Trouble Comes in Threes (17 page)

“I’m going to,” Dolf purred.

Tal turned swiftly, his braid flying out behind him, and jerked Kirk to his feet.

“Whoa, there, cutie.” Kirk stumbled a step and ended up with his back to Dolf’s chest. “I’m not going to make a run for it or anything.”

“I’d just chase you down.” Tal stepped forward and nipped Kirk’s neck. “Then I’d shift back, throw you on the ground, and fuck you.”

Wide-eyed, Kirk stared at Tal. “Shit, that’s hot, man.”

“We may not be big like tigers, or even bobcats—” Dolf spun Kirk around, then let one of his claws extend and rip open the front of Kirk’s shirt. “—but we do have claws and canines.”

“Holy shit.” Kirk gazed down at the shreds of his shirt, then up at Dolf’s claw. “Those things really are fucking lethal.”

“We’re more than just pretty kitties.” Tal grinned, showing off his extended canines.

Kirk looked at Tal, opened his mouth to say something, then shut it abruptly. Dolf was nibbling on Kirk’s neck, letting his mate feel the scrape of his teeth.

Tal dropped to his knees and untied Kirk’s tennis shoes. Kirk stepped out of them, then held still while Dolf unzipped his jeans and pushed them down. Tal, still on his knees, pulled the jeans the rest of the way down. He wanted Kirk naked. Kirk used Tal’s shoulder to steady himself as he kicked them off.

“Both of you on the bed, hands and knees.”

Tal rose quickly and moved toward the bed, but Kirk hesitated. Tal saw Dolf slap Kirk on the ass, pushing him toward where he wanted him. Tal enjoyed seeing that slight struggle before Kirk gave in to that need to obey. Tal liked Dolf to treat him gently, to make love to him. Even when Dolf got a little rough, it was nothing more than hard fucking.

Kirk, on the other hand…. Tal smirked as Kirk crawled next to him on the bed. Kirk liked things rough. Hard. And Dolf needed someone able to handle that part of his personality.

Dolf stripped, throwing his clothes off to the side. Out of the corner of his eye, Tal saw Dolf open their toy chest. Tal was okay with some of the smaller toys, but the things like nipple clamps, the bigger butt plugs, unpadded handcuffs… those things scared him because they were painful. He didn’t care for pain, so Dolf had put them up.

Tal glanced at Kirk. Their mate seemed to like a little pain, though. Kirk was beside him, ass up, head down on the bed. Tal saw the small tremors that flowed over Kirk’s skin. Every breath Tal took, he smelled honeysuckle.

Kirk suddenly looked up from the mattress. “Kiss me,” Kirk whispered.

More than happy to, Tal leaned closer, his long braid falling between them as he gently slanted his mouth over Kirk’s. It was soft, nothing more than a featherlight touch. Kirk opened to him, and Tal deepened the kiss, exploring Kirk’s mouth.

When Kirk whimpered, Tal opened his eyes. Dolf was behind Kirk, doing… something. Kirk broke the kiss, biting his lower lip and panting. Tal pressed another kiss to Kirk’s lips, and Kirk latched onto Tal’s mouth almost desperately. Kirk whimpered again, and this time the sound bordered on pain.

Tal ended the kiss but stayed close. “Tell me. What’s he doing to you?”

“Oh fuck,” Kirk moaned, head dropping down on the mattress. “Butt plug… working a butt plug in me. A big one. Thank God for lube. Oh… fuck,” Kirk’s body jerked suddenly, his fingers clutching at the sheet under them. “A fucking
vibrating
butt plug. Oh my God, oh my
God
, that’s good.”

A slap rang out.

“Aw… do it again, man.” Kirk gasped, his voice low and gravelly. “Set my ass on fire.”

Several more slaps rang out.

Tal twisted enough to see Dolf standing behind Kirk, spanking him, and from what he could see, it didn’t look like Dolf was going easy on him either. “Oh my, doesn’t that hurt?”

“Yessss,” Kirk hissed as Dolf spanked him again. “But it’s… it’s the good—ow, fucking
shit
, that stings—good kind of hurt. Fuck!” Kirk lunged forward but pushed back almost immediately.

Dolf rained hits along the back of Kirk’s thighs and ass. Tal noticed Dolf made sure he warmed up both sides of Kirk’s ass. Every hit that landed, Kirk grunted or yelled. Tal glanced down. Kirk was dripping precome, his cock standing straight up. Tal didn’t understand this need for pain, but Kirk apparently liked what Dolf was doing to him… and so did Dolf, if his scent was anything to go by.

“Harder!” Kirk demanded.

“No.” Dolf smacked Kirk’s ass again. “I have no idea how much you can take since you’re one of us now, so we’ll see how this goes first.”

“Shit!” Kirk snarled, doing a fine impression of a pissed-off cat himself.

Dolf wiggled the butt plug, and Kirk cried out. “You’ll take what I give you. No more or less, Kirk.”

“O-o-kay. Yes.” Kirk shuddered as the spanking slowed, then stopped.

Tal looked from one to the other, impressed. Both of his mates were sweating, intensifying their unique smell.

Dolf winked at Tal, then stepped over to him. “Hey, sweetheart.” Dolf ran his hand down Tal’s back, and then slipped a finger in the crease of his ass and lightly nudged his hole. “Going to get you ready and fuck this ass so good.”

Tal wiggled his ass. “Oh please, yes. I
need
.”

Dolf removed his finger, lubed it up, and eased it back in Tal. “You can come when you need to.”

“Yes, Dolf.”

Kirk returned the earlier favor, kissing Tal while Dolf fingered him. He swallowed Tal’s breathless whines until they were both panting, moaning, and nearly out of their heads with need.

“Dolf, please….”

Dolf stretched his fingers one more time, then removed them. Holding Tal’s hips firmly, he eased his way inside, not stopping the slow thrust until he bottomed out.

Tal saw Kirk watching as Dolf thrust inside him. In and out Dolf moved, the pace picking up as Tal grunted, wanting more. Tal’s gasps, those little mewling cries of need, triggered Dolf to pick up the pace until Tal cried out, come spurting from his cock.

Dolf powered through Tal’s orgasm, pumping hard until he, too, came.

“Shit,” Kirk mumbled.

Tal dropped on the bed, a silly grin on his face. “Wow.”

Kirk snorted, but the sound turned to a sudden gasp. “You’re still hard, Dolf.”

He watched as Dolf stepped behind Kirk and removed the plug. Dolf pressed his hands against Kirk’s reddened skin. “Still nice and red. You’re going to feel me both inside and out.”

“Good.” Kirk pushed back, a silent demand.

Dolf held his cock, rubbing the wet head across Kirk’s stretched hole. “Fuck, you’re spread open.” He thrust in, entering Kirk with just the tip of his shaft. “Oh fuck, Kirk!”

Kirk slammed back. “That’s the idea, man.”

Dolf’s strangled laugh exploded from him, and the wet slapping of flesh filled the room.

“Beautiful,” Tal murmured. “So strong and powerful.”

Tal saw Kirk lift his head and shoot him a smile. He watched as Dolf tightened his grip and slammed into Kirk again, snarling for his mate to come. Tal smiled when Kirk’s surprised shout drowned out Dolf’s yell. Finally Kirk’s arms gave out and he dropped to the bed, Dolf still on top of him. Tal waited as minutes passed, Kirk and Dolf still panting.

“Son of a bitch, you really did us both,” Kirk mumbled.

Tal snickered as Dolf laughed outright. Dolf stood and patted Kirk on his still-rosy ass. “Shower time, my mates.”

Kirk groaned but pulled himself up, Tal right beside him as they walked to the shower.

Kirk

S
EVERAL
DAYS
passed without any interruptions. We spent the time learning about each other and getting me completely moved. Dolf’s mom stopped by one day to visit. I really liked her and Monty.

We discussed where to build my shop and even picked a spot. January was slowly but surely slipping away. It was now Friday, and the joining ceremony was scheduled to take place tonight. After lunch, Dolf ran to town to take care of a few things. From what I understood, those attending the event would be coming back here. Since it was just Tal and me at home, we decided to check out the space he had in mind for my shop. We walked down the paved driveway, holding hands and talking about ideas Tal had for the shop. He stopped at a beaten-down path off the side of the driveway leading into the woods.

It was far enough from the house that my business wouldn’t interfere with my home life, but close enough I could walk if I wanted. This part of their land was heavily wooded. That would help hide the business. I’d have to talk to Tal about not knocking down every tree around the site. Damned if I wanted to be lazing about outside and see the workplace sitting out there, just waiting on me to show up.

Tal walked off the area he had in mind, then showed me where the separate drive would be. The dimensions boggled my mind. Tal was talking about a real, honest-to-goodness
professional
place of business. Not just a barn or old carport someone converted.

“This is…. Tal, this is more than I ever dreamed. I’m not sure I really need something this big.”

“Oh, you will. No one in our clowder is a mechanic. We have lawyers, Web site designers, doctors, grocery store owners, gas station owners, my construction company… but no mechanic. And that’s just us. Once you get up and running, the paranormals from the surrounding cities will probably end up doing business here too.”

“What about humans?”

“I’m sure you’ll have humans who are customers. Just be careful around them.” Tal’s hands settled on his hips. “I would ask, though, if you ever decide to hire help, hire from the clowder.”

“Getting ahead of yourself there, cutie. I’ll need more business than I had before to hire someone.” I stared at the space Tal had walked off. I could almost see the shop, see the cars on the parking pad in front, waiting to be serviced. My dream was so close.

“So, what do you think?” Tal gestured to the land.

“I love it.” I grinned at Tal, shutting away my worries as Tal’s excitement caught hold of me. “I really love it. What do we do next?”

“I’ll design some plans, mark off the area for construction, get the loan….” Tal hugged me. “Don’t worry about that end of it. That’s what I do. You need to give me input on what you want and what needs to go where. I can’t wait.” Tal pulled me toward the house. “Come on, let’s get back. I have to run into town and place a few orders for wood. Want to come with me?”

“Ah, I’d like…. Would you care if I stayed here? I’d like to just… soak it in, you know? Maybe go back and look at where we talked about building it and just….” I didn’t know what I was trying to say.

“Have it to yourself for a while yet? Savor it?” Tal kissed my neck.

“Yeah.” My cheeks heated, the skin flushing, my cock twitching. Just one touch got my motor running. “Silly, I guess, huh?”

“I completely understand.” Tal stopped by his truck. “Dolf should be back in about an hour, give or take. I’ll be back soon too.”

“Sounds good.” I moved out of the way for Tal to get in his truck and watched him leave.

It hit me that this was the first time I’d been completely alone since the cats had appeared at my house. The naughty urge to snoop gripped me, and I laughed. I didn’t need to go through drawers. All I had to do was ask. Both of them had opened their lives to me. I’d barely returned inside when the doorbell rang.

“Huh, wonder who that is.” A skinny guy dressed in a brown uniform stood at the door. He had a mop of dark, curly hair, big, pretty brown eyes, and the cutest little mole on his top lip. His hair was
almost
long enough to hide a scar on his face right by his ear.

Dolf hadn’t mentioned he or Tal was expecting a package. I opened the door and caught the slight scent of male cat shifter. It was a vague, musky scent, one I was quickly becoming familiar with. “Can I help you?”

“Hey, I have a….” The delivery guy trailed off, scowling. “Who are you?”

Really? Is that how they train guys to greet the public nowadays?
“Ah, excuse me?”

“
Who
are you?” The driver stepped closer and sniffed. His scowl deepened. “I know the two men who live here. They’re….” His top lip twitched. “You’re not a… but you smell like them and….” His eyes suddenly widened. “Shit, that can’t be right. What’s going on? Where’s Dolf and Tal?”

Well, guess that answers what his problem with me is, and what he is.
And he’s taller than I first thought.
“Look, man, what you smell
is
right. I’m their mate.”

“Oh, there’s no fucking way they mated a….” He stalled, and his eyes narrowed.

“A human? Was that what you were going to say?” I stared at him. Fuck if I was backing down from this asshole. “Well, you’d be wrong. They
did
mate me. And Dolf’s dad
is
aware.”

“Unbelievable that their Alpha permitted this.”

Guess that answers whether or not he’s part of this clowder.

The driver sneered. “Bet they were pissed when they scented you. A damn human. Why didn’t they walk away? I mean, who would blame them?”