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“They’re both single. We can introduce you to them after the set is over,” Rhaider said.
“Have a good set,” Demi said.
Rafe and Rhaider each kissed her on the cheek. Rafe one hundred percent wanted to do a lot more than that, but they were in public and had just literally met less than an hour earlier, so chaste cheek kisses were perfect. Their mother had raised them to be gentlemen, and he could think of no one more deserving of being treated like a queen than Demi.
“I have an idea,” Rafe said as he took the steps to the stage two at a time.
“Yeah? It’s not ‘quit right now and leave with Demi,’ right? Because I’m damn tempted to do that,” Rhaider said.
“Of course not,” Rafe said with a chuckle. “We definitely want to get this gig. But I was thinking about ways for us to get in a dance with Demi.”
“Cool, I’m in.”
“You don’t even know what the idea is yet.”
“Doesn’t matter. If it means I get to hold her for a song then I’m on board.”
“Good,” Rafe said. He slipped the guitar strap over his head said to Rebel, “You meet anyone interesting?”
“No, but I’m getting eyes from a female at the table with your mate. She’s cute as hell.” He spun the sticks between his fingers and looked past Rafe.
“No one came to talk to us, though. Am I the only one who didn’t feel any spark with anyone? Shit,” Maverick said.
“Hey, I’m not feeling any kind of mate pull to her. I just think she’s cute,” Rebel said. “Just these two planning a trip to mate heaven tonight.”
“Shut up,” Rhaider said. “We’re being very respectful of our mate.”
“Respectfully sexy. Got it,” Rebel said.
Rhaider let out a warning growl and Rebel gave him a shit-eating grin. “Shall we, gents?” Rebel asked, then counted off the first song by clacking his sticks loudly.
Rafe mouthed to his brother, “You can kill him later.”
Rhaider mouthed back, “I intend to.”
Rafe came in on the first verse, his attention fully on Demi. He couldn’t believe how much his life had changed in a short amount of time. No more aimless wandering and lonely nights. Sure, they hadn’t ironed out all the details yet, but he and Rhaider had found their mate and she was one gorgeous, sexy female.
A lioness for two grizzlies.
Chapter Six
Demi had danced twice during their one-hour set. The first time, Rhaider had stepped away from the piano and taken her out for a dance. Then the second time, Rhaider had taken over the lead vocals and Rafe danced with her. She hadn’t thought it would be possible for them to both be able to dance with her, but they’d figured it out.
They were almost done with their set. She’d enjoyed listening to them play. While they’d danced, Rhaider told her he wrote and arranged most of the music, but they also had a wide variety of cover songs as well. They’d played weddings and corporate parties, even the occasional school dance. She’d admitted that she never even had any kind of school dance, let alone a prom.
Before their set was finished, Hemi and Annie left for home because Annie couldn’t stop yawning.
“So now that Hemi’s gone,” China said, swirling her straw in her empty glass, “what’s the plan for the night?”
“Grabbing a bite at the diner and then I don’t know.”
But she did kind of know, because her lion hadn’t shut up about taking Rafe and Rhaider home and finding out how well they fit together with her in bed. Her cat was yowling nonstop and being very pushy. Demi agreed with the beast, of course. The short time she’d gotten to spend with the guys, and also dancing, had cemented in her mind the certainty that they were meant to be together. She couldn’t believe a house band job posting had brought her mates to her.
“How do you feel about them?” China asked.
“What do you mean?”
“Well, didn’t you think your whole life that you’d only have one mate? Are you really not a little concerned about having two mates? Especially since I can’t think of a single time in our clan’s history when there was a mated trio, which means you might be the first lioness to have two mates.”
