his eyes dimmed a little bit, but it was replaced by a tenderness that clawed at her heart.  She looked to Donovan who was standing just a step behind Jed now, and saw something very similar in his eyes.  She looked back to Jed waiting on him to ask. 

             
“Lex, have you done this before?
”  Jed hadn’t seen her in five years.  He knew she hadn’t slept with anyone prior to him leaving and Donovan seem
ed
pretty sure that she hadn’t on his watch either, but he had a feeling if her answer was yes, he was going to have to hunt someone down and rip their throat out. 
             

             
She looked between the two men.  “I…”  She couldn’t say it out loud so she just shook her head and looked down.  Jed allowed her to for just a second before bringing her face back up gently
with a thumb below her chin
. 

             
He couldn’t stand it anymore. 
He pulled her into his arms and turned them both away from the bed.  He knew Donovan was dying to touch her as well. 

             
Lex couldn’t believe what was happening. 
She had half expected them to change their minds at her confession.  It wasn’t that she hadn’t had a few opportunities, but there was just nobody she wanted as bad
ly
as she wanted these two men.  Nobody else would ever do. 

Jed’s lips came down on hers almost tenderly, but not quite.  Then she felt Donovan’s hand move from between her shoulder blades to her hip as he stepped up against her bottom.  She could feel both men hard and heavy against her.  She twined one hand up into Jed’s hair and reached her other arm back to pull Donovan’s head down to her.  She broke the kiss with Jed to turn and kiss Donovan. 
The kiss was much less restrained this time.  He devoured her mouth like a starving man. 
She felt Jed’s hands unbutton her pants and work her shirt loose.  She was a little surprised when Donovan’s hands started
moving
her pants down while Jed started
lifting
her shirt up almost like they had practiced it.  Holy shit!

             
She broke the kiss to stare at them.  They both stopped moving immediately.  “Y
’a
ll have done this before.”  It wasn’t really a question and she wasn’t really upset about it, just surprised. 

             
Donovan nuzzled her neck right behind her ear
.  She shivered
.  “We’ve been friends for a long time, Lex.  Since
well before you were born, but it’
s been many years
.”  She nodded her head and tilted it to the side giving him full access to her slender neck.  She knew what he was and he knew with that little move, she was giving him her trust along with her body.  He licked along the pulse that ran there, fighting the need to bite her even as his fangs lengthened.  He couldn’t turn her with just a bite, but he wanted to be insider her
the first time he did it.  He wanted to feel her tight little body pulse around him. 

             
Jed felt her relax into Donovan’s touch and figured that was all she was going to say about it.  He watched Donovan for a minute.  Donovan must have felt him looking, and when he looked up, Jed could see that he was just about as far gone as Jed was himself.  Donovan’s eyes were ringed in a vibrant red
and his fangs were fully extended.  It was time to get this woman, the one woman that had owned his heart from the time she shut him up with a kiss, beneath him and bound to him forever.  He paused, in the process of
pulling her shirt off
.  Funny, that felt so right. 
Forever.

             
Donovan moved back long enough for Jed to pull Lex’s shirt over her head.  Once that barrier was removed, Donovan worked a slow path from her neck to the clasp of her
dark purple
bra with his lips and tongue, careful not to nip her with his teeth. 
Damn, he loved lace.  It held everything like it was supposed to, but it also let bits of skin show through. 
He ran his hands from her hips up her back and unclipped the binding, knowing Jed would take care of the rest of it.  He continued his own torture, working his way with lips, tongue and fingertips down her back to rid her of her pants. 

             
Jed watched as Lex stood before him with her eyes close
d
and head back, still tilted to one side.  There was not a woman in the worl
d sexier than the one standing
before him like a breathing statue of Venus.  He reached up to her shoulders and slid the straps down her arms that were hanging loosely at her sides. 
He stepped back against the bed and looked at her
.
S
he had the creamiest flesh.  Her rounded breasts were topped with tight little pink nipples that begged to be sucked and her pouty bottom lip was pulled between her teeth as she swayed. 
He grabbed her hands and said, “Lean on me, baby, while Donovan helps you out of your boots.”  He growled when she leaned in, pressing her hard little nipples against his shirt, wishing he had already rid himself of it.

             
She was going to burn up.  She was leaning into Jed while Donovan kissed his way down her back, pausing to lick the little dimples that dented the skin just above her bottom on each side.  She gasped as the pants slid to her knees and he raised one foot, then the other to remove her slip-on boots.  When he pulled her feet free of her pants and panties and stood behind her yet again, she suddenly realized she was the only naked one in the room and moved her hands to cover her breasts. 

             
 
Donovan caught them in a flash and pulled them behind her as he feathered light kisses along her shoulder.  Jed took full advantage of her position and bent to pull one begging nipple into the heat of his mouth.  While Donovan licked and sucked along her shoulders and neck, Jed sucked and nipped at her.  It was almost more than she could handle and her knees started to give.  Jed must have sensed it because his arm caught her and pulled her against him.  He released her nipple with a gentle lick before looking over her shoulder at Donovan. 

             
“Lex, honey, get on the bed.” 

             
She knew that Jed tried to temper the growl in his voice, probably because he didn’t want to scare her, but she knew that neither of these men would do anything but protect her.  She narrowed her eyes at him her knees feeling immediately stronger.  “I know you.”  She turned to Donovan.  “Both of you.”  She shook her head.  “I know neither of you would ever hurt me.”  She turned back to Jed.  “I know what you are
-what both of you are
.  You don’t have to hide that from me.
  Ever.”

             
Jed nodded his head and Donovan swept her up into his arms.  Damn, he wished he had removed his shirt.  He wanted nothing more than to feel Lex’s soft skin against his. 
He walked with her in his arms and lay her down on the soft comforter.  He stood
to
undress, only to realize that Jed was already halfway there.  Not one to be outdone, Donovan willed his clothes gone.  Lex gasped on the bed beneath him as he winked at Jed. 
 
He heard something that sounded suspiciously like ‘fucking vamps’ escape Jed’s lips and then he was naked too. 

             
Lex looked from one perfect male specimen to the other.  It wasn’t like she hadn’t seen male parts before.  She had found most everything she wanted to know on the internet, but the pictures she had seen did nothing to prepare her for the sight of these two.  They were both muscled and lean.  Donovan was taller and paler, but his skin was stretched tight over pecs and abs that screamed sex. 
She didn’t have the courage to look from his torso. 
Jed, while a couple of inches shorter was just as ripped
with a sprinkling of dark hair on his chest that
narrowed into a line that ran to a very large…OMG.  There was no way in hell that was going to fit. 

             
Jed watched as Lex’s eyes got big.  He was used to the surprise.  He was a big man, er, wolf.
  She hadn’t looked at Donovan’s yet.  Once she realized that they were both larger than average, he was afraid she would try to throw herself down that damn trap door again.  “Honey, relax.  I promise we will go
slowly
.  You already said yourself that you know we would never hurt you.” 

             
Lex nodded and looked back to Donovan and allowed her eyes to travel down.  She heard Donovan’s chuckle
at her sharp intake of breath
. 
             

             
“Thank you.  I was starting to feel a little insecure.”  She looked back up at him.  His eyes were still ringed in red but, damn, he looked downright edible. 

             
She
felt the bed dip behind her and looked back over her shoulder for Jed to capture her lips again.  The other side of the bed dipped and there were lips at her neck.  Jed’s kiss wasn’t fast or hurried.  It was slow.  Seductive.  His tongue explored her lips until Donovan took a nipple in his mouth and her lips opened on another gasp. 
Jed’s
tongue took advantage of the opening and started searching for hers.  She was really at a disadvantage here.  There were two very hot, very experienced men in her bed and while she wasn’t totally ignorant of the act of sex, she had no idea what to do with them.  Donovan let go of her nipple.  She whimpered into Jed’ mouth.  She could feel Donovan’s smile as his lips touched the shell of her ear. 

             
“You can touch if you want to, baby.” 
Donovan
reached down and grabbed her hand that was curled into a fist and raised it to his chest.  “Please…Lex.”  She ran her fingers blindly over his chest until she reached one of his flat dark pink nipples and ran her thumb nail over it. 

             
Lex heard the hiss of breath bein
g sucked in between his teeth.  She raised her other hand and wrapped it around Jed’
s back and pulled the top half of his body down against her side while Donovan snuggled up against her other side.  She could feel Donovan’s huge erection pressing into her thigh.  She broke the kiss with Jed and pulled her head back to look at him.  His dark hair was disheveled, falling over one eye.  The other eye was glowing so yellow, it didn’t look human anymore, and yet he was still gentle.  She turned to look at Donovan who was just watching her and Jed in fascination, red eyes glowing and fangs pressing down into his bottom lip.  She had seen the fangs before.  They didn’t scare her.