MATED TO FATHER, FATED TO SONS

AMARIS

I was not blindfolded on the way back to Gravemoon, which was probably a mistake on their part because now I could see exactly where their secret sex cabin was located if I ever needed to find it again.

Not that I would ever need to find it again because this was never happening again.

Never. Ever. Again.

I sat in the back seat of the car staring out the window at the full moon hanging heavy and bright in the dark sky and the trees blurring past as we drove through the territory. Rowan was driving with his hands gripping the steering wheel tightly and Ryker was in the passenger seat beside him, staring straight ahead into the darkness.

I knew with absolute certainty that I had crossed a line tonight that could never be uncrossed no matter how much I might want to take it back. Both men had fucked me. At the same time. Together. And I had agreed to it like the horny desperate idiot I apparently was.

What is wrong with me? Seriously, what the actual hell is wrong with me?

The silence in the car was suffocating and awkward as hell. Nobody was saying anything.

I shifted uncomfortably in my seat, very aware of the soreness between my legs and the exhaustion settling into my bones.

Rowan then asked suddenly, breaking the oppressive silence, "So Amaris, when would you start planning for the mating ceremony with my father?"

I saw Ryker’s head whip around to cast his brother a sharp glare and said, "Really man? Right now you want to talk about this?"

"What did I say?" Rowan asked, genuinely confused by the hostile reaction.

"Do you think asking her about the mating ceremony with our dad after we just finished fucking her for hours is the right thing to do?" Ryker demanded, his voice tight.

Rowan looked genuinely confused in the rearview mirror. "Ohhhh. I was just trying to break the ice. I noticed everyone has been awfully silent and it felt uncomfortable."

"It is fine," I said quickly from the back seat, trying to ease the tension before they started fighting.

It was definitely not fucking fine. Nothing about this entire situation was fine. I just had a threesome with two brothers and now we were casually talking about me mating their father like this was totally normal dinner conversation.

"I am sorry," Rowan muttered, glancing at me in the rearview mirror with apologetic eyes.

"It is fine," I repeated, keeping my voice steady even though my heart was racing. "But for your dad, we are still trying to sort out the logistics of the mating arrangement."

Rowan stared at me through the rearview mirror, his eyes meeting mine. "Do you mean the artificial insemination plan?"

I nodded, then realized he probably could not see me nodding in the dark back seat. "Yes. That plan."

"I am sure he would come around to agreeing eventually," Rowan said optimistically. "He is stubborn but he is not unreasonable when presented with logic."

Ryker then groaned loudly and said with clear frustration, "Can you two please stop it? I know you are both trying to make this not awkward but talking about fucking our father after we just finished fucking her is peaked fucked up. Can we just not?"

Rowan was about to respond but suddenly pressed the emergency brake hard without warning, causing all of us to jerk forward violently in our seats.

My head almost hit the seat in front of me and I had to brace myself with my hands against the leather.

"What the fuck?" I gasped, my heart jumping into my throat.

Ryker looked at his brother with alarm. "What the hell, man? Why did you do that?"

Rowan stared ahead through the windshield, his entire body tense. "There are some wolves approaching us. A lot of them."

Ryker stared at him confused. "So what? This is pack territory. Wolves are normal here."

"They are more than twenty wolves," Rowan said slowly, clearly counting. "This is not normal."

Ryker looked ahead and his entire body went rigid. I leaned forward between the front seats to see what they were seeing through the windshield.

Some sentinels were shifting into their massive wolf forms right in front of our car, scattering around the narrow road and blocking our path completely, howling into the night sky.

"They are our sentinels," Ryker said, still confused. "What happened? They are not supposed to be out patrolling this late at night. It is past midnight."

"Yes, it was strange to me also," Rowan agreed, his voice tight with tension.

"Let me try to see if I can telepathically hear what they are saying and figure out what is happening," Ryker said.

"Does that actually work?" Rowan asked skeptically. "I thought that was just a myth."

Ryker nodded seriously. "Yes, it works on the full moon when the connection between pack members is at its strongest."

There was complete silence in the car for what seemed like a full minute or two but felt like an eternity. I held my breath watching Ryker’s face as he concentrated, his eyes closed tightly.

Then suddenly Ryker jerked back to reality violently like he had been shocked and said, "We are so fucked. We are completely fucked."

"What?" I asked, panic immediately rising in my chest. "What did you see?"

"They are looking for Amaris," Ryker said, turning to look at me with wide eyes. "Alpha Corvin discovered she is not in her room and thinks she was kidnapped by Victor."

"What the hell?" I said, my voice rising with panic. "What do we do? They are going to catch us and know we were together."

Ryker and Rowan both turned around in their seats to look behind us through the back window and I turned too. I could see more sentinels in wolf form coming from behind, closing in on us from both directions.

We were completely surrounded with no escape route.

"What do we do?" I repeated desperately, my heart racing. "We are trapped."

Rowan turned back around, his mind clearly working through options. "Let me think for a second. When they get close enough to the car, I am sure they will be able to scent you all over us. For them to be on a coordinated hunt like this means they must have been given your scent to track."

"Alpha Corvin is going to kill us," I said, my heart pounding so hard I could hear it in my ears.