love her. Bethany had been working for him so long, and he’d not experienced any of these feelings, and yet the urge to mate was fast calling upon him. He lifted her up so that she was supported between him and Draco as Reese took care of the petulant little wolf.
Carrying her back to the bed, they placed her on top and he knelt beside her, as did Draco.
“You feel it, too, don’t you?” Alex asked.
“Yes.”
“We have a problem,” Reese said, coming into the room.
“You’re little alphette wannabe going to hunt the rest of the pack?” Alex glanced toward him.
“No. Do you three see what is happening right now?” Reese gestured to all three of them.
Alex saw what was happening.
They all had the urge to mate with Bethany. Looking at Draco, he saw the need within him, just as he held the need, and so did Reese.
“This can’t happen,” Reese said.
“Why not? She’s a woman. A wolf woman, I admit, but she’s also human.”
“This isn’t right.”
“For heaven’s sake, Reese, neither is a woman turning into a wolf, but I scent her. I smell the change inside her, and if you think for a second I’m going to let you take her, you’re fucking wrong.”
“We all have mated with her,” Draco said, finally speaking up.
“We haven’t, not yet.” This came from Reese, who started to pace up and down. “I won’t allow this to happen.”
“You don’t have a choice. This is what our beasts want. You can’t come in the way of that.”
“I’m not going to let you hurt her.”
Draco got to his feet. “Do we look like we’d hurt her? We held her before she dropped to the floor. This is all too much for her.”
“I saw her first!” Reese yelled the words.
“No, I saw her first. I gave her a fucking job.”
“Wait, if you all want to start going on that, I saw her first, I was in school with her!” Draco said.
She whimpered, and they all froze.
“Let’s take this outside,” Alex said.
They all walked outside, and he stared up at the moon. As a bear shifter, he never felt the calling of the moon. He was an alpha in his own right, and because of that, he could turn at any time. Reese could as well, and he felt the calling of the alpha.
“So, we all want her?” Alex said.
“We don’t have a choice.”
“Fuck off,” Reese said, glaring at Draco. “We all have a choice.”
“You telling me you’re not happy about this? For months you’ve been coming into my café wanting to mate with her.”
“She’s mine!”
“No. She’s not just yours,” Draco said. “You can feel it, too. If you didn’t feel the calling of all three of us, you would have slaughtered us right here, right now. Bethany belongs to all of us.”
“We don’t even know what she is,” Reese said.
“She’s ours. That’s what she is. The reason she is different, she’s destined to be mated to three rather than just the one.” Alex had heard of some women needing more than one mate but that was across shifters, from wolves to coyotes. Some women were weak, and the need for three mates was essential to her staying alive.
Reese was the alpha of his pack, Draco the second in command, and Alex was also the Alpha of his bear pack. Only there weren’t many bears around.
“What do you suggest?” Reese asked.
“We all mate her,” Draco said.
“What if she doesn’t want it?”
Alex was growing angrier by the second. “We’re not rapists, Reese. She will have a choice. We’re not going to rush into the bedroom, wake her up, and fuck her. She’s still a person.”
“With a wolf inside her,” Draco said.
They glared at him.
“I just wanted to point that out. She is part wolf, and one day she will feel the mating heat.”
The mating heat was a lot stronger in the wolf pack than the bears. Alex had seen how desperate the women get, and they will fuck all night long, whatever man will have them to ease the burn. Knowing Bethany, it would destroy her. She wasn’t the kind of woman to