“But we have managed to make it to LA beaches on occasion, we took a couple of days off last week to just relax save the training and workouts.”

  Shannon said, “Beach sounds nice, and I get it. Sounds like not much will change once he’s trained though, I’ll figure something out professional wise to help out.”

  Maggie nodded, “We just added eight more witches to the coven, for a total of eighteen including myself this morning. So things are going well but it takes effort. We weren’t joking about the sex, or Bonnie and I being cum-sluts, but most of the time we’re working, talking, and spending time with each other and falling deeper in love.”

  Shannon said, “Like I said, it sounds wonderful, but I think I’ll have to experience it before I really believe it, viscerally I mean. Mom told me it would be good for me, and now that you’re in danger with me I have no reason not to try and a million reasons to give it a shot.”

  Bonnie interjected, bringing up a subject from much earlier, “I think I can totally make the children of Apollo move slower with air magic. Kind of thicken it to make it feel like they’re moving through water. It won’t slow their attacks, but it’ll make it possible for your weapons to catch them.”

  “Sorry, love. I’ll kill them, but…” she cut me off with a soft kiss.

  She said, “I don’t like it, but our family will get me through it.”

  Shannon said, “I don’t enjoy violence, but I don’t shrink from it when attacked. That’s not a judgement on you Bonnie, just saying where I stand.”

  Elena said, “Truth. The rest of us are like that as well. We don’t look for trouble. We just live our lives as family and allies, and defend ourselves. What do you think it will take to get Apollo to back off? I suspect Jack is right, if he folds the others will fold as well.”

  Shannon replied, “He has demigod children of the sun, seers, healers, and he overlaps the muses with dance and poetry. The ones wielding the power of light and the sun are the rarest, I suspect we’ve seen all of them, at least on this continent. He doesn’t fuck around when one of Nox’s children are discovered. There were ten in total at that battle, the four that started it and six more with the main force.

  “I suspect if we kill those ten, we’ll essentially be pulling his teeth. His children of healing, dance, poetry, and seers to see the future are no martial threat to us. He could continue to support Ares and Hades with seers, but that won’t do any good either with my power keeping him blind to all of us. In short, we need to kill his warrior children. Then he’ll be impotent until the next generation grows up. I believe at that time it’d be the best time to try and come to an accommodation of peace with all three.

  “That’s actually what I was doing when they showed up, trying to take one out before the rest made me flee when I ran out of power. Otherwise I’d have just taken off, and not stayed to fight at all, and you all would’ve missed me.”

  “Why does he hate you so much, children of Nox I mean?”

  Shannon said, “He lives in the future and makes all his plans and influences around it. A child of Nox could walk in and knock it all down, and he wouldn’t see it coming. That has happened in the past. It’s also partially a reverse mantel issue, he’s light where my mother is darkness, so we’re natural enemies. As I said before as well, Zeus is wary of Nox even though she stays in Tartarus most of the time, so I suspect it also has to do with his warrior nature. Children of Nox allows him an outlet for that, that doesn’t risk drawing Zeus’s ire. The king of the gods can get testy, when the gods go to war.

  “The gods generally have to ride a line and keep skirmishes small, but in my case, he can throw everything at me without fear of being chastised for it.”

  I nodded, “As far as the coven, I’ll see them coming before they arrive with the dead that I have patrolling our neighborhood, so we should have plenty of time to meet them outside of the house. Hopefully that’s sufficient, but it is a risk.”

  Maggie replied, “That should be good enough, they want all of you dead, not a witch coven that’s beneath their notice. They’ll focus all their might on us.”

  Bonnie asked, “So what do you like to do in your spare time?” putting us all back on the get to know each other conversation.

  Shannon said, “Read, I do like the beach, and I enjoy movies on occasion, not so much television. I also like outdoor activities, swimming, hiking, skiing, stuff like that. It’s one of the reasons I was out here in the wilderness and chose that bed and breakfast.”

  She lifted her arm with a quirky smiled, “As you can see, ironically, I love to lie out in the sun and tan.”

  Maggie giggled.

  Shannon winked, “I never burn, my natural skin tone is just a few shades lighter than this actually.”

  I said, “We haven’t had much time for that stuff, but we did buy a boat for boating, water skiing, parasailing, and deep-sea diving, and we’re planning to go snow skiing when winter comes. Like they said earlier, we’ve all been focused on training, building the coven, and starting our business. At some point we’ll start doing those things, until then we have beach days.”

  Shannon smiled, “Sounds fun.”

  We continued to chat for quite a bit, a more relaxed get to know you thing after the far blunter get to know our personalities and family dynamic session. We talked about sports, outdoors, music, pet peeves, and teased each other, just regular easy relaxed conversation. I wasn’t entirely sure how Shannon felt about it, but as for myself I was feeling a whole lot less awkward about taking her and claiming her as my mate by the end of it. Strangely, if it wasn’t for the added pressure that we had to have sex to incorporate some of her raw power into the coven’s magical pool, I think I wouldn’t have even a small amount of awkwardness left in it. It made it feel almost mercenary to me, if that made sense, instead of what it truly was, claiming our fourth mate, five of us in total, and making her part of the family.

  Not to mention in the previous ones, when claiming Elena and Bonnie for the first time, we’d had privacy for it. But with Bonnie and Maggie needing to be present to collect the tantrically generated magic, lace it with Shannon’s power, and deliver it to the well.

  On the good side, if her warm inviting smile and flirty dark gray eyes were any indication as we got up to go home, I suspected she did as well.

  All in all, Bonnie’s sweet vivaciousness and her idea to help make us both more comfortable with each other worked fantastically. A whole lot of blunt information, and then the slower and more relaxed chat to build on that with that in mind, seemed to do wonders for us both.

  Shannon would’ve gotten us home in seconds, and no doubt would in the future, but she’d never been there before so couldn’t use her power that first time for it. So, Maggie and Bonnie used a ward to make us invisible to humans, and I flew us home with shields. Even that way, it only took a handful of minutes before we landed in the yard. There was no sign of trouble, or reports of our enemies coming close to the mansion, so we all headed inside and up to our room.

  Chapter Five

  Any remaining awkwardness was squashed quickly, when Maggie, Bonnie, and Elena just started to get undressed in front of us. For a moment, Shannon looked a bit surprised, but then she smiled and when she looked at me there was a bold sensual challenge in her dark gray eyes. A challenge I was more than up to answering.

  “You are so beautiful, Shannon,” I said softly as I pulled her to me firmly, and I wrapped my hands around her waist.

  She looked a bit breathless, and it reminded me of what Bonnie had already said. She was all bold exuberance, except when it came to men. She wanted to be chased, taken, and ravished. Not that I’d really forgotten it, but the sudden vulnerable look of desire in her eyes was a potent illustration of it, I’d never seen her look vulnerable before.

  She said throatily, “You look damned good yourself.”

  My touch was firm, inexorable, but deliberate and slow to send the message she was truly and always in charge, and could say no. I didn’t think it would happen, no… I knew it wouldn’t happen, but it was still truth and a psychological comfort enabling her to relax further. Her face was stunningly breathtaking in beauty, and I caressed it softly before sliding it down onto her neck, and around to cup the back of her neck while my other hand lightly stroked up and down her side, softly caressing the appealingly deep valley of her waist.

  She got a little wide eyed, as I slowly but firmly pulled her head toward mine, and my other hand wrapped around and caressed the small of her back gently. My touch soft and exploring with one hand, and extremely firm and unyielding with the other that still cupped her neck. Her lovely ruby lips were like the finest silk again mine, soft and tasty sweet as I kissed her for the first time.

  Her own hands caressed my chest and shoulders tentatively at first, but as our kiss deepened with passion and need, and my hand slowly circled lower and lower on her back, her own hands grew bolder. Her sweet breath was delicious, and as I licked along her lower lip and she slightly parted those lips for our tongues to play. We both let out a needy moan as it deepened. Her mouth tasted even better than her lips, and the way her lusciously sumptuous body felt against mine was like heaven.

  She was all feminine soft and supple curves, with soft and yielding yet firmly supple breasts. It was clear she stayed in shape. Her waspish body and lovely legs were proof of that. She was all soft though, she wasn’t athletic in the least, just very much in shape despite the lovely and huge double D cups and her juicy ass.

  She let out a sweet gasp into my mouth, and her hands wrapped around my neck and she teased the back of it with her fingernails, when my gently circling hand made its way onto her ass, and then squeezed firmly.

  The dual sensations of firm above, soft below, was really getting her going, and I was more than a little lost in the kiss myself.

  I felt her stiffen slightly, then moan deeply into my mouth as I kissed her harder. The reason for the stiffening was obvious, when I felt Elena start to undress me, and guessed that Maggie and Bonnie had started to undress her.

  The kiss broke with a heated giggle and sigh, and a deep chuckle from me, as our shirts were pulled over our heads. Then her bra was unsnapped and flowing down her arms and onto the floor. It was also intimate, as our other mates undressed us we were both free to put all our focus into admiring each other with wandering eyes.

  Her breasts were… amazing. Heart shaped and proud, and as she said earlier just a few shades lighter but still a rich dark tan color, with dark brown nipples that tightened under my gaze and the cooler air of the room. They were slightly sloped from weight alone, but not in any way shape or form that could be called sag. They were magnificent, flawless, and her nipples were almost as large as my Maggie’s, probably the second biggest I’d ever seen.

  Then we were kissing again, her hands quickly teasing my hair and the back of my neck, while I put one hand back on her ass and pulled her against me as I ground her stomach, and the other hand found and gently squeezed her breast. She let out a soft needy moan into my mouth as I felt Elena stripping my pants off, and at the same time the tight material of the yoga pants disappeared, and I had my hands on her bare ass. Either Maggie or Bonnie had taken her panties off at the same time, or she hadn’t been wearing any.

  I caressed her ass a little more firmly, and I gave her a probing spank, not that hard, but quite firm enough to see if she went for that sort of thing. All of my other mates did, but I wasn’t going to make any assumptions. Just because she liked to be ravished didn’t mean she liked a spanking.

  She gasped and then moaned deeply in approval into my mouth, which answered that question, and then I gasped in shock when she wrapped her hand around my cock. Or at least, when she tried, her petite lovely hand didn’t quite make it all the way around my full girth.

  Maggie said softly, “His cock is perfect, didn’t we mention?”

  Shannon chuckled into my mouth, then the kiss deepened again as I spanked her a lot more firmly. Turns out she really liked that, and she let out a panting little gasp into my mouth while tightening her hand and giving me a shallow stroke or two.

  My hand slid around her body, and between her legs. She was moist for me and let out a deep moan and ground against my hand as I cupped it firmly, and I teased my middle finger between her silken folds length wise while putting pressure on her clit. It wasn’t quite as fat and juicy as my Maggie’s, but her sex was juicier than my Elena’s which was still pretty damned juicy.

  I needed to taste it, plus I wanted her wetter before I tried to split her open with my cock. She was aroused, and there was liquid there, but it wasn’t a whole lot yet. She was obviously enjoying it, but perhaps the whole setup with everyone there the first time had her feeling a little reserved, or maybe she just didn’t get as wet as my other mates. Either way, I needed to suck and lick those fat folds for a while.

  I pushed her back with my body, and she moved with me until she hit the edge of the bed, and then fell back onto it. My head dove after as I hit my knees, wrapped my arms under her legs and pulled her the eight inches or so back to the very edge.

  “Beautiful,” I said a little in awe, as I took in her slightly glistening and flowering sex for the first time. Her labia were just a bit smaller than Maggie’s, but that wasn’t saying much. They were meaty and I kissed both her thighs before dipping my tongue lightly between them and licking up with a deep moan of lustful approval.

  Shannon gasped, and said throatily, “Fuck, that feels so good,” and her body squirmed a bit.

  I took my time, never stopping, but not going too fast either. It was a constant and inexorable sensual assault with my tongue, and I just enjoyed the intense sensation on my tongue and lips of her velvety folds and the delicious taste of her arousal. I got lost in it, and I lifted her legs higher, then grunted in thanks as I felt her legs being bent up and spread by two of my other mates to give me greater access.

  She started to pant, gasp, and drop lovely sounds of pleasure as I worked her sex lovingly with firm licks even as I kneaded and squeezed her ass. She really seemed to like it when I moved further south, and I started to tongue her tight little puckered star while one of my hands took my mouth’s place. My hand inverted as I slid two fingers into her heaven, and I thumbed her clit lightly through the now soaked folds of her sex.

  Her ass was fantastic, her heart shaped ass cheeks so very generous yet firm and supple as I feasted on her tasty little asshole. She didn’t last long after that, especially when I curled my fingers and found her G-spot, rubbing that with each stroke of my fingers as I gently put pressure on her folds to grind her clit between the soft silk of them as I moved my thumb in lazy circles which matched the same rhythm of my fingers and ass licking tongue.

  She screamed, “Jack!” and started to breath in sharp pants, “Lick my dirty asshole!” then she went over into the ecstasy of bliss. Her liquid ecstasy hit my face and dripped down her taint and onto my tongue as I continued to rim her clenching ass. Her back was arched, and she let out the throatiest gasping keening sounds I’d ever heard, and it was sexy as hell.

  Then I stood up and slid my cock home in her still convulsing pussy. I impaled her hard, but only got about the first three inches in as her tight passage stretched tautly around my invading sensitive length. I grunted at the powerful milking action. The deliciously soft and silken feel of her body’s embrace, and the heat of her pussy around my hard length.

  She said, “Fuck! That’s huge,” in accusing delight as her body trembled and quivered while she came down from her height.

  I started to work my way in firmly, claiming her legs from Bonnie and Maggie, and putting them over my shoulder. It raised her ass high enough I was able to give her a sharp and demanding spank while I pounded my way into her sinful depths.

  She was so snug around me, and her sex convulsed and constricted wildly as her body squirmed and quivered against me. She let out a gasp and a deep sigh of pleasure, when our bodies came together firmly, and she’d fully engulfed my eight-inch fat cock in the heavenly sensations of her slick and silken paradise.

  “So… that happened,” Shannon said in awe.

  Bonnie giggled, “Told you he’d have his tongue in your ass as soon as he could arrange it.”

  Shannon said breathily, “And he is good at it. I came so hard I’m still dizzy. I’ve never felt that before, it was… wild, a bit wrong, and felt really fucking good.”

  I bent forward a bit, bending her legs further, so I could reach and tease her breasts while she got used to my invasion.

  “You tasted delicious, Shannon,” I said firmly, which made her sigh softly and look up into my eyes.

  Her eyes were wide with vulnerable amazement and pleasure as she looked up into mine. It didn’t take me long to figure out watching those eyes and feeling her body for reactions, that she liked a firm and slightly painful touch on her breasts. Not quite to the level I could abuse Bonnie’s tits, but she liked quite a firm hand. Her eyes rolled up in pleasure and she let out a sweet gasp as I rolled her nipples between forefinger and thumb almost as hard as I could, which made her sex tighten around me like a vise.

  Then she said, “Fuck me, please. Just fuck me with that fat cock, holy shit, they should’ve started with that.”

  Bonnie giggled.

  Shannon blushed, but she didn’t take it back as her eyes begged me to ravish her.

  She said throatily, “You’re touching places in me I’ve never felt, and I’ll be damned if I ever felt so full or stretched out before.”

  “And you’re fucking tight.”

  She bit her lip and ground against me, the best she could anyway. She had hardly any leverage in that position, but she didn’t need any to roll her hips and squeeze around me tightly. It almost made me cum. I’d been so turned on and fogged with lust while eating out my new mate, who was so voluptuously sexy, and quite possibly the most beautiful woman I’d ever laid eyes on. Which was saying a lot. Point being, I’d already been close to the edge before sliding my cock deep into her heated paradise, I wasn’t sure how long I’d last, especially since it was our first time.