Lux, Liam, Otis, are you okay? She got up and stretched, walking into her new bathroom. Sure enough, the garden-sized tub called to her. She turned the water on as

  Lux, Liam and Otis slipped into the room and stripped out of their clothes, behind her.

  “You should have woken me up. I wanted to see your faces when we got here.” She pouted and slipped into the water.

  They all laughed at her and stepped around her, Lux getting in behind her. “You were tired and needed the rest. Everyone is settled in, and we have the perimeters all set. No one will step foot on our land without us knowing.” He kissed her neck and lifted her up on to his cock. He slowly worked his cock into her ass from behind as Otis moved in between her legs. He lifted her legs, putting them on his, as he slid his cock into her pussy.

  She moaned and laid her head back onto Lux’s chest. “I thought we were going to have our bonding ceremony last night?” She whispered, as they moved in and out of her.

  Otis sucked her breast into his mouth and nibbled her nipple while Lux wrapped his hand around Otis’s cock, stroking it as he pushed in and out of her.

  “Tonight. You were too tired last night, and it was too late. By the way, we love the house. It’s just like the old one. Thank you, Amber.” He mumbled this as he sucked on her neck.

  Amber couldn’t concentrate. “No more talking, more fucking, please.” She moaned as Lux slapped her clit.

  “Behave Amber. Let us take care of you,” Lux ordered.

  She grinned and glanced at Liam. He sat at the other end of the tub, watching

  every move she made. He didn’t smile or anything. He just watched. “Are you okay

  Liam?”

  “Shhh, Amber, just feel right now. Liam is fine,” Lux cooed and pushed into her, tapping her clit. Closing her eyes, Amber tried to reach out to Liam, but he was blocking his thoughts from her. She frowned and glanced back at him.

  “Did I do something wrong?” she whispered.

  “Amber, enough. Please. Concentrate on us, baby. He’ll join you when we’re finished.” Otis grabbed her head in between his hands. “You did nothing wrong. Right now, it’s just us two. Just feel us, what you’re doing to us.”

  Both Lux’s and Otis’s emotions poured into her, sending her flying. When Otis pushed into her, she could actually feel his cock being sucked on from her pussy, while Lux’s cock swelled inside her ass. That’s when she felt Otis’s and Lux’s connection. Lux loved Otis. Their connection was different from hers, but just as strong. They pulled her into their connection, twining their love for each other around her, connecting them all.

  “Come for us, baby,” Otis demanded, and bit down on her nipple.

  Amber grabbed onto his shoulders, scratching them as the tidal wave of emotions and feelings swirled inside her. They connected for all time. Lux howled at the same time Otis did, and they released their seed simultaneously into her body.

  Both of them petted and stroked her body as she came down from the heavens. All the while, Liam sat there, doing nothing. Otis slipped out of her and stood. He smiled at her and cupped her cheek. “We’ll meet you in the living room when you’re done.” He nodded to Liam.

  Lux carefully lifted her and put her back into the water. “We love you, Amber.” He leaned down and kissed her gently.

  Her stomach knotted and she turned to Liam as Lux closed the bathroom door.

  Never had she been so nervous with him, not even the first time they were together.

  “Liam?” she questioned.

  He opened his arms and she crawled into him. “You know we would give you anything you wanted, if we could, right?” he stroked her arms and gazed into her face.

  She nodded and knew what was coming.

  “I’m sorry, Amber, but with the threat of war and the danger to your life, we can’t risk a wedding this Christmas. The three of us talked to the Council and Mila. They also agreed that it would just be asking for our enemies to strike, but that doesn’t mean we won’t have one. We will when things settle down.” He hugged her and sighed.

  “I so wanted to give you that wedding, Amber, to see you all dressed up in that wedding dress, but it just can’t happen now. So, as a compromise, we’re going to have an early celebration while our enemy is regrouping. Our bonding ceremony will also be our

  Christmas. Do you know what the bonding ceremony entails?”

  Amber glanced down and frowned. “I know it has something to do with the animal side in us. That we are connecting our animals in us, like we did our human side.” She glanced up into his gaze.

  Liam nodded and kissed her nose. “With three of us, it’s a little more difficult.

  Lux is your alpha in all respects, but when it comes to the bonding of our animal sides, we’ve decided it would be best for me to be the alpha. This way, it will balance us. If something happens to one of us, we will still have the other to help pull us all out. Do you understand?”

  She nodded. “But I’ll be bonding with them too, won’t I?”

  “Yes, but in our bonding ceremony, we take each other in our animal forms after the words are said by our fathers. Everyone will shift to their animal form and watch the alpha take his mate. In other words, I’ll be taking you first, then Lux, and then Otis.”

  Amber jumped suddenly, and looked at him. “Wait a minute. You mean, we’re having Christmas now! I haven’t wrapped all those gifts or stuffed the stockings. We need to cook turkeys and ...”

  Liam laughed. “Hush. All that has been taken care of. All of our mothers have been working nonstop to make this evening special for you. All you have to do is enjoy. Now hop out of the tub, before we turn to prunes.” Liam pushed her up and stood behind her, kissing her neck.

  She gazed up at him. “Aren’t we going to make love?”

  Liam laughed and slapped her ass. “No. Because of the bonding ceremony, since I’m the alpha, we have to wait till tonight. I’m sure you can wait until tonight.” He kissed her neck.

  Amber frowned. “We’ve never had sex in our animal form.” She stepped out of the tub as he grabbed a towel and dried her.

  “It’s very intense and emotional. When we mate in the wolf form, the male will dominate you in every sense, Amber.” He turned her towards him. “It’s more than what we do here, guiding and mastering you. Animals have a natural basic need to survive, to dominate. Only the strongest survive.” He grabbed a dress and slipped it over her head. “Now, go watch Lux and Otis trying to string up the Christmas lights outside. When they’re done, we’ll all go and get a tree.”

  Amber’s stomach knotted. She’d never had a Christmas with lights, and she’d only had a tree at her Nana’s home. She ran almost smack into the door when Liam pulled her back in time. “Easy, Amber. We have plenty of time before tonight.” He laughed.

  Chapter Fourteen

  Amber and Liam walked out into the living room. Mila, Ben, Cassy, Teddy Otis, and Lux had sorted out all the Christmas decorations. The men worked on the lights while the women set about pulling out the decorations for the house.

  “Where did all the decorations come from?” she asked.

  Liam guided her towards the boxes on the floor. “Some are from my parents, some are from Lux’s, and various members of the pack donated the others. They all knew we didn’t have anything, so they sent over what they had.”

  “Yeah, and I bet they did this on purpose. Half of these lights don’t work. Do you know how tedious it is to go through every strand of lights to find one burned out light?” Lux growled. “I’d rather fight a bear than this.” He glanced up at her and smiled. “But for you, Amber, I’ll do it.”

  Tears rolled down her face, her stomach knotted, and her heart swelled with love. “Thank you, Lux. This means more than anything to me.” She knelt next to him, careful of the lights, and kissed his cheek. “I’m finally home, surrounded by those I love.”

  “You’ve always been home, Amber. Just look inside and you’ll see. Home is where the heart is, and you have three hearts that beat only for you,” Lux whispered in her ear.

  Her lip quivered and she glanced around the room to see everyone smiling.

  “You’re right, Lux, but it’s still fun to see you struggling to do something so simple.” She jumped up away from him, as he growled and tried to reach for her.

  Someone knocked on the front door. Amber reached for the door, but Otis was there, pushing her back. “We might have a respite now, Amber, but we must still be vigilant. Let me get this. You go help Mila. She’s baking up a storm in the kitchen. Oh, and by the way, I love gingerbread man cookies,” he hinted, and pushed her towards the kitchen.

  Amber shook her head and headed towards the smell of sugar cookies. The smell of fresh brewed coffee added to the vanilla and flour smells, as she stepped into the kitchen. “Umm, I love that smell. So, we have an order for gingerbread cookies. Can I help?”

  Cookie dough, flour, colored sprinkles, and Christmas shaped cutters all filled the kitchen table, as Mila glanced up and smiled. “Pull up a chair and start rolling. We’ll make the gingerbread cookies next. I also have an order for peanut butter cookies, but whoever heard of having peanut butter cookies for Christmas?” She laughed.

  Amber sipped a cup of decaf coffee and sat at the table, grabbing the roller. “Let me guess, Lux?” She laughed as Mila nodded. “Well, if we had time, I’d make some fruit cake. For some reason, that just sounds so good.” She rubbed her stomach.

  Mila laughed and nodded to the counter on the other side. “Well, take your pick. It seems many of your clan love it too, but make sure you pick one with no alcohol in it. I think I spotted three of them over there.”

  She got up and sorted through all the food, pumpkin rolls, fruitcake, apple-

  cranberry bread, banana bread, and fudge. “Oh my, are we going to get fat. Jeez, I’m going to have to jog twice a day, if I sample all this.”

  “Oh no, you’re not. Remember you’re carrying triplets and you’ll need all that energy.” Lux slipped in behind her, wrapping his arms around her. “Why don’t you cut me a piece of that fruit cake? I wanted to let you know we have two boxes of poinsettias, Christmas cacti, and a holly in the living room that need to be taken out of the boxes.”

  “Amber, you go do that since my hands are already covered in dough. Lux, your peanut butter cookies will come last since they are the easiest to make. Oh, and I have already put the turkey in the oven. From what Lux’s mom said, we cooked twenty turkeys and twenty hams for tonight, so we should have plenty for everyone.”

  Amber turned to look up at Lux. “How many will be at the ceremony tonight?” She gulped the thought of that many people watching her.

  Lux cuddled up next to her. “You love the thought of them watching you as we take you, admit it.” He bit her neck. “So far, the count is over five hundred people in attendance. That’s not including Teddy’s pack, but we’re expecting them, so add another two hundred. Of course, the elderly and the children won’t be at the bonding. They will be at the celebration afterwards at the pack house.”

  Turning in his arms, she frowned. “Lux, Teddy and his pack had to come here at the last minute. We don’t have gifts for them. What about the children? We can’t hand out gifts to the others without them having gifts. No child should be without gifts on Christmas, even if we’re celebrating it early.” She remembered the times she had gone without gifts.

  He held her tight. “No child will go without, baby. We’ll make sure. Between our two clans, we’ve all pulled together to make sure every child has something. The adults from our two clans want to donate their gifts to Teddy’s since they have nothing. It will be our way of saying welcome.” Lux licked her nose. “So don’t worry. It will all turn out right.”

  “Lux, get out here! You’re not getting out of helping put up these lights,” Liam yelled, coming into the kitchen. “I should have known. Amber, quit distracting him.” He laughed and pulled her into the living room. “You have work to do.” He pushed her to the boxes of plants.

  Cassy stood there with her hands on her hips. “Hey, this is her day. Quit pushing her around.”

  Amber hugged her, and opened the first box of fresh poinsettias. “We need Christmas music.” Lux nodded.

  From across the room, the stereo turned on, playing Christmas music. “Now that is more like it.” She sang the words to “Jingle Bells” as she opened the first box of plants.

  Cassy and Amber worked putting up the mistletoe and Christmas cactus throughout the house. They laughed when they heard Otis, Lux, and Liam grumbling outside with the lights.

  “Damn it, Amber. Come see if this is what you want?” Liam yelled from the doorway.

  “Can’t you three decide? We still have two boxes to unload, and I want to help Mila,” she yelled, going for the next box.

  “Oh good, the plants came. I was afraid they wouldn’t make it in time.” Liam’s mom said, coming inside and laughing as she pointed outside. “You should you see them. Otis has one strand tangled around his leg while Lux is on the ladder cussing up a storm.” She kissed Amber on the cheek and patted her belly.

  “That’s funny. I only ordered two boxes of plants.” She grabbed Amber’s arm and stopped her. “Hey, Liam, you guys better come in here. Don’t touch anything else.

  Amber, something isn’t right.”

  Otis, Liam and Lux entered the room, frowning. “What’s up mom? We’re kind of busy here.”

  She nodded to the boxes. “I only ordered two boxes of plants, but then maybe

  Lux’s mother did too.”

  “I didn’t order anything except the extra turkeys,” she yelled, coming in the house with an armload of presents.

  Amber laughed and pulled some out of her arms. “You should have had Ralph or one of the other boys bring these over.”

  “Oh posh, I wanted to see my daughter. Plus, I enjoyed the walk. It’s so nice out.

  So, what did they do? Send an extra box? We can use it up at the pack house.”

  Lux and Liam walked around the boxes, sniffing, and staring at them. “They’re all the same boxes and they are all sealed the same way.” Liam nodded to Lux.

  “For Pete’s sake, they were probably to go to someone else’s house. Open them already.” Amber tapped her foot to the music.

  “Amber, you know we have to be careful.” Lux kissed her nose and carefully

  opened one of the boxes. He shook it and pulled out a couple of the plants. “Well, this one is fine. Liam, how’s that one?”

  Liam grabbed the box and moved outside with it. She frowned and tried to follow, but Otis held her back. “Stay here, Amber.”

  “What’s wrong?” Please not today, please!

  Lux laughed outside as Liam grumbled and brought the box back inside. “It has to be for you. I swear I’m going to kill Dad.” He handed her the box. Button, the dog, stared up at her, growling.

  “Oh poor, Button. Did Liam scare you?” She picked him up and hugged him. “I’m so sorry we left you, baby. I missed you.” She sat down on the sofa as he wiggled and licked her face.

  “The little thing bit me.” Liam grumbled.

  “Well, I’d bite you too, if you shook me.” Cassy laughed and sat down next to her.

  “Yeah, but I’m the alpha here, so he should know better.” He pouted and held up his hand. Sure enough, little teeth marks were imprinted on his hand.

  Amber glanced at Liam’s mom and they busted out laughing. “Aww, poor baby.

  Did he hurt your ego? Do you need Momma to kiss it all better?” She teased, laughing. “I’ll give you a kiss.” He growled and went to attack her when Button turned and growled at him.

  He stopped and frowned at the dog. “Okay, now that is just not right.” He shifted to his wolf form and growled back.

  Button whined and hid in her arms, shaking. “Damn it, Liam. He’s just a pup.

  You just had to go and scare him.” She frowned, cooing at the dog, as he shifted back.

  “You have to show them who’s boss right from the beginning. Then there won’t be problems later on.” He grinned.

  “Really, you have to show them who’s boss?” She glanced down at Button and said a few words when Button jumped in her arms and barked at the kitten on the floor.

  “What do you think Button, want some pussy cat?”

  Cassy rolled on the floor laughing, and Liam’s and Lux’s moms smirked. Mila came into the room, flour all over her, and laughed. “You do know he’s going to get even, right?” She clapped her hands and Liam transformed back.

  “Then he shouldn’t scare my puppy.” She snapped at him, but hid the smile that was inside. “I believe you have lights to finish, so we can go get our tree.”

  Liam narrowed his gaze on her. “You know that’s twice you’ve turned me into something. I think it’s about time to teach you a few things.” He growled and grabbed her, picking her up, without getting bitten from Button. “I’ll be back in a minute, Lux, to help you with the lights.

  He swung her up over his shoulder and swatted her ass. “Liam, put me down. We have too much to do.” She laughed as Button followed behind them. “He’s going to bite you,” she giggled.

  “If he bites me, I’m going to bite you, so you better tell him to back off.” He tried to snarl, but she heard the laugh as he moved up the stairs to their bedroom. He plopped her down on the bed and straddled her, pinning her arms above her head.

  “Now about this turning me into things. I think I need to teach my mate some manners.” He grinned and started tickling her stomach.

  She laughed, trying to get loose but his hand held her down. “Liam, stop. I’m going to pee myself,” she cried and tried to shake him of off her, but nothing. That’s when Button jumped on the bed and started pulling Liam’s shirt, trying to tug him off.

  Amber busted out laughing again as Liam tried to push the puppy away, to no avail.