Chasing Faete (Beyond the Veil Book 1) (13 page)

Chapter Twenty-Five

“Hmm, brother,” Leo teased as he admired the dewy glow of their mate fresh from the bath. “How should we take our sweet pixie this first time? Should we fuck her sweet and slow on our sides?”

He loved the way Erica whimpered and her hands moved up to cup and caress her breasts, making Ben growl low next to him.

“Ben, why don’t you help our mate with those luscious breasts? While I have a taste of her delicious little pussy?” Leo slowly climbed onto the bed at her feet, moving his hands up her long legs. “Mmm, baby, I can smell your sweetness already, and it’s making my mouth water.”

Erica gasped as Ben moved beside her and took her wrists in one hand, binding them above her head, and then he dove in and began to worship her perfect breasts with his tongue and lips.

“Goddess, yes,” Erica moaned as Leo’s hands finally reached her hips and he settled himself in between her legs, leaning in to nuzzle at the junction of her thighs.

Damn, how did Ben and I end up so blessed as to have Erica for our mate?
Leo was astonished at how beautiful, smart, and incredibly strong she was, not to mention humbled that she’d accepted them at her side.

Leo took his time, spreading her glistening folds wide to reveal the bounty within. She was soaking already, and he couldn’t resist any longer. He slid a hand under her and lifted her just enough to lick her little rosebud and then all the way back up to focus on the swollen button of flesh at the top. When he wrapped his lips around her clit and sucked hard, Erica’s hips bucked up in his hold.

“Leo!” she screamed as he sank two fingers into her pussy and began to slowly draw them in and out, still teasing her nub with his teeth.

Leo looked up to see Ben lifting his head to capture her mouth in a rough, dominating kiss before he went back to his feast.  Leo was determined to see their mate scream out her pleasure before he sank himself deep inside of her pussy as his brother took her ass. Just imagining how good it would feel had the pre-cum seeping from his cock. Leo could think of nowhere he would rather be than inside of his mate.

“Are you ready for a little more, baby?” he asked as he took his other hand and gently fingered her puckered hole, using the wetness from her own body to ease its way inside.

“Mmm, whatever that was that you did, brother,” Ben chuckled in between kisses along her neck and back down to her hard nipples, “do it again. Our mate’s eyes just rolled back into her head.”

“Yes, that feels amazing,” Erica moaned as Leo continued to finger-fuck her ass while still eating away at her pussy. “Oh God, I think I’m going to…”

Leo thrust three fingers into her wet sheath as he stilled the one in her ass and pulled hard on her clit with his lips, loving the squeal that came out of her mouth as her entire body bowed up off the bed. He could feel her muscles contracting around his fingers, and he couldn’t wait to feel it when he buried his cock balls deep inside of her.

****

Erica moaned into Ben’s mouth while her body shook from her orgasm. Ben continued kissing her as she rode out the last remnants of it.

“Isn’t she so fucking beautiful when she comes for us?” Leo asked, still sitting between her legs.

Ben murmured his agreement after finally releasing her lips. “I need a little taste, too.” He sat up on his haunches and leaned over to taste her glistening wet pussy, Leo having just vacated the spot for him.

Erica meanwhile took his rigid cock in one of her small hands and began stroking him slowly. He moaned against her pussy lips, causing her to grip him tighter. He heard his brother groaning as well and stopped his ministrations briefly to look up and see that Erica had her lips wrapped around his brother’s cock.

“That is so fucking hot!” 

Erica released Leo’s cock with a loud pop and turned to Ben. “I need to taste you, too.” Who was he to argue?

He took one last swipe, savoring her delicious flavor on his tongue before he sat back up and moved closer to Erica’s mouth. She laved her tongue around his mushroomed head, teasing him before sucking his tip into her mouth. Then she licked again and again, torturing him some more while stroking Leo’s cock.

She switched it up again, taking Leo into her mouth while stroking Ben. It all became too much by the time his turn to be in her mouth rolled around again. Her eyes closed when she took him deep, her moans of pleasure indicated that she got off on his flavor as much as he got off on hers. He tilted his head back and closed his eyes, but the images of her sucking him and then his brother, her plump lips and hollowed cheeks, were still visible in his mind.

As good as her lips and tongue felt around his cock, he desperately needed to be inside of her. “Stop, baby. Fuck … I need to be inside you now.” He felt his canines lengthen with the need to bite, to mark his mate again. His wolf would not be denied now.

Leo seemed just as desperate. His brother shifted on the bed, positioning himself on his back and in one swift move, he flipped Erica on top of him. Erica straddled him, grinding herself against Leo while she kissed him.

Leo spread his legs wide enough to make room for Ben and wrapped his arms around Erica. Ben took his place behind Erica, marveling at the sexy sight before him. Her ass and pussy were exposed to him, ready and waiting to be filled by her men.

He swiped two fingers between her glistening wet folds and then inserted them into her little rosebud, eliciting a long and desperate sounding moan from Erica. He stroked inside of her with his fingers a few times more before determining that she was definitely ready.

He removed his fingers. “We’re going to make you feel so good, pixie.”

“Mmmm.”

Leo lifted her hips and entered Erica to the hilt. Then Ben very slowly pushed his way in until he, too, was completely buried inside of her. They all froze for a moment, the other two seeming to relish finally being so connected just as much as he did.

When the tightness of holding still overwhelmed him, he began to move. Nice long strokes, alternating in and out with his brother. Ben had no idea what Heaven felt like, but he imagined that this probably came pretty damn close.  

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Erica’s eyes grew heavy as she held herself still. Her mates were moving in and out of her in a syncopated rhythm that was clearly designed to drive her crazy. She had never felt so full, so needy, so damned pleasured in all her life. Taking two deep breaths she bore down on her orgasm, not wanting this to end. Having both her mates buried to the hilt within her was the most amazing feeling in the world. When she finally succumbed to the pleasure building within her, she wanted to make sure she took her mates with her.

A small revolution of her hips as both men pushed within her had both Ben and Leo groaning.

“Fuck, mate,” Leo growled from beneath her, his hands clenching hard against her hips, “do that again.” Erica bit her bottom lip at the need in his tone and swirled her hips again. This time, her mates’ rhythm faltered.

“Too much!” Ben’s voice sounded garbled, a sure sign his wolf was close. “Fuck, I can’t control—” And then he began to slam into her. The movement and force of his hips crashing into hers drove her into Leo, sparking an instant reaction from him. Erica clenched her hands into the bed sheets below them as Leo and Ben began to pound into her, driving her closer and closer to the edge of insanity that came with the pleasure only they could build within her. Erica keened as the size of her approaching orgasm felt life-altering.

“Come for us, Erica,” Leo groaned. “Gods, please come.”

“Go over, our Queen,” Ben added in a growl. “Take us with you.”

And that was all it took. Erica hovered on the edge for a split second before she tumbled with a scream in the maelstrom of pleasure she had held at bay. Her orgasm crashed within her, making her jerk and thrash between her mates. Both men roared their own pleasure to the room, moments before she felt their simultaneous bites against the sensitive skin of her neck. Right over the claiming marks that already existed, and as impossible as it had seemed just moments before, she peaked again, screaming their names to the gods.

“Mmm.” Erica moaned what felt like only moments later, as she lifted her head to look at the man beneath her. She had to blink a few times to clear her vision and bring Leo into focus. The power of her release was such that her head still spun.

“There’s my love,” Leo murmured as he leaned up and pressed a sweet kiss to her lips.

Erica stretched a little, enjoying the slight pinch within her that told her she had been well loved. “That’s me,” she replied, her voice raspy from all the screaming she had been doing. The bed moved as Ben lay down beside them, and Erica turned to him with a frown. “How did you get over there?”

Ben grinned, his face devoid of stress or fear for the first time that day. “Well, my Queen, you passed out. I went to run us another bath. We took you hard, and the hot water will feel good.”

Erica nodded and rested her chin on her hand over Leo’s heart, and reached out her hand to Ben. When he lifted it and pressed a kiss to the back of it before settling it against his own heart she sighed. If anyone were to ever ask her what it was to be mated, to be claimed by two wolves who owned her heart and soul, she would never be able to put it into words. But the memory of this moment would most definitely be the one that came to mind.

Erica let out a contented sigh. “I need to thank you both for coming over the bridge and beyond the Veil for me.”

Leo frowned up at her and tensed slightly beneath her. “Erica, don’t thank us for doing what we were born to do. We will always come for you, and nothing will ever come between us.”

“And don’t think apologizing gets you out of that punishment we talked about,” Ben added with a devilish grin. “I think all three of us are looking forward to that.”

Erica grinned back. “I think you might be right. But the fact that you came after me means more than you will ever truly know.”

Leo nodded toward the door with his head, and Ben rolled off the bed, heading toward the bathroom. Leo stood up and, in a testament to his strength, simply lifted her with him. He slid his hands beneath her bottom, and she wrapped her legs around his hips. She moaned as his first step had her still sensitive clit rubbing against his hard abdomen.

“We weren’t just coming after you, baby,” Leo murmured as he carried her into the bathroom. “We were chasing fate.”

****

“When one abuses a trust, there is always a penalty.”

Erica gasped for breath as she sat bolt upright in the bed, the final words of her goddess still ringing in her ears and her heart pounding hard within her chest. 

“Erica?” Leo asked from beside her, leaning up to stare into her face. The room was dark, but the light of the moon outside the window cast an eerie light within the room, making it possible for her to see the concern on Leo’s face.

Ben wrapped an arm around her from his position on her right, surrounding her in warmth she could not feel. “What is it, love?  Bad dream?”

Unable to find her voice, she simply nodded. She had known that there would be a penance to pay for what she did. She was a healer, a Fae blessed by the goddess with a gift so precious it should never have been used for anything other than good.  But this? Oh gods, this she had never imagined. She’d believed the penance would be hers and hers alone to pay, but to have her mates punished at the same time, that she had not foreseen.

“Come here, baby,” Ben murmured as he drew her tight against his chest and lay back down.  “Damn, Erica, you’re shaking.”

Leo lay down close behind her.  “Must have been one hell of a nightmare. You wanna talk about it?”

Erica shook her head. She couldn’t bring herself to tell them.  Not yet. She wrapped an arm around Ben and curled her leg back over Leo’s wanting to be as close to her mates as possible.  She tried to quiet her mind enough to rest, but it was impossible. Leo and Ben had chased fate to come for her, but it looked like Fate would have the last word.

Erica could only hope that it was one the three of them could live with.

Epilogue

Erica sat in the throne room, listening half-heartedly to one of the elders read through the coronation scriptures that would, when finished, announce her as Queen of the Fae. She looked around at all those who had come to celebrate this day with her. Before her stood her people, the Fae who always remained loyal to the true royal family, never wavering beneath the rule of the False King. Amongst them were the shifters, all of those she remembered from the day Alefric had turned her throne room into a battleground two weeks ago, and many she had yet to meet.

But meet them she would. Every single one of them had risked their lives to travel to the Elf realm and fight against Alefric and his reign of terror. She had so many people to thank, and she would make it her mission to let them know how much they meant to her.

As her gaze passed over the crowd she locked eyes with the tall man with short dark hair cropped close to his head, leaning against the back wall. Donovan stood with his arms crossed over his large chest, the tribal tattoo visible on his forearm. Jason stood beside him, just as tall, but his expression was a lot harder, and Erica could understand why. Alefric had tortured him physically, but it was the mental torture of knowing his mate had been just on the other side of the wall and beyond his reach to help, that was the true torment he had to live with now.

They nodded in her direction, and she returned the gesture with a small smile. Her heart ached for Donovan and his brother. After the battle was over, Erica had tried to help Jason heal the wounds that Kheelan had carved into his flesh, but it seemed as though his own body was fighting the process. She could not understand why it wouldn’t work. The goddess had a plan. Erica kept on reminding herself of that. She still hadn’t been able to bring herself to share with her mates what the ultimate cost of using her powers to defeat Alefric had been. It was still too painful to admit even to herself, the price that all three of them would be paying in the end, not just Erica. There were other important matters to attend to now, however. So far their search for April and the other humans had gotten them all nowhere. Erica couldn’t even begin to imagine the frustration and pain they were going through.

“Baby,” Leo murmured quietly, leaning toward her from the throne he sat on to her left, “this is supposed to be the day you take back your birthright. So why the sad face?”

Erica sighed. “April.”
And the horrible secret I am keeping from you for now, my loves
.

Both her mates reached over the elaborately carved arms of the throne she sat on and took a hand each, the gentle stroke of their thumbs against her skin and squeeze of their hands giving her comfort.

“We’ll find her,” Ben promised. “Our pack-mates need their mate. Even if it takes every shifter we have to search every inch of this realm and ours to find her, then that is what we will do.”

“Corrine!” Gabe’s voice echoed through the throne room, bringing an abrupt halt to the ceremony. Erica and her mates stood quickly and walked down the stairs of the dais to where Corrine had collapsed against Gabe. From her pale expression and shallow breath, Erica knew Corrine was experiencing another vision.

The elder stepped over to her and grabbed her arm. “Your Majesty, we must—”

“Take your hand off my mate,” Leo growled, “or I will rip it off your body.”

Erica pressed a hand against Leo’s chest, calming the man as well as the wolf. “Just wait, Calanon. We can finish in a moment.”

Corrine inhaled sharply just moments before her eyes fluttered open. “He brings her powers forward. He is fighting a strong magic that has hidden her abilities for many years, but he is forcing his way through the shields. She’s scared, and in pain, but fighting him in her own way.”

There was movement beyond their group and bursts of outrage that were quickly silenced. Then Donovan and Jason stepped out of the crowd.

“She who?” Jason growled his voice more wolf than man.

Corrine turned to look at them, sadness shimmering in her eyes. “Your mate.”

A roar of rage, which morphed quickly into the anguished howl of Jason’s wolf, as he shifted, exploded from him.

“Jason!” Gabe yelled, the air in the room suddenly thickening. Erica knew it was the essence of an Alpha looking to reach one of his pack. “You will calm yourself, and you will stay in this room.”

The large wolf paced, growling constantly, obeying, but making it clear to everyone in the room that he wasn’t happy about it.

“Where is she?” Donovan asked Corrine in an anguished voice.

Corrine reached out a hand and placed it on Donovan’s arm. “If I knew, we would already be on our way, young wolf, but I do not know. All I can tell you is that you and your brother will play a role in helping her. You all have a long way to go before deciding her fate.”

“Majesty, I must insist,” Calanon started, but Erica reached out and clamped her hand over his mouth, and spun to face him.

“Shut up!” Erica snapped, her eyes blazing. “We have things to do and a fucking Fae healer to find. I am now Queen, correct?” Calanon nodded, his eyes wide. “The council and all Fae will recognize the mates deemed mine by the Fates and by the claiming bites we wear, right?” Again, Calanon nodded. “Then this coronation is over, and we enter the rescue planning phase of the day.”

Erica pushed the man away.

“Damn, baby,” Leo drawled, “I love it when you get all Queenly and dominant.”

Erica laughed. “Good to know.”

“It works here, and with everyone else,” Ben added in whisper for their ears only as he stepped in and wrapped an arm around her. “But not with us. Just remember that and we won’t have to punish you. Again.”

Erica nodded with a grin, recalling the punishments she’d experienced at the hands of her mates. Their hands had done magical things that made her shiver all over again just thinking about them.

“Fair enough, but for now, there is a healer out there who needs our help,” Erica said. Then she addressed the people within the throne room, lifting her voice to be heard clearly all the way to the back. “We have taken back our palace, and we have defeated the mad bastard who thought to take away our free will, but there is more to be done. We must bring all of Alefric’s supporters to justice and hold them accountable for the atrocities they have committed.”

Murmurs of agreement and excitement began to fill the room.

“And we must start with Kheelan. We must find him, and save the Fae healer he has taken with him. And we must find and hopefully return the other humans he has kidnapped. This is not only the right thing to do, but it is our goddamn obligation!”

The crowd roared in agreement. Erica took a deep breath, satisfied that her parents would be proud of the woman she had become.

She was Eyrica, a healer among her people, Queen of the Fae, and mate to Leo and Ben Eklund. It was her role in life to protect her people and punish anyone who thought to hurt them. Starting with delivering April safely to her mates. The fact that she would get to wreak justice on Kheelan was just an added benefit.

A benefit that she was going to enjoy the ever loving hell out of.

The End

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