“Well, I suppose a plus of having two males to one female is that you’re not the one always on her shit list. Unless you’re our sister and manage to be upset with both of them.” Lex chuckled.

“Hmm, maybe I need to look for another mate then,” Nina shot back and that shut Lex up.

* * * * *

Gabe hauled Tracy downstairs and out onto the back deck overlooking the wilderness behind the house. “First of all, when I hurt your feelings, I’d like it if you told me when I ask you directly. It’s not fair of you to be hurt and not let me try and fix it.”

“Why do you always have to be so f**king reasonable, Gabe?” Tracy stormed off to the other side of the deck where Nick stood. She sighed and leaned against the rails.

“Why do I have to be reasonable? What kind of question is that? I’m a reasonable man, it’s what I do.

It’s who I am.”

Nick moved to stand in front of her. He tipped her chin up with a fingertip. “Baby, I didn’t mean to make you feel bad in there. There’s plenty of guilt to go around, but none of it is yours. My brother and Sarah have that dubious honor. And me too. I’m the Enforcer and I missed that. You’ve done nothing wrong. You’ve been good and loving and strong for me. A true mate and partner.”

Gabe spoke, watching her from across the deck, “And yes, I need to get back to Boston but that doesn’t mean that you’re impeding me. I want to be here with you. I love you. I have a job that makes this complicated and well, the whole tri-mate thing makes it even more difficult to work around, but certainly we will. We will because it’s how we’ll have to be. In order for this to work we all have to do our part. That means you have to tell us when you’re upset and we’ll do the same and all of us have to try to accommodate each other.” He pushed himself away from the railing and went to her.

Tracy nodded up at him. Nick put his arm around each of their waists. “We’ll make this work. One step at a time.”

Gabe leaned down and brushed his lips over hers and that familiar fire sparked and caught Nick with a gasp. Suddenly his mouth was hot on her neck, just below her ear, feasting on her hammering pulse.

“Turn around, hands on the railing,” Gabe murmured into her ear.

“What? My parents are inside!”

Nick spun her and reached around, unzipping her jeans around her slapping hands. “They’re not coming out here, we’re making up from a fight. They won’t want to interfere. And you were told to do something, Tracy.”

“Hey! You can’t tell me what to do. This isn’t a cave or the Dark Ages!”

Nick leaned in, his body against the long line of her back, while Gabe yanked her jeans and panties down. The cool of the evening caressed the bare skin of her thighs. “But I can. Gabe can. What’s more, Tracy, you like it.” He reached down and slid his fingertips through her pu**y. Finding her slick, he chuckled. “Tell you what, let’s be blunt. You like to be dominated and we like dominating you. It won’t go past sex, we won’t tell you what books to read or who you can go to the movies with.”

“But when I tell you to turn and grab something and spread your thighs, you’ll do it. And we all know you’ll like it.” Gabe’s lips moved against her ear and the sound of unzipping flies brought a shiver of desire through her and she moaned softly.

“First, I’m going to f**k you. Hard and fast so those sweet br**sts jiggle the way I like. Then Gabe’s going to f**k you. Your job is to come. A lot.” Nick underlined this with a long, hard thrust into her until he slid in to the root.

Gabe ducked under where her hands grasped the railing and faced her. “Now,” he said quietly as Nick began to move into her body at her back, “let’s get started with your part, shall we?”

He leaned in to kiss her while his hands found her ni**les under her sweater. She arched her back, pressing into his palms.

Coherent thought escaped her. She should be scandalized, having sex out on the shadowy deck with her parents in the house behind them. She should be outraged that her mates just ordered her to f**k them.

But she wasn’t. God, she was turned on beyond all bearing. So turned on she’d have to feel ashamed of herself later because all she had was endorphins racing through her system and pleasure intoxicating her as their hands and mouths were on her and Nick’s c**k filled her over and over.

Nick reached around and found her clit swollen and slick for him and circled it slowly, ramping up the need, pushing her desire higher and higher. Knowing that someone could walk out at any moment was a dark thrill and her first orgasm slammed into her when Gabe’s teeth closed over the tendons in her neck.

Writhing between them as she came, she was only barely cognizant of Nick’s climax as his hand at her hip convulsed and her name came as a hoarse sigh from his lips.

Nick pulled out and Gabe picked her up. He sat on one of the Adirondack chairs, putting her on his lap reverse cowgirl. Her body faced away from him and she locked eyes with Nick as Gabe’s c**k filled her cunt, still fluttering from climax.

Nick knelt before them both and looked into her eyes. “I love you so much, Tracy. You’re so beautiful and sexy.” Shoving her sweater up, he licked over her ni**les until she made soft sounds of entreaty and squirmed against Gabe.

He kissed down her belly and spread her open, exposing her clit. She looked down at him, at the top of his head. His glossy black hair was soft between her fingers as she moved her hands to caress his skull between her palms.