Triple Dog Dare [Triple Trouble 4] (Siren Publishing Ménage Everlasting) by Tymber Dalton Page A

surprises. “Don’t you have to wait thirty minutes after eating before shifting?” she snarked.
    Lina, sitting next to her, hooted with laughter and gave her a high five.
    Brodey rolled his eyes, but trudged onward. “After lunch, you’re going to learn how to shift.”
    “We don’t know for sure if I can shift.”
    “True, but all the evidence points to the fact that you can. So humor me, okay? I’m going to take you out and teach you.”
    “Yay,” Elain blandly said with more than a pinch of sarcasm behind it as she pointed her index finger up and twirled it around.
     
    * * * *
     
    Elain didn’t bother fighting Brodey when it was obvious Ain supported the plan. Liam and Carla stayed behind at the house to do some more talking of their own. Ain and Cail returned to work at the barns because the business had to be tended to regardless of their crazy personal life. Micah and Jim were most likely boinking each other’s brains out in their bedroom. So Elain headed out with the others after lunch.
    They took a couple of work trucks. When they reached one of the most remote pastures, where they stood no chance of being accidentally spotted, they parked the vehicles and piled out.
    “So,” Brodey said with a twinkle in his eye. “What do you want to learn first, babe?”
    Elain looked at Lina’s guys. “You three are shifters, too?” she asked as she pointed at Kael, Rick, and Jan.
    The three men nodded.
    “Can I see you guys shift first?” Elain asked.
    They shrugged. “Sure,” Rick said. “We like it here, because we can shift to our largest form.”
    Elain fought the rising heat in her face as all three men immediately began nonchalantly shucking their clothes.
    She’d seen her men shift into wolves. But when the air appeared to shimmer around the three men, Elain let out a terrified squeak as she realized she was now staring at three large dragons.
    Her jaw gaped as she stumbled backward a few steps.
    No one said anything. Only birds and the wind through the nearby trees stirred the silence.
    Elain stared.
    After a few minutes, a concerned Brodey asked, “Um, babe? Say something.”
    Elain stared. “They’re dragons !” she whispered, stunned.
    Zack grinned “Yeah. Pretty cool, huh?”
    “Dragons!” Elain said again. Even though Cail had once mentioned to her that there were other kinds of shifters, she really thought he’d been messing with her when he’d told her there was such a thing as dragon shifters.
    Brodey stepped behind her and laid a hand on her shoulder. “No weirder than us shifting into wolves, when you think about it.”
    Elain stared. “Wolves are real ! You said they were shifters. But… they’re dragons !”
    “Yep,” Brodey agreed, nonplussed.
    They let her stare for another minute while her brain tried to absorb the sight.
    Lina walked up to Elain and slipped her arm around her waist. “I actually fainted the first time I saw them shift. This is their largest form. When I saw them for the first time, they’d only shifted into their smallest form,” she said. “It was a shock.”
    Elain looked at her in disbelief. “Ya think ? That’s like the understatement of the…forever!”
    Lina laughed. “I know. Hey, Brodey?”
    “Yeah?”
    “Original recipe, or crispy?”
    He howled with laughter. When he finally composed himself, he snorted out, “Crispy, kiddo. Definitely crispy.”
    Elain realized this had to be a joke between them. She waited for the explanation. By the time Lina and Brodey got the story out about how Lina fried Lenny the cockatrice in Yellowstone, Elain was laughing with them and finally getting used to the fact that she was now staring at three dragons.
    “It wasn’t funny at the time,” Lina said, “but looking back at it, I can laugh my ass off.”
    Brodey sighed. “You know, babe,” he said, slipping his arms around Elain’s waist, “Lina’s the reason I found you.”
    “Yeah?”
    He kissed the top of her head. “Yep. I’d