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Nacho and I laughed. “No, female. No company. We may have gone overboard. We didn’t know what you liked.”
“All of this. Is there coffee?”
I slapped the table gently. “Sit down. How do you like it?”
“Splash of cream. Two sugars. How did you two sleep?” she asked and got comfortable, pulling her legs up on the chair.
“I slept like the dead. Riggs?” Nacho sliced into one of the loaves of bread. He always cut them before letting them cool all the way. That’s why there was always more than one made.
“Same. What about you, Marney? You didn’t get cold or anything?”
She accepted the cup of coffee and, our hands touched. She gasped softly and bit down on her bottom lip. Yeah, she felt it. Mates always felt a low buzz of electricity when they met their match—even humans, I’d been told, though they usually ignored it. At least, that was what I heard. “I knocked out as soon as my head hit the pillow and didn’t budge from that spot until this morning. I’ve never slept like that before. I don’t think I even tossed or turned.”
“You needed rest, female. I’m glad you’re getting it here. Now, tell me what to put on your plate.” Nacho loaded her up with a little bit of everything and gave her a thick slice of his bread. I placed our homemade jams and jellies in the center, along with some local honey.
It did my bear good to hear that she had slept well and was warm and cozy in our home, and by our, I meant hers as well. My beast wanted his den welcoming for his mate—always.
We all dug in, but our movement stopped when a moan came from her mouth. “This is incredible. All of it.”
“Eat your fill, female. There’s plenty, and Riggs loves to cook.” Nacho added some blueberries to her plate since she had eaten those first.
“We thought you’d like a tour and maybe a walk outside when we’re done and cleaned up?”
She nodded. “I would like that.”
We finished up and scooted her out when she tried to help clean. Eventually, we would fall into a routine with those mundane things, but like hell she was going to wash dishes on her first day here.
“I’m ready.” I looked up to see her dressed in a red turtleneck sweater and fleece-lined overalls. “Is this warm enough? I mean, I know it’s warm enough for you two, but me?”
We had already given her a tour of the house but, while it was roomy, it was a simple design and not much to show off. She asked why we had extra rooms and one master and once we explained, her blush came back like a roaring fire.
“Here,” I said, getting up to get a scarf from the coatrack. I nestled it around her throat as her eyes dipped down to my lips, so damned tempting.
“Can I ask for something?” She dropped the question, her voice raising at the end.
“Ask us anything,” Nacho replied.
“Can I see your bears?”
Chapter Fifteen
Marney
I didn’t know where I got the boldness to ask, but I had wanted to do something to get to know them better, and I wasn’t quite ready to do that in bed. But I’d forgotten one minor fact, since I was new to seeing shifters shift…
They had to get naked to do it. Or chance shredding their clothes. My old flame in high school told me his folks threatened to send him to school in his pajamas if he ruined another pair of designer jeans. But, knowing someone had to get nekkid and actually seeing it happen were two different things. Maybe that was why he never shifted in front of me. He told me shifters didn’t care about nudity, like “ordinaries” as he called humans. Anyway…I was about to get the whole show, and I was just a little scared. The two sweetest guys I’d ever met of course agreed to shift so I could meet their bears.
I just had to get past being embarrassed when they undressed and terrified when they were gigantic bears with huge claws and teeth. But I could do this.
Later in the evening, we went out the kitchen door onto the back patio, me bundled in my coat. Even though they were way out in the country, I imagined they wanted privacy for this. Nacho picked up one of the chairs and carried it out into the middle of the yard, where moonlight made the white painted wood glow. “Come and sit here, Marney.”
“All right.” I settled in the seat, feeling almost like I was about to watch some kind of show. “Are you going to shift now?”
“Right now, if you’re still sure you want to see?”
“I do. It’s a big part of each of you, and I want to meet your bears.”
They undressed, quickly and efficiently, not like they wanted to show off or anything, but in the brief moment before the shift began, I got a look at two men who could grace the cover of one of those hot-guy calendars if they wanted to. Then the air around them seemed to shimmer, and I blinked, unable to credit what my eyes told me to be true.
