Ace said nothing for a moment. “What if our beasts can’t handle it? Roane’s damned possessive about Caitlyn. After she bonded with the squad, he growled at anyone who stepped too close to her. Hell, he still does.” Ace snorted. “Another thing. What if Kelly’s turned off by two guys getting it on? We could always just focus on her, mate with her, use her to bond the two of us together.”
Zack had wondered the same thing. He knew Ace would find that solution easier to handle. His heart broke at the thought, but he asked the question anyway. “Is that what you want?”
“Yes.” Ace crossed his arms over his chest and stared out the window. “No. Shit. I don’t know what I want. When I was kissing you, tasting you…” He paused, flushing. “You tasted like the sweetest thing in the world. At that moment, you could have fucked me raw, and it wouldn’t have been enough.”
Thank God. Ace felt it too.
“That doesn’t mean I like it, or that I don’t have a hard time accepting the fact I blew a guy.” Ace rubbed his face. “Christ, I can’t believe I said that.”
“Think of it this way.” Zack worked hard not to let his relief show. “You’re not normally attracted to men, right?”
“Hell, no. There’s just something about you.”
“So it must be part of your Circ nature. You’ve been Circ for eight years, and you’re finally integrating with that beastlike side of yours. I don’t see the big deal about it. So you happen to want a guy and a girl. You ask me, it’s the best of both worlds.”
Ace said nothing more, and Zack thought he was done talking. “Where are we going?”
“A little place I know.”
Ace frowned. “You take a lot of your ‘dates’ there?”
Zack whistled, encouraged enough to tease. “Jealous?”
“Hell, no.” Silence. “Answer the question.”
“I’ve taken a few women there. But normally, I just go to get away. Sometimes I need space. Being in the squad is a lot like being in a pack. No time for me, just us. I like my own company. I don’t always need to be part of a group, no matter what my beast says.”
Before Zack could say anything more, his cell phone rang. “Answer it.”
Ace fumbled and dug the phone out of the console. “Yeah? Doc? Hold on.” He handed the phone to Zack.
Zack listened to what Doc had to say, handed the phone back to Ace, and turned the car around.
Ace tucked the phone away. “What’s up?”
“Change in plan. Kelly needs us now. Looks like you’re going to have to come to grips with us in the next thirty minutes.”
Kelly was burning up. She’d try to hang on until Doc arrived. She didn’t understand what had gone wrong. Her bath had helped, and the small nap she’d taken refreshed her.
Then her body turned into the enemy.
Urges pulled her, fantasies of Zack and Ace teasing her nipples into sharp points and her pussy into a slick, wet, needy place. She writhed on the bed, desire and fear tugging her in different directions. She knew she was gearing up to change, but she wasn’t ready. She still had no idea what she’d be like when in that altered state. Would she hurt someone?
Would she hurt herself?
Her lack of control scared her more than anything. For years, she’d maintained a tight rein on her world. She could do nothing about the sickness dogging her, so she’d managed everything else that she could. Kelly kept herself in shape and ate right, took the monthly shots from Doc to maintain good health, and organized her world. It had been simple to include Doc and the others into the neat pockets of her life. She had a place where she belonged, where she made sense.
These sudden changes shocked her orderly world. She could deal with secret missions and a “mad” scientist. But to not know herself?
Heat burned through her belly into her limbs, centering in her womb. Her clit throbbed, as if aching for a firm touch. She hesitated to give herself the relief she craved.
What if, in her excitement, she changed and couldn’t change back?
The door banged open.
“Kelly.” Zack and Ace yelled her name.
Something inside her purred in welcome. “No.” Her voice was no more than a croak.
“Don’t come in. I’m not…me.”
Zack and Ace froze in her doorway, their eyes wide with shock and sudden desire.
“Fuck me.” Ace licked his lips, his gaze running down her naked body to her spread thighs.
“Kelly, honey.” Zack drew in a deep breath, and his gray eyes darkened, the pupils slitted like a cat’s before he blinked his eyes back to normal. “Damn.”
“We’re here to help,” Ace added in a rough voice. He dragged his gaze back to hers.
“What do you need? What are you feeling?”
“So hot.” She groaned and closed her eyes, embarrassment fighting her inner urge to display herself before potential mates. “I ache. I can’t stop it.” Tears fell from her eyes. She’d been in love with these two for years. As many times as she’d fantasized about being with the both of them, even the Circs didn’t do threesomes. She felt like a pervert and a loser, flaunting her less-than-perfect body at two men who had no doubt seen much better.
“Kelly, it’s the change. You know that, right?” Zack asked in a thick voice. “We’re going to help you.”
“Go away.” She tried to do the right thing against everything her instincts demanded.
Run away, before I do what I’ve been wanting to do forever.
“Hell, no.” Ace didn’t give her a chance to say more. He bore down on her with intent.
In seconds his mouth covered her clit, and he sucked hard, pushing her into a violent orgasm.
She screamed and clawed at the bed.
“Oh, yeah,” he said as he continued to lick her.
“Ace, you should take it slow.” Zack panted as he knelt by Kelly’s side. “Baby, I don’t want to scare you, but --”
Kelly didn’t give him time to say any more. She reached for his head and yanked him close. Kissing him with all the fire building inside her, she still wasn’t ready for what he gave her.
Zack kissed her with lips and tongue. He shoved his tongue inside her mouth and mimicked what Ace was suddenly doing with his fingers. Zack held her scalp with firm hands, growling with need as he deepened the kiss.
He broke off to trail his lips down her cheek to her ear. “God, Kelly. I’ve been waiting so long for you.”
“We’ve been waiting,” Ace corrected as he came up for air. He pulled away from her, but Kelly couldn’t complain, caught up in Zack’s whispered words. She’d always thought him the gentler one of the pair, but his words caught her by surprise.
“I’m going to fuck you so hard. Going to give you the good reaming you’ve been asking for. As if some little prick like Stephen Folsom deserves you? Deserves what’s mine?” he seethed.
“Ah, Zack, tone it down, man.” Ace stroked her with tender fingers.
“Fuck that.” The husky rasp of something hungry echoed in his words. Kelly recognized what had always called to her. It was as much a part of Zack as his quirky sense of humor, that wild part of him she’d never seen but sensed. “Mine.”
Sharp teeth nicked her ear, and she gasped as her desire increased. To her mortification, she felt moisture slide down her slit. She was so incredibly wet.
“Ours. Don’t forget that.” Ace ripped off his clothing.
For the second time, Kelly saw his cock, that massive piece of flesh so imposing and wonderful. She didn’t have to ask for it, because suddenly, he was ramming inside her.
“Shit. Yes!” Ace groaned as he fucked her. “Kelly, baby. So good.”