Sundown & Serena (19 page)

Vince got up from the bed, and went to the
phone. “What meat do you like on yours, Serena?” he asked as he
dialed.

“Plain is okay,” I said softly. I didn’t want
to act greedy, since he was buying me food.

“C’mon!” Vince said jovially. “You’re were,
girl, you must like meat on your pizza!”

“Pepperoni, then,” I acquiesced.

Nick was already asleep again beside me,
snoring very faintly.

Vince ordered two everything meat pizzas, and
one with double pepperoni. Then he gave them the room number, and
hung up. “An hour,” he said. “Good. We can sleep a little
more.”

Vince crawled back in beside me, and then he
laid his head on my shoulder again. I dropped off to sleep, lulled
by how comfortable I was.

A knock at the door awakened me. Vince got
up, and slipped on his jeans. I went very still as I watched him
grab a gun from the side of the bed, and tuck it in the waistband
behind his back.

Why does he have a gun? What do these
men do?

Vince took some money from his back pocket,
and went to the door. In a few minutes, he was back with three huge
boxes. Nick roused himself, and put on his jeans too. Then he
handed me his shirt, and I slipped it around me. I inferred from
him giving it to me that he didn’t want me to get dressed again,
but he wanted me to feel comfortable as we ate. I buttoned the
shirt, and it covered most of me, though I left some of the top
buttons undone, as I’d seen women do in movies after coupling.

Vince brought the pizzas to the bed, and
handed me mine. We all dug in. The piping hot food tasted
wonderful. “Thanks. I don’t remember pizza ever tasting so good
before.”

“It’s the sex,” Nick said, seeing my
expression and giving me a smile. “Good sex makes you hungry. Food
always tastes best after sex.”

I gave him a smile back, and nodded, trying
to eat delicately so I didn’t drop any sauce on his shirt.

“So, Serena, how old are you?” Vince asked
nonchalantly.

“Eighteen,” I answered, feeling very
young.

“We’re both in our early twenties,” Vince
said, grabbing another piece of pizza. Nick nodded, his mouth
full.

Not sure what I was supposed to say, I nodded
again in response. What I really wanted was to know why they were
armed.
Don’t ask. You’re probably better off now
knowing.

“Kev’s going to be royally pissed off that he
didn’t come tonight!” Vince laughed, making his double meaning
clear. “Jazz is sure to tell him we finally found a werewoman to
hook up with after fruitless weeks of looking!”

“It’s his own fault,” Nick commented
snarkily. “I told him to come with us, that we were going to hit a
few new places.”

Jazz must have been the man in the
restaurant, the one who’d left. Why hadn’t he wanted to join in?
Don’t ask, you’ll seem man-hungry. There must be
some reason.

Vince and Nick finished their entire pizzas
in the time it took for me to eat two slices. They watched me
finish one more, eyeing me hungrily in silence.

Wow, they want more.
An excited thrill went through me, accompanied with a surge of
satisfaction and pride in my newfound sexual power. “I’m full, for
now,” I said huskily, and set my unfinished pizza aside.

Nick slipped another condom on, then moved
atop me as I lay back. He kissed me gently, then more thoroughly,
as my eager lips sought his. He reached down and slipped his
fingers in me, eliciting an eager gasp. “You’re ready for me
already?” he said, sounding very pleased, but also surprised.

“I want more,” I said without thinking, then
flushed.

Nick slid himself into me with a groan, and
began moving. He went slowly this time, kissing me, rubbing my bare
skin, and biting me gently with his human teeth. I writhed under
him, wanting to feel him bring me to orgasm again. As we had
before, Nick and I came together, crying out loudly as he emptied
himself into me.

Vince watched us with hot eyes. As Nick
rolled off me, he rolled onto me. He was much gentler than he had
been before with me, kissing me, and sucking my skin between his
teeth as he moved in me.

“Do you want to be on top again?” he offered,
after a while.

I nodded eagerly, already pushing at him.

He rolled over in a quick movement, changing
our positions while still attached. I began moving fast, grinding
against him as he thrust up into me, panting hard. The thrilling
feeling built almost immediately. I rocked faster on Vince, crying
out, and he thrust harder, pushing my body down on his to take all
of him in. A sudden climax washed over me as I screamed loudly,
“Oh! Yes! Please don’t stop! Please!”

Vince roared, his back arching off the bed,
and I felt him coming, his body flexing over and over. When he
finished, he pulled out of me, and threw away the condom. He was
breathing hard, and he lay down beside me, running his hands over
me again. “I love it when you scream for me like that,” he
murmured.

The next few hours passed the same way: sheer
pleasure. I coupled with Nick and Vince a few more times each, and
I went down on them both again, this time actively using my lips
and tongue to intensify the experience for both of us. But the
night, like everything else, eventually came to an end.

Nick shook me gently awake. “It’s going to be
dawn soon,” he said, “We need to get back. We have to be at work at
eight.”

“Shit,” Vince grumbled. “I forgot we had
early duty.”

“It’s because of fucking Lash,” Nick griped.
“He’s worried that Ruler Perseus is going to find out Dev’s here in
his territory, and he’s paranoid.”

“He is right to be paranoid,” Vince said
gruffly. “Perseus is bad news. Dev tangled with him once before,
with Perseus getting the shaft. He’ll come for some of Dev’s hide,
if he knows he’s here. Dev’s not stronger than Perseus anymore, not
since that fucking brother of his drained his power along with his
blood.”

“Leave it,” Nick said flatly. “Danial wasn’t
to blame. He either did it, or Dev was dead meat.”

“It was all the fault of that fucking bitch!”
Vince growled, furious. “Everything is her fault! Why Xavier got
killed, and Gerry, and Harrison.”

“Leave it!” Nick interrupted harshly. “She
had a right to try to defend herself.”

“I’m glad Devlin finally gave her some
payback last month,” Vince said, a mix of mean satisfaction and
arousal in his cryptic words. “Kev was there. He heard everything
that happened.”

“You never told me that!” Nick said, shocked.
“I thought he just saved her that night! What did he do to her?
What did Kev hear?”

“Kev drove them to a hotel, because the sun
was coming up, and they weren’t going to make it to Hayden. Titus
was off on his little vacation, still upset from breaking up with
Leri, and Dev couldn’t get a hold of him. And Lash and you were
with the other bears cleaning up at Alphonse's.”

“I know all that! Tell me what happened!”

“Kev said that Devlin drank her down, because
she stupidly offered to feed him,” Vince said with relish. “He
waited until she was asleep, and then he undressed her. She started
dreaming of her cougar honey, and Devlin pretended to be him.”

“No WAY he did her as she was sleeping!” Nick
said in disbelief. “I’ve seen him! She would’ve woken up!”

“She woke up right before he started to,”
Vince said wickedly. “Then he forced her to let him have her. Kev
said she was fighting Dev, but Dev had her anyway. Then he tricked
her, made her think he was sleeping. Kev was just coming back from
breakfast, and he saw her try to run from the room, and Dev grab
her by her hair, and jerk her back inside.”

“Then what happened? Tell me!” Nick
demanded.

“Dev had her every way to Sunday,” Vince
said, grinning. “Kev reported she loved it. She’s a screamer too,
like Serena here.”

I flushed red, but neither of them
noticed.

“Kev also said she did something to Dev the
last time, and he screamed so loud it was like an earthquake. As it
was, he had to pay off a few of the hotel workers, so they all
didn’t get thrown out of the room!” He paused. “He said that Devlin
sounded like she rocked his world.”

“Get real!” Nick said, rolling his eyes. “The
man’s been with thousands of women. Why would this one be any
different?”

“Kev said something happened,” Vince said in
a low serious tone. “He could hear the two of them talking all
sweet and lovey, then she was yelling at him, and he began to yell
back. He said he heard the shower start, and Devlin came out, and
told him to call me, to have me come and pick Kev up, to give him a
ride back to Hayden. Now you tell me something didn’t happen, that
Devlin told his only guard to get lost. What’s more, you know her
and that cougar are married, Nick. Yet it’s been a month, and
there’s no sign of him coming here for a piece of Dev. Lash is
worried about that too, I think. So where is he?” He gave Nick a
triumphant smile.

“You think she didn’t tell her husband what
Dev did to her?”

Vince nodded.

“Why?” Nick said.

“Simple!” Vince explained. “She liked it! She
can’t say anything, or it’ll look like she just had sex with him
willingly, and reconsidered later, and now is saying he forced
her.”

“Devlin’s got balls as big as church bells,
to cuckold that cougar,” Nick said, awe again in his voice. “Theo’s
reputation would be enough to make me not even look sideways at
her.”

“I don’t think Dev did it just for the sex,”
Vince growled darkly. “It wasn’t her blood, she’d already given him
that. I think he wanted her to love him, though I can’t understand
why.”

“Twisted,” Nick said, awed. “You think it was
more than sex to them?”

“I think Dev got more than he bargained for,”
Vince said, nodding. “I think that we haven’t seen the end of him
and her.”

“I don’t see where you are getting all of
that,” Nick said, giving Vince a hard look. “Dev’s had sex with a
different woman every night since he got here, sometimes more than
one. He’s the same as he always was.”

“Really?” Vince said darkly. “Then why did he
go to a specialty jeweler before we left the States, and place an
order for a choker? One with a gold bear with green emerald
eyes.”

Nick’s mouth dropped open. He stared at
Vince, his expression akin to horrified.

I had stayed silent this whole time,
listening and trying to make some sort of sense of what they were
saying. It was clear they were talking about a man who’d seduced a
married woman and implying some kind of dire consequences, though
they obviously didn’t know the reasons behind what had happened.
But the rest I didn’t understand.
Chokers?
Cougars? Sharing blood?

“You think he loves her?” Nick uttered
finally.

Vince nodded. “I think he’s sending her the
choker, and asking her to come to him here. She’ll probably do it,
too. You know how women are with Dev. They fall all over themselves
trying to make him happy.”

“Shit,” Nick swore. “I never thought I’d ever
see the day he loved any one woman. He’s too much of a legend! He’s
always been a personal inspiration to me.”

“Me, too,” Vince agreed. “I’m hoping she says
no. I don’t want that bitch for my mistress. I’ll be damned if I’m
going to protect her.”

“I wouldn’t worry about it,” Nick assured,
yawning. “That cougar is not going to let his wife go without a
fight, especially not to Dev. He hates him. And she’d be crazy to
come. Remember what Dev did to her years ago?”

“Speaking of going, we have got to get
moving,” Vince said abruptly, appearing to notice I was listening.
“Or we’ll be late. Lash’ll take it out of our hides.”

Nick sighed as he and Vince got up, and
tugged on their clothes. I watched from the bed, unsure of what to
do.

“You can stay here, honey,” Nick said, giving
me a kiss on the forehead. “Checkout isn’t till noon. Get some
sleep, and just return the key before you head home.”

“All right,” I said.

Nick kissed me again on the mouth gently.
“I’ll see you again soon, Serena,” he said with a smile, then he
left.

Vince grabbed the two empty pizza boxes, and
then he looked at my reflection behind him in the mirror a moment,
as I sat watching him from the bed. He put the boxes down, then
came over and sat on the bed near me. “Did you like spending the
night with us?” he asked, his blue eyes looking into mine.

I nodded.

“Would you want to do it again?” he
continued. “Same money, same kind of sex?”

Sincere, yet to the
point.
I considered his offer fast, knowing that if I didn’t
agree I ran the risk of not being offered this again. That I wanted
the sex again was a simple yes. My animal side had no issue with my
behavior. It was my human side that was cautioning me against a
repeat performance.
Was what I did so bad?
I was sure some people would think so, but really, how different
was it from what Patty did? The only difference was that I was
making a lot of money besides just enjoying myself. “Yes,” I said
quickly, before I thought anymore and found a reason to say no.

“Would you be willing to do it for other
friends of ours, too?” Vince continued. “There are at least another
five werebears I know who would be glad to pay you for your
time.”

My eyes widened at his implication. “Are they
like you?”

“They aren’t all as handsome as me,” Vince
answered with a grin. “But we’re all the same age, yes. We’re all
guards and werebears, so our bodies are pretty much the same,
too.”

He was offering to pay me regularly to have
sex with his friends and him. This wasn’t one night of daring;
technically, this would make me a prostitute, the same girl who’d
been a virgin just yesterday. The human half of me was shocked that
I was even considering it, but the animal half was all for it, as
long as it included sex with other fit males and possibly food.
What should I say? Truth is probably best
.
“I’ve never done anything like last night before. But I enjoyed
myself a lot. I might be interested in a regular arrangement, but
I’d have to meet your friends first.”