I leaned into them, letting them carry some of this weight. They were right. Since I met them, I felt like some of the weight that was always on me was lifted.
“I don’t know what I did to deserve all of you,” I whispered.
Jasper lifted my chin until I was looking at him. “Nothing,” he said. “We take care of you because we want to. Both of you.”
I took a deep breath. “Okay. What do we need to do?”
Hawthorne came around so I could see him. “I told him we were already mated,” he said, sounding a bit sorry. “Being mated is just as binding as blood to shifters. So if we were mated, it would be easy. I don’t want to rush you into that, though, so I was thinking?—”
“Let’s do it,” I said.
They all paused. “What?”
“Let’s mate,” I said. I wanted them. Forever. I knew it deep down, whether we did this now, next week, or next year. I wanted them in our lives. “As long as you want to,” I clarified.
Hawthorne smiled wider than I’d ever seen. “You’re one of us, sweet,” he said. “We would love nothing more than to make you ours.”
“I’ve wanted to mark you since our first date,” Leo said, pressing into me.
“I couldn’t agree more,” Jasper said.
“But you have to be sure,” Hawthorne said. “Matings are permanent. Once we do this, you will truly be ours, and us yours, forever.”
“I couldn’t imagine it any other way,” I said with a smile.
Suddenly, I was being thoughtfully tackled to the bed, my clothes pushed away until I was left bare.
“How does this work?” I asked. I briefly recalled Leo saying something about marking.
“Yes,” Hawthorne said as he kissed down my neck. “To mate, we’ll each mark you with a bite, to show that you’re ours. It will bind us together by magic, connect our souls for life.”
“Please,” I begged. “I need it. I want that.”
“Don’t worry, sweet. You’ll get it.”
Leo draped himself over me, sinking his cock in quickly with no prep. The stretch was amazing, the pain paired with the pleasure almost consuming.
“I’ve needed you since the first day we met,” he whispered into my ear. “You and Ari have become the center of our worlds, and I can’t wait to spend the rest of my life cherishing you both.”
Tears fell from the corners of my eyes as he plowed into me, fucking me right into an orgasm. As he did, I felt something bigger pressing into me.
“I’m going to knot you, baby,” he said. “I’m going to knot you and claim you as mine.”
“Yes, do it,” I breathed.
I felt as his knot popped into place. I squeezed down on him on instinct, and he groaned. He pumped once more before biting down right above my left breast.
At first, it was just a slight sting until it turned into something more. It was if something inside me shifted to make room, and in that space was Leo. I came again, the feeling so overwhelming it threw me over the edge without warning.
He fell against me, and we just lay there for a moment.
“Now what?” I asked.
“We wait for my knot to go down and do it all over again.”
I’m not sure how long it took, but Leo’s knot finally went down enough for him to pull out. He cuddled me the whole time, drawing little nothings along my back with his fingers.
As soon as he was done Jasper was right there, pushing into me, never leaving me empty for too long.
