Lucy
The month passed so quickly. It seemed like I had sex with them every day, but then, they had everything they’d bought me packed up.
“Where are we going?” I asked as Matt led me to the car. Tony was already inside, finishing a call.
He helped me inside and pulled me into his lap to kiss me.
“Not fair,” Matt said, climbing in after me.
“I know you kissed her all this morning while I’ve been busy,” Tony said, twirling one of my curls on his finger. My hair had grown a bit over this month. “Hasn’t he?”
I ducked my head and nodded. Tony’s chest rumbled as he pulled me close.
“I can’t smell you all over her, so shut up.”
Matt huffed. “Are you really going to kiss her the whole way there?”
“Yeah,” he said and shoved a laptop into Matt’s arms. “And you’re going to be a decent brother and assistant and read emails.”
Matt grumbled, but he didn’t sound angry. Tony kissed me deeply. He always kissed me so different from the way Matt did. It was like he wanted to taste every part of my mouth. His hands were trembling the way they did when he was trying to control himself. I gasped and held still in anticipation. It never took long after the shaking started for him to lose it.
A moment later, his fingers twined in my hair and tilted my head back. He unbuttoned my jeans and slipped his hand into my pants.
I heard Matt’s breathing picking up. “That’s not… That’s a lot more than I… Tony…”
I moaned, arching into his hand as he stroked me. He pulled back.
“Emails, Matt. Focus.”
“But—”
“Focus or I’m putting a security detail on her room when we get there, and you won’t see her until after the ceremony.”
Matt groaned. “Fine. An email from the club….”
I lost track of what he was saying as Tony continued to touch me. I curled closer to him, trying to smother the sounds.
He pulled my hands down and held them in one of his. I gasped as he forced me to lean back over his lap and pulled my pants down over my hips.
“T-Tony—”
He hushed me. “I want to feel you come. Don’t hold back. Matt can focus enough, and the driver is paid not to pay attention.”
My face burned with embarrassment, but he was so strong that I couldn’t wiggle my hands free of his grip. Every move I made felt like I was just forcing his fingers deeper and harder into me. I moaned, pushing my hips against his hands.
I heard Matt talking, but his eyes were watching me. His eyes glowed hungrily as he licked his lips. Tony’s voice was tense, but I couldn’t make out the words. My heartbeat was pounding in my ears, and all I could hear was the rush of my blood as the pleasure crested over me.
Slowly, the sound came back to me. Tony had pulled his fingers from me, but his hand was still between my legs.
“… accepted,” Matt said.
“Is that so?” Tony asked. “Send an email to the head of security to increase the patrol for the day, and let him know to be present in the main hall when we arrive.”
I blinked as Matt glanced at me as he started to type. His hands moved so quickly.
“I… never learned how to type,” I said, dazed.
Tony turned his head and helped me sit up against him. “Are you alright?”
I nodded, blinking slowly.
“Tired?” He chuckled. “I guess that means that Matt had a bit too much fun while I’ve been busy.”
“I’ve been giving her a lot of hands-on training.”
My face flushed. Tony grinned. “Is that so? I can’t wait to see what you’ve learned.”
“I… still don’t understand,” I said. “Why… you both want so much….”
I couldn’t say the word.
“Sex?” Matt asked. He chuckled. “It’s a werewolf thing. I was sort of hoping you had a bit of the werewolf sex drive, but you pass out so easily.”
I turned my head into Tony’s shoulder as my face burned.
“She’s only been having sex for a few weeks. Give her a break. She’s still recovering.”
He tightened his grip on me and shifted me closer.
“He’s right, though. It is part of being a werewolf. We tend to have a lot of sex. Now that we’ve found our mate it’s… not worse exactly. Just different.”
“Different, how?”
“Well, we only want to have sex with you,” Matt said as he kept typing. “So that makes it a bit harder to have our needs me, but you’re doing great on your training. You’re still awake!”
I wished I could just disappear. I was so embarrassed.
Tony nuzzled me. “There’s more to being a werewolf and the werewolf world than sex, I promise.”
I glanced at the computer in Matt’s lap. “Like what?”
“Politics,” Matt groaned. “So much politics. Which alpha can we pick a fight with? Who do we shake hands with? Which jerk can we claw and not claw? Territory disputes—”
“You act like you deal with any of that,” Tony said, kissing my forehead as he pulled my pants back up. “You’re always conveniently absent when anything of importance comes up.”
Matt grinned, “You’re the oldest, so I let you handle it.”
He sighed. “With the fall of the White Moon Pack, there’s been… a lot of issues. We’ve been keeping the peace, but since we haven’t had a luna, it’s been harder.”
“Why?” I asked.
“All the other alphas are older than us,” Matt said. “And they aren’t twins, so while they respect how much power we have, they don’t quite see us as real alphas without a luna.”
“What’s that?” I asked. “What does… being an alpha mean?”
“It means we lead the Blue Moon pack,” Matt said. “Well… specifically, Tony leads the pack, and I’m his right hand.”
“A very unreliable right hand,” Tony groused. “A luna is supposed to represent our connection to the moon goddess.”
“I thought you said she was dead.”
“She is, but it’s still a tradition,” Tony said.
“How can a goddess die?” I asked. “That doesn’t make any sense.”
Matt chuckled. “You’re thinking of a human goddess. The moon goddess is different. She’s… like the moon. We say die because she’s no longer on the earth, but you wouldn’t say the moon is dead because it’s not out at night, right?”
I frowned, “So… she just shows up sometimes?”
Tony sighed. “What do you know about the moon?”
I flushed and ducked my head. “Never mind, I—”
“Lucy,” Tony said gently. “It’s okay if you don’t know… Though I have to wonder what you do know. You said that man was your adoptive father?”
I nodded.
“How did you end up with him?” Matt asked.
I sighed, not really wanting to think about it, but I had to answer.
“He and his wife picked me up from the orphanage when it was closing. I was three.”
“Orphanage….” Matt said and frowned. “How does a town close an orphanage?”
“I don’t know. The people who ran the orphanage said that we were all leftovers.”
“Leftovers?” Tony asked softly. “What does that mean?”
I shrugged. “They just said that we weren’t related to anyone in the town. Whoever our parents were either left us or died when the town took over some neighboring territory.”
Tony went still. He and Matt shared a look before looking back down at me.
“Go on. What else did they say?”
I shook my head. “Nothing. And I never saw anyone else from the orphanage again. He and his wife picked me up, took me home, and….”
I winced, and Tony nudged me.
“And?”
“They just treated me like a servant.”
“I thought humans had to send their kids to school by law.”
I shrugged again. “I went to school until eighth grade, but I didn’t learn much.”
Matt’s eyes narrowed. “What do you mean by that?”
“I can read and write and do basic math, but that’s all,” I said. “They said I didn’t need to learn anything else. When I got old enough, they made me get a job and pay my way.”
“Matt,” Tony said softly. “Have the head of security look into where her adoptive parents are now and the circumstances of the town Lucy grew up in.”
I looked up at him, blinking in shock. Matt said nothing, but his fingers typed away on the laptop as the car came to a stop.
“As I said before, Lucy, you don’t understand yet, but you will.”
He kissed my head again and opened the car door. He helped me out, and I gasped at the sight of the giant house. It looked like it was at least three houses put together with a large balcony and porch. Men in black walked across the balcony before turning inside.
The house was surrounded by huge trees that filled the air with the scent of cedar. It was so quiet, unlike the town I’d grown up in.
“Where are we?” I asked.
“This is the Blue Moon Pack’s Den,” Tony said proudly and wrapped his arm around my shoulder. “This is our home, and now your home too.”
Matt climbed out of the car with the laptop and took a deep breath.
“I’ve missed the scent of the forest,” Matt said. “Cities smell terrible. All those people, and not all of them bathe….”
I laughed. The car pulled away and around the side of the house. Tony led me toward the front door. It opened as we approached. A pretty woman who was a little older than me stood in the doorway and smiled up at Matt and Tony. I ducked my head and shuffled my feet, feeling so out of place.
“Welcome home, alphas,” she greeted. “Everyone’s gathered in the Main Hall as you asked.”
“Good,” Tony said and pulled me along into the house. The inside was even more impressive. There were three sets of staircases, but we didn’t go up any of them. Instead, we walked down a long hallway. The woman led the way.
“She’s the eldest daughter of the pack’s beta,” Tony said. “If you need anything and neither of us is around, just ask her.”
I nodded shakily, but I doubted I would ever ask her. Just her presence and how she walked made me feel inferior.
When we reached the end of the hallway, she opened a set of large double doors to an even larger room that made me think of a ballroom from one of those old movies.
Tony pulled me along and up a short set of stairs that led to a platform in the front of the ballroom. It looked like there were hundreds of people all looking up at us, staring at me with questions in their eyes.
“Good to see you all in good health and out of trouble,” Tony said. They laughed. “I wish I could say the same for us.”
An older man laughed. “You’re twins. Your reckless side had to come out sometime!”
Tony chuckled and nudged me forward. “This is Lucy. She’s our mate.”
The room went quiet for a moment before most of the people burst into applause. Some of them, mostly women, seemed really unhappy.
Tony chuckled. “Maybe she’ll be able to keep him out of trouble.”
“Preoccupied, you mean.”
They laughed, and I just wanted to disappear into the floor.
“I’ve already sent out informal invitations. We’ll be holding the Luna ceremony in a few days,” Tony said. “I’ll check in with you to make sure everything is going smoothly. For now, that’s all.”
They let out a loud round of applause before everyone started to hustle away.