The Pleasure

LORELAI

“Braxton sent me!” the frail, ghostly girl beneath my hands said, holding her arms up in surrender. I tightened my grip on her throat and bared my teeth.

“He said nothing about sending you.”

“Rogue,” Kai snarled.

“Heather. And you can ask him. I know you’re mates. He said if I helped him get you back, then he would help me,” she said. She was not trembling beneath my grasp, but the wariness was there in her eyes.

Brax wasn’t answering the link.

I bared my teeth again.

“I swear. I met him at the lake. Us rogues are fucked, okay? We don’t have anywhere to hide with the vamps everywhere, and we are taking the brunt of this war. I needed food and shelter. He offered it to me in exchange for helping you.”

“He let you in the city?!” Kai barked.

She shook her head quickly. “No, he said that was up to the luna. He gave us the water villages while the humans aren’t there. It means there is shelter from the cold. He has been leaving us food. Now I’m fulfilling my deal to help. I know where every camped vamp is on the route home, and I brought some clothes and food with me.” She nodded down to the bag she had with her.

“I’ve been waiting for you to be finished in here. I figured the heat was keeping you occupied.” She smirked and looked over us both. I snarled at her for her leisurely gaze at Kai.

“Mine, rogue. Careful where your eyes wander,” I warned.

She laughed. “I have no interest in your mate, Luna. I was admiring his survival success after two stints with the vamps. Their captivity is no joke.”

“And you know how?” Kai demanded, grabbing the bag she had brought with her. He snatched the clothes out. They would fit, and I would prefer arriving in the city with clothes. My scars weren’t completely healed despite feeling better. Neither was Kai.

“We should get going. The vampires will get your scent soon if we don’t move from this spot. Patrol passes around this time,” Heather said and looked at me, waiting for me to release her throat. Her pulse was steady. She didn’t care that I had her life in my hands. That was either brave or reckless. Or both.

I let her go, and Kai handed me clothes, watching the rogue with wary eyes.

“Don’t call her Luna. She is not your luna,” he said as I pulled on the peasant dress. The familiar itch of the wool was strangely comforting as it slid over my skin. It reminded me of home, of Mom, of the village life before the city.

Everything had changed so much, and I wouldn’t go back, but sometimes the reminder was nice.

“Seems disrespectful not to,” Heather said before turning and heading down the steep rocky cliffside to the forest below.

“Rogues can’t use our titles?” I asked Kai before we left with her.

He handed me an apple from the bag, and I took it. He grabbed out another and took a huge bite, half the apple gone.

“No. They lost that right when they were declared rogue.”

“You don’t trust her?” I asked. He narrowed his eyes on her as we started climbing down before he shook his head.

“Rogues live for themselves; it’s why they are rogues. They couldn’t put their pack needs above their own. I don’t trust a rogue at your back or with your life, so no, Little Luna. I don’t.”

I left it there and concentrated on climbing. It was strange that Brax trusted her and Kai didn’t. They usually had differing opinions, but Kai was usually the reckless one.

Brax trusting a rogue? Helping her? As much as I understood her plight, it did concern me what she wanted from the wolves. I needed to talk to Brax and find out, but that would come later. First, was the heat.

“Do you not feel the heat?” I asked her as we stopped in a dark part of the forest covered in overgrown moss and weeds. She nodded.

“I do. But we cycle independently from the pack. The pack heat is brought on by the realm. If a mating needs to happen, a pregnancy, or a power surge—the heat will happen, and the pack will feel it. For a rogue, it’s a singular event every lunar cycle like clockwork. Since there is no moon in winter, we don’t get the heat until there is.”

Kai ignored our conversing and stripped. He rolled the muscles in his body before nudging me further away from him. Then he shifted. It was slow and painful to watch as we stood guard. But finally, Kai’s black wolf stood in front of me.

I always forgot how big he was as a wolf. It flared my heat, and I had to work through every breath. He was impressive, and I wanted to show him how happy that made me.

“We don’t have time for your heat right now if you want to make it back before the vamps realize you’ve been hiding out here,” Heather raised her brow at me. I scowled at her, then climbed onto Kai’s back.

She nodded and shifted.

Kai growled, and I ran my fingers through the thick fur coat at his neck.

~“A rogue wolf near my mate pisses me off, Little Luna,”~ he said in the link.

~“We have to get home, Kai,”~ I replied, lying down along his spine. He sighed, and then he was running.

Heather kept up well; her small wolf looking fragile against Kai’s.

She tried to keep the lead, I was guessing to show us where to go since the vamps were still hunting us, but Kai ignored her. He really didn’t trust her. Brax did.

And I had no idea who to trust anymore. I just knew that I wanted to get back to my family. It had been too long without my mates touching me, and it had been too long without my babies in my arms.

Kai ran fast, but the heat ran faster. The urge started polluting my blood, my core bubbling away with need and desire. My skin was hot and prickly, and the faster he ran, the more I needed.

And then it was there. The wall, the city, they were right there.

Gray stone had never looked so damn good. I looked for the mansion, to the window with the balcony, and knew I would see them. They were there.

Kai ran harder, rushing up to the gates that were already opening.

The rogue went to move in, but Kai spun and snarled.

I jumped off his back and moved up to her.

“I need to talk to Brax. And be thinking of something other than fucking to make a proper decision,” I said. The rogue—still in her wolf form—nodded, then ran off toward the water area, disappearing through the trees.

Kai turned back, and I handed him his clothes. He only put on the underwear and ditched the clothes from the rogue. Then he grabbed my hand and led me toward the mansion.

My head filled with “welcome backs” from the pack and excitement that I felt down to my soul. It made it happy. They wanted me, they were pleased to see me, my magic had saved them from the brink. But the heat was still there.

Normally I wouldn’t care that it was the heat; I would relish in it. But I wanted to be with my family—even just to hold them. I wanted to enjoy being back, not craving my mate’s cocks like some crazed wolf.

That’s exactly what we all were, though. The link was covered in the need for sating. Females howled and permeated the air with a suffocating need for strong wolves. Until the alphas joined, they would stay unsated.

I thanked the pack in the link for welcoming me back, warned them of the rogues and vamps in the forest, then excused myself to the mansion.

I practically ran.

I made it up the stone steps and into the foyer before getting slammed into the nearest wall.

The scent of fresh rain hit my nostrils, and I buried my face in Brax’s neck, my arms wrapping around him, holding him tightly.

“Spitfire,” Brax whispered against me, his hand cupping the back of my neck. He didn’t let go, keeping me against him, inhaling my scent before kissing my flesh. It rose at his touch, and a sigh escaped my parted lips.

“I’m here,” I whispered against him. He pulled my mouth to his, kissing me harshly. His mouth was soft and demanding as he claimed it. I groaned as my dress was lifted. I expected it to be from Brax’s hands, but they were still holding my face to his.

It was Derik.

He was on his knees between us, running his hands up my legs, his face disappearing between my thighs.

I sucked in a breath as he growled against my folds, tearing off my underwear with his teeth.

“I cannot wait, beautiful. I have missed you,” he said through a deep and desperate voice. Then he was stroking up my pussy with his expert tongue.

I sucked in a breath, and Brax stole the noise that tried to escape. I bucked my hips against Derik’s mouth, but he clamped my hips down, holding them still as he devoured me. The heat boiled inside me, every pressure point in my body expanding, ready to burst. Derik’s tongue was kryptonite to my control.

Brax’s touch was dynamite to my libido. I had no resistance left in me. I wanted them. Desperately.

I hooked my leg over Derik’s shoulder as he pleasured me with flicks of his tongue and grazes of his teeth. My eyes flung open as Brax’s kisses moved down my neck, a second before his teeth sunk into my flesh.

I cried out, and Derik lapped up the mess I made between my legs. Kai watched with hungry eyes, letting my mates take me in front of him, waiting for his turn to claim me again.

The heat was so different with the wolf in me. I could feel theirs; they were in control, their needs were at the forefront of everything. It took over, with the pack howling at the addition to the link.

The heat was in full swing, and now that the alphas were enjoying it too, the females were letting go. The sating filled us all as Derik and Brax pushed me over the brink. Brax tore my dress from my body, throwing the fabric across the lobby, exposing me to their touch.

I arched into it, Brax’s toxin flowing into me, making my orgasm roll and roll through me. And just when I thought it was going to end, that my body couldn’t possibly take more, Derik’s canines pierced my thigh.

I screamed out, my nails dragging down the wall as my back bowed. His toxin was liquid pleasure, mixing with Brax’s to create something blinding inside me. They were all I felt. All I saw.

Derik held my body up as it shuddered around him. My pussy clenched on his tongue as he stroked away my juices. Brax broke from my neck and licked over my lips before kissing over my breasts. I was swimming in the pleasure they forced on me, like there was no way for me to take control because they were giving everything I needed.

It was a strange battle inside me where I wanted to claim them for the heat, take my pleasure from them as a female wolf, as a luna who needed to dominate. But how could I when they knew exactly what I needed and gave it to me without me needing to demand a thing?

I leaned into the kiss that Brax gave me, wrapping my arms around him, my legs still being held open by Derik. And then Kai was there too.

I sighed as all three of my mates took over my body. Everything I needed, they gave me. Every time the heat flared with demand, they stole it, sending me into another orgasm so intense I couldn’t get words out.

I was covered in sweat, every scar, every ache, every pain gone as they worshipped me. I was splayed out on the rug that covered the stone of the foyer, my body being tasted at every end.

I wasn’t sure how much time had passed, but it was enough that my limbs felt like jelly and my core was humming happily. Brax was filling my pussy over and over, his shadows wrapped around me as Kai pushed his teeth through the skin of my breast. I cried out again as the toxin joined the heat to fuck me up again.

Derik had my mouth, kissing me with a softness that contradicted the harshness of Brax’s thrusts. Brax finished with a howl so loud, the concrete shuddered, his shadows tightening around me. I came with him, the pleasure he pushed through me hitting the point I couldn’t come from.

I had lost count of how many times that had happened so far. It was inhumane, the level the heat raised to now that I wasn’t fully human. If it had been this intense then, I’m pretty sure I would have died. Happily.

Brax rolled off me, breathing hard. His shadows slid over my skin as they retreated. I had no time to recover, though. Derik pulled me onto him.

I sat on his waist, wrapping my arms and legs around him as he pushed inside me. My head fell to his shoulder as his cock made me gasp into his skin. And then I was biting him.

Derik growled as my canines pushed my toxin through him. Claiming them in the heat through my bite was something else entirely. It was devastating to my control.

Not that I had any left. The heat had made sure of that.

He fucked me slowly, leisurely, teasing my body in that precise way he did. He didn’t fuck me like the others with urgent strokes of cock that got me to the finish line as quick as possible. No, Derik was calculated. His mouth was dirty as he made sure every stroke was slow, teasing, and hit the exact spot that left me begging for more.

“Good girl, beautiful, hold on to it. I’ve missed this, I’ve missed you, let me savor the feel of you around me. Fuck, you’re such a sweet paradise,” he whispered against me as he filled me. The storm built slowly, but the wrath within it was so much more dangerous. I couldn’t fucking wait. So I rolled my hips against him, urging him on as he gave me the strokes that had me tensing the entire time.

I growled against him as my orgasm built, but he refused to let it go. He chuckled breathily against me, pulling my hair to the side so he could lick over Brax’s bite from before. I moaned as he did, the storm raging even more.

“Please, Derik,” I begged, moving faster. He gave me a few harsh strokes before going back to his slower pace. I growled and took control. I shoved him back and moved on him, faster and faster.

He smirked, holding my hips with a tight grip, meeting each bounce. “That’s my beautiful,” he said. “Take what you need,” and I did. I fucked him until my body burned and exploded around him. My head fell back as I clutched my thighs to his, my nails raking down his chest.

It was so fucking intense. I cried out as my orgasm swelled and throbbed inside me, my blood rushing through my veins, the heat finally satisfied after claiming all three of my alphas.

Derik’s cock pulsed inside me, and his release filled me, his growl deep and feral. A flicker of wild appeared in his eyes, that loosening of his control only appearing for a few seconds before he tucked it away and leaned up to kiss me. I kissed him back as Kai came up behind me. He kissed over my neck as Brax moved closer, his shadows back to caress my skin softly.

My eyes fluttered closed, and the heat ebbed. It was a lazy haze in my bones now, and I sighed as I lay on Derik. He rolled us and then stood, picking me up.

“Aftercare, beautiful, then we’ll take you to the twins, relax,” Derik said, then moved us. I guessed he was taking us upstairs, but I didn’t know because I kept my eyes closed, my head resting against his.

Their toxin still moved through my body, and I felt them so closely. My toxin in them spoke to me too. It translated all of their feelings, all of their aches, pains, and bodily information.

Kai was still ready to fuck. Brax needed to hold me and my shadows. Derik needed to give me the aftercare that my sore muscles needed. I felt it all, but there were no words needed.

I also felt Kai’s weakness. He had been hit hard by the vamps, his body still healing enough to shift without pain and strain. He needed to run. Just like I needed to see the twins.

But it had to wait because they would feel my pain if I went to them now, and with the heat demanding more from us in the form of aftercare, I had to make sure I was seeing them with nothing but warmth, comfort, and love. Which is exactly what my alphas gave me when we got to our room.