Protecting Pack

Protecting Pack 2

Protecting Pack

By Vic James

vicjames2@hotmail.com

Copyright 2015 by Vic James

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This story is fiction. None of the characters are based on real people.

This story takes place in the same universe as my stories Plan of the Shusheen, Son of a Wolf, and Being Pack. Plan of the Shusheen explains how three genetically-engineered shifter races were created.

Warning: this story contains incest scenes.

Part Two ========

I fell asleep with Dave's arm around me. I woke when the car stopped. I looked around. We were on a residential street. The sun had risen while I slept. I saw Lisa, Jerry, and Keith's father standing outside next to the car. There was something familiar about him. I got out of the car and saw another man. He had a gun in a holster. He had to be Jesse. Keith took my hand.

"Dad, this is Jack," Keith said.

Jerry was grinning at me. Lisa didn't look too happy, though. But then, if Keith's father was my mate, she had no reason to be happy.

Mr. Chuffa smiled at me.

"Welcome to our home," he said. He hugged me, and his smell instantly got me hard.

"Let's get inside."

I smiled at Jerry, who walked up to me and kissed me.

"Inside!" Mr. Chuffa said.

They headed for the house closest to us. It was a large two-story brick house in what seemed to me like a nice neighborhood. Keith walked with me. Dave was behind me. I followed them into the house. Mr. Chuffa led us into a living room.

"I want the rest of you to wait in here. I want to speak to Jack privately," Mr. Chuffa said. He turned to his sons. "Jack has a lot to cope with right now. Don't push him. He is probably feeling overwhelmed."

I nodded my head.

He took my hand and we walked to a room that looked like a study. There were books and two computers. Mr. Chuffa closed the door.

"Have we met before?" I asked him.

He grinned. "We have indeed. Very briefly. I visited your father when you were twelve. I knew you were my mate, but that was not a good thing in your old pack. I left immediately."

"I don't know why I didn't recognize Keith, since you look the same," I said.

"You only just met me. You saw me all of fifteen seconds. I wanted to leave before you realized I was your mate and before your Alpha found out. You were just barely old enough to smell like a mate, so you probably didn't notice my scent."

I nodded.

"Undress for me, slowly," he said. I could see lust in his eyes and I felt the same about him.

"Can I see you naked?" I asked.

"As my mate, it is your right."

I smiled. We both undressed slowly. I loved the way he looked and he seemed happy with the way I looked. Mr. Chuffa looked like Keith, but a more powerful version. He was bigger in every direction. Even his cock was bigger. He evidently liked the way I looked. Precum was flowing out of his cock.

He took me in his arms and pressed his mouth to mine. I responded. I felt his tongue and opened my mouth. Mr. Chuffa was definitely my mate. And he not only looked like Keith, he smelled and tasted just like him, too. I reached down and took his wet erection in my hand. He pulled away from the kiss and put his hands on my shoulders. He pressed down on them. I figured he wanted me to kneel, so I knelt. I smiled as I remembered the father did just that in the story 'Suck Daddy'.

"Suck it, mate," he ordered me. Rather than resenting it, I shivered with desire. I leaned forward and sniffed his cock, from his crotch to the head. Precum was running down the shaft onto his hairy balls where it dripped to the floor. I put my hand behind his balls and pulled them forward. Then I smelled his hairy nuts. They were large and hung low. The combined smell of his balls and his precum was intoxicating. I began trembling. I could smell his ass, too. Then I sniffed his cock, again. The head smelled different than the shaft.

"You smell so good," I said. "Even your ass smells great."

Mr. Chuffa grinned at me. Then he turned around. I pulled his hairy cheeks apart and began eating his ass. His reaction surprised me. He went crazy. He cursed and begged me not to stop. He reached back and pulled my head to his ass. Not that I wanted to get away! I loved it, too. I came, and I had no idea where my cum landed. After several minutes, I was surprised when my tongue slipped inside him. He cursed and spun around. He grabbed my hair in one fist, pulled my head back roughly, and began stroking his cock with the other. His assertiveness made me come again. After only a couple of strokes, he began shooting on my face. Some of his spunk went up my nose. It was just like a scene in the story, 'Sucking Daddy', only the son in the story didn't love it nearly as much as I did. I came a third time from the feel of his cum hitting my face and the scent of it. I began moaning. As his orgasm ended, I begged, "More!"

"More spunk?"

"Yes!"

Mr. Chuffa stroked himself just once. Then he cried out, as his orgasm began, again. Powerful, hot spurts continued to cover me. Some of it landed in my hair. It dripped down on to my bare chest, cooling as it did.

When he finished shooting, he held my head in both his hands and rubbed his cock and balls against my face, smearing his jizz. I came again, from the smell of his semen, cock, and balls. He cleared the cum out of my eye sockets. I opened them and looked up at him. He was grinning.

"WOW!" I said to him.

"You sure didn't learn that from your Alpha!"

I smiled. "No. But I would have loved to do it with him."

"You look beautiful, mate," he said. "Remind me to thank Arthur."

Those 'secret lessons' Arthur gave me about sex were not so secret.

"Did my father know about those sex lessons?" I asked.

"Of course! He knew you had male mates."

I shook my head. Arthur must have also been told to show me the book about Vin-Ta sexual practices.

I took his cum-covered cock in my hand. I kissed it several times. That earned a contented sigh from my mate. I looked up at his grinning face. I kissed his cock, again. I began cleaning him with my mouth. While licking the head clean, Mr. Chuffa came again. I swallowed his cock and took his load in my mouth. My face had enough cum on it.

"You don't know how relieved I am that your old Alpha didn't convince you that sex is wrong," he said.

I held his cock in one hand, while I ran the fingers of my other hand over it. "I love this big thing," I said.

Mr. Chuffa sighed. I could tell from his scent that he was very happy. "Why is it so much bigger than Keith's, Mr. Chuffa?" I asked, as I began stroking it, while I tugged on his balls.

He laughed.

"When you are talking to your mate about his cock, I don't think you should use the word 'mister'." I laughed. "'Why is your cock so big, Mr. Chuffa?' It just doesn't sound right."

"So what should I call you?"

"How about 'Daddy'."

I nodded.

"Why is your cock so big, Daddy?" I said. He grinned.

"That sounds better."

"If a little bit obscene," I said, laughing.

"Why do you think I suggested it?" he asked. "Anyway, to answer your question. Maybe it's from a hundred years of sex."

He pulled me up and led me over to a sofa. He sat and pulled me onto his lap. I smiled at him. He wiped more of his cum out of one of my eye sockets. I leaned forward and sucked it off his finger.

"Damn! Sex with your mate is better!" he said.

I felt his body, just as I had Dave's. Daddy reacted the same way Dave had when I ran my fingers through his hair.

"Your lust smells delightful," he said.

"I love the way you smell, too."

"Is the cum on your face bothering you?" he asked.

"No. I love it."

"Here. Lift yourself up, facing me," he said. I did. He pointed his cock up and I slowly slid down onto it. Wayne sighed. "I've never felt anything like it. And I've been fucking both sexes for over a hundred years," he said. "It feels as though I have twice as many nerve endings in my cock, and your body is caressing each one of them."

I smiled at him.

"And someday in the not too distant future, a single one of my orgasms will give the two of us a baby." Wayne sighed, again. "You are so fertile, Jack," he said. "Do you know how much that alone excites me?"

I shook my head.

"When I first met Lisa, I had a sense of expectation every time I fucked her. Would this be the sex that gives us a child? I would wonder. Will this be the sex that is also a miracle? But it wasn't and it still wasn't and it never was. It was just sex. And while I loved her, fucking Lisa was no different than any other fuck I've had in my life. It was sex and we enjoyed it, but---"

"No miracle," I said.

Wayne nodded.

"And then there was a miracle: I found out you are my mate. And you can give me babies, with no microscopes and no petrie dishes and no lab. Just my semen and your beautiful body."

I leaned forward and kissed him. I ran my fingers through his hair while we kissed. I felt his cock twitch as he ejaculated inside me. I began moving on his cock as he came. He threw his head back. I leaned forward and sucked on his neck. How could I not want his baby? I wanted it more than Dave's or Keith's.

I opened my eyes. I was distracted by the sound of Lisa's laughter.

"Your wife didn't look happy to see me. I'm glad she feels like laughing."

He lifted his head back up.

"She's had almost seven years to get used to the idea. She'll adjust. She adjusted to the sex I had with my sons."

I nodded.

"You don't sound surprised. Did Keith tell you?"

"Yes. Last night."

"How do you feel about that?" he asked me.

"I was just jealous. I wasn't supposed to even jack off. It made me wish I was your son."

Daddy smiled.

"I've fantasized about my father fucking me. I saw him with an erection all the time."

I began moving on Daddy's cock, again. He sighed in pleasure.

"He is your mate. Of course you wanted your mate to fuck you. Your father kept having to douse you both with scent maskers so he wouldn't lust after you. But you still made him hard sometimes."

"He sure found it easy to resist me," I said.

"No. He didn't. But he already has a mate. Lisa is not my mate. Your father felt guilty about lusting after you. Not because you are both men, or because he is your father. It's because of your mother, who is also his mate. But she understands that it isn't something either of you chose. I don't know if she will ever understand enough to let your father fuck you. Probably not."

I nodded. I certainly didn't want Mom to be hurt. I had enough mates!

"I'm not going to leave Lisa, Jack. You will have to adjust to that."

"Oh. Actually, it never occurred to me that you would. I assumed I was joining the whole family."

"Good."

Part of me felt jealous that my mate would be having sex with someone else, but I had Keith and Jerry and Dave. And obviously I would be having sex with Daddy.

"You are bound to have questions. I want to answer them for you."

I had tons of questions. Which to ask first?

"Are Keith and Jerry clones of you?"

"Yes."

I nodded.

"I read somewhere that animal clones are the age of the original and die sooner," I said.

Mr. Chuffa nodded.

"Because their DNA is the age of the donor and has started to deteriorate. Yes. But we aren't sure that holds true in Vin-Ta. Our DNA is repaired each time we shift. But even if it is true for Vin-Ta, you should realize how few Vin-Ta survive to reach eight hundred years. According to the statistics I've seen, only about fifteen percent of Vin-Ta reach four hundred."

"I didn't know that!"

"The world is a violent place and an awful lot of accidents can occur in four hundred years. If my sons live to be seven hundred, it will be a miracle. Period."

I nodded.

"So my father really is my mate. How about Alpha George?"

"Yes."

"I can really have babies?"

"Yes, and I'm surprised you accepted the idea so quickly. I thought it would take a while for you to adjust."

"Arthur told me about hermaphrodites and intersex humans, and how common they are. Something like one percent of the population. He told me many of them don't know it."

"So he was getting you ready for the news."

I nodded.

"I guess because of that, it didn't bother me when I found out," I told him. "Actually, it seems creepier that I can look like other people. Being pregnant is kind of normal, compared to that." Daddy nodded. "Anyway, we think I'm already pregnant."

Daddy looked delighted.

"Is it Keith's?"

"We think I have two---Dave's and Keith's."

"That is wonderful!"

"Or maybe three, including yours."

A lot of emotions flitted across his face.

"Did you wish for a baby just now?"

I nodded.

"Did you mean it?"

I nodded.

"Hmm. I need to make a call. I need to find out if that is possible. And if it is, if it is dangerous."

Dangerous?

"Don't worry. I will not let anything happen to you," he said.

"Hand me the phone," he said.

There was one on a table next to the sofa. I reached over and took it. He took it from me.

He dialed a number and asked for someone. Daddy had a big smile on his face. I began moving up and down on his cock, again. His smile grew broader. I reached behind and under me for his balls. I held them while I fucked myself on his cock. He took my other hand and put it on one of his nipples.

"Pull on them," he said, with his hand over the receiver on the phone.

I did just that and felt Daddy's cock jump as he filled me with more of his spunk. I tugged on his balls with one hand and pulled on one of his nipples with the other. Daddy sighed.

"Doctor Adams?" Daddy said, on the phone. "This is Wayne Chuffa. My mate has wished for three babies. Mine, my son's, and one of his other mate's. Can he carry three safely?"

I waited nervously. I stopped fucking myself while I listened.

"He's eighteen," Daddy said on the phone.

Daddy nodded.

"No. He looks very healthy."

"Did you conceive on different days?" Daddy asked me.

"Yes. But Keith's was last night. I don't know if that makes it the same day as you, or not."

Daddy nodded.

"OK. I appreciate your help, Doctor. I'll talk to you soon."

Daddy hung up the phone.

"He said you should be fine. He had a patient who was fifteen who gave birth to three," Daddy said.

I began moving up and down on his cock, again.

"I'm relieved," I said.

"I can feel how relieved you are!" he said, grinning.

"Oh, fuck!" he said, as I felt his cock twitch from another orgasm. I couldn't feel his cum, but I knew he was ejaculating."

"So Dave is going to be a father," he said.

"And Keith. I didn't ask Keith if he wanted one. I suppose I should have."

"No. You did exactly the right thing, Jack!"

I nodded.

"If Keith isn't ready to raise a baby, he can learn from watching his mother and me taking care of his."

I nodded.

"Those babies won't have Vin-Ta mothers. Does that mean they won't be Vin-Ta?" I asked.

"They will have a Vin-Ta/Polymorph mother. You just aren't used to thinking of yourself as a mother. Your egg is getting fertilized by your mates' sperm."

I began moving on his cock, again.

Daddy reached out and stroked my cock. I came instantly. I looked at my cum nestled in the black fur on his chest. He shocked me by wiping some of it off him and sticking his fingers in his mouth.

"Damn, that's tasty!" he said. He pulled me up, but not off his cock. He swallowed half of my dick. His tongue flicked over the head and I came, again. I couldn't believe he'd done it!

"I can't believe a stud like you swallowed my spunk!"

He pulled off my cock.

"This stud is your mate. You probably still think of me as Keith's father."

"I guess I do."

"I'm your lover, Jack. We are going to make love all the time. I hope you realize that. We are going to have sex for hours, every single day."

I smiled at him.

"It felt weird when Keith asked to suck me," I said. "But it didn't bother me when you tasted it."

"That's because Keith asked. I'll talk to him. Not only are you the passive partner, but he is an Alpha. Your wolf wants Keith to command you. If he had aggressively sucked you without asking, I bet you would have loved it." I nodded my head. I sure wouldn't have stopped him. "I've got a lot to teach you---and my sons---about mates and wolves."

"And Dave. Don't forget Dave."

Daddy chuckled.

"How could I?"

"Will you tell them not to ask if they want sex? I would rather be told, or just taken."

"You bet! That would make your wolf happy, wouldn't it?"

I nodded.

Daddy sighed, happily and folded his arms behind his head.

"You are so sexy!" I said.

Daddy grinned. I began moving on his cock, again.

"I've been planning to form a pack, once my sons knew they were Vin-Ta. My sons and my wife were basically my pack. But we have new members, thanks to you. Not only you and Dave, but our three babies you're carrying. The doctor I was just talking to is based in a pack about three hours south of here. They have a lot of experience with male pregnancies. They have three men who've given birth. One of the men is the Alpha's mate. Another is a relative."

"Wow!" I said. The Alpha was gay? But then Daddy had a male mate and he was bisexual.

"I spoke to the Alpha about your medical care. At the time, I thought it would be a while before our first birth. I assumed you would have to slowly get used to the idea of being a mother. But he said it was fine for me to bring you to their pack doctor for checkups, and later, the delivery. I bought some land a couple of years ago very close to that pack. We are going to move there. We will go down there to check it out, as soon as more security men arrive."

"OK. That sounds great to me! It will be good to get back to nature. Is it going to remain a family pack?"

"I've been thinking about that and I'm still not sure. Having more people would probably mean you would be safer, but it will also be stressful. We will definitely need more bodyguards for you. Should we invite them to join the pack or will they just be employees? I'm not sure."

"Maybe it will depend on whether they seem like family," I said. Then I realized Daddy didn't need my opinion. What did I know? But he surprised me.

Daddy nodded his head. "That is a very good point."

"Your wife will be the Alpha Mate, won't she?"

Daddy sighed.

"She can't. She isn't my mate."

"Oh."

I began moving on Daddy's cock, again. He threw his head back as I gave him another orgasm. I stopped moving while he shot more cum inside me, I leaned forward and licked his neck and shoulder. Daddy tasted wonderful. Once he finished, I began moving on his cock, again. Daddy grinned at me.

"Why didn't you tell Keith and Jerry they were Vin-Ta? You obviously mean to, but why did you wait?"

"Why do you think?"

I told him about Dave's idea that they were all Alphas because they were clones of an Alpha and a house full of Alphas would be bad.

"That's one of the reasons. Teenage Alphas can be very aggressive. That's what motivates us to form our own packs. But it was also about having pups. You see, Lisa didn't find out she was Vin-Ta until she was forty. I knew she was Vin-Ta, but she didn't know it when I proposed to her. She was twenty. We both wanted kids and I thought there was a better chance if she had never shifted." I nodded. That wasn't at all surprising. "By the time she turned forty, she still hadn't conceived. She was visibly older and I knew she needed to shift. I told her how and she did. Around this time, I met your father at a Vin-Ta gathering. I'd heard he was studying various ways to improve Vin-Ta fertility."

"I guess he didn't succeed," I said. My parents had adopted me.

"Well, he did and he didn't. Your father made a major discovery. Polymorphs not only got pregnant easily, but they were also easy to clone."

I stared at Daddy in shock.

"You look surprised. Your father is a brilliant man."

"He told me he worked in a lab for a while, but nothing about what he did. He was cloning people?"

"He learned that if you put certain Polymorph DNA in a Vin-Ta egg, about one in three of the eggs begin spontaneously dividing. And by that I mean they are ready to be implanted in a Vin-Ta female."

"But it's a Polymorph like me?"

Daddy nodded.

"Except that it's not like you, it is you, Jack."

I frowned. I wasn't sure what that meant.

"Who carried me? The Vin-Ta female?" I asked.

"Your mother."

"They told me I was adopted!"

"Try explaining what I just told you to a six-year old," Daddy said.

"Oh." I nodded. It was complicated. "I wonder if Alpha George knows," I said.

"No. And that is probably why it was kept secret. Your mother left the pack temporarily when she was pregnant. When she returned, she brought you and said you were adopted. You are no longer in that pack so it is safe for you to know the truth. Plus, you are old enough to understand. But you can't talk about it to anyone but me and your parents. Your parents still live in Alpha George's pack."

It was hard to believe. I didn't doubt Daddy, but it was going to take a while for me to get used to the idea.

"There were two clones in our dorm room!"

Daddy smiled. "Yes, there were."

"Do I have any, uh, siblings?" I asked.

"Yes."

"Where are they?" I asked, suddenly excited (and scared).

"One lives in the Techupawa pack."

"So I'll meet him?"

"Yes. I don't know what he knows about his origins."

"But wait. Keith and Jerry are your clones. Are you a Polymorph?"

"No. I'm Vin-Ta and I wanted Vin-Ta kids. Your father tried the same thing with my DNA, but it didn't work. But your father referred me a man who was working on human cloning. He wasn't working in this country. Human cloning is illegal here. Vin-Ta aren't nearly as easy to clone as Polymorphs, but we are easier to clone than humans. We put my DNA in Lisa's eggs. After many attempts, he was able to get successful. We implanted the egg in her. That was Keith. After Keith was born, using the same technique, we got another viable egg. That became Jerry."

"But what did all that have to do with not telling your sons they were Vin-Ta?"

"Lisa and I didn't want a family of clones. We wanted to see if the boys could impregnate females before their first shift. Just like I tried with Lisa, but with males and females who hadn't shifted. I really didn't think it would work. I had shifted and they had my DNA. But it was something she really wanted. She also thought our boys would happier as kids if they thought they were human. She's was probably right. There are no Vin-Ta around here. The boys probably would have been lonely."

So it really did boil down to having pups. I wasn't surprised. Every Vin-Ta I knew wanted pups.

"Shouldn't I be older than Keith?" I asked. Keith was a year older than me.

"Your older brother was born before Keith. You are the second clone."

"Oh!"

"Everything changed when I visited your father six years ago. As soon as I entered your pack, I smelled my mate. When I went into your house, I knew it was someone in your family. It wasn't your father or mother, so it had to be you. You are my mate and also my sons' mate. I was delighted. As I said, I didn't think our sons would be able to impregnate females. I hadn't. But you could give all of us pups! I began encouraging my boys to have gay sex, because I knew their mate is a man. I knew the four of us would be having sex constantly, so I got them accustomed to having sex with me and with each other. I didn't want them to go through the stress of finding themselves suddenly gay when they met you."

"Did Lisa object?"

"Yes, at first. But I am bisexual, with no preference for one sex over the other. My first lover was a human boy my age. That was in 1910. By the time I told her about all the males I'd fucked, she no longer objected. She knows the boys take after me in nearly everything."

"But even though Lisa didn't object to my teaching them about gay sex, she was never really convinced Keith's mate is a man. She knows nothing about mates. She has never met her mate and she knows no one who has. She barely believed that you were my mate. Over my objections, she approved of Keith's dating Amber. Lisa still thinks like a human. I don't think it has really sunk into my wife's head that she isn't human and neither are our sons. I think she focused on the fact that Amber could give her a grandchild, and not on the fact that Amber and their baby, if they had one, would die in a few decades. I told her Keith would leave Amber when he met you. She told me Keith was not gay, so he might not. Being straight or gay doesn't mean anything when your mate is involved. Lisa just didn't understand. Dating Amber was a bigger mistake than I thought. Your father and I thought that if you and Keith shared a room, he would drop Amber. You were supposed to break Keith and Amber up. I really don't understand Keith's behavior. I expected him to behave like Jerry. Jerry hasn't stopped talking about you since he met you. He fell in love with you almost instantly. I seriously considered giving him photos from the security cameras in your room." I closed my eyes and cringed. Who hadn't watched me jack off? The Jays had talked about filming a reality show as a joke. But it had actually been happening in my room! It seemed only Keith and I had never watched the 'Keith, Dave, and Jack Show'. I made a mental list of people. There was Dave, the security men monitoring our room, probably Belle, and Daddy. Those were just the ones I knew about. Had my father watched? Had they all watched me on my knees telling Dave how beautiful I thought his cock was? Had they watched him fuck me with a turkey baster? How would I face them?

"If you are embarrassed, you shouldn't be," Daddy said. "Wouldn't you have watched video of Keith jacking off, if you could?"

"Maybe. But I wouldn't have shown it to anybody." I sighed. "But you are my mate and my Alpha. I trust you did what you needed to do." And it was too late to do anything about it, but I kept that to myself.

"I waited this long because I couldn't take you away from your pack as my mate. Going off to college was the perfect excuse to get you out of the pack. I planned to wait for Jerry to graduate from high school before telling my boys about Vin-Ta, mates, and you. Once Jerry knew you were his mate, I knew he wouldn't finish school. As I said, Jerry has been madly in love after only meeting you once, and that was before he knew you are his mate. Keith must have felt the same way about you, but Keith suppressed it completely, with the mistaken notion that he should be straight. Jerry would have fucked you the first night." I remembered Jerry rubbing his erection on me when I met him. I was sure he would have fucked me. And I wouldn't have said no.

"Would you have bred me if we had been in a different pack?"

"You mean when I met you?"

I nodded.

"Probably not, because of your age. I don't think your mother would allow it. Or my wife."

"I read that female Vin-Ta are often bred at menarche."

Daddy smiled. "Are you saying you wish I had bred you then?"

"I definitely would have had more fun!"

Daddy smiled.

"Keith told me yesterday that he wanted to be straight or bisexual, like you. I think that is why he didn't want to be gay."

Daddy frowned.

"Well, he wasn't being bisexual or he would have fucked you and Amber. But that is interesting. I didn't know he felt that way. Hmm. I guess I need to unstraighten him out," Daddy said, grinning.

"I think it's done."

Daddy nodded.

"Why do I have so many mates?" I asked him.

"We don't know. We don't understand the Polymorph mating bond. It may be normal for you. Your brother has several mates. Or it may be that it is because you can give those males babies. I told you that your fertility makes me hard. The moment I met you and realized you can finally give me a child, I wanted to take you somewhere private and fuck you continuously until you are pregnant."

I found myself grunting, and without thinking, I began feeling Daddy's muscles and hairy body while I fucked myself on his cock.

"Damn! Your lust just exploded. You love the idea, don't you?" Daddy asked. "And that's why you wished for my baby."

Daddy pulled my mouth to his and kissed me. His tongue took over my mouth and our tongues danced together. During the kiss, I felt his cock jump inside me as he pumped more semen into me.

Suddenly, I heard a noise and pulled away, startled.

"I thought you were going to shift!" Daddy said.

"Why?"

"You used to shift as a baby when you were frightened."

I shrugged. I certainly couldn't explain why I acted the way I had when I was an infant.

"I want to give you lots of babies, Daddy."

Daddy grinned and sighed. He had the look of total satisfaction that I had previously only seen on Dave's face.

"You are my Alpha Mate," he said. I felt proud. "Your body belongs to me. I share it with your other mates, but you are mine. Do you understand?" I nodded. "And I do not want you deciding to give other males babies. I will decide who breeds you, and whose child you carry," he said. The final line was an Alpha command. I had no choice but to obey. I suddenly regretted getting pregnant without asking my Alpha. Why had I done it? Why didn't I ask? It didn't occur to me at the time that I hadn't even met Daddy when I became pregnant with Dave's, then Keith's babies. All I could think of was how I had displeased my Alpha. Daddy must have recognized my feelings. "That does not mean I am displeased with what you have done. I am very pleased with you, mate." I was happy.

"Now. Do you have any worries or concerns about living here?"

"Just one. Will your wife resent me?"

"She might have. But when she learns you are pregnant with her grandchildren, I think she will be very glad you are here. Like me, she aches for children."

"Should I avoid being affectionate with you around her?" I asked.

"Hmm. We'll see how she reacts to your presence."

I nodded.

"Will your sons fight you for control of your pack?"

"If they do, they will be kicked out of the pack and lose their mate. I don't think either one of them would risk it."

"How is Dave related to you?"

"Your father and I are related, but not closely. Dave is more closely related to your father than to me."

"Now it's time for my questions," Daddy said. "How did you feel about Keith before he shifted?"

"I was in love with him."

"Did you resent him for dating Amber?"

"It didn't make me happy, but I assumed he was straight. Part of me kept telling myself that he was human and it was a bad idea to get involved with him. And I figured Amber was irresistible. But I don't think I would have fallen in love with Dave if Keith hadn't been with Amber."

"Yes, you would. Dave is your mate!"

I laughed.

"I forgot about that. I've been pretending to be human for too long."

"Yes. For eleven whole weeks," Daddy said, drily.

I laughed. "It seems like longer."

"Did you suspect either one of them was your mate?"

"No. I thought they both smelled really good, but I thought they smelled human. I was confused by their behavior. If I'd known they were Vin-Ta, I would have been a lot less puzzled."

"Did you talk about sex?"

"Keith and me? No. I only talked about sex with Dave."

"Did Dave fuck you before Keith did?"

"Um. Wasn't all this on the security videos?"

"There was a lot of footage. It would take me twenty-four hours to watch what you did over twenty-four hours. And there is eleven weeks of footage."

"Oh, yeah. I didn't think of that."

"Besides, I want to hear it from you. What you thought about the things that happened aren't on the videos. And I am far more interested in your thoughts."

"Do you want to know about my feelings or about sex?"

"Both, of course."

"Dave never fucked me, with his cock, anyway, but he let me uh, drink his cum and he fucked me with a turkey baster."

Daddy burst out laughing. "There were a couple of dim bulbs around you in that dorm. Why did he even have a turkey baster in his room?"

"He bought it."

Daddy shook his head.

"Dave was afraid he would get fired if my father found out he was my mate."

"He might have gotten fired, but then he could have approached you after the masking scent was gone. As his mate, you would have insisted he remain with you."

"He wanted to live in that room, a few feet away from me."

Daddy nodded.

"I do understand that," Daddy said. "He needed to make sure his mate was safe. And short of moving into the same room with you, that was the best location.

"Back to the turkey baster," Daddy said.

"Dave asked me if I would want his baby, if it was possible. I said `yes' and I meant it. Then he squirted his cum inside me. I thought it was wonderfully kinky. I just wished I had shot video of it." I closed my eyes and cringed. There was video of it, and people, probably lots of people, had watched. I sighed. "And Dave let me make videos of him jacking off."

"I like Dave!"

"Me, too!" I said.

"Right before he brought out the turkey baster, I asked Dave if he would let me taste his cum. He ejaculated into a styrofoam cup in front of me and handed it to me. I told him it tasted terrific and he looked very, very pleased. Then he fucked me with the turkey baster, with his cum for lube. After a few minutes of that, he pumped his spunk inside me. When Keith fucked me for the first time yesterday evening, I wished for his baby, too."

Daddy was pleased. I wasn't sure if it was because of the pregnancy or the sex.

"If you want me to come in a cup, I would be delighted. Although I might prefer to come in a coffee mug. It's greener," Daddy said, grinning. I laughed. Then I looked at his handsome face and his hot body."

"You really are hot!" I said. He grinned.

"I'm glad you like some kinky things, mate," he said. "You are my mate and it is my job to give you what you want. Likewise, it is your job to give me what I want. Whatever you need from my body, take it. If you want me to piss on you, I will. If you want me to fuck you with a dildo, I will. If you want me to slap your face with my cock, I will. I used to know a woman whose face was always bruised. She liked her mate to slap her with his very large cock. She left the bruises on her face until the next time she shifted. It was a sort of Vin-TA masochism. She was proud of the bruises. If you want two of us to fuck you at the same time, we will. I will enjoy all of it. But if you only want me to tenderly make love to you, I will do just that. Don't feel you have to be kinky for my sake, but feel free to be as kinky as you want."

I smiled at him.

"I love you, Daddy!"

"You are a sweet boy. I want you to continue being sexually adventurous, Little Wolf." I smiled. Little Wolf was what Keith called me. Were Keith's and Daddy's---and Jerry's---wolves identical?

"Should I get your permission before having sex with my other mates?"

"No! You'd be asking constantly. When I said I would decide who breeds you, I was not talking about your mates. I was speaking of non-mates. But you should not ever wish for another baby without my permission."

"OK. Got it."

"Tell me about why you shifted at the dorm."

I froze. I didn't want Keith to get in trouble. I wondered if I should tell the truth. But Daddy was my mate and I didn't want to start lying to him. I told Daddy all about what had happened the day before—the gloryhole and realizing Keith was Vin-Ta and my mate. And I told him how I felt.

"Dave said you even smelled like Keith," Daddy said.

"Did I? I'm sorry about messing up your plans."

"Don't be. You are my mate and I wanted you, badly. I am completely and thoroughly delighted to have you with me. Your shifting so far has been unintentional. Both as a baby and yesterday. You need to master it. We'll work on that." I nodded. I was glad he didn't seem angry at Keith about the gloryhole.

"Would you like to do that again with Dave, while the rest of us watch? I especially want Keith to see. I think we need to broaden his mind. Amber seems to have narrowed it."

"I would be embarrassed. I would hate for the first thing I did in front of Jerry was---that. Maybe after I get to know all of you."

"That's fine."

"I want lots of facials." Daddy grinned. "I had been wanting one and you gave it to me. But I would love to have all of you shoot on my face at the same time." I could tell Daddy was pleased. "But first, Dave hasn't fucked me, yet, and I've wanted that since the moment I saw him. I don't know how Keith will react. Keith is very jealous of Dave and vice versa."

"It's time I started acting like an Alpha, if I'm going to start a pack. I will deal with that. I want you to just ignore jealousy between your mates, if you can. No. I think you should tell me, rather than ignoring it. But I will deal with it. Not you."

"OK."

I missed Dave. I wondered what he was doing.

A second later, Dave walked into the room. Was he psychic? Or could he smell when I thought of him.

"You made our mate happy."

Dave smiled. "He makes me happy."

"Jack here says you have never fucked him. You need to fix that."

Dave started pulling his clothes off. He was erect.

"Isn't Dave's cock beautiful?" I said, aloud.

Daddy chuckled and Dave seemed amused.

"I didn't mean to say that out loud," I said.

"Why shouldn't you?" Daddy said. "It's only natural for you to think that of your mate. I could see you loved mine even before you began kissing it."

I'm sure I blushed. Daddy chuckled.

"Dave, we have an adorable mate."

"We sure do. But he looks different. Prettier."

I laughed. I had Daddy's cum all over my face.

"Jack wants lots of facials," Daddy said.

Dave grinned. "I'll give him plenty!"

"I gave him one. You may have noticed." Dave laughed. "Our mate looks especially fetching with spunk dripping down his face."

I laughed. 'Fetching' was the kind of word the old folks at the pack used.

"Jack told me about the styrofoam cup. I got a real kick out of it."

"Dave, Daddy is forming a new pack," I said.

Dave frowned.

"I didn't realize your father is an Alpha," Dave said to me.

"I told Jack to call me Daddy," Daddy said to Dave.

Dave looked like he was trying to stifle laughter.

"Oh. I hope I'm welcome in your pack."

"Of course! Your mate will be in the pack. I wouldn't dare deprive my mate of your beautiful cock," Daddy said. "Besides, he's in love with you."

"And I love him."

A spurt of precum dripped out of Dave's cock.

"Sit down next to me, Jack," Daddy said.

I did. He pulled my legs up, exposing my ass to Dave. To my surprise, and to Dave's, Daddy took Dave's cock in his hand and pulled it down. Dave knelt. Daddy rubbed the head of Dave's cock against my hole, lubricating it.

I looked at Dave.

"That's hot!" I said.

"Now you won't enjoy this as much as a turkey baster," Daddy said to me. Dave and I burst out laughing. "But I'm sure Lisa doesn't want ours inside your ass. Not with Thanksgiving coming up."

We laughed some more.

Dave pushed inside me and I groaned.

"Don't wish for any more babies," Daddy said. "Three is more than enough for your first pregnancy."

"Three?" Dave asked.

"I wished for one when Daddy bred me," I said.

Dave nodded.

"It was Jack's idea," Daddy said. "I checked with a Vin-Ta doctor. He didn't think it would cause any problems."

"Could I have a few minutes alone with Jack?" Dave asked.

"We aren't going to make a habit of this," Daddy said, as he left the room. He didn't put any clothes on.

Dave pulled out of me and pulled me up on my feet. He walked over to a desk and picked up a box of facial tissues. He wiped the cum off my face while I smiled at him.

"I didn't want to kiss you through that," he said.

And kiss me, he did. The kiss lasted several minutes.

"I love you, Jack. I've loved you since I met you."

I smiled at him.

"I think I started loving you when you sent me that first picture of your dick."

Dave smiled. Then his face got serious.

"Would you have gotten pregnant with my baby if you had known you had the ability?"

"Yes. Definitely. If I wasn't already pregnant, I would be trying to get pregnant from you right now. I love you."

Dave kissed me, again.

"Do you know why Wayne wants you to call him Daddy?" he asked, after the kiss.

"No."

"I think it is because of the story 'Sucking Daddy'."

I groaned.

Wayne said it was a hot story and he was glad you read it so many times."

I cringed.

"So he knows about it. Who else?"

"Do you really want to know?"

I groaned again.

"Everybody knows everything about me! And I know practically nothing about any of them! Does my father know about the story?"

"I wouldn't be surprised," Dave said.

I groaned for the third time.

Dave laughed.

"It's not funny! A goldfish has more privacy than me! They usually have a little rock they can hide behind!"

Dave looked like he was trying not to laugh. But he gave up and laughed until I thought he was going to be sick!

"Do they know everything I did? Everything we did?" I asked.

"Wayne was only interested in the sex. He wanted reports of anything you did sexually. We called them 'Sin Reports'." I closed my eyes. "He didn't care about what else you did. He was afraid your Alpha had warped your mind and made you hate sex. As you can imagine, a man like Wayne would not be happy with a mate who didn't like sex. The Sin Reports made him very happy. He wanted you to 'sin'. The other people were not interested in your sex life. Whenever you are doing twenty-four-hour video surveillance, you are bound to catch people having sex or jacking off. It can be a distraction, so you must ignore it. I admit I was an exception. I created the Sin Reports and I was very interested in what you did. After all, you are my mate." I smiled. I didn't mind Dave reading or watching. And I could understand Daddy's concern. He loved sex and he wanted a mate who loved sex. And Alpha George had told me many times that even lust was sinful. You didn't even have to have any sex to commit sexual sins. "I have to admit it was awkward telling him some things, when they involved me. But Wayne was especially worried about your reaction to incest. Every time you read an incest story you made him happy. He especially loved 'Sucking Daddy.'"

"So even though you asked, you knew I was jacking off to your pictures," I said.

Dave grinned and nodded. "I wanted to hear you admit it. And you did! You made me happy, as well as horny.

"There is something I should tell you. Things were chaotic back in the dorm. I was getting conflicting orders about what to do with you. Wayne wanted us to have sex. He really wanted to know whether you could have sex and not become paralyzed with guilt. Your father sort of wavered on the subject and my employer was emphatically opposed to any relationship with you. So sometimes I avoided you. But it was because of all the things going on behind the scenes. I knew you were my mate and I wanted you desperately."

I nodded. Things that seemed so odd when they happened, suddenly were making sense.

I held Dave's erection in the palm of one hand. That beautiful piece of flesh was mine.

I slowly looked up Dave's torso, taking in every feature. Dave was such a hot man. It seemed strange to me that a straight man like him was my mate. Dave told Keith, 'You don't choose your mate'. Sadly, Dave would never have chosen me. But Dave was smiling while he sniffed my lust. He sure looked happy. I decided not to worry about it. After all, I was able to give him a child. A Vin-Ta female probably wouldn't. Plus, I was his mate. He could have a lot more sex with me than he could with a woman. I could give him twenty orgasms a day, if I worked at it. And I planned to work hard for all my mates.

"Now. I think it is time to breed you, mate," he said.

I smiled. "That reminds me. Wayne said you can't use Lisa's turkey baster." Dave laughed. "I hope you brought yours."

"Oh no! I washed it and threw it away," Dave said. I laughed. "I washed it in case some homeless person pulled it out of the trash. I didn't want them to get my spunk all over their turkey."

I laughed for a long time. Dave looked pleased with himself.

"I'm going to lift you up. Wrap your arms around my neck and your legs around my waist."

I smiled. "OK."

We did it. Dave reached around me and lifted his cock up. I got the idea. When it was touching my hole, I slid down onto it. Dave sighed.

"I never thought I would be able to do this," I said.

"I should have told you we would do it someday. I knew you were my mate and I knew I would fuck you."

Dave began bouncing me. His cock hit something and I came. My jizz landed on both of us. He continued bouncing me. I leaned forward and kissed him. After no more than a couple of minutes, he stopped. I felt his cock pulse inside me. I imagined his cum hitting the sides of my colon and making the same sound it had when he filled the Styrofoam cup.

The door opened. We looked over as Daddy walked in. He grinned when he saw us.

"Dave, don't take all day. Jerry is about to lose his mind," Daddy said. "He's never even kissed his mate. You can breed him again, later. Oh, yeah. And don't shoot your spunk on my brand new little baby. Aim at yours."

I opened my mouth in shock.

"How am I supposed to do that?" Dave asked.

"I'm joking, Dave!"

"Are they in my ass?" I asked Daddy, a little alarmed.

"Yup. So during sex, we'll actually be giving them their bath," Daddy said. "Well, technically it would be a shower."

Dave laughed.

"Yuck!" I said. Dave and Daddy laughed.

"I hate to tell you, but I already came," Dave said to Daddy. "And from the feel of it, all three babies have been bathed."

Daddy laughed.

"Stop it! Stop it!" I said.

"I'm sure they are in some kind of cover. If not a placenta, then something else," Daddy said.

Daddy lifted me off Dave.

"Jerry?" Daddy called.

Jerry walked into the room naked and hard. His cock swung back and forth as he walked. He pulled me into his arms and kissed me. Before I knew it, his tongue was in my mouth, he began rubbing his erection on me, and he pushed two fingers into my ass. I was stunned for a second but then I responded. I wrapped my arms around him and felt his back and butt. Eventually, he pulled away.

"It's good to see you, again," he said. I laughed.

He started to pull his fingers out of me. I reached back and held his hand still. He left his fingers inside me.

"You are friendlier, this time," I said, grinning.

"I wanted to fuck you the minute I saw you!" Jerry said.

"So, have you and Keith been having hot sex since then?" he asked.

I looked at Daddy.

"No. Your brother has been dating Amber," Daddy said.

"They broke up yesterday," I said.

Jerry shook his head.

"I wish I had been with you," Jerry said.

I smiled.

"Tell me about yourself. I don't know anything about you," I said.

"Hasn't Keith told you anything?"

He hadn't. Not much, anyway, and I didn't realize it until just then. It wasn't like he kept Jerry a secret, but Keith mostly told stories of things he and Jerry did as kids. I supposed Keith was just as jealous of Jerry as he was of Dave. He knew Jerry was interested in me, so it made sense.

"Do you have a boyfriend?" I asked him.

"Dad? Do you count as a boyfriend?" Jerry asked his father. I thought he was joking. Daddy shrugged. "Dad and I have been having sex a couple of times a day since Keith left. There hasn't been time for anyone else."

I nodded. I was jealous again. But I had four mates. I had lots and lots---and lots---of sex in my future.

I looked over at Daddy and Dave. They were slowly stroking themselves. What was Keith doing? I thought about inviting him in, but I didn't know if I should.

"Will you let me fuck you?" Jerry asked. "I've never fucked anyone."

"Sure! I'm glad I'm your first."

I turned around and took Jerry's cock in my hand. I moved back and placed the head at my hole. Then Jerry pushed inside me. We both groaned.

"I've never felt anything like it!" Jerry said.

"Dad, is it always this good?" Jerry asked.

"Only with your mate, son."

"Let's give them some privacy," Daddy said. He and Dave left the room.

I began fucking myself on my youngest mate's cock. Jerry took over and began fucking me while he held my hips. He groaned after just a minute. I felt his dick pulse as he shot his spunk inside me. He stopped.

"Keep fucking." I said. "You can come over and over with your mate."

Jerry did just that. He reached around me and stroked me, which gave me an orgasm. I groaned and Jerry's cock began jumping again. I turned my head back and pulled Jerry's mouth to mine. We kissed while he ejaculated and we kept kissing when he began fucking me, again. I closed my eyes. It was exactly like making love to Keith. He smelled the same, he tasted the same, and his cock and tongue felt the same inside me. But I did not want Jerry's baby, and I hoped my body was paying attention. Jerry was still in high school. Then I wondered. Was he? I needed to ask. Then I lost myself as we mated. I knew we both came a lot. That was obvious later, because the floor was covered with my cum. But during it, all I knew was my mate was breeding me, just as he should.

"OK!" Daddy said, as he walked back into the room with Keith and Dave. Jerry started to pull out of me, but I reached back and kept him right where he was. He pushed all the way inside me, again. He chuckled in my ear.

"I love you, too."

Jerry kissed me, again. Then I heard Daddy clearing his throat.

"Now! Rules!" Daddy said. "Each of you has had a chance to breed Jack in private. But from now on, that is going to be the exception, not the norm."

"Dad, I only had one chance. Keith and Dave have been fucking him in private for months!" Jerry said.

"You'd think that, wouldn't you? But they aren't particularly smart. Keith had sex with and bred Jack for the first time yesterday. Dave's first time was today."

"What were you doing?" Jerry asked his brother. "You've had him for yourself for months. Except when Jack was dating Hank."

"Hank?" I said. "Who is Hank?"

"Keith?" Jerry said.

Keith sighed. "I told Jerry you were dating a guy named Hank. Hank was basically Dave. He lived in the next room in the dorm."

"And I never dated him," I added.

I shook my head. I was irritated, but part of Keith somehow knew I was his mate. Because of that, he was insanely jealous of Dave. Was it a surprise that he acted the same way with his brother?

"Come here, Jack," Daddy said. I pulled off Jerry and walked over to Daddy. He turned me around, so my back was to him. He wrapped one arm around my chest and pulled me close. Then he began stroking my cock. I groaned and came. Jerry caught some of my cum in his hand and tasted it.

"Damn! That's good!"

I grinned at him.

"Let's get back to what I was saying," Daddy said, as he continued to stroke me. "Jack has four mates and mates are possessive. To avoid fights, I want to see three-ways and four-ways. Keith, that means I don't want you taking Jack to your room and locking the door. If you want to have sex with him, get at least one of his other mates, first. The punishment for not sharing Jack is two days without sex. I know none of you would like that. This rule doesn't apply to me. I may occasionally make love to him in private. But that will be rare. Do you all understand?" They didn't look happy, but they all nodded.

"Any questions?" Daddy asked.

"Is Jerry going to continue attending high school?" Keith asked. Jerry seemed to get a little mad. I understood that. He wanted to be close to me.

"I've been thinking about having Jack help him pass his GED. Jerry won't be able to concentrate without his mate."

"Will you do it, Jack?" Jerry asked.

"I don't know what's involved, but Daddy is the boss," I said. "I'll research what is involved. As soon as I figure it out, we'll get started." I smiled at Jerry.

"I'm going to fuck my teacher," Jerry whispered in my ear.

"I'm going to suck my student," I whispered back. Jerry chuckled.

"Your father wants you to teach Jerry, too?" Keith asked me.

"I asked Jack to call me Daddy," Daddy said. "He means me."

"I call my father Dad," I said.

Daddy called Lisa into the room after letting go of me and telling me to sit on the sofa. He first explained to his sons about pack Vin-Ta and what packs are. Then he told us his plans for starting a pack. There was a house on the property. It only had two bedrooms, but we could live in it until a large mobile home could be brought in. He wanted to build a large home and several smaller ones on the site, but he wanted to move right away. We would live in the mobile home until the large home was built.

We were all naked, except for Lisa. That wouldn't have been bad, I was used to being naked in front of others at my old pack. But we were all hard, and I was used to hiding my erection from people. I tried to fold my arms over it, which was awkward, as well as ineffective.

"Jack, if the, we'll call it informality, in our home bothers you, don't be afraid to mention it," Lisa said to me. "If you would be more comfortable in clothes, say so. You can adjust gradually."

"OK. Thanks."

"Please don't put on clothes," Dave whispered to me.

Dave was sitting on one side of me and Keith on the other. I could smell the precum running down their dicks. Dave wiped some on his finger and held it under my nose. Then Keith did the same. Jerry was openly jacking off while he looked at me. That was really strange, watching him jack off in front of his parents. But it was also very hot. His balls were resting on his chair, but they bounced as he stroked his cock. I wanted to taste them. I wanted to taste his ass. I couldn't help watching him. I wanted to suck him and I wanted him to fuck me. I was about ready to pull my legs up and ask Jerry to fuck me, when Daddy cleared his throat.

"You see, Jerry? You had nothing to worry about," Daddy said. "Jack is about to lunge at you and eat you up."

I burst out laughing. "Oops."

"It is fine with me, Jack!" Jerry said. "Dad, I think Jack needs my cock. Can I give it to him?"

"Yes. Just as soon as we finish this meeting."

Jerry looked disappointed.

"If the goal is safety, wouldn't an urban location that isn't in the middle of nowhere be easier to secure? What about Houston?" Lisa asked. "It isn't too far from our land and the doctor at Techupawa."

"The pack will be needed after the babies are born.

"That will be a while, though," she said.

"We believe Jack is already pregnant with three of our babies," Daddy said.

Lisa looked shocked. "That's impossible!"

"No, dear. It isn't. Vin-Ta Polymorphs like Jack are basically the opposite of Vin-Ta, as far as fertility goes. They get pregnant when they have sex. Jack is probably carrying three. Keith's, Dave's, and mine. We don't want him to be unable to leave the house when he becomes obviously pregnant. Houston is closer to the pack than Dallas, but it is still over an hour away. What if there is an emergency? None of us know what medical issues we will face. Once the babies are born, we can't be around humans."

"Why not?"

"It's easy to think of Jack as just another Vin-Ta. But he isn't. Jack turned into a stuffed teddy bear when he was a year old." That was news to me! My parents certainly never mentioned it. Then I realized they wanted everyone, including me to think I was a normal Vin-Ta. That way, no one would try to kidnap me. "We can't risk our grandbabies doing that around humans. Jack, only Dave has seen you shift into a different person. Will you give a little demonstration for the rest of us? Try to change your face. Deliberately. I know you've never tried, but it should actually be easier when you try."

I frowned. "I'll try." I looked at Daddy and then at Lisa. Then I closed my eyes and imagined what I would look like if Lisa and Daddy were my parents. I pictured my face like Daddy's, but with Lisa's eyes and mouth. I wasn't sure if I needed to 'wish' for it, as I did to get pregnant, but I did it anyway. I felt something happen, and after a few seconds, I opened my eyes. Everyone was staring at me.

"Oh!" Lisa said.

"Did I do it?"

"Oh, yeah," Dave said.

"Even your hair color changed!" Jerry said.

I turned to Keith. He grinned at me.

I suddenly noticed there was more lust in the air. The room was full of it, but it had definitely increased.

Jerry, Keith, and Dave were smiling. It wasn't them.

I heard a sob. I looked at Lisa, again. She seemed to be on the verge of tears.

"I'm sorry," I said to her. "I didn't mean to upset you."

"Don't be. You are the son we were never able to have," she said.

I looked at Daddy, again. The lust was from him. His eyes were half-closed while he looked at me. His cock was drooling so much precum, there was a small puddle of it on the floor.

"I think Dad likes the way you look," Keith whispered. That was an understatement.

"You are such a pervert!" Lisa said to her husband. I wondered how Daddy would take that comment. Would he be furious? But he laughed.

"Why change now?" Daddy asked.

I looked at Lisa. She was shaking her head, but just seemed amused. Then I remembered she was fully accustomed to Daddy's sex with his sons.

"Do you want a picture of me like this?" I asked Daddy. "The picture will help if you ever want me to look like this, again."

"Yes."

He walked over to the long desk in the room. He picked up a phone and walked over to me.

The smell of Daddy's lust was driving me a little crazy. While he stood in front of me taking picture, I reached for his wet cock. I pulled closer him to me and rubbed my face on his erection.

"Soon, mate," Daddy said to me. "But not now." I let go of his cock, unhappily. He sat back down.

"Jack could do more than this when he was born. We can't risk someone seeing one of the babies shift," Daddy said.

"I just had no idea things would move so quickly," Lisa said. She shook her head.

"I know. We planned to wait until Jerry graduated and both boys could shift. But that was before we learned that Jack might be in danger, and before we learned he's pregnant."

"Do we know for certain that he is?"

"No. But Doctor Adams says they have a Vin-Ta at Techupawa who can tell by smell whether he is pregnant. But Polymorphs get pregnant when they have sex. And Jack is positively a Polymorph. We can see that just by looking at him."

Lisa nodded.

"Do you know why Polymorphs can get pregnant so easily when Vin-Ta can't?" I asked Daddy.

"We aren't certain. Your father has the theory that Polymorphs easily lose their babies when shifting. Your parents saw you shift into inanimate objects when you were scared or startled, like the teddy bear. You also shifted into a blanket. And it may not be something you can control---you didn't as a baby. What if you got scared while you were pregnant? Could what you shifted into support a baby? Shifting into wolves and different people doesn't seem to harm the baby, but you are capable of much stranger shapes, like the blanket."

I nodded my head. A teddy bear and a blanket. I was a little frightened of myself. What was I? Why had the Shusheen made me? Vin-Ta could shift to wolves to hunt prey better. What was our---my purpose?

"You couldn't have a pregnant blanket," Jerry said.

"No, I don't see how," Daddy said.

"So I could lose the babies I'm carrying."

"Your parents haven't seen you shift into anything but a wolf, since you learned to walk," Daddy said.

"You made him lose his erection!" Keith said.

I looked down. He meant me. I started laughing.

"I can turn into a blanket and you are worried about that?"

"Didn't you know?" Jerry asked.

"No. I thought I was a normal Vin-Ta. I'm not a normal anything," I said.

"You are a normal Chuffa," Lisa said. "Because we are all abnormal!" Keith and Jerry laughed. "We did the same thing with our sons. Not for safety sake, but still, we kept their biological heritage secret from them. Jack, you'll learn that you can't tell your young children everything. And it isn't because you want to keep the truth from them. Some things aren't safe for them to know and must wait until your kids are mature to learn."

"Your father kept it secret for your safety, Jack," Daddy said.

I sighed.

"I want the doctor to look Jack over as soon as possible," Daddy said. "We can check out the existing house and find out what it will take to make it livable."

"We need to make sure we have a storm shelter," Lisa said. "I don't want any of us to live in a mobile home for even a few days, without one."

Wayne nodded.

"If there isn't one, we will have a shelter built, right away."

"I wonder what I will tell my friends. They will want to visit us at the pack," Lisa said. I sure hoped Daddy wasn't going to allow humans to visit us. Being isolated from humans was practically the whole point of living in a pack.

"Well, they can't visit us. Tell them you are moving to Swahili or London or Shanghai. Anything but the truth," Daddy said.

"Can I keep in touch over the phone?" she asked.

"The phone can be traced," Dave said. "If anyone else is aware of Jack's ability, there are only a few of places he could go. His family or with me or you. One traced phone call, and they know exactly where we are."

She sighed. She didn't look happy, but her life was changing because of me. But she wanted kids, and I was going to give them to her. Hopefully that would make up for all the changes.

"I know you are worried about losing friends. I knew you would be lonely. But we will be living a few minutes away from a pack with lots of married women. You can visit as often as you like. I already got the OK from the Alpha of Techupawa pack. They will be Vin-Ta women. You can make new friends, and these won't die in forty years. They also won't wonder how you manage to look so young. Your friends know how old Keith is. You don't look old enough to be his mother, and if they haven't asked why, they will."

Lisa nodded her head.

"Dave, I assume it isn't just Lisa's phone we have to worry about," Daddy said. "I want you to take charge of phone security. If we need new phones or we need to give them up entirely, let me know."

"Will do," Dave said.

"When are we leaving?" Keith asked Daddy.

"Your mother will be going with me to buy a van this morning. We are also waiting for more security men to arrive. Dave, will you check with your ex boss and find out when we can expect them?"

"Sure, Wayne."

"Once we have the van and more security, we are heading down to Techupawa Pack. I would guess it will be late morning or early afternoon when we leave. Jack, your father is on his way to Techupawa pack right now. He will meet us when we get there."

"Oh, great! Is my mother coming?"

"I'm not sure, " Daddy said. "He didn't say."

I glanced down at Dave's dick. Then it had my full attention. Suddenly, I felt Keith's finger rubbing his precum on my lips. I turned and smiled at him.

"Should we pack?" Jerry asked.

"Yes. We may spend the night there. Take a change of clothes and a toothbrush. Any questions?" Daddy asked.

"Wayne, that house is going to be a mess!" Lisa said. "We can't spend the night there! The windows could all be broken, for all we know. There could be water damage, burst pipes, mildew and mold. It might take longer to fix it than to get a mobile home on the site."

"Yes. You may be right. But we won't know until we see it," Daddy said. "I didn't mean we would be staying the night at that house. We will stay at whatever hotel and motel is closest. But there is a lot to do and we will probably spend most of tomorrow there."

"Why don't you boys bring a couple of clothing changes?" Lisa said. "We may all be exhausted and dirty by tomorrow evening. If we are, we can stay one more night."

"That's a better plan," Daddy said. "Thank you, dear."

"Meeting adjourned," Daddy said.

He got up and left the room.

"When your mother called your father a pervert, I thought blood would be spilled," I said to Keith. "Does the incest bother her at all?"

"It doesn't seem to. Mom had sex with one of her uncles when she was a teenager," Keith said.

"Mom calls Dad a pervert all the time," Jerry said.

"I want to speak to Jerry alone for a minute," I said to Keith and Dave.

"Let's go to my room," Jerry said.

I followed Jerry out of the room. We went up a flight of stairs and turned into a bedroom. He grinned and wrapped his arms around me.

"Do you want me half as much as I want you?" he asked.

"I'm not sure," I said, before laughing.

I hugged him back. "But I do want you a lot."

"Dave and Keith don't get a long at all," I said.

"Yeah. I noticed."

"I'm hoping you will help Dave feel a little more welcome here," I said.

"What do you want me to do? Have sex with him?"

"No, but if you and I are going to have sex, maybe you could invite him a couple of times."

"OK. No problem."

I wrapped my hand around his stiff cock. "Oh, fuck, baby! Make me come."

"I want to, but Daddy..."

"Yeah."

I reached out and stroked his cheek with my other hand. He sighed, happily.

"Are you going to mind helping me with school?" he asked, as I began stroking him.

"No. I'm looking forward to it. I just don't know how much studying we can do if we can't keep our hands off each other."

"Well, we're not in a hurry," Jerry said. "If it takes six years, what difference will it make."

"Yeah. That's true! I hadn't thought of that."

"And orgasms help me concentrate," Jerry said. I laughed.

"So I should give you a lot of them. Is that right?" I asked, smiling.

"Your orgasms will help me study, too. I'm afraid you will need to have just as many!"

"Hmm. You'll need your GED to get a job. That would be six years unemployed," I said.

"Dad has never mentioned that, even once. I never got the impression he cared whether Keith or I attended college, either. Keith wanted to go and Mom wanted it, too."

"I guess he knew you would drop out as soon as you met me, just like Keith."

Jerry nodded.

"Did it bother you that I wanted you, while Keith didn't? Jerry asked."

"We both thought he was straight," I said.

"Dad said Dave let you look at his cock and even drink his spunk. And he's straight. And I wanted you, even though I didn't know you are my mate."

I sighed. Why did everyone seem intent on making me mad at Keith.

"I don't know what he was going through. He didn't want to be gay."

"Neither did Dave."

"I know that."

"The reason I asked was you mentioned me inviting Dave, but not Keith," Jerry said. "I wondered if it was because Keith basically ignored you at the dorm."

"Oh. Well, he didn't ignore me, we just didn't have sex. But this is your home and you and Keith are surrounded by your relatives. I don't want Dave to feel excluded."

"I understand."

I opened Jerry's door. Daddy was in the hall.

"Good. You weren't having sex."

"No. But I have a question. If I'm alone with one of my mates, can I give him a hand job without inviting someone else?"

"Hmm," Daddy said, as he thought. "Yes. That might be a good idea. We are all so horny. A quick hand job sounds like a good idea. But only as long as their cock doesn't enter your body."

"Can Jack lick my cock until I explode all over his face?" Jerry asked.

I groaned and Daddy laughed.

"I can see you are busy looking for loopholes," Daddy said. "No. He can't lick you when the two of you are alone. If you want to explode all over his face---and I know our mate would love that---you'll have to jack off and take aim."

"Cool!" Jerry said. I shook my head, smiling. "And I get two points for every shot that lands in his mouth!"

Daddy and I both laughed.

"I think he should get more points for that," I said to Daddy.

Daddy laughed and hugged me. Then I knelt in front of him. I was about to swallow Daddy's cock when he pulled me up.

"I wish I had time, but I need to get dressed so Lisa and I can get the van. We can make love in the van on the way to Techupawa."

"Oh! Great!" Jerry said. I nodded.

I took Daddy's big, stiff cock in one hand, while I held his heavy balls in the other. I began jacking him off. I really wanted to make him come.

"How does Lisa feel about us doing...that?" I asked.

"Jack, you need to understand about mates. We will have sex whenever we can. I can smell how much you want me and my cock. I need you just as much. Do you think you will be able to control yourself for three hours, with all your mates in one vehicle and all of us lusting intensely for you? You can't. We can't. Lisa's presence won't change that. My plan is for her to drive while the rest of us make love to our mate for three hours."

I grinned and Daddy laughed. He took my hand off his cock. I sighed.

"I know, baby. We both hate it. Later," Daddy said. He turned and walked down the hall to another bedroom.

"Do you love me?" Jerry asked, suddenly.

"Yes. Of course, I do."

"But is that just the mating urge?" he asked. "Dad told me about that when you got here."

"I don't know. I don't think it matters. I fell in love with Keith before I had a mating urge. I think I would have loved you just as much, if you had been my roommate."

Jerry smiled.

"And you would have had a lot more sex," Jerry said.

"Well, then how could I not love you?" I said, smiling.

He took me in his arms. I rested my head on his shoulder. Like Keith, Jerry was much taller than me.

"Will you sleep with me tonight?" he asked.

"Hmm. What are we going to do about sleeping arrangements? I guess we should ask Daddy. There is no point in deciding something he won't allow," I said. "But I'm pregnant with everyone's child but yours. Maybe he'll let me do it."

Jerry kissed me. While we kissed, my stomach growled.

"I'm starving!"

"Let's get you fed, baby."

We walked downstairs. Keith was sitting on the sofa in the living room. I watched his cock get hard. He walked up to us.

"Our mate is very hungry. Why don't we make him breakfast?" Jerry suggested.

Keith looked alarmed.

"I didn't even think to ask!" he said.

Keith took my hand and we followed Jerry to the kitchen.

"Here, sit," Keith said. I sat at a kitchen table.

"What would you like?" Jerry asked.

"I don't know. Eggs and toast?" I said.

"Sure. Is scrambled OK?" Jerry asked.

"That will be great," I said.

I watched my two mates bend over to open a bottom cabinet. Both of them were erect, with their cocks visible as well as their balls. I began jacking off. Keith took out a frying pan. He handed it to Jerry. Keith turned around and grinned at me. He walked over to me. He squeezed a drop of precum out of his cock and rubbed it on my lips. Then he picked up a loaf of bread from the counter.

"The yolk always breaks on me, so scrambled is best," Jerry said.

Dave walked into the kitchen. He bent down and kissed me, briefly.

"What are we making?" Dave asked, after walking over to Keith and Jerry.

"Scrambled eggs and toast," Jerry said. "Do you want some?"

"Yeah."

"OK. Jack do you drink coffee?" Jerry asked.

"He does," Keith said.

"Dave, do you want to make coffee?" Jerry asked him.

"Sure," Dave said.

Jerry handed him the coffee. "There's the coffee maker and the filters are behind it."

"I'll make it," Keith said. He took the coffee from Dave."

I sighed. Jerry pulled Keith aside and whispered in his ear. Keith looked at me and frowned. Then Keith gave the coffee back to Dave. I gave Keith a thumbs up. I blew Jerry a kiss. I chuckled as he pretended it knocked him over.

My three mates made breakfast for me. Then they stood around me and intently watched me eat. I started laughing.

"Aren't you eating?" I asked Keith.

"How is it?" Keith asked me.

"Fine. You three better eat. You need to keep up your strength," I said.

"Dad said we're going to have sex all the way to the pack," Jerry said to Keith and Dave. "We will have a three-hour orgy."

I swallowed a mouthful of eggs while Jerry made more. Keith made more toast. Dave got coffee cups and filled them. Keith turned and smiled at me, a couple of times, but he ignored Dave---when he wasn't glaring at him. Keith obviously disliked Dave just as much. I didn't want to go to Daddy, if I didn't have to. I loved Keith and didn't want him to get in trouble. Then I had an idea.

"I wonder if I can take the two of you in my ass at the same time," I said to Dave. "You and Keith."

"Oh, fuck!" Dave said. "Do you want to try?"

"Yeah."

"How about Jerry and me," Keith said.

"We can do that. But first, I want you to come from having Dave's cock rub against yours," I said.

"That's hot!" Jerry said.

"And Keith, I want you to make Dave come by rubbing his cock while you fuck me."

Keith didn't look happy.

"If Keith won't do it, Dave and I can!" Jerry said. Dave grinned at Jerry.

"I didn't say that!" Keith said.

"Keith, we are a family. It is mostly your family, but Dave is now part of it, and so am I. You need to make an effort to treat Dave the way you treat Jerry. Do you really want to spend the next three hundred years being mad at Dave? And vice-versa? I don't. I don't want to spend the next week watching you two dislike each other."

"I don't understand why you are mad at Dave in the first place," Jerry said to his brother. "You were off with Amber. Was Dave supposed to ignore his mate when Jack was all alone? He was probably lonely!" Keith sighed. "I could understand if the two of you were competing for Jack. But you weren't competing. You weren't even there."

"I'll try, OK? I'll try!"

They sat down to eat. I had finished. I sipped my coffee while they ate.

"If having two fuck you at the same time hurts, you can always shift," Dave said.

"That's what I was thinking," I said.

Dave sat on one side of me and Keith the other. I rubbed my leg against Jerry's under the table. That got a smile out of him.

"Daddy said I can jack one of you off without inviting any others," I said.

"That's what he said. But our dicks can't go inside Jack if we are alone," Jerry told them.

I thought about my brother at Techupawa pack. It was hard to believe I was a clone. But Keith and Jerry didn't seem bothered by the news that they were. Or did Jerry know, yet?

"Daddy told me I have a clone," I said.

Dave spewed coffee out of his mouth. I laughed.

"Are you serious?" he asked me.

"Yes. Jerry did you know you are a clone?"

"Yes. Keith told me. It's pretty weird. But I didn't know you are one, too."

"I thought I was adopted. That's what they told me. But my father put some DNA in an egg and implanted it in my mother."

"Does that mean your brother is our mate, too?" Keith asked. I hadn't thought of that.

"Do you know if your brother has mates?" Dave asked.

"Yeah. Several."

"That means his mates are your mates, too," Dave said to me.

Was I going to lose my mates? Would there be a fight over mates?

"He's at Techupawa," I said.

"Then why the hell are we going there? I just got you. I am not going to lose you," Keith said.

"I don't know all of Wayne's plans, but Jack's babies are part of them. If you ended up in Techupawa, your babies would belong to Alephin, the Alpha. And don't overlook the fact that Wayne is not letting anyone take his mate from him."

"But couldn't he trade us, if he wanted?" I asked.

Dave frowned. "Trade us with who, for what?"

"My brother is his mate, too," I said.

"So why would he prefer him over you? Especially since you are pregnant."

"I'm not going to let any of you go," I said to Dave. I looked at Keith. "If we have to, we can run away together."

Keith and Jerry nodded.

"Dave can be in charge of security and he can teach Jerry and me," Keith said. "We can stay hidden until all of us can defend you."

I mouthed, 'I love you' to Keith and took his hand. He looked really pleased.

"I think you are making too big a deal out of this. Maybe he just wants you to see the doctor. If your clone is in the pack, he does need to tell you. We will probably run into him. But that doesn't mean it changes his plans," Dave said. "You are carrying Wayne and Lisa's grandchild. Wayne aside, I can't see Lisa letting someone take her grandchild from her."

"That is probably true," Keith said.

"Don't forget we are his pack. He's making plans for us to all live together and he knows Jack's clone is there." Dave shook his head. "Wayne knows a lot more about what's going on than we do."

"That's not hard," Keith said. "We know nothing."

We all nodded.

"But he doesn't think going to Techupawa is any big deal. If it was going to change everything, he would have either mentioned it, or not told us his plans for a new pack," Dave said.

I sighed. What he was saying was making sense, but I was afraid I was going to lose my mates. I worried on a deep emotional level that had nothing to do with logic.

"How are we going to sleep?" I asked. "I want to sleep with all three of you. Is that OK with you?" I asked them.

"We can alternate who sleeps on the outside," Dave said. Jerry nodded.

"Will that work for you, Keith?" I asked.

He sighed.

"I want to sleep alone with you sometimes," he said.

"We can alternate that, too," Jerry said. Keith nodded.

"I think you two need to read the erotic stories Jack likes," Dave said. "He jacked off nineteen times to one of the stories and twenty-three times to another." I put my face in my hands. I had no secrets! Jerry laughed. "Wayne and I have read them. You'll find out what he fantasizes about."

"Then let's read!" Jerry said.

"I'll suck you while you read!" I said to Jerry. Jerry cheered.

"Keith and I can fuck you while you suck Jerry. Then Keith can read while Jerry and I fuck you," Dave said.

We went back to the room with the computers. I wanted to kiss Keith, but I couldn't reach him. All of my mates were considerably taller than me. So I kissed Jerry, as soon as he sat down. Dave pulled a chair up next to Jerry. I kissed him. Then I motioned Keith to me. He grinned and kissed me. By the time we finished, Dave had brought up one of the stories.

"Wayne has them bookmarked," Dave said.

Jerry started reading the first story. I knelt and pressed my face into his crotch. I smelled him before I began sucking him.

"You can go first," Dave said to Keith. I was proud of Dave.

"You just made our mate happy," Keith said. "You go first, Dave."

I could taste Jerry's precum. I wrapped my hand around his nuts and Jerry groaned. A moment later, his cock began spitting its creamy load into my mouth.

"No. I asked first," Dave said to Keith.

I let go of Jerry's cock.

"I have an idea," I said. "Dave, I want you to jack off Keith and make him shoot on me. Then Keith will jack you off."

I stood and turned away from Jerry. Then I lowered my ass to his cock.

"Oh, fuck, yeah!" Jerry said, as his cock slid inside me.

Dave began stroking Keith as I began fucking myself on Jerry's cock. I looked up at Dave and Keith. They were both watching me.

"Do you like watching us like this?" Dave asked.

"Oh, yeah! It's hot!" I said.

"I agree," Jerry said.

Keith reached over and took Dave's erection in his hand. Keith stroked Dave while Dave stroked Keith.

"That is so hot!" I said.

"I'm close, babe. Where do you want my load?" Keith asked.

"Dave, aim for my face," I said.

"You got it!" Dave said.

Dave continued stroking Keith. A blast of cum shot out of Keith's dick and hit me on the nose. Jerry groaned and I felt his cock jump inside me as he ejaculated. Jerry grabbed my hips and held me still while he bred me. I looked back at him. Jerry was watching Keith and Dave, not reading the story. That was fine with me. What we were doing was hotter than whichever story Jerry was reading.

"Move closer to Jack," Dave said to Keith.

He did. Dave was still holding Keith's cock. He put his hand behind my head and pulled my face to Keith's cock head. Then Dave smeared the cum on my face, using Keith's cock. That made me come and it made Keith come, again. Dave aimed Keith's cock at my mouth. I swallowed it and sucked while Keith's cock continued spurting. "Fuck! That was the hottest thing I've ever done!" Keith said. He pulled his spent, but still stiff cock out of my mouth. Then he worked on making Dave come. While Keith stroked Dave, I stroked Keith. I also began moving on Jerry's cock. Keith's aim was very good. Dave's cock spit out a blast that hit between my eyes. Keith pushed Dave's cock into my mouth.

I was very happy. When Dave pulled out of my mouth, I looked up at them.

"You were both wonderful. I'm less depressed than I was," I told them.

"Why were you depressed?" Keith asked.

"Is it about the clone?" Jerry asked.

"No. You two were actually getting along. For the first time," I said to Dave and Keith.

"Truce?" Dave asked Keith. "We don't want a depressed mate. We're supposed to make him happy."

Keith sighed and nodded his head.

"But Dave is never fucking me," Keith said.

"Ditto," Dave said.

A cell phone rang in another room.

"That's mine," Dave said. He went after it.

"I guess I should read the story," Jerry said. I started laughing and Keith joined in.

"Do you want me to jack Jerry off?" Keith asked.

"Yeah! I want to watch a little incest," I said.

Jerry lifted me off him. Then he knelt in front of Keith and began sucking his brother. I knelt next to him. I pulled Keith out of Jerry's mouth and sucked him, briefly. Then I passed his cock back to his brother.

"Oh fuck! Who needs stories?" Keith said.

Jerry and I passed Keith's cock back and forth for a while. Keith was in my mouth when he came. After Keith finished, he pulled his erection out of my mouth. I wrapped my arms around Jerry and kissed him. After the kiss ended, I began stroking Keith. I looked up at him.

"Is the sex as good as it was with Amber?" I asked him, grinning.

"That's not possible!" Jerry said to me.

We both laughed.

"It's about the same," Keith said. "I liked it when her two roommates sucked me while Amber sucked on my toes."

I laughed.

"Oh!" I said. "Do you want to borrow my car and go visit her?" I asked, joking.

"Them," Jerry said, correcting me.

"Right!"

"Nah. I hear there are two of you. You and your clone can suck me while Jerry sucks on my toes."

Jerry and I laughed.

Dave walked back into the room.

"We've got two guards joining us in about half an hour."

I nodded.

"Are they going to ride in the van?" I asked.

"Yes."

"Will the sex bother them?" I asked.

"They are Vin-Ta and they know we are new mates. I'm sure they expect it."

"Oh. Good."

I yawned. Suddenly I felt tired.

"Why don't you sleep until the parents come back?" Keith said.

"You and Dave got less sleep last night than I did. Aren't you tired?" I asked.

"I'm feeling buzzed," Keith said.

"Me, too," Dave said. "You sleep and we'll keep watch."

Jerry took my hand. "You can sleep in my bed. Keith's old bed isn't made, and it has boxes on it."

"OK."

The three of us walked upstairs to Jerry's room. I got on his bed. It smelled wonderful---like Keith, Jerry, and Daddy. My mates stood around the bed. I thought I would be unable to sleep with them watching me, but I was wrong.

"Wake-up, babe," I heard.

I opened my eyes. Keith was holding me. Wayne was smiling.

"We've got the van. Lisa is making sandwiches for the trip. As soon as she finishes, we're leaving."

"OK."

"Jerry told me you were worried that your clone would affect your relationship to us. It won't. I'm sorry I made you worried. Your brother has his mates and you have your mates. I'm more worried about what you will do when you smell his mates. They will smell like us—your mates," Daddy said.

"The last thing I need is more mates!" I said.

"You are doing just fine. I heard you got Keith and Dave to stroke each other and they seem to have come to an understanding. That surprised me," Daddy said.

I heard a weird sound like a snap. Daddy looked up in surprise.

"Wait here," Daddy said to me. "Keith. Don't let him out of your sight."

"What is it, Dad?"

Daddy didn't answer. He practically ran out of the room.

I looked at Keith.

"I don't know what's going on either," he said, before I could ask.

We heard more noises. They didn't sound like gun shots. Then I heard a couple of gun shots.

A minute later, Dave appeared at the door. He was carrying a pistol and had another weapon over his shoulder.

"A man entered the house through a downstairs window. Jerry killed him. But there are at least three more men at the back of the house and an unknown number in front. They are shooting tranquilizer darts. One security man went down, but he is alive. I think they are shooting darts because they can't be sure which of us is you. It has to be a kidnapping attempt, and they want you alive," Dave said.

My heart started pounding in my ears. I heard more popping sounds which had to be gunfire.

"I need you to shift, Jack," Dave said.

Just as he said that, I heard a snap and Dave collapsed to the ground.

I heard sirens, briefly, before I blacked out.

I woke and smelled my mates. I smelled Dave and was incredibly relieved. He wasn't dead. I heard a familiar voice calling me. I opened my eyes. Wayne was kneeling over me. He stroked my forehead.

"How do you feel?" he asked.

"Did anyone die?"

"None of us. Lots of them."

I sighed in relief.

I thought about his question. "I'm hungry. Very, very hungry."

Jerry handed me a sandwich. I practically inhaled it. "Can I have another."

I ate it, too. I felt better.

"What happened." I asked. I looked around, briefly. We were on a highway in what had to be the new van.

"There was a major kidnapping attempt," Daddy said. "By trained personnel. They weren't trying to kill us, or we would all be dead. They were using tranquilizer darts containing valium and some other drug. I had stimulants---"

"Methamphetamine," Dave said.

"Right," Daddy continued. "---and Jerry injected us as we fell. Fortunately, the police showed up to help us, because I was shot three times---"

"We think deliberately," Dave added. Daddy nodded.

"And it took me a while to come around," Daddy continued. All of us are pretty woozy, but luckily, Lisa was not shot. We accidentally shot one of the policemen in the arm, but the police think the attackers shot him. He will be fine. We left as soon as the firing stopped. The police were not happy about that at all. But I told the police that Lisa was pregnant---"

"Dream on," Lisa said.

"And I couldn't take a chance on her being drugged. At least six kidnappers were killed before we left, four of them by us and two by the police. The attackers didn't seem to want to shoot back at the police, even with just tranquilizers. And that was a little odd. I suppose they wanted to involve as few humans as possible. That is going to be a major headache for whoever planned this. I expect it will be difficult to recruit any more men who will allow themselves to be shot at and unable to defend themselves. But Dave isn't so sure. He thinks there will be another attempt before we get to Techupawa pack."

"They could already be recruited, with contracts and have no choice," Dave said. "Also, the recruits may want revenge for their downed associates. Once we are at Techupawa, it will be much harder to get to you," Dave added. "Techupawa is very secure. Whoever arranged the attack must have known that we were leaving today. And they were desperate enough to launch an attack in an affluent human neighborhood during the day. Whoever is behind this is even more desperate now. And very, very wealthy. The men who attacked us were pros. I expect the next attack to be initiated by a woman or women, perhaps feigning car trouble. They probably expect us to think that they are the threat, while the real attack comes from a different direction."

"You didn't mention that before," Daddy said to Dave.

"Sorry. I'm still a little groggy from the tranks."

"We aren't stopping for anyone," Lisa said.

"So we are still in danger," I said.

"I think we will be attacked, but they won't succeed. We aren't taking the most direct route to Techupawa. They can't have enough people to patrol every road," Dave said. "I believe the road where the pack entrance is located will be where they make the attempt. But Wayne phoned ahead and some of Techupawa's security men will be stationed along that highway to protect us. And more security men have left Houston to defend us. They will be hidden, too."

"Why did I black out?" I asked.

"It was so cool!" Jerry said. "You shifted into a mannequin! They hit you with two darts, but they bounced off you!"

I looked at the others in shock and disbelief. Most of them were nodding their heads.

"We have pictures of you," Keith added. "It was very strange trying to put your clothes on you."

"Then I lost the babies," I said. I felt like crying, but I knew I should be grateful we were all safe. Except the babies. I sighed.

"I don't think we can assume that," Daddy said. "I think it is possible you shifted into that specifically to save them. You could have shifted into a lot of things. You or your subconscious chose a human shape."

I nodded. That made sense to me. It might not be true, but it seemed very possible. Considering how few mannequins I could remember seeing, there had to be a reason my subconscious had me choose that shape.

"The police wondered why we were carrying a mannequin and loading it into the van!" Jerry said.

I shook my head. I wanted to laugh and cry at the same time.

"We are almost at Techupawa," Lisa said.

It was a disturbing story for a lot of reasons, but one stuck out in my mind. Why did Wayne have injectable methamphetamine in his house? That was just very odd. Was he expecting an attack using tranquilizers? That had to be it---I hoped. There couldn't possibly be a medical reason for it---or a legal reason, either. He had syringes, too. I had never heard of a Vin-Ta who was a drug addict, but I grew up in Alpha George's pack. He didn't approve of alcohol. I decided I would ask Dave as soon as I could ask him privately.

I looked at Keith and Jerry. They hadn't seemed surprised that their father injected them with an illegal drug. It suddenly occurred to me that I knew nothing about Wayne, Lisa, or Jerry and almost nothing about Keith. After being almost kidnapped, it was not a reassuring thought.

Keith yawned and then Jerry did. I looked around the van. It was family, except for two men I'd never seen before. One was asleep. The other nodded to me when I looked at him.

"This is Rod," Dave said. "He is your new bodyguard."

"Hello, Rod."

"Good to meet you," he said.

Rod looked like your typical male Vin-Ta, only with a lot more muscles. He had jet black hair and was very hairy. He was wearing a tight black T-shirt, black jeans, and black boots.

"This is Lonnie, but we call him Lobo," Rod said, pointing at the other guy. "He took four darts, so he will probably be out for a while longer."

The smell of all my mates in a confined space was making me very horny. Keith noticed. He reached over and groped me.

"I talked to the Alpha of Techupawa again," Daddy said. "His name is Alephin. He has given us permission to stay in his pack until we get a secure location for us," Daddy said. It needed to be very, very secure.

"Come here, baby. Sit on my lap," Daddy said. I did. I felt very awkward. He wrapped his arms around me. "Better?"

"Uh. Yeah..."

"You seem tense," Daddy said.

Rod laughed.

"I wonder why?"

Daddy frowned.

I got off Daddy's lap a few minutes later. I sat back down next to Keith.

We finally turned onto the last highway. The pack entrance was six miles away, on the right.

We passed a highway patrol car. The officer was leaning on his vehicle. He waved his hand as we passed. Dave moved into the front passenger seat. He had two guns with him. Daddy moved to the back of the van with Keith and me. Rod moved into the seat Daddy had vacated. He had a duffle bag full of weapons with him.

"That's one of ours," Dave said.

We couldn't see anything. There were no windows at the back.

Daddy got up and moved a little forward, so he could see out of the back windows. Keith and Jerry sat on opposite sides of me. I was surprised to see they each had a handgun.

"Where are we?" the guy named Lobo said. He still seemed groggy.

"Good to see you are awake for the exciting part," Rod said to him.

"More exciting than what happened at the house?"

"Nothing has happened yet," Dave said. "We are about five miles from the pack entrance."

"Hmm."

It looked like Lobo fell back asleep.

"We just passed another highway patrol car," Daddy said.

"Have you seen anything suspicious?" Keith asked.

"Not yet," Daddy said.

"Do you smell something?" I heard Lisa ask, a few minutes later.

"Like what?" Daddy asked her.

"Like incense, I think."

"No. I smell Vin-Ta and pine trees," Daddy said.

About a minute later, she said, "It's getting stronger. Can you still not smell it?"

"No. The scent of Vin-Ta is growing stronger. Incense? Dave, could she be smelling something dangerous?" Daddy asked.

"I don't smell it either," he said. "Explosives smell nothing like incense, though. If it was some kind of airborne drug, the rest of us could smell it."

"Does anybody else smell anything?" Daddy asked the rest of us.

"No," Rod said.

"I don't," Keith said.

"Me, either," Jerry said.

"Well, this is ridiculous," Lisa said. "I'm having trouble breathing because of it."

"Here's the entrance," Daddy said.

We slowed down and made a turn.

"We made it!" Daddy said.

"Are you going to tell me you don't smell that?" Lisa said.

Daddy sighed. "No, Lisa."

"It's a spicy scent," she said.

The van slowed to a stop.

"You three can move to the front of the van," Daddy said to us.

We moved forward. I saw Lobo was asleep, again. I looked down and saw a dart was still sticking out of the calf of his leg. I pulled it out of him.

We had stopped at a gate. I saw a lot of armed men. At least twenty. They were looking at us, but staying where they were. They had to be pack security.

Daddy was speaking softly to a man standing next to his window.

"They want to inspect our bags," Daddy said, as he opened his door.

We passed them up to Daddy who passed them to the man who was checking them. None of us had brought very much.

I was excited. We were safe, I was going to meet my brother, and see my father. This was also my first visit to another pack than Alpha George's Mountain Gap. I remembered Daddy had said the Alpha had a male mate. It was bound to be a very different place than Mountain Gap.

We started moving, again. We drove slowly for about a mile and then came to what seemed like a small town. We passed a large brick building that was under construction. After that, there were houses, and businesses. I saw very few vehicles. Of course, if the pack had stores, there was less reason to have to leave the pack lands, and pack members might not need cars. A lot of people were standing on the sidewalks watching us. The smell of Vin-Ta was intense. While looking at the people on the sidewalks, something bothered me. I couldn't tell what it was, at first. Then I realized what it was. There were young people. I think subconsciously I expected packs to contain only old folks, like my old pack. Then I saw a man pushing a stroller! An older child was walking with them. Was this where all the people who had left Mountain Gap ended up?

I heard a wolf howl nearby. I wondered if it was a greeting.

The van came to a stop.

"Everybody out!" Daddy said.

We all got out of the van. I looked around and saw a lot of smiling faces. I heard Lisa gasp and I turned to look at her. A naked, young guy who might have been fifteen or sixteen ran up to Lisa and hugged her.

"Oh, my god! He's my mate!" she shouted.

My mouth fell open. I looked at Keith and Jerry. They looked just as shocked.

"Uh, congratulations, dear," Daddy said. He did not look happy, but why would he?

Dave turned and looked at me. He shook his head, looking mystified. I walked towards Lisa. She and her mate were kissing.

A large man with a booming voice walked over to Daddy.

"Welcome! I'm Alephin. And it looks like it is a day for surprises. Is that your wife?" he asked, looking at Lisa.

"Yes," Daddy said.

Lisa pulled her mate by the hand over to us.

"This is---I don't even know your name" she said to the very young guy.

He grinned. "It's Jerry," he said.

"My son's name is Jerry," she said, excitedly.

"People call me Jerr, though," her mate said.

She introduced us to him, which was strange, since she knew him as well as we did, which was not at all! Jerr was very hard and his cock was dripping. It was a little like a dream that is so odd, you wonder if it is a nightmare. Jerr was my mate's wife's mate.

"How old are you, Jerr," Daddy asked.

"Fourteen, sir. Fifteen in two weeks," he said.

"How old are you, Lisa?" Jerr asked.

"Uh. Older," she said. I almost laughed. Everyone was older than Jerr.

"You will have to tell me, eventually," Jerr said.

"I'm sixty-three," she said "Is that a problem?"

"No! I've always liked older women. I wouldn't want a mate my age," Jerr said.

"Jerr is a fine young male," Alephin said to Lisa. "I'm sure you will be happy together."

I looked at Wayne. He looked furious. But you don't choose your mate. He should know that. I didn't choose him.

Lisa, Daddy, Jerr, and Alephin continued talking, but I saw a guy who looked exactly like me approaching. He was surrounded by three tall Vin-Ta carrying weapons. They had to be his security. Rod and Lobo began talking to one of them. I smiled as I watched Lobo yawn, again. Then Lobo frowned and looked around. His nose twitched, like he smelled something. Then he smiled.

The guy who looked like me walked up to me. "I'm Tom."

"Hi. I'm Jack. You may have guessed that."

Tom smiled.

"This is my mate, Luke," Tom said to me. Luke held out his hand and I shook it.

"And this is my mate, Howard." I shook his hand.

I introduced Jerry and Keith to them.

Tom stepped back one step.

"Your mates smell like they are my mates," Tom said to me.

"Oh. Yours don't smell like mine."

"They are using your father's masking scent," Tom said.

"Oh."

"We can give them some when we get to my house," Tom said.

I nodded.

"Speaking of your father..."

Tom was looking behind me. I turned around and saw it was my father. I ran up to him and hugged him.

"I'm so glad to see you!" I said.

"I'm glad AND relieved, son. I heard all about what happened."

I nodded.

"I heard you turned yourself into a mannequin," Tom said.

"He did! They were shooting darts at us and they bounced off him!" Jerry said. Tom smiled. "It was amazing!"

"It wasn't deliberate," I said.

"I once changed into a shrub inside a restaurant!" Tom said. "That wasn't deliberate, either!"

"Wow!" I said.

I turned to Dad.

"How have you been? How's Mom?"

"Fine and fine. She doesn't know what happened this morning. Now that I know you are safe, we can tell her together, later."

I nodded.

Alephin and Daddy walked away from the group. I wondered what they were talking about.

"Your father said you are eighteen," Tom said to me.

I turned around. "Yeah."

"I'm twenty-four. Your father was able to clear up a mystery for me. I was adopted by and grew up with humans. Your father said I originally went to a Vin-Ta couple named Jess and Diane Mince. We don't know why I ended up with humans. Your father called some people who'd known them, but they all said they'd lost touch with them. They had desperately wanted a child. So he is sure they died. Then I was placed with humans, by humans."

"Oh. I'm sorry."

"Your father also said it's possible there are two other clones of us," Tom said to me.

"Really? Should we try to find them?" I asked him.

"I don't know. Do you want to find them?"

Did I want more brothers? I wasn't sure. I didn't like the idea that I was one of four copies. With Tom and me, it was easy to think of him as my twin, not a copy of me. But four of us walking around? How would the other pack members keep us straight? For that matter, how would I know which copy I was speaking to. It gave me the creeps.

"It would be too confusing," I said. I looked at Tom to see his reaction. He nodded his head after a moment.

"Just think!" I said. "All four of us walking down the street."

"Yeah. It's a little too "Attack of the Clones', for me," Tom said.

I wasn't sure what he meant by Attack of the Clones, but I was glad he agreed with me.

"So you two are clones of your father?" Tom asked Keith and Jerry.

"Yeah. It was a big surprise to us."

Tom nodded.

"I didn't really believe Jack is my clone, until I saw him. He looks exactly the way I did when I was eighteen. Except he looks happier. I was miserable at eighteen. I felt so out of place in my human home and school."

"I bet that was rough," I said.

Dave walked over to us. I introduced him to the group. Then Daddy and Alephin joined us. Daddy was smiling. I looked around for Lisa. I gasped as I saw her new mate had his hands inside her blouse and was groping her breasts. She looked delighted.

"As you can see, things are more casual here," Alephin said. "You'll see people having sex in public all the time, both heterosexual and gay sex. I encourage it. It keeps tension down. We have a lot of horny young males---"

"And horny older males," a man standing next to the Alpha said, grinning.

Alephin grinned. "I'm not that old," he said.

"This is Rince, my mate," Alephin said. He smiled as he put his arm around his mate.

"Hi."

We shook hands.

"This will be a shock, so I'll get it out of the way," Rince said. "Alephin is also my father."

"Wow!" I said.

"Does that bother you?" Rince asked. "I know where you grew up."

"No. It doesn't bother me," I said.

"Incest makes him horny," Keith said to Rince.

I sighed. I was never going to have any privacy.

"That will make Alephin happy," Rince said to me.

"Why?"

"Because I don't think sex should be hidden," Alephin said. "Whether it is hetero or gay or incestuous. I love my mate and I'm proud to breed him in public."

"My son Hephin sucks Alephin every day," Rince said. "Hephin has his own small pack, next to this one. Alephin doesn't want to hide anything, just because there are visitors. He is always trying to broaden his pack members' minds. That is especially tough with the oldtimers."

Boy, I sure could relate to that. Our whole pack in Colorado was oldtimers.

"Oh. Well, it doesn't bother me at all."

"Jack read and reread a lot of---" Dave started to say. My father was right next to me! I looked at Dave and tilted my head towards my father. He got the idea.

"He seems to like it," Dave finished with. I smiled at him. Then I realized Dad probably knew what I had been doing.

"Good for you!" Alephin said to me.

Dave walked up to me. He put his arms around me. "I love you."

I sighed. "I love you, too."

"Alephin was concerned you might not like it here," Rince said.

"Why not?" I asked him.

"Because of Alpha George and his beliefs," my father said.

"It's funny, but I never thought the things he believed applied to me. I knew I had to hide my feelings, but I never thought I shouldn't have them," I said.

"That was what I hoped would happen," my father said.

I smiled at him.

"I don't feel guilty about being gay," I said to Rince. "And if I saw you and Alephin having sex, I would probably want to watch," I said.

"You'll see it," Alephin said.

"Your pack looks great. You must be very proud of it," I said to Alephin.

He smiled. "I am. Almost everyone is happy and it is a very safe place."

"My pack will be safe, too," Daddy said to me. "Don't worry about that."

My father whispered something to Alephin. They were both looking at me. I wondered if something was wrong.

"Joseph would like to speak to Jack alone," Alephin said to Daddy. "I am going to take them to my house."

"Oh. OK. Should we wait here?"

"Tom, why don't you show the rest of them where they'll be staying."

"Sure, Alephin."

"Come with me, Jack. Joseph, I need to speak to you, too."

Dad nodded.

Alephin took one of my hands and Dad took the other. It was a little odd, but I decided I liked it.

"That is a coffee shop, over there," Alephin said, pointing.

"Oh, wow!"

"Alephin's pack is really a small town," Dad said.

"Yeah. I noticed that. It sure is different than Mountain Gap in almost every way."

"This is our library and computer center. People who don't have computers can use them for free, in there," Alephin said.

As we walked, Alephin pointed out different things in his pack. Several people waved to him as we walked. A couple of women flirted with him. One even stuck her hand inside his shorts. I couldn't believe it! But Alephin just said, "Later," to her. Everyone I saw looked happy. He pointed out a couple making love against a building across the street. While I watched, the woman knelt and began sucking her lover. We kept walking and he pointed out many more things.

"I understand why you are so proud of your pack," I said to him.

"It's very different from where you grew up."

"Yes. Better. Much better," I said.

"I'm pleased that you think so."

A wolf ran up to me and barked. I bent down and ruffled his fur. From the scent, I knew it was Jerry. I squatted down and Jerry licked my face. "You can shift!" I said. Jerry barked and ran around in a circle before running back to the rest of our group.

We were approaching a very large building. It was a large, two story building. It looked like a house, and it was between two houses, but it looked more like a municipal building. There were windows, but they weren't large and there weren't that many of them.

"What is that?"

"That is your brother's house."

"Wow! He must be wealthy."

"You didn't know?"

"No. All I knew was that I had a brother and that we are clones."

"He agreed to give a baby to a very wealthy man. He was paid very well."

"Oh. Hmm. It seems wrong to charge for babies," I said. "Never mind. I don't know anything about it or him. I shouldn't have said anything."

Alephin smiled at me.

"There's nothing wrong with the sentiment," he said to me. "But making them available for a fee might make someone willing to spend a great deal to kidnap one of you, decide to pay the fee, instead."

"Well, that makes sense. Whoever attacked us is out a lot of money and has nothing to show for it."

"Exactly."

"Why are the windows so small?" I asked.

"For security reasons."

That reminded me. I stopped.

"Are we safe, Alephin?" I asked him. "I can't help but think we were very lucky today."

"I am very concerned about that," Dad said.

"I am too," Alephin said.

We turned onto the sidewalk of the house next to Tom's.

"This is my house."

"Why are you concerned, Alpha? You don't know me," I said.

"You are Tom's brother. Being in my pack makes Tom family to me. I consider you to be in my family through him. Also, I have known your father for many years. He originally planned to send you here, when you turned eighteen, instead of college. He knows you are gay and he knows I am very bisexual. I wanted you to live here."

I was shocked. I had no idea. I looked at Dad. He nodded agreement. It was strange but wonderful.

Alephin opened the door and motioned us inside.

I followed him into a kitchen.

"Hello, Alephin," a woman said.

"Mrs. Lewis, this is Tom's brother, Jack," Alephin said. "And Joseph is his father."

She looked surprised. "I didn't know Tom had a brother, but there is no mistaking the relationship." She took my face in her hand and tilted it, this way and that. I felt like a life size doll. I was glad she hadn't seen my mannequin impersonation! "My, my, my! So you are Tom's father, too," she said to Dad.

"No. We adopted Jack," Dad sad. "We were unaware he had a brother."

She nodded.

"You look hungry," she said to me.

I smiled. "I am, a little."

"I have meatloaf, potatoes, noodles, and salad ready right now. Or I can fix you something if you want to wait."

Alephin looked at me.

"Meatloaf sounds great! In fact, I'll have all of those...things."

"Do you have any hot vegetables?" Alephin asked.

"Carrots that just need to be reheated."

"That sounds good."

"The canteen has a bigger selection," she said.

"Meatloaf is fine," I said, again.

She handed me a salad and four kinds of salad dressings. I began eating. She put the rest of the food on the table, and then Alephin sent her home.

"Your father and Wayne disagree on your future," Alephin said. I looked at Dad. He nodded.

"What do you want, Dad?"

"I want Alephin to break your mating bond with Wayne."

I dropped my fork and it clattered off the salad dish and onto the floor. "How...? What...? Do what? How is that possible?"

"It is possible. It isn't even difficult. If you join my pack, and your wolf acknowledges I'm his Alpha, I can break the bond. Your father wants you to stay here, with Dave as your mate. He said Dave was the only one of your mates to love you wholeheartedly, although he gives Jerry the benefit of the doubt. Your other two mates have or had different priorities."

"So he wants you to dissolve our mating bond because of Wayne's priorities? That doesn't seem like a very good reason."

"They are critical priorities. Wayne assured me you would be perfectly safe and just a few hours after you arrived, you were attacked and almost kidnapped," Dad said. "He had no security at all for several hours after you got there and he knew you were in danger for hours before you arrived. And then there was the fact that Wayne hired only two security guards. He felt his mate, who is central to all his plans, only needed two guards. I don't know what he was thinking. Alephin and I both know that you saved yourself with your mannequin shift. You've always shifted involuntarily when you thought you were in danger. But Wayne takes credit for the fact you weren't taken. He takes credit for saving you when all he did was put you in danger."

The way Dad presented it, I really had to wonder. Wayne did know I was in danger. He knew that when we called him from our dorm. And maybe before that. If the dorm room was monitored, wouldn't the guards have seen I shifted into Keith? Wouldn't they have told Wayne at that time? Dave might have even told him, and he probably did. Dave was the first person to see I'd shifted and that was before Keith and I headed for Enchanted Rock. Why were they monitoring our room? Just so Wayne could have his 'sin reports'? And Wayne put his wife and sons in danger, too. I understood why Dad was angry. Wayne's priorities could get us killed. If he had known Wayne was in no hurry to get me protection, Dad would have arranged it. He assumed Wayne was protecting me. Dad must have been furious when he found out what a poor job Wayne was doing.

"Why would Wayne have injectable methamphetamine on hand?" I asked. "He said he had some, so he had Jerry inject the others, as they fell."

Dad looked shocked.

"I would say due to very careful planning, if he hadn't proved this morning that he doesn't plan ahead," Alephin said.

"You are sure about the methamphetamine?" Dad asked.

"Wayne didn't say what he used. Dave was the one who told me what it was. We were on the way here, or I would have asked him why."

"We need to get Dave here," Dad said.

"Did Dave say it aloud?" Alephin asked.

"Yes."

"There's no need to get Dave right now. It's just another reason to break the bond," Alephin said. Dad nodded.

"Has Wayne told you he loves you?" Alephin asked me.

I tried to remember. Dave said it many times and I was absolutely certain he loved me. I remembered Jerry saying it at least twice, but possibly more times. I tried to remember whether Keith had said it. I felt certain he must have, but I couldn't remember a time when he had. I remembered telling Wayne that I loved him. I tried to remember what he said. Then it hit me. He said I was a sweet boy. That was all. It was not exactly a profession of love. But on the other hand, he had just met me. We hadn't been together more than a few hours.

"Dave and Jerry have told me they love me. I can't remember whether Keith has, but he made it clear he does. But Wayne definitely hasn't. But then I just met him this morning."

"No, you didn't. He met you at Mountain Gap."

"Oh. That's right."

"And he's been watching you for weeks," Dad said. "I don't think he loves you. I think Wayne just wants to use you to build a pack. You take better care of someone you love.

"Your mother and I were both unhappy when we found out Wayne is your mate. The fact that Keith was indifferent to you, even when you lived together bothered me a great deal, too. I mentioned it to Wayne, who seemed to think it was unimportant. I think---we think---you deserve better than indifference."

I was about to blame Keith's so called indifference on the fact that he didn't know I was his mate. But Jerry knew less about me than Keith and it didn't sound like Jerry was ever indifferent. Dave was the only one I was absolutely certain about. But I really did believe Keith loved me. I had seen it in his eyes. And he was never indifferent. How could his insane jealousy come from indifference? Of course, his insane jealousy didn't keep him in our room. He still went to Amber. Maybe Keith had priority problems like his father.

I had to smile, though. The future my father wanted for me, to live at Techupawa with Dave as my lover, would be a happy one. It sounded a lot better than starting a pack from scratch with Daddy, Dave, Keith, and Jerry. Whoever heard of a pack with five people? It wasn't really a pack, no matter what Daddy called it. We might have just as well stayed in Daddy's house. Living out in the country, there would be more security men than pack members.

"Do you love Wayne?" Dad asked me.

"No. And now, I don't think I ever will.

"I don't know what to do. But I do know I don't want Wayne controlling my life. I will decide where I live and I would like to live here." I looked at Alephin. He nodded.

"Are you sure you want to join my pack?" Alephin asked me.

I looked at Dad. "You wanted me to join, before. Do you still want it?"

"I think you'll like living here."

"Yes, Alpha. I would like to join."

"Because your father wants it?" Alephin asked.

"Well, that is part of it," I said.

Alephin nodded.

"Do you want Dave with you?"

"Yes."

"Do you want me to break your mating bond to Wayne?" he asked.

The first two questions were easy to answer. But that one? I didn't know him well enough to say. But my father did. And my father thought Wayne should not be my mate.

I sighed. "Yes. I would like you to break my mating bond."

"You must join my pack, first. To become a member of my pack, both you and Dave will have to let me fuck you once."

I looked at Alephin. He was handsome, big, and powerful. And he was very, very sexy.

"Oh. That's just awwwwful," I said, smiling. "Are you sure once will be enough?" I asked him.

Alephin laughed.

"Let me get Dave here. Getting fucked will be easier for him if you are kissing him or sucking him."

I nodded.

"What about Keith and Jerry? I love Dave most, but I also love Keith. I loved him before we knew we are mates. And I am very fond of Jerry."

"I believe removing your bond to Wayne will destroy the bonds with his sons," Alephin said. "But this is a unique situation. If you loved Keith before, I think you still will. But do you want him to be your mate?"

I was torn. I knew my father didn't approve of Keith. And there was a good reason. But I loved him. I didn't care whether Wayne was upset or not. My dad had convinced me it wasn't safe for Wayne to run my life. But the thought of hurting Keith or Jerry just felt wrong to me. What had Jerry done to cause me to reject him? Keith had hurt me, but he had also apologized. If Keith had known I was his mate from the time we met, like Dave had, I was sure he wouldn't have continued dating Amber. The reason Keith did not know I was his mate was Wayne's fault. He had kept his sons' Vin-Ta heritage from them. But I really didn't want to listen to my mates fighting each other. And I really didn't want to worry constantly that I wasn't treating them equally. I decided I needed more information.

"I'm not sure I can handle multiple mates," I said. "Tom has two. Does he have trouble?"

"Not that I've noticed," Alephin said.

"How does he keep them from fighting each other?" I asked.

"Son, I really think you would be happier with one mate," Dad said.

"What about Keith's baby? Oh, shit! What about Wayne's baby?"

"Don't worry about that right now," Alephin said. "A lot of things can change before they are due."

I nodded my head.

I closed my eyes. I asked myself if I wanted three mates. The answer was no. Did I want to hurt Keith or Jerry? Absolutely not. But Wayne would be leaving Techupawa. Would his sons go with him? Probably, if they weren't my mates. If they were my mates, they would stay with me and I would be breaking up Wayne's family. Not only would I not be Wayne's mate, but his entire family would be staying in Techupawa. He would have nothing. Did I hate him that much? That was a good reason for them not to be my mates.

"I don't know what is best for everyone," I finally said.

"Then let me decide," Dad said.

I sighed and nodded my head.

"Keith didn't treat you well, Jack. I know you forgive him for it, but the fact remains that he picked Amber over you, until yesterday. Do you think you should treat him the same way you do Dave, who tried to give you want you needed?"

"No."

"Then you should have one mate," Dad said.

I nodded.

Alephin took out his phone and called Rince. He asked him to send Dave to their house.

Dave arrived about fifteen seconds later.

"Come with me," Alephin said to the two of us.

We followed him to a bedroom.

"What's going on?" Dave asked me.

"You and I are going to join Alephin's pack."

"Just us?"

"We don't know," Alephin said. "The others may wish to join."

"Us is just you and me?" Dave asked.

I smiled and nodded my head.

"I'll guard the door," Dad said from the doorway. Alephin closed the bedroom door.

"To join my pack, you each have to let me fuck you once. It proves that your wolf submits to mine."

"OK," Dave said.

"I thought you would have a problem with it," I said.

"It means you'll be safe. I would do much more to keep you safe."

I smiled. "I love you," I told him.

"Love you."

Alephin pulled his clothes off, so Dave and I did, too.

"Dave, do you want to fuck your mate while I fuck you?"

"I want to kiss him."

Alephin had us both get up on our hands and knees at the foot of the bed. Alephin pulled a bottle of lube out of a drawer in a bedside table. Dave kissed me. I felt a cold finger enter my ass while we kissed. It left me and I was barely aware of two fingers inside me. I was completely focused on Dave. I felt Alephin's cock at my hole. He entered me slowly, and then he fucked me, slowly. I pulled away from the kiss.

"Do you want me to wish for a baby?" I asked Alephin.

"No! Definitely not!"

"OK."

Alephin spoke. "Jack, do you wish to join my pack?"

"Yes, Alephin."

"Will you obey me?"

"In everything," I said.

Alephin pulled out of me.

"You didn't come!" I said.

He chuckled. "If you are like your brother, you want my spunk in your mouth."

"He's like his brother," Dave said.

I grinned at Dave.

Dave groaned. I looked up and Alephin was pushing inside him.

"I love you, Dave," I said, as I stroked the side of his head.

Dave smiled. "I love you."

We kissed as we joined Alephin's pack.

Dave was my mate! He would be by my side for the rest of our lives. I reached for his cock and held it. It was mine!

Alephin spoke. "Dave, do you wish to join my pack?"

"Yes, Alephin."

"Will you obey me?"

"I swear I will," Dave said.

"Very good, pup."

He pulled out of Dave.

"Turn around and face me."

We did. We sat on the foot of the bed.

"Is that it?" Dave asked.

"That's it!"

"I thought it would hurt a lot more," Dave said.

"If you had fought it, it would have. Your wolf evidently wants to be under me, in every way."

"Jack, Dave is your mate," Alephin said, in a deep voice. It was his Alpha voice and it made me shiver. "Wayne Chuffa is not your mate. I command it." I heard Dave gasp. "Do you understand?"

"Yes, Alpha," I said.

Then Alephin stroked himself twice and his cock began shooting. He shot all over my face. I couldn't believe how much cum he produced. I opened my mouth and several spurts went inside. I groaned at the taste. By the time he finished, which had to be at least a full minute later, I was covered in his spunk. But he still wasn't through. He took my head in his hands and thrust his cock into my mouth. He began ejaculating, again. To my outright shock, Dave stroked the shaft of Alephin's cock while our Alpha fed me.

"That's perfect, pups. I love you both."

I closed my eyes. I was happier than I had ever been. I was even happier than the first time I had sex with Keith. But then I remembered I wasn't happy at all the first time with Keith. Or the second time, or the third time. And especially not the fourth time, when he first bred me. All of those happened in the restroom in the Science Building. And after I left the restroom, I was more miserable than I had ever been. It got better, but it was Keith's behavior that made me miserable. If he hadn't been more concerned about Amber's feelings than mine, our first time together would have been wonderful.

Alephin pulled his cock out of my mouth. Dave leaned over and licked Alephin's semen off my lips.

"Will you breed me, Alpha?" I asked him. "I want my body to make you come."

"Only if you promise not to wish for a baby. It would make Rince very unhappy," Alephin said.

"I promise."

Alephin pushed my legs up and slid inside me. He began screwing me. My wolf was deliriously happy.

Dave lay on his side, propped up on one elbow. He grinned at me. I reached out and touched his cheek.

"Dave, cover your mate's head and shoulders with your spunk. Make sure you cover his hair. Then shoot in his mouth and his ass. The others will know he belongs to the two of us with every breath he takes. And when they find out, be prepared to defend him. There will be a fight. I'm almost certain of it."

Dave nodded.

Dave began stroking himself. As the first shot hit directly on my lips, I laughed.

"I knew you'd like that," he said.

"You are very like your brother," Alephin said to me.

"I hope that is good."

"It is, pup. It is very good," Alephin said.

Then he groaned and I could feel his potent semen filling my ass, while a spurt of Dave's cum hit my forehead. My wolf was very, very happy. We had made the Alpha come. The smile on his face was due to us.

Alephin pulled out of me. He put on his shorts, but didn't bother putting on his shirt. He left the room. Dave had five orgasms in a row. As he rubbed his cum into my hair, I sighed. I was saturated in my Alpha's and my mate's scents. On the other hand, it was really weird having spunk applied to my hair. I wondered what it would feel like when it dried. Dave moved between my legs and his cock slid into me with no resistance at all.

"Flex your bicep, will you?"

Dave did, grinning. I felt it.

"You are so hot, Dave. I am really lucky to have you for a mate. I guess women throw themselves at you."

"I've seen very little throwing," he said.

I laughed.

"You must not have been flexing your bicep," I said, grinning.

"Damn! Just think of all the thrown women I could have had!"

"You're getting Alephin's cum all over your cock," I said.

"I know. And it's making me harder."

I smiled. I was surprised, but as long as he was happy, I was. He bent down and kissed me while I felt his cock pulsing inside me. I wrapped my arms around his neck, and my legs around his waist. His cock softened slightly. I wasn't surprised. He'd had many orgasms. He pulled out of me and stood. As I got of the bed, he held his hand out for me. His chest and belly hair had some of his spunk on it from when we kissed. I still had plenty on my body, though.

"I had no idea he was going to try to unmate you to Wayne," he said. That was true. I had forgotten to tell him. "What about Keith and Jerry?"

I wondered if I was still mated to them.

"I really don't know. Alephin thought the bond would disappear, but we're dealing with clones! Who knows?"

"And you want that? Only me for your mate?"

I sighed. "Sometimes. I wish I could answer that with certainty, but I just met Jerry last night. And I love Keith. I also don't want Keith or Jerry to be hurt."

We walked out of the bedroom. Alephin was in the living room with Rince, my father, Tom, Wayne, Keith, and Jerry. My father and Alephin were both naked. I wondered if my father was going to breed me. Maybe it would be a reward for doing what he wanted. I hoped so.

Cum was running freely down one of my legs. I was glad Alephin didn't have carpet. It could just be wiped up off the hardwood floor. Wayne saw me and almost certainly smelled me. He shifted while he was pulling his shirt off. He became a snarling wolf in short pants. I assumed it was the smell of Alephin's cum on me that angered him. I was scared, very briefly, but then Dad, Alephin, and Dave shifted. They moved in front of me and growled back at Wayne. Jerry and Keith moved next to me. Keith moved me back, behind him.

"What the hell is going on?" Jerry asked. No one answered.

It was my father Wayne leapt at. He snapped at Dad's head and got an ear in his mouth. He shook his head and tore Dad's ear off. My dad yelped and I found myself shifting into my wolf. I was ready to attack Wayne, when Keith grabbed me. "Don't!" he said. "Let the Alpha and Dave handle it." I stopped struggling when I saw Jerry pull off his clothes. He shifted and leapt on Wayne, who was circling Dad on the floor. Blood was dripping from the side of Dad's wolf's head. Wayne's wolf saw Jerry's, and he bit at Jerry's throat as he came down. Wayne twisted his head and I heard flesh tear. I shifted back to human. I ran around Alephin and Dave. Jerry panted as a pool of blood formed around him on the floor. Wayne stood there, panting. I watched blood spurting from an artery in Jerry's neck. Wayne shifted back to human. He said something, but I didn't hear it.

"Shift, Jerry! Shift!" I said.

He just lay his head down. I assumed he was too weak to shift. Blood continued to be pumped onto the floor. It needed to be stopped, but how? I looked around and people were just staring. I wanted to scream at them. But what could they do? Jerry needed an ambulance or surgeon. Neither one were likely to be anywhere near us. Jerry would be dead by the time help arrived. To my left, I saw Alephin shift back to human. Immediately after that, I lost consciousness.

"Jjjjj. Jaa. Jack. Jake, wake up."

I opened my eyes. I saw Dave and Keith.

"How do you feel?"

At first, I wasn't sure what that meant. Then my brain kicked in.

"Uh. I don't know. What...where..."

I looked around. I was in a room I'd never seen before. I saw Jerry walk into the room.

"Jerry!" I said.

"Hello, Hero!" he said, smiling.

"Hero?"

"You saved my life!"

Then I remembered what had happened. The fight. Jerry's body.

"How?"

"You had this thing grow out of your hand that attached itself to Jerry's torn artery." Keith said. "It held the two ends together. You also supplied blood to him. You gave him so much, you lost consciousness and we couldn't wake you to get you to shift. We couldn't take Jerry to the ER because you were attached to his neck and unconscious. Alephin had a Vin-Ta surgeon flown in. You were surgically cut off Jerry. Then he repaired Jerry's artery and sewed your---whatever it was, so it wouldn't bleed. Jerry was strong enough from the blood you gave him to shift. Then he was fine."

It was so unbelievable, I wondered if I was dreaming.

"You've been getting blood, fluid, and glucose through IV's," Dave said. "Tom supplied the blood."

"And Wayne?"

"He's dead." I felt numb about him. I wasn't happy or sad he was dead.

"Is everyone else OK?"

"Yeah. We are in Tom's house. We'll be living here."

Jerry sat on the bed and leaned over and kissed me gently on the lips.

"Thank you," he said.

I smiled at him.

"We heard that Alephin removed your mating bond to Dad. Am I---are we---still your mates?" Keith asked.

I thought about it. My brain was fuzzy, though.

"Let me see your dick," I said.

Keith grinned and pulled it out. I reached for it and he moved closer to me.

"I still love it."

Keith, Dave, and Jerry all laughed.

"Well, I guess I don't care, then," Keith said, putting his dick away.

I smiled at him.

I looked at Jerry. "How do you feel about your Dad?"

"I still have trouble believing he tried to kill me. The whole thing is kind of a blur in my mind. I don't even remember shifting. But there were witnesses. And lots and lots of pictures."

Lisa walked into the room. She smiled when she saw I was awake.

"I am so sorry about Wayne," I said to Lisa.

She shook her head.

"He got what he deserved. He tried to kill our son. That is unforgivable."

"How are you going to explain his death?" I asked her.

"He fell off the roof and broke his neck," she said.

I supposed someone broke his neck. Maybe Alephin.

"Speaking of penises," Jerry said.

"We were?" I asked.

"Keith's! You know," Jerry said.

"Oh. Should we be talking about yours?" I asked.

Jerry laughed. "Not right now! But did you know I'm 'Mom with a penis'?" Jerry said to me.

I laughed. "What? Don't tell me you are pregnant, too."

"Hey, that's right! You are a mom with a dick," Jerry said.

"I guess I will tell you the story, so you'll know what Jerry is talking about," Lisa said. "We wanted one son and one daughter. That was our agreement before cloning began. Keith was to be the son and a clone of me would have been our daughter. But Wayne had another clone of himself started after Keith was born. I didn't find out he'd done it until Jerry was born. I told them I used to think of Jerry as 'me, with a penis'. Not that I didn't love him, but our second child was supposed to be me. I found out later that Wayne told the doctor I didn't want to know the sex, so the doctor kept it from me. Wayne thought a clone of himself was much more `useful' than a clone of me."

I shook my head.

"It's pronounced 'Mwop'," Jerry said.

I laughed. "What is?"

"Mom with a penis. M.W.A.P. 'Mwap'."

"I think I will call you Jerry. I would feel funny calling you any kind of penis."

They all laughed.

It wasn't until then that I realized my right arm was wrapped in gauze. I lifted it up and saw it was almost a foot longer than my left arm!

"Do you feel up to shifting?" Dave asked.

I frowned as I looked at the end of my arm, where my hand should have been. What was under the bandages? But I was too tired to worry. I concentrated on my arm and felt it shift back to normal. Then I fell asleep, again.

I woke up with the sun on my face. I looked around. I was next to an enclosed pool. Dave walked over to me. I watched his cock grow erect in front of me.

"How do you feel?" he asked.

"Hungry!" I said. "Starving, actually."

I was about to reach for his erection when I heard footsteps. I looked up and saw my mother. I jumped up and ran over to her. As I hugged her, I realized I was dizzy. But I had her to hold on to. She laughed.

"I guess you are better!" Keith said, as he climbed out of the pool. He was wearing a Speedo, and he looked amazing. I wanted to take his dick out of his swimsuit and get his and Dave's inside me. While I looked at his crotch, Keith's erection pushed his swimsuit away from his waist. I still wanted Keith very much. I was glad that breaking the mating bond to Wayne hadn't made me lose interest. I turned back to my mother. Both Keith and Dave pulled up chairs in front of me. I wondered why Keith was wearing a swimsuit. That was something humans did. But he had been raised as a human.

"How long have you been here?"

"I got here last night," she said.

Dave reached over and took my hand.

"Alpha George wanted to come," she said.

"Oh, no! He would have a fit if he saw this place."

Mom nodded. "I can just imagine introducing him to your three male mates!

"I'm proud of you, Jack," she said.

"For what?" I asked.

I heard an echo of people, including Dave and Keith saying, "For what!"

"For saving Jerry's life, of course."

I didn't know what to say. I didn't deliberately save his life and I didn't remember saving his life. I only remembered wanting someone to save him. I was told I had done it, and I was very glad. But I felt I shouldn't take credit for something involuntary. But my mother was proud of me. I didn't want to argue with her.

"How long was I unconscious?" I asked Dave.

"I guess it's been almost twenty-four hours," he said. Keith nodded.

Keith mouthed, "Love you," to me. I wondered why he didn't say it aloud.

"I love you, Keith," I said. Then I pulled Dave's hand to my mouth and kissed it.

Keith looked so relieved.

"We think you fainted the last time because you were so hungry," Jerry said, as he walked up to us. "Here." He handed me two identical cans.

"What is it?"

"Liquid nutrition. The doctor said you should drink two cans of this. Then shift to make sure everything is back to normal. Then you can eat solid food." I nodded to Jerry. He looked good, too.

"The doctor said you can't make more blood by shifting," Jerry said. "That seems strange."

"It's true, though," my mother said. "You can't make something out of nothing."

"Why aren't you wearing a Speedo?" I asked Jerry.

"I guess he doesn't want food first," Keith said. Dave chuckled.

"You want to see me in one?" Jerry asked me.

I nodded my head. He ran away so fast, I had to laugh.

I took a gulp of the drink. It tasted pretty good.

"Where is Dad?" I asked Mom.

"He and Tom are grilling steaks and hamburgers. They seem to be developing a nice relationship. Both of us really wish we had known when Tom's Vin-Ta parents left him. He should never have been placed with human parents. If he was anything like you, I can't imagine what his human parents thought. And we would have loved raising him."

I nodded.

"I would love to have you move here, Mom."

She sighed.

"I know. The reason we won't is still the same," she said.

"How do you feel about losing your father?" I asked Keith.

"Weird. I keep expecting him to walk up."

I nodded.

"Is Lisa depressed?"

My mother laughed.

"Oh. Right. She has a new mate," I said.

"No. That's not it," Keith said. "She told us she just felt relieved. She said she knew Wayne would never let her leave him for Jerr. She was afraid he would become violent and attack Jerr. She figured Jerr wouldn't try to defend himself, since Dad was his mate's husband. And then he did become violent."

"Still, it has to be terribly depressing to you to lose your father," I said to Keith.

"I guess I should be upset. Maybe I will be someday."

I didn't know what to say to that. Did I want Keith to be upset?

"I would like to speak to Jack alone for just a bit," Mom said to the others.

They left. Mom sat on a lawn chair and I sat next to one.

"Jack, are you happy?"

I was silent for a moment, deciding for myself.

"I don't know. Everything has moved so quickly, and there have been so many changes, I don't think I've had time to adjust to anything. I hope things will slow down."

Mom nodded.

"Did you want just one mate? That was what your father and I hoped for, and he got the impression you did, too."

I sighed.

"I don't know for certain. The main reason one mate sounded good was I didn't want to listen to my mates arguing with each other constantly. But I just want them to not argue. I don't want to lose one of them." Mom nodded.

"Do you um, like it? I know what you had to do to get pregnant," she said. I thought she was asking about getting fucked in the ass. Could things get more awkward than discussing anal sex with my mother? I didn't think so.

"I, well, I enjoyed getting pregnant. Is that what you mean?"

She nodded her head.

"Well, that's fine then, I suppose."

"Does Dad think I should just have Dave as a mate because he thinks Keith and Jerry will be like their father?" I asked her.

"That's part of it. Now that I've met them, I can see they aren't much like Wayne." I nodded. "Wayne was arrogant and condescending. I took an immediate dislike to the man. Lisa, on the other hand, is charming. We spoke for quite a while last night. Her sons obviously take after her."

I nodded.

"You asked me if I am happy. I really don't want anything else to change. I just want everything to stay the same for a while."

I heard a deep voice chuckling.

I turned and saw Alephin approaching. I stood up, quickly. It made me a little dizzy and Alephin grabbed me to keep me from losing my balance.

"Said the pup who is pregnant with triplets and who just converted himself into a one-man trauma center," Alephin said.

I looked up at his face. "I guess things will change."

"You better believe it! But not all change is bad. You are here in Techupawa and safe. You are surrounded by people who love you. And your future looks bright."

I nodded my head.

"Do you wish you could undo the changes and go back to Mountain Gap?" he asked me.

"Definitely not!"

"Well, there you are. Without change, that is where you'd be."

Alephin put his fingers under my chin and tilted my face up. I wondered what was wrong, but he bent down and thrust his tongue into my mouth. I moaned as the Alpha kissed me. I wrapped my arms tightly around the big Alpha. I moaned again as Alephin rubbed his erection against me. He had just proved his point. I was making out with the hottest male on the planet and that was a very good change. I felt completely safe and loved. Alephin cupped my ass and pulled me closer to him. My asshole began spasming in need. And what it needed was Alephin's big, Alpha cock. I hoped the Alpha would breed me. Then I remembered my mother was there. Alephin pulled away from the kiss. I pressed my face against his chest and sniffed. I could smell him and his lust. My wolf was ecstatic. This big, powerful, sexy Alpha lusted after me!

"I'm very proud of you, pup," he said. I smiled. "Despite the fact that I can't take any credit for what you did. I want you to know that no one has ever been more welcome in my pack."

"Well said, Alephin," my mother said.

"Thank you, sir," I said, smiling.

Alephin took my hand and placed it on his crotch. I grinned at him as I groped him. I squeezed and rubbed his erection. Fortunately, my mother was behind him and couldn't see. I knew what he was silently telling me and it was amazing---I pleased him and he would let me enjoy his cock whenever I wanted. I was really tempted to pull his shorts down and get liquid nutrition from him! But then I realized it was more than that. He wasn't just giving me sex, Alephin loved me and I loved him. I could feel his love for me, and I could also feel his erection. It made me feel special. I suddenly felt bursting with energy. I slipped my hand in one leg of his shorts and cupped his heavy balls in my hand. I forgot all about my mother. He just grinned at me. We loved each other, and I could do that. I pulled his cock out of the same leg of his shorts. I just admired it for a few seconds. Then I ran my fingertips lightly over the shaft. It began jumping and his precum began flowing onto my hand. I fondled my big Alpha's nuts while I caressed his cock. I looked up at his face. He was very handsome.

"I love you, Alephin," I said.

"I love you, too, pup. You are very precious to me." I smiled. "I'm very pleased you feel so comfortable around me that you can take my cock out to play with it. You can also take it out when you want to suck on it, or get fucked with it. And you can do it anywhere, except in my bedroom. I share that only with Rince. Never feel uncomfortable for wanting me or needing me. I want to smell your lust whenever I'm near you."

I nodded.

"Now finish your drinks, shift and eat."

I nodded as Alephin turned to leave. I looked at my mother. She seemed a little shocked by what she'd seen and heard. There wasn't anything I could do about that. My lust for him had made him happy and as my Alpha, it was important that I make him happy. I thought Alephin was absolutely perfect and I hoped he never changed. It was a shame that Alpha George didn't share Alephin's attitude about sex. I could have made him happy. I probably would have spent most of each day trying to make his cock shoot in me or on me. It was his loss.

I finished drinking the first can in one long gulp. I made it halfway through the second can when I started to feel nauseous.

"Drink it a little more slowly," my mother said. "Or just read the ingredients. That will take a while."

I did and laughed.

"How did they get all this stuff into it?" I asked her. "It looks like they crammed a whole chemistry lab into it!"

She shrugged.

I drank the rest of the second can more slowly. I could smell the food cooking and I couldn't wait to eat.

"You really like Alephin," my mother said.

"I do. I love him."

"Don't ever forget he has a mate," she said. "While Alephin may welcome your advances, his mate may not."

I sighed and nodded. I hadn't thought of that.

"There is something I have to ask, Jack. Do you resent us for keeping you from your mate?" my mother asked me. I was surprised the question.

"You mean Wayne? No. Not a bit."

"I don't mean Wayne."

"I don't resent you for any reason, but maybe you should tell me who you mean."

"I mean your father. Keeping two mates from each other is a serious crime in most, if not all packs."

"Wow! My mother is a hardened criminal!" I said.

She laughed.

"I'm not hardened!"

"No. Mom. He's your mate and I would feel extremely guilty just kissing him. I'm worried about hurting Rince. I would be terrified of hurting you."

Mom nodded.

"I have three mates. That's plenty."

"Good."

I finally finished the second can of chemicals and shifted. When I shifted back, I felt great, but very hungry.

Mom took my hand and led me out of the house. We were in a small yard that was enclosed on all four sides by Tom's house. I supposed that made it a courtyard. It would be more secure than a normal yard, but definitely not as sunny. I saw that there were more and bigger windows looking out at the courtyard. The yard was pretty full of people. They all turned and cheered when they saw me. I smiled, but when I saw a bowl fill of potato chips, I walked over quickly and ate a couple of handfuls of chips. Then I felt a little more normal. Dave came over and put his arm around me.

"Do you feel OK?"

"I feel great!"

"Good!"

Dave kissed me, briefly. I leaned against him as Jerry walked up to me in a Speedo. He looked every bit as sexy as his older brother. He stopped in front of me. I pulled the waist band out and looked at his dick.

"Very nice!"

He grinned. Then he moved behind me and wrapped his arms around me. I leaned my head back against the top of Jerry's chest.

I looked around the yard. I saw Tom and his two mates talking to a man I hadn't met. Alephin was drinking a beer. He saw me looking and winked at me. I smiled. There was a swing set in the yard and two outdoor tables with yellow and white-striped umbrellas over them. The sky was overcast with a few dark clouds to the south. I thought we might need those umbrellas.

Keith walked over to me carrying a paper plate with a hamburger on it.

"Your mother loaded it the way you like," he said. "Your steak is coming, but it will be a while."

"Jack likes his well-done," my dad called out from the grill.

"Well done?" Dave asked,

"Yesssss. That is how I like them," I said, defensively.

"Don't you eat when you're a wolf?" Dave asked.

"Yes. I eat steaks, if they're well done," I said. "Do you have a problem with that?"

"I don't get it," Jerry said. "I like mine medium-well. Are we supposed to like raw meat, now?"

"Most wolves eat prey they catch. It is always raw, of course," Dave said to Jerry.

"You just ignore him," Keith said. "Your other two mates don't think you are crazy. I'm not eating raw meat, either."

Keith was grinning, so I couldn't get mad.

"I didn't say he was crazy!" Dave said. "And we promised not to fight!"

"Good!" I said. "I'm glad you aren't going to fight." I turned to Dave. "But I think I better eat with Jerry and Keith. Don't you think so?"

Dave looked shocked.

"That is not a fight you are going to win, son," Dad said to Dave. "If you push him, he will cover it with ketchup and tell you it's blood."

Lisa laughed.

"I think it's great you like your meat that way," Dave said. I laughed.

We walked over to one of the tables and sat. I leaned against Dave. Mom brought a plate with a steak on it to Dave. The meat was so rare that the white paper plate was already soaked red. It was very unappetizing to me.

I took a bite of my burger. It was perfect! I ate it quickly. So quickly that by the time a woman I hadn't met brought a bowl of potato salad over, I was finished.

"Dessert!" I said, laughing.

"I'll get you another one!" Lisa said.

Dave's paper plate had come apart when he tried to cut his steak. Most of it was on the table, not the plate. I didn't say anything.

I felt a lot better. I dished out a huge glob of potato salad and ate it.

"Boy, this is so much better than the dorm food," I said to Keith.

"It sure is."

Alephin sat down at our table.

"The doctor who cut you away from Jerry and patched him up wants to write an article about what you did, pup."

"For like a medical journal?"

"For Vin-Ta, yeah. He said he's never seen or even heard about anything like it."

"You aren't going to let him, are you?" Dave asked.

"No," Alephin said.

"Why not?" Jerry asked.

"It would make Jack even more valuable," Dave said. "One more reason to kidnap him."

Jerry nodded.

"I don't understand how I did it."

"There are pictures," Keith said. "Lots of them."

"At first I thought he was a photographer," Lisa said. "You were both lying there in blood and he was taking pictures!"

I decided not to question what happened. I did it. Somehow. Part of me knew what needed to be done and did it. Maybe I'd seen something like it on a medical TV show and forgot I'd seen it. The only problem with that theory was that I couldn't remember ever watching a medical TV show!

"Mom wants to give you Dad's life insurance money," Keith said. "When we get it, I mean."

"Why?"

"For saving Jerry."

I started to protest, but Keith and Jerry were my family and they were Wayne's sons. I had no desire to keep our finances separate, so the money was staying in the family.

"That's nice. She might need it, though."

"She doesn't. Dad had a lot in savings."

"Oh, good."

"Hey! That means you own some land near here," I said to Keith. "Let's start our own pack!"

I laughed at the expressions on the faces around me.

"I'm kidding!"

I thought about asking who killed Wayne, but it would probably ruin a nice day. I figured it had to be Alephin or my dad. I didn't think Keith or Dave could do it.

Tom joined us. One of his mates sat, too.

"I'm sorry. I don't remember whether you are Luke or Howard," I said.

"I'm Luke."

"How are you feeling? Do you still feel weak?" Tom asked.

"No. I feel great."

"I was going to bring the babies out after we finish, but it looks like rain," Tom said.

"Tom and his mates have two babies," Dave said. "A boy and a girl."

"The boy is Luke's and the girl is Dag's. Dag is in Hephin's pack," Tom said.

"He's the one who paid you?" I asked him.

"Yeah. We built this house and beefed up security throughout the pack with the money. I'll give you a tour of the house whenever you want."

I nodded.

"How did you deliver them? The babies? Did they have to cut them out?" I asked.

"No. It was a lot like using the bathroom."

I remembered where they were in my body.

"That must have really hurt!" I said.

"No. It didn't really. It was quick and easy. I don't think it took more than fifteen minutes to deliver both. And then everything was back to normal in my body. The uncomfortable part was having two babies inside me. It really limits your mobility."

"And I may be having three!"

Tom nodded.

"Hephin carried three. He delivered them with no problem, but he said he would never do it, again. You are quite a bit bigger than he was at the time, so that will help."

"Go ahead and tell him," Alephin said to Tom.

Tom looked very irritated.

"Tell me what? Are they dead? My babies? What?"

Tom sighed.

"No. Alephin is referring to a---fight---"

"It was an attack, not a fight," Luke said.

Tom looked annoyed.

"Why don't you tell him, then?" Tom said to Luke.

"We were living at Hephin's pack for a while, even though we were in Alephin's pack. There was a party and there was a lot of sex going on. The air was heavy with the scent of lust. Tom thought one of Hephin's mates was hot. Hephin had been drinking and his wolf saw Tom's lust as an attempt to take Dregor—that's the guy's name—from him. Hephin's wolf attacked Tom, ripping his stomach open, and eating part of his liver." I stared, dumbfounded.

"We aren't having liver are we?" Jerry asked.

We all laughed nervously. Then we got back to the gruesome story.

"Tom managed to shift before he died. But he was a lot smaller afterwards."

Hephin was Alephin's grandson. I wondered what his reaction was.

"Hephin was drinking," Tom said.

"He was drunk," Luke said.

"Anyway, he apologized profusely and begged forgiveness. I told him I would forgive him if he gave up drinking. And he has. My parents were—are—alcoholics. I know what alcohol can do. My parents were violent every evening and repentant every morning. As far as I'm concerned, what happened that day is history. But it keeps coming up. It's like a scab that is almost ready to fall off, when someone yanks it off, leaving a wound."

I nodded.

"I've heard the term, but what is a scab? Is it like a scar?" I asked.

"It's dried blood," Keith said. "A scab covers a wound until it heals. Anyway Jerry and I used to get them. Dad got them, too, but his disappeared overnight. Ours didn't."

It took a while for that to sink in. Wayne healed his own wounds by shifting, but he made his son's do it the hard way. It was another reason to dislike Wayne. But had Lisa done the same thing?

"Another thing you have to know is that Hephin is young. He was sixteen, I think, at the time," Tom said.

"Oh."

"He should be over to visit soon," Tom said. "I expect Alephin thought you should be told before he gets here. Otherwise, if it comes up, Hephin will burst into tears and beg me to forgive him all over again."

"It puts a damper on parties," Luke said.

"I can see the story bothers you," Tom said. "But Hephin is a good guy. I know he wouldn't have lost control of his wolf if he hadn't been drinking. I blame the alcohol and his judgement. Sixteen year olds don't always have good judgement."

I nodded.

"Speaking of Hephin, where's Rince?" I asked Alephin.

"He is at Hephin's. Our pups go over there to play with Hephin's. Tom's aren't old enough. He will be here, with Hephin and the pups, soon."

I nodded.

"So we are going to live with you until we get our own place?" I asked Tom.

Tom frowned.

"I hoped it would be permanent. Do you want your own house?"

"I don't really know. It just seemed like the thing to do."

"You'll like it here," Dave said to me.

I looked at Keith.

"I go where you go," he said.

I saw Rod standing near the grill. He had a gun in a holster. At the end of our table, I saw Lobo. He also was carrying a gun. He smiled at me and I smiled back.

Dad brought a platter covered with steaks. He put mine on a plate and handed it to me. A woman came over to the table and left a bowl of pasta salad.

We all crowded around one table while we ate. It meant some people ate off their laps. The pasta salad was great, as was the steak. Tom had two full-time cooks, for three adults, which seemed weird. But they were pack members who had nothing to do. Tom paid them to work for him and everyone was happy. It meant any of us could request any food at any time. He pointed out that I would be a lot hungrier once my babies (if they were still alive) began growing, and it wouldn't just be at mealtimes.

Every time I looked, Jerry was looking at me. He had a strange expression on his face that wasn't lust. But when my gaze went down to his crotch, I watched his cock grow hard. Then I could smell lust! He pulled his erection out of his swimsuit and showed it to me. I seriously considered sucking him. But my mother was there. I turned back around and continued eating.

The same thing was going on with Lobo. Every time I looked at him, he was looking at me. I saw him put one hand under the table. I had the strongest suspicion he was groping himself while he looked at me. Was it lust? It was too windy to smell. In fact, it looked like it was about to start raining.

"Where's Jerr?" I asked Lisa.

"We are getting our own house. Right now, Jerr lives with his parents. Anyway, Jerr and some of his friends are cleaning our new place."

"The house is in good shape, but it hasn't been lived in in over five years," Alephin said.

I nodded.

"I wanted to help, but he insisted on doing it since I'm in mourning."

"Oh." She didn't seem to be mourning, but I could certainly understand if she was. She must have loved Wayne to stay with him so long--over forty years.

"Are you in mourning? Should we be?" Keith asked her.

She sighed.

"I know I should be, but I have Jerr and you two have Jack."

"It's hard to be unhappy when you first meet your mate," Alephin said.

"Exactly!" she said. "I know I will miss him. On the other hand, he did try to kill you, Jerry. Right now I'm still furious about that. I think it will be a while before I mourn. I'm not sure I want to admit that to Jerr, though. I don't want him to think I'm cold."

I nodded.

"You don't have to worry about that, Lisa," Alephin said. "He was there when you found out Wayne tried to kill Jerry. How could that not affect your feelings toward Wayne? Jerr just wants to do something nice for you. He probably used mourning as an excuse."

Lisa smiled at Alephin.

"How are you getting on with Jerr's parents?" I asked Lisa. "Are they happy Jerr found his mate?"

Lisa sighed.

"About as happy as I would have been if, at fourteen, Jerry or Keith brought home a woman my age as a girlfriend."

"Oh. I'm sorry."

She shrugged. "Tom let us spend last night over here."

"They'll adjust," Alephin said to Lisa.

"Yeah. I know. I understand exactly how they feel, but there isn't anything we can do about it. Neither of us can wait until he's older," she said.

"I would be very unhappy if you did," Alephin said. "You would be making two members of my pack miserable."

She nodded.

I glanced at Dave's crotch and saw he had taken his dick out of his shorts. I reached over and held it. Lisa and Jerr weren't the only ones who couldn't wait. I needed my mates. But my parents were there, and who knew when I would see them again. I could smell Dave's precum before I felt it on my hand. I used it as lube and began stroking him.

"Jack, your mates' lust is affecting me. They need you badly. Would you mind taking them to your room? Once they've bred you, you can rejoin us," Tom said.

I smiled at him. "Sorry!"

I turned to my parents. "When are you leaving?"

"We haven't decided," my father said. "Not today or tomorrow. Go. I'm certain Jerry wants to thank you again and again—"

"And again!" Jerry added.

"We'll have plenty of time to visit. I don't want you neglecting your mates."

"Thanks, Dad."

I stood up and my three mates stood as well.

"Where are we staying?" I asked.

"Oh. I forgot you don't know where our rooms are," Dave said.

He took my hand and we walked back inside the house. We entered the pool room and I noticed for the first time that it was a beautifully landscaped room, with tropical plants, many of which were blooming and a large waterfall surrounded by ferns.

We walked into the kitchen and passed a very large living room. We went up a flight of stairs and entered a bedroom. It was the room I remembered from the first time I woke, although I hadn't noticed how large the room was. There was one small window at the back of the room. My mates pulled off their clothes and I was greeted by their three erections.

"Keith and Jerry are worried about whether they are still your mates. And we all need to find out whether they are. I'll just watch for now," Dave said. Dave then sat in a chair and began slowly stroking his cock. He looked incredibly hot. He slapped his erection in the palm of his hand and precum flew a couple of feet before landing on the floor. I groaned. I felt Keith's hand on my ass. I turned around.

"Is it too soon? Are you two sure you're ready? I mean your father died yesterday."

"We're ready," Jerry said. Keith nodded.

I reached down and cupped Keith's balls.

"Hey, they're smooth!" I said.

"Jerry and I shaved each other's balls last night. Do you like it?"

I rolled them gently in my hand.

"Yeah. They feel nice."

Keith pulled me into his arms and we kissed. I wrapped my arms around him and my hands roamed his back and butt. Meanwhile, my shorts were pulled down and I stepped out of them. I felt my butt cheeks pulled apart and groaned as Jerry's tongue lapped at my asshole. Keith's cock was drooling freely, pressed up against my belly. Jerry began jabbing at my hole with his tongue. I pulled away from our kiss and groaned in pleasure. I ran my hands over Keith's hairy chest and belly, before taking his cock in my hand.

"I think we can safely assume we are still mates," I said. "I want you just as much as I ever did. And that's a lot!"

Keith let out a sigh of relief.

"Fuck me, Jerry."

He stood. "We need lube, first."

"I'll get it," Dave said.

I turned around to face Jerry.

"Kiss me," I said. He grinned and did just that. I wrapped a hand around his erection and stroked it. I moaned as I felt cool, wet fingers push inside my ass.

While we kissed, I remembered how close we almost came to losing him. It was strange, but kissing Jerry was different than kissing Keith. It wasn't the technique that was different. He tasted the same and his tongue was the same size. I didn't know what the reason was. I was glad, though. They were different people.

I groaned as more fingers slid inside my ass. Both Dave and Keith had to have their fingers in me. I felt them pulling in opposite directions. Then a tongue slid inside my hole. I pulled away from Jerry's mouth and groaned loudly. The tongue was removed and another tongue slid inside. The two of them began alternately fucking my hole with their tongues and lapping at my insides while their fingers pulled in opposite directions to keep the hole open. Jerry knelt and took my cock in his mouth. I immediately came in a very intense orgasm. After I came, Jerry wanted to see what they were doing. He moved behind me.

"Oh, fuck! That looks like fun!" he said.

"We've got him loose. Your mate needs you to breed him," Dave said.

Jerry and I both groaned as he slid inside me. He wrapped his arms around me and kissed behind my ear. I turned my head back and we kissed. He fucked me very slowly. A mouth surrounded my cock and I came, again. I worried, briefly about coming so quickly. But a mouth swallowed my balls while one of my mates continued to suck me. I didn't come quickly a third time, even though it felt incredible. Jerry ran a hand down my chest to my cock. Then the hand travelled up to a nipple. He pinched and pulled it.

He pulled away from the kiss.

"I love you, Jack," he said softly into my ear, before sucking on my earlobe.

"I love you, too, Jerry."

I reached behind me and felt Jerry's hairy belly. I slid my hand down and felt the base of his cock. I reached below and took his smooth balls into my hand. I gently tugged on them while he slowly fucked me.

Jerry pulled out of my ass. He knelt and stuck his tongue in my loose hole. His lapping tongue made me crazy. He stood up and slid his cock back inside me. I let my head fall back against him.

"I wanted to taste the hole I'm fucking," he said, before licking a line from my ear to my chin.

"I want to taste the cock that's fucking me," I said.

"Yeah?" Jerry sighed.

Jerry made a soft grunting noise. I felt his cock pulsing inside me. I turned my head back and we kissed while he filled me. When his orgasm ended, he pulled slowly out of me. I felt his cum running down my leg. I tried to clinch my butt closed, but I didn't succeed.

Jerry brought a towel from a bathroom and wiped my leg.

"Dave, will you fuck me now? I want to suck Keith while you do it."

Dave didn't say anything and he didn't move.

"What's wrong?" I asked him.

"Uh. You've got...you're full of...well, Jerry's spunk. It will get all over me."

"Is getting lube all over your dick better?" I asked him.

"Yeah. A lot better."

"Keith, how do you feel?"

"I don't want Dave's cum on me. I guess I understand."

I sighed.

"We aren't fighting!" Dave said.

"I know," I said.

I thought for a minute. Maybe they would get over it as they became used to each other.

"What would you suggest?" I asked Dave.

"Maybe pull out before we come," Dave said. Keith nodded.

"Or I could give myself an enema after each," I said.

"You'll spend more time getting enemas than having sex," Keith said.

I shrugged. I didn't want to have a dozen or more enemas a day, anyway.

"You could come on my face and body," I suggested. They all grinned at that idea.

"That sounds perfect to me," Keith said.

"Me, too," Dave said. "We'll rub it into your skin."

"Jerry, they don't want to fuck me right now. Do you want to do it, again?" I asked him.

"Sure!"

"I'll fuck you," Keith said.

I wrapped my hand around his cock and pulled him to me by his fleshy handle. As I began stroking him, he kissed me. To my surprise, I felt Dave push inside my ass. He fucked me despite Jerry's cum. It made a squelching sound and caused more of Jerry's cream to run down my legs. I felt hands rubbing his spunk over my thighs and calves. It felt very nice, but it also made me smell like Keith and Jerry. I moaned into Keith's mouth as my cock found itself in a warm, wet mouth. Jerry sucked me while he finished rubbing his spunk into my skin. Jerry was very good at cock sucking. When I thought about how he'd learned to suck cock---by sucking his father and his older brother, I came hard. I pulled away from Keith's mouth and cried out as I came.

"Aw, fuck!" Dave said, as I felt his cock spasm inside me. He grabbed my hips and pulled me tightly against his crotch. I felt his cock throb as he shot his load deep inside me.

Keith put his hand behind my neck and pulled my face to his groin. I opened my mouth to suck him, but he had other ideas. He stroked himself twice and began shooting on my face. The feel of his spunk hitting my face made me come again in Jerry's mouth.

I stood back up. Keith grinned at me.

"You look even more handsome like that!" he said to me. I laughed. His spunk was dripping down my face. I was about to reach for a towel when Jerry stood. He took my head in his hands and licked some of it off my face. Then he kissed me until Keith's cum was gone. Dave began fucking me, again and Keith sucked me. Jerry licked more off my face and we kissed. He repeated it several times until my face was clean.

"I want you to teach me how to suck the way you do," I said to him. "You are so good at it."

"Sure!"

"I thought we can use Dave and Keith to practice on," I said.

"Jerry doesn't want to suck Dave," Keith said.

I looked at Jerry. He shrugged.

"I don't mind at all. I think Dave is really hot," Jerry said to me.

"He is!" I said. "And his cock is beautiful!"

"Yeah. I noticed," Jerry said.

"Are you serious?" Dave asked Jerry while he continued fucking me.

"I am gay, Dave. You are a very hot guy," Jerry said.

"Thanks, Jerry," he said.

"Jack and I can give your cock a good workout."

"Fuck!" Dave said.

"Have you ever had two mouths on your dick?" Jerry asked Dave.

"No. And I can't wait!"

"I wonder if you could fuck me while we suck Dave," I said to Jerry.

"What about me?" Keith said. "I can fuck you."

"That's true."

I looked at Jerry. "Can we do the same thing to Keith?"

"Oh, sure. I was blowing Keith a couple of times a day before he left for college."

"Keith might not like the idea," I said, grinning at Keith.

"I'll do anything for you, baby. Even get sucked by two people," Keith said.

"I want to talk to Jerry alone for a few minutes. It won't be more than five," I said.

"Is something wrong?" Keith asked.

"Nothing new, anyway."

Dave pulled out of me and wiped his cock with a towel. Then he and Keith put on shorts and left the room.

"How are you doing? Mentally, I mean?" I asked Jerry.

"You mean about Dad?"

"Yeah."

Jerry shook his head. "I don't know. I've been trying not to think about it. I know he loved me. But I have no idea why he tried to rip my throat out."

"And now you can't ask him," I said.

"Well, that's a good thing. Let's face it, what reason could he give that would explain it? I don't think I would be able to live with him, if he was alive." He put his arms around me. "If I didn't have you, Keith, and Dave, I would probably be crying right now."

I hugged him.

"We love you. I love you."

"I know. I'm absolutely sure of it. You risked your life to save me."

I sighed. I didn't know how to react to that. I wanted to save Jerry, but I hadn't intentionally saved Jerry. I didn't even know I could. Of course, if I had known I could, I would have intentionally done it. I supposed I should just accept the fact that it was done, and I did it. It was just so weird that I had somehow joined his arteries and somehow given him blood. I still didn't know how to do that, and I'd done it! How do you join arteries? How had I given him blood? Did I inject it? Did I put it in a vein or artery, and if so, which?

"How do you feel about him?" Jerry asked me. "He was your mate."

"I think I hate him."

Jerry looked surprised.

"Why did he have injectable methamphetamine at home?" I asked.

Jerry frowned.

"He said that a couple who had been renting a house from him disappeared and left a meth lab behind." I thought about that. It was believable. But why save the drug? It was illegal and dangerous. And even if he wasn't worried about possessing illegal drugs, he had teenagers who could conceivably abuse them.

"Did Lisa believe him?"

"Mom? Why wouldn't she?"

"Because if you found an illegal drug lab, wouldn't you destroy the illegal drugs along with the equipment?"

Jerry looked surprised.

"I never thought of it that way. I'll ask Mom."

"He said he got three injections of the drug. I wonder if that affected his behavior," I said. "Maybe made him more aggressive."

"Dave got three, too," Jerry said. "I know, because I was giving the injections. He seemed normal to me."

"Yeah. Me, too."

"And Lobo had four. He helped take Dad's body. He was shocked, like all of us, but not angry."

"Oh."

"I think it's nice of you to try to blame someone but him, but I already had this conversation with Mom. She really wants to believe it wasn't Dad."

I nodded. I remembered what Dad had said. That he and my mother were never happy Wayne was my mate.

"How did he die?" I asked Jerry.

"Keith said that after he shifted back to human, he attacked Alephin. Alephin broke his neck."

I shook my head.

"Are any of you mad at Alephin—or me?" I asked.

"You? Are you crazy?"

I sighed.

"If I hadn't asked Alephin to remove my mating bond to him, none of it might have happened," I said.

"Your father said he was the one who asked Alephin to do it. Mom understood why your father did it. She doesn't blame you or your father. Or Alephin. That's why she hoped it was the drug. Because she couldn't blame anyone else."

I walked to the bedroom door and opened it. Dave and Keith were standing there.

"Come on in," I said.

"Is anything wrong?" Dave asked.

"No. We were talking about Wayne and the attack," I said.

Dave and Keith both nodded.

"I would like to spend some time alone with each of you every day," I said.

"That's a terrific idea," Keith said.

"Yeah. I like it," Dave said.

"Having three-ways is great, as far as sex, but I want romance, too," I told them.

"We all probably do," Dave said. "It would be nice if each of us could sleep alone with you, occasionally."

I looked at Keith and Jerry. They nodded their heads.

There was a loud crack of thunder.

"Maybe we should check to see if they need help bringing stuff inside," Dave said.

We all put on shorts. I smiled at Keith.

"You look a lot better in a jockstrap," I said. Keith grinned. "Especially when you bend over."

"Oh, ho. Do you want to fuck Keith?" Jerry asked.

"No. Just rim him."

"You can rim me," Dave said. "I won't mind."

I laughed.

"Clothing seems to be optional here," Dave said. "Would you like to see all of us that way?"

"Hell, yeah!"

We walked downstairs. We ran into Tom in the kitchen. He was taking bottles of milk out of a container of water.

His mate Luke ran inside carrying food. The Mom and Dad came inside carrying more things.

I looked out the window. It was raining hard.

"We are going over to Alephin's house," Dad said. "He wants to show us his babies."

"Oh. OK."

Alephin walked into the house.

"Feeling better," he asked us.

"Oh, yeah," I said. My mates agreed with me.

"There's nothing like a lot of orgasms to brighten your day, eh?"

I smiled at Alephin and nodded. I would have said more, but my parents were there. But my dad was my mate. I should be able to discuss sex with my mate!

"Let's go next door," Alephin said to my parents.

"Won't you get awfully wet?" Keith asked.

"An underground tunnel connects the two houses," Alephin said. "The entrance is in the pool room, behind the waterfall. Tom will need to get your fingerprints into the system before you can use it without one of us."

"Wow!"

My parents and Alephin left.

Tom put the bottles on a tray.

"Are those for your babies?" Jerry asked Tom. "I need to learn to a lot about babies."

"Yeah." Keith said.

"Yes. It's formula. I don't breastfeed," he said.

"Breastfeed? Can you? I mean, is it possible?" I asked.

"Oh, yeah. We produce milk. It's just too—"

"Weird?" I suggested. I didn't think I wanted to breastfeed, either.

Tom nodded. "So the babies get formula. As far as information about babies, I bought a lot of books on the subject. Or you can search the web. There are a lot of really great sites for first-time mothers. I'll show them to you--the sites and the books. But actually, the nursemaids do all the work. We have two. We'll hire more when your babies are born."

"Two nursemaids for two kids?" Dave asked.

Tom laughed.

"We employ a lot of pack members. I don't even know how many. We've got the nursemaids, cooks, housekeepers, gardeners, and a guy who takes care of the pool. They need jobs and we have way more money than we need. It works out. I was just doing this because I don't want to be completely uninvolved in their care." I nodded. "Mostly I just hold them and play with them. I know how to change a diaper, but it bothers the nursemaids when I do it."

Keith moved next to me and put his arm around me. I grinned at him. I slid my hand in the back of his shorts and held one of his cheeks.

"Jack wants us to wear jockstraps around the house," Keith said. "Is that OK with you?"

"It sure is. Damn! That sounds great! I wonder if I can get Luke and Howard to do it."

"Where can we buy some? Should we get them online?" Jerry asked.

"They probably have the plain athletic ones in the pack store. For anything fancy, you'd probably need to get them online."

"I've seen some really hot ones online," Jerry said. "Like ones made with black mesh or leather. We should get some cock rings, too."

"There's plenty of cock rings at home," Keith said.

"Why do we need them?" Dave asked. "Jack is going to keep us all hard."

"They make the veins bulge," Jerry said. "I used to put them on Keith and Dad before they fucked me. I preferred the feel of a veiny cock sliding in and out of me."

I hugged Jerry. "I'm glad you know so much. I want you to teach me stuff like that. And I plan to put on cock ring on you before you fuck me."

Jerry grinned.

"Did you like the way it felt?" Dave asked Keith.

"Yeah."

"I'm curious to try them out on my mates," Tom said.

"Is it safe to order things over the internet?" Dave asked.

"The packages get delivered to the front gate. They are scanned to make sure the contents aren't dangerous before being brought into the pack. The scanner was expensive, so we might as well get some use out of it."

"You aren't planning to go home to pack your things, are you?" I asked Keith.

Keith frowned. "We were planning to do that. But I guess it isn't safe."

"Definitely not," Tom said. "Whoever was behind the kidnapping attempt is probably having the house watched. You should talk to Rod and Lobo. You're paying them."

"I should take these bottles to the nursery," Tom said. "I'll be right back."

Tom left with the two bottles.

"Are you OK with living here?" Keith asked me.

"With Tom?"

"Yeah."

"I like Tom," I said.

"I meant, do you want us to get our own place?"

"This is the safest place in Alephin's pack. He told me that last night," Dave said.

"OK," Keith said.

Tom came back. "The nursemaid is feeding them."

"I wonder if mine are alive," I said. "My three little bitty babies."

"They probably are," Tom said. "They are basically just fertilized eggs at this point. If they can stay alive in a freezer, why couldn't they live through what happened to you?"

"I don't know what you mean about freezers," I said.

"When in-vitro fertilization is performed, they usually fertilize several eggs. They freeze the extras in case the first one doesn't take or the couple want more kids."

"Oh! I didn't know that!"

I sighed.

"One of them is Wayne's."

"Maybe we could say the baby is Jerry's," Dave said. "Keith and I each have one."

Keith nodded, but Jerry didn't seem too wild about the idea.

"The baby will be my brother or sister," Jerry said. "I don't want to lie to them."

"Oh!"

"We have plenty of time to decide what to do," Keith said.

"What are your rules about sex?" Dave asked Tom. He turned to me. "One of Alephin's kids was here this morning."

"The kids will see sex all over the pack. You wouldn't believe the amount of sex that goes on at Alephin's house. Believe me, his kids have seen people having sex. We aren't going to hide it completely," Tom said. "But nothing makes me lose an erection faster than having a three year-old walk up and ask what we're doing." I laughed. "So we generally stop until they leave, or we go into a bedroom." I nodded. "I've talked to Rince about it and he feels the same way. Alephin doesn't, so it's a good idea to be subtle, if he's around. He especially doesn't want them getting the idea that sex is dirty and should be hidden. We really don't have to worry about it for a while. Alephin's kids have seen it all before, and mine are too young. They would have no idea what they were saying. As they get older, I may feel differently. I just don't know. You'll probably see us having sex."

"That's fine with me," I said.

"I'm looking forward to it!" Jerry said.

"Tom, Alephin told Jerry and me he would be breeding us regularly, in exchange for `certain Alpha privileges with our mate,' meaning Jack. Do you know what he meant?" Keith asked.

`Certain Alpha privileges'. I wondered what that meant, too.

"Did he tell you that, too?" I asked Dave.

"No, but I'm not an Alpha," Dave said. "Maybe it's to make sure your Alpha wolves don't challenge him."

"But what does that have to do with our mate?" Jerry asked.

"Alpha mates," Tom said, out loud. "Hmm. The only sexual ability that Alpha's have over the rest of us is they can breed their mate constantly. Their bodies continuously produce semen. When I suck Alephin, which is almost every day, he produces spunk until I tell him to stop."

"Wow!" I said.

"Yeah. He just keeps shooting and shooting and shooting," Tom said.

"For how long?" Dave asked.

Tom blushed. I smiled at him.

"You will probably like it just as much as I do," he said to me. "I always have an intense orgasm when the first blast of his cum hits the back of my throat. Sometimes I have two without even touching myself."

I groaned. It sounded hot!

"He also does it for his son, Les, and his grandson, Hephin."

"Would you like me to be able to do that?" Keith asked me.

"And me," Jerry said.

"Are you willing to get fucked regularly?" Tom asked Keith.

"If Jack really wants it."

I looked at Dave. He had a stony expression on his face.

"I don't think so," I said. "I don't want any conflict with Alephin and if your Alpha wolves take over, there might be."

Keith nodded.

"You can always just suck Alephin," Tom said to me. "It will please him and that is always a good thing."

My wolf thought sucking the Alpha was a terrific idea!

"I think I would like to do that," I said. "I wonder if I can watch his son suck him."

"Oh, sure!" Tom said. "You can watch Les suck him every day. Rince, his mate, mostly prefers being bred by Alephin. There's another way you can make Alephin happy. There is a porn movie theater just down the block. A lot of the unmated males like to go there to watch porn and get their cocks sucked. I go there sometimes with my mates. I suck the guys watching the movie while my mates fuck me."

"Damn, that's kinky!" Dave said.

"That sounds filthy!" Jerry said. "Let's do it!" I burst out laughing.

"There is also a gloryhole in the pack gym. Guys who want a little more anonymity like to get sucked there. Les sucks for a couple of hours every day. I sometimes help him out. It's mostly a lot of sitting and waiting for someone to show up, though. Last week, when I was there, Alephin's cock appeared through the hole. That was a surprise! At the last pack meeting, Alephin encouraged the men to use it and give their cocks a workout, too. He told everyone he got a great blow job there. That was me!"

Jerry and I both laughed. Dave seemed amused, and Keith seemed shocked.

"Do any women suck the men at those places?" Jerry asked.

"There used to be a woman who did, but she found her mate. Every once in a while, a woman will show up at the theater and let the males gang bang her. But most of the single women in the pack would rather date than have anonymous sex. And then there is Alephin. He takes care of a lot of the single women. You'll see that a lot," Tom said. "Especially in the canteen."

"What's that?" I asked.

"Oh. We need to give you a tour of the pack. It's the primary pack restaurant. I'm not sure why they call it a canteen. It's a restaurant. Alephin likes to eat pussy there."

I shuddered and made Dave laugh.

"One time, he asked the waitress for a can of whipped cream. He squirted some of it on a woman's pussy and ate it off her," Tom said. "She was rolling around on the table, knocking dishes onto the ground." I laughed. "A bunch of people started having sex. When she came, her shriek hurt my ears."

"Wow!" Keith said.

"Anyway, if you don't want to taste whichever pussy Alephin last ate—"

"Yuck!" I said. Keith and Jerry laughed.

"Then don't kiss him," Tom finished.

"I would be worried about where his cock had been, too," Jerry said.

"Alephin washes it after sex, fortunately. But he doesn't gargle."

"Are any of the guys who show up at the theater or the gloryhole mated?" Jerry asked.

I stood next to Keith. "I want to suck you through the gloryhole," I whispered. He grinned at me.

"I really doubt it," Tom said. "Sex between mates would be a lot better than anonymous sex and they would risk antagonizing their mates. But some of the married ones do. That's what Les told me.

"I think Alephin is purposefully encouraging the males to have sex with males," Tom said.

"Why?" Dave asked.

"So being gay is a non-issue. Among the older folks, it is an issue."

I could believe that!

"So he's trying to modernize the pack," Dave said.

"Yeah. I think so."

"How many gay men are in Alephin's pack?" Jerry asked.

"I'm not positive, but as far as I know, just four," Tom said.

"That's Rince, you, Jerry, and me," Tom said to me.

"What about Les?" Jerry asked.

"He is bisexual, but he is also in Hephin's pack. My two mates are bisexual, and I'm told Dave and Keith are, too."

"I think I'm probably gay," Keith said. "I tried fucking a woman but I never enjoyed it as much as sex with Jack or Jerry."

"You never told me that!" Jerry said.

Keith shrugged.

"I liked jacking Jerry off while I fucked him. When he came, his ass would spasm on my cock and that usually made me come. A few times I reached for Amber's cock while I fucked her."

I laughed.

"Did you ever try fucking her in the ass while you played with her clit?" Dave asked.

"No. I didn't need to ask to know she wouldn't let me fuck her in the ass."

Jerry moved next to me.

"Would you be willing to let Keith fuck me while I fuck you?" he whispered.

I thought about it. The idea didn't bother me. In fact, a little brotherly incest sounded hot.

"Sure. I might want to suck you and kiss you while he fucks you, too."

Jerry grinned.

I heard another really loud clap of thunder. I jumped. Dave was behind me. He put his arms around me.

"What's the job situation like here in the pack?" Keith asked Tom.

"Yeah. We all need jobs," Dave said.

"You don't need jobs to stay here. I am certainly never going to charge you rent. And Alephin will pay for your food if you have no income. He can afford it. I gave him a lot of money."

"I don't want to be a leech," I said.

"Me, either," Keith said.

"Alephin mentioned having babies for a fee," I said to Tom.

"Right. That's how I got all of my money. Does that interest you?"

"Maybe. But I'm pregnant with three right now."

"If you are willing to commit to giving someone else a baby during your second pregnancy, you can get the money now."

"How? Why would they trust me?"

Tom smiled.

"Because you live in the same house as him. Alfonse is part of my family, but not one of my mates. He will be home late this evening. He asked me to give him a baby. I told him I would, but I would rather not get pregnant again so soon. The baby you could give him would be genetically identical to one I could give him."

I turned to Dave. "How would you feel about that?"

Dave shrugged. "I have no idea. I have nothing to compare it to."

I looked at Keith.

"It's up to you," Keith said.

"Jerry?"

"I plan to make it a point to never disagree with you," he said. I laughed. "I'm serious."

"Oh. OK."

"I would prefer to support you," Dave said to me.

"Tom, what are the job opportunities? What about in the nearby towns?" Dave asked.

"I really can't recommend leaving the pack. Jack might be the primary target, but grabbing one of his mates would force him to go to them." Dave nodded his head. "You could have security men go with you, but you would have to pay them."

"Yeah."

"As far as permanent jobs in the pack, you don't have much to choose from," Tom said. "People who have jobs, keep them. The new hospital is being built. You could get temporary work there, if any of you have ever worked in construction."

I looked at Dave, who shook his head. I was pretty sure Keith and Jerry hadn't, and I was right.

"You may not realize it, yet, but you won't be spending much money here. There is a pack store that sells food, clothes, and electronics. Other than that you won't have expenses. Most pack members go on vacation here, without leaving the camp, and without spending much money. Alephin has cabins near both lakes that pack members are free to use. Boats on the lake are free to use, too. There are a lot of places to fish. You can hunt, you can hike, and you can swim. Most health care is free. Alephin is building a hospital here with some of the money I gave him. You saw it as you entered the pack. No one will be charged for using it. We have a surgeon, as of today. He is the one who cut you away from Jerry. Alephin offered him a job and he took it. We don't have an anesthesiologist yet, but Alephin is searching for one."

"You will have the life insurance money," Jerry said to me. "And Mom wants to give us half of what she gets for our old house."

"That would keep us going a long time," Keith said.

"I want to contribute something," Dave said.

"There are less traditional jobs available. I told you that Les is in Hephin's pack. Hephin would like him to spend less time here, which would mean leaving the gloryhole unstaffed."

Dave started laughing. "That would be less traditional," he said.

"Is that what you want to do?" I asked Dave, grinning.

"I would be willing to be the supervisor," Dave said. I laughed for a long time.

"I think your job title would be pimp," I said to him, grinning. Jerry and Keith laughed.

"It better be Mr. Pimp, or I don't want the job," Dave said. I laughed.

"Alephin thought maybe you or Jerry might want that job," Tom said to me.

"Does it pay well?" Jerry asked.

Dave and I thought that was hilarious. Neither Keith nor Jerry seemed to think so.

"I don't know. You would have to talk to Alephin."

"Let me call Alfonse," Tom said.

He walked out of the kitchen.

I pulled Dave's shorts down. He grinned. I reached for Jerry's hand. I pulled him over next to me.

"Let's suck Dave. Then we'll suck Keith."

I knelt in front of Dave and Jerry did, too. I swallowed the head of Dave's cock and Jerry tried sucking his balls, but his head kept bumping mine. Jerry moved behind Dave and Dave groaned loudly. I let his cock slip from my mouth to see what Jerry was doing. He was rimming Dave. I swallowed his cock, again. I reached out for Keith's cock. I stroked him while I sucked Dave. I ran my other hand up and down Dave's hairy torso. All that golden fur felt wonderful.

"Oh, fuck!" Dave said, as his warm spunk shot into my mouth. I pulled back and let some of it hit my face. Then I swallowed him, again. I looked up at him as he fed me. Dave's eyes were closed and his mouth was slack. After he finished shooting, I swallowed Keith's cock. While I sucked him, Jerry pulled my dick out of my shorts and began sucking me. I came quickly. Then Jerry moved behind Keith. When Keith groaned, I knew Jerry was rimming him. After a couple of minutes, Keith grabbed my hair and pulled me off his cock. He pulled my head back and began stroking himself with his other hand. He shot all over my face. He must have read Sucking Daddy. Then he pulled my face to his crotch and began thrusting against my face. That was so hot, I came. After a minute or so of him rubbing his cock on my semen-coated face, he shoved his cock back in my mouth and came, again. He held my head and began fucking my mouth as he came. His balls slapped against my chin as I swallowed. I loved every second of it. He shot a lot of cum, enough that I wondered if he let his Alpha wolf out. After his orgasm ended, I stood up and pulled his mouth down to mine. I had never wanted Keith more and I kissed him with a desperate need for him, his tongue, and his cock. I pulled away and whispered, "You are so fucking hot!" Keith made a grunting sound and pulled my mouth back to his. I was shocked that I had said `fucking'! Alpha George would be horrified!

Keith pulled away. "I love you so much, baby," he said softly in my ear. I smiled and hugged him.

"I liked how aggressive you were," I said to Keith. He grinned. "We'll do it again, then."

Dave moved behind me and pushed his cock into my ass. I pulled Keith to me and ran my hands over his hunky body. Keith closed his eyes and smiled. Jerry stood up and I pulled him to me. While we kissed, I stroked Jerry with one hand and Keith with the other. Jerry stroked me. Dave was fucking me when Tom walked back into the room. Tom smiled when he saw us. Dave started to pull out of me, but I reached back and stopped him.

Tom surprised me by pulling his cock out and stroking himself while he watched us. His cock looked exactly like mine.

I bent down and swallowed Jerry's dick. To my surprise, Keith took the shaft in his hand and jacked Jerry off, while I sucked on the end of his cock. I fondled Jerry's nuts. Dave stopped thrusting and sighed, as I felt his cock jump inside me. I couldn't feel the spurts of his jizz, but I could picture his cum shooting out of his cock. I stood up and tilted my head back. "Your next load goes in my mouth," I said to him.

"You bet!" Dave said.

Howard, one of Tom's mates walked into the kitchen. He grinned as he saw us.

"Alphonse will call you back," Howard said to Tom. Tom turned around and pulled down Howard's shorts. I watched him grow erect. Dave turned my head back and kissed me while he fucked me. I heard Tom groan. I assumed Howard was pushing inside him. A wet mouth surrounded my cock. I thought it was Jerry sucking me. Then Dave pulled away from our kiss.

"Oh, fuck!" he said.

"What is it?" I asked him.

"Jerry is rimming me, again."

I looked down and saw it was Keith sucking me. I ran my fingers through his short hair.

Several minutes later, Dave said, "I'm going to come." I pulled off his cock and Keith stopped sucking me. I knelt and swallowed Dave's dick. He held onto my head as he unloaded into my mouth. Keith spread my legs and knelt behind me. He slid his cock into my ass. When Dave was finished, Jerry moved next to me. I saw that Luke had joined us and was naked. He stroked himself. Both Luke and Howard had big cocks. They were at least the size of Wayne's, maybe bigger. I wondered how it would feel to be fucked by such big dicks. For some reason, I didn't remember how it felt when Wayne and I had sex. That was very odd, since it hadn't even been two full days since we had sex. I wondered if it was a consequence of becoming unmated to him.

A thought came to me, then. If wishing I could have someone's baby made me pregnant, what would wishing I wasn't going to have their baby do? If Tom was right, it was only a fertilized egg. If I gave birth to it, how would we explain what happened to the baby's father? 'Your father went crazy, tried to kill his son and was killed himself.' There was no way to make that sound good.

I closed my eyes. While Keith fucked me, I wished I was not going to carry Wayne's baby. I wished it several times. I felt something brushing my cheek. I opened my eyes. It was Jerry's erection. I swallowed it and began sucking him. My hands were free. I caressed Jerry's smooth nuts with them. Dave, who was at my side, began thrusting his cock between my chin and Jerry's balls. I pulled Jerry's balls closer to my chin to give Dave a little more friction.

"Fuck! That is hot!" I heard one of Tom's mates say. "Look at this, Howard." It was Luke. In my peripheral vision, I saw Tom and his mates watching us.

"We have to try that," Howard said.

Jerry groaned as his cum began spurting into my mouth. I felt his balls move in his sack as he ejaculated. That was almost as hot as having him shoot into my mouth.

"Oh," Jerry said, as he pulled his spent dick out of my mouth. "My balls are a little sensitive." I let go of them. "That's better."

"Did you like that?" Dave asked Jerry.

"Oh, hell, yeah!"

"Will you let me come on your face?" Dave asked Jerry. "I want to watch Jack lick your face clean."

"Sure!" Jerry said. "Keith, you haven't given me a facial in a while. Maybe you'll do it later."

"You bet! Dave, if you want to come on my cock and balls, Jack might want to clean them with his mouth."

"Damn! I really want to do that!" I said to Dave.

He grinned. "No problem. I'll cover any part of Keith's body with my jizz."

I laughed. "Why does that sound like an insult and also sound hot?" Keith asked. We all laughed.

"Maybe Dave will completely cover you and I can spend a couple of hours licking every part of your body," I said to Keith.

"Fuck! That'll work!" Keith said. I smiled at him.

"Jack seems to love the taste of semen as much as you do," Howard said to Tom. "I guess that means it's genetic, since you were raised completely differently."

"I guess so," Tom said.

I looked at all three of my mates. All of them seemed very happy. I had worried that I wouldn't be able to keep three mates happy. So far, it required no effort from me. My mates were finding their pleasure and it was a hell of a lot of fun. If it had just been Dave and me, I would—we would—be missing all this. This was better.

Keith kissed me. I no longer had any doubts as to whether he was my mate. He was and I was very glad of it. He pulled away and stroked the side of my head.

"I love you," he said. "You know that, don't you?"

I nodded, smiling.

"I love you, too. And I want you more than ever"

Keith pushed inside me. He fucked me for a bit, before I felt his hand on my butt. His cock suddenly seemed different—rougher. I let Jerry slip out of my mouth. "What are you doing, Keith?"

"This is how it will feel if I wear a cock ring while I fuck you. Do you like it?"

"It's different. I like it both ways."

"Let me see what you are doing, Keith. I want to try it with Howard," Tom said.

Keith pulled out of me. I turned around. He made a tight circle of his hand, thumb to forefinger, around his cock and balls. The veins were prominent.

"Please say you are going to live here with us," Tom said. "Permanently."

I smiled at him. "This is fun."

"It is! And you are my only relative. I can keep you safe, if you live here. This house is the safest place in Techupawa. If you are living somewhere else, it will be a lot harder to keep you safe."

I nodded. "It's fine with me." I turned to my mates. "What do you think?"

"I live where you live," Keith said.

"Ditto," Dave said.

Jerry nodded.

I smiled at Tom. "We will, as long as we are welcome."

Tom pulled off Luke's cock and hugged me. Then he surprised me by kissing me on the lips. It was just a dry peck, but I liked it. And it made me feel welcome. I hugged him right back.

I heard a noise, like furniture being moved.

"Let's go into the pool room," Tom said.

The entrance to the pool room was next to the kitchen. We walked into it and stood next to the pool.

"Has Alephin talked to you about Lobo?" Tom asked me.

"No. He was looking at me strangely when we were eating."

"It looks like he could be your mate. Lobo thinks you smell `incredible'. That's his word, not mine. You've been getting your father's scent masker—all of us have. It may be that is why he is unsure. You thought Dave and Keith smelled very good, didn't you?"

I nodded my head.

"Alephin talked to him about you. Whenever Alephin mentioned you, Lobo's lust spiked. Alephin believes he is your mate."

"We saw Jack give him an erection last night," Jerry said. "When Jack was sleeping."

"Jack has enough mates. There will just be more arguing and more competition," Keith said. I had to agree with him. "We should fire him. We can replace him, or maybe we won't need him."

"Wait a minute," Dave said. "I'm not happy about it, either. But are you going to cheat a man out of finding his mate?"

"Jack wasn't wearing a scent masker when we drove down here," Keith said. "Wouldn't he have known for certain that Jack was his mate?"

"Lobo was asleep. Even after we got here, he was still very groggy," Dave said. "I don't know either drug or the combination could have affected his response to Jack's scent in the van, but I think it's possible. You saw how he reacted last night."

"So you want Jack to have another mate?" Keith asked Dave.

Dave sighed. "No. I hate the idea. But how did you feel when you thought you might lose Jack as your mate."

Keith sighed.

"He will stretch Jack out of shape," Keith said.

"What?" I asked.

"He's very big," Jerry said.

"Science fiction big," Keith said.

I laughed.

"He visited you last night," Keith said. "He got hard. It looked like he shoved a Duraflame log in his pants."

I laughed.

"I expected to hear cloth ripping," Jerry said. "Really!"

I laughed.

"Maybe not that big," Dave said. "But he's over a foot long, for sure."

"Can't Alephin remove the mating bond?" Keith asked.

"He would have to get Lobo to join the pack to do that. Lobo would have to let Alephin fuck him. He isn't pack Vin-Ta. Jack might convince him, but he would have to lie about the reason he wanted Lobo to join."

"Jack, you could ask him to join the pack," Keith said.

"That would be a shitty thing to do," Dave said. "Convince him to join the pack so he can be with Jack and then remove the bond and ask him to leave?"

Keith sighed.

"I agree. If I am going to reject him, I want to at least be honest about it," I said.

Jerry nodded, and it looked like Keith understood.

"Wait a minute! He would be your mate, too, wouldn't he?" Keith asked Tom.

"Yeah. But for some reason, he doesn't think I smell incredible. I don't make him hard and according to Alephin, he doesn't lust after me."

"That's strange," I said.

Tom nodded. "Maybe it is the age difference between us. I'm six years older than you. Jerry is only a year younger than Keith. Or maybe it is the difference between how we were raised. You grew up as a shifter. I was raised as a human, and shifted for the first time less than two years ago. Maybe it affects my scent. I just don't know. Alephin doesn't know, either."

"What does Alephin think I should do?"

"Alephin thinks you should find out for certain whether he is your mate. There's no point in deciding anything until you do."

I nodded. That was logical. I sighed. I thought having three mates would be a problem. It wasn't so far. Keith and Dave seemed to be getting along, the sex was great, and being loved by three handsome men was great, too. Maybe having four wouldn't be a problem. And I did want to see the Duraflame log!

"Jerry, did you meet him?"

"Yeah. I talked to him for a while."

"Would you want to have sex with him?" I asked him.

"That's a good idea!" Keith said.

"What is?" I asked.

"You have sex with Dave and me and Jerry has sex with Lobo."

Jerry looked annoyed at his brother. I could understand why.

"That wasn't what I meant," I said.

"You want to know if I found him sexy," Jerry said to me.

"Yeah."

"I think he is very hot," Jerry said. "I complemented him on the size of his biceps. He pulled his shirt off and showed me his muscles. He has six-pack abs that you can see despite the hair. I thought about asking him to take his pants off, too. I wanted to see that huge cock."

"I think he's hot, too," Tom said.

"You don't have to worry about being stretched," Howard said. "You can just shift your ass. It should be simple for you. You shifted just your arm, earlier."

"That's true."

"Do you want to explore the pack? The wild parts?" Howard asked me.

I wasn't sure why he changed the subject. "Yes."

"Then you need Lobo," Howard said. "Lobo, Dave and me are in the same business—security. With Dave and Lobo at your side, having you wander around the camp is just plain safer. Keith and Jerry need to be trained, too. We know people want you, Jack. And they know where you are."

I looked at Keith.

"How do you feel about that?" I asked him.

"I hate it, but I want you to be as safe as possible."

I nodded my head and closed my eyes. I wanted to be as safe as possible, too. Arthur had told me stories about rejected mates. They never ended well. Someone always ended up dead in those stories. And in some of the stories, a lot of people died. Could I reject my mate? Maybe. But I knew I shouldn't.

"Let me talk to Jerry," I said. I took his hand and walked over by the waterfall. I admired it, briefly.

"Do you think you would be willing to help me out with Lobo? The way you do with Dave and Keith?"

"Of course. Keith seems down on the idea, but I think, the more the merrier. We can have a lot of fun working that big cock."

I grinned.

We walked back over to the rest of the group.

"I want to talk to Lobo, privately," I said to Tom. "Where can we do that?"

"Come with me," he said. I followed him into a study. I wondered if I should put pants on, but decided it was silly to put on pants to talk to my mate, if he was my mate.

"I'll get Lobo," Tom said. He left.

I sat down on a chair in front of a laptop.

Tom came back with Lobo. He left and closed the door behind him.

Lobo was wearing jeans and a tight, black T-shirt. He smelled very, very good. Like Dave. Until then, I hadn't really noticed how big he was. He had to be six-eight or nine. And he was wide, too.

"We haven't really met," I said.

"No. I was mostly unconscious."

I noticed his moustache for the first time. It was thick, black, and continued down under his chin. I looked into his eyes. They were light brown, almost caramel colored. His black hair was fairly short, but I could see curls. He licked his lips and I groaned.

"Alephin thinks we may be mates," I said.

"Yeah. I think so, too," he said. He didn't seem excited or surprised. That was irritating. Then he looked at his watch! Was I keeping him from something more important than meeting his mate? He looked like he was about to say something, but he didn't.

Lobo pulled off his shirt. He kicked off one boot, then the other.

"I think we covered it," I said. I stood up and was about to leave.

"Yeah. Nothing else to say," he said. I started to get pissed off.

"Please don't leave. I want to show you my cock," he said. I frowned and tried to think of a witty comeback.

He pushed his pants down and I gasped. He was really big! Bigger than Alpha George. But it was obvious he wasn't my mate, despite how he smelled to me. That was fine. I didn't need another mate.

Lobo smiled at me.

"Why aren't you undressing? I can smell how much you want me." That had to be a lie, because I didn't particularly like him.

Lobo began stroking his cock, slowly.

"You want it. I must be a gay man's wet dream."

The way Lobo was acting and what he was saying seemed wrong. His behavior didn't make sense as a mate or as a security guard or as a homophobic Vin-Ta. I didn't understand what was going on. Then he looked at his watch, again!

I was clueless. I began thinking I didn't like Lobo at all. If he was really my mate, I shouldn't feel that way.

"I think I know what the problem is," Lobo said.

I didn't say anything.

"You can't really let yourself go in a house full of people. And especially not in front of your mates."

"Don't you mean my other mates?" I asked, irritated.

Then what he said sunk in. I was shocked. He wanted to get me alone outside the house and away from my mates. Judging from the way he was looking at his watch, there was a time element involved. He was one of the people trying to kidnap me.

"Maybe out in the woods," I said.

Lobo grinned. "You'd feel more relaxed there." That confirmed it. He wanted to kidnap me or take me to people who would.

"Will you do me a favor, first?" I asked him.

"Of course!"

"Will you fuck Jerry? He told me how hot he thinks you are. While you are doing that, I will get some shoes."

Lobo looked at his watch. Then he grinned. It didn't seem sincere.

"Sure."

I walked in front of him back to the pool room. I felt very nervous. Was Lobo working for the team who tried to kidnap me? Was he their second attempt to get me? And then my heart really started pounding. Did Lobo have his gun? I turned around and smiled at him. I was relieved to see he was naked and had nothing in his hands. We entered the pool room. Everyone looked shocked. I walked over to Jerry. I leaned forward and whispered in his ear. "Smile at Lobo and go along with anything he says for at least a couple of minutes." I looked at Lobo. He had lost his erection and he was looking at his watch.

"Something's wrong," he whispered back.

"I think so."

Lobo walked up to Jerry.

I walked over to Dave. I bent my finger to get him to bend over.

"Lobo wants to make love to me in the forest, by ourselves," I said.

"Oh, fuck!"

"And he keeps looking at his watch. What if Rod is part of it?" I whispered back.

"Leave it to me."

Lobo had moved behind Jerry. Jerry looked panicked.

"Aren't you going to use lube?" he said to Lobo.

Dave whispered something to Howard. Howard whispered something to Tom. I could see Tom's face turn red. He nodded and left the pool room. Howard walked over to a door behind the waterfall. He motioned to me. I walked over there.

"Go inside, then the first door on the right."

I nodded. Howard pressed his thumb on what looked like a piece of wood. The door opened. I saw a flight of stairs leading to a hallway. It had to be the tunnel that connected Tom's home to Alephin's. I walked down the stairs and up to the door Howard specified. It opened and I walked into what looked like a conference room. The door closed behind me and made a lot of noise as it did so.

I sat down and waited. And waited. And waited. I started to really panic. I wasn't sure if a lot of time had actually passed, or if it just seemed like a long time because I was scared. Stuck in that room, I had no idea what was going on. I didn't know if my mates were even alive. I jumped up and tried to open the door. There didn't seem to be any way to do that from the inside. That was crazy! I thought even bank vaults had a way to get out from the inside.

I sat down and put my face in my hands. My heart was pounding.

Finally, the door opened and Lobo walked in. I was terrified. He just smiled.

"Rod has been taken away. I'm sorry we had to do that, to scare you, but it was necessary."

Lobo sat down and let his head fall back. I could sense how relieved he was.

"Rod?"

"Yeah."

Something didn't add up. Lobo said he wanted to take me out into the woods. If he was just trying to get me away from Rod, why the woods. Why not tell me to follow this underground tunnel to Alephin's house. It was right next door.

Dave walked into the room. He was shaking his head.

"Rod will no longer worry anyone," Dave said to me.

"He's dead?"

"Yeah. Alephin really has that head twist down."

"Did you know all along what was going on?" I asked Dave.

"No. It looks like the only ones who knew were Alephin and Lobo. The rest of us were shocked when Alephin appeared. Rod just stood there. Alephin walked up to him—twist!"

"How did you know about Rod?" I asked Lobo.

"He had tranquilizer darts very well hidden in the lining of his bag. Just like the ones that were used yesterday. Alephin knew as soon as his bag was scanned at the front gate. The scanner looks like a metal detector, so Rod thought he was safe. He was stupidly using his cell phone to get instructions. Yesterday, Rod asked Alephin about cell phone service inside the pack. Alephin acted like he didn't know what a cell phone was. Rod must have figured it was safe, since his calls and texts were encrypted. But they were intercepted and unencrypted."

"But Rod was shooting at them yesterday," Dave said.

"Did you seem him hit anyone?"

"No. But I was busy at the time," Dave said.

Lobo chuckled.

"I think he was the one who shot me," Lobo said.

Dave shook his head.

"Why did you wait so long? Why did Alephin wait, if he knew all along that Rod was a bad guy?" I asked.

"He wanted to get more information about who was behind the attack at Wayne's house, through Rod. He also wanted a higher body count. More than just Rod. Whoever was behind this lost a lot of men in Dallas. Alephin wanted to make it an even more expensive lesson. But Rod became very tense after he got a text message that was just letters and numbers. We didn't know what the message meant, but we assumed the worst. I figured he was going to make his move. I was supposed to take you to Alephin's house."

Lobo looked at his watch. I suddenly had a sick feeling. It wasn't over. Lobo reached under his seat and pulled out what looked like a toy gun. He shot Dave with a tranquilizer dart. Dave slid off his chair, onto the floor.

"We're leaving," he said to me. Lobo was the bad guy.

"Was Rod innocent?" I asked.

"No. Definitely not. We have different employers. His is a monster." And yours is better, I thought. Not from where I was sitting!

He raised his gun again. I needed to block the dart from penetrating my skin, but I couldn't become a mannequin. That would make it even easier for him to carry me out. He fired the gun. I watched the dart approach me. It hit me in the neck. I panicked, but then I realized I wasn't drowsy. I had to think fast. Without even trying, I had changed my hand into something that had joined Jerry's artery. I needed something that could kill Lobo--and raise the body count. My hands weren't visible; I had them on my lap. I closed my eyes and tried to act like I was drugged. I felt my arm change into something. I heard a chair squeak as he got up and walked over to me. He picked me up and threw me over his shoulder. Lobo smelled really good. Was that why I hadn't worried when he entered that room? Or was it his obvious relief that something was over. Whatever it was, I was wrong about him. I tried to keep my shifted arm out of his sight, but I wasn't sure I had succeeded. He turned around, though, so I knew he hadn't. I opened my eyes. I saw his back and my arm. My arm looked like a flesh-colored sword. With an elbow. It certainly was freakish. I wondered where I should try to stab him. I wished I was looking at his stomach. I could aim for his heart. Facing his back, I was afraid I would hit a rib or his spine and I was only going to get one chance. If I merely injured him, he could shift quickly and heal himself. I decided to try to cut his throat. That almost killed Jerry. If Lobo lost blood quickly enough to lose consciousness, it would work.

"I can't believe I'm doing this to my mate," Lobo muttered.

I felt disgusted, then. What fear I felt turned to hatred. He was my mate, and he could do this?

As he pushed open the door, I reached up and sliced his neck.

He cursed. He dropped me and tried to hold his neck as he looked at me.

"You are the worst mate anyone ever had!" I said. "I REJECT YOU!" I shouted. It distracted him enough to collapse without shifting.

I watched blood pool around him. It was just like Jerry. I felt sick and my wolf was furious at me. I had killed my mate! I fell to my knees next to him and blacked out.

I woke up in the same bed I'd been in after Jerry was attacked. The same faces were looking at me.

"Talk about déjà vu!"

Keith chuckled.

I looked at Dave. He seemed fine.

"What happened?" I asked Dave.

"What is the last thing you remember?"

"I cut Lobo's throat and he fell to the ground."

"How did you cut it? There were no weapons in the room besides the plastic dart gun," Dave said.

"I shifted my arm into a blade."

I started crying.

"That explains it," Dave said.

Alephin walked into the room.

"Hey, pup. How do you feel?"

"Depressed. Is he dead?"

"No. You saved him the same way you saved Jerry."

"I killed him and I saved him?"

"I'm pretty sure you didn't resurrect him from the dead, but you did save him. Why did you save him?" Alephin asked me.

"I don't remember saving him. So he is alive?" I asked.

"Yes, but I don't think for long."

I closed my eyes. I felt sick.

"When are you going to kill him?" I asked Alephin.

"When I get all the information I can out of him. He knows too much about our security. Fortunately, all the fight is out of him. He says he's ready to talk."

"How could a mate do that?" I asked.

"I don't know. We can find out, though.

"None of you are to leave this house without my permission," Alephin commanded us in his Alpha voice. I shivered and nodded. I would have no trouble obeying that command! I had absolutely no desire to leave.

"Was Rod innocent? Lobo said he wasn't, but that was while he was pretending to be innocent."

"No. Lobo told me that Rod had planted a bomb in the pack store. Lobo never went into the pack store, so we know he didn't plant it himself and try to blame in on Rod. Lobo said that Rod was planning to kidnap you when the bomb went off. Then, after Rod was killed and the bomb removed and dismantled, Lobo tried to kidnap you. We don't know if they were working for the same person or not."

"I want to talk to Jack privately," Alephin said.

The others left the room.

Alephin lay on the bed next to me, propped up on one elbow.

"I think your mates are in more danger than you. You can obviously defend yourself. If they fear for their safety, they may try just about anything. If you find out any of them are going to do something risky, tell me. They will obey me. They might not obey you."

I nodded my head.

"Was this Wayne's fault? He hired both Rod and Lobo," I said.

"I wish it was that simple. Both Lobo and Rod have good reputations. I allowed them into the pack because of their reputations. A lot of people are going to be shocked when they learn that Rod was also willing to become a mass murderer in order to kidnap you. I expect all his closest associates will be under tight scrutiny, if they don't lose their jobs. I am certain the company that employed him will be out of business by tomorrow."

I sighed. Life was much simpler at Mountain Gap. It was safer, too. I wasn't sorry I'd left, but I was starting to recognize its good points.

"We need to question Lobo. He said it's urgent, and it may be. Do you feel up to it?" Alephin asked me.

"Yeah. I really need answers."

Alephin nodded.

I got out of bed. I followed Alephin out of the room. We headed downstairs and then through the pool room. We entered the door behind the waterfall. We ended up at the same room where everything had happened. Alephin opened the door. Lobo was seated, wearing handcuffs and cuffs around his ankles. He was covered with drying blood and there was a lot of blood on the floor. A man I'd never seen had a gun pointed at Lobo.

There were other people in the room.

"This is Dag Tuskus and my grandson Hephin," Alephin said. Hephin was the one who had attacked Tom. He was seated next to Tom. He looked about fifteen. For some reason, I expected Alephin's grandson, who was an Alpha with his own pack, to look like Alephin. Hephin was a kid. Also in the room were my father and Tom's two mates.

"Glad to meet you," I said to both of them.

"Are we waiting for Rince?" Dag asked Alephin.

"No. I want him watching the kids." Dag nodded his head.

I wondered why Dag and Hephin were present. It didn't seem to involve them.

Hephin smiled at me.

"Does he know?" Hephin asked Tom.

"Yes."

"You probably think I'm a monster," Hephin said to me.

"No. Tom explained," I said. "I listened to an awful lot of lectures about the evil of alcohol."

"Thanks, Tom," Hephin said.

We sat. Alephin didn't say anything, so I started.

"Are you my mate?" I asked Lobo.

"Yes."

"Why did you want to take me into the woods?"

"I didn't. I was trying to scare you."

"Huh? Do you hate the fact that you have a man for a mate? Is that why you did it?" I asked.

"No. I'm glad you are my mate. But you are worried about minor things. We have much, much bigger problems to deal with. They don't have anything to do with relationships!"

"Like what?" Alephin asked.

"Like the fact that Rod was working for Edvard Cucco."

Alephin, Dag, Howard, and Dave seemed to be the only ones who recognized the name. Dave put his face in his hands. I knew then that it wasn't good. Alephin looked sick. It was bad, bad, bad.

"Who is Edvard Cucco?" I asked.

"He is a slave trader," Dag said. "He captures valuable Vin-Ta and humans and sells them to people. I've heard there are even auctions of his captures."

"Who do you work for?" Alephin asked Lobo.

"Nelson."

"Nelson!" my dad said. "Nelson wanted you to kidnap my son?"

"No," Lobo said. Dad frowned.

"Does Nelson know about Cucco?" Alephin asked.

"I told him as soon as I decrypted Rod's transmissions."

"So why the hell didn't you tell me?" Alephin asked.

"Because Cucco knows Jack is here and I wanted to get Jack far away from here, as soon as possible. Telling you would not only have delayed our leaving. I've been sitting here for almost ten minutes. Ten minutes might be the difference between Jack getting away or Jack dying. I couldn't allow that. Nelson hired me to sell Jack on the idea of moving to Lombardy. It was a very innocuous plan—a sales job. It didn't conflict with my contract to protect Wayne's family. If I succeeded in convincing Jack to move, Nelson would take the next steps. My job for Nelson would be over. I was authorized to offer up to three billion dollars—" I gasped. "To convince him."

Nelson wants to thwart you, Alephin almost as much as he wants Jack. When I discovered that Edvard Cucco is after Jack, everything changed and I had to act fast. I thought the safest thing was to take him somewhere no one—Cucco, or anyone else—would ever expect. If I took him to Lombardy, Jack wouldn't be any safer than he is here. What are you going to do if two thousand mercenaries show up? What could Nelson do?" Lobo slapped the table. "And it could happen in five minutes!"

Alephin sighed.

Lobo looked at me. "I wasn't kidnapping you, Jack. I was trying to take you to safety and you would be safest if no one else knew where we were. As far as the rest of you, if you don't know where Jack is, it can't be extracted from you." Alephin nodded.

"What do mercenaries have to do with anything?" I asked Lobo.

"Cucco doesn't have to be subtle," Lobo said. "Sending Rod was subtle. I think he will use brute force, next. And he is going to be in a hurry, before someone like me tries to take Jack away from here to safety."

"So you were going to keep Jack to yourself, for his sake, huh?" Keith asked. Lobo looked annoyed.

"You don't understand. You are safer if Jack isn't here," Lobo said. "Everyone in two packs is safer. Maybe three packs, if you count Mountain Gap. If you don't know where Jack is, and you aren't in communication with him, then you won't make a very good hostage. If Edvard Cucco knows Jack isn't here, he won't attack here."

"Is that true, Alephin?" Keith asked.

"It's possible." He turned to Lobo. "But before I release you, I want proof Rod was working for Cucco," Alephin said.

Lobo nodded. "I've got it. If someone will get my phone, I'll show you right now."

Alephin turned to Luke. "Will you get it from his room?"

"Sure." Luke got up and left the room.

"How do we know he is working for Nelson?" Howard asked.

"That's easy enough to check," Alephin said. "But I believe Lobo. Nelson has never forgiven me for taking his wife Maria away from him. We met and she was my mate. We didn't have a choice. But Nelson loved her very much." Alephin looked sad. "With good reason. She was a wonderful person. She died, but I still miss her. And Nelson blames me for her death."

"He's furious that you have Rince, Hephin, Tom, and Jack, too," Lobo said.

"Why?" Jerry asked.

Alephin sighed.

"Because all of them can bear children. Nelson wants a pup and he has a lot of pack members who want pups," Alephin said. "I have lots of kids and I can have as many more as I want. Nelson isn't the only Vin-Ta who resents that."

"How safe are we if mercenaries do show up?" I asked Alephin.

"Not at all safe."

I felt sick. Lobo was right. He was trying to do the right thing and save lives. And I tried to kill him for it. And wasted valuable time.

I looked at Lobo. "I'm sorry," I said.

"I'm just glad you changed your mind about killing me," he said. But I didn't. I hadn't intended to save him. It had to be my wolf that did it. But what could my wolf know about medicine and surgical procedures?

"How did your communications go undetected by my security?" Alephin asked.

"I was using wire, not wireless. I shifted into a wolf and dragged the very fine wire to the highway. I can look like a Great Dane when I shift. Your security ignored me."

"I'm surprised you admitted that to me. You must be expecting to join my pack.

"Impressive!" Alephin said.

Howard came back with a phone.

"Take the handcuffs off him," Alephin said. Howard had a key in his pocket. He unlocked the handcuffs.

Alephin stood next to Lobo while he showed him his proof. Alephin nodded several times.

"Let Lobo loose," he said to Howard.

Once Lobo's feet were free, he said, "I need to get Jack to safety. We can't wait."

"Just a minute," Dag said. I noticed that Hephin was whispering to Dag. Hephin looked scared. Then it hit me. It wasn't just me in danger. Tom, Rince, and Hephin might be in danger too.

"So what do we do?" Howard asked Alephin.

"Give me about five minutes before you decide anything," Dag said. Alephin nodded.

Dag took Hephin's hand and they left the room.

Alephin seemed deep in thought. I thought it best not to disturb him. I turned to Lobo.

"Have you ever had sex with a guy?" I asked him.

"Yes."

"Are you going to be able to forgive me for trying to kill you?"

Lobo stood up. He was hard. It was Duraflame time in Lobo's pants.

"How long is that thing?" Jerry asked him.

"Just under fourteen inches."

I shook my head.

"So if you fuck me, I might feel it at the back of my throat," I said.

He grinned.

"I am sorry. I should have trusted you," I said to Lobo.

"No, you shouldn't. As your mate, I approve of what you did. I'm glad you saved me, but for the near future, trust is going to be something you should give very sparingly."

"That's well put," Dave said.

"I know Keith and maybe your other mates wish I wasn't around, but you need me, Jack," Lobo said. "You can't get a more loyal protector than your own mate."

I nodded.

Things grew more somber after that. Alephin looked extremely worried. If it was bad enough to worry him, it was really bad.

The door opened. I could smell the bitter scent of Lobo's worry as he gripped my hand. The scent began dissipating when Rince came into the room. He saw Alephin and stopped.

"What's wrong? Why is Lobo free?" Rince turned to Lobo. "What did you do?"

"Lobo is not our problem. He was trying to take Jack away from here because Edvard Cucco is after him. The bomb in the pack store was meant to be a diversion so Rod could snatch Jack. Rod has been sending and receiving messages from him. He has probably assumed we caught Rod."

"Are you certain Lobo is not involved?"

"Lobo is here legitimately, but he is also an agent of Nelson from Lombardy pack. He was instructed to try to convince Jack to move there for money. If Jack agreed, I expect he was supposed to take him there, against my will, if necessary."

Lobo nodded.

"But Jack is safer here than at Lombardy," Lobo said. "Unfortunately, he isn't particularly safe here. I didn't want to waste time arguing about it, so I tried to take him without his consent. After all, he is my mate and I have to do my best to keep him safe," Lobo said. "Whether he wants to be safe or not."

Alephin nodded.

"We have no defense against a major assault. Lobo suspects Cucco may launch one at any time. Cucco doesn't give up, so whether it is today or next week, it is coming. And we can't beat him."

"I should take the kids to Hephin's," Rince said.

"No." Alephin closed his eyes. "Hephin isn't any safer than we are."

"Then I'll take them to Houston," Rince said.

"They are out on the highway," Lobo said. "There have been people watching the pack entrance since Wayne called Alephin on his cell phone and asked permission to come here."

Rince fell into a chair.

"Are you certain Lobo is not lying?" Rince asked.

"No. I have evidence of what Rod was doing, but not what Lobo has been doing. But whatever Lobo's motives, we still know that Rod was trying to obtain Jack for Cucco. And Lobo told us about the bomb. If he was working for Cucco, Rod's diversion would be welcome."

"And he is my mate," I added.

"If you're convinced, I am. But what do we do?" Rince asked

I moved next to Lobo. I looked at his neck to see where I cut him, but he had shifted. There was no scar. I looked in Lobo's eyes. I wondered if he would ever trust me. Then he reached over and picked me up off my chair and put me on his lap. I grinned at him. He whispered in my ear, "I don't want to die without breeding my mate."

Were we going to die? Then I felt a pang in my heart. I wouldn't die. They wanted me. But everyone I cared about, my parents, my mates, even Alephin might die.

I leaned my head on his shoulder and tried not to be terrified.

"Do you want kids?" I asked. I knew it might not matter, but I wanted to think of something happy.

"Yeah. I want two. A boy and a girl."

I smiled.

"I don't think I can control the sex."

"You might give it a try," Alephin said. "Who knows? Maybe you can."

"Do you like to get rimmed?" he asked me.

"Yeah."

"I like to spend about five minutes eating an ass before I fuck it," Lobo said. "I want to get my tongue inside you."

I forgot all about being scared.

"Oooh."

I pressed my mouth to his and we kissed. Damn, he was a good kisser! His tongue was big, like the rest of him. It filled my mouth. His cock got even harder, under me. After a minute, or so, he pulled my cock out. He stroked me while we kissed. I grabbed his hand when I was close to shooting. He lifted me up again and sat me on the table. He was certainly strong. I reached down for the bottom of his shirt. He pulled it off. I tried to wrap both hands around his bicep. They didn't come anywhere near to meeting. I reached down and felt his pecs and then his nipples. He spread my legs and swallowed my cock. He wasn't as good at sucking as Jerry. That was OK. I wondered if we should be doing something to improve our situation, but what could we do? Keith moved next to me and I mouthed, 'I love you.' He smiled before kissing me. I felt for Keith's dick and found it. I began jacking Keith off. I felt other hands on me. I didn't want to stop kissing Keith. I felt a hand slip under me. I thought it was Lobo's. A finger found my hole and pushed inside me. It made me come in Lobo's mouth. Lobo let my dick slip out of his mouth before swallowing it again.

The door opened. We all stopped to see who it was. Dave was next to me, opposite Keith. I took his hand.

Dag and Hephin walked back into the room. Dag looked serious, but Hephin was smiling. I looked at Lobo and my cum was dripping down his face. Some dripped off his black moustache. He caught it on his tongue. Lobo was incredibly hot. I got off the table and sat down.

"I have put a bounty on Edvard's head," Dag said. "Every mercenary, bounty hunter, and lowlife on the planet will be after him. He will be far too busy trying to stay alive to worry about Jack or Tom. I'm having it posted all over the world, online and through various contacts."

That sounded hopeful!

"How big a bounty?" Alephin asked.

"Fifty billion," Dag said. I gasped and so did a couple of other people.

Alephin chuckled. "That should do it!"

I looked at Lobo. "Will it?"

He grinned. "Oh, yeah."

"And the offer is already out there?" Lobo asked.

"Yeah. I have someone working on getting it everywhere. But it's already on a couple of websites interested parties like to check. Word of mouth will spread it, too.

"I'll raise the bounty every year until he's dead," Dag said.

"Hip, hip hooray!" Jerry said. We all joined in and repeated it. Dag smiled before Hephin kissed him.

"So is that it?" I asked.

"I believe so," Alephin said. "We need to be extra-conscious of security, but we are going to be fine. Jack, I want to speak to you privately."

"OK."

"I'll head home," Rince said. "How long do you think you'll be?" he asked his mate.

"Not long," Alephin said. "Maybe thirty minutes."

Rince nodded and left the room.

"Alephin, I submit myself for punishment. I hope you will let me join your pack, afterwards," Lobo said.

"No punishment is necessary. I understand why you wanted to get your mate to safety. You felt you didn't have time to discuss it or get approval, and you had a very good reason. As for joining the pack, you must allow me to breed you once."

Lobo nodded.

Alephin took my hand and we left. We walked out of the house and into the courtyard. The rain had stopped, but it was still overcast.

We stopped next to one of the outdoor tables.

"Jack, I can't come anywhere close to matching Nelson's offer."

"This is my home," I said to him.

"If your mates go with you, Lombardy can be your home, too. You and Tom will be able to visit each other."

I frowned.

"Do you think I should go?"

"Do I think you should go? It is to your benefit, so yes. Do I want you to go? Hell, no! I'm just telling you I can't match his offer. I'm not sure I could offer twenty percent of what he will offer. The only person with that kind of money is Dag, and I can't ask him for it."

"I know why Nelson wants to pay me, but you don't want me to give you a child. Why are you willing to pay to keep me here?"

"It's ego. You will help make Techupawa the most important pack in North America. We already have more pack Vin-Ta under the age of eighteen than any other pack. We have twenty-nine percent of pack Vin-Ta under the age of eighteen in the United States. You'll help make me the most powerful Alpha in country. Maybe in the world."

I looked into his brown eyes. He didn't seem arrogant. But he had to have a sizeable ego to be an Alpha. Especially if he wanted to be the most powerful Alpha in the world!

"I love you. Or maybe I'm in love with you. I love the fact that I make your cock hard. I love the fact that we are so close, I can pull your cock out and play with it." I reached into his shorts and did just that. I stroked him with one hand while I held his heavy Alpha nuts with the other. "You're my Alpha, but you give yourself to me. Who else would do that? Why would I trade love for money? I'm in heaven, here, and you're my horny angel."

Alephin laughed. Then he took me in his arms.

"Take to Tom about angels," he said. I didn't understand, but I nodded. "Here's my counter-offer: My cock will always be available to you, but also, I will make love to you every day, at the very least, and I don't mean a quick suck, although you can have as many of those you want. When I say make love, I mean we'll be in bed and afterwards, we'll cuddle. You won't be my mate, but you will be my lover. And you'll be my only lover. And if you like the idea, I will get you pregnant. You'll be the mother of one of my pups."

I looked down. I had his cock in one hand and his balls in the other. It was really all I wanted from him. Besides love, of course.

"I could never give this guy up," I said, looking at his cock. "But your plan sounds like it could hurt Rince. I wouldn't enjoy it, because while we were cuddling, I'd be worried if he was crying. But I like the daily sex idea. And I'd like to do it sometimes in bed. I agree, with one more condition." I paused.

"Yes?" he asked.

"You pay for my food. All of it. Even snacks and soft drinks."

Alephin smiled at me.

"Agreed!"

I let go of his cock. He headed for the house and I followed him. I watched him walk around the pool. He was taking the tunnel to his house. It reminded me that we needed to be extra careful for a while. It might take a few days before all of Edvard Cucco's attention shifted away from us.

The pool and the kitchen were empty. I walked to the living room. Tom was there, along with his mates. Howard was fucking him in the ass while Luke kissed Tom. I got hard instantly. Luke and Howard were both very hot.

"What happened?" Howard asked me. Luke and Tom stopped kissing.

I wiped some of Alephin's jizz off my face and rubbed it into my chest and belly.

"Alephin told me he couldn't match Nelson's offer."

Tom nodded.

"I agreed to live here, anyway," I said. "I only have family in two places. Here and in Mountain Gap. I don't know a soul in Lombardy pack. That doesn't appeal to me."

Tom smiled.

"I'm glad!"

Dave and Keith came down the stairs, running. Jerry was right behind them.

"So?" Keith asked.

"I'm staying. I told Alephin I thought you might stay, too," I said to Keith.

He laughed.

"Did he offer you any money?" Tom asked. "I know he can't come anywhere close to matching Nelson's offer."

"I know. I didn't ask for money. If we're living here with you..." I shrugged. "I told him he would have to pay for all my food," I said.

"That's all?" Jerry asked.

"That and lots of sex," I said. Tom laughed. "I don't care about money. What would I do with three billion? Build a house like this one? Why? So we can have two huge, mostly empty houses? An empty house is a sad place. We had quite a few at Mountain Gap, and every time I looked at one, I got sad. I like the idea of living together, better."

"Good!" Tom said.

Jerry walked behind me. He wrapped both arms around me and rested his erection in my butt crack.

"There's no point in buying expensive cars or a yacht or anything else," I said.

"There really aren't a lot of ways to spend money around here," Tom said. "And don't forget Alfonse. You can give him a baby. He's happy to pay. It won't be anywhere close to what you'd get to move to Lombardy, but I'm certain he would pay you two or three million dollars."

"That will work," I said. "And I can always give Nelson a baby. I just won't live there."

I reached back and pointed the head of Jerry's dick at my hole. We both groaned as he pushed inside me. He mostly just left it there, but occasionally, he would pull out slightly before pushing back in.

"That sounds super," Keith said.

Dave nodded. "I love this place."

"I found out Lombardy is in Vermont. That might be pretty, but I don't like cold weather," Keith said.

I nodded.

"Where's Lobo?" I asked them.

"He went to the pack store to get some things. He brought very little," Dave said.

"I want to go, too. I wish he'd waited," I said.

"No. It isn't safe yet," Dave said. I sighed. He was right. Even Alephin took the tunnel to his house. I wondered if Lobo was risking his life. But if anyone would be safe, it was him.

"I'm hungry. Does the pack restaurant deliver?" I asked.

"It does. Let me get you the menu," Luke said. He left the room, heading for the kitchen. His erection swung from side-to-side. I realized I was paying a little too much attention to Tom's mate.

"Sorry," I said to Tom.

"What does that remind me of?" Luke asked.

"You mean Hephin?" Tom asked.

"Yeah."

Hephin attacked Tom for lusting after one of his mates. I started to worry.

"Don't worry about it. I expect it will be hard for me to ignore your mates, Jack. I'm not going to worry about lust. Your mates are hot and mine are, too. The scent masker covers most of it, anyway. I don't want to share mates, though," Tom said. "So it's look but don't touch."

I nodded.

"I don't like the scent masker," Howard said. "You don't smell nearly as good," he said to Tom.

Tom nodded his head slowly.

"Once we get accustomed to living together, we can stop using it and see what happens."

Jerry rested his head on my shoulders. I turned my head and we kissed. He began fucking me when the kiss ended.

Luke brought back a menu.

"Alephin said you and Jerry should eat high protein meals for a couple of days," Tom said to me. "That's why we had steaks and burgers."

I nodded as I looked at the menu. Jerry was still inside me. He rested his head on my shoulder again and I held the menu so that he could see, too.

"There are no prices," I said.

"Can you loan me some money?" Jerry asked Keith.

"I would if I had any. Tom, is there an ATM machine in the pack?"

Tom burst out laughing.

"Think Mayberry, in the early sixties," Tom said.

"But with laptops," Howard added.

Keith and Jerry nodded, like they knew what a May berry was.

"I thought the ATM was a government agency. Is it something used to crush berries?" I asked.

Suddenly, everyone was looking at me.

"He grew up in a rural pack," Dave said.

He stood on my left and took my left hand.

"That had to be different," Tom said. "You should feel at home here, more than I did, at first. It took me a while to stop thinking I needed to go to a supermarket or a Home Depot for things. Anyway, an ATM machine dispenses money from your savings or checking account. You could go to your bank to make a withdrawal, but ATM machines are more convenient."

"There was one in front of the coffee shop," Keith said. "Do you remember?"

"Oh, yeah. I didn't know what it was."

On the subject of money, I knew my food would be paid for by Alephin. But what about my mates? And what about Keith and Dave's stuff at the dorm? Wayne was going to arrange to have Keith's stuff sent home, along with his truck. Who would do that now? I didn't know how to do it. But maybe Lisa could do it.

A moment later, Alephin walked into the room.

"I've set you up in the canteen and the pack store. Anything you or your mates need will get billed to me," Alephin said.

"Even soft drinks?" I asked, smiling.

"Even clothes, TVs, and computers," he said.

"Oh! I just asked for food."

"Well, lucky for you, I interpreted that differently," Alephin said. "Since you won't have to pay any rent or utilities, you shouldn't have to worry about money."

"How can we get cock rings?" Keith asked.

I laughed. "They're necessities!" I said.

"They are sold in the pack store. We have a whole aisle of sex toys and paraphernalia."

"Wow!"

"What about leather jock straps and harnesses?" Jerry asked.

Alephin acted like it was the most normal thing in the world. "They can order those for you at the store. Hmm. I wonder if Rince would like to see me in a leather jock strap."

"I'm sure he would," Dave said.

I nodded my head. "I would, too!" I said.

Alephin smiled at me.

I walked over and hugged him. "Thank you. Have I mentioned I love you?"

He chuckled, before bending down and kissing me. Alephin can kiss! My legs almost gave out.

"No! I want more!" I said, when he pulled away.

He chuckled. Then he turned me around. I groaned as I realized what he was going to do. He placed the head of his magnificent cock at my hole and shoved it in hard in a single motion. I don't know whether he knew how my body would respond, but I instantly came in the most intense orgasm I'd ever experienced. My cum shot at least ten feet and the first spurt hit Tom's leg. Tom laughed and I gasped. The pleasure was intense. And then it got better. Alephin began fucking me. It wasn't an ordinary fuck. Alephin wasn't ordinary. He leaned back first and lifted my feet off the ground. I was held up primarily by his cock. Then his muscular thrusts began pushing me up, before sliding back down. My mates looked as amazed as I was. He kept that up for a couple of minutes. He was doing all the work, but I was the one panting. Then he slowed down as his own orgasm began. I could feel his sperm inside me. He began whispering obscenities in my ear. He told me all the different things we were going to do. He told me he wanted me to make him come at least five times a day. I groaned at the thought of that and came again! His cock was still shooting inside me. It was a spreading warmth inside me, like a cup of hot chocolate on a cold day. I tilted my head back and he kissed me. I wasn't aware at the time of how much spunk he was shooting in me. I became unaware of everything around me, except for Alephin's cock, his tongue, and his scent. Then another sensation came into focus. Alephin wrapped his calloused hand around my cock. I cried out as another intense orgasm began. The Alpha was jacking me off! I'm not sure if I had one orgasm or two. Alephin pulled away from the kiss. In a deep, sexy voice he breathed into my ear, "That's it, pup. Enjoy." And I did! I came again. Alephin was using my jizz as lube while he stroked me. My legs grew weak, but he held me up. As most good things do, our orgasms ended. He let me back down on the floor and slid out of me. I heard a splatter. I looked under my legs and saw a stream of Alpha jizz was shooting out of my ass. It stopped, but there was plenty left to run down both legs.

"Aren't you glad you didn't have carpet laid in here?" Alephin asked Tom.

I laughed. A pool of his semen formed at my feet. I much preferred it to the pool of blood I'd seen around Jerry and Lobo. Thinking about trying to kill Lobo made me cringe. What had I been thinking? Couldn't I trust my own mate? I sighed. That was my wolf. He was going to need reassurance from Lobo before he stopped worrying.

"Don't forget! We're going to do this every day," Alephin said.

I laughed. "Like I could ever forget you!" He grinned.

"Alephin, can I suck you sometime?" Jerry asked.

"Of course, pup. Do you want me to fuck you, too?"

"I would like that," Jerry said.

"I can suck you while he fucks you," I said to Jerry. He seemed excited by the idea.

Then he picked up his shorts from the floor. He wiped his cock and balls with them and left, holding his shorts. Alephin looked just as sexy from the rear as he did from the front. I wanted to pull those muscular butt cheeks apart and rim him. I smiled as I realized I could do that every day, if I wanted to.

I ran after him and caught up with him next to the pool.

"Alephin, how can I help you in your goals as an Alpha?"

Alephin smiled at me.

"I'm glad you asked, pup. Sit down."

I sat on a chair. Alephin pulled another one close to mine and sat. His cock was hanging out of a leg of his shorts. I moved my chair closer to his and wrapped my hand around his erection. He thrust his crotch forward, a little. I loved that big thing! I began stroking him. My wolf was in heaven. He wanted me to lick the Alpha's ass. I wanted to lick his cock.

"I have an idea for how to help the childless couples. We have a lot of them. Giving them one pup at a time will work, but it's too slow."

I nodded.

"I've been thinking about something new: pack kids. They would belong to everyone," Alephin said.

"How would that work?" I asked.

"I thought of having a collection of spunk from every single, married, or mated male who would like a child. It would get thoroughly mixed and then some would be injected inside you. We can have Dave inject it using a turkey baster," he said, grinning. I laughed. "You would wish for two or three babies and when they are born, they will belong to every person who donated sperm. Each of your children would have a whole pack to love them."

"Oh, wow!"

"How do you feel about that?"

"I love you. I want to make you happy and I want to help you."

"I love you, too. And that would help. Are you willing?"

"Definitely. Would that be my next pregnancy?"

"It could."

"How many would you want, altogether?" I asked.

"Are you willing to have more than one pregnancy?"

"Yes. But I want you to hold the turkey baster. I want you to impregnate me, even though it won't be your baby."

Alephin smiled. "I would like that."

Alephin was silent for a moment. I continued stroking him. He had just fucked me and his cum was still leaking out of my ass. But I couldn't get enough of him. That wasn't good. I had mates and Alephin had a mate. I let go of his cock. I was surprised when Alephin took my hand and placed it back on his cock. I resumed stroking him.

"Never be afraid of your lust, Jack." I nodded. "The more you want me, the happier I am."

"Then you should be really, really, really happy."

Alephin grinned. "I am happy and you made me that way. You said it before. You can touch me whenever you want and I welcome your touch. Both are true. You probably think I'm being generous, but I lust after you. You are cute, young, and willing. For some reason, many of my pack members think I am too busy to have sex with them. The only time I am too busy is when I am having sex with Rince. The rest of the time, sex is a welcome interruption. I'm delighted you reached for my cock. I just hope you give me another orgasm."

I smiled as I continued stroking him. "I won't stop until I do!

"Tom told me Alfonse wants a baby," I said. "Should I give him one, first?"

"Tom can give it to him. I would be surprised if Alfonse didn't prefer that it was Tom's. He's in love with Tom."

"Oh!"

"Once you get impregnated with the first pack pups, your title will be 'Pack Mother'," Alephin said.

"Does Rince want to be pack mother?" I asked.

"No. When I discussed it with him, he suggested Tom do it. But I think you would have a greater understanding of how important the job is. Tom grew up human. You grew up around people who've wanted pups for centuries."

I nodded.

"Also, Tom has given the pack a great deal of money. A lot of his money is being used to build the pack hospital. I don't feel he should be asked to do more."

"Are you Pack Father?" I asked him.

He smiled. "I guess I am."

"Will I have to give up sex while I'm pregnant?"

Alephin laughed. "It's not going to keep me from fucking you, if that answers your question."

"It does!"

I knelt and began sucking my Alpha. He sighed and leaned back.

"Make me cum, pup. I need to get home."

I sucked on the head while stroking the shaft. I carefully pulled his balls out. I pulled off the Alpha's cock to lick his balls, before taking the shiny, wet cock head back into my mouth. Alephin sighed again as I took him over the edge and felt his cum forcefully hit the back of my throat. I hadn't touched myself, but that violent spurt made me come. I pulled off and let some hit my face before taking the rest in my mouth. Once his orgasm was over, I stood up. He got up and grinned at me.

"How soon do you think it will be safe to leave the house?" I asked him. "I want to see the pack."

"I know you do. Unfortunately, we have no way of knowing. There are people watching the pack entrance, but we don't know who sent them. It could be Nelson, or another Alpha, or Cucco. Maybe all three. They can't stay out there forever. The highway patrol will begin asking questions they don't want to answer. Stay in and have sex with your mates. I will stop by several times a day to have sex with you." I smiled at that prospect. "See you soon, pup," he said, as he headed for the waterfall on the other side of the pool."

I turned around and headed back to the living room. An older woman was mopping up Alephin's spunk that had drained out of me. I was still leaking. She turned and left the room.

"I'm still leaking," I said to Tom after she'd left the room.

"I can help there," Dave said. He moved behind me and pushed his cock into my ass. He held onto my hips and began fucking me.

"I'm going to leak even more when you pull out," I said to him.

"Yup."

I laughed.

"I can't have that woman following me around the house with a towel and a mop!" I said.

"Her name is Mrs. Fawan," Tom said. "And that is part of her job. She complains she doesn't have enough to do now. If you took that away from her, she would be unhappier."

"OK!" I said.

"We have bidets in all the bathrooms. They shoot a stream of water up--wherever. You can rinse yourself out," Tom said. "Although you shouldn't do it unless you want to. Alephin will be pleased if you smell like spunk. He can identify pack members from the smell of their semen. Once after I sucked several guys at the gloryhole, Alephin came in to see if it was being used. He sniffed my breath and told me who I had sucked."

Jerry walked up to me and licked some of Alephin's cum off my face. Then I kissed him and tasted it. While we kissed, I fondled his nuts. I loved the smooth skin on them.

I reached behind me and felt Dave's balls with my other hand as they slapped against me with every stroke. I loved the feel of balls—Alephin's, Jerry's, Dave's. I wondered if it was a fetish. I titled my head back to see Dave.

"Empty those pretty nuts of yours into me."

He kissed me as he sped up his thrusts. Then he slowed as his cock jumped inside me. A mouth swallowed me, and I came at the same time as Dave. It wasn't Jerry. My hand was wrapped around his cock. So it was Keith. I let go of Jerry and touched Keith's head. Dave pulled out of me and cum ran down my legs. I wiped some with my fingers and smelled it. It was a heady mix of Alephin's and Dave's spunk. I loved the smell.

Jerry moved behind me. I thought he was going to fuck me, but he knelt. He pulled my cheeks apart and slid his tongue into my hole. It was loose. Jerry was eating the cum out of me. Then he surprised me. He stood and pushed inside me. He made a couple of thrusts before pulling out. He walked in front of me and pulled my head down to his erection.

"Taste," he said.

I took him in my mouth and tasted Alephin, Dave, Jerry, and myself. Jerry came quickly.

I lay down on the floor. "Keith, will you sit on my face? Jerry, I want you to suck your brother. Keith, when you are ready to come, get your cock into my mouth."

"You bet!"

Keith squatted over me. I grabbed his thighs and pulled his ass down. Keith groaned as my tongue make contact. Keith tasted fantastic. After lapping at his hole for a while, a mouth moved over my dick. I assumed it was Dave sucking me. I decided I wanted to get my tongue inside Keith. I began stabbing at his hole with my tongue. After about a minute, my tongue slipped inside him. Keith groaned and pulled off my face. I was disappointed until he shoved his cock into my mouth. His cock immediately began shooting. While I gulped down my mate's jizz, I felt a very odd sensation on my dick. It wasn't a mouth and it wasn't a hand. That left—Jerry. Was he fucking himself on my cock? It didn't matter. One of the sexiest men in the world was ejaculating in my mouth. As the flow trickled off, I wrapped a hand around Keith's balls and tugged on them. Keith groaned and began shooting, again. The taste of Keith's second orgasm triggered my own. I shot my load into Jerry's ass. At least I sure hoped it was Jerry's. The only other person it could be was Tom. He was the only other bottom. Of course, fucking my own brother was hot. It occurred to me that I actually could impregnate Tom. That thought was so nasty, my cock got even harder. Keith was finished. He pulled out of my mouth. I saw it was Jerry moving on my cock. I had to admit I was a little disappointed. I was the pack mother, but it would have been nice to be a father, at least once.

"I sure hope this is all right," Jerry said.

"I came inside you. I guess it is!" Then I smiled. "Did you wish for my baby?"

Jerry laughed. "As a matter of fact, I did!"

I looked around for Keith. I didn't see him.

"Where is Keith?"

"I'm in the kitchen," I heard him yell.

He walked back into the living room. "Before I forget, do you know if your mother has arranged for our things to be brought here from the dorm?"

"I doubt it. I guess that needs to be done before the police start looking for us. We left in the middle of the night. I'll call her."

"Thanks."

"Hey! Your cock is getting soft!" Jerry said.

I laughed.

"Sorry!"

I told Dave I wanted to do the same thing with him that I'd done with Keith. My cock firmed up immediately and Jerry began fucking himself with my dick. While I was trying to get my tongue inside Dave, I heard Alephin.

"Well, that's a surprise!" Alephin said.

Dave pulled off me.

"And here I thought you were a bottom," Alephin said to me.

I laughed. "I am, but Jerry is going to have my baby."

Alephin just nodded his head. "Maybe he will."

"I thought only polymorphs can do that," I said. Then I remembered Rince.

"Is Rince a polymorph?" I asked Alephin.

"No. He is Vin-Ta."

"So it's possible Jerry could get pregnant?" I asked.

"Do you want to have a baby, Jerry?" Alephin asked him.

"I think I would like to be a father and a mother."

Alephin nodded.

"Maybe the wrong person was getting fucked," Alephin said. "Wayne wanted a child. It would be ironic if Wayne could have easily become a mother."

"He would never let a guy fuck him," Keith said.

Alephin nodded.

"Lobo has left," Alephin said.

"He's at the pack store," Keith said.

"No. He has left the pack," Alephin said. "He took Wayne's new van."

"Why did he leave?" I asked.

Alephin sighed.

"He said he had business to conclude and he hoped to be back in a few weeks. I think it is because he wants the fifty billion dollar reward."

"What?" I yelled. I yelled at Alephin! That was not good. "I'm sorry Alpha!"

Alephin nodded.

"He left me for money?" I asked.

"Well, if he kills Cucco, he makes the world a safer place for his mate, in addition to the money," Alephin said. "And at his age, I'm certain he doesn't want to live off people who are almost two hundred years younger than him."

"He's that old?"

"He's two hundred and twelve," Alephin said.

"So you think he'll be back?" I asked.

"I don't know. He could die. If he doesn't, then yes, he'll be back."

I began crying. Dave pulled me off the floor and hugged me.

The following day, Hephin showed up, along with a handsome man carrying a little girl on his shoulders.

"Hey, Dregor!" Tom said. "You're back!"

Dregor put the little girl down. He held out his hand and I shook it.

"This ugly thing is my daughter, Julia," Dregor said.

"Not! Not!" she said.

Hephin laughed. He knelt in front of Julia.

"It's your daddy. He's ugly, isn't he?" he said to her. She grabbed onto one of her father's legs.

Hephin sighed. "She doesn't remember me," he said.

Then I remembered where I'd heard the name Dregor. It was at the barbecue. He was the one Hephin thought Tom was trying to steal from him.

"Who is her mother?" I asked.

"I am," Hephin said.

"Oh."

I mouthed, "I'm sorry." Hephin nodded.

Hephin stood up and took his daughter's hand.

Alephin walked in. He picked Julia up and threw her into the air. She screamed and I wondered what Alephin was thinking. But when he caught her, she laughed and wanted him to do it again. Julia was Alephin's great granddaughter.

"I heard about Edvard Cucco and I thought how horrible it would be if something happened to Hephin and we hadn't made up," Dregor said.

"Are you back for good?" Alephin asked.

"Absolutely." Dregor kissed Hephin and Hephin began crying. I didn't know what to do or say. I looked away.

"She's grown," Hephin said.

"She has."

"Why don't you give her a piggyback ride?" Dregor said. He put Julia on Hephin's back and Hephin ran around bouncing up and down while Julia laughed.

"I have more good news," Alephin said.

"The highway is clear. It looks like everyone has left."

"That's a relief!" I said. "Will you think Dag again for me?" I asked Hephin.

"I will, but he doesn't think it's a big deal. He gets irritated if you get too thankful."

I nodded.

Hephin seemed very happy. Julia either remembered him or quickly learned to love him. She began following Hephin around. We had a picnic in the backyard and Julia brought Hephin a flower she'd found. Of course, she pulled it out of Tom's flowerbed. Hephin insisted it was the prettiest flower he'd ever seen.

I wondered the rest of the day whether Lobo had anything to do with clearing the highway.

A month later, there was still no word from Lobo. I was glad I hadn't fallen in love with him. Obviously he hadn't fallen in love with me, either, or he would have taken two seconds to say goodbye. But I would have begged him not to leave. He probably knew that. I knew he might never come back. If he did die, I would probably never know. That was hard to deal with. But I had a lot to keep me busy. I was pregnant with two babies. I assumed one was Keith's and the other Dave's. To my surprise—and Keith's and Lisa's, Jerry was pregnant with my baby. I might become a mother and a father on the same day.

My parents were still at Techupawa. Alephin had loaned them a house only a block away from Tom's. I was very happy they were still with us. They seemed to have adjusted to the very different atmosphere at Techupawa. They weren't to the point of wanting to have sex in public, but I couldn't help but think that was a good thing!

Jerry walked up and put his arm around me.

"Are you ready to have your ultrasound?" he asked me.

"I hope they don't find any more babies in us," I said.

Jerry laughed. "Guess what I wished for?" he said.

I groaned and he laughed. "I'm kidding!"

Dave and Keith ran down the stairs.

"Let's go!"

The End

To be continued in the sequel The Path's End