My Two Alphas, page 10
part #1 of Alphas Series
“Wait, you’re saying that there’s only one person for each of you, but that for both of you, it’s me? That’s nuts!”
Bram spoke up then.
“I don’t understand it either. But you have to know this, I was going to tell you everything about me, but I was trapped and couldn’t get away”.
At this he gave Cole an angry look, but Cole scoffed.
“Well, that had nothing to do with me. You know I was trying to settle down the disagreements between our people and – “
“Disagreements! Is that what you call it when you set a snare with a silver chain? You knew I wouldn’t be able to get away, or to shift! You did it on purpose to keep me from her!”
“It wasn’t me! I would never have done that, I would never have tried to keep you from your mate. I’ve been around long enough to know how important mates are to each other and if I had known what those young fools had planned I would have stopped them. I didn’t even know they were on Diane’s trail until I woke up and found her in my house!”
“Wait, wait”, I interrupted them again, seeing Bram’s hands clenching again, and even more scarily, seeing his face start to change. As I looked I could have sworn I saw his teeth starting to protrude and his face starting to elongate. I looked at his body, and at Cole’s noticing that he was starting to change too, then I noticed something that had evaded me before, Cole was wearing different clothes.
“Hang on, Cole, why did you change clothing? Aaargh! There’s so many questions I have, why did I ask something so silly?”
Cole looked at me, then looked at Bram, raising an eyebrow. He turned to me and spoke.
“I’ll try to explain as best I can, Bram feel free to butt in if I forget something, but please let me try to tell the story, I think Diane is just about at the end of her patience with us. It’s like this Diane, when we change, our spirit animals aren’t clothed, that’s a human constraint. If we’re planning to change, we take off our clothes first and leave them somewhere handy, but if it’s an unexpected change, like before, well, they rip and when we change back, we’re naked. Shifters tend to keep spare clothes in their vehicles, in my case, in my saddlebags, just in case. When you passed out, after we made sure you were safe, we both went out and got our spares – “
“Wait, you went out into the street naked, and got your clothes? What about my neighbours?”
Bram snorted.
“Well, I think we did make an impression – two naked men running out into the street is an unusual sight after all. I waved at the man over the road, but I don’t think you’ll be on anyone’s Christmas card list after tonight”.
I groaned, putting my hands over my eyes, and Cole continued.
“I don’t know how much Bram told you about the troubles between our species, but there has been a bit lately. Bram’s people have always lived around here, but mine lived more over to the west, around Lancefield and – “
I sat up, moving my back towards the headboard and sitting forward excitedly.
“The big cats of Lancefield! Everyone has heard that urban legend, but no-one has ever proved that they exist! Was that you?”
Cole smiled.
“Some of us were careless enough to be seen. We’ve lived there for a long time, but over the last few years the younger ones of us have been rebelling about some of the rules the older ones are trying to impose. Our society was stagnating, so in the end, we decided to break away, and form a new pack. We moved here, knowing there was a pack of wolves nearby, but hoping that we could exist peacefully near each other, but young men never change. There has been a lot of fighting lately, and that’s why Bram and I were called in, to discuss what we were going to do about it”.
“What do you mean, called in? Who knows about you? The government?”
“Yes, only very senior people know, and no written records are kept. If news leaked out, it would cause panic and probably reprisals. I rode my bike in and – “ Cole turned to look at Bram, a knowing look on his face - “I thought you seemed distracted at the meeting, you had already met her, hadn’t you?”
Bram nodded, and took up the story.
“I did. I took the train, and knew as soon as I laid eyes on Diane who she was. We exchanged numbers, and I was going to call her later, knowing that the supermoon was going to be that night, and that it would be foolish to start something until it was over, but fate intervened”. He turned to Cole defiantly, then back to me, more patiently.
“Diane and I met in a hotel room that day, and she initiated mating. I couldn’t resist, who would have? I told you, Diane, that I would call you the next day, because I knew I wouldn’t be able to resist the pull of the supermoon that night. I was planning to call you, to date you, and when the time was right, to tell you who I was, but when I was running free that night, I was tripped by a silver snare, and I couldn’t change. I was trapped there until this morning, when one of my pack, who went looking for me when I didn’t return yesterday, freed me. I’ve spent all day tracking you by scent. I picked you up at the railway station, but lost your scent in the car park. I’ve been driving around the whole area all day, looking for you, calling you to explain, worried that you wouldn’t talk to me because you thought I lied when I said I would call you. I picked up your scent tonight, and worked out this was your house, but then I found him here, and I lost control. As far as I’m concerned, you’re my mate, and I don’t understand how you came to be with him”.
Cole saw the blush rising up my face, and took pity on me, taking over.
“Well, it was my brother who set the snare for you, and he will answer to me for that. I’ve been trying to reach peace with your people, Bram, whether you believe it or not, and I don’t need my own people working against me. They must have known or guessed you were going to catch the train, and were waiting at the station for you. What they found instead, was Diane. They scented you on her, and realised she was important to you, so they followed her the next day, and, to my shame, kidnapped her that night”.
Bram stood up, growling in anger.
“What? They kidnapped her?”
He looked at me, and seeing me cower in fear at his anger, he sat down again, holding our his hands in a reassuring manner.
“I’m sorry, Diane, did they hurt you? I didn’t know”.
I shook my head, then turned to Cole.
“So that’s why they said I was important? What were they planning, to hurt me in order to hurt Bram?”
“No, however foolish my brother is, he would never have hurt you, I think he had some ridiculous notion of ransoming you to the wolves to get some concessions, but that was before I saw you. Once he saw my reaction to you, he knew that whatever plans he had, they were going to change. Anyway, you know what happened next. For Bram’s benefit, Diane brought out my cat, and I chased her. She hit her head and blacked out, which gave me a chance to shift back before she realised what was going on. Anyway, you know what happened next. Diane and I mated, and here we are. With a problem. Diane has mated with both of us, so what do we do about it?”
I sat forward, trying to prevent what I thought would be bloodshed.
“There’ll be no more changing or fighting. I won’t have either of you hurt because of me. I don’t even know why either of you are still here, if this is as important to you as you say, how can either of you even stand to look at me knowing what I did with you both?”
As I started to tear up, both Bram and Cole sat up, moving to sit either side of me, and both trying to comfort me. For a brief moment I felt the safest I have ever felt, sandwiched between both of their warm bodies, Cole with an arm around my shoulders, and Bram with his around my waist. I closed my eyes, savouring the moment, then stiffened as I felt desire. I went rigid, trying to deny what I was feeling. I heard a man chuckle, or maybe that was two men. I tried to push them away, and they both let me, dropping their arms, but not moving away, so now the three of us sat at the head of my bed, and as it wasn’t a particularly large bed, I was tightly packed between the two of them. It was Bram that spoke first.
“I don’t believe I’m going to say this, and I don’t know how I’m going to do it, but you know what the solution is, don’t you Cole?”
“Yes, and I know what you mean. It’s going to be difficult to adapt to, but I can’t see any other way”.
“What are you talking about now?” I almost shouted.
I drew a deep breath, knowing that my choice was impossible but I was going to have to make it. I couldn’t choose between either of them, if that was what they were going to ask me to do. I groaned as I made the impossible decision.
“I can’t choose between you, don’t try to make me. You’re both going to have to go, I don’t care what your rules say I did.
Cole spoke quietly at my side, leaning in as he did. Bram leaned in as well, on the other side.
“You don’t have to choose, Diane. I think you’re stuck with us both”.
Ten
“What do you mean, both?” I squeaked.
Bram spoke up then, now leaning in to speak quietly into my ear.
“What you don’t know about us, Diane, is that females are rare. Most babies born are male, so sometimes it happens that two males feel the mating urge with one female. If she indicates that she is willing, she accepts them both. What neither Cole nor I have ever heard of before, is someone mating with a member of both our species, but I suppose that’s not impossible”.
Even though my insides were turning to mush at the thought of not having to choose between the two of them, my brain couldn’t deal with the concept. Hadn’t they both been on the point of tearing each other to pieces out of jealousy?
“This can’t work. Lots of people like the idea of a menage, but there’s always going to be trouble in the end. People get jealous, people get hurt. It was bad enough for me, having my husband cheat on me, so I can’t imagine knowing that the person you cared about is off having sex with someone else and being ok with it. Besides, what would happen if I got pregnant to one of you? How would the other one deal with that?”
Cole scratched his head at that.
“Well, I can’t say I’ve ever envisioned myself raising a wolf, but if that’s what happens, that’s what happens Diane. When our people share, we don’t care which male actually sires the child, it is the child of the union and all three parents love it equally, and both males treat it as if they are the father. You have to see it in action to believe it, but it works. Our people might have some difficulty getting across it, Diane, but they will accept us in time. Your people probably won’t. Humans have a different view of menages and they wouldn’t look kindly on us. Besides, you couldn’t continue to live here with us if you agreed to this”.
“Why not?” I asked, curious and petulant. I was still trying to assimilate all of this information in my mind, now Cole seemed to be putting obstacles in my way. It was Bram who answered the question.
“Because, my dearest Diane, this house is too small, and this bedroom is definitely too small, for the three of us, let alone a bunch of kids running around”.
I stuttered to a halt at Bram’s words, then croaked out the only thing that had registered straight away.
“The three of us, in the one room? Do you mean at the same time?”
“Of course. Sometimes you might just want to be with one of us, and sometimes one of us mightn’t be good company for you – I tend to wander off during full moons, and everyone knows cats get the sulks for no reason sometimes – but most of the time we would be together. Neither Cole nor I would want to sleep apart from our mate, and I can guarantee if you enjoyed being with either of us separately, you’re not going to know what hit you when we both get our hands on you”.
I threw myself towards the end of the bed and then turned to face them. The first thing I noticed was that both of them seemed very relaxed on my bed. The second thing I noticed was that both of them were sporting massive erections. Seeing where I was looking, each man looked down at his own groin, then at each other’s, then they both laughed.
“See, Diane, it will work out”. Cole laughed. “If I didn’t know you needed the rest, I’d suggest we show you now how good it could be between us. Besides, I want to see Bram’s mark. I smelt him on you, but didn’t realise he had marked you”.
“What do you mean you smelt him on me? I showered!”
Bram laughed.
“Not like that Diane. When someone mates, they change a little. That’s how Cole’s brother obviously realised you’d been with me, he smelt me on you. But that was the same day, so I understand that. Obviously Cole didn’t see you as already mated, because he saw you as his mate. That’s the only reason I’m prepared to give this a try. I thought we would belong exclusively to each other, but clearly fate thought differently, or Cole would never have mated with you”.
I shook my head.
“I’m still trying to get my head around this, it seems so unreal. So what you’re both saying, is that even if you know I’m sleeping with you both, even if you see it, and we do it together, you’re never going to be jealous about it, you’re never going to give me a hard time and try to make me choose, or leave me because you think I’m cheating on you”.
“That’s right Diane. We don’t consider it cheating. Cheating would be if you started seeing another person, trying to keep it secret. We consider this type of relationship just the same as you would consider a conventional human marriage. We are all in it together, and there’s no room for jealousy. There’s advantages for an alpha male too – if anything ever happened to either of us, then we would know that our mate and our children would be looked after by another strong male and would be safe”.
“Wait, are you telling me you are both alpha males? So both of you are head of your pack?”
Both men nodded.
“So, if something happened to one of you, I would just stay mated to the other, and he would look after all my children as if they were his own – he wouldn’t treat children he could see were his any differently from children he could see weren’t?”
Bram fixed me with his grey eyes which were looking a little stormy at that moment.
“Whether both of us live, or both of us die, any child born of our union will be treated as if it was precious, and belonged to all of us. Maybe that’s a concept you might struggle with, I know how humans value their DNA, but we don’t think like that. Even if one of my children shifts to a panther, and one to a wolf, I’ll treat them both the same, and so will Cole. Besides, until the child shifts for the first time, we won’t know what it is, so by the time it shifts we would have already bonded with it. It wouldn’t be the same if one of us died, the other would always feel the loss, but at least we would know that you would be looked after, and you don’t know what that peace of mind means to us. Over the centuries, things haven’t always been so peaceful for us, so it is important for us not to worry about what would happen to our mates and our children if anything happened to us”.
“Centuries?” I looked at Cole, remembering that he had made a couple of references to the amount of time he had waited.
“Yes, centuries. Both of our people are very long lived, and we have both seen changes, mostly for the better. Even though our people live for centuries, we can still be killed, so that’s why we are happy that most people have forgotten we exist, and now we only live in legend, or in fantasies”.
“But what about me? I’m only human, so wouldn’t it be more accurate to think that the two of you will be left raising our children after I’m dead?”
Bram and Cole looked at each other, then Bram sat forward.
“Have you noticed any changes in yourself yet? Usually when a human mates with someone like us, changes start to occur. They get stronger, and heal faster from injuries. Once a female becomes pregnant with the child of a shifter, the blend of genes changes her, and ageing slows to the point where it is barely noticeable. In your case, you would seem to freeze at your current age, and you would age so slowly you would live almost as long as we do. So you will see your children grow, and hopefully find mates of their own”.
I sat back. I certainly had a lot to think about. As far as I could tell, I had a lot to gain out of this arrangement. Both men seemed to care about me, both men seemed to not only want children, but swore to look after those children, and I wouldn’t have to choose between them. There was only one problem.
“There’s only one problem. You might be ok with the whole menage thing, but I’m not sure I can deal with it. I’ve never considered it before and I don’t know if I can, you know, have sex with one of you while the other one is watching. I think I’d find that too embarrassing”.
Cole smiled at me, his emerald eyes glinting.
“It would be more than watching, Diane. You’d be having sex with both of us at the same time”.
“How would that work, oh!” I worked it out, my eyes opening wide as I stared from one of them to the other. My face flamed as they both smiled at me. Finally Cole laughed, seeming to take pity on me.
“Maybe we should let you sleep on it. I think you’ve had a lot of information to take in tonight. Bram and I need to talk anyway, we need to both speak to our packs about this and make sure they understand how important this is to us all. We’ll both call you tomorrow, and work out where to go from here. Get some rest Diane, you’re going to need it”.
Both men unfolded their large frames from my bed and got up, walking towards me where I sat at the end of the bed. As Bram drew near, he pulled me up into his arms, burying his face in my hair and breathing deeply before lowering his lips to mine and kissing me passionately. Even though I knew Cole was still in the room, I responded, opening my mouth and meeting his tongue with my own. Bram growled into my mouth as he plunged his tongue into my mouth and pulled me hard against his body. I was kneeling on the bed, and he was standing, stooping slightly, and I could feel his erection pressing into my belly. I moaned, then I felt Bram’s mouth soften against mine, his lips gently pressing mine closed and he sighed in regret. He looked over my shoulder and then stepped back as Cole lifted me, turning me around to face him, and he in turn plundered my mouth. I moaned again, hearing an answering groan behind me, coming from Bram. Finally Cole put me from him, and the two men walked from my room, bidding me to come and lock the front door behind them, after having checked that the back door was locked. Just before Cole left, he frowned at the door.
