Theirs (7 page)

“Second, and I think this is the one which clued us all in is, a brunette came running out of your office like the hounds of hell where at her heels, or a bear shifter, then you come chasing after her and Tayler has gone into the locker room ready to kill the poor woman. I told you when you hired Sammy’s girl you would have trouble. She has a huge crush on you, has since she was a cub. Now you have Sammy cranky with you for breaking her baby’s heart and you know what mama bears are like.”

Dane’s grin lifted even more at the corners as he grabbed his bag from behind the reception. “Your mother called. She is on her way now and your sister should be here any minute, with Matty and all.” He chuckled and patted Brian on the back. “Good luck, buddy. I hope your mate is expecting guests because it looks like she will have some. Oh, and because I’m such a good friend and employee, I called your cousin Jake. He’s going to come and fill in. He’ll be here in time for your six o’clock.” Standing stock still, Brian took in all Dane said. He didn’t even say “Bye” or “Thanks.” He just grabbed the phone and called Blake, praying he would pick up.

The phone rang and rang, going to the message bank twice before a cranky bear answered, “This better be fucking good.”

“Mum knows.”

Blake groaned. “Do you know what she knows?”

“Dane just told me she is on her way. I don’t think she’s going to be happy that two of her boys have the same mate. True mate or not. What I’m worried about is when she learns Susie’s human. ”

Blake growled, muttering about controlling, over-the-top mothers. “You might be fine, Blake. They think it’s just me who got mated by the sound of what Dane told me.” He heard more muttering and Susie moan for Blake not to leave her.

“Brian, I’m coming in. I was going to call her and tell Mother our good news later anyway. ”

Brian looked around the quiet gym and turned his body so he faced the door where his sister and mother would come in. “I’m not sure what they know, but I sealed my fate apparently when I took Susie upstairs because I have never taken a woman to the office before, unlike you.”

The wince Blake made was loud enough that Brian heard it through the phone.

“I’m up now. I will be there in ten, sooner if I can. I want Mother to know she is my mate too.” Blake hung up before Brian could say anymore and just as his mother and a very unhappy sister walked through the door.

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Blake walked into the gym, not sure what to expect. He never could be sure with his mother how she would react. His cousin Drake sat behind the reception. Drake grinned at him as he pointed to the office. Sighing, Blake nodded and walked up the stairs.

Pausing at the office door, he took a deep breath and walked in to see his mother standing with her back to the window that looked over the gym. His sister glared at Brian who stood in the middle of both of them snarling. As soon as he entered the room the focus shifted to him and his mother said, “Please tell me what Brian has said is some kind of joke?”

Blake’s lips curled. “Oh, I don’t know, Mother. What did Brian tell you? Did it have something to do with mating the same woman?”

She growled at him. “That’s just the start. Tell me she isn’t human. My God, Son, how will I present this to the Delta Society? They all have hopes for their daughters. You are the top catch of the bachelors, even with your reputation, Blake.”

Blake shivered. He remembered those snotty women, and their daughters were all just as bad, snobby little brats. He would never understand how his sister turned out so different from their mother and all those women. Glancing at his brother, Blake saw the same look of disgust.

Tuning back to his mother, he snarled, “What’s the matter, Mother? Is it because both your boys are mated to the same woman and she’s human, or is it that she is what you would call fat? Please don’t tell me you drove down the two hours from Sydney just to check if all this was true and show your displeasure.”

She huffed. “Really, Son, I’m not shallow. I only want what’s best for my sons.” He and Brian huffed out a laugh. His mother turned her nose up at both of them. “I came down to see the woman my boys have mated with. I wanted to check she isn’t just with you for your many assets.”

Groaning Blake turned to his brother who shook his head and glanced at his sister who was looking at the celling like she was praying. He moaned out, “Fine. How about we have a dinner in two weeks’ time, on a Sunday.” He put his hand up to stop his mother from interrupting. “Give us these weeks. We’ve only just met her ourselves, and this will give us time to get to know each other. It will also give you plenty of time to be ready.”

His mother stared into his eyes like she had the power to see into his mind. Thank God she couldn’t. Finally she nodded and walked by him, patting him on the back like he’d just won one of his boxing matches, to open the door and leave.

Sighing in relief, he waited for his sister to add her two cents, and she didn’t disappoint. “This is your mess. I refuse to clean this up, Brian, and that goes double for you, Blake.” In a softer voice she added, “Please don’t hurt this woman, guys. She seems really sweet.”

She walked to the door only to pause. “I’m taking the next couple of days off. Matty’s with his dad now.” He and Brian nodded. “Oh, and, Blake, make sure all your women know you’re off the market. Brian, look out for Sammy and Tayler.” She shut the door and he turned back to Brian in the silence.

“Why the hell did you say we would go to dinner? I would rather be skinned alive. You know you just gave her time to organise some elaborate scheme.”

Blake stared at his brother whose hair stuck out everywhere, like before Blake arrived, Brian had been pulling at it. His lips were thinned out and his eyes were flashing from bear to human.

“What would you have said?” Blake could hear his brother gritting his teeth as he bit out his words.

“I was handling it until you arrived. I told her no way and if she kept up the crap she was spewing, she wouldn’t meet our mate at all.” Brian laughed at his brother looking him up and down.

“And how was that going, Brother?” Blake growled at him and stormed out of the room.

Stretching out her well-used muscles, Susie sighed into the pillow. She opened one eye to see the clock flash ten forty-five am. She shut her eye as her head started pounding.
Oh, crap
. All the alcohol she drank last night was going to come back up. Susie ran to the bathroom without a care for her nakedness, just praying she made it in time and cursing the two bears who bombarded her with information and a new reality.

When she felt hands on her, one set to hold her hair back and the other rubbed her back, she let out a groan into the toilet. Using one of her hands, she tried to push them away.

“Leave me alone so I can die in peace.”

Blake, who was rubbing her back, chuckled. “Sorry, sweetheart. We aren’t going anywhere and I’m ninety-nine point nine percent sure you will live.”

For the next ten minutes or so, they held her hair and patted her back until she was sure there could be nothing left. Finally feeling semi-normal, she stood and brushed her teeth and rinsed her mouth out, only to turn too quickly and have four hands steady her. Blake nodded to his brother who picked her up, cradling her in his arms. If Susie hadn’t been sick, she was sure she would be protesting, especially as she was still naked. As Brian’s strong arms came around her and the fresh, clean, woodsy smell wrapped around her like a secure blanket, she snuggled closer into him as he walked into the lounge room and sat on the lounge.

Blake sat at the other end and took her feet into his hands to rub them while Brian reached over to the coffee table and handed her a bottle of water and some Panadol. They snuggled for a while and waited until her medicine kicked in. “Oh, Blake, that feels so good.” Shutting her eyes she leaned into Brian’s chest. “Mm, this is so nice, and I really appreciate you taking me home last night. Brian, thanks for making sure my friends got home safe. What I want to know is why you guys just happened to be in the same club as me?” She opened one eye and raised her eyebrow at Blake. He paused and she wiggled her feet. “Oh, you can do two things at once.” She flexed her toes and pointed them his way. His hands continued and Brian chuckled against her head.

Blake shrugged his massive shoulders. “We thought you might need a designated driver.”

Snorting, she glared at him. His lips curled up in the corners and his eyes took on this innocent wounded bear look. Laughing at her thoughts, she huffed. “Ha. Yeah. I bet the reason you came out was because you thought I would need a driver. Scared I was going to do a runner or something equally stupid?”

Brian leaned down and kissed her shoulder right over where he bit her. Then he mumbled, “We just wanted to make sure you were okay. We trust you. We didn’t think you would run.”

Blake chuffed. “Ah, pretty much that was some of it.”

A hiss slipped from her lips as she stared at Blake and he raised his eyebrow daring her to contradict him. “You had just learned about shifters and found out you are a mate to not one, but two. You also dashed out of Healthy Bodies like the hounds of hell were on your heels.”

Her heart speed up as his lips curled up into the sexiest grin. “We’re not hounds, sweetheart. We are bears and we will eat you, just in a different way.”

Pulling her legs away from him, Susie squealed, “Blake, don’t you da—”

Her words were cut off on a laugh which turned into moans as his mouth worked its way up the inside of her leg and found what he was looking for. He growled against her vagina. “Honey. Mine.”

Blake looked up from her pussy and nodded to his brother. “Ours.”

Brian’s hands circled her breasts, stroking down her stomach and back up again. Susie whimpered when Blake’s tongue touched her clit and sucked it in. As he moved his face from side to side, his stubble tickled her sensitive flesh.

Arching into his strokes she built up a rhythm until her body was ready to ignite. “Oh, oh, ahh, ahh, I have to come. Make me come. You two make my body light up.” They both growled against her skin, and she screamed, coming undone as teeth bit into her thigh and two thick fingers pumped into her wet core.

Susie came back down to earth to see a grinning Blake sit up and lick his fingers. “Mm, honey.” Standing up he nodded to Brian who picked her up and walked to the bedroom. After laying her down on the bed, he let her go and took his shorts off before pulling her back into his arms.

“Honey, do you remember when you said you weren’t fond of fruit as a snack?” She stared at Brian and furrowed her brow.

“I didn’t say that to you. I said it to your sister.”

He shrugged his shoulder and continued, “We are going to convince you that fruit is the best snack and honey is a bear’s favourite.”

Her eyes rolled back and she dropped back onto the bed as Blake came in with a jar of honey and a huge plate of fruit, the grin on his handsome face one of anticipation. He placed everything on her cleared bedside table. She frowned. When did they do that?

Susie forgot about where her things went when Blake and Brian squeezed an orange over her body, watching the juices roll down her breasts. Groaning they each leaned down to follow one trail.

“Oh God.”

They hummed their approval and she felt warm, runny thick honey dribble down her stomach and stop at the juncture between her thighs.

Tongues came at her everywhere on her sensitive body as they licked trails of mango, passion fruit, orange and honey off her, devouring every drop with an insatiable hunger. Closing her eyes as sensation bombarded her fevered body, Susie begged for more. “Give it to me. Oh, give me more. More.” Begging for a release from this exquisite torture, she yelled, “Stop! Oh sweet God, stop. I can’t take anymore.”

Blake and Brian didn’t give up until she was clawing at them, grabbing their faces and sucking the juice from their mouths, humming her approval. She pushed Brian down. After grabbing an orange slice, she squeezed it, watching the trail it left and diving down to follow it.

“You two are so right. What a delicious snack.” Licking her way down rock-hard abs she followed the trail until she found the treasure she looked for. She dribbled honey onto his cock, leaned down, and sucked her honey-flavoured lolly in.

“Shit, Susie, honey, you nee…” She laughed at his pet name for her with her mouth around his honey-coated dick. His protest died, and she gasped as Blake dripped mango onto her back and followed the juice trail over, and over, as she licked, sucked and swallowed everything she could of Brian’s dick. When Brian snarled, “Susie, you have to stop. I’m about to come and I don’t want to come in your mouth. I want to come inside you, feel your pussy wrapped around me.”

He pulled her away and up his body. Her lips met his and she tasted all they had done before she broke away panting, and fighting for air. Brian’s cock lined up and slowly slid into her hot, slick core. Her head fell back and Blake came up next to her, kissing his way down her neck. “You’re gorgeous and you taste better than any fruit we have here.” Blake groaned against her as he latched onto one of her nipples and Brian lifted her until just the tip of his thick cock sat at her opening, then he slammed her back down, grinding into her. She cried out, “Brian, oh, yes.”