Tracy made a surprised sound as her orgasm hit her full force. Waves of intense pleasure buffeted her, threatening to pull her under. Her hands were bound and there was an element of letting go there as she let Nick do the work of holding her up and gave over to the feelings rushing through her body and her heart.

She felt the muscles in Nick’s thighs and abdomen tighten and he hoarsely whispered her name as he came deep within her body.

Muscles still twitched and small aftershocks of pleasure still racked her body as she dimly felt Nick remove the belt. Gabe rubbed her wrists and they lay her down on the carpet, each man settling in beside her.

* * * * *

After a few minutes more she finally opened her eyes and saw Nick above her, smiling down. She reached up to touch his cheek and run her fingertips through his hair. “Wow.” Gabe laughed beside her and kissed her shoulder. “Yeah, wow is an understatement, I think.”

“No offense to you both or anything. You are both extraordinarily handsome and strong and the utter hotness and all, but I think this mate thing is like a sex amplifier.” Her words were still slightly slurred.

Each time they were together as a threesome she drowned in the pleasure until she was drunk on endorphins. It was still amazing when it was one-on-one, but as a triad the energy they put out together was tremendous.

“Is that a complaint?” Nick’s smile was arrogant and she couldn’t help but blush.

“Hell no. I wish I could bottle it up. We’d make a billion dollars.”

A cell phone rang in the distance.

“That’s me.” Gabe groaned as he rolled up onto his knees and got up to go to his pants and dig out his phone.

Tracy half listened to the conversation as she turned back to Nick. “So when are we going to get over to the Pack house?”

“I’ll call my father to set it up. I’m going to call Josh and get him and a few others who are loyal to me there just in case.”

“Are you going to challenge Ben?” She sat up and grabbed her shirt, pulling it back on.

“If I have to, yes.”

“Okay. I’m going to call Nina to get her help on something.”

He frowned when she put her shirt back on and sighed when she handed his over. “Nina’s help on what?” He put the shirt back on and she stood, holding out her hand, and he grabbed it to stand with her.

She walked down the hall and into the bathroom and he followed her, leaning against the door, watching her clean up and pull panties and socks back on, followed by a pair of jeans.

“Damn, those are fine jeans. I think you should wear something baggy. I saw the way Josh was looking at you last night. I can’t kill him, I need him at my back right now.”

She looked shocked for a moment and then rolled her eyes. Kissing him on her way back out, she put extra sway in her step just for his amusement.

“This is just between us, but Nina was the shit back in the day. She’s a superstar computer hacker.

That’s how we found out all that shit about the embezzlement of our Third and the involvement of that twisted f**k, Warren Pellini.”

“Pellini?” Gabe walked back into the room, having changed his clothes and finished his phone call. “Why are you talking about him?”

“Last year our Third was embezzling money from the Pack to pay back a huge debt to the Pellini Family.

He stole some of the lycanthropy virus and sold it to the rogues. Then he killed Nina’s brother and nearly killed her too, in a challenge at the Pack house.”

“I remember hearing about that. But she got a gun and nearly killed him, right?” Nick remembered hearing about it and having a swell of admiration for Nina Warden.

Tracy nodded. “But not before the sick bastard bit her. There’s still a lot of major resentment from Nina on this whole thing.”

“That Carter tried to kill her? Or changed her illegally? He was stripped of rank, right?” Nick watched her put her boots on and noted she chose the Doc Martens with the thick sole. He smiled, knowing she’d chosen them in case she had to throw down.

“That, but also that she was a human and nearly killed while the Pack stood there and didn’t help. That Lex and Cade didn’t help. Although Lex did have to be disarmed and held down by several other wolves while he screamed that he was going to rip Carter to shreds when he got free. It’s been a big issue between them.”

“She’s right. I think the whole notion is messed up. Cade should have stopped it.” Gabe leaned against the counter. Tracy’s eye was drawn to him. Long and tall and broad-shouldered. Substantial. The sun streaming into the hallway glinted off the reddish highlights in his caramel hair and she could see the strands of gray here and there as well as his salt-and-pepper at the temples. She loved the lines around his eyes, those deep brown, very serious eyes. He was dignified and elegant and sensual. A shiver rode her for a moment as she caught his scent.

“Cade has a responsibility to his Pack to maintain order. She was a human and therefore had no rank in the Pack. His Third had every right to challenge, even if it was cowardly. If Cade had stopped it, how could the Pack ever depend on him to make hard choices for the good of the whole Pack in the future?

He can’t choose his anchored bond over the Pack.” Nick couldn’t imagine watching Tracy be challenged like that. Thank god she was a wolf and had his protection and rank.

“Oh bullshit. Being a wolf in this century means we can let go of some of the old ways that used to be so life and death. We can afford to change. We have to. I understand the other wolves standing aside. Cade is clearly an Alpha that holds his Pack, it would have been impossible to disobey his orders. But Cade didn’t have to make that choice. Cade was free to stop it. In not doing so, he held to the old ways, which strangle us and keep us from moving forward.”