Chapter 15
#15 of The Mating Season: A Life of Dreams
Chapter 15
Zaldon lay on his back, watching with hooded eyes as Kel and Aliona licked his hard dick. They were in his bed, in the lavish bedroom he shared with Julyan. The window was open and the moon shone full in the frame. The white curtains around the bed lifted on a sudden breeze as Kel and Aliona - perched on their knees with their asses in the air - lightly dragged the tips of their tongues along Zaldon's veined cock. Zaldon's cock was smeared with flavored lube, and they moaned appreciatively as they ate it off him.
"Mm . . . I could lick it all night," Aliona whispered huskily and smoothed her paw up Zaldon's thick shaft.
Zaldon licked his lips as precum dripped from his cock. "You are certainly welcome to."
Kel laughed.
Julyan had smeared the lube on Zaldon and was now smearing it on his own cock. He watched Kel with a hard dick as he stood beside the corner table, his pretty lavender eyes following the hungry stroke of Kel's pink tongue. He turned to the nearby shelf and took down another jar. Zaldon watched him come to the bed with it, where he sat and started smearing the lube between Kel's hard ass cheeks.
Kel shivered and pulled his tongue from Zaldon's cock. "Oh!"
"Cold?" Aliona teased. Her big tits hung down as she knelt, ass still in the air. Her shawl had been yanked off by Kel and was thrown haphazardly over a chair. She watched Julyan fingering Kel with a little smile, her thick mane spilling around her. The amused smile fell from her lips, however, when Julyan carefully smeared the lube between her shapely thighs. Her eyes hooded: Julyan was fingering her as he smeared it on, carefully and gently. Zaldon heard the soft squelching as his fingers glided in her pussy . . . then her ass. Leaning close, Julyan moaned and licked a bit of lube off her swollen pussy lips.
"Oh . . . oh, Julyan," Aliona whispered when his tongue plunged deeper.
Still lying on his back, Zaldon opened his big arms and gestured for Aliona to come. She crawled to him with swinging breasts and pressed her back on his hard chest. Her big breasts wobbled at the ceiling as Zaldon spread her thighs. She reached back to hold his neck and watched with large blue eyes as his cock slowly sank up and in her pink anus. Her anus strained taunt and she cried out. Her thighs trembled. She could see Kel and Julyan watching Zaldon's entry with hungry eyes.
Zaldon smiled. "Your turn, Kel."
Kel licked his lips and crawled to them with a hard dick. He smiled at Aliona - then kissed her as he slid his cock into the warm, wet sheath of her lubricated pussy. Aliona cried out as she was penetrated again. She twisted in Zaldon's arms, thrusting her breasts to the ceiling as Kel began to fuck her. Zaldon kissed her cheek and grabbed her tits in fistfuls. He offered the great mounds to Kel, and Kel bowed his head to lick and suckle her as they rocked.
Smiling, Julyan set the jar on the bedside table, then climbed up on Kel and crammed inside. Kel moaned as Julyan filled him, his lips trembling on Aliona's nipple. Zaldon squeezed her tit for Kel to suck and reached past her to stroke Kel's mane. Julyan slowly began to thrust, and with each slippery punch of his cock, Kel was in turn forced to thrust in Aliona - who cried out as Kel and Zaldon's cocks stroked her in ceaseless rhythm.
The room was soon filled with the sounds of lovemaking: moaning, squelching, sighing, sucking, whispers and kisses, grunts and gasps. They fucked until they were lying in a breathless pile.
After exchanging lazy kisses for a while, they snuggled under the sheets. Everyone fell asleep except Zaldon, who smiled as he lay there surrounded by his lovers. He looked at Kel and Aliona and wished they were already living in the sun village with him. Yuri was grown now and he and Julyan were settled into their new home. There was no excuse anymore not to propose to Kel. But . . . Zaldon still hadn't got up the nerve.
Zaldon was frightened of hearing no, of the argument that would follow, of the tears he would later shed in Julyan's arms. He lay in bed between Kel and Aliona, watching happily as Julyan - smiling in his sleep - threw his big arm across Aliona, who had her cheek on Zaldon's chest. Things were good the way they were. Why jeopardize it by asking Kel to marry him?
After watching his lovers sleep for a time, Zaldon dislodged himself from between Kel and Aliona. He slipped carefully from the bed and went to the corner basin, where he wiped his cock clean with the water there. Over on the bed, he saw Kel and Julyan snuggle Aliona from either side and smiled as he left the room.
Out in the hall, Zaldon paused. The house was still and silent. He could hear the occasional cough or moan as his guests slept.
Kilyan would be in bed with Lea and Ohana while LiAnh no doubt slept on his chest. Little Wynn would also be in the bed with Kilyan, probably snuggled between her father and Lea, smiling as she slept. The boy Inden had his own room near the stairs.
Then Loryn and Kira had a guestroom to themselves, which was near the room Zane shared with his family. And at the very end of the hall, opposite Inden's room, Lynny and Idella shared a guestroom.
Zaldon moved quietly down the hall and to the kitchen. He entered the pantry and faced the shelves of salted meat, cheese wheels, and wine. Most of the wine had been set aside for the wedding. Zaldon took some ale and ripped the cork from the demijohn with his teeth. He returned to the kitchen and halted to find Loryn there, sitting on the wooden counter.
"What are you doing up, big, soft, and sexy?" Loryn said, pushing his mane back from his face. The stripes on his face pulled with his handsome smile - and his jaw as he chewed on a large slice of cheddar he'd taken from a cabinet.
Zaldon leaned against the counter beside Loryn and took a swig from the demijohn. "I could ask you the same thing," he said, glancing at Loryn. "Shouldn't you in bed fucking Kira? The two of you go like rabbits."
"So says the guy," laughed Loryn, "who just finished having an orgy with his husband, his lover, and his lover's wife."
Zaldon laughed dryly. "Touché." He took another drink and glanced at Loryn sheepishly. "So . . . you heard that, huh?"
Zaldon wasn't surprised when Loryn looked away bitterly. He was perfectly aware that Loryn was in love with Kel. It was some time before he realized it, but he knew. The day he finally realized, Loryn's behavior suddenly became crystal clear. His commitment issues, the drugs . . . and everything with Eno . . . all stemmed from his heartache, from the fact that he loved Kel and knew Kel would never love him back. Not romantically.
Zaldon stared guiltily at the demijohn in his big paw. It suddenly seemed as if everyone loved Kel. Zaldon reflected that Lynny loved Kel too. But Kel had chosen Zaldon.
"I didn't realize," Loryn said, trying to sound cheerful and at ease, "that Julyan was in on it too. I mean . . . I knew about that time way back . . . when Kilyan was just a kid. You and Julyan and Kel . . ."
Zaldon swallowed hard. Back when Zaldon first met Julyan, the two of them had fucked Kel. All night long. Much like tonight, the sex had been . . . incredibly intense. And in the morning, Kel accepted Julyan and decided to try to move on. Little did Zaldon know that Kel was going to refuse to ever see him again. He smirked. But how long had that eternity lasted?
"Tuh. You look very smug and satisfied," Loryn said, elbowing Zaldon. But try as he might to joke around, he sounded bitter.
Zaldon glanced at Loryn, reflecting that he and the handsome wolf were lovers once. Back when they were teenagers, Loryn was the first - and perhaps the only one - to realize that Zaldon was in love with Kel. It was Loryn who had tried to get the two together. And now that they were together . . . he resented the fact.
Zaldon cleared his throat and set the demijohn aside. "Loryn . . ." After hesitating, he touched Loryn's mane and stroked the length of it to his muscular back.
Loryn closed his eyes. "You could have invited me."
"We both know Kira would have scratched your eyes out."
"And gave them to me in my supper."
They laughed.
"She said years ago that I could be with Kel. She knows I love him. But I haven't been with Kel. Not since . . ."
_Not since he was sick,_Zaldon finished for him, reflecting on the day the three of them made love behind the waterfall.
Loryn looked at his lap. "When I realized the two of you were finally together, I thought it was mission complete. And I stepped back. And I decided it was time to let go."
"I'm sorry I never realized how difficult it was for you," Zaldon said, stroking Loryn's mane again. "Both of us were your lovers once. Now we're together, and you've been left out . . ." Zaldon shook his head. "And I was so absorbed in Kel, I never realized."
"No, don't apologize." Loryn scowled. "I'm being an idiot. I've got a beautiful wife, a wonderful daughter, and a wonderful son-in-law, a brand new grandson and another grandbaby getting married." He grinned. "I should be ecstatic!" He glanced at Zaldon and flattened his ears sheepishly. "But all I can think about is myself."
Zaldon shook his head. "It's perfectly natural, Loryn. If you had Kel but lost Kira, I imagine you'd be going through the same ordeal."
"Lost Kira? Don't even use those words in the same sentence!"
Zaldon chuckled and took a swig from the demijohn. He wrapped his arm around Loryn's shoulders and passed it to him. Loryn took a swig.
"At least Kel is still in the summer village with me," Loryn whispered. He stared hollowly at the wall and shook his head. "I don't know what I'd do," he said sadly, "if Kel left."
Zaldon sighed miserably. He and Loryn shared the demijohn until it was empty, then he helped Loryn - who was starting to look tipsy -- back up the stairs.
"ZZZZaldon," Loryn slurred as he leaned on Zaldon's arm.
"Wh-Whaaaa," Zaldon slurred back, feeling a little lightheaded himself.
"You aren't gonna . . . ask Kel to live here? Are you?"
Zaldon squeezed his eyes shut.
"I know weddings can have that effect on wolves . . . they start thinking of marriage and propose left and right . . ."
"No," Zaldon lied, his head swimming, "I'm not gonna . . . ask 'im."
At least not for another hundred years now.
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Lynny couldn't sleep. He lay on his back, staring at the ceiling, as Idella snuggled against him. He smiled at her. In the soft moonlight flowing through the window, she was lovely. Her gray mane was loose around her naked shoulders, falling down the deep line of her back. Her mouth was slightly open and she was frowning, completely absorbed in her dream. Lynny tightened his big arm around her and kissed her head. She smiled in her sleep.
They were lying naked together and the covers were off: Idella's shawl was folded on the chest at the foot of the bed, and Lynny's talisman had been playfully hung on the bedpost. As Zaldon and the others were moaning and fucking down the hall, Lynny and Idella had also been making love. Idella loved to ride. She loved to massage her pussy on Lynny's big cock until his toes curled. She loved to gyrate her hips slowly and deeply, loved to look in his eyes as she rubbed her tits. He remembered how she leaned down so he could suck her nipple rings. He grabbed her backside in fistfuls and stabbed his cock up and in until she gushed. But when it was over and they were lying spent . . . Lynny found himself thinking of Kel.
It had been seventeen years since Lynny had last touched Kel. He couldn't believe it: seventeen years. Back then, Kilyan and Ohana had been unruly teenage children, cuddling together in Ohana's bed as Kilyan recovered from his injuries. Back then . . . Lynny had cheated on Idella with Kel. Beautiful Kel, who he had loved for so long now.
Lynny squeezed his eyes shut, hating himself. He eased up and paused. Idella moaned in her sleep and turned her back. She hugged a pillow tight and kept dreaming. Lynny rose from the bed, and glancing at Idella a last time to make certain she was sleeping, he left the room.
He'd heard Zaldon going downstairs earlier. If he was going to have Kel, this was his chance. Zaldon guarded Kel like a jealous dragon and had warned Lynny once to back off. Seventeen years ago, when Zaldon had healed Kel, when Zaldon took Lynny and Idella home, he warned Lynny to stop cheating on Idella, to stop sleeping with Kel, because if Idella ever found out, it would kill her. Idella's was a fragile heart in more ways than one and Zaldon was very concerned.
Lynny had glared at his big brother: Zaldon - who was married -- was allowed to have orgies with Kel but Lynny was not? When Lynny made this point, Zaldon only shook his head and answered that Julyan was fully aware of what was going on, and what was more, he was a part of it. But Idella? She did not have a clue and would be very hurt if she knew.
"Kel is not our slut to pass around," Zaldon had said adamantly.
Lynny remembered laughing. "The hell he isn't. He's fucked you, Loryn, your husband, and me. I don't see you chasing Loryn away with a broom!"
"Loryn has stopped sleeping with Kel," Zaldon said confidently.
Lynny remembered rolling his eyes. Sure. Loryn had stopped. Sure . . .
Present-day Lynny glowered as he thought of Zaldon. He made his way up the hall to the room Zaldon shared with Julyan and paused outside the door. It was slightly ajar. On the other side, he could hear gentle breathing. He could smell Julyan and Aliona . . . and Kel. He smiled. He pushed the door open and slipped inside.
Julyan turned over on his back. "Zaldon . . .?" he muttered, eying Lynny groggily.
Lynny nodded, knowing that his strong resemblance to Zaldon would save him easily. It did: Julyan smacked his lips and went back to sleep.
Lynny approached the bed. Aliona was lying between Julyan and Kel. She reached for Julyan and dropped her head on his chest. He smiled and put his arm around her. Kel was lying with his back to the edge of the bed and his arm was across Aliona. Lynny lifted the covers and slid his big body under. He snuggled tight to Kel and sighed to feel how hard and warm he was.
"Where'd you disappear to?" Kel wondered sleepily.
Lynny didn't answer.
"I hate when you go away," Kel whispered. He reached back to touch Lynny and found the rippling muscles of his belly. Lynny's stomach tensed as Kel touched him, and he felt his cock starting to stiffen.
Lynny bit his lip. He grabbed Kel's exploring paw and guided it in a stroke on his cock. He sighed - then grunted in Kel's ear as he got hard.
Kel's lashes fluttered open wide to feel the huge erection in his fingers. "Aren't you tired after all that?"
"Shh, baby . . ." whispered Lynny's deep voice.
Kel melted as Lynny reached around and massaged him under the sheets. Lynny's big paw swallowed Kel's cock and gently fondled. Kel sighed, and Lynny closed his eyes, longing to put his mouth there. He slid his big arm under and locked it around Kel's neck. Kel made a move to wriggle free, but Lynny tightened his arm, a silent command. Kel went still, shivering as Lynny continued to fondle him.
"Z-Zaldon . . . shit. You're touching me like you haven't touched me in years! A-Ahh!" Kel sputtered as precum oozed over Lynny's fingers. "Oh . . . Zaldon."
Lynny tenderly licked Kel's cheek. Oh, Kel.
"I'm going . . . to come . . ." Kel panted.
"Come in my paw," Lynny whispered, "so I can lick it clean. . . . ." He licked Kel's neck hard.
Kel's shivered as he squirted. "A-Ahh!"
"Mm . . ." Lynny sucked his fingers of Kel's hot cum.
"Lynny!" boomed a voice.
Lynny and Kel froze: Zaldon was standing in the doorway. His black eyes glinted fury. He lunged on the bed, making Aliona scream as he and Lynny crashed to the floor together.
"Zaldon - stop!" Kel shouted. He sat up, his ears flat with shame as he clutched the sheets over his cum-drenched cock.
"I warned you!" Zaldon was snarling. "I warned you!"
"You're not my father!" Lynny snarled back.
"Someone needs to be!" Zaldon roared. He tried to hit. Lynny blocked easily, noting the sluggishness in Zaldon's movements. Was that ale on Zaldon's breath? He was drunk!
"Told you to leave him alone!" Zaldon growled. "Idiot - did you fuck him? Did you!"
"Shut up before the whole house hears --!"
"Did you!" Zaldon roared and grabbed Lynny's face with both paws.
Lynny's heart beat hard: he and Zaldon never fought like this. For the first time in his life, he knew the full force of his brother's winter wolf strength and was secretly afraid. He took a breath and silently tried to still his thudding heart.
Aliona and Kel were begging Zaldon to stop, but the great white wolf was furious, his big body tense as he straddled Lynny and - tried to do what? It felt as if he was trying to break Lynny's face! Lynny could feel his skull shuddering! He let Zaldon's chin have the heel of his paw - which sent his head flying back -- then gave him a backslap that made Aliona scream.
"Stop it - for fuck's sake!" Kel snarled. Lynny could hear him scrambling up from the bed.
"Kel," Lynny snarled from the floor, "stay back!" He grabbed Zaldon by the neck when he came at him, holding him at bay. Zaldon easily overpowered Lynny. He wrenched his younger brother's paws from his neck with a roar. Dodging Zaldon's blow, Lynny hugged his brother tight and tackled him. They rolled and hit a shelf, on which several items trembled and cascaded to the hard wood floor. Lynny cursed when a small but heavy-as-hell vase smacked him on the ear.
Hearing the vase shatter, Julyan finally sat up with his mane in his face, and seeing the chaos, his lavender eyes went wide. "What is going on!"
"Zaldon!" Aliona shrieked.
Zaldon was straddling Lynny and his fist was drawn back to strike. He had already punched Lynny once, but with Aliona's shout, he came to his senses and stopped. His black eyes blinked and he looked at Lynny groggily, as if he was really seeing him for the first time. He sagged wearily. He and Lynny glared at each other.
"I warned you," Zaldon muttered angrily under his breath, "to leave Kel alone!"
"Get the fuck off me!" Lynny returned.
Zaldon's lips tightened and he continued in an undertone, "If you do this again, I will tell Idella --"
"You won't!" Lynny hissed. He could hear Aliona and Julyan getting up from the bed. Kel was standing over them, looking sad and dismayed. When they looked at him, he went to the bed and sat wearily, leaning forward to rub his face.
Others were gathering at the door, demanding to know what was wrong. Aliona told them it was nothing and to go back to bed.
"But what is Daddy doing?" Ohana demanded. Lynny heard his daughter gasp. "Uncle Zaldon!" she scolded when she saw Zaldon on top of Lynny.
"Get off me," Lynny repeated. "Fuck face!" He grabbed Zaldon's face and shoved him.
Zaldon slapped his paw off and glared, but he eased off of Lynny and even helped him up.
Lynny snatched his arm free of Zaldon and glanced guiltily around the room. Kel was still sitting shamefaced on the edge of the bed. He gave Zaldon a guilty look that was a returned with a glare. Aliona and Julyan were at the door, and with them stood Kilyan, Lea, and Ohana. Zane had crowded in the hall behind them, and Lynny saw Wynn's little face when she peered curiously into the room around her father's hip.
"You two are like children- honestly!" Ohana went on, marching toward her father.
Lynny's face hardened. "Ohana, do as Aliona asked and go back to bed --"
"Make me!" Ohana cried defiantly, and Lynny almost smiled to see the commanding glint in his daughter's eye - a glint she had inherited from him. "You have robbed me of my sleep. I demand to know," she looked incredulously at Zaldon (and Zaldon flattened his ears under her frosty stare), "why Uncle Zaldon was hitting you!"
"Ohana," said a quiet voice.
Lynny looked up and his heart sank to his tail: Idella was standing quietly in the doorway. She glanced once at Kel, and her pale eyes were sad, her brows pressed together. She came to Ohana's side and smoothed a paw down her daughter's back. "Please go to bed," she said calmly.
Seeing the sadness in her mother's face, Ohana hesitated. "Mom? Are you . . .?" She looked at Idella again and thought better of asking. "Alright," she said quietly.
Lynny was relieved when Ohana turned away. She shooed Zane back to his room, and the boy complained, demanding to know what was going on in a fashion very similar to Wynn.
"Never mind what is going on," Ohana snapped at Zane. "I said go to bed!"
Zane flattened his ears and reluctantly turned away at his mother's command, but he glanced back at Lynny and Zaldon, looking anxious. Lynny knew that - much like Zaldon - Zane was bit of a sensitive crybaby and hated to see his family fighting.
"But what was happening?" Wynn wailed when Lea took her paw and led her off. "And why can't I know? Kids never get to know nothin'!"
Kilyan didn't immediately follow the others. He hung back to look at Zaldon and Lynny uneasily, but when Aliona touched his arm and smiled at him, he kissed her cheek, bid her goodnight, and followed his wives.
Glancing at Kel, Lynny took a step toward his wife. "Idella . . ."
Idella smiled sadly and took Lynny's paw. "Come, my husband," she said, a slight tremble in her voice. "Let's go back to bed!"
Lynny didn't protest as Idella led him from the room, and he knew better than to mention what had been happening only minutes before. Idella was determined to smile and pretend everything was alright, and when they climbed in bed again, she did just that. She kissed Lynny's cheek and looked into his eyes.
"Goodnight, my husband," she said, a little sadly. She turned over without a word and went to sleep.
Lynny didn't. He stared at the ceiling, trying to push away the sadness that had been in her every move and gesture. Idella knew about them.
She knew.