3013: Renegade (14 page)

“Yes. I want you both.
Together. Loving me.”

“We do love you, Alayna,” Colin said, the emotions in his eyes mirroring his words.
Nik went still behind her, and then she felt his warm bulk curving over her back.

“Always,”
Nik rumbled the single word and Alayna finally acknowledged the feelings that filled her own heart.

“I love you both. I never expected to…but I do.”

“Then we are very lucky men,” Nikolai planted a kiss to her shoulder before settling back to his former position.

“It took you long enough,” Colin teased. “I told you the night we claimed you that you were perfect for us. You’ve only been fighting the inevitable. You were always going to be mine.”

“Ours, Ghost. She was always going to be
ours
.”

“Just my luck, I had to fall for a pair of smug, possessive, elites,” she grumbled, grinning.

“We’re the lucky ones, princess.” Colin tugged at her hair, drawing her down for another slow, sensuous kiss.

***

CHAPTER SEVENTEEN

She said she loved them. Colin couldn’t have stopped grinning with pleasure if his life depended on it. Alayna was theirs now, not only because they’d claimed her, but because she had laid claim to them as well. When he’d learned what Nikolai’s parents were trying to do, he hadn’t been certain she’d stay. Those few seconds before she’d turned them down had been some of the longest of his life. Not that she would have gotten far even if she had tried to leave. There wasn’t a force on the whole fucking the planet that could keep them away from her.

Now that he had her warm, soft body in his arms, the taste of her mouth on his tongue and the slick heat of her pussy teasing his cock, all was right with his world. He tightened his grip in her hair, tugging just hard enough to have her moaning into his mouth. He loved that Alayna liked a little pain with her pleasure. He never had to hold back, never needed to apologize when their lovemaking got rough. Hell, she gave as good as she got, and both he and Griz wore every scratch and bite mark like a badge of fucking honor. Soon, they’d be permanently marked with the tattoos that would show the world they belonged to their chosen.

“Need you now,” he said to Alayna, who hummed in response. She raised her body enough to free his cock, and he reached between them to tweak her clit before positioning himself at her entrance. He had intended to tease Alayna with a slow entry, but she had other plans, dropping back down again so fast that his hand was trapped between them, his fingers pressed to her clit.

“Fucking hell, woman. You’re trying to kill me! Nik’s right. You
are
a minx,” he said and nipped her lower lip in retaliation. Colin felt as if he was sheathed in hot, wet silk, and when she flexed her inner walls around his cock the pleasure was so intense it bordered on pain.

“Call me that again, and I might try a little harder to kill you,” she threatened, her green eyes glittering with need mixed with mirth. Alayna rolled her hips in a slow figure-eight, gasping as her clit slid across his still pinned fingers. He wriggled his fingers and she gasped again. Her sweet mouth fell open as she rode him harder, grinding her pussy down on his hand.

“That’s right, take what you want. Take it all. You’re so damned sexy. I want to see your face when you come this time, want to watch you fuck us both until you scream. And believe me, you’re going to scream. We’re going to make this so good for you, you’re going to wonder why you ever thought this wasn’t our destiny.”

Nikolai chuckled from somewhere out of his sight. “Will you please shut him up, minx? He’s turned into a fucking chatterbox since you came along.”

“I can do that,” she said as her mouth covered his and she kissed him hard, their tongues tangling. Colin felt her movements slow and her body tense, gripping his cock tighter. She uttered a low, sultry moan that had his balls tightening and he knew that Nikolai had joined the fun. Knowing that Alayna needed to relax so that she could enjoy Nikolai’s attentions, Colin started working her clit between his fingers. Hard and then soft, fast, then slow, he teased and tugged at the delicate cluster of nerves. Soon she was riding his hand again, rocking her hips so that his cock slid in and out of her body as their tongues continued to dance and twist with each other, mouths mated and skin slick with water and sweat.

“Are you ready for me?” Nikolai asked and Alayna broke their kiss to turn her head, baring her throat to Colin as she did so.

“Ready,” she purred. Colin lifted his head, his mouth latching onto the soft skin of her neck, he sucked and nibbled, loving the way her body squeezed his dick when he increased the suction.

Alayna’s felt like she was caught in a plasma storm. Sparks danced along her skin and energy surged through her.
Nik’s hands gripped her hips, holding her still as he eased himself into her body one slow inch at a time. The burn of his entry blended with the pleasure of Colin’s strumming fingers, and she forced herself to breathe, knowing the pain would be gone soon.

“So tight.
Goddamn, Alayna. You’re perfect. I just…fuck.” Nik was panting, his words coming out in a breathless growl.

Colin started laughing, his entire body shaking with amusement. “I think you’ve rendered him speechless.”

“I bet I can render you both speechless,” she said and then rocked back, taking in more of Nik’s thick cock before deliberately pulsing her inner muscles. Both men groaned and she could feel their shafts throbbing deep inside her. There was still a faint bit of discomfort, but as she flexed her muscles a few times in quick succession the pain faded and she was left with nothing but pleasure. As often as she’d cursed the enhancements that had been forced on her, there were times that they certainly had their uses.

Colin started strumming her clit again and her need flared, white hot and demanding.
They’d been right, this was where she belonged. Between her two men, possessed and protected by them. Alayna started moving then, gently, slowly, every nerve singing as she rocked between them. They worked with her, falling into a rhythm of give and take that made her limbs tremble and her breath come in ragged gasps. The pressure built slowly, coiling inside her until she could think of nothing but the stroke of their cocks and the touch of their hands. She was flying, soaring in the dark spaces between the stars. When her orgasm came, it hit with the force of a storm, shattering her into a thousand tiny fragments of shimmering bliss. Her cries blended with those of Nikolai and Colin, and the three of them took flight together, then drifted back to earth one by one.

“Now that, was perfect,” she managed to form the words despite the fact her heart was still pounding and her mouth seemed to be the only part of her that would actually respond to her brain’s requests to move.

Colin grinned up at her. “Yes, it was. Because it was the three of us together. Finally, truly, together. This is the way we were meant to be.”

Nik
eased himself off of her, brushing a kiss to the base of her spine before rising from the bed and heading to the bathroom. “Just the way we will be from now on. Now we’ve dealt with my family, there shouldn’t be anything but clear skies ahead.”

Alayna winced at that. She still hadn’t told them who she really was.

Colin caught the expression and frowned up at her. “You okay? We weren’t too rough?”

“Too rough?
Not hardly,” she said and gave him a half smile as she slipped from her perch and flopped onto her back beside him.

He rolled onto his side, propping his head up with one hand so he could look down at her. “So, what was with the face? Because there was definitely a face thing, I saw it.”

“There’s something I should probably mention before we start talking about clear skies and smooth sailing.”

“Why do I get the feeling we’re not going to like what you’re about to tell us, minx?”
Nik asked as he re-entered the room, carrying a towel. It didn’t matter that she’d recently had a soul-shattering orgasm. One look at Nikolai’s gloriously naked form and her body was already warming up for another round. The two of them really should come with warning labels.

Alayna sighed and closed her eyes, closing off her vision of both men as she fought to stay focused on what she had to tell them. Nikolai joined them on the bed, stretching out beside her.
The comforting warmth of a damp wash cloth touched her skin, stroking her gently as he asked, “So, what do you need to tell us? Whatever it is, we’ll deal with it.”

“The night you caught me, you asked me why I’d break into a house with nothing much to steal. I never really answered that question.”

“No, you didn’t. We figured you’d tell us when you were ready. I take it that you’re ready now?”

She blew out a breath and opened her eyes. “I wasn’t here to steal your stuff. I was after information…and that wasn’t the first time I’ve been in this house.”

Both men tensed, and she could almost hear the wheels turning in their heads as they looked at each other and then back down at her. “All right,
vorovka
. What information were you after?”

“Inventory lists, shipping manifests,
transpo routes. Your predecessor liked to take his work home with him, and the security here was lousy. It was a lot easier to break in here than try to get into his office on the base.”

Colin’s next words were clipped and cool. “And why exactly would you need information like that? Who were you giving it to?
Wraith? Did you work for him? Maybe you’re still working for him.”

“Don’t be an ass, Colin. If I still wanted to be a thief, then I would have taken the money and walked out of here this afternoon. I’m here, aren’t I? What does that tell you?”

“If you say another word, I’ll slug you myself, Ghost. Just shut up and let her tell us, will you?”

“This is the part you two
really
aren’t going to like. I don’t work for Wraith. I
am
Wraith.”

“Not possible. Wraith’s a man,” Nikolai argued, but there was a glimmer of doubt in his dark eyes.

“Says who? There’s no visual record of me anywhere. I know, because I’m very fucking careful.”

Colin narrowed his eyes and pinched the bridge of his nose. “Fuck me. You’re telling me that the thief that’s been robbing our base blind, the one we’ve been ordered to stop by any means necessary, has been right under our noses all this time?”

She gave him a finger wave and a grin. “Hi.”

“We’re going to be court-martialed,
Griz. And you…what the
fuck
are we supposed to do with you, now?”

“Court-martialed for what? Our orders said by any means necessary. Alayna, are you going to steal from us anymore?”

“Nope. I’m retired.”

“You better fucking well
be retired,” Nikolai snarled and then looked over at Colin. “This could work. Wraith is no longer a problem for the Alliance, mission accomplished.”

“I think there’s a flaw in your logic somewhere,” Colin grumbled.

“Yeah? Well, logic is your specialty, not mine. You come up with a way to sell it to the brass. As the head of base security, I’m declaring the manhunt over.”

“Wraith’s a fucking woman.
Our woman. How the hell did this happen? Do you have any idea how many hours we’ve spent going over records, inventory, and video feeds looking for clues? Looking for
you
?” Colin glowered at her, but his lips were twitching into the beginnings of a smile.

“It’s hardly my fault that you two decided to claim me after you caught me breaking into your house. Not that I’m not grateful for the way things turned out, but come on, you knew I was a thief!”

“We knew you were
a
thief. That’s not quite the same as knowing you are the thief that’s been plaguing every Alliance outpost in this sector for nearly a decade.” Colin blinked. “Holy shit. You’ve been …but that’s…how old were you when you started this insanity?”

She loved that Colin was more worried about
her
than he was about the news that she was a criminal. “I was raised in this insanity, remember? I should have been out on a raid the day the Alliance found me, but I’d wrecked my ankle on the last run and it wasn’t one hundred percent healed yet.”

“You were doing raids at fourteen? I’m going to kill your foster father when I meet him,”
Nik said.

“Before you judge him, come out and see for yourself and where the goods I stole wound up. Maybe then you’ll understand.”

Nikolai wanted to hit something, preferably Sam Dixon’s face. What kind of man would take a baby and raise her to be a thief? He hadn’t really thought about what her life had been like before they’d caught her breaking in. He didn’t like thinking about the woman he loved growing up amidst hardship and danger. He really didn’t like knowing that she’d actively sought out dangerous situations as a career choice.

He had been expecting some kind of revelation since he’d caught her expression that time they’d mentioned Wraith, but he had never expected
this
. “You are never going to risk your neck like that again. Do you hear me, Alayna?”

She narrowed her eyes at him. “I heard you. I already told you, I’m retired. Keep in mind that you two
wanted
a woman with a backbone. Now you have one, you’re just going to have to suck it up and deal. I’m not now, nor will I ever be a meek, obedient little chosen.”

Damn, she’s
sexy when she gets riled.

“Will you quit baiting her,
Griz. I know how this will go. You tease, she sasses, and then next thing I know we’re having sex again. I’m all for more sex, but first we need to deal with the matter of our chosen being a wanted criminal.”

That had Nikolai back on track. “She’s not a criminal. Alayna’s never been convicted of a crime.”

“You know, he’s right. The Alliance only got a hold of me once, and not for very long. That’s why I invented Wraith.
My
record is clean.”

“And now Wraith is going to disappear. He
is
going to disappear, right, princess?”