Damn that sneaky fucker knew the bedding was covered in slick. How I wasn’t sure.
“I’m not certain how we can all be in the same room at the same time. Oberon in particular is very antsy. Probably because you and he…” His voice trailed away. “But then his…he always wants to do more.”
“More?” Other than fucking me, what more did he want? Kids? Our own place? What about me? I had wants and needs and right now all three brothers were at the top of my “needs” list.
“We can’t go on hiding who we are so it’s best if I show you.”
For the first time I hesitated. “You’re scaring me. What do you mean?”
“I’ll stay near the door or outside if you prefer. You can lock it. Then I want you to go to the window. My brothers are in the garden.”
He left the room and closed the door. I trusted Tanner, I did and I didn’t want to lock myself inside. I went back and forth, arguing with myself. But I bounded out of bed and when the lock clicked into place, I breathed a sigh of relief.
Tiptoeing across the wooden floor because I didn’t want Tanner to know what I was doing, I pulled the curtains aside and peered out. Both Huston and Oberon were standing on the grass below and they were naked. I put my hand up to wave and then lowered it. Awkward. I could deal with them one at a time but not together.
They moved apart and Tanner appeared to their right. I gripped the window ledge as my body sagged because hair was sprouting over Huston and Oberon’s bodies. What the fuck? Their faces morphed into… an animal and developed huge teeth and claws and they stood on their hind legs and growled. Hind legs? They were human and were only supposed to have two legs, not four.
When any sign of the humans had vanished and what remained were two huge bears, they raced toward the back of the property and disappeared into the trees. I craned my neck, but they were lost amongst the long grass and the branches that bowed low.
Bears. They’d transformed into bears and I’d seen them or one of them earlier whenI was on the stairs.
“Candrin.”
My head snapped toward Tanner, his cock standing at attention. “Are you like your brothers?”
“Yes.”
“Will they try to attack me?” I doubted the locked door would stop a fully grown bear.
“The opposite. They would give their life for you, in human or bear form. They love you.”
That couldn’t be. I was a pretty average guy apart from growing up filthy rich and then both parents dying, and a fake brother taking away everything I had. Men who turned into bears didn’t fall in love with me.
“Why did they run away? If they love me so much, shouldn’t they be here?” Not that I wanted a bear nuzzling me.
“It’s complicated. Their beasts and mine, we want something but you’re human and…” He raked his hands through his hair. “My bear wants to run. When I return, when we return, we’ll explain everything.”
Tanner vanished and a bear took his place. One final glance at me and he headed off in the direction his brothers… the bears had taken. I slumped to the floor. Perhaps I’d hit my head when I fainted. I had. It hurt when I woke up. That had to be it. This was a dream or I was suffering a concussion. I should go to the ER but I didn’t have the energy.
I crawled over the floor, the hard wood hurting my knees and pulling myself up onto the mattress, I flung the covers around me and wrapped myself in a cocoon. I was sick and alone and wished Saul and Molly were here. Sleep. Once I’d slept I’d feel better and then I could make a plan. Right now, I couldn’t walk or think straight.
But even if all of this was in my imagination, it didn’t take away from the fact that I’d fucked two brothers and wanted to fuck the third.
24
HUSTON
Brotherly love
Our bears needed to run until they were worn out and couldn’t run any longer. The problem was, they didn’t want to. They kept pushing us to go back to our mate and we kept having to tamp them down enough to regain control. More than once one of us had to force a shift to assert power over our beast. It sucked, but it was better than the alternative, which was to mark a mate who didn’t understand what was happening.
And then there was the whole practicality of this mess that the human sides of us needed to deal with. We couldn’t all be his mates, except we were. How would that work? I for one knew I wasn’t strong enough tostep aside for one of my brothers, even if he asked me to. I’d try, my mate’s needs always coming before my own, but I just didn’t see it happening.
I shifted and waited for my brothers to do the same. I wasn’t sure how long we’d been running but my bear was worn out and for the first time, I felt strong enough to go back and have the conversation we all needed to have.
“My bear is under control.” I wasn’t sure how long that would be true. “Yours?”
“Yeah. Mostly,” Oberon pressed his eye with the heel of his hand. “He doesn’t want to wait to mark him. I think he’s afraid you two will and we will lose Candrin.”
