Every Sunset Forever by R. E. Butler Page A

cocooning her between the two.  Reaching over Fade’s broad chest, she felt Azrael twine his fingers with hers, and all was right in her world.
    Whatever the dawn would bring, tonight she was with her mates, and it was the sweetest feeling in the world.
     
     
     

 
     
     
     
    Chapter 8
     
    Nyte didn’t want to get up, but his stomach wouldn’t stop growling, and he was afraid his mate might mistake it for an angry predator.
    He inhaled slowly, and his mate’s sweet scent filled his nose.
    The day before, he hadn’t expected to find a mate, let alone one as beautiful as Whisper, but here she was, soft and warm in his arms, tucked safely against him.  As his stomach prepared to remind him again that he was hungry, he took another deep breath of Whisper’s scent and slipped away from her.  He could spend all day in bed with her.  It would probably be the best day of his life.  But they couldn’t do much more than kiss at the moment, or the temptation to really mate her would be too great.  It would be easy to get caught up in hormones and happy-to-be-mated feelings and rush forward into the physical side of things.  But aside from needing to mate her properly through ceremony, they were relative strangers, and it was important to him that she understood she was more than a mate to them.  More than a body to slake needs and bear young.  She was now the center of their world.  The most cherished member of their family for the rest of their lives.
    It was just hard to articulate that sort of thing without it sounding like a line.  The best course of action in regards to their new mate was to get to know her, give her time to get to know them, and then, when she was ready…move forward with their mating.
    His cock sprang to life at the thought of her sweet curves under his hands.
    Not the fucking time .
    He glanced at the bed and saw Whisper still cuddled up against Fade, her fingers linked with Az’s.  Fade’s jade green eyes met his, and Nyte knew that he’d been up for a while.  The protector in him wouldn’t have let him sleep too soundly, now that their mate was here.
    He checked the clock and found that they were going to miss breakfast if they didn’t get a move on, but they could always go out to get something in the nearby town if they did.  It was more important for their mate to catch up on her sleep.
    He couldn’t imagine how much her world had been turned upside down last night.  Not only finding her mates, which would be world-altering on its own, but finding her biological family as well.  Her story broke his heart.  If what the males said was true and she had been kidnapped, then it was good fortune that she had been adopted by a male such as her alpha wolf father.  He couldn’t imagine the grief that her biological parents dealt with on a daily basis, wondering what happened to her, what they could have done differently to prevent her kidnapping.
    He turned as the bed creaked.  Whisper and Fade were speaking in hushed tones so the words didn’t carry.  But she giggled softly, and Nyte didn’t miss the shit-eating grin that lit Fade’s face as he went up on one elbow and looked down at her.  Az sat up and yawned, cracking his neck.
    “I think I dreamed about bacon.  I’m starving,” he said.
    Nyte chuckled.  Whisper rolled to her back and covered her mouth as she yawned.  “You can go back to sleep, sweetness,” Nyte said.  “We don’t have to make it to breakfast.”
    She sat up and said, “No, I want to.  Plus,” she looked back at Fade and Azrael, who were giving her heated looks, “it’s too tempting to stay in bed.”
    He wished he’d stayed in bed.  She was definitely tempting .
    They sent her to use the shower first since the hot water wouldn’t last through more than two showers.  Once the water turned on, he sat down on the edge of the bed and looked at his brothers.  Azrael said in a low voice, “What did Mom say last night?”
    Nyte had