PREVIOUSLY-
"Jared?" I spoke.
"Yeah, babe?" He replied from right behind us.
"Will you stay with me?" I asked him sleepily. I could feel Sam chuckle from where I was leaning against his chest.
"Couldn't keep me away," Jared responded.
Sam laid me down in the middle of the bed and climbed in on one side while Jared climbed in on my other side.
I was officially the most comfortable I'd ever been and I didn't even have any more words before I fell asleep.
When I woke, I smiled because I was half-lying on Sam and Jared was half-lying on top of me. I was so unbelievably comfortable that I never wanted to move again. I was used to being cold and I hated being cold. Now I had an unlimited supply of heat and it was glorious.
"Good morning, honey," Sam said to me quietly and I could feel the vibrations of his voice in his chest. He must've already been awake for a little while.
"Good morning," I responded with a sleepy rasp in my voice. "Can I just never go home again?" I was so comfortable and happy laying where I was that I didn't ever want to move again.
"Yes." They both answered at the same time. I hadn't even realized that Jared was awake too.
Sam brushed his fingers through my hair. "I hate to get up, but I have to go patrol. I've been putting it off for half an hour already," He groaned.
"The sooner you go, the sooner you get to come back to me," I told him with a glint in my eye before reaching up to kiss him.
He kissed me back and pulled away. "I like that incentive." Then he climbed out of the bed and Jared automatically pulled me over closer to him, clearly not ready to wake up yet. "I'll be back in an hour unless there are any complications."
"Be careful," I told Sam.
"I'll see you soon."
Sam left and I tucked my head into the cavern between Jared's neck and shoulder.
"What time is it?" I asked him quietly.
"Too early. Go back to sleep, babe." He murmured into my hair sleepily, hugging me closer.
I didn't argue. I fell back asleep cocooned in warmth and didn't wake up again until Jared did.
"Hey." He said, facing me directly as he turned so that we both laid on our sides.
"Hey yourself," I replied with a smile as he leaned in to kiss me sweetly.
"How's your ankle feeling today?" He asked after pulling away.
"Feeling a lot better," I responded, having not even thought about it until he mentioned it.
"Want to try walking on it?" He suggested and I nodded.
Jared got out of the bed and held his hand out to help me up. I stood and my ankle didn't feel nearly as bad as the day before. Surprisingly it only felt mildly sore.
He continued to hold both of my hands as I walked forward. I still had a slight limp but I could walk.
"Does that feel okay?" He asked, watching carefully as I walked.
"Yeah, it's really not bad, just a little sore." It truly did feel much better and I was grateful.
We walked out to the stairs and he ended up lifting me by my waist easily to get to the bottom as I pouted at him.
"I didn't want to push our luck, babe. I have a feeling you and stairs don't really like each other on a good day, let alone when you're already hurt." Jared chuckled, setting me back down at the bottom.
I huffed and walked over to the kitchen while Jared followed. I opened the refrigerator and started pulling out the necessary items needed to make breakfast. Jared looked at me as if to ask me what I was doing.
"I have two giant wolves with huge appetites and a third will most likely show up. I can't just let you guys starve now can I?" I said while getting out the pans and starting a pot of coffee.
Jared stood in amazed shock for a moment before snapping out of his daze. "What do you need me to do?"
I told him what to do and we worked together until we had an entire huge breakfast cooked and ready. Doing anything with Jared and Sam was so easy, seamless. It was almost like we didn't even have to communicate verbally to know what the other needed and I was in complete awe at that fact.
Just as Jared pulled out the plates, Sam walked in the door with a huge smile. He made a beeline straight for me and lifted me up by my waist, twirling me around before putting me back down and kissing me enthusiastically.
"This smells amazing." He said, looking over at the large amount of food having been made. I smiled up at him in pride.
"Yo Sam, catch any scents?" Jared asked him as they began piling their plates high with breakfast.
"All clear. The trails from the Cullens place are already starting to dissipate. I want you to go at noon and I'll have Paul go out at 9 pm. Just an hour each for now unless one of us catches anything. With the Cullens gone, I'm really hoping that it'll be quiet for a while." Sam replied to him.
"Hell yeah, we haven't had one-hour patrols since I've been a wolf," Jared said excitedly.
"Because there's always been a threat. Right now the threat is temporarily gone, but there are always nomads passing through so you have to stay on your guard no matter what. Understood?" It was almost strange for me to be hearing Sam being alpha with Jared instead of just human Sam.
"You think I'll ever let my guard down now that we have Bella? Not a chance, bro." Jared replied to him adamantly.
Just as we were sitting down at the table, Paul walked in the doorway looking like he was on a mission.
"I smelled grub." Paul sniffed the air and looked at the food before looking back at me with an eyebrow raised.
"Go ahead, I made enough for all three of you. At least, I hope it's enough. I seriously made enough to feed like 10 normal humans." I giggled. I'd have to make notes about how much the three of them actually ate just so that I would be prepared for mealtimes.
"It's perfect, honey. You didn't have to do this for us." Sam told me, reaching out to cover my hand with his.
"If I'm part of the pack now I want to contribute. I can't go wolf, but I can cook. It's really the least I can do." I told him honestly.
"Fuck yes, we finally have someone who knows how to cook. This is goddamn amazing, Swan." Paul said as he wolfed down the food. Yes, pun intended. He was eating almost ravenously.
"I can cook—" Jared began and Paul laughed, cutting him off.
"Yeah, if you call burning water 'cooking'."
"Alright, now you're on," Jared said, getting up from the table as Paul mimicked his movements.
"You want to go, Cameron?" Paul stated, holding his arms out in a defensive motion.
They began fighting and Sam pulled me out of their range of motion quickly. I could definitely tell it wasn't actually real fighting. They were just being boys. Very large and indestructible boys.
"Take it outside before you ruin my house," Sam yelled at them before laughing, turning his head back to me.
"Common occurrence?" I asked him with my eyebrows raised.
He chuckled. "You have no idea."
I heard a howl from outside and Sam just shook his head.
"Did they seriously phase?" I questioned.
"That, honey, is why I told them to take it outside."
"They're not actually going to hurt each other, are they?" I looked at him worriedly.
"We're pretty indestructible unless it comes to vampires." He replied to me.
A shiver ran down my spine. "Ugh, I can't even think about you guys fighting vampires. They could kill you…"
"Bella, we're literally made to kill vampires. We're faster than them and our teeth will cut right through them. You don't have to worry about us." He grabbed my hand and held it for a second before standing and taking all the plates to the sink, beginning to wash them. I didn't even want to think about that anymore.
A few minutes later, both Jared and Paul walked in the door laughing and pushing each other, not a scratch on their bodies.
"Have fun?" I asked them.
"Always," Jared said, walking up behind me and leaning down on the back of the chair, carefully moving my chin to the side so that he could kiss me properly.
"So what's the plan for today?" I asked them, wondering what we could do.
"When do you have to be home?" Sam questioned.
"I guess it's a school night, isn't it?" I sighed as Sam nodded. "I'll have to be home by 10 unless Charlie says otherwise."
"Well, it's actually nice out again and I'm pretty sure it won't rain until tonight, so do you want to go back down to the beach for a little while? We don't have to get in if you don't want to." Sam suggested. The idea made me excited.
"I think I'd like that. Speaking of which, my clothes are still in the dryer. If we do end up going in, I might need those." I replied to him, gulping.
"I mean, you don't need them." Jared winked at me, causing me to blush at the thought. "You're so damn innocent, I love it."
Paul looked between the three of us with raised eyebrows and laughed. "I'm out. I'll leave you guys to your kinky threesomes while I go prowl."
I almost choked on my water as he walked out the door and looked up to see Sam rubbing his eyes and shaking his head.
"I might have to alpha order him to keep his comments to himself," Sam muttered under his breath.
I decided to get them both back by saying something so bold that it even surprised myself.
"You know, he wasn't wrong before… maybe he can just predict the future," I whispered to the both of them as I stood and began hobbling over to the kitchen.
I could literally hear them stop breathing, then I turned around to see them looking at each other with bewildered expressions of shock before I burst out laughing.
"You're playing with wolves, Bella…" Jared groaned, leaning back in his seat with his eyes closed.
"Yep, that's exactly what I plan on doing," I replied without missing a beat.
Sam quickly stood and was in front of me before I even knew it, picking me up in a passionate embrace and kissing me heavily.
"You can play all you want, honey," Sam whispered in my ear before backing up to lean against the counter.
I batted my eyelashes with a pout. "But I thought we were going to the beach?"
"No rules against playing at the beach." Jared teased playfully.
"Come on, let's go before both of us end up needing cold showers or one of us ends up dragging you into a hot one," Sam said, dismissing himself from the kitchen, headed toward the laundry.
Jared walked over to me and brushed a piece of hair out of my face. "I think that sounds like a much better idea."
He ran his lips from the base of my ear down my neck as I felt a tingling run down my spine toward my center. His fingers had made their way underneath the shirt I was wearing and were drawing circles on my bare sides.
I found myself leaning more into him and breathing heavily at his actions but suddenly they stopped completely. His hands and lips retreated with a sigh.
I felt the loss immediately and I looked at him in question.
He deferred over to Sam who was walking back into the kitchen with my towel and clothes.
"We're going to the beach, remember?" Sam replied with a smirk as Jared walked away readjusting his shorts and muttering 'at least the fucking ocean is cold'.
I narrowed my eyes at Sam. "What did you say to him?"
"Not to start something he wasn't going to finish," Sam replied to me. I looked up at him defiantly.
"Who says he wasn't?" I challenged as Jared turned around to watch our interaction in amusement.
"Oh, so he was?" Sam retorted as if asking if I was ready for that.
Had I been willing to let it go that far already? I knew the answer already. I wanted them both, that much was clear, yet I still stuttered out my answer. "…maybe?"
He put his hands on either side of me. "Right here? In the kitchen?" He murmured as he leaned down to where his breath was ghosting my ear.
"I-I-I don't know," I muttered in response before pulling away from him sharply. He gave me a confused expression. "We're going to the beach, remember?" I winked at him.
"Yeah Sam, don't start something you're not going to finish," Jared said to him with a chuckle as I grabbed the towel from the pile of my clothes Sam had set on the countertop and left the rest.
"Are we going?" I questioned them both as they looked at each other in surprise before looking back at me.
I started walking/limping toward the doorway holding only my towel while they both watched gaping like fish before nearly running to catch up with me.
"You forgetting something, babe?" Jared asked me curiously with wide eyes as I walked outside.
"Nope," I replied with absolution.
"Are we going in the water?" He persisted. I stopped and turned to him, reaching up to run my finger down his jawline.
"I guess we'll see," I spoke breathily.
I watched as Jared closed his eyes and bit his lip, bouncing up and down before taking a deep breath and immediately picking me up bridal style to carry me down to the beach that was almost directly behind Sam's house.
When we made it down to the black sand, he continued to carry me until the three of us arrived at a small cove that looked almost isolated.
Jared sat me down on my feet and Sam looked over at me.
"What do you want to do, honey?"
I looked over at the ocean then back down at my towel before taking a deep breath. "You guys go in and don't look until I tell you to."
"Shorts or no shorts, babe?" Jared asked me seriously, letting me be the one to decide.
"Well, it wouldn't be fair if you both were wearing more clothes than me," I replied, trying to muster up the courage for what I was about to do.
I watched them as they both discarded their shorts right in front of me, clearly very confident with themselves (and I could tell why), before walking into the water and staring at the horizon, waiting for me.
I sat the towel down with their shorts and breathed in before starting to undress, trying not to be as self-conscious as I felt. Once I was completely naked, I looked at the water where they were both still just waiting. I wondered if they were talking to each other and if they were, what it would be about, but I dismissed the thought quickly. I was focused on the task at hand.
I can do this.
I let out a breath and walked toward the water as best as I could. When I hit the water, I sucked in a breath at the cold but continued in, knowing that heat was waiting for me.
Once I was close enough to them, I crossed my arms over my chest saying, "Okay you can turn around now…"
Neither of them wasted any time and turned around quickly. Before I could even blink, they were at either side of me and Sam was pulling me by my waist into him, walking us into deeper water.
"You don't have to hide from us, honey," Sam whispered to me while holding me close to him.
I gathered my courage and let my arms fall to my sides before instantly losing that courage and hugging myself to Sam's chest.
My eyes were closed when I felt a second pair of hands grasp me by my bare hips from behind, carefully pulling me away from Sam's chest.
"Relax, Bella. You're perfect." Jared murmured into my ear from behind me.
His words did as he intended and made me relax into their arms, somehow sandwiched in between the two.
Finally relaxed, I decided to be brave. "So are you both going to finish what you started earlier?"
I could feel their excitement practically bursting at the seams at my words. Reaching my hands down into the water, I grabbed one of each of theirs. Jared's on my hip and Sam's on my ribcage, slowly starting to move them to where I wanted them to be.
Jared's hand moved further south as Sam's moved further north as I closed my eyes and leaned backward into Jared, allowing him access to my neck.
Sam's thumbs brushed my nipples and I sucked in a deep breath, surprised at the feeling. When Jared's fingers reached their targeted destination, I found myself arching into him.
My eyes were closed as I let the feelings completely take me over. I was once again surprised by the feeling of Sam's lips on the opposite side of my neck than Jared. The pleasure increased tenfold and between their lips, Sam's fingers playing with my nipples, and Jared's fingers swirling around my center, I was completely lost in an erotic trance.
Before I could even tell what was happening, I felt an intense pressure building inside me, the pleasure increasing by every second until I reached a point where fireworks exploded in my brain and my body shuddered against them.
Their hands retreated to their original locations and it took me a few moments to regain my bearings as I came down from my high.
"Is it just me or was that the hottest thing you've ever experienced?" Jared asked Sam, making me flush with pride at what he'd said.
"Most definitely," Sam responded. "And feeling her emotions with it…"
I'd felt theirs too and that had only increased every bit of my pleasure.
"Suffice it to say I don't need that cold shower now." Jared chuckled. Did that mean what I thought it meant?
"No kidding," Sam replied. "You do have a way of surprising us, honey."
I smiled at him, happy to have surprised them. "Does it feel that way every time?" I questioned, genuinely curious.
"That was your first?" Jared asked me in an unbelieving tone and I nodded to him. "There is so much we're going to teach you, babe. It only gets better from here, I promise."
"It gets better?" I wasn't sure it could get better than that.
"If it doesn't then we're not doing our jobs right," Sam responded with a playful smile.
I didn't know how much longer we were out there just swimming around but too soon it was time to get out. Sam got out first and was already holding up the towel to wrap me in as soon as I was out of the water.
Jared had decided to carry me out and only sat me down when we reached the sand.
The breeze was cold against my skin as I used the towel to dry off and get redressed. The three of us walked slowly back to Sam's at my insistence that I be able to walk the whole way instead of being carried.
My argument on walking by myself had been that I would have school in the morning and wouldn't have them there to assist me so I needed to be sure that I could do it. Apparently, neither of them liked the fact that I would be at school for 8 hours alone but unfortunately, it was how it had to be until I graduated unless other options presented themselves.
"Dammit bro, how am I supposed to go patrol after that?" Jared asked Sam pleadingly once we got back. I realized it must've been around noon and he would have to leave soon.
"It has to be done, Jared. It's only an hour." Sam told him.
He huffed and came up to me, kissing me sweetly before shedding his shorts right there, throwing them to me as he took off out the door.
A/N- And so the fun begins. Needless to say, I've officially upped the rating on this story to an 'M'.
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