Stanley, Gale - Hellfire [Southwest Shifters 1] (Siren Publishing Ménage Amour) Read Online Free PDF Page A

animal groan rumbled up from Tanner’s chest, and his toes curled in pleasure as his own climax approached the point of no return. He thrust savagely and let out a roar as he exploded. Through heavy-lidded eyes, he watched his lover’s face contort in an expression of lust-filled bliss as he growled out his release. Continuing to hold each other, they relaxed and let their orgasms play out.
    Tanner nuzzled and nipped at Gage’s neck. “Who needs a foursome?”

Chapter Four

    Shiloh rolled over, and in a few minutes, Kate heard his soft snores and knew he’d fallen asleep. Sleep didn’t come that easy for Kate. She lay awake for hours, staring up at the ceiling and hoping the rhythmic whump of the fan overhead would lull her to sleep. It didn’t. It didn’t do much to cool off the room either. Naked and d renched with sweat, she panted like a bitch in heat, trying to breathe in the heavy air. Finally, afraid she would wake Shiloh , she decided to let him have the bed to himself.
    She sat up and brushed aside the long hair plastered to her face and neck. Freeing the tangled sheets from around her feet, she slipped out of bed and crept noiselessly through the house. The air, thick with moisture, wasn’t any better in the living room. She went into the kitchen and opened the freezer, grabbed a few ice cubes, and held them against her heated neck, then down her chest. The cold made her nipples pebble, and once again her thoughts turned to the Lycans.
    Her mind whirled in mass confusion, her thoughts returning to the two men again and again. She had a million questions, starting with where had they come from and ending with why were they here. If they were from her pack, then they’d been born in the Pine Barrens , halfway across the country.
    She had taken that journey herself in a roundabout way, hitching and hiking. She’d be traveling still if she hadn’t met Shiloh . New Mexico was not a place she would have chosen to settle otherwise. In all the states she’d been through, she had never come across anyone like herself. Even so, she never assumed she was the only Lycan left. But it surprised the hell out of her when the two wolf-shifters showed up.
    She knew from personal experience just how hard it was to keep a wolf bottled up, and she assumed if there were others, they probably shifted, if not frequently, at least from time to time, yet wolf sightings were few and far between here in New Mexico.
    So if they weren’t living here as humans or living wild, then where? Had she brought them here? Had her sex pheromones sent out an invitation to mate? She had no idea how far her scent could travel. She knew so little about her own people.
    When her family was killed in the great fire, she’d been a child of six. She survived only because she hadn’t been home when the fire started. Her father had taken her and Casey hunting. Her older brother didn’t think she should come, and her father agreed with him, but she begged and pleaded, and finally he relented. To this day, she regretted not staying with her mother. She might have comforted her at the end, and she would have died with her gladly.
    They had been quite a distance away when her father smelled smoke. He told her and Casey to stay put, warned them not to move until he came back for them. Then he left. Casey, at twelve, thought he was a man and should be helping to put out the fire, not hiding in the woods. He left a crying Kate squatting among the brambles at the edge of a glade. She never saw him again.
    Afraid to move, she stayed put until two days had gone by. By the time she returned home, everyone was dead or gone. A hunter, maybe the very one who had set the fire, found her sitting by her dead parents, crying. He took her home, and so her new life began, with a human hunter and his wife.
    She had a very lonely and secluded childhood. Homeschooled, she had no friends. She might as well have been a prisoner. Kate never spoke to her foster family about