from them, looking gorgeous in denim cutoffs, hiking boots and a bright green, curve-hugging tank top. Axel peered around the shelves with a smirk on his face.
“
Reidar tossed his big brother a huge grin over Beth’s shoulders as he pulled her into a tight bear hug.
Kelan vaulted the counter and waited for Reidar to let go so he could snatch her into his arms.
“God, you’re a sight for sore eyes.”
She chuckled, blinking at him from behind her glasses. “Back at ya, hon,” she teased, using his pet name for her.
He laughed and lifted her off her feet, swinging her in a circle. “You’re back.”
When he set her down, she pushed her glasses up her nose and grinned. “Where else would I be when the two best guides in the Wenatchee forest are here?” She ran her finger down Kelan’s shirtfront, turned and winked at Reidar. “I just hope they don’t charge too much because I’m a broke student struggling to finish some research so I can finalize my dissertation.”
“What are we waiting for?” Reidar asked. “Let’s go camping.”
“Uh, don’t you think we should put up the tent first?” Beth asked, shrugging out of her backpack. She watched her lovers, who’d already dumped theirs on the ground, unzip and spread their sleeping bags over a soft spot between towering pines that shaded the fragrant grass from the late afternoon sun. “Or build a fire?”
Kelan straightened and began to walk—no
“Uh, guys?” She took two steps back for each one he made, but failed to hide the smile tugging at her lips. A thrill zinged through her at the dark look of lust in Kelan’s eyes, the set of his mouth, the way his body moved with smooth grace toward her. “I’m supposed to be out here to gather research,” she reminded him.
“Which you can do tomorrow,” Kelan said, his voice low and rough.
To hell with research. She wanted what he had to offer. They’d all been apart way too long. She’d missed their playfulness, their laughter, the domineering way they had about them that could make her purr.
She loved them so much; every moment of those weeks apart had been sheer torture. She hadn’t known them long, but she had no doubt where she belonged.
Circling around a tree, she put the thick trunk between her and Kelan and kept up her protests.
“But we still have some daylight left.”
“And I know just what to do with it,” Reidar said from her left, startling her into a giggle and a run. She didn’t get far, not that she’d tried all that hard.
“Gotcha,” Kelan said, tossing her over his shoulder like a sack of potatoes.
“No fair! There’s two of you.” She laughed amid mild grunts as she bounced against his rock-solid shoulder during his trudge back to camp.
“And you’ve kept us celibate long enough,” he said, laying her down in the middle of their makeshift bed with the utmost care. It was surprisingly soft with the layers of sleeping bags, and she grinned up at Kelan who had a wicked smile on his face that promised every one of her needs would soon be met, filled, surpassed.
As Reidar dropped down on her other side, opposite his brother, she grinned. “Celibacy is overrated.”
“Very,” Reidar agreed before he dipped down to kiss her with a lingering thoroughness that revved her pulse.
As he kissed her, she felt Kelan shift lower to untie her hiking boots, pulling them off one after another. She broke from Reidar’s kiss and tilted her head, allowing him better access to her skin, when he continued to nibble along her neck. Kelan unzipped her shorts and tugged them down. Reidar slipped a hand under her cotton tank to fondle her breasts.
“Guys?” she said, finding it harder to catch her breath despite the fresh outdoor air all around her.
How had she forgotten what these men’s hands and mouths could do to her? “Oh!”
Kelan tickled her navel with his tongue. “Hmm?” Amusement laced his question.
What was she going to say? “Umm, oh, yeah.” She swallowed when Reidar caught her earlobe between his teeth, his warm breath bathing her ear and sending tingles racing down her sides. “What if someone comes… uh…up the trail?”
Kelan tugged her panties off with her shorts, while Reidar worked her tank up. A quick flick undid the front clasp of her bra, and Reidar latched onto a taut peak, drawing a moan from her.
“No one will come by,” Kelan murmured against her inner thigh.
She squirmed beneath their attentive kisses, reaching for them, wanting them closer—needed them as she’d never needed another human being—despite her mild protests. “You don’t know that.”
Reidar pulled away only long enough to dispatch her top and bra to wherever the rest of her clothes had gone. As he pulled his own shirt over his head, he said, “We’re on Falke land. Trust us.
We have you all to ourselves.”
Kelan chose that instant to lick her clit, easing her thighs apart with his hands. She bucked her hips, seeking more, her thoughts and concerns fracturing beneath the delicious assault.
Reidar was as naked as she was when he returned to her side. He propped himself up with one arm and lowered his lips to claim hers once more. Sucking his tongue into her mouth, she clung to him, and he drank in her whimpers of pleasure.
As if in concert with one another, Kelan pulled away to undress at the same time Reidar reached between her legs to continue the titillation of her clit with his fingers.
Breathlessly, she asked, “You’re talking to one another again, aren’t you?” making both men chuckle.
Reidar removed her glasses, set them aside and gave her a peck on the nose. With his other hand, he rubbed her sensitive nub with constant, intoxicating circles, keeping her slightly off balance. “How did you know?”
She moaned before she could answer, and reveled in the flick of his tongue along her bottom lip.
“You both—mmm, that feels so good—you move in tandem.”
“Is that so?” Kelan seemed amused by her observation as he again dropped onto the sleeping bags to lie next to her. “Then you’re going to love this.”
Together they rolled her on top of Kelan, and he wrapped his arms around her, claiming her mouth in a breath-stealing kiss that melted her bones. Reidar moved in behind her, skimmed his palms down her spine, along her sides and over the curves of her ass, heating her insides to the boiling point.
In the next heartbeat, he entered her pussy in one smooth glide.
“Mmm,” she hummed against Kelan’s mouth. He nipped her bottom lip.
Reidar withdrew a little and pushed deeper the next time, and the next.
“Ohh,” she whispered with eyes closed, her senses attuned to the exquisite rhythm Reidar set, until with no warning, he pulled out.
She blinked, looking down at Kelan who watched her with darkened, passionate eyes.
“I love you,” he said simply, yet she felt the vow deep in her heart.
She smiled, afraid to try to speak. She was so full of love for both of them. They were special in ways she still found hard to believe, and they’d chosen her. They loved her; she had no doubt. They were her real-life heroes who’d come to her rescue and saved her life.
“We both do,” Reidar clarified from behind her, and she reached back to stroke his side with her palm. He nudged the tight rosette of her ass, making her suck in a quick breath and forget about everything else when her body clenched in anticipation of what was to come.
Kelan said, “Tonight, hon, we want to claim our mate. Are you ready to be ours?”
Her mind battling between the pleasure of Reidar teasing her backside, Kelan’s solid, strong, wonderfully comfortable body beneath her, and the idea of being theirs forever, she said the first thing that came to mind. “If that means you’re both mine…”
Kelan smiled, gave a nod, and Reidar squeezed her shoulder lightly.
“Then, yes. Yes! I’m ready.” She grinned and wiggled back slightly, pressing against Reidar’s cock.
