Every Dawn Forever (20 page)

They’d never shared a woman like this before.  They’d had opportunities to play at threesomes and foursomes over the years, but it had always been a kind of reverent thing for them.  Something to be reserved for their mate alone.  Now he was glad that they were doing this together with her for the first time.  A first for all of them.  The first of many nights of pleasure and happiness.

Brushing his hand down her spine, he watched as she lifted herself enough to take Orion’s cock into her pussy, easing down slowly.  Her head dropped forward when their bodies were flush together and she moaned softly.  Crux moved behind her, flipping the cap on the lube and coating his fingers with it.  He rubbed the lube around with his thumb to warm it as he kissed her bare shoulder.

He glanced at Sterling, who was sitting on his heels next to them, and he cupped Syd’s face and kissed her.  Crux touched her anus with the well-lubed tip of one finger and she tensed.  Sterling growled slightly and appeared to kiss her harder, distracting her with his mouth.  It worked.  Her body relaxed and he began to rub slow circles against her tightest place, working in just the tip of his finger.  Orion helped to keep her distracted by cupping her breasts and teasing her nipples as Crux worked one finger into her completely.  He slipped his finger in and out of her several times, slowly, waiting for a sign that she was ready to keep going.  When she shifted her hips back to meet him finally, he knew she was, and he began to work a second and then a third finger inside her tightest place.

By the time she was ready, his cock was straining so hard that he was surprised it hadn’t ripped away from his body on its own.  He’d never been so hard or so turned on as he was right now, with his mate writhing between his fingers and his brother’s cock, her needy panting filling the den like the sweetest music.

He pulled his fingers from her body, put on a condom, and quickly covered his cock with lube, hissing at the temperature which did nothing to cool the ardor that was roaming through him.  He pressed the head of his cock to her ass as she leaned forward slightly, bracing one hand on Orion’s chest and gripping Sterling’s cock with the other.  He felt Orion shift and slip out of her channel, and Crux pressed slowly into her.

Her cry was muffled by Sterling’s cock, which was now gliding in and out of her mouth, and Crux watched his own cock disappear into her body.  He was so hard he knew he wouldn’t last long, not when she was so tight and hot around him.  Squeezing her hips, he closed his eyes and pulled out of her with the same slowness as her pussy was filled by Orion, and then quickly set up a rhythm to drive them all to a joint climax that would secure their mating bond.

Her body began to tighten on his, and he knew that she was close to coming.  He increased his thrusts into her, being careful not to hurt her tender body.  His balls drew up tight against his body and he forced his eyes open to see that his brothers were straining to hold back their climaxes as well.  She jerked and cried out around Sterling’s cock and her body locked down on Crux’s cock like an iron fist and he lost control.  Thrusting into her a few more times, he emptied deep inside her, his mindless shouts of pleasure mixing with his brothers’ as they completed their mating.

He eased out of her body quickly but carefully, moving to one side and reaching behind the fabric to the kit that he’d put together to take care of them.  After disposing of his condom, he pulled out cleansing wipes, cleaned Sydney’s body of the lubricant, and then tended to himself as Orion held her against his chest and Sterling rested on his side next to them.  Both of his brothers wore big grins as Sydney lay sprawled out on top of Orion like her body had lost all its bones.

He opened a cooler from behind another length of fabric and pulled out four bottles of electrolyte solution.  As he passed one to Sterling, a drop of icy water hit her back and she hissed.

With a grin, he took one bottle and touched the edge to one of the cute dimples on her ass and she bucked her hips with a groan.  As he slid the bottle up her spine, her back bowed and her head dropped down to Orion’s chest.

“Fuck, you’re going to make me come the way you’re writhing on me, sweetheart,” Orion said through clenched teeth.

Sydney laughed and lifted her head, brushing her sweat-damp hair from her face.  “That’s not such a bad thing.  But next time, I’d like you to be in my ass, okay?”

At Orion’s surprised look, she darted a glance to all of them.  “We’re going to do this again, right?  We’ve got twenty-four hours and you promised to love me in every way. 
Every
way.”

Crux cracked the lid off her bottle and handed it to her.  “We
did
promise, brothers.”

“And we’d never deny our mate anything,” Sterling said, lifting his bottle to his brothers in a silent salute.

* * * * *

Sterling could almost feel when the twenty-four hours was over, as if a spell had been cast over them and was now broken.  They were all dead on their feet, having gotten little sleep over the course of their mating time, but he loved the bone-deep weariness that settled over him.  It was worth it, when he picked up his mate and she sighed and cuddled into him.

He carried her upstairs and straight to the master bathroom.  He hadn’t realized until that moment why the garden tub was such a great idea.  It was Orion’s idea, inspired by the epic-sized tub in Dante’s clan’s home.  Crux turned the faucet on as Sterling leaned against the counter and tried not to crack his jaw as he yawned.

Her warm hands turned his face towards her.  She smiled.  “My poor baby.  So tired.”

He growled and kissed her palm.  “It’s worth it to have loved you so well.”

“That you did,” her eyes crinkled at the corners and glittered with happiness.

When the tub was half full of steaming water, Orion pulled a basket from the ledge and poked around in it before tossing a few colorful globes into the water.  The scent of vanilla and something flowery filled the air as what Crux told him were called
bath bombs
disintegrated and filled the water with oil and fragrance.

Fantastic.  Now he’d smell like a girl until his next shower.

 Crux and Orion got into the tub and he helped Sydney climb in before he sat down in the milky water and felt his bones scream in relief.  He and his brothers tended to Sydney by gently cleansing her skin and hair, massaging her muscles along the way.  When she was finished, he set her outside of the tub and secured a towel around her before returning to the murky water and cleaning up quickly.

She sat down on the toilet lid and yawned, propping her elbow on the counter and leaning her head against her palm.

“Sleepy, sweetheart?”  Orion asked, rinsing his hair off.

“Not at all,” she said, punctuating the sentence with another yawn.

Sterling climbed out of the tub and tucked a towel around his waist.  Grabbing another towel, he brought Syd to her feet, turned her towards the mirror over the sinks and began to rub her hair dry.  When it was just damp, she tucked it into a quick braid with a hair tie and Orion turned her around and pulled the towel away from her.

The evidence of their mating marathon was in the bruising on her arms and legs from where they’d held her tightly, and the red places on her skin where their stubble had started to rub her raw.  With her hair pulled back, he could see both mating marks on her neck easily, and he was glad to see that they were nearly completely healed.  The mark on her thigh was also almost healed, but because of the placement of the mark, it was red from friction.

Orion cupped her face and kissed her gently.  “How are you feeling?”

“Really good.”

Crux knelt in front of her and applied a soothing balm to the mark, as well as her tender pussy and ass.  He looked up at her, his brows drawn in worry.  “Are you hungry or thirsty?”

“No.  Just sleepy.  I think I saw a big old bed in there calling for us.”

And it really was.  Crux was clearly worried about how much activity they’d had over the last day, but Sydney was in charge of how much she would tolerate and she’d urged them on again and again.  And the last time they’d made love, she had marked each of them by sinking her fangs into the sides of their necks and making sure that they were hers forever, too.  Because they were.

Closing the blinds and heavy drapes in the bedroom, he closed the bedroom door and joined his clan on the bed, where Sydney was already sound asleep, her head resting on Crux’s shoulder.

When he woke, the clock on the bedside table read nine-fifteen.  Hair tickled his arm and he glanced over to see that Sydney had somehow climbed over Crux and was now nestled between him and Orion, her pretty blonde hair grazing his inner arm.

He closed his eyes and rested his hands lightly against her back.  He didn’t think he’d ever been happier.

* * * * *

Monday evening, Orion glanced across the desk to where Sydney was feeding papers into a large shredder a few at a time.  She seemed to know he was looking at her and lifted her eyes and grinned.  “This is really tedious.”

He chuckled.  “Because Dante is secretly a pack rat and never wanted to throw anything away.  You know when we first started working with them, Dante was still grumbling about how impersonal computer files were over paper files?”

She laughed.  “Alyssa said that she’s pretty much had to drag him by the scruff out of the dark ages and into the light of technology.”

He leaned back in the chair and smiled at the familiar squeak of the spring.  “I wanted to ask you something, sweetheart.”

She put the papers down immediately, stood up, and came over to sit on his lap.  He loved that no matter what she was doing, she stopped right away to give him and his brothers her full attention.

“I’m all ears.”  She hooked her arms around his neck and smiled at him encouragingly.

For a moment, as she wiggled on his lap, he couldn’t recall what he’d wanted to talk to her about, only that bending her over the desk seemed like a really, really great idea.  Then someone dropped a weight and it clanged loudly and he remembered that they were in a pretty public place with lots of humans and hyenas with sensitive ears.

“I’ve made some calls to Justices of the Peace, and was wondering when you wanted to get married?”

Her mouth dropped open a little bit in surprise.  “Who am I going to marry?”  Her voice dropped to a whisper as if it were a secret and she didn’t want anyone’s feelings to get hurt.

He chuckled and kissed her.  “Me, since I’m the oldest.  Crux and Sterling will sign as witnesses so all our signatures are on the license, and then I’ll whip one up with all of us named as your husbands for the house.  Dante offered to have a party at his place for us, and I thought that if you were okay with it, we’d get married this Sunday.  How does that sound?”

Her head tilted to the side and her hair slid over her shoulder.  Her blue eyes softened and her lips parted into a slow smile.  “I’d love it.  I want to belong to you in every way.”

He squeezed his arms around her.  “You know you do already, though, right?  The marriage license is just for the human government and so that we can get you on our insurance.  And so you’ll have our last name.”

“I know.  But it will be nice to have it completely official.”

“Are you happy, sweetheart?”  He pressed his forehead against hers and took a deep breath of the sweet scent of her skin.

“Truly.”

Chapter 17

The week passed quickly as her mates planned their small wedding.  They’d asked to do it all as a wedding gift for her, leaving her and Alyssa to only deal with their dresses.  Alyssa and Dante had gotten married at the courthouse with Mason and Cairo in attendance, but Sydney liked the idea of the clans all coming together to celebrate this last part of their final joining.  They’d made her theirs in every way except legally, and she was excited to have their last name, even though she really liked the name that Sterling had picked for her.

On Friday morning, Crux and Orion left early to run errands and she found herself alone in bed, staring out the open window.  A light breeze ruffled the drapes and brought in the scent of the flowers that grew outside.  After a quick shower, she put on a pair of shorts and a tank and walked into the kitchen, where she stood in front of the open refrigerator and pondered her choices.  She was feeling a little hungry, but then she noticed that the door to the den was open and her body filled with another kind of hunger.

She padded down into the den on bare feet and found the main room empty.  A spill of light came from the far room down the hallway, which was an office.  Before she reached the hallway, the door opened and shut quickly and Sterling joined her in the main room.  “What’s up, Little One?”

She let her eyes roam over his bare upper body and the little trail of hair that went down inside the waistband of his track pants.

Her brain fogged over a little.  He was so damn gorgeous.

She’d never really considered herself a bold person, but she knew that her mates wanted her to feel like she could say and do anything she wanted without being embarrassed.  They were always encouraging her to speak her mind and share her ideas, and as she looked at the growing bulge in his pants, she felt like she was having one of the best ideas.  Ever.