Amanda's Wolves(26)

“Trust me,” Rebecca continued, “I know your instinct is to run and hide, but you can’t hide forever. You won’t be able to sleep or eat or concentrate. All you’ll be able to think about is when you’ll see them again. It’s powerful, and when you finally give in to the need, you’ll find yourself in a world that is amazing and beautiful and so much better than any relationship regular humans ever have.”

“You’re saying when I go home, I won’t be able to keep my mind off them? That’s crazy.” There was no way she believed that. And she fully intended to prove it.

Although in reality she hadn’t been able to sleep well for weeks because of thoughts of them, and that was before she knew they weren’t imaginary dream characters.

“It will consume you until you have no choice but to give in. And you won’t be sorry. The sex is that good.”

Amanda swallowed hard. Sex with two men. “I’m not ready for this.”

Laurie nodded. “I know you probably don’t have much experience. I can sense it. I’m…intuitive.”

“Among other things,” Rebecca added. “Let’s not get into that.” She turned back to Amanda. “What you need to know for now is that Logan and Sawyer will be understanding. I promise. Just talk to them. Tell them to slow down and back the fuck off if you need to.

“They may be led by their cocks, but they will not pressure you to handle more than you can all at once.”

“Are you serious? This is already way more than I can ever handle.” She ran her hands through her hair. “I’ve never been so confused in my life. I think I’ve lost my mind. Two men whom I’ve been dreaming about for weeks show up on the porch of some communal living facility and claim they own me. If that’s not weird enough, one of them strips his clothes off and turns into a wolf. A wolf,” she yelled, a bit too loud.

She lowered her voice and continued just above a whisper. “I’m way the fuck past what I can ‘handle.’ Trust me. And there’s no way I can have sex with anyone I just met. I left my parents’ home only a month ago after living twenty-five years under the strict thumb of my ultra-conservative mother who rarely let me enjoy a moment of my life without pushing the Bible and all of its teachings down my throat. I’m barely coming out of that fog. This is over the top.”

She stepped a few feet from the car and began to pace in a small circle that allowed her to continue whispering to the women but kept Logan and Sawyer from eavesdropping from the porch. “I’ve had just a handful of boyfriends and slept with only three men. None of them made it seem all that interesting.” She had no idea why she was telling all this to two women she hardly knew.

Laurie smiled at her with understanding. “I promise Logan and Sawyer will change your opinion about sex in two seconds flat. In our world we’re wired that way. We crave it more frequently than regular humans, and we enjoy it far more.” She turned toward Rebecca. “Even a human claimed by a wolf finds that to be true. Right?”

Rebecca grinned. “Oh yeah. You’ll never look back.”

“I don’t see that happening.” Amanda stopped pacing to face them both. “Why am I even discussing this issue? There’s no way in hell I’m having sex with anyone. Not in the near future. Maybe after months of dating someone new, but not tonight. And never with two men. Not a chance.”

Rebecca stepped closer, also keeping her voice down. “Let me talk to them. And please stay here at Laurie’s house tonight. She’s already called your sister and told her that was the plan.”

Amanda jerked her gaze to Laurie. “She bought that?”

Laurie frowned. “Why wouldn’t she? She sounded kinda glad, actually. I’m sure as much as she loves having you and sharing her apartment, she could use a night without her sister in the same space just as much as anyone else would. I don’t even think she was alone when I spoke to her.”

Amanda’s eyes went wide. She was so stunned she couldn’t speak for a second. “Mary? You must be mistaken. We were raised by the same parents, after all. I seriously doubt she was excited to hear I wasn’t coming home so that she could shack up with some guy. She isn’t even dating anyone.”

Laurie’s eyes shot open at least as wide as Amanda imagined hers to be. “Uh. You… Um… I never said she was with a guy.”

“You just implied she was looking forward to spending the night with someone while I was out of the house. I know the two of you have been friends for a while, but that’s not like my sister.”