Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf [Wolf Creek Pack 6] (15 page)

him when he realized that he could give back to his mate for all of the

things Stefan gave him throughout the years. He scooted closer and

tilted his head back, feeling it lay against Ben’s shoulder. “Take what

you need, Stefan.”

“But you are injured, Audley,” Stefan protested. “I can’t—”

“Please, let me do this for you.” Audley knew that there was an

edge to his voice, a desperate pleading. He needed to do this for

Stefan, and Ben, too. He needed to be able to give back to both of

them.

“All right, Audley,” Stefan finally said, “but you tell me if I take

too much.”

Audley nodded. A moment later, he felt Stefan lean toward him.

A wet tongue swiped over his throat right where his pulse beat so

rapidly. It felt hot, made him feel achy. His hands trembled and he

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clenched them against Stefan’s naked shoulders as he felt the man’s

fangs sink into his neck.

“Stefan,” he whispered in a velvet murmur. Each pull of Stefan’s

mouth on his skin felt like a pull on his cock. Before he knew it,

Audley was pumping his hips against Stefan. Audley’s face burned.

He was mortified by his reaction, but he couldn’t seem to stop. It felt

too good.

“God, baby, that is so fucking hot,” Ben groaned in his ear.

Audley’s breath hitched in his throat when he felt Ben’s hand trail

down between his ass cheeks to press against his sensitive hole. “Can

I have you, Audley? Can I take you, baby?”

Audley started to nod, but quickly remembered the fangs deep in

his throat. Instead, he lifted his leg and pulled it up to his chest, letting

his calf rest over Stefan’s hip. His gesture seemed to be enough for

Ben. The man sank his fingers into Audley’s stretched entrance, three

of them at once.

Audley groaned, the twin sensations of Stefan at his neck and Ben

at his ass fueling the fire starting in his body. He felt the head of

Ben’s cock nudge his puckered entrance, his body shuddering in

anticipation.

Audley reached back and grabbed Ben’s hip, digging his fingers

into the man’s skin as he tried to pull him closer. He needed to feel

his mate take him. He needed to know Ben was okay just as much as

he did Stefan.

In giving Ben his body and Stefan his blood, he was providing for

both of them. He was taking care of both of his mates. That

knowledge was more powerful than any orgasm he ever experienced.

Still, the feeling of Ben’s thick cock sinking into his ass as Stefan

continued to drink his life-giving blood was something Audley

promised himself he would repeat as many times as his mates let him.

Ben started moving, his hips thrusting forward, impaling Audley

on the man’s rather impressive cock. Audley reached down and

wrapped his hands around his and Stefan’s cocks, stroking them

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together. He grinned when he heard a low groan come from Stefan,

and the man started moving with him.

This is it
, Audley thought to himself.
This is why I was created.

His heart sang with delight from each groan that came from Ben

and Stefan. His heart jolted and his pulse pounded as something

intense flared between the three of them, a connection that bonded

them together for all time.

A delicious shudder heated his body. The flames burning through

him grew higher, hotter. Audley started panting. He could feel Ben’s

cock open him up every time the man thrust forward, awakening

nerve endings that were dormant until today. Stefan discovered them,

Ben exploited them. Audley just laid there and eagerly accepted it.

The tugs he gave his and Stefan’s cock became erratic as his mind

lost connection with reality and moved into a red haze dominated by

only the three of them. Stefan pressed against Audley’s front, Ben at

his back. Audley was totally encircled by both of his mates.

The heat was tremendous—overwhelming—and Audley jumped

into it with both feet. He cried out as ropes of pearly white spunk shot

between him and Stefan. As Stefan pulled his fangs free and arched,

crying out his own release, Audley was overcome by a need to taste

the man. He struck at the arched neck in front of him, his sharp fangs

easily sinking into Stefan’s soft flesh.

White-hot, sweet blood flooded his mouth. An ache grew in

Audley as the dormant sexuality of his body awakened. His breath

came in long, surrendering moans. He felt Ben’s hands tighten around

him. Ben’s cock throbbed and swelled inside of Audley. Then Ben

roared, filling Audley with his release.

A moan of ecstasy escaped Audley’s lips as the knot in Ben’s

cock extended and took hold inside his body. Audley realized that up

until that second, he never truly believed he was mated to Ben, that he

would be able to keep the man forever. It felt too much like a dream.

But if what Ben and Stefan said was true, Ben would only knot his

mates and that was Stefan and Audley.

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Audley knew he was mated to Stefan. He’d known for years that

they were mates, ever since they hit puberty and Stefan’s scent

changed. It had drawn him, attracted him, made him realize what he

wanted in life. Audley just never thought he’d get it.

Now he had both. Audley’s heart nearly burst with overwhelming

feelings of love and relief, draining away all of his doubts. He had

been claimed by both of his mates, a claiming that would be

recognized in both vampire and werewolf worlds.

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Chapter 7

Ben knew something was wrong before he even opened his eyes

to look around. Stefan was snuggled up to him on one side. Audley

should have been snuggled up to him on the other side, but the spot

was empty.

Panic slammed into Ben instantly. He rolled to the side of the bed

as carefully as he could, not wanting to wake Stefan unless he needed

to. Ben grabbed his pajama bottoms off the floor and pulled them up

his legs, standing up.

Lifting his nose to the air, Ben sniffed for Audley’s unique scent.

He was able to hone in on the sweet fragrance almost immediately.

No one smelled quite like Audley. At the moment, Ben was eternally

grateful for that.

Ben followed his nose downstairs to the dining room. He paused

in the doorway, his heart rate returning to normal when he found

Audley sitting in a chair, bent over something in his hands.

He seemed intent on whatever he was doing, humming softly to

himself. Ben could just see the glint of steel moving between Audley's

hands. He figured Audley must be working with some sort of knife,

so he moved carefully when he stepped over to the table and into

Audley’s view.

“What do you have there, Audley?” he asked as he sat down next

to Audley. As softly as he spoke, Audley still jumped, nicking his

thumb with the knife in his hand.

“Crap!” Audley cried out before lifting his hand to his mouth. Ben

caught Audley’s wrist before he could lick the blood off, bringing the

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injured digit to his own mouth. Sweet, hot blood rushed across his

tongue.

He glanced up at Audley through his eyelashes. The man seemed

mesmerized by the sight of his finger in Ben’s mouth. He licked his

lips as he intently watched Ben lick the blood away.

“Delicious,” Ben murmured.

Audley’s pale-green eyes flickered up to meet Ben’s. His lower

lip caught between his teeth. Ben wasn’t sure he’d ever seen anything

so sexy. Audley had gorgeous, delicate looks, much like Stefan, but

he had one thing Stefan didn’t have…innocence.

Ben had no doubt after the last two weeks of being mated to the

man that Audley wasn’t innocent, but there was this air of naïveté

about Audley that made him adorable and totally irresistible.

Ben wanted to wrap him in cotton wool and protect him from the

world. He wanted to be Audley’s hero. He also wanted to fuck the

man into the wall and mess up his pure little world. The need to

debauch the man was almost overwhelming.

He started to pull Audley toward him when he noticed the small

wooden piece in his mate’s hand. He frowned, his eyebrows drawing

together as he reached for the object. “What is this, baby?”

Audley’s face flushed red. He immediately tried to pull the

wooden piece away, hiding it behind his back. “Nothing,” Audley

whispered.

Ben just held his hand out until Audley slowly brought the object

back from behind his back and laid it in Ben’s open palm. Ben turned

it over and over, marveling at the craftsmanship of the wood carving.

It was exquisite.

Carved into a single piece of wood was a perfect cast of Ben

holding Stefan and Audley in his arms, all of them naked. He knelt on

the ground, Stefan straddling one of his thighs and Audley the other.

His head was arched back, a look of pure bliss on his face as Stefan

and Audley drank from his neck.

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“Audley,” he whispered. “This is… this is…” He glanced at

Audley’s cautious face. “This is the most beautiful thing I’ve ever

seen. You did this?”

Audley nodded, a small smile starting to cross his lips. “I wanted

to make you something,” Audley whispered. He glanced down at the

tabletop, twisting his fingers together nervously. “Stefan does so

much. He cooks and cleans and helps you get ready for work.”

Audley shrugged. “I just wanted to make you something to show

you—I can’t do those things and—” Audley’s face flushed again and

he dropped his eyes even more, staring down at his lap. “I know it

was stupid but—”

Ben set the carving down on the table and reached over to lift

Audley onto his lap. He brushed Audley’s white-blond hair back from

his face and tilted his chin up. “Look at me, baby.”

Audley was slow to raise his eyes. When he did, Ben inhaled

deeply at the uncertainty blazing in them. One of these days, when

Audley felt more comfortable in their relationship, Ben wanted to

know the horrible things that had happened to his mate before they

were together. Someone had abused Audley so much that he doubted

his own worth.

Ben needed to put a stop to that. He needed to make Audley know

how much he was wanted, needed, how much Audley was loved. Ben

tucked Audley’s head under his chin and wrapped his arms around

him.

“I want you to listen to me very carefully, Audley, okay?”

Audley nodded after a moment. Ben grimaced at his hesitation.

He tamped down on his feelings of anger at what had been done to

Audley, promising to himself that he would give Audley more love

and caring than the man could stand.

“I don’t know much about love,” he began. “I never learned. I

knew from the time I hit puberty that I would be a soldier in our pack.

That’s what I was made for. Because of that, I didn’t make a lot of

friends. I never wanted to have to fight someone I cared about.”

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“I don’t want you to fight at all.”

“I don’t like fighting either, Audley, but someone has to do it. I’m

a big guy, where most of our pack isn’t. I’m also very good at what I

do. I’ve trained a lot for it.”

Audley tilted his head back and carefully traced the long scar

running from the corner of Ben’s right eye down his cheek to the

bottom of his jaw. “But you’ve paid such a high price for it,” he

whispered. “And you never had anyone to take care of you, to love

you. That isn’t how it should be.”

Audley’s heart was so big and giving that it almost brought tears

to Ben’s eyes. He had to blink several times just to keep that from

happening. “I have you and Stefan now, though, and that makes

everything I’ve done in the past, everything I do now, worth anything

I go through.”

Audley’s brows drew together in an agonized expression. “Do you

really believe that?”

“I do, Audley,” Ben said. “You two give me more than I could

ever have imagined having in my life.”

“Even me?” Audley asked. “I mean, I understand Stefan. He’s

wonderful. He’s beautiful to look at and he shows his caring in

everything he does. But I–I can’t even cook.”

“Audley, I never asked you to cook,” Ben said. He picked up the

wood carving and held it out in front of Audley. “Besides, Stefan

can’t carve like this. Neither can I. Between the three of us, only you

can create something so beautiful.”

“You think it’s beautiful?”

“Yes, but nearly as beautiful as you are,” Ben said as he fingered a

loose tendril of hair on Audley’s cheek. “I think you’ve created

something wonderful and I love it, but it doesn’t hold a candle to

you.”

“Me?” Audley’s fingers fluttered at his neck.

Ben chuckled. “Yes, Audley. You.”

“But what about Stefan?”

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“What about him?”

“Don’t you—isn’t he—he’s just so—”