Free Fire of the Wolf [The Gray Pack] (Siren Publishing Ménage Amour) by Lori King

completely. We share our blood with the wolf, and wolves claim a mate for life. Werewolves don’t eat humans, but I can’t deny that I sprout fur and enjoy howling at the moon.” Damon responded lightly, but Caroline kept quiet, processing everything they were telling her.
     
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    Her continued silence made him nervous, so Damon pushed forward. “We need you to want to be our mate as well, so that we can claim you. In our world a woman is protected and loved by her mate, as well as protects him and cares for him. It is something we take very seriously. In order to claim you, you must willingly claim us as well. The mating bond can’t be created against someone’s will. We must make love to you, and leave our mark on you.”
    She silently stared at him, and he wasn’t sure what to do. He couldn’t take the pleading tone out of his voice when he spoke next. “There is no other way. I can only promise we will go slow, and protect you from whatever your fears are.”
    Moments passed with no response to what he had told her, and finally Devin broke the silence. “Please say something, Caroline. We need to know what you’re thinking.”
    Damon’s wolf was struggling inside of him to get out and lay claim to this woman that was his mate. Her soft lilac fragrance drifted to his nose, and he watched his brother’s hand clenching open and closed at his side like he was physically grasping for his control.
    “I don’t know what to say. I thought you guys were normal, and maybe even respectable. Now I’m scared that you’re crazy, and you’re trying to make me crazy, too. I’m in a home with two strange men I met yesterday after I almost died in a burning house, and they think they are werewolves, and I’m their mate. Now they want me to agree to let them fuck me, because they think they need to mark me in some way? I think I’m losing my mind! You two really need to work on your pick-up lines.” She started to giggle nervously, and the more she giggled the more it began to sound like sobs. Suddenly she broke down, and huge sobs wracked her small frame as she struggled to breathe through them.
    We should have waited . Damon glared at Devin while they both tried to console Caroline without scaring her more. Devin had his arms wrapped around her shaking shoulders, and Damon had his arm around her waist with his chin on top of her head.
    We can’t wait, and you know it. She wants us almost as much as we want her, and if we fuck her without her knowing the truth she will hate us. She has to choose us, or we can’t have her.
    I know, but I’m not sure I could let her go.
    The doorbell rang, and Damon pulled away to get the pizza, leaving her clutching tightly to his brother as she sobbed. By the time he got back to the kitchen and set up plates and napkins, her sobs had turned to sniffles, and she watched him cautiously move around the kitchen. She pulled away from Devin, and he reluctantly let her go so that he could go to the kitchen to help Damon. They had to give her space, but they weren’t sure what else to do with themselves.
     
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    Watching them move around the kitchen, Caroline immediately missed their closeness, and found herself getting up from the couch and following to be closer to them. As she moved around the breakfast bar, the brothers reached for her. Maybe they could sense her need for their touch, or maybe they just felt the same need to touch her? She decided she really didn’t care what the reason was as Damon wrapped his arms around her with her head on his shoulder, hugging her close, and she felt Devin cuddle up to her back with his hands resting on her shoulders and his nose in her hair. They stood there silently for several minutes before she broke the embrace.
    “I want you. Both of you, so that part isn’t the problem, but I need some time. Let me think on it for awhile, okay?” She saw the flash of uninhibited joy go through Damon’s eyes when he heard her, and