Tigress for Two by Marissa Dobson Page A

you.”
    “Opportunities?”
    “Children, you can only have children with your mate. You can have children with a human, but only if they’re your mate. With only one shifter parent the child will have a fifty-fifty chance of shifting. Whereas if both parents are shifters the child will be too.”
    She took a step out of his embrace. “None of that matters now.” She tapped his chest. “Ty is waiting for us, so we need to get dressed.”
    As she padded to the dresser across the room, he had to stop from going to her. Damn, I love the way her tight little ass sashays!  He couldn’t tear his gaze away as she put on her clothes, his imagination working overtime about how he would peel them off her.
    Mating, also known as permanently horny. He smiled before following suit and getting dressed.
    * * *
    “You can’t be serious, Ty!” Anger poured off Taber, as he stalked toward the Alpha. After everything Kallie had been through, nearly killing herself to stay out of the hands of Wesley, and now Ty was asking her to risk her life again.
    “Taber, maybe we should hear Ty out. I’m sure he has a good reason for asking me to do this.” Timidly, Kallie reached out to rest her hand on Taber’s arm.
    “Actually I do, so if you’d sit down, I’ll explain.” Ty held his stand, his gaze unflinching even in the face of Taber’s temper.
    Taber knew attacking Ty would solve nothing, but fury surged through him like lava from a volcano. “There’s no good reason to put my mate at risk.”
    “Oh, but it’s okay when we risk my mate, is it?”
    Taber valued his friendship with the Alaskan Tigers, even more now that he was mated with one of their tigers, and he didn’t want to go up against him. They needed to remain strong if they were going to take down Pierce and his rogues. If they began fighting among themselves, they’d never last. “Damn it, Ty, you know that’s not what I meant. If you remember, I was against risking Tabitha as well. Women are protected, it’s our way. If we throw that to the wind, what morals do we have?”
    Kallie squeezed his arm. “Taber, please.”
    His gaze left Ty for a moment, shooting toward Kallie before he nodded and wrapped his arm around her shoulders. “Fine, tell us what this plan of yours is.” He took a step back from Ty, but didn’t sit, instead he stood there with Kallie pressed against his side, her arms stretched around his waist.
    “We have reason to believe there’s still a traitor to our kind, but this time we can’t draw them out because the traitor is in Nome…”
    “You’re accusing one of my family members?” Taber cut in. Disappointment overwhelmed the anger flooding through him.
    “I’m afraid so. Shadow has visions. She sees things that will come.”
    “Ty, I’ve been around long enough to know Shadow knows everything about a person if she’s met them, including who their mate will be. I know her visions are true, so can we just get to the point?” Taber was tiring of the conversation.
    “Very well. When we were deciding where to take Victor, and we wanted to bring him to your family cabins, Shadow had a vision there would be an attack. Someone among your sleuth would have leaked our plan. Shadow said it would be by accident, not directly, but the only way to catch them and make sure there’s no information leaked, is either stop sharing any developments with your sleuth or put a plan into action to catch them. If we act quickly, there’s little chance the rogues can gather enough people for a strong attack. This is why we need immediate action.” Ty sighed.
    “I swear if it’s Thorben I’ll kill him myself.” Taber and his twin had been inseparable until a year ago when Thorben began keeping company with the wrong people. Thorben had always been the wild child of the family, while Taber was the responsible one. He’d hoped his twin had wised up when he was arrested for stealing a car and spent almost a week in jail before the charges were