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  Hanging her head, she let the tears fall.

  * * * *

  It had been agonizing waiting for their woman to come back to them. They had decided to wait, knowing she would come back sometime. Of course, the way Danny drank, they thought for certain she would have been coming back to Passion for his funeral long before now. Her father had lived longer than they had thought, but now, he was being charged for murder.

  Marlowe was going to need their help along with their love, but Cole could tell by the way she was crying after they admitted they had waited for her that she most likely hadn’t waited. “Why are you crying?” he asked softly as he brushed a kiss to her temple.

  “You waited for me, but I…” She seemed at a loss for words.

  “It’s all right, baby girl. You don’t have to say it.” Cade pushed Marlowe flush up against Cole as he spoke. “You thought we didn’t want you, and you felt the need to move on. We understand that. We love you, now and forever, and now, we want to show you. Will you let us make love to you? Will you let us mate with you?”

  They had given her too much time to think, for she responded with, “I have a life in San Francisco. I travel a lot for work. You two want a commitment, and I just can’t give you that right now.”

  Cole kissed her lips gently before he began to nibble her jaw and then her neck. Cade laid his own kisses along the back side of her neck. A shiver ran through her body as she leaned her head back.

  “Don’t worry about all the semantics right now, Marls. Go with you gut. We know you want us. We can smell your arousal,” Cade pointed out. He slid his hand down her side and into the waistband of her sweatpants. He moved his hand farther down until he found her nearly naked cunt.

  “Let us love you now, kitten.” Cole’s words were gravelly, letting Cade know his brother’s arousal was just as bad as his own.

  Cade felt as if all his blood was pooling in his cock for how hard it was. It had been so long since they had her between them that now his cat was trying to leap out of him and tumble with her until they were all satisfied.

  “I’m afraid.”

  Those were words Cade hadn’t thought he would hear from Marlowe.

  “What are you afraid of?” he asked as he suckled where her neck met her shoulder and he slipped his finger into her slit, drawing a moan from her when he touched her clit. “There’s nothing to be frightened of. We’ve got you.”

  “I’m afraid I’ll lose myself. I’ve already lost so much time, and I have a whole other life.”

  Cade pulled his hand out of her pants, and he felt Cole pulling away also before his twin asked, “What exactly are you saying, Marlowe?”

  “I can’t see how this will work. I don’t know who I am anymore!”

  * * * *

  Cole sat down on the coffee table trying to get a grip on the anger that was slowly creeping up. He knew Marlowe had a different life elsewhere, one she seemed to love, but she was standing before them, and his cat wanted to mate.

  Cade and Cole had searched for Marlowe when she had disappeared, but they only searched the Pacific Northwest. Never in their wildest dreams had they thought she would go to California. She had always loved taking pictures of things when they were younger. In fact, they had several plastic bins filled with those pictures. They had gone to her house when it looked like she wasn't coming back any time soon and emptied her room when her father was gone. They wanted her to return to her belongings. Now that she knew, they all knew, that her mother hadn't deserted her, those photos with Marlowe and her mom would be a treasure.

  He had seen the pictures she had taken for the magazine she worked for and thought of how no one in this town had looked at that magazine before. The area was rich in hiking trails, rock climbing, hunting, and animal watching. Skiing and snowboarding abounded also. There were plenty of outdoor enthusiasts in and around Passion that it was surprising none of them had seen the magazine or recognized her name on photos.

  Brett Preston ran the lodge to the north of town. A couple dozen cabins were scattered in fair distances from the lodge for people on vacation and for hunters in the fall. Hunting was only done on certain ground, regulated because of the shifters in the area who would let their animals off the leash to run free.

  Marlowe did appear to have a great life in San Francisco, and she did seem to love her job. It would kill Cole and Cade if she chose that life, but for right now, they needed to prove how much she was loved and support her, showing her how good life could be back here.

  “Maybe we’re moving too quickly here,” Cole said as he scrubbed a hand down his face. “It’s been an event-filled day so far. Perhaps we need to pull back and assess what’s going on.”

  Cade took Marlowe’s hand and led her to sit on the couch again. He sat next to her, and Cole moved around so he was in front of her. Both men took one of her hands.

  “Why do you feel like you don’t know who you are, baby girl?” Cade asked

  It sounded like Marlowe was holding back a sob as she seemed to think about Cade’s question. Her eyes were lowered, and she was chewing on her bottom lip, a true sign of her nervousness. Finally, she spoke. “I thought my mother had left me when I was a girl. I thought you guys had trash-talked me to your friends, and I ran away. I have avoided my hometown even for funerals for family members. Now, when I do come back, I find out my father is not only an abusive raging drunk but that he killed my mother and hid her body out in the forest. I’m apparently not a very good person! How can you even want to be in the same room with me?”

  “Kitten, this was definitely not the reunion we wanted for you or expected.” Cole was trying to choose his words carefully so as not to put too much pressure on Marlowe. Danny had thrown a monkey wrench into everything, but Cole and Cade needed to convince her to stay here. “We will wait for you if that’s what you want, but we would like you to become our mate, our wife, like we should have done.”

  “We know you for the real you, baby girl. You are nothing like your father at all. What he did to you and your mother is apprehensible. You and your mom deserved to be loved and cherished, and we will spend the rest of our lives doing just that for you. You don’t have to work unless you want to,” Cade vowed. “If you want to continue to work for the magazine, you can freelance, and we can go with you on your shoots. We want to walk through the rest of your life with you. Will you give us a chance?”

  She looked up at them with what looked like concern written in her eyes. “What about your lives here? The family ranch? Your mother?”

  “Our lives are with you. It was always supposed to be that way,” Cole said as he raised her hand to his lips and kissed it.

  “We had thought about selling because being here without you was too much. But now, we don’t have to worry about that. We have a foreman to take care of things here, and Mom is in a good place now. If needed, one of us can come back to help her. As for your father, I’m sure he’ll be put away for the rest of his life.” Cade copied Cole and raised Marlowe’s hand to his lips and kissed her palm.

  “Please do us the honor of becoming our mate?” the two men asked in unison.

  Chapter Six

  God, I want this! Can I really have this now? Am I mature enough now?

  Tears filled Marlowe’s eyes as she began to nod her acceptance. It was time. Twelve years ago, it wasn’t. All three of them needed to grow physically and mentally.

  Before one of the men could ask her what was wrong, she blurted out, “Yes! Please make me yours!”

  Both men released her hands and jumped to their feet. Cade pulled her up and then swung her into his arms, one behind her knees, the other on her back. A squeal erupted from her at the quick movement as she wrapped her arm around his neck for support as Cade moved out of the living room.

  Instead of heading for the stairs, he turned right and passed through a doorway, several steps after Cole. Lights came on in the room, and she looked around, finding herself in a large bedroom.

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p; Cole was at the bed pulling the covers down on the large bed, which was big enough for the three of them. “We’ve saved the master bedroom for when you returned, kitten. No one has slept in here since the new house was built. Mom moved out to her own cottage, giving all of us privacy.”

  Marlowe choked up at the revelation of the room. She couldn’t believe that they had saved this for her. Of course, they had already told her they had waited for her, so she shouldn’t be that shocked.

  The room was huge but a bit bland. There was a sitting area with three white winged-back chairs and two small round tables separating them. A floor-to-ceiling bookcase was built in on one of the walls of the seating area. White walls stood stark behind the few pieces of dark wood furniture in the room. The bed didn’t even have a headboard.

  One piece of furniture she did recognize was an oak chest at the foot of the bed that had been her hope chest at one time. As Cade sat her on the bed, Marlowe looked from the chest to him, and then Cade, and then back to the chest. She couldn’t stop the tears this time. They really had waited for her.

  Cole, who was standing next to a fireplace, must have realized what she was looking at for he said, “When you didn’t come back after a couple of days, we knew we had to save your stuff. Otherwise, Danny would have burned it all. We took everything except for the furniture from your room, and we saved a bunch of your mother’s stuff too.”

  What? “He didn’t get rid of it after he ki—” She couldn’t bring herself to say the word again. This wasn’t the place.

  “No, baby girl. It was as if, in his warped mind, he was expecting her to come back,” Cade said with a shrug. “Perhaps he wanted you to have it. We’ll probably never know.”

  Cole turned a knob by the fireplace, and flames came to life, which was not only romantic but created warmth also. With the illumination in the glassed-in box, Marlowe could tell the fireplace went through the wall and could be seen in the bathroom as well. They really had upgraded the house from the one that had gotten destroyed. She had a fleeting thought about the fire they had, but she would save it for later.

  Cade loomed over her as she lay back on the bed, his eyes filled with hunger. His arms were on both sides of her head as he lowered himself gently over her body. “I’ve missed you so much, baby girl. We’re going to show you how much.”

  His mouth was on hers in an instant, his tongue invading and sliding along hers. She moved her hands up and ran them across his hard-chiseled chest, which was naked, for when he and Cole had come in from their run, they had only slipped on a pair of jeans.

  The men had changed a bit over time. Their bodies had become harder and more refined while their faces had matured. Fine lines had developed at the corners of their eyes and mouths. They had even sprouted a few more inches.

  Marlowe hadn’t grown in height, but she had in girth. Her ass had widened some, and her breasts had ballooned out. She had a slight paunch of a stomach for she loved to eat, especially when she traveled. The allure of new foods was always present, and she had discovered San Francisco was a melting pot for foodies. Would Cade and Cole be put off by her body once they had her clothes off and had the time to really examine her? She did worry about that.

  Her fingers moved around the hard planes of Cade’s pecs, hesitating and flicking at the raised discs protruding from the bottom edge. She grazed her thumbs across the small nipples, drawing groans from Cade, which she swallowed.

  The bed dipped to her right, announcing Cole joining the party. His hand slid under her shirt and caressed the gentle swell of her stomach before he moved up until his knuckles ran across the bottom of her breast.

  Her body was on fire. Her cunt was wet, and her nipples were hard as diamonds, demanding attention. She arched her back. She needed more.

  Cade pulled away from the kiss but remained looking down at her. His gaze searched her face before he pushed himself off the bed. She reached out for him, but he chuckled. Cole took his brother’s place, smashing his mouth to hers as his hand covered her breast. She moaned.

  The feel of his beard against her face was an added benefit for she thought of what that was going to feel like between her legs. She wound her arms around Cole’s neck and kissed him with abandon. She had missed him and Cade so much.

  Sure, they had only made love once, but they had made out a lot before that. They had made a pact to not consummate their relationship until they graduated, and they all respected it. None of them tried to push the others into breaking the pact.

  Marlowe ran her hands up through Cole’s long hair, enjoying the feel of the silky strands. They may have been cowboys, but their hair was always soft to the touch. She held his head to hers as she thrust her tongue into his mouth, trying to take control of the kiss.

  Hands on her hips told her that Cade was still with them. He curled his fingers into the waistband of her pants and began to pull them down her hips and then legs until they disappeared altogether. Cool air caressed her naked bottom half, but her pussy was still hot and moist.

  Warm naked flesh now lay against her own. A hot long cock was now pressing into her hip as Cole slipped his leg between hers. He continued to knead her breast as they made love to each other’s mouths.

  The bed dipped again, and she felt Cade’s hand brush lightly across the top of her naked cunt. She moaned. He slid his fingers downward until they split her labia and gently caressed over her needy clit, spiking the electrical currents already sparking there.

  Cole pinched her nipple, which sent a spark of pain on an invisible thread that led straight to her clit. Fire was growing within her when Cade slipped his fingers into her opening. She spread her legs the best she could, giving him easier access, which he took advantage of. He swung his leg over her other one, and she cherished the feeling of being held down and open by both her men.

  Marlowe moved one hand to Cade’s head, running her fingers through his hair. She loved their long hair. It was the same color as their cougars, a darker golden blond than her own. They knew she liked their hair long and they had kept it that way all this time.

  Cade’s fingers invaded her cunt, filling her. She thrust her hips up, trying to get him to move when he stilled his movements for a minute. It had been too long since she was with them, and she needed so much more.

  Ripping her mouth from Cole’s, Marlowe drew in long deep breaths for the man seemed to have sucked her lungs dry. “God, I’ve missed you guys,” she said. She was surprised at how her voice sounded, husky and sexy.

  “We’ve missed you too, baby girl.” Cade whispered the words as he nuzzled her neck. He began to pull his fingers from her pussy but then pushed them back in. He twisted his hand until his fingers were pressing on the top of her vaginal walls, and when he withdrew them again, he passed that sweet spot that had her gasping.

  “I’ve waited so long for this,” Cole added before he bent his head and latched onto her breast. He sucked the nipple into his mouth and used his teeth to apply a bit of pain. She groaned.

  Her body was on fire, and her men were feeding it. Sparks had ignited in her core, and now, heat consumed her. Cade was stoking it with each stroke of his fingers, and Cole was fanning it with his mouth on her breast.

  A tingling began in her cunt, growing in intensity with each stroke. It felt as if she was on a hill that was growing, moving upwards. The anticipation was building along with the fire. When Cade pressed his thumb to her clit and began to rub it, she felt as if she was about to burst.

  Attention from both men at the same time was exquisite. She had only slept with one other man about five years ago, and they had only made love a couple dozen times. The experience had been less than stellar, and now she knew why. Marlowe had to have her two men making love to her.

  The electricity burst within her, sending her over the top of the mountain, careening into the wind. Her body exploded, becoming rigid. Dark spots filled her eyesight, and white noise filled her ears. She floated on the invisible tornado of climax unti
l she finally came back down to earth and settled.

  As she came back into herself, she looked at both men, who were watching her with amazement and feral cockiness in their eyes. Tiny sparkles were occurring in her core as if it were requesting more, and by the looks of her men, she would get more.

  “God, you are so beautiful, kitten,” Cole said breathlessly. He choked back a sob. “I am so thankful you came back to us.”

  Tears filled her eyes at Cole’s emotions. She knew she had hurt them, and she knew she would spend the rest of her life showing them how sorry she was. They had lost twelve years together, and they had a lot of making up to do.

  “Don’t ever leave us again, baby girl. I love you so much.” Cade’s voice sounded as shaky as Cole’s had.

  “I love you both, too,” she said with a sniffle. “Now, will one of you make love to me? I need to feel you both inside me. I need to mate with my men.”

  Her cougar was pacing wildly within her. The beast needed to mate to settle her spirit. She had been encased within Marlowe for so long that she was getting edgy. She needed her mates as much as Marlowe needed her men.

  Cole shifted to her side. Cade pulled his fingers from her pussy, which felt empty immediately. Cade pushed himself up and over until he was positioned between her legs. The heat of his cock pressed against her opening as he lowered his head and captured her lips with his. She wound her arms around his waist and then down to his luscious rounded ass and pulled on him, hoping he would take the hint. Either he didn’t or he wanted to tease her for he remained still. When she tried again, he ended the kiss with a chuckle.

  “Anxious, are we?” he whispered, his eyes nearly glowing with his arousal.

  “Yes! I need you both!” She didn’t care that she was practically yelling. She hoped Coraline’s cottage was far enough away that she wouldn’t hear the three of them.