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

forgotten it while it happened, but after the fact, I remembered. She told me we’d find you at a Highlands games festival.” He turned her around so he could stare into Elain’s eyes. “She gave me hope. When Lina and I first met, I was in a pretty low place emotionally.”
    “After you broke up with Kimberlie?”
    He nodded. “Yep.”
    “I told furface here to not give up,” Lina said. “That they’d meet you in a few years. And here you are.”
    She broke free from Brodey and hugged Lina. “You feel like a sister. I never had a sister before.”
    “Ditto. I’m telling you, adopted family is the way to go.” She laughed. “That way you can disown anyone you don’t like, and no one can guilt you about it at family dinners.” She thought for a second. “Well, they can try, but if you’re me, you can threaten to freeze or fry their ass so they think twice before giving you any grief about it.”
     
    * * * *
     
    With the worst of Elain’s shock out of her system, Kael, Rick, and Jan took off. Literally. With each one shifted into their largest form, they launched themselves into the air and began soaring on the thermals.
    Elain watched with her mouth gaping again. Somehow, it was easier to deal with the truth when the three men…eh, dragons, were sitting on the ground in front of her.
    This took her sanity to a whole new level of strained.
    “Aren’t they neat?” Lina asked. She lifted one hand to shade her eyes from the afternoon sun. “They love coming here because they can fly in the daytime without worrying about being spotted. Our property isn’t this big, and we’re pretty close to the interstate.”
    Elain thought of something. She spoke to Brodey, but still stared up at the sky. “Brodey, do you guys have alternate forms, too?”
    “Nope. Just wolves. Dragons are actually an older shifter race than wolves. You ready to try learning how to shift?”
    She shook her head as she watched Kael do a lazy cartwheel fifty feet over their heads. “Nope.”
    Zack chimed in. “Brodey, I think you need to let her settle into this new reality first before trying to teach her about shifting.”
    Elain, still gazing skyward, slowly nodded. “Yep.”
    “But it’s easy,” Brodey insisted.
    “I don’t care,” Elain said, her eyes never leaving the dragons.
    “Brod,” Lina gently said, “give her some time. Seriously. Take my advice.”
    Brodey grumbled, but he wrapped his arms around Elain’s waist and rested his chin on her shoulder. “I want to be the one to teach you, babe,” he softly said into her ear.
    Now Elain understood why this was so important to him. Not so much what he said as what she felt from him, the protectiveness, the desire to be the one to usher her into this new phase of her life.
    She turned in his arms and kissed him. “I promise I’ll let you be the one to do it,” she said. “Right now, Lina’s right. I’m too overwhelmed.”
    There’s that damn word again.
    She looked up as Jan’s shadow gracefully flowed over and past them. “ Way too overwhelmed.”

Chapter Seven
     
    Ain didn’t plan on staying long at the barns after lunch. “I need to go talk to Mark,” he said.
    Cail frowned. “Why?”
    “Seriously? With everything that’s happened, you ask me that?”
    Cail shrugged. “What’s there to tell? Besides, what’s he going to do about it?”
    “I don’t know. I don’t know what to do. Part of me says we need to cancel the wedding and bug out to Maine for good.”
    “You don’t mean that, do you?”
    “I don’t know what I mean,” Ain said, running his fingers through his hair. “That’s the problem. Right now, I have no idea what to do. That’s why I want to go talk to Mark.”
    “How about talking to me and Brodey?”
    “Do you know what we should do?”
    Cail stared at him. “Okay, fine. Fuck, you’re right. I have no clue either.”
    “Exactly. I want an objective opinion.”
    “Fine. Go.”
    Ain climbed into his truck and took