Page 20 of Bond & Protect

“Well, Mila, we’ve all been talking about our feelings for you.”

“You’re feelings?” That causes her to gush bright red. Her eyes snap wide open now. “What do you mean? I didn’t know… well, I did know, but I don’t know what to… I don’t know…”

I step close enough to rest my hand on her shoulder to reassure her. “Don’t worry. We aren’t about to stand here and make you choose or anything like that. That isn’t us.”

Her bottom lip trembles as she meets my eyes. “So, what is this?”

“We have been talking about a mating round, which is very common for wolves.”

“What…” She swallows hard. “What does that mean?”

“It means you get all of us. You don’t have to choose because we will all be with you.”

Mila stares at us all in turn. “Is that possible? I don’t know. I mean, I have to admit that I haven’t ever been with one man before. Never mind four! I don’t know what to do. I know that probably sounds really silly, but I just… I don’t know if I’m ready for any of this.”

I lean down and rest my forehead on hers, silently letting her know I will be there for her, no matter what. I will help her with everything. She doesn’t need to worry.

“This is new to all of us,” I reassure her. “But it’s something that no one can deny. I don’t see why we can’t explore this to see what can be possible. We can work through the nerves together, all as a unit, because that is what a mating round is. We’re all in this together.”

Her chest rises and falls hard as she attempts to catch her breath. Desire and confusion flickers in her gaze, but Mila doesn’t take her eyes off mine for even a second. It doesn’t matter how thick the tension in the room is. It doesn’t matter to me how it could be cut with a knife. That’s completely irrelevant to me. I’m focused entirely on Mila.

“I’m nervous,” she admits with a little shake in her voice. “But I can’t deny how I feel as well. I have been attracted to all of you for many different reasons. It’s a desire unlike anything I have ever experienced. I can hardly cope when I’m around you all. I might be nervous, but I want to try. I want to see if this is something that could work as well.”

In that moment, with a smile playing on my lips, I claim her mouth with my own. I kiss her, gently at first, just testing the waters with her to see how all of us handle me and Mila in the middle of everyone. She’s definitely hesitant to begin with, and more than a little uncertain, but soon I can feel the desire gripping her. She grabs my arm hard and presses her body up against mine. Mila wants this, more than she can admit even to herself.

The kiss deepens, my tongue invades her mouth and I fist her hair up in my hands, keeping her in place. I didn’t know how much I wanted this as well. My God, it feels so freaking good to have her in my arms. It’s like I’m finally giving in to a temptation I didn’t even know I was resisting.

Wow, this really does feel fucking incredible, and the other wolves being around us only adds to that. The heady lust swirls around us all like thick storm clouds. Mila gets just as caught up in this as me, as the rest of us. I know she wants this now. To me, this feels like the start of something new, something beautiful…

Something I never want to end.

8

MILA

What is happening? What am I getting caught up in now?

Now that I’m not mad about any of this, I fucking love it. I can’t get enough. Liam has made it all seem so normal, so okay. Finally I can simply cave to what I so desperately want, and I don’t even have to choose. That was going to be one of the worst parts of all of this. Having to pick and break the other guys' hearts, while still knowing that I have feelings for them.

With Liam’s hands knotted up in my hair, and my lips all over his, the flames licking all over my skin are so intense I can hardly remain upright. But my knees aren’t jelly for long before the weight of another body presses up behind me in a heartbeat. Elias.

Liam steps back and slowly peels off my clothing while Elias’s lips are all over my throat, kissing hyper-sensitive parts of my skin that I didn’t even know would feel good. I lean back against him, my head lolling to the side and my eyes falling closed as the pleasure gets the better of me. The feelings don’t just stay with the two men who have their hands all over my body, though. The bliss also comes from the sizzling in the room. It’s powerful and wild.

“Your skin,” Liam whispers as more and more of me is revealed. “It’s so lovely.”

His touch burns space dust all the way through me, sizzling through my entire body. It’s like every nerve ending inside of my body is drowning in flames, sparking with electricity. My heart thunders so crazily against my rib cage that I can’t contain it. It doesn’t matter how deeply I breathe; I can’t get anywhere near enough air into my lungs to stop myself from getting overwhelmingly dizzy, and my thoughts are running wild. Absolutely crazy. I’m losing my damn mind.

Elias’s lips travel down my now naked spine. I can’t believe how long he’s been keeping away from me. This chemistry is insane. His hands cup my butt, inching ever closer to where I’m absolutely aching for him… for all of them. I need to feel the sensations I’ve never experienced before. Now I’m grateful that I’ve never given myself over to another man because no one else would have ever been able to make me feel this way.

There’s a reason I was drawn to this hometown, and this is it. These men, right here. I never came here expecting to find anyone. I was supposed to lay low and not draw any attention to myself again, but this feels so right. So freeing. It’s absolutely perfect.

“Sydney,” I rasp out before I even realize what I’m doing. “I promised him…”

I don’t expect anyone else to know what I’m talking about, but of course, they have telepathic communication, don’t they? They might know it all. How I promised him my first time.

Liam and Elias both take a step back from me, leaving me focused only on Sydney. Of course he doesn’t have a shirt on anyway because he never does, but nerves continue zig-zagging through me as he peels off his pants. I haven’t ever seen this side of him, and I can’t wait.

He leans towards me, slowly, his eyes fixed on mine the whole time. Despite being shrouded in intense lust, just as I am, I can sense the nerves as well. I’m not on my own in that sensation. I might not have telepathic communication, but I can sense energy burning off him in waves.

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