Chapter Twelve

Our sugar glider's job at Animals came with a room. Small but cozy, and we'd had a chance to get to know one another a bit. Despite the fact that we were mates and or meeting was more like a grand reunion than connecting with strangers, we still had a lot of catching up to do. And we'd done some of that…but the desire to mate, one echoed by our animals, surged forth, and until we'd satisfied that yearning, we couldn't do anything else.

As I'd told my mates, I couldn't think about anything else but marking them, and all that came with that act. Just looking at Clay's bed had me a little worried about how we'd fit, but somehow I knew we'd make it work. There wouldn't be a lot of space between us, after all.

"I wish I had a bigger place to offer," the sugar glider said. "But I am very glad to have you here."

"It's fine," I soothed. "Better than fine." Approaching, I held out my arms and Clay moved into them. "We are together, and I'm not sure if we'd have been able to last long enough to get to my place."

"Or mine." Rome joined our hug. "And mine isn't much bigger and is not nearly as nice."

He kissed the top of Clay's head. "You smell so good."

I thought they were together the best thing I'd ever smelled. "Shall we try out that bed?"

Clay tilted his face up to mine, his lips so tempting I didn't fight the instinct to dip down and possess them. They were firm and warm, and I could have kissed him all night, but I didn't want to be greedy with our omega, so I released him and turned him toward Rome who also kissed our omega before kissing me as well. I'd never been with two males before and had wondered if it would feel uncomfortable, but my concerns could not have been more unnecessary. They felt perfect in my arms, and kisses turned to caresses, led to undressing one another in a heated rush. I wanted to see them. Of course, we'd all been naked when shifting, but shifter manners had us not staring at one another at that point—not that I'd been able to completely not notice how hot they were. But now was the time to appreciate all that masculine beauty, and my mates did not disappoint. The dragon was muscular in a fierce way that made me want to be wrapped up in those arms. His ability to fly boggled my mind. I knew about dragons and had met a few but never been close enough to experience what I had tonight.

And Clay had a grace I'd rarely seen. Together, they were everything my bear and I were not, but maybe that was the sweetness of the whole thing. Fate knew what they were doing.

When we'd looked our fill for the moment, we fell onto the bed and made out like teenagers, lips and hands everywhere, learning one another's bodies with a speed that would shock humans. These were our mates who we wanted to get to know in every way we could. All our senses were on high alert, and my heart was pounding so hard, I thought they might be able to hear it. But soon my desire was so high, I couldn't wait any longer to have them both.

And that was where I faltered just for a second, not wanting to be pushy. Too alpha. But Rome helped me, even dipped his fingers into the omega's hole and showed them to me. "He's ready for us." Then he kissed me, took my cock, and positioned it. "I can't do the rest for you," he joked before reaching between us and fisting Clay's cock.

While the omega thrashed between us, whimpering and panting, I drove inside him again and again. My bear wanted him marked, sealed to us, and as I thrust in again and again, I felt the spurt of cum against my belly and heard the omega grunt. He tightened even more around me and though I struggled mightily, I couldn't hold back and filled him. My knot swelled, squeezed in, and I bent to sink my teeth into the omega's throat near where it met his shoulder and marked him, aware of the dragon coming in on the other side to do the same.

We marked our omega together before I rolled away to be replaced by Rome who thrust into our omega while I kissed them both over and over. And Rome and I marked one another as well.

It was a whirlwind, one that I hoped we'd repeat more slowly later, but the urge to reach this milestone, to mate and mark one another was too strong to hold back.

And sometime late in the night, a certain alpha—me—allowed another to take him in a way he'd never before been had. We didn't have any lube, but our omega had slick to spare, and while Rome worked his way inside me, I got Clay to straddle my shoulders so I could distract myself with a mouthful of cock to suck. Having two mates was going to be amazing.