Doubting she could keep her comments to herself long enough, she agreed reluctantly, crossing her arms against her chest and waited.
“Twins of royal birth marry one woman, or one man. Very rarely, triplets are born. When a triplet birth happens…”
“What happens when…”
“Shari.” Shari quickly closed her mouth.
“You are the woman we chose. We brought you back to Aranak, which is in the Realm of Azaya. There are
Tears
, rips in universes, where people can travel between realms. We were visiting…friends in the Earth realm and were on our way home when we saw what happened. We followed you, and the rest led us to where we are now. Here, married, with you.”
As he finished speaking, Vincent brought Shari’s hand gently to his lips. Velvety soft lips met delicate skin and left an impression on Shari’s skin. Looking down at her hand thinking she would find some tangible proof his kiss had left an impression, Shari noticed for the first time the ring gracing her finger.
Astonishment crossed her features as she gaped at the triple braided ring on her finger. Vincent tugged her hand when suddenly, from behind her, Shan Lin brought his own hand forward. The three hands met together, fingers entwining in a caress and Shari noticed all three hands wore nearly identical rings.
“No…I… But I wasn’t… How?”
It was the best she could do. Her mind had been clear right up until the point she gazed into the brothers’ eyes. She had been so sure this was all part of some joke, some scheme…something or other than what it actually was.
They were married. Jesus. It was true.
“But why
me
?” she asked, knowing she couldn’t be that special. She couldn’t have been so special two men would come from another place just to claim her. It couldn’t be happening.
It is happening. We knew it would one day. We couldn’t have picked a more worthy bride to be ours.
Stunned momentarily, Shari abruptly pulled out of the brothers’ embrace, leaping off the bed, and took several steps back from the bed. More importantly, away from the men.
“You’re talking to me in my mind! Mother of God, I’m in a spaceship somewhere in a galaxy far, far away from Earth!”
Sinking toward the floor, she landed half-on half-off the cushioned pouf she’d almost backed into. Falling completely to the floor, she ignored the men who scrambled toward her with the intention of checking to see if she had hurt herself. Both brothers came over and lifted her onto the pouf checking her body as she sat stunned.
“Married?
Fer cryin out loud!
I’m
married!”
“Yes.” Even spoken quietly, firmly, the word came from two mouths in perfect unison. “We can also read your mind.”
Chapter Six
Shan Lin and Vincent watched as Shari opened the door and ran smack into a wall. The wall was currently asking their bride if there was something she needed.
“Good afternoon, My Lady Princess. How may I serve you?”
Winters. Thank you Father for Winters.
Shan Lin pathed to his brother, relief in his words.
“What do you want to bet he has her ensconced in a comfy chair with biscuits and drink before she can remember just where it was she was going? In say…two minutes?”
Shan Lin chuckled at his brother and walked toward a seamless door in the wall. Opening it, he began to pull out a set of clothing for himself. Grimacing slightly at the thought of putting on anything to cover his raging hard-on, Shan Lin shrugged, then set his teeth against the pain to come.
The suffering was indeed painful. His cock ached to slide deep into Shari’s pussy and pump hard until she screamed out her pleasure and he emptied the full weight of his seed into her.
“Shan Lin…”
The acute longing in Vincent’s voice brought him back to the present and sighed deeply. Looking over at his brother sheepishly, Shan Lin did his best to push his craving need aside. He nearly gave into the overwhelming need bombarding them both as he felt the same longing in Vincent.
“Sorry. The bet is too easy. Trust me…” His voice paused as he listened to Winters comfort Shari and assure her he would have clothing brought for her immediately.
“He’ll calm Shari down enough for us to speak more about her being our wife.” Shan Lin’s voice spoke to Vincent from inside the clothing room.
Vincent growled.
“Not that it matters, brother mine. The woman won’t be leaving us any time soon, whether she wants to or not.”
“No. She won’t be.”
* * * * *
Shari didn’t know how it happened. All too soon she was surrounded by luxury as a sweet old man attended to her every need as if she were the Queen of England, or something.
She’d had it all set. She was going to walk out the door, find her way outside, and run for her life to the nearest police station. Once there, she was going to let them know two crazy men were on the loose.
Married.
Yeah right.
Unfortunately, it had not happened that way. The man, Winters, had gently grasped her arm and escorted her out of the doorway down the long hallway she had spied behind him.
Before she could demand to know where she was going, he had patted her hand in a fatherly motion and told her to leave everything up to him. He would tend to those two. His gesture had been in the direction of the room she had just left, indicating just which two he was talking about. Sniffing disdainfully as if they were scum, Winters had led her to where she now sat.
Shari nearly giggled thinking about it. The aggravated tone of his voice had been mixed with some other emotion she hadn’t caught, she was too busy at the time gawking.
The room she currently resided in was a thing of splendor. Four pillars stood floor to ceiling holding the roof up. They were intricately carved with small scenes of what she assumed to be daily life. The chair she sat in now was made of velvety soft material against her nearly naked flesh. The rug she ran her feet back and forth across felt like pure silk.
Lost in sensory delight of the room, Shari almost missed Winters as he walked in front of her.
“Excuse me. Winters, right?”
“Yes, My Lady Princess? Was there something else I can get you?”
“We’ll take it from here, Winters.” Vincent’s gravely voice sounded from behind Shari, startling her.
“That is unless Shari would feel safer if you stayed,” this from Shan Lin, making Shari crane her neck backward to watch the two men walk toward her.
The sight of the two men sent her hormones into overdrive. They seemed to have dressed with the qualifications of minimal clothing required. The sight of them with hard-ons stretching above their navels was one thing, and could drive a saint to orgasm. Dressed as they were now in worn, matte-black, leather pants riding low on their hips, they were a sight to send any woman to the floor and worship.
Her gaze tried to take in the whole package at once, but her vision seemed to be stuck in the middle where the men’s abs looked as if they would be able to stop bricks.
“Shari?” The rumbled question came from Vincent.
“Ummmmmm…?” Shari all but purred as she felt her nipples tighten and moisture began to form between her thighs. Her plan of escape was forgotten at the sight of the bounty before her.
Maybe she could stick around for just a little wh…
“Here.” An amused voice spoke.
“What?”
Shari, lost in a world where those bodies were sliding under, over, and into her, turned dreamily to find Shan Lin on the other side of her chair. He was holding out some kind of clothing toward her. Admiring the rippling muscles in front of her, she absentmindedly took hold of the clothing.
Tucking the material in her lap, Shari reached out to touch the gorgeous skin. So soft and supple, yet granite hard. She hardly noticed the drool begin to collect at the side of her mouth.
It wasn’t until a throat cleared to her right she reluctantly turned her attention back to a voice calling her name.
“What…? Oh.” She prayed none of the men noticed the blush as she wiped the slobber from her chin. She tried to bluff her way out of it.
“Yes, well… Can you tell me what’s really going on? You seem to be the stable one in this bunch.”
Winters smiled winningly at Shari and she knew she hadn’t managed to pull anything off. He was gentle as he answered her.
“Of course, My Lady Princess. What would you like to know?”
My Lady what?
Maybe he hadn’t been the one to ask after all. Straightening up in her chair and hitching her covering higher still, she tried again.
“Where am I? Let’s start with that and go from there.”
Winters nodded agreeably.
“Of course, My Lady Princess. You’re in the Queendom of Aranak in the Realm of Azaya.”
Shari gaped at the man.
“Was that all you wished to know, My Lady Princess?”
Quickly, closing her mouth, she shook her head negatively.
“Um… The
Queendom
of Aranak? The
Realm
of Azaya? Where on Earth exactly am I?”
“Earth? No dear.” Winters reached out, patting her hand with a look of sympathy in his eyes. “You’re in Azaya now. Earth is another realm in the universes. Here, in Azaya, you have Aranak, Horrd, Zynthia, Stocklem, Xaneria, Kled…”
Shari shook her head in astonishment at the man. He had to be a loon too. Even though he had stopped speaking, he was nodding his head in the affirmative.
“Yes, My Lady Princess. It’s true. There are other realms. My Lord Princes would be more than happy to…”
This could not be happening. It could not.
“Shari.”
She turned her head from Winters and found Vincent had been calling her name softly in a tone she would normally reserve for a person in shock.
“Shari, you really are in another realm. If, when we’re done speaking, you want proof, we’ll show you. But please, hear us out first.”
Shari felt a hand grasp one of hers and turned to find Shan Lin on his knees at her side.
“
Kasha
. When we came to your door in the Earth…”
Shari opened her mouth to object to the term Earth, and was quickly silenced.
“…realm we did so to check on you. We saw what happened and were worried.”
“But you don’t even know me!” Shari cried helplessly.
Shan Lin stroked a hand down her arm again.
“It’s true, but we went to check on you nonetheless.”
Shari tried to imagine someone she had never met caring for her but couldn’t wrap her mind around the possibility.
“It’s true. We came to your door to check on you. There is something about you…a strength we sensed in you. We wanted to meet you and…”
“So you kidnapped me, stripped me, and stood over me naked with raging hard-ons until I woke up so you could speak to me?”
Shan Lin winced.
Put that way…
Vincent made a rude noise. “No. We married you.”
Shan Lin looked up at Vincent and tried to keep the smile off his face. The frustration in his brother’s voice amused him. He stroked a hand down Shari’s arm to gain back her attention. His grin widened as he watched Shari glare at Vincent.
“What my brother is so eloquently trying to say is we have need of you just as you have need of us.”
Shari knotted her brows finally turning toward Shan Lin.
“What do you mean
have need of me
? Outside of a good psychiatrist’s phone number or the name of a great psycho ward, I can’t think of anything the two of you would need from me.”
“We’re not insane, Shari. I swear to you.”
Vincent’s voice, when he spoke, was persuasive, seducing her to listen to the crazy words he was spouting. It was the only defense Shari could come up with to justify continuing to sit here and listen to the two men tell her these lies. Not to mention, to continue to sit there wrapped only in a sheet.
Vincent, who had been standing just a few feet away, suddenly came forward and knelt at Shari’s feet. She stared down at him while he lifted her other hand and brought it to his lips.
“I’ll make you a deal,
Kasha
. Why don’t you get dressed, and afterwards, we’ll take you outside and let you see Aranak for yourself. You can go into Naralin, which is the closest town to our home, and find out for yourself. If afterward you still think we’re crazy, we’ll send you home.”
Shari listened and breathed a sigh of relief. If she could get outside, she had a good chance to get away. If she could just slip…
“However,” Vincent interrupted her escape plan. “If you find you’d rather stay here a while longer with your new husbands, then agree to sit and listen to what we have to say, and find out that there really are more inhabitants in your Realm of worlds than any human could ever dream of.”
Shari nodded her agreement immediately. She was going to be able to get out of this situation. With clothes on no less, and she wasn’t even going to have to fight her way out. It was the best deal she had ever been given. The best thing anyone…