ROMANCE: Paranormal Romance: The Valley (Book One) (Fun, Sexy, Mature Young Adult Vampire Shape Shifter Romance) (28 page)

Chapter 3

The long train ride was over, then they took a carriage traveling to the city where George had his ranch. After their long journey together, he’d offered Keefa a job. The three of them had clicked. John was a partner and owned the ranch next to his and they often worked together. John had gone back home to see some family and turn down a potential mate they’d wanted to introduce him too. George had traveled with him, because of buying some new equipment that had recently come out to help make some of the farming he did easier. It was being shipped and would be ready by next spring.

Keefa had halfway fallen in love with both men, and knew that as far as love triangles went, it was complicated. Both men were good, honorable men, and most had shifted for her, and she hadn’t been afraid once she’d adjusted to the idea of it. She was open minded, given her background and history, shew knew there was things people couldn’t explain in this lifetime, and being a shifter, or a witch was one of them.

She understood their need for secrecy and had no problems keeping their secrets. George’s last housekeeper had gotten married right before he left on his trip, and had planned on leaving after he got back, so he had needed a new one, and hired Keefa. The only problem was now that they were back and he’d given her the tour of his house, she realized that having him under the same roof as her, it was going to make it hard to keep her distance from him.

John spent nearly as much time at George’s house as he did his own. John had no problems flirting with her, and threatening to steal her away from George, and while George shrugged, the way he looked at her when he watched her reaction had her promising she would stay with him, since he hired her first.

Her nights were filled with fantasies about the three of them together in bed, and she often woke up feeling frustrated, sexually, and emotionally. She knew it was selfish to want both men, but she couldn’t pick between the two of them, where John was outspoken and flamboyant, George was quiet and reserved. They were almost exact opposites, yet together, they both made her extremely happy. She loved spending time with both of them.

Keefa was standing in the hall, a duster in her hand when John walked in, George was still out riding the fences, though dinner would be ready soon and he was never late for dinner. He loved his food.

She turned and gasped when John’s hand went over the feather duster, pulling it out of her grip and setting it on the table she’d been dusting. He backed her up against the wall until her back hit the wood and she let out a little squeak. Her heavy breasts bounced up and down in her dress, she hadn’t bothered to wear a corset, and so all of her curves were free to bounce and jiggle as nature had intended.

“God Keefa, you are so beautiful, I’ve been trying hard to be good, but I can’t take it anymore,” dipping his head, he kissed her as he put one hand on the wall to brace himself. Keefa was so surprised she kissed him back before she could stop herself. She wasn’t sure if this was a good idea, but when his tongue traced her lips, she opened her mouth giving him access. When his tongue thrust into her mouth she felt her stomach muscles tighten in reaction, moaning she kissed him back.

A few minutes later, the front door slammed and Keefa tried to pull away from John, she could feel George’s eyes on her and she felt guilty. He’d never done anything, not even touched her, so she didn’t know why she was worried he’d be disappointed with her, but she cared what he thought.

“George,” she whispered, her lips heavy from John’s kisses, and the look of surprise on George’s face had her wishing he’d tell her he wasn’t angry with her.

“John… really? In my own house?” George asked raising a brow, looking at Keefa. Her breasts were half exposed because John had managed to undo a few of the buttons on the front of her dress with out her even noticing and her dark nipples almost peeked out.

“What better place to fulfill her desires then your house George?” John grinned. “This little lady here wants us both. Are you going to pretend to ignore it, or you going to help give her what she needs?”

George pursed his lips but didn’t say anything, instead he just watched John as he pulled one of Keefa’s heavy breasts free from her dress and let it hang there. He rubbed his palm over the nipple until it puckered into a hard nub. Keefa moaned and part of her wanted to bring her hands up over her face to hide.

Instead, she looked up and made eye contact with George, daring him to do something besides just standing there watching John touch her. A few moments later, George walked over to her, and grabbed her hair hard with his hand. He kissed her, dominating her mouth in the complete opposite way of John’s more gentle kisses. She gasped. She could feel how forceful George was with her, he wasn’t gentle.

John’s hands were still stroking her breasts, he now had both breasts free and her dress down to her waist, her body completely exposed to both of them. George grabbed her other breast with his free hand, and he grabbed her hard, pinching the nipple almost painfully.

She shuddered and shut her eyes, letting the soft and hard sensations roll over her at once. Where John was more delicate and tender with his touches, George was fast, hot and demanding. It was overwhelming, and erotic to experience both at the same time. When John pulled her dress all the way down, he had her step out of it. He pushed her down to her hands and knees in the hallway.

Falling down to his knees behind her, he grabbed her luscious ass with his hands, squeezing and massaging, he raked his fingers down her back and gave her buttcheek a playful slap and watched it jiggle.

George still had ahold of her hair, holding her head up. He unbuttoned his pants and pulled himself out. Keefa wasn’t quite sure what he wanted her to do, until he hit her in the face with his cock and raised a brow looking at her. She opened her mouth to ask him what he wanted and he shoved himself between her lips and then buried his other hand in her hair and held her head tight. He slowly embedded himself down her throat, choking her slightly. She tried to relax her face and jaw, to take his thick girth and when he slid himself between her lips, she quickly figured out what he wanted. Rolling her tongue around his head, she let her tongue slide across the bottom of his cock as he’d push it inside of her mouth.

She could feel John’s fingers playing with her heat from behind while George took her mouth. Her breasts were bouncing back and forth, feeling heavy and achey from her arousal. John wiped his fingers on her inner thighs, smearing the wetness that signaled how aroused she was. A few moments later, she felt the tip of his cock press against her womanhood.

She spread her legs wider, giving him better access, trying to focus on both things at once and finding herself feeling overwhelmed from all the sensations. George as moving his hips faster against her face now, and then John thrust inside of her in one, deep thrust. He stilled when he realized she’d been a virgin and grabbed her hips as he held on tightly to give her a chance to adjust to his size. He hadn’t expected that. Grunting, he waited until her muscles relaxed around him before he started to move inside of her.

John reached one hand around her waist to play with her clit while he took her from behind. Going slow and gentle at first, he eventually sped up his thrusts to match the way he was playing with her sensitive nub. Rough, fast strokes had her pushing her ass back against his groin, meeting him thrust for thrust.

George let out a loud shout, and she felt his seed spill on her tongue and lips, he shuddered and had his eyes shut, his hands tightened hard on her head for a moment as his arms and legs shook as he orgasmed.

When he pulled himself out of her mouth, he didn’t put his cock away, instead he just started to play with her breasts with his hands and change what he was doing. Keefa shut her eyes and focused on the sensations John was causing with her body between her legs. George tweaked her nipples and squeezed her breasts as they wiggled back and forth from the thrust of John taking her from behind.

Eventually, stars exploded behind her eyes, surprising her, causing her to cry out loudly and her entire body shook. She felt her thighs shake and her toes curl. She could feel her insides squeezing John’s cock hard, and that set him over the edge, he spilled his seed and joined her in climax.

They stayed connected like that together for a few moments before he pulled out and helped her to her feet.

Keefa thought the experience was over until John turned her around to kiss her. He didn’t seem to mind that George’s seed had been spilled in her mouth, he still stuck his tongue between her lips and kissed her.

Gasping, she felt George from behind, rubbing his half-hardened cock between her butt cheeks. Over time, he grew hard again and he used the wetness between her legs to coat his cock and worked his way inside of her ass, spreading her cheeks and slowly inching himself slowly inside of her.

John saw what George was doing, and hooked one of Keefa’s legs over his arm to help open her up for George and give her something to brace her body on. Shutting her eyes, she tried not to panic. This was so new to her, so overwhelming, she was so tight and he was so big. She was breathing hard, nearly hyperventilating, John touched her face and smiled at her.

“Breathe, it will get easier if you relax.” He told her, and then shifted her slightly, so his now erect penis could enter her from the front.

Keefa let out a moan that bordered on a scream as they took her in both holes, filling her. She could feel them rubbing her insides and she nearly collapsed. If it wasn’t for John’s arms holding her up, she’d have turned into a noodle and fallen to the ground. George was moving faster into her ass now, pumping himself as he grabbed her hips and dug his fingers in. John was taking his sweet time moving inside of her in the front, her vagina and ass were stretched beyond anything she could have imagined and all she could do is grab John’s shoulders and bury her body against his chest and hang on for dear life.

Moaning loudly, it didn’t take long for her to feel her insides start to quiver, she felt her juices gush out around his cock, spilling down her legs as a second orgasm ripped through her body. Everything clamped down and pleasure and pain mingled as every muscle in her body tightened down. John groaned, close to his own climax again, trying to last, to bring her to another orgasm but she was so tight, and felt so good. He could feel things pushing in places that can only happen from both holes being penetrated at once. George and John made eye contact above her head and George nodded at John and then shut his eyes as he came inside her ass. He shuddered, his fingers digging tightly into her hips, holding on tight to brace himself as his legs shook slightly.

John could feel them both cumming, and it sent him over the edge and he couldn’t last any longer. He joined them and held on to Keefa tightly, trying to keep his own balance as his balance was off as he jerked inside of her.

The three of them stayed connected like that for a while, all of them breathing hard, none of them having any regrets over the experience. Then Keefa started to laugh, hard.

“Are you okay?” John asked her, his eyes going wide as he looked down at her.

“Yes, I’m fine,” she replied and then shook her head as she laughed harder. “I think I need a bath. And food.”

“We can accommodate that,” George told her and gave John a curious look, not understanding her reaction exactly.

Slowly, they separated, and John took her upstairs to help her get clean while George went to the kitchen to dish up the food that Keefa had cooked.

Her dress stayed in a pile on the floor in the hallway. No one bothered to pick it up.

Chapter 4

Over the next few weeks, the sex and three way experiences left Keefa wondering if she could ever settle for just one man again. She assumed they weren’t her mate, as shifters apparently mated for life, but neither had found their other half yet. She knew her experience with them was a fun, sexual based relationship and she knew better then to let her heart get fully involved. She cared deeply for both of them and was loving the relationship the three of them shared, even if it was temporary.

When John came in after a hard day working on his ranch and looking really tired, she stopped what she was doing and gave him a shoulder massage and offered him dinner. These days, the three of them practically lived together. George didn’t seem to mind always having John around, and Keefa knew this was an unusual arrangement. Being best friends didn’t necessarily mean they’d share their house and their women, yet the two of them seemed to be fine with the situation.

“We need to talk Keefa,” John finally told her, and reached up to grab her hands. He pulled her around the couch until she was sitting on his lap. He wrapped his arms around her waist and held on to her tight as he pressed a kiss to her cheek.

“Okay, I’m listening,” she told him, though her gut dropped. Needing to talk like this was never a good sign. She wondered what was wrong.

“You know how I was traveling back home to visit family to see if the woman they’d found was my mate?” He asked her quietly. He’d told her part of the story on the train.

“Yes, I remember you telling me that,” she nodded, waiting for him to elaborate further.

“George and I have a problem here,” he told her and then nodded at the doorway as George walked in, surprising Keefa. She thought he’d gone to town to get some new supplies for the kitchen. When he sat down next to them on the couch and put his hand on her leg, she gave him a brilliant smile. No matter how hard she’d tried to keep from getting emotionally involved with the two of them, it hadn’t mattered. She loved them both in their own way, and she’d never be able to pick between them. She was selfish, she wanted both of them.

“What is the problem?” Keefa asked quietly, hoping that they weren’t about to break off their unusual relationship. She felt her stomach fill with dread, as she prayed in her head and tried not to assume the worst.

“You could be a mate to either of us. Both of us are feeling the pull of the mate bond with you. It’s not something we can… fight, or change and because of it, we have a decision to make, or rather you do.” John told her, tightening his hold on her, almost instinctively in a defensive reaction to the idea of her picking wrong.

“What?” She asked him, blinking, confused.

“The mating bond, both of us are feeling it with you. This is almost unheard of, we aren’t sure how to fix this, and we’ve never heard of three way mating bond before. George went to town to get supplies, but he was also meeting with an elder shifter. There apparently is a couple of incidents in history, where it’s happened before, but it’s rare.” John said and ran a hand through his hair looking a little agitated. “You can choose to mate with one of us… or I guess in this case, both. If you choose, but we can’t pick for you. You have to make a choice on your own what path we are going down.”

George finally spoke and looked directly at Keefa, ignoring John. “I wasn’t looking for a mate when you fell into our laps Keefa. I certainly wasn’t expecting to share my mate with John, and for me, this is more than just sex. You’re not a shifter, but the mate bond will allow you certain perks. Longer life, faster healing, you may not be able to shift, but any children we had, would be shifters.”

“Wait, back up here, children?” Keefa said, and then started to panic. Realizing she hadn’t had her menses since they’d started having sex. They’d equally shared her body, and she couldn’t be sure who the father was.

“Yes, it’s complicated. In a relationship like this, the children would have two fathers, instead of one. Neither of us would know who the father was until the child hit puberty and shifted into a wolf or a bear…. As your mates, we’d have to work on communication and find a way to make this work long term. When shifters mate for life, we can’t go outside of our relationship with our mate. Our bodies don’t work like that. If you pick only one of us, the problem we’ll have is the other won’t be able to find a mate, or ever have sex again. We need you to think of this and make a decision on if you can handle two mates, and if not, pick the one you think you want.” George told her, his face was grim as he tried to explain the basics to her.

“You’re telling me that if I pick one of you, instead of both of you, that the one I don’t choose will never be able to have sex again?” She asked, blinking at them both, in surprise.

“Something like that.” John whispered in her ear, “when we mate, it’s for life, and it’s almost a safety net for shifters to make sure we are take care of our mates and offspring. It’s why a three-way mating like this is nearly unheard of. The competition for our mate’s affection is something that could destroy a shifter.”

“Is this why you two are asking me to pick?” She said quietly, not sure how to respond. She had the sneaky feeling she was pregnant, and she also knew there was no way she could pick between the two men in front of her. She had fallen in love with them both. She’d never considered or even entertained the idea that they might have more together than just a sexual relationship.

“Something like that,” George said, “this is entirely up to you. You are the one that has to make the choice here.”

“What if I want both of you and I can’t pick?” Keefa pushed herself off John’s lap and turned to face both men. Standing in front of them she crossed her arms and looked at both of them. They were so different in so many ways, and she loved them both. It would be an impossible choice, and knowing what the consequences were if she picked one of the other, she couldn’t do it to either of them.

The men exchanged glances for a moment and then George spoke again.

“You’d pick us both?” He seemed puzzled. As if that wasn’t an option he’d considered as a possibility.

“Well, if the consequence of me not doing it means the other goes their life sterile and not able to enjoy himself, why would I want to be responsible for that? Why would I pick between you both if I love you each and can have both? Do you know how lucky a girl would be to be loved by two men and get to be with both?” She smiled at George and shook her head. “You’re asking me to do the impossible. I can’t pick between you two, and you’re telling me there’s a third option. One where everyone wins.”

John smiled at George and looked almost like he was gloating, “see? I told you this would be her answer, and you were worried.”

“You guys talked about this with out including me?” Keefa blinked at them and then got irritated. “If this is going to work, the three of us have to talk. Together. No secrets between any of us, is that clear?”

George and John both nodded, and George looked relieved while John had a smug expression on his face.

“You want to tell me what that expression is all about John?” Keefa looked at him, waiting for an answer. This was all so overwhelming, and she had just written Tina a letter, and she hadn’t told her anything to do with this, and didn’t think she could. Tina would freak if she knew she found a partner, realizing that she wasn’t sure how she’d even handle the marriage aspect of this, she needed her children to be born into wedlock, it would be bad enough to be born interracial, but how does this work with shifters?

“You’re pregnant. That’s why we were talking about it, we could smell the change on you.” John grinned at her.

“I figured it out myself, actually.” Keefa informed him raising an eyebrow, and then knew she had to bring up an important aspect. “We need to talk about marriage. How does this work with three of us?”

“One of us will give you his name, the children will take our last name, but in the shifter world, legal papers like that don’t matter. The mating bond transcends a legal document.” George replied before John could.

“Then I tell you what, if I’m going to have children, since I’m pregnant, you two can work that out between you two and I’ll go along with it. At this point, I made my choices. This one can be one you two work out so that I know you both are fine with it and know I didn’t pick or play favorites.” Keefa told them and then shook her head and laughed. “Jeez, this is a mess, isn’t it?”

“It could be worse,” John pointed out, “there’s only two of us, what would you do if there was more?”

“You’d be the death of me,” Keefa muttered. “Two is plenty, thank you very much.”

George got up and embraced Keefa, hugging her tight, the tension relaxing from his body as he held her.

“I was prepared to lose you, I wanted to believe you wouldn’t be able to pick between us, but I had to let it be your choice with out influencing you. I knew from the moment I met you, that you were my mate, but the chemistry between you and John was just as obvious. John was a little more oblivious to this at first, but when it sunk in, it did cause some stress between the two of us. I don’t think if we weren’t such good friends, this would work.” George admitted as he pressed a kiss to her temple.

“You realize that you can’t really tell anyone the truth about some of this?” John leaned forward, his gaze went from playful to serious in one quick motion. “We have kept you a secret from the local shifters, and our elders, but we are going to have to introduce you. They are aware of your existence now.”

“I can handle it. If I can handle you two, I can handle the rest of this.” Keefa told him confidently. She’d ran with both of them on the property when they were shifted. She found them both beautiful and had spent hours brushing the both of them when they were in animal form. She loved the strength and predatory natures they both had, and how strong and ethical they were as men. She’d gotten lucky, not to have just one good man, but to have two, it would be a challenge to make a long-term relationship work, but she realized she was looking forward to the journey with them.

“Good, we will take you to meet them later this week.” John told her. George had worked his hand down to her bottom and was petting her ass through her dress.

“Stop that,” she whispered to George and swatted at his hand. “We need to finish this conversation.”

“I think we figured out enough that we can wing a lot of the rest of it and take it one day at a time,” George said, which sounded more like something John would say, so Keefa blinked at him in shock.  George, willing to just go with the flow? She smiled at him and then hugged him hard. Putting her head on his chest, she snuggled close to him.

“We can handle that, now kiss me,” Keefa ordered him, and tilted her head back so he could reach her lips. When John slipped up behind her and cradled her from behind, she melted into both of them. Feeling two pairs of strong, masculine arms around her, it made her feel very feminine, desirable and wanted.

“I love you both, I hope you know that,” she told them between kisses and touches.

“I love you too,” George told her, and gave her a quirky smile and then shut his eyes as her hands found his cock through his pants and grabbed him, feeling him harden against her fingers through the cloth.

John nibbled on her neck and ear from behind and pressed a kiss to the pulse in her neck before pulling his head up for a moment. “I do know that, I don’t think you’d have given yourself to us if you hadn’t felt the mate bond from the beginning. A woman doesn’t give her virginity lightly, and to not panic or overreact when finding out we were shifters? You’re rare Keefa, and that’s not something to be taken lightly. I love you too, and I won’t say I won’t ever get jealous… sharing doesn’t come naturally to me or George, but we’ll make it work. Loving you is worth it.”

“Good, now shut up and bite me,” Keefa ordered him, chuckling softly as John nodded and then rubbed his teeth against her neck and collarbone. The three of them didn’t talk anymore that night. They spent their time romping around naked in front of the fireplace on the rug on the floor. After hours of sex, George finally went upstairs and grabbed a couple of blankets.

Bringing them back downstairs, they piled together under the blankets and slept for the night. When Keefa woke in the morning she realized there was one last thing they really needed to address. Who was going to live where? She got up and made breakfast, she laughed when it was the smell of coffee that got both of them up and into the kitchen. She was sure the bacon would have done the trick, but it was the coffee.

She served them both their plates and a fresh cup of coffee before dishing up her own and sitting down with them at the table.

“There is a couple more things I think we forgot to discuss,” she said between bites of her food. She watched them sip the coffee and sigh in delight. They really enjoyed their morning drink.

“What is that?” George asked as he speared some eggs on his fork and popped them into his mouth.

“John pretty much lives here already. I’d like to make it official. We need to pick a house. If we are going to be a family, a pack so to speak, we need to be together. All of us.” She informed him and sipped her coffee, making a face and set it down. Realizing the pregnancy hormones were probably why her taste buds were changing, she skipped the coffee this morning.

“Fine, he can move in,” George said and shrugged, not seeming to care much either way. “He practically lives here already anyways.”