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  Terra-form 2

  Taming Olivia

  Olivia Hammond finds herself on an alternate reality to Earth called Terra-form, where she finds her missing best friend April Waterson.

  Cedric and Hugh Kiath are panther shifters who claim to be her mates. Olivia wants nothing to do with them and uses her sharp tongue to keep them at arm's length. After trying to find her way back home, Olivia gets lost and must be rescued by Cedric and Hugh.

  The shifters eventually claim Olivia, but a wrench is thrown in the works when another male claims to be her mate.

  Just when things look to be working out, Olivia is kidnapped by a strange bear shifter. Will her mates rescue her in time? And if they do, will Olivia be able to open her heart to her men?

  Genre: Ménage a Trois/Quatre, Paranormal, Shape-shifter

  Length: 35,056 words

  TAMING OLIVIA

  Terra-form 2

  Becca Van

  MENAGE EVERLASTING

  Siren Publishing, Inc.

  www.SirenPublishing.com

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  TAMING OLIVIA

  Copyright © 2011 by Becca Van

  E-book ISBN: 1-61926-081-6

  First E-book Publication: December 2011

  Cover design by Les Byerley

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  DEDICATION

  To my Mum and Dad, you are the best.

  Also to all my friends on Facebook. Thanks for the emails, keep them coming. Thank you for all your support.

  TAMING OLIVIA

  Terra-form 2

  BECCA VAN

  Copyright © 2011

  Prologue

  Olivia Hammond finished the drink she’d ordered at the club in her hometown of Lincoln, Nebraska. She and her best friend, April Waterson, used to frequent the club every Friday night to unwind after a long workweek. It had been exactly one year since her friend had disappeared from the face of the Earth. Olivia was oblivious to everyone around her, despair on the anniversary of the loss of her friend pulling her down. She finished her drink, took one last look at the club she planned to never return to, then walked to the door, and exited. Not once did she look back.

  Olivia moved down the enclosed alleyway toward the cabstand. She hadn’t bothered to get a lift from her brother tonight like she used to when going out with April. What was the point? She’d only wanted to have one drink in memory of her best friend’s disappearance. The further Olivia walked away from the club, the quieter it got. She began to get spooked. She should be able to hear traffic and the dulling sound of music coming from the club as she moved further away, but all around her was total silence. She began to feel dizzy, her vision blurring, her ears ringing loudly. Olivia felt like she was trying to walk through quicksand. What the fuck is going on? Did someone slip something into my drink?

  Olivia began to see black spots dancing before her eyes. Her body felt heavy, like a ton of bricks, and her vision was nearly nonexistent. She blinked just to reassure herself her eyes were indeed open then tried to peer through the darkness, looking for the cabstand. Her vision was finally gone, and she was too afraid to keep moving in case she hurt herself. Her body was so heavy, and she was totally exhausted all of a sudden. She wanted to lie down and go to sleep, not caring where she was. She had no idea what was going on, but she was scared out of her mind.

  Olivia sat down, the leaves beneath her hands comforting to her for some strange reason she couldn’t fathom. Maybe the sensation of the leaves was enough to make her feel she was still alert. She closed her eyes. They were too heavy to keep open, and she felt her body slipping sideways, about to fall asleep only God knew where. The symptoms of whatever was happening to her began to recede. Her body began to lighten until she was feeling seminormal, and her eyesight began to return.

  Olivia opened her eyes and stood up. She knew her mouth was probably gaping open, but that was the least of her worries. She was standing in a forest, gigantic trees surrounding her, and there was a great bear lumbering down a track, heading straight for her. The bear lifted its head, sniffed the air, and looked straight at her. She gasped at the sound of an all-too-familiar voice, and then the sight before her made her heart pound in her chest.

  Olivia watched as her very pregnant best friend, April, walked up to the bear and hugged him around the neck. Was she mad? Did she have a death wish? Where the hell were they? Where had April been? Olivia felt her ire rising. The vision of her pregnant, very much alive missing best friend was too much. She was about to give her friend a piece of her mind, but April began to talk to the bear, causing Olivia to stop before she’d even spoken her first word.

  “Ben, where are Gage and Saxon? Don’t look at me like that. I’m not stupid. Cedric and the others are behind me. I just had this urge to come and look for you. For some reason, I thought you needed me,” April said then wrapped her arms around the bear’s neck again, giving him a hug.

  “A–April, is that you? Are you out of your mind, girlfriend? Get away from that
bear before he eats you for dinner.”

  “Olivia? Oh my God. Olivia. How did you get here? Are you all right? You look like you’ve seen a ghost,” April stated as she hurried as much as she could in her condition toward Olivia and hugged her. “You have no idea how much I’ve missed you.”

  “Are you crazy? There’s a large bear behind you, and you look like you’re going for a stroll in the park. Come on, we have to get out of here,” Olivia said as she grabbed April’s wrist, trying to tug her along with her.

  “Oh, he won’t hurt you. He’s my mate, and those two up there are my mates, as well,” she said, pointing up into the branches above Olivia’s head.

  Olivia felt the hair at her nape stand on end. She slowly turned around and lifted her head to see two very large, muscular panthers grinning down at them. She turned her head back to April, looked at her crazy friend, and then looked at the bear and back to the panthers. Her friend had lost her ever-loving mind. She turned back to see April strolling toward the bear, and then she saw the ten large men walking up behind her friend and the bear. The tallest one had to be over seven feet tall. His face was chiseled into the epitome of a Greek God. His green eyes were staring at her as if she was his last meal. Olivia drew her eyes away from his and back to her friend and her friend’s “mate.” She watched with shock as the air around the bear shimmered, his body rippling and contorting with loud popping sounds that made her feel ill. The bear was now a man. A very naked, sexy man.

  * * * *

  April watched her friend’s jaw drop open, as Ben changed from his bear form back to his human form, with a smile on her face. Her smile quickly changed to anxiety as she watched her friend’s eyes roll back into her head and slump toward the ground. April didn’t see Cedric move, but he caught Olivia before she hit the ground. His roar of possessiveness shocked April. She stared at the gentle warrior with a frown on her face, wondering what he was doing, until she saw his brother Hugh step up and sniff the side of Olivia’s neck.

  Oh boy, this was going to be interesting. April had just worked out why Cedric and Hugh were acting so possessively toward her friend. She was their mate. She burst out laughing and didn’t stop until Ben covered her mouth with his own. Life was going to be far from boring as she watched the two seasoned warriors and her best friend work out the kinks in their relationship. She couldn’t wait to watch the fireworks.

  Chapter One

  Olivia’s eyes flew open, and she blinked several times, making sure she was actually seeing what she thought she was. She was lying on a large bed, the room more luxurious than anything she’d ever seen before, and her best friend was sitting in a chair beside her.

  “April, wha–what the fuck? Where am I? Where are you? How did we get here?” Olivia stuttered as she pushed herself into a sitting position.

  “Now, Olivia, take some deep breaths. Everything will be all right. I promise. At least you have me to help you through this fantastical shit. I had to go through this by myself. As far as my mates and I can figure out, we are on an alternate reality to Earth. We are in Terra-form in the year 2012. I don’t know how we came to be here. All I can tell you is I felt as if someone had drugged me. I felt as if I was walking through quicksand, my eyesight diminished, and when everything was back to normal, I was here.”

  “Shit, I felt like that, too. I was so angry when I first saw you standing in the forest with your arms wrapped around that bear. I’ve missed you so much, April.”

  “Oh, Liv, I’ve missed you, too.” Standing, she moved over to Olivia and wrapped her arms around her. The two women hugged and cried over the near loss of each other.

  “Did I see what I thought I saw in the forest? Did I see a bear change into a man?” she asked, her voice sounding hysterical even to her own ears.

  “Yes, Liv,” April answered as she pulled away from Olivia. “All the people on this plane of Earth can shift shape. My three mates can shift. Two are panther-shifters, Gage and Saxon Kian, and the other, Ben Koku, is a bear-shifter.”

  “You have three mates? Does that mean what I think it means?”

  “Well, probably. I did lend you my erotic romance books, so if you’re thinking by mates I mean husbands, then you would be correct.”

  “You’re shitting me. You have three men, to yourself? They’re your husbands?”

  “Yes. And you have at least two men, too,” April stated.

  “What? What are you talking about, April? I don’t have any men. You know I don’t have relationships.”

  “Yeah, well, about that,” April began, then stopped and turned her head toward the door that had just slammed against the opposite wall.

  “Ah, you’re awake. How are you feeling, little one?”

  “Who the hell are you?” Olivia asked, staring at the two men who’d just entered the room.

  They were so tall and handsome, and Olivia felt her pussy softening and leaking out her juices. She’d never reacted to any man before, and to have her wayward body doing so now, in front of these two hunks, pissed her off even more. One of them had to be nearly seven feet tall. He had light-brown hair and light-green eyes. His shoulders were nearly as wide as the doorway, and he was packed full of rippling muscles, which she had trouble keeping her eyes off of. She slid her eyes over to the other man. He was just as hot as his brother. She could tell they were related as their features were similar, but he was slightly shorter, his hair a darker brown, and his eyes a mix of green and brown. He was more muscular than his brother, and the way the two of them looked at her made her shift uncomfortably.

  “I am Cedric Kiath, and this is my brother, Hugh. Are you feeling well?” he asked, stopping when he reached the side of the bed, staring down at her as if she was his last meal. He was the taller of the two, with light-brown hair and green eyes. The heat in his eyes making her squirm as her body responded.

  “As well as can be expected, I suppose,” Olivia answered and turned her face away from Cedric and Hugh to look at April with a raised eyebrow. She suspected that Cedric and Hugh were her mates.

  April must have known what she was asking, because she gave a slight nod of her head, affirming Olivia’s suspicions.

  “Fuck, April. How can…” Olivia began.

  “What has you so upset, little one?” Hugh asked, crawling onto the end of the bed and looking at her with concern.

  “Oh, for the love of…Is it always like this?” she asked April.

  “Usually worse,” April replied. Olivia glared at her when she saw her trying to hide the smile on her face.

  “You must continue to rest, little one. We want you to be well again,” Cedric said.

  “Will you stop calling me little? I have a name, Olivia Hammond. Use it,” she snapped.

  “Of course. Sorry we have displeased you, Olivia Hammond. That was not our intention,” Cedric stated.

  “Oh, for God’s sake,” Olivia muttered, making April giggle.

  “You are angry. Why?” Hugh asked with a frown.

  “Oh, gee, I don’t know. Maybe it has to do with the fact my missing best friend is sitting next to me, about to drop. And two, I’ve entered the twilight zone,” she stated sarcastically. And she’d had enough of the two men staring at her adoringly, making her traitorous body awaken for the first time since…ever.

  “We don’t understand what you just said, Olivia Hammond. Would you care to explain?” Hugh asked.

  “First off, no, and secondly, call me Olivia or Liv, not Olivia Hammond,” she snarled.

  Olivia had learned to become even more aggressive with her mouth, using her sharp tongue and wit as a shield against anyone who threatened the defenses around her heart and ended up hurting her. She was often thought of as a total bitch, but she didn’t really care what others thought.

  “But that is your name, is it not?” Cedric asked, a frown on his handsome face.

  “Yes, it’s my name. But we only use one,” she answered.

  Masculine voices in the hallway drew everyone’s
attention to the door. April stood up when three very large, sexy men entered the room.

  “April, we have been looking for you everywhere. We should have known you’d be here with your friend. How are you feeling, baby?”

  “I’m fine, stop fussing. Gage, Saxon, Ben, I’d like you to meet my best friend. Olivia Hammond, these handsome men are my mates,” April introduced.

  “Olivia, we are pleased to meet you. We are glad you are here. April has been very worried about you,” Gage said, stepping forward and shaking Olivia’s hand.

  The growls that emanated from Cedric and Hugh as Olivia shook hands with Gage made her jump with fright. She leapt from the bed and backed away. She kept her widened eyes on the two men and stopped when her back hit the window.

  “Knock it off. You’re frightening my mate’s friend.” Gage growled as he stared down the two men.

  “We are sorry, Alpha, but you know how we work. Our reactions were instinct,” Cedric replied, dropping his eyes.

  “I understand, and so does April, but others may not. Try to have a little more control,” Gage suggested.

  “Yes, Alpha,” Cedric and Hugh replied at the same time.

  “Like you did?” April asked then burst out laughing. She turned on her heel, walked up to Olivia, and gripped her hand. “We are going to find something to eat.”

  * * * *

  Cedric turned to watch as the two women left the room. When they were out of sight, Cedric and Hugh slumped down onto the bed.