Free Upon the Threshold by April Zyon Page B

wouldn’t have asked. I would have taken, and that is not how we want to be with you. You, as every other female, deserve a choice.”
    Wow, now that was direct. “Is it bad that in that moment I wanted you too?” she asked quietly. “I was and still am thinking of getting naked with you. I’m so…” She paused to search for the right term. “Needy.” No, that wasn’t right. That didn’t seem to fit the scope of the desire, the desperation that she felt. Not by a long shot. “I’ve felt need, want, hunger unlike anything I have ever known before in my life since meeting you, touching you. Both of you. I go to bed thinking of you. I dream of you. I think that the term my people used once upon a time was lust , but it’s more. It’s as if…” There was hesitation on her part, but then she whispered it. “It’s as if my soul recognizes yours. As if I have been waiting all this time for the two of you to enter my life so I can actually live and feel.”
    “That is how it should be between those the universe puts onto the same path,” Lukkis told her. “Without it…” He shrugged.
    “He is right,” Kraven murmured. “If you didn’t feel the want and hunger for us, you may never have given us a second thought. You would have continued on with your life, and we might not be here now. Because of your need to be near us and the Beast within us both recognizing who you are we now have a chance.”
    She nodded and licked her lips. “So what happens now? What happens with this chance? Do we date? I have no idea what is next.” At their looks, she said, “A date is what the people of my world did. They would slowly get to know each other and, over time, look for these feelings. I already feel more for the two of you than I could have ever dreamed of feeling. Odd, don’t you think?”
    “No, it’s not odd in the least,” Lukkis said. “It is the way among our people. When the pheromones kick in, it happens fast and usually in a way that leaves you feeling more than a little exhausted. Our people do nothing slow and easy, except in war when we need to sneak in close to the enemy, but other than that we are more of the type to grab on and take everything.”
    “Okay, so what do the two of you want?” She knew that Kraven wanted her, had felt it in the heat of the kiss, in the hard ridge of his erection that rubbed against her clit while she all but mauled him, but what of Lukkis? “Have the two of you shared women before? I mean…” She blushed and rushed to ask, “Do you know what you are doing?” Oh God, she couldn’t believe she was asking that, but she was.
    “We haven’t, no,” Lukkis snorted out on a laugh. “But yes, we know just what we are doing. It’s a course in our early years at our schools, though those that raise us are also very open and honest about relationships and how things work in them between all those involved. Unlike your people, we are not ashamed or shy about talking about sex and sexual acts in the open and in mixed company.”
    “For that I’m grateful,” Elisabeth said with a smile. “So what happens now?” She seemed to keep asking that question, but they wouldn’t answer her. She wanted— No, she needed them to lead her. If they didn’t, she was going to just jump into Lukkis’s or Kraven’s lap again and begin to kiss them until they got the hint that she needed and wanted them.
    “Now we need to prepare for our bonding ceremony,” Kraven told her. “And you need to make sure you truly want this. This relationship with both of us. Once the ritual is done, there is no getting out. It is permanent, until death takes us all. It will take about a day to get what we need together and to inform those whom we need to. So take that time to think about what you truly want. Remember, we are not like your males. We have lived and will continue to live hard lives.”
    “So would that mean that I would be here with you? I should ensure that my dad knows.” She