Jungle Freakn' Bride (24 page)

“
I don’t know. I guess I just wanted a clearer handle on the situation.
”

“Let me clarify it for you,” Carlie snarled
,
waking suddenly in his grip. “Ruth is not getting mated to anyone or getting turned into anything.
” With a violent twist, she rolled out of his arms and landed on her feet. She tossed her golden mane and her blue
eyes glittered, a wild storm
about to erupt
.
Beautiful, yet deadly.

“
Your sister’s fate is out of our hands,” Acat announced
,
stoking the flames of her fury, the brave bastard.

“
Fate? It isn’t fate if you’re drugging and dragging her to it.
Hello? If you’re so sure it’s fate, why not let her wake up and decide for herself
?
”

Chaob wisely didn’t answer. Acat, not having one of his brighter moments, did.
“The will of the gods will be determined by battle
,
as tradition dictates.”

“
That’s not
the
gods!” she yelled. “That’s testosterone.
Holy crap. How can you speak English, show an evident education and understanding of the real world
, but
not see something wrong with what you’re proposing?”

Valid argument but for one thing. “We don’t have a choice,” Chaob replied quietly.

“What crap are you spouting now?” she huffed. “Of course you have a choice. You have a choice to go to town, date
,
and pop the question if things go well. You don’t have to do this.”

“It’s been tried, datura. And failed.
Some men have left the village, in singles and pairs. Some have tried to settle in the towns. Start families. All have failed.
Not a single one has produced a child, and while not all the marriages have
ended badly
, more than a few have.
Straying from tradition
hasn’t turned out well for anyone.
”

“
Fine. Stick to your weird rituals, but can’t we leave my sister out of it
?
” She pled with him, her proud bearing vulnerable
as she let him see he
r feelings for her sibling.
It hurt him
, a sharp blow to his psyche
from which
he almost physically recoiled
.
In that moment, he wanted to promise her anything. Anything at all.

“
I can’t,” he whis
p
ered.

“Then stay away from me,” she shouted, hitting his chest with her fists. “Both of you
,
” she screamed in a voice none too steady as she whirled to thrash at Acat.

His friend caught her hands and pulled them over her head.
“Enough.
The decision is out of our hands.
Stop acting like it is the end of the world or I will remind you how much you enjoy the same traditions you now decry.”

Up on
tiptoe
s
,
she rose
so she could line up her nose with Acat’s.
Fearless and spitting mad
, Chaob couldn’t help a surge of lust
.
Gods, she was magnificent.

With a low
and deadly
tone
, she faced down Acat.
“Don’t you dare say I would have chosen this.”

“I don’t have to. Your body screams it,” Acat growled, pulling her arms higher
,
forcing her to thrust her chest out
, keeping their faces only a hairsbreadth apart
.

Chaob almost reprimanded hi
s friend
for
his strong
-
arm
tactic
s
until he noted the hard points of her breasts poking imperiously through the
supple
leather of her top.
It seemed Acat’s dominant stance
,
far from cowing
Carlie
, or putting her in her place
,
had an unexpected effect.

She enjoyed it.
It aroused her.

What an unexpected surprise.
A pleasant one.
Chaob w
alked around to the back of her, scented her
desire, that slick honey between her thighs
,
and
longed to drop to his knees to taste it
.
But first, h
e added his own fuel to her growing fire. “Acat is right.
You practically begged us to take you. Or have you forgotten when we traveled, how you rubbed against us
?
Aroused us purposely.
We tried to act honorabl
y
despite your wanton maneuvers.”

“
I
,
I
– ”
She licked her lips, and Chaob trailed his lips over the back of her neck as his fingertips ghosted lightly down her sides. “I was trying to get you to let your guard down so I could knock you out and run.”

“
Liar,” Acat chided. “You wanted us from the moment we met.
Teased us
mercilessly
.
”

“If I
’
d known what you planned, I would have killed you,” she whispered
,
with none of her usual
,
deadly vehemence, the words instead husky
–
a
sultry vibration of sound
coasting
over his skin.

“Again with the lies.
I can see how you enjoy your new body and enhanced senses.
How you revel in your new wild side.”
Acat pulled her closer for emphasis while she gave a brief struggle, a twist of her limbs that just rubbed her closer.

Despite the arousal rolling off her in waves, she still argued.
“
Just because I’m starting to see some of the benefits
doesn’t excuse the pain
and how you intentionally misled me.
”

“Then we shall have to apologize again,” Chaob whispered against her skin before flicking his tongue against the lobe of her ear.

“
Forget apologizing,” Acat growled. “
We will give her what she needs until she thanks us.”

Her body lost its softness. “Thank?
Chauvinistic
je
– ”
Acat cut her off with a kiss
, a hard one that she met with
a clash of teeth
.

Given Chaob didn’t see blood, he assumed she didn’t hurt
Acat
. A moan later and his senses ree
led
from the
smell of her
lust
.
It seemed
Acat’s dominant gamble paid off.

Carlie was aroused
,
w
et
,
and w
rithing.
Even better, she was m
ore than ready to demand they do something about it.

Despite her hands caught above her head, she sought to control the punishing kiss Acat best
o
wed upon her
.
The frantic nature of the
embrace
on Acat’s part led Chaob to
suspect
his best friend still harbored a flicker of
fear, a fear he now couldn’t help but echo
–
that Carlie would try and leave them.

How could they convince this independent spirit to stay with them? The only way he knew how, a way Acat had obviously thought of. Through pleasure.

He let his lip
s join the battle to subdue her, placing them on the silky skin of her nape, inhaling her luscious scent. With his hands on her hips, he still
ed
he
r
squirming
body, and pressed himself against it
,
m
old
ed
his cock against her ass, grinding.
Her
a
g
gressive
movements transitioned
as she went from trying to
assert
control to taking what they offered with mewls of enjoyment.
As her
kiss softened, her b
uttocks pushed back against him and Chaob rolled his hips, fr
i
ctioning his
di
ck against her.

With her more than ready for them,
Acat released her hands to remove her
loincloth
while Chaob took care of her top. Their own covering
s
fluttered to the ground.
Only mere seconds did it take and then they covered her again, using their skin to keep her warm.
Naked between them, she gyrated,
flesh on flesh
.
Her soft purring drove him wild.

Who could resist her husky, “Lie down, both of you
?
”

The
tip
of her tongue swiping over her swollen lower lip would have gotten her anything she wanted. He and Acat stretched out on the spongy moss of the jungle floor.
She straddled Acat first, and Chaob got to watch
, up close and
personal,
as she lowered herself on
Acat’s
thick length.
How her thighs spread, the pinkness of her sex, barely covered in the soft blonde down, took the head of the cock. Chaob fisted himself as she dropped her weight onto the hard dick with a happy sigh.

Fingers dug into Acat’s chest
as
Carlie rocked, her beautiful breasts bouncing, her whole body jiggling as she took hi
s best friend
. Chaob couldn’t deny his visual enjoyment. Oh how lovely she looked with her flushed skin and rapturous expression.
Faster she stroked his friend, up and down, up and down. Acat’s breathing grew labored as she brought him to the edge.
And still she moved
, her hips rotating, her eyes half closed as she hummed in pleasure.

Just as Acat’s body bowed, she leapt off, and Chaob had only a moment to hear Acat’s bellow of disbelief before her sweet channel enveloped his throbbing cock.

By the gods
,
yes! She rode him
fast and furious
, nails pinching the skin of his pecs
, t
he clenched muscles of her sex gripping him tight. He felt himself rising to the peak, but held back. He wanted her to climax first. To scream her delight
as she
milk
ed
him.

Faster they moved together, panting, sweating, grinding, until he felt that sweet moment before her release when he
r
whole body bowed.

Her cry probably echoed for miles when she came, but his was probably heard around the world as she scooted off him at the last moment. His cock already in the stages of climax
, he
came…alone. Wet, chilled by the sudden loss of heaven, he spewed all over himself. A moment of bliss gone horribly wrong.

Almost whimpering at the loss, he opened his eyes to see Carlie standing over him gloating.

“Thanks
,
boys. That was fun. More for me than you
,
though
,
I think. The next time you think to use sex against me, think again.
Now, take me back to my sister. I will tell her whatever I damned well please
a
nd neither of you will stop me
o
r I guarantee, that was the last time you get any of this.”
Gesturing to her nude body, she stalked off only to return with a scowl to scoop up her outfit.
With a swing of her rounded ass, she strode off.

“You know this means war,” Acat announced quietly.

“Of course. We can’t let her get away with it.”
Chaob sighed. “
This is not how
mating i
s supposed to work.
”

Acat sighed louder. “I think the gods punish us for our earlier disbelief.”

Punished
a
nd challenged. Despite what Carlie thought, this wasn’t over.
Everything happened for a reason.
Yes, Carlie won that round in the game of dominance. But, now that they knew she could and would play dirty, she’d opened the
door wide. Very wide.
Let her think she
was in control
. Let her have her t
ime with her sister.
Let her think she won. T
hen,
they’d give her what she needed.