Werewolves of Forever 06 - Wild Lust

having women spend the night? She shook off the jealous feeling and tunneled her fingers through her wet hair to get out the tangles. Stepping out of the shower, she promised herself that one day soon she’d take an hour-long bubble bath. Where that tub would be located, she wasn’t sure, but she couldn’t help but hope it was in the men’s house.
    Making use of the oversized, white fluffy towel hanging on the towel rod, she dried off and wished she had some of her clothes. But everything she’d brought with her, except what she’d had on yesterday, was still at the rental house.
    The men, however, had thought to leave her a tube of toothpaste and a packaged toothbrush. Again, she wondered if she was just the latest in a long line of women. Did they keep new toothbrushes and toothpaste around just in case they got lucky?
    “Stop it, Charlie. You know they had women before you. Two guys who look like they do can just crook their finger at a girl and she’ll hop into bed with them. Just like you did.” She gave her image a stern look. “You don’t have any claim on them, so cut the green-eyed monster act right now.”
    “Yo, Charlie! Grub’s on!”
    She smiled at her image. Grub? It figured that Reese would call breakfast by a cowboy term. “I’m coming!”
    She walked back into the bedroom, thinking how much she hated to put her dirty clothes back on. Yet she wasn’t surprised to find her clothes, including her underwear, cleaned and ready for her, lying on the armchair next to the big window. Her shirt was wrinkled, but she didn’t mind. Slipping into her clothes as fast as she could, she rushed down the stairs to the first floor.
    The aroma of fresh coffee, bacon, and eggs tingled in her nostrils. Her stomach growled, and her mouth watered. Guessing that the swinging door ahead opened into the kitchen, she tossed back her hair, bit her lips to plump them, and pinched her cheeks to give them a little color. She pushed open the door, put on a nonchalant expression, and promptly let her jaw drop.
    “Wow.”
    Reese already sat at the oval table with his plate piled high. “Hey.”
    Taking the seat that Blane offered her, she took in the huge spread of food. “Bacon, eggs, sausage, toast, pancakes, and even fruit.” Her gaze found Blane’s blue eyes. “Are you expecting an invasion? Because it looks like you’re feeding an army.”
    Blane chuckled and poured steaming coffee into her cup then into his. He took the seat next to her and began loading up his plate to match Reese’s. “Nope. This is how we eat all the time. Remember, I like to cook.”
    Reese took a huge bite out of a piece of toast then drowned it by downing a large glass of orange juice. “Yeah, we eat like this every day.”
    She put as much food as she thought she could eat on her plate then took a sip of the coffee. The warm liquid flowed down her throat and heated a trail to her stomach. But even its warmth was no match for the heat she got just being near the men. Would that ever change? If she was lucky enough to end up with even one of them, would the passion and the connection ever dim?
    “Charlie, we need to talk.”
    She choked on the sip she’d just taken. “I wasn’t sure…I mean, I didn’t want to assume that we were together.”
    Blane glanced at Reese, who shrugged. “What?”
    “Isn’t that what people say to each other when they’re about to break up? The old ‘we need to talk’ speech?” She thought Blane would get her joke, but he only grew more serious.
    “No, it’s not that. As far as we’re concerned, this is your home for as long as you want.”
    The sincerity in his voice overwhelmed her, and, for a moment, she found it difficult to speak. “But you hardly know me.”
    Blane reached over to take her hand. “We know you just like you know us. In your heart where it counts. You’re ours as sure as the sun shines. If that’s what you want.”
    She swallowed and tried to keep her tears from falling. “I do. I want you, both of you, more than I can say. But until I know what’s going to happen with Shannon… You can understand that I have to settle that first, can’t you?”
    Why did he suddenly glance away? Had she found love only to have it snatched away by her sister’s circumstances?
    “We’ll figure it out one way or another.”
    For one of the few times she could remember, Reese’s expression was open, even vulnerable.
    She yearned to ask them to take her back to bed, to forget