Combat class came around again quickly. I met with Caleb after I had my run in the morning. The girls were doing well. They all made it around the full five miles this time. Granted they all looked like they were about to drop dead by the time they finished but they were still adamant that they would be there every morning and they had to be hurting now that we were three mornings in. The others had gone in to change into fresh clothes and eat some breakfast before combat class. Personally, I didn’t think a full stomach so close to combat class was a good idea but I supposed it was a lesson that they needed to learn themselves.
“I heard you had some people join you for your morning workout” Caleb smiled at me like it was the best joke ever.
“Only those that had enough guts to come.” I grinned back at him. “Anyway, I managed to get five miles out of them, how many did you get them to do?”
“Impressive. I don’t think they even did one mile in the gym.” Caleb sat back in his chair thinking. “This group lacks motivation. The first year that came onto the new program were excited about the change but this one doesn’t seem to care.”
“You can’t really blame them Caleb. If you don’t tell them what is coming for them what are they even fighting for?” I sat in the chair on the other side of his desk and glanced around his tiny office. It was like a typical gym teacher office minus the dodgeballs. There was nothing in here but a tiny desk, a chair on either side and a filing cabinet in the corner. There was
nothing on the desk, nothing on the noticeboard on the wall. It was actually pretty depressing.
“The headmaster has decided to keep the situation under wraps for now. He thinks it will only lead to panic. He wants to wait until we have more solid information.” Caleb explained.
“And what do you think?”
“Does it matter?” He shrugged.
“You’re training his army, surely your opinion counts.” I countered. Something just didn’t feel right about this.
He sighed in defeat. “There’s no changing what is happening now and I fear we are too late to inspire the masses to stand beside us. In the ages gone by the pack stood strong. All of the shifters stood together in one pack under one alpha. There were no secondary alphas, no satellite packs. We all stood together. But we’ve lost sight of the old ways. We became complacent and lazy. Once the treaty was signed and the wars ended, we stopped training. We stopped making ourselves stronger. Perhaps we have brought this upon ourselves.” He shrugged.
“Has the headmaster spoken with the Prime Alpha about what he believes is happening.”
“Yes, the pack has started training again but I doubt we have time to reach the level that we need. Yes, we need an army. But an army that doesn’t know what it is doing is no use at all.” He was right. Basically, they had been caught with their pants down. If there was some evil plan under way, it had already started and there was no time left to prepare for it.
“I want to train my women.” I said forcefully. My magic flared at the thought. They were mine, in a way. I knew that they could do this and even without Caleb’s help I was going to train them.
“We need to train them all Aria. Not just a few.” He actually looked down at me as he said it like I was about to be told off. It was pretty funny really.
“You were going to train them all by yourself before I came along, you can do that still. Follow the same plan. Let me take my running buddies off your hands. I can train them not only to fight but to fight together. If it works, and we have time, we can expand the model across the rest of the year, break them down into units and train them together. If it doesn’t work you haven’t lost anything.” I bargained.
“How many do you have in your group?” He asked and I knew I was about to get my way.
“Six.” I grinned.
“I tell you what. I’ll give you four weeks. If you can have them fighting like a unit and good enough to take down the same number of my guys then we roll out your training plan across the year. If you can’t, then we go back to training them all as a class. You’re going to have to at least offer to take others into the group as well. I’ll let you take up to ten.” He grinned back at me. He clearly thought that he was going to win this.
“Deal, but hand to hand only, four weeks isn’t enough time to factor in weapons.” Caleb nodded in agreement. We were going to wipe the floor with them.
As we were finishing off the last of the terms for our deal the rest of the class slowly filed in. My running group came through first, they looked tired but they looked more on the ball than the rest of them. I waved them
over to the punching bags. The rest of the class, including Sex Shop Barbie wandered over to where Caleb had them stretching out.
“I hope you are all feeling warmed up and ready to train because shit is about to get interesting around here.” I said grinning at them and it only widened when they all grinned back at me.
We wandered over to the rest of the group and sat down beside them stretching out more. My running girls had learnt the importance of stretching after all of the running that they had done. The rest of the class was just pretending to be trying. I almost laughed at the look on Caleb’s face. He knew right then and there that he had made the wrong bet.
“Okay everyone change of plans. We are going to split you into two groups. One group is going to train with Aria and the other with me. After four weeks Aria’s group and the same number in my group will face off against each other. Whoever comes out on top will determine how we are going to train for the rest of the year.” Caleb addressed the class.
The girls looked nervously at me. They were starting to question themselves and I shot them a confident grin and a wink which seemed to settle them down a bit.
“Aria has six in her group. I’ve told her that she can increase that number to ten if anyone wants to change sides on me.” He joked. “Any volunteers need to stand up and Aria will wave over any of you that are going into her group.”
My three guys shot up like someone had lit their ass on fire and I laughed and waved them over. There were several groups sat whispering but no one else stood up. I was fine with that, I didn’t need a full group of ten. I ushered my group back over to where the punching bags were hanging while Caleb started his group with a warm up run. My girls were already
warmed up but the three guys were going to need to put in some laps. First though, we needed to sort out a training schedule.
“Okay, so this is probably a bit of a surprise but basically you’ve been sucked into a bet between Caleb and I. I wanted to train the girls and it all basically spiralled from there.” I said, spinning one hand in the air. The guys just laughed at me no doubt knowing exactly how it had spiralled from there. “Anyway, we need to talk schedule and this is the part where you’re all going to hate me. Two sessions a week is not going to get you ready to fight, or give you any kind of skills in just one year, let alone four weeks. If you want to do this seriously, I want you to commit to five sessions a week in the gym. Two of those, while we are sharing the space with the other group, will solely be on conditioning. We can’t let the dirty spies be scoping out our awesomeness. Three evenings a week we will work on what fighting skills you already know and build from that.” Everyone was nodding along and murmuring in agreement. Time to turn my serious face on. “They’re all laughing at you right now, mainly me, but also you. They don’t think that we can do it. So, lets prove them wrong.” I grinned at them and everyone else grinned back. This was going to be good.
The guys were not happy when I set them off running around the gym and demanded ten laps out of them. If they weren’t happy about that they were definitely going to hate me when I explained their new daily 5:30am run to them. I snickered to myself at the thought of what they were going to say. The girls however didn’t even complain when I set up some circuits and set them to work on it. I was impressed with how committed they were to this but it would be interesting to see if they still felt this way when we got to the half way mark of this four-week challenge.
Combat class was always three hours long and by the time the other group was dragging itself around the gym doing a cool down run I had my group down on the floor going through a stretching routine. I explained the muscle groups that they were working and the importance of stretching them all out after any training. I also explained how they would feel better if they could keep stretching out their aches through the day and then finish off the day
soaking their muscles. This first week was going to be hard on them. Maybe I should try to convince the headmaster to get a sauna installed. For totally charitable reasons of course.
After combat class was finished, I ran back to my room for a quick shower and change of clothes. I was running out my door with one thought in the front of my mind, food! That was when I ran straight smack into a wall of muscle that gave a deep masculine chuckle as I literally bounced back off it and nearly fell back through the door. Thankfully Liam had quick reflexes and scooped me up and back on my feet before I crumpled to the floor.
“Good lord man, knock or something, don’t just stand there. Your muscle wall is a hazard to all unsuspecting passers-by.” I snarked rubbing my nose which had impacted with a rock hard peck. It actually hurt, or maybe I was just started to get hangry.
Liam, being the gentleman that he was, just laughed at me, grabbed my hand and started pulling me along. Normally I wouldn’t allow such man handling but he was heading in the direction of the cafeteria and I hadn’t had chance to have breakfast. I was so hungry I was pretty sure that my stomach was eating itself. “The other guys are going to meet us in the cafeteria.” Liam said yanking my hand so I stumbled into him and he tucked me into his side.
“You’re lucky you’re snuggly cat or I’d object to all this manhandling.” I said keeping step with him and tilting my head down onto him. He was always so warm and I couldn’t help the little sigh that came out of me. What was happening to me, I was turning into some kind of loved up girl. This was not going to do my bad ass image any good. But he was soooo warm!
Liam did that panty melting man chuckle that I loved so much “I’ll always keep you warm sweetheart.” He smiled down at me. When we reached the top of the stairs Liam pulled me into his arms and I snuggled against his
chest. He lightly ran his nose up my neck and gently sucked on my ear lobe. I had one sexy mate and all thoughts of food flew out of my head. “Sweetheart, will you go on a date with me?”
“A date?” I grinned, no one had ever asked me out on a date before. That was the one side effect of never making any connections with anyone.
“Yeah, a date. We’re stuck at the academy for a while but I thought you, me, maybe a picnic in the woods? If you want to that is.” He asked trailing off and looking down.
Awww he actually looked nervous right now and I think I felt my heart beat in my chest for a second then, he was so cute.
“I would love to go on a date with you Liam.” I smiled at him and the smile that he gave me in return melted my heart on the spot. Whatever it took, I would make sure that he always had that smile on his face.
“Really?” he said, as he nuzzled back into my neck.
“Of course, but only if you feed me right now because I may starve to death before our date if I don’t get food inside of me in the next five seconds.” I answered seriously.
He laughed and took my hand, setting off down the stairs. “Come on, Kyle and Sykes said they’d grab food for us while I got you.”
When we walked into the cafeteria it was less like the first day. Less people turned to watch and there were significantly less whispers. Maybe I was finally settling in somewhere. Kyle and Sykes were sitting at a table with two extra trays of what looked to be like some kind of stew. I ran to one and immediately started eating. It was definitely not a pretty sight and if anyone
had been stupid enough to try and take it from me, shit was gonna get ugly. We were definitely going by prison rules here.
“I think she might have been a bit hungry.” Sykes faux whispered to Kyle who was just plain laughing at me. He didn’t even have the decency to try and hide it.
Liam literally swaggered up to the table and sat at the other tray, grinning over at the other two. “What? What happened?” Sykes said looking suspiciously between the two of us. Kyle literally stiffened and I swear I saw him inhale deeply before he relaxed.
“Did you just smell me?” I asked incredulously while trying to also smell myself, you know, just in case.
“It’s not like that,” Liam immediately answered. I couldn’t decipher the look on his face. “You know I would never do that.” He actually looked sad now and I couldn’t help but feel out of the loop on something.
“What’s going on?” I asked looking between the three of them. There was definitely tension in the air but over what I had no idea.
“How could you even think that?” Liam said looking at Kyle. “We’re brothers.”
“Think what?” I definitely felt out the loop.
“I’m sorry, I don’t know why.” Kyle looked down at his plate and his shoulders slouched in defeat. “I suppose it’s because this is so damn hard and I don’t know if I would be able to resist the urge myself.”
“I was gone for like two minutes bro, give me some credit.” Liam laughed. Kyle looked up at him and a look of relief flickered across his face before he smiled as well and laughed.
“AM I EVEN HERE!” I shouted at them. “Why are you ignoring me? What the hell is going on?” All three of their heads suddenly snapped to me.
At the same time as Kyle started with “I’m sorry Aria, I just got … “ Sykes just flat out came out and said “He thought you’d banged.”
“Eloquent as always there Sykes.” Kyle said pointedly looking at him.
“And why would that be such a drama?” I asked genuinely confused. “If we’re mates aren’t we supposed to … you know …” I huffed out an awkward breath “… ‘bang’.” Sykes bust out laughing, I wasn’t sure if it was because of my awkward question or the fact that I couldn’t think of a better word than bang. Even Liam and Kyle started chuckling at me and I just shuffled awkwardly in my seat. Thankfully most of the tables around us were empty and no one was paying us any attention.
“Yes, for want of a better word, we are of course supposed to bang.” Kyle chuckled. “But we are a pack and the first time that we bond with our mate we will do it as a pack.”
“I’m sorry, that sounds like … “ I had no follow up words and just started circling my hand around the table. “You know … at the same time.” Jeez was it just me or did it suddenly get hot in here.
“Yes, my beautiful mate,” Kyle said sliding closer to me. He took one of my hands and kissed the inside of my wrist. If sex could have a look, he was giving it to me right now and I could feel myself grow wet just from the look on his face. I rubbed my thighs together as I shifted in my seat to try and subtly get some kind of relief. I found myself leaning in to him. Maybe
the group idea wasn’t too bad. I was just about ready to try it out here and now. “The first time that we take you it will be all of us. All of us there with the sole intention of pleasuring you in any way that you wish.” He pulled me closer to him by the hand that he was holding. He placed a kiss at the base of my neck where it joined my shoulder and it was like the breath suddenly left my body. As Kyle kissed me, I locked eyes with Sykes who was watching him kiss my neck. I couldn’t help the whimper that came out of my mouth. I was officially going to check in my bad ass card, and right now, I couldn’t care less about that. But if this was really what was going to happen I needed to tell them the truth, it’s not like it’s something that I need to be ashamed of but still, it needs to be out there in the open.
“Oh … urm … okay … wait you’re going to have to stop doing that so I can think straight.” I said pushing Kyle gently back and then immediately wanting to grab him and pull him back. I coughed and shook my head to try and clear my scattered thoughts. “I have to tell you something.” I quietly said. Yeah that bad ass card just disappeared in a poof of smoke.
“What’s wrong kitten?” Liam asked cocking his head to the side with a concerned look in his eyes.
“It’s not like it’s anything bad,” I muttered looking at the table. Kyle slipped one finger under my chin and pulled my head up so that I was looking at him.
“You can tell us anything darling. If you want to wait that’s okay. None of us are going to pressure you into anything that you aren’t ready for.” He said smiling gently down at me.
“It’s not that, it’s just that I haven’t … you know … been with anyone before.” I took a deep breath and pulled on my big girl pants. Why was I nervous about this? I looked Kyle in the eye again before casting my gaze around the table at Sykes and Liam too. “I’m trying to tell you I’m a virgin.” I said as confidently as I could even though I could feel the heat
radiating off my cheeks. Could I still be a badass if I was blushing about something like this? “It’s not like it’s something to be ashamed off.” I muttered.
A deep growl echoed in Kyle’s chest and I quickly drew my eyes back to his. “I won’t lie, my wolf fucking loves that darling.” He ran his nose up my neck and inhaled my scent deeply. Just then the bell rang indicating the end of lunch like some kind of cockblocking demon and we all groaned in disappointment. Granted we were still in the middle of the cafeteria and it’s not like we were going to be doing anything here but I was definitely very interested in seeing where this would be going. Kyle stood up and took my hand to help me out of my seat. I couldn’t help looking back to make sure that I hadn’t left a wet patch on the seat. I felt like my underwear was soaked through, I had never been so turned on in my life. Kyle pulled me into his arms, “We will be picking this up again later tonight, my beautiful mate.”
Liam and Sykes both stepped towards us. Lust was practically shining through their eyes and the last thing that I wanted to do was go to class right now. I shuffled on the spot clenching my thighs together. I was so turned on right now and I needed something, anything, to get some kind of relief right now, this second, or I’m pretty sure I’m either going to melt into a puddle or explode into flames. My body hadn’t decided just yet what it was that it needed. Sykes inhaled deeply. “We can’t let her walk into class smelling like this.” He growled before stepped flush to my back. I had suddenly found myself in a wolf sandwich and I loved it! Liam then stepped up to the side of me. He leaned his head down and lightly grazed his teeth across my neck. That was it for me, my knees went wobbly and if it wasn’t for having a wolf on either side of me, I would be an actual puddle on the ground.
Kyle ran one hand across my cheek before running his fingers back through my hair and bracing the back of my head. He tilted my head back so my lips were just where he wanted them and kissed me. I felt his tongue run across the seam of my lips and I opened my mouth to allow him access. His tongue swept inside to meet mine and he growled gently as he tasted my
mouth. I ran my own tongue along his and moaned as I felt Liam run his teeth along my neck. Sykes ran his hands up my sides and I felt his thumbs stroke against the sides of my breasts. I whimpered and writhed which just caused me to rub against them all. Kyle suddenly stepped back and scooped me up into his arms and started striding from the cafeteria. I glanced over his shoulder and saw Liam and Sykes following us out with grins on their faces.
“Where are we going?” I asked while I rubbed my face along Kyle’s neck. Please let it be somewhere that has a bed or a blanket or just a soft bit of grass I really wasn’t feeling picky right now. The nervousness that I felt literally five minutes ago had flown out the window.
“Our room, it’s the closest.” Kyle said rushing up the stairs still cradling me against him.
“Hell yeah!” Sykes yelled bounding up the stairs behind us with Liam closely following.
“Won’t we get in trouble for skipping class?” I asked gently sucking Kyle’s earlobe into my mouth. Even if they said yes, I don’t think I would care.
“No, we are claiming our mate. They won’t stand in the way of that.” Kyle answered growling softly. “If you don’t stop doing that, we won’t make it to the room.”
I was just considering whether I cared if I lost my virginity in a corridor when Kyle suddenly stopped and Sykes stepped past us and opened a door. Kyle took three steps inside and then suddenly I found myself airborne. Now I like to think that being the badass that I am I took to the air like a champ but really there was a slight amount of flailing and a strange eep noise that made all three guys burst out laughing. I hate it when they laugh at me like that, but even I could admit that I was just being a bit of a weirdo
right now. I bounced once on the soft mattress and when I looked up my mouth went dry. All three were stood at the foot of the bed looking down at me. Screw waiting, this was a much better idea. “If you don’t want to do this Aria you just need to say and we will stop, I don’t want you to feel pressured into doing this right now.” Kyle said clenching his fists at his side like he was physically trying to hold himself back. I could see the need on his face, but I also knew that if I said no right now, he wouldn’t even think twice about stopping.
“Please don’t stop, I want this,” I sighed, “I want all three of you.”
Kyle led the way as he brought one knee up to the bed and then crawled across the mattress prowling towards me. His eyes flashed with the amber colour of his wolf and I felt myself grow wetter. When he reached me, he didn’t say a word he just reached down, slid his fingers into the waist band of my skirt and flicked the button open before slowly drawing down the zip on the side. His eyes never left mine as he dragged my skirt and underwear down my legs in one slow movement. I felt the mattress dip on both sides as Liam and Sykes joined us. Sykes made quick work of the buttons on my shirt and Liam gently pulled it down my arms. Sykes reached behind me and undid the clasp of my bra while Liam slid that down my arms as well. Kyle had already slipped off both my shoes, with the socks, and suddenly I found myself completely naked and lying in front of the three of them. Kyle was kneeling between my legs, he ran his hands up my thighs and spread my legs before him. It did briefly occur to me that I should be feeling self- conscious right now being completely naked with legs spread but I had never felt as safe as I did with my guys, my mates. Kyle leaned down and placed a kiss on the inside of my left thigh before grazing his teeth across the soft skin. I shuddered in anticipation. His right hand trailed up the inside of my right thigh, while he kissed his way up the left. When he reached the apex of my thighs he settled himself between my legs and gently ran his tongue up me before laying a kiss on my clit. He swirled his tongue around my opening before again running it up and gently flicking across my clit. He was going so slowly and gently with me that I felt like I was going to explode. I writhed on the bed and moaned his name “Kyle, please. I need more.” I pleaded. He chuckled against me and then he gave me exactly
what I needed when he pressed his face against me and feasted. He lashed his tongue against my clit, swirling it around before sucking it into his mouth. I felt one of his fingers slowly inch inside my opening and my back bowed on the bed before I let out a moan. It felt incredible and I could feel an orgasm building already. That was when Liam and Sykes moved in to join us. They both leaned down together and each took a nipple in their mouths. Liam gently nibbled and ran his tongue around the nub while Sykes quickly sucked my nipple hard into his mouth and bit down. The contrast between soft and hard was too much to bear and my orgasm slammed into me as I shouted out my release. Kyle drew if out further by sliding a second finger inside me, stroked his fingers forward hitting exactly the right spot inside me. When I finally felt myself starting to come down, Kyle slowly crawled up my body kissing his way up my stomach and between my breasts before kissing me deeply on the mouth. I could taste myself on his tongue and it only turned me on more, making me grind myself against the front of him.
“You’re all wearing far too many clothes for this” I pointed out as I looked at each of them. They were all still fully clothed but as soon as I spoke clothes started flying everywhere as the three of them quickly stripped down and I couldn’t help but laugh.
“Our beautiful mate.” Kyle whispered as he dipped his head back down to kiss me. He sat back onto his knees running his hands up and down the inside of my thighs. “She tastes delicious brothers, how would you like to have a taste?” Liam and Sykes both growled their approval and Kyle moved out of the way as they both settled between my legs spreading them even wider. Sykes draped one of my legs over his shoulder and Liam placed the other over his. They both dipped their heads down between my legs together and I felt both of their tongues glide around my clit. Holy fucking shit! I could feel their tongues twisting together, over my clit, dipping inside of me. It felt incredible and I couldn’t stop myself from grinding up against their faces. I couldn’t tell which tongue belonged to who or whose fingers were working their way inside of me. Kyle was laying on his side next to me watching them both feast on me. He was slowly stroking his cock with one hand. He smiled down at me and leaned forward to run his tongue
around my nipple. I could feel a second orgasm building and I was both desperate for the release and wishing that this was never going to end. I felt a finger withdraw from my pussy, dragging my wetness down with it before it circled my asshole. It pressed gently against my ass not quite hard enough to push inside. The sensation was better than I could ever have imagined and I came harder than the first time. Sykes and Liam both looked up from between my legs before Sykes wrapped one hand around the back of Liam’s head and pulled him to his lips kissing him hard on the mouth. I could see their tongues fighting each other before they pulled apart panting. Kyle reached behind him and pulled a condom from somewhere before he tore open the packet and slowly rolled it down his cock. Sykes and Liam had moved from between my legs and were now setting back in on either side of me softly stroking my sides. Kyle repositioned himself between my legs. We didn’t say anything, there was nothing that needed to be said. I could see the love shining through his eyes even though it was too early to say the words. As he slowly pushed inside me, I felt a slight pain but I was so wet that even though I could feel his cock stretching my pussy, he just slid inch by inch inside. When he was finally fully sheathed and his hips lay against mine my eyes rolled back in my head as I sighed. Kyle slowly started to move inside to give me some time to adjust to his size. He was thick and long and it felt like it filled me completely. I had thought that when he had pushed his fingers inside of me that it felt good, but this, this was so much more. I moaned Kyle’s name. I didn’t feel like I could speak whole words anymore as my world narrowed down to the feeling of Kyle sliding in and out of me. As soon as I felt like I had adjusted to his size he pulled out of me once more and slammed himself back inside. I could feel that tightening feeling inside of me warning me of another orgasm building. Liam and Sykes were both lying quietly on either side of me. Each stroking their own cock as they watched their alpha fuck me. I reached my own hands out to them to grip around their own. I had never done this before but they each entwined their fingers with mine as we stroked their cocks together. They were both huge and I couldn’t close my hand around them. Liam groaned, his head falling backwards as he thrust into our joined hands.
“That’s it baby,” Sykes moaned “squeeze my cock. Just like that.” He ground his hips, thrusting into our hands.
Kyle’s head dipped down and he pulled one of my nipples into his mouth as he circled his tongue around the nub. I was so close to coming. There were so many hands on me. Liam leant forward and kissed my shoulder grazing his teeth along my skin. I was starting to realise that was one of his favourite things to do and oh my lord did I love it. Sykes dipped his own head down and took possession of my other nipple and that was all I could take as I screamed out my release. I felt Kyle swell inside me as he came with me. Liam and Sykes both groaned and spilled themselves into our joined hands. Kyle collapsed down on top of me shifting his weight to the side so he didn’t crush me. It’s the small things that warm your heart. We laid like that while we all came down from the pleasure we had shared. After a short while Kyle climbed off me and walked through one of the doors in the room which I assumed led into the bathroom when I heard water running. Kyle returned back to the bed with a few towels. He tossed one each to Liam and Sykes before he gently cleaned between my legs. It should have felt weird, or embarrassing or something. But it only felt right, like Kyle was taking care of me. “How are you feeling darling? Does it hurt?” he asked tossing the towel into a linen basket.
“No, it doesn’t hurt. I feel pretty amazing actually.” I grinned up at him. The blankets and sheets on the bed were all tangled around us but it didn’t take us long to free ourselves from them. Kyle pulled me against his chest and tucked the sheets around us. Liam snuggled up to my other side and I saw Sykes arm come over him and rest against my hip. I was warm and relaxed and it didn’t take long for me to drift off to sleep wrapped in the arms of my mates.
I woke up feeling roasting hot in a tangle of arms, legs and sheets. I could feel a rumble against my back and I realised that Liam was spooned against me purring. I guess that must be his panther showing through. It probably would have lulled me back to sleep if my stomach didn’t choose that moment to growl like some kind of gremlin had taken up residence with us. I felt the chest that I was snoozing on chuckle and I looked up into Kyle’s eyes. “Something tells me that you might be hungry sweetheart.”
“I don’t know what could have possibly given you that idea, but did you just hear that noise that Liam’s stomach made.” I giggled.
“Oh well, if you’re not hungry then you’ll be fine if I just go and get Liam something to eat.” Kyle said sliding out from underneath me. He quickly pulled on a pair of jeans sans underwear and for some reason that made me feel all kinds of happy.
“You know I’d share it with her.” Liam sleepily mumbled pulling me closer to his chest. Sykes then chose that touching moment to clamber over the top of Liam and I to shuffle into the space that Kyle had just vacated. Arms and legs flailed everywhere and I’m pretty sure Liam took a knee to the back of the head at one point. By the time he got himself in position we were both laughing and trying to push Sykes off the side of the bed.
“Hey, you guys got to snuggle our mate for hours, it’s my turn now.” He said reaching over and slapping Liam on the ass making him howl. Unfortunately, all of the laughing only proved to remind me that I had been asleep for hours and my bladder was so full it suddenly felt like it was going to explode. I wriggled free of my two bickering mates with a stealthy move that meant I slid down off the bottom of the bed like some kind of demented slug before landing on my ass on the floor. I popped back up and dashed into the bathroom before anyone could stop me. Once business was taken care of, I washed my hands and stepped back into the room. The guys had obviously been talking about me because they all suddenly stopped as soon as I walked into the room. Liam and Sykes were still lying in bed and Kyle was leaning against it discussing something with them. While they were sharing some kind of loaded looks with each other, no doubt trying to talk in some kind of code, I took the opportunity to have a look around the room. It was much, much bigger than my room. You could probably have fit my room in here about four times over. I hadn’t noticed it before, being somewhat occupied, but the bed was enormous and looked to be the size of two king beds pushed together. There were a couple of desks against one wall and two dressers stood either side of the bathroom door which I was
now leaning against. There was another door on the opposite wall between the desks which I assumed lead to some kind of closet.
“Whose room is this?” I asked looking about. It was tidy but there was nothing personal laying around, just a small pile of text books on one of the desk.
“It’s our room” Kyle said walking up to me and pulling me against him for a gentle kiss. “I’m going to grab some food for us and bring it back up here. Unless you want to go down to the cafeteria to eat.”
“Oh, no, I’m good here. Do you want a hand?” I asked looking around for my clothes before reaching down and snagging my underwear to pull on.
“I’ll go help him,” Sykes said jumping out of the bed “do you want me to grab you some pjs out your room, I think we are still keyed in to your door?”
“Yes, that would be amazing, thanks.” I gave him a quick kiss and climbed back onto the bed with Liam who quickly grabbed me and pulled me back against him. I couldn’t help but laugh at the possessive cat. “If I’m staying here tonight can you grab my running clothes as well please?” I asked fluttering my eyelashes at him with a grin on my face. Just then my stomach let out what could only be described as a scream of complete and utter distress at still being empty and everyone burst into laughter as Kyle shoved Sykes out the door. I covered my stomach with my hands and leaned back into Liam, he was soooo warm. Snuggling was definitely one of my new favourite things, along with sex, sex definitely had won the top spot. I felt Liam snuggle his face into the crook of my neck as he inhaled my scent sleepily.
“Mmmmm what’s got you all excited.” He murmured.
“Just thinking” I said turning around so that we were face to face. I threw one leg over his hip and snuggled in as close as I could.
“What about?” He asked running the tips of his fingers up the side of my thigh before grabbing my hip and pulling me closer to him. He was already hard and I could feel myself getting wet just from the feel of it.
“Sex!” I blurted out and he just laughed in response.
“We’ve created a monster.” He laughed at me as he ground his hard cock against me.
“Would that be so terrible?” I asked leaning forward and kissing him before pulling his bottom lip into my mouth and gently biting down. Liam expertly rolled me onto my back so that he was between my legs and ground his hard cock against me again.
“Definitely not” he whispered in my ear. “But if you want to shower before we eat you need to do it now.”
“Are you trying to tell me that I smell?” I laughed incredulously at him.
Liam shoved his nose in my hair and inhaled deeply. “You smell like sex, you have all of our scents on you and it is intoxicating.” He whispered in my ear.
Seeing an opportunity for mischief I flipped Liam back over onto his back so I was straddling him. Now it was my turn to grind against him. His hands immediately came to my hips as he rubbed me down against him. “You’re right, I could do with a shower.” I said suddenly leaping off him and striding into the bathroom. I popped my head back around the door frame to see him still laying on the bed. “You going to join me?” I asked. I don’t
think I have ever seen a man move so fast as he jumped out of the bed and ran into the bathroom.
The shower was amazing! It was big enough that we could easily have fit all four of us in here if we had wanted to. It had a huge rainfall shower head and several other heads off to the side that we didn’t use. Apparently, it also had a steam function which I was definitely going to be checking out later. Liam had gently washed me down in the shower, he washed my hair and lovingly rinsed the shampoo out of my hair. Why anyone took a shower alone I would never know. By the time we had both dried off and stepping back into the bedroom Kyle and Sykes were unloading burgers, fries and bottles of water onto one of the desks. They both turned around as I walked into the room wearing just a towel rubbing my wet hair with another towel. As soon as I saw the burgers my face lit up and I skipped over, my mouth immediately watering. I loved burgers! Sykes laughed and held a burger in front of me as I took a massive bite out of it. It was so good that I groaned in approval. “We should feed you burgers everyday if you’re going to make noises like that.” Kyle smiled grabbing his own burger and taking a huge bite. “Okay, this is actually pretty good.” He said grabbing some fries and shoving them in his mouth as well.
We ended up pulling one of the blankets down onto the floor next to the bed and having our own little indoor burger picnic, while we chatted away.
“I don’t know what is wrong with me, I am absolutely starving.” I said grabbing a second burger which Sykes had passed to me after seeing me sadly watching it and wondering if it would come across badly if I ate a second.
“Your magic is growing, you’ll probably find that your appetite increases until it settles. Plus, that together with the mate bonds forming, your body is burning through calories faster than you can eat them at the minute.” Liam explained.
“I have questions” I blurted out.
“Shoot” Kyle laughed. It seemed like question time was becoming a regular thing for us. I hope they don’t think I’m clueless, although I do feel a bit out of my depth.
“What do you mean about a mate bond forming? And how does that happen?” I asked eating a handful of fries. I would kill for a chocolate milkshake right now.
“Well, as we become more intimate the mate bond will form between us all. Once it is fully formed it will be unbreakable. Most mates have a general feeling when their mate has strong emotions, like if they are in distress. But with the strength of your magic I would think that our bond will be more like the original bonds back when the pack was whole and our magic was stronger. When the old bonds formed mates were said to be able to mind speak and find each other no matter how far apart they were.” Kyle explained. That would be pretty handy given the predictions about future events.
“Yeah about that, why is your magic so strong? It’s unlike anything I’ve ever felt before?” Sykes questioned.
I shrugged “Maybe it’s because I’ve had it longer than you guys but I honestly don’t know. You know that my test came out with some screwy result, right?” They all nodded. “Well Headmaster Farsight seems to think that he might have an idea of what it is but he’s keeping it to himself until he knows for sure.”
“What do you mean you’ve had it for longer?” Liam asked stealing some of my fries.
“I’ve been able to feel my magic and do minor things since I was probably about nine. It really kicked in around twelve but I wasn’t able to start using it like I do know until I was about sixteen. Still I’ve learnt a lot about it over the last four years. It does feel like since I got here though that it is growing again. It felt like it had kind of levelled out before I got here.” I said thinking about how my coping mechanisms for dealing for my magic were more than managing it back at home but recently I could feel the rush of it coming quicker and I was noticing that after my normal workouts it didn’t seem to feel as drained as it normally would. It wasn’t for a minute or so that I realised that all three of them were looking at me with a strange look on their faces. “What?” I asked subtly trying to wipe around my mouth and chin in case there was something on my face.
Liam laughed and batted my hand from my face. So it wasn’t ketchup dripping off my face that had them looking at me weird.
“Since you were nine?” Sykes blurted out.
“Yeah, something like that. I first noticed it when I saw that I was healing quicker.” I coughed as I suddenly felt a lump lodge in my throat. Shit it was going to be time for that conversation. “I didn’t know what it was back then though. It wasn’t really until I was sixteen and I started using it like I do now that I realised that I had magic and couldn’t be completely human.” They were silent for a minute, like they didn’t dare ask the question but they desperately needed to. I understood how they felt. I was surprised that none of them had the pity look going on that I had grown to hate so much. If anything they just looked at me with caring in their eyes. “You can ask if you want?” I said quietly.
“You don’t have to tell us about it if you aren’t ready.” Kyle said draping an arm around my shoulders in what I thought was a loving gesture until he reached down and snagging some of my fries.
“I can’t believe you just played me like that!” I said in shock then I smiled and he grinned back at me. It was an excellent diversion and I may have just loved him even more for it. He was giving me the opportunity of an out if I wanted it. I sighed. “No, it’s okay. I think that it’s something that we need to just put out there. It happened and it’s a part of my life. If we don’t talk about it now it’s just going to hang over me as a conversation that needs to be had. I decided a long time ago that I wasn’t going to let it rule my life and I’m not going to start breaking that now.” I shuffled around a little so that I was leaning against Kyle and he put an arm around me snuggling me into him. I moved my fries just out of his reach m because, you know, they were mine, and he chuckled at me. “Do you know what I mean when I say that I grew up in the system?” I asked them. They all shook their heads at me. “Essentially, in the human world there are a lot of children that don’t have families to bring them up. In my case it was because my parents abandoned me when I was born and no one knew who my family was. For some it’s because their families have died or just aren’t fit to be bringing up children. For whatever reason these children get put into the foster system. It’s supposed to be families who volunteer to bring these children into their homes to care for them. Because there are so many children needing places sometimes there aren’t enough families so there are also group homes which are well a place where a group of children are placed and cared for by a couple of people. It should be a safe and loving environment but it couldn’t be farer from that if it tried. Don’t get me wrong there are some places that do care for the kids that they take in but a lot of them don’t. The system attracts people for the wrong reasons and a lot of them take advantage of taking in these damaged kids that have no one to turn to. I suppose in a sense I was lucky, no one ever did anything … sexual
… with me. It could have been a lot worse.” Kyle’s arm pulled me tighter against him but none of them said a word, letting me get through it as best I could. “When I was six the family who had me had to move out of state to go and care for an elderly relative who was ill. They weren’t allowed to take me with them so I was placed in this group home. There were three other kids in there and this couple who were supposed to be caring for us. They had this basement with extra rooms in it. They used to hire us out to these men so that they could … play … with us. That’s what they called it. Going to play. They liked to do things to us, to hurt us. Well you’ve seen my scars. They were very careful to make sure not to mark us where anyone would be
able to see. I was there for three years until one of the kids just lost it one night, he broke out of his room and made it down to the kitchen. He set the whole place on fire before they could stop him. I nearly died that night. They always kept us locked in our rooms at night and none of us could get out. Luckily the fire service got there quickly enough to get us out and once they did and went into the house it became pretty obvious what was going on. We were all sent to different placements after that. None of the others were ever as bad as that. When I was twelve years old I decided that I wasn’t going to take it anymore. I used to go past Alfie’s gym every day on the bus on my way to school. I marched myself right in there asked to speak to the boss and demanded that he teach me how to fight. I don’t know why but Alfie took me in and he taught me everything that he knew. When he was running out of things to teach me the other fighters at the gym volunteered to give me lessons. That place was the only place I ever felt safe. Alfie was always trying to get me to speak with social services to get me taken out of the home I was in. He knew that they hit me. I never would. What they did was nothing compared to what I had been through. Those guys at the gym were like a family to me. I didn’t know until years later but Alfie used to keep this tin in his office and they all used to slip money into it for me. Every so often a new pair of shoes or gloves or anything else they thought that I needed would show up in my locker in the gym. No one ever spoke about it. It was just there the next day. It was the only way they could see that they could look after me. I went every day after school for a couple of hours. Alfie always made sure that after training I had a hot meal before I left. I don’t think that I would have survived if it hadn’t been for them. When I was fifteen years old Alfie was the person I turned to when I was scared to go home. It was the first time that I actually spoke out and asked him for help. The boyfriend of the woman I was staying with was paying me too much attention and I knew it was only a matter of time before he tried something. I never had to go back there. Alfie gave me a job, gave me the flat at the back of the gym and got in contact with my social worker. He helped me complete all the papers to emancipate myself, which basically means that I was allowed to look after myself and I didn’t have to have a guardian anymore. I don’t know what I would have done without him. He saved me that day. I hope I get to see him again.” I felt a tear roll down my cheek and Sykes leaned forward and brushed it away, cupping my cheek and I leant my head down against it. Liam came in at my other side and
wrapped his arms round us all and we sat like that, on the floor, holding each other.
“Thank you for telling us.” Liam said pulling us all closer together. “I hope we get to meet Alfie one day.”
Sykes and Liam straightened back up but Kyle didn’t let me go. He kept me tucked into his side and I knew that he was processing what I had told him. “Okay,” I said giving them all a watery eyed smiled, “time for a subject change. Whose room did you say this was?” I said looking around again.
“Ours.” Kyle grumbled. I could hear his wolf coming through in his voice. He needed this change of subject even more than I did.
“But who is “ours”?” I asked confused. “The three of us.” Sykes laughed.
“You three share a room?” I said looking around again with fresh eyes. Jeez these guys were tidy.
“Of course, we’re a pack.” Sykes answered. “All of the packs share rooms.” “But there’s only one bed.” I said confused.
“Yep.” Sykes answered popping the p. “We’re a pack” he emphasised. “Huh!” I said, not really knowing where you went from there.
“Does it bother you?” Liam asked quietly.
“What that you all sleep together?” I asked him and he quietly nodded at me. “No, why would it bother me.”
“Because it is not something that happens in the human world.” He explained. “Some humans do not like the idea of sharing a mate or of two men …” He trailed off awkwardly.
I wiggled out from under Kyle’s arm and crawled across the blanket to Liam on my hands and knees. I knew that he was feeling nervous about this. Yes, there were a lot who wouldn’t approve back where I came from. It didn’t feel weird to me though. Having witnessed a moment of him and Sykes together earlier had been fucking hot. I wasn’t sure what to say to set his mind at ease without it sounding like I was just trying to placate him so I decided to opt for actions instead of words. Liam’s eyes flashed hungrily as I stalked towards him. When I reached him, I climbed into his lap straddling him. Then I kissed him putting all of the feeling that I could into it. He wrapped his arms tightly around me and kissed me back just as hard. I hoped he could feel what I wasn’t quite ready to tell him yet. Wasn’t quite ready to tell them all. It was far too early but they had all wormed their way into my heart. They were right we were meant to be together, all of us. Not just them with me.
