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“But is there ever a time when a mate hates the dark Elite she matches with?”
Marshall spoke slowly, “I have heard of one case. He never even saw her true form. He had her ejected from his event, mistaking her for a crazy fan. She hasn’t been seen since. No one even knows her name.”
Ruby winced. “That’s rough. What if she found her other mate?”
“I suppose that he would try and contact their third,” Marshall mused.
“What if she fits with a different pair and the nice one of her original set is left alone?”
“Uh, I don’t know. Why are you asking this, Ruby?”
“I have been watching relationship dynamics and wondering if the dark Elite ever experience minor disasters.”
Rayden nodded. “I am sure that as the sample grows, it will be more apparent that we are just men in search of our females.”
Marshall said slowly, “But if someone has been so stupid as to reject a mate, I am guessing that nature would provide a replacement somehow. She would not give that kind of power and make it unable to be used.”
Ruby shrugged. “You never know. It might just be a lesson to us. Not all dark Elite are created equal.”
They had lunch, and despite the servers being excited that the owner was there, they weren’t pestered into a coma.
Marshall got a call and spoke quietly. “We’ll pick it up from the office.”
Ruby looked at him. He smiled and said, “The company has decided to free you from your contract. Their official offer is at the office. You pick it up, and you are free to resume working at any of the companies who are making offers.”
Lebor was at their table in a second. “Consider this a bid for your skills, sister.”
She laughed. “I have the offer from your company. Get back to seducing my sister. Wow, there is a sentence I never thought to utter.”
He grinned. “Here’s my card. I will talk to you tomorrow.” He handed it to her, and she put it in her purse.
“Of course, brother.”
He laughed. “I like the sound of that.”
She waved him off, and he went.
Marshall chuckled. “Family gatherings are going to be fun. Our contract is nearly ready for us to sign, by the way.”
“Contract?”
“Legal definition of our grouping, discovery of assets, order of inheritance. Last names of any children produced. That sort of thing.”
“Wow.” She smiled. “In that case, we might want to finalize things.”
Rayden patted her thigh. “I am pretty sure that we already have.”
Ruby looked from one of them to the other. “Huh. I wonder if I can get my lawyer to look over it for hidden clauses.”
Marshall nodded. “Dante drafted it, and Ark looked it over, but you are welcome to have me go over it with you.”
His air of studied innocence was amusing, but there was a tingle in her mind that said if she took too long, she would end up bent over a desk. She smirked. She didn’t have any other plans for the day or night or week.
It was nice to have some time off. This was a first, and she was going to make sure that she took a regular vacation in the future. Rayden seemed like the kind of guy to take summer vacations, and Marshall would go where she went. That was finally settling in. She had men she trusted and wanted to spend time with. Ruby grinned again. She was just going to have to keep testing how she felt and let them know if it changed. Odds were that they could redirect any irritation or dissatisfaction. They were very good at paying attention.
Epilogue
Ruby sat at the head of the boardroom table and looked around at members of foundations and large businesses in town. “Okay, so what you are all saying is that the pledged donations for the next season have exceeded our needs, and you want to create a movie so that folks can watch it all year round.”
