Jericho Junction (8 page)

“Fuck, that’s good,” he groaned.

“But not what I want from you right now. Anya, come here.” Seino moved away and took Anya into his arms.

Jericho watched as Seino removed his clothes while kissing and fondling her. The woman’s breasts were god-sent, the globes perfectly rounded and full, her nipples hard. Seino sucked them and toyed with her, his fingers disappearing between her legs. Jericho wanted to touch her as well. But Seino held up his free hand.

He broke from her kiss, panting. “Not yet. Wait for it.”

Fuming at the need to obey, Jericho took a step closer. The glare he received for his efforts froze him in place. Fuck, but the Kin looked ready to strip the flesh from his bones. A small burst of cum jolted from his tip, the shocking beginning of a climax Seino quickly pinched off using magic.

The sexual energy flowing around and through them was nearly his undoing. “Come on, Seino. Let me have her.” Let me have you. Please. Fuck, but Jericho felt ready to beg.

Seino returned to Anya and knelt. She held his hair and stroked the tips of ears. Seino groaned and shoved his face into her pussy, pulling a cry from her. All the while, her gaze remained locked on Jericho.

The sight of the pair turned Jericho inside-out. Everything within him cried out for them, and it bothered him. Jericho had always been self-contained. Though he served his clan because he loved them, he didn’t cling to anyone in particular. Not like he seemed to with Seino and Anya. And Bear knew, he’d just met the pair. But could he dismiss what he felt, especially when everything that mattered was right here, right now?

He’d never been normal, by anyone’s standards. So why should being part of a permanent threesome be any harder than the life he’d been living? At least he could never complain of boredom, not with these two.

Anya moaned long and loud, coming over Seino’s mouth. Her lips parted, her eyes slid shut, and her breasts quivered as she smouldered in climax. Damn, she was beautiful. And his. Just like the stubborn bastard kneeling in front of her.

“Now it’s my turn.” Seino stood, completely naked and night-dark. His white hair shone like a beacon in the night. He whispered something to Anya then stepped away and motioned for Jericho to approach.

“Hold on a minute.” Cranky, frustrated, and pretty sure he’d somehow fallen in love with these two, Jericho needed a moment to process it all.

But Seino and Anya had other ideas. Seino snapped his fingers and Jericho’s arms were yanked behind him. He felt cold steel wrap around his wrists.

Anya circled to his front and went down on her knees. She winked up at him. “So naughty, Jericho. Not listening to Seino.”

“He’s not in charge of me.” Jericho groaned when she closed her mouth over him. That sweet little tongue of hers danced over his cockhead and pushed into his slit. “Oh, Anya. Suck it harder. Good girl. So good.”

Seino stood watching, his arms crossed over his broad chest, his smile wide. And dark.

“You’re a bastard, you know that?” Jericho tried to sound meaner, but with Anya pulling him into an orgasm with that mouth, he could barely think.

“You need to know your place, bear.” Seino moved behind Anya, his cock level with her cheeks. “Anya, love, now me.”

The woman left him, high and dry, and turned to take Seino between her plump lips.

Watching her suck Seino, seeing the large male tilt his head back and sigh with pleasure, made it worse. Jericho wanted to fuck him. To fuck her. To come with both of them and start it all over again.

“You’ve a gifted tongue,” Seino murmured in a husky voice. His blood-red gaze met Jericho’s. “Doesn’t she?” Then he reached out and grazed Jericho’s cock with a finger. “She made you quite hard.”

“Fuck. Seino, quit playing. Anya, baby, I need you.”

Seino shook his head. “Our mate knows her place. Frisky, fierce, yet submissive when it counts.” He jerked and sighed. “Swallow it all. Oh yes.”

Jericho tried to move forward and found his ankles bound in restraints. They didn’t look tied to anything, but again, he couldn’t move. “Your magic. You’re cheating.”

“Whatever it takes to win, Jericho.” Seino gave him a sleepy smile. “My, that is one thick cock. You’re wet, too. I believe you need to come, don’t you?” Seino took Jericho in his hand and squeezed.

The agony of need prodded Jericho to relent, but he sensed if he did, he’d be giving something away he’d never get back.

Seino’s expression eased. “Lover, you need not fear. My heart and soul is already in your keeping, and in hers.” Seino caressed Anya’s hair and withdrew from her lips. Still large and shiny, he didn’t look as if he’d just come. “But I did.”

Jericho groaned. “I give up. You won’t stay out of my mind.”

“Or your heart. Look deep, bear. You’ll see I’m already in there. You have only to accept me, fully. You’ve already taken to Anya, but you’re not altogether there yet. We three are bonded, Jericho. By magic, by Banathmae, by fate. We’re stronger than anything out there. As one, we will defeat our enemies and protect our people.”

The mission came flashing back in his mind, and he didn’t know how he could have for one second forgotten the danger that lay beyond the woods.

“You forget nothing. Your magic knows the truth. Safety and risk both lie this way. With us.”

Anya stood, her eyes bright with lust, and what Jericho suspected might be love.

“I just—I don’t think I can be what you want me to be. I’m not a doormat.” Jericho growled with frustration. “Yeah, you’re sexy. Both of you, I admit. Anya takes what I am, she’s accepted me. But you…”

“I demand you to be all you truly are,” Seino said softly. “You’re a Dark Walker. Kin, Jericho. You are more than bear. And you’re more than the dominant male you assume yourself to be.” Seino took a step closer, until his body brushed Jericho’s. “You find great pleasure in letting go, mate. Trust me. I’ll catch you when you fall. I’ll be here.”

“And so will I,” Anya added. “I’ve given you my trust, Jericho. But you have to give it back.”

He wasn’t sure what to do.

“Know yourself.” Seino put his palm over Jericho’s heart.

Anya reached from behind him and did the same.

Jericho shut his eyes, wishing things were easier. Sex could be fun, uncomplicated. But nothing with this pair—his mates—was simple. A demon and a cat, both a part of him. The amulet swelled with power and heat against his chest. But the hands over his heart pulled him deeper. Despite their brief acquaintance and the danger that waited, he didn’t want to be anywhere else but here. With these two. Giving up his trust, his secrets, his love, to a pair of Kin.

“That’s it.” Seino nipped his earlobe and soothed the sting with his tongue. In a second, the bonds holding Jericho still disappeared. “Now get on your knees, mate. And take me in your mouth.”

Jericho shivered. Anya moved to stand behind Seino and put her hands around his body to play with his nipples. The sight of her pale fingers contrasting with Seino’s dark skin looked so damn sexy. Without thought, he lowered to his knees.

Seino moaned and stared down at Jericho through half-closed eyes. “That’s it, Jericho. Pleasure me. Let me feel that mouth over my cock. Take my seed into your body. Oh yes.”

Hearing his mate sigh with pleasure made everything right. Jericho licked and sucked, loving the taste of dark magic. Seino was everything he needed. The male counterpart while Anya fulfilled the feminine roll of seductress and nurturer. He groaned when he felt her behind him, her breasts pressed into his back. She encircled his cock with small, yet forceful hands, and he couldn’t help pumping into them while he sucked Seino.

But the Kin withdrew. “Jericho, over there.” He pulled Jericho to his feet and pushed him up against a tree. “Bend over and spread your legs wide.”

Jericho wanted what was coming. He needed it. “Hell.”

Seino chuckled. “Not even close.” Then his large, slick cock sat at the entrance to Jericho’s ass. “Here I come, mate. All in you.” Seino inched deeper, bit by bit, until he seated himself all the way inside.

Anya darted under Jericho and knelt between him and the tree. “The best spot to be.” She winked, then took him in her mouth once more. She grazed his balls, then Seino’s.

He knew because Seino groaned and pulled out, only to slam into him again.

The dual sensation of being fucked while Anya licked and sucked him stole everything from his mind but the hunger to orgasm. Seino pounded into him, giving no quarter as his magic surged. And Anya didn’t relent. She alternated scraping his thighs with sharp nails and cupping and fondling his balls with soft hands.

Jericho wanted to scream, overcome with sensation.

“Let it out. All of it,” Seino whispered before he bit down into Jericho’s shoulder.

The pain added to the ecstasy. Jericho shouted and poured into Anya. A huge blast of power exploded into the night sky. He jerked and continued to come while Seino fucked him past one orgasm into another. Anya released him and licked his shaft. So when he came a second time, he made a mess of her neck and chest.

“Yes, yes,” Seino hissed and tensed behind him.

The heat of his seed bathed Jericho’s rectum. Tingles of magic lit him from the inside out.

“Oh, wow.” Anya sighed. “You’re both so warm. So comforting.”

Jericho opened his eyes to see Anya sitting beside him on the ground, bathed in a soft red glow. A glance at himself revealed the same. After Seino pulled out, Jericho turned around and saw his other lover—his mate—looking just as surreal.

Seino pulled Anya to her feet and hugged her tight. Then he pulled Jericho in as well. “Thank you.”

The simple thanks settled like contentment, and Jericho knew he’d finally found peace. With these two.

“A peace that’s not so peaceful, I’m afraid.” Seino exhaled a loud breath. “This is why we were meant to be. Our power is strong enough to defeat the evil that calls to me even now. We, Protectors, have a job to do.”

Protectors. Jericho nodded. He liked the sound of that. Almost as much as he liked the sound of mates coming from Seino’s mouth. He wanted to tell them both how he felt when a disturbance rattled against the outer shield protecting their campsite. Shrieks and howls filled the air.

“She’s here. Good, she felt the magic. I thought she might. We won’t need to go out and get her.” Seino smiled. He glanced at Anya and Jericho. “Might want to shift. I think your animals will do you better than your human forms.”

“Talk about love ‘em and leave ‘em,” Anya muttered. “Where’s the romance, Seino?”

Jericho smiled, loving her feistiness. Until he noted the unshed tears she tried to hide. “Anya?”

“Look. Try not to die, okay? Breaking you and the Kin in is going to be hard enough. I don’t think I can handle anything tougher than that.”

“I’ll do my best to live.” He snorted. “Friggin’ cats. What can you do?” But he was grinning as he shifted. And the first hound he killed, he killed for Anya.

Anya knew it was too good to be true. She and her mates all glowed with that red infusion of light. She felt truly bonded to both Seino and Jericho—two worthy mates her cat cried out to keep. Yet before the day ended, she’d be alone again. They never lasted. Her first family had been driven out of the Great Forest and killed by rival cats. Then wolves had taken apart the cousins she’d gone to live with. The few places she’d tried to call home in the years since had been decimated by other magic users, and then Serena. The woman seemed to have a sick fascination with cats, and especially with Anya.

She could have told her new mates that, but she wanted them to feel confident. Serena appeared to be angry with Jericho’s alpha’s brother, so Anya had no call to draw unfavourable attention to herself. Serena would have tracked down Fenris and Anson regardless of Anya’s presence, so why bring up the sorceress’s obsession with her? It was the cowardly way out, but she wanted her mates to think fondly of her for the next few hours of her existence. She knew she was weak, but if her mates thought her strong and sexy, who was she to object?

“We’ll talk on that more later,” Seino murmured before turning his attention to the dozen undead coming their way.

Shit. She knew better than to think such things in the presence of Kin. It was just that Seino felt like so much more. Powerful, affectionate, loyal. He seethed with so many positive traits that she ignored his darkness. And what a magnificent athmae.

Even Jericho paused from tearing apart a hellhound as he watched Seino slice through bodies with ease.

“He’s hot, but he knows it.” Jericho grinned. In his bear form, he was a sight to behold. A massive grizzly with sharp teeth that could snap a femur in two.

“Arrogance is bred into Kin.”

“Well, that sure explains you.” Jericho chuckled and killed more hounds. He snarled and swiped at an undead shifter about to claw Anya.

“Thanks. But I could say the same about you. Talk about arrogant.”

“I’m an unassuming bear. Got no idea what you’re talking about.” He turned to protect his flank from another threat and came face to face with Serena.

“Oh fuck.”

“Well, well. I don’t think I’ve ever seen such a fine-looking bear. I’ll bet you have a big heart meaty with power.” The sorceress easily dodged Jericho’s paw and flicked her hand at him.

He flew several feet to land against a large tree. It cracked under his weight, but he came up growling. Before he could engage with the sorceress again, several hounds circled him.

“There you are, pretty. I’ve been searching for you.” Serena shook a finger in Anya’s direction. “My, you’re positively glowing, aren’t you? You’ll be just the touch I need to steal in and rip open a few werewolf chests. What do you say? Want to join my team alive or dead?”

Anya hissed and snarled.

“I take it that’s a no?”

Jericho roared and crushed several adversaries under his bulk. To her right, Seino slashed through the undead with ease. No matter how many surrounded him at any time, he danced with that blessed sword and cut down their enemy.

“Cursed Protector,” Serena sneered. “However will you protect them all?”