by Abby Blake
Nathan laughed. “I appreciate your concern, but I already have several fire extinguishers on order. I’ll be fine, Brody.”
“Good to know,” Ava said with a bright smile and a soft laugh, “but there’s probably something I should tell you about the bubble or shield or whatever you want to call it that protected us from the fire.”
She stepped out of Brody’s arms so she could see both their faces. When she’d realized it, she’d been so excited, but now when it came to telling them she worried that she might just come off as a bit of a lunatic. She took a deep, fortifying breath and said the words really fast. “Nathan can do it, too.”
“Do what?” Brody asked, looking a bit shell-shocked.
“Build the bubble, or form the shield, or…hell I don’t know what to call it. I just know that Nathan has the skill to do it.”
Nathan looked even more skeptical if that was possible. “I’m pretty sure I don’t,” he said with a half laugh and a half grimace.
Ava looked at both her men and realized she wasn’t going to get through this conversation without explaining everything.
“In that moment when Keira began to change I sensed Nathan’s fear for me and knew that he knew what was going to happen.” She gave both her men a smile that she hoped looked bright and confident, but figured it probably looked shy and uncertain. “I’m not sure how to explain it. It all happened so fast, but well, when I sensed Nathan’s need to protect me, his need to shield me from the fire, I ‘knew’ how to do it. I understood what he wanted, and I sent him the information so that he would know how to do it, too. It was actually the bubble Nathan created that saved us from the fire.” She frowned slightly as she tried to explain that, too. Maybe she should have told them to sit down. The way she was stumbling over the explanation this could take all night. “Without Nathan’s unconscious suggestion I wouldn’t have known what was coming or what to do to protect us from it.”
“But I don’t remember any of that, and I sure as hell don’t know how to do it again.”
Ava shook her head. “I’m not sure how it all works. There’s a part of me wishing I’d taught science not English, so I could try and explain it better. I can’t even explain how I passed the information to Nathan. I only know that when you need the bubble, you’ll be able to create it.”
Nathan smiled, his demeanor suddenly more than a little cocky. She giggled when he pulled her into his arms. “So I’m bulletproof?”
“I don’t know,” she said quickly. “I don’t know the bubble’s limits. I only know it will protect us in a fire.”
Both men grinned, and she got the awful feeling they were planning something she probably wasn’t going to like.
“You up for a little target practice tomorrow?” Nathan asked Brody.
“Sure,” he said with a laugh as she frowned her concern. “But considering the look on our wife’s face, we better start with nonlethal stuff and work our way up.”
“Wife?” she asked, completely distracted from the fact that they intended to use Nathan as the target in their target practice.
“Uh, yeah, that’s something we wanted to discuss with you.”
Both men gave her wide grins, and then stepped closer, pressing her between them.
“We want to make our family official,” Nathan said.
“Marry us, Ava,” Brody said in a gruff imitation of what should have been a question.
Nathan laughed. “What my bossy dragon friend here meant to say was, ‘Please marry us, Ava.’ We want to make it official. We can have a human ceremony, or a dragon claiming, or a mixture of both. It doesn’t matter. Just as long as everyone knows we belong together.”
“I’d like that,” Ava said, trying not to let her eyes fill with tears. It might not have been the most romantic of proposals but for the three of them it was perfect.
“Say yes,” Brody said on a breathless whisper.
Marry two bossy, overprotective, amazing, caring, wonderful men who loved her as much as she loved them? There wasn’t any other answer she wanted to give anyway.
“Yes.”
THE END
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Abby Blake prefers to read or write romance over just about everything else—except maybe chocolate. Most days she can be found hurrying to do what needs to be done so that she can curl up with her laptop and her latest bunch of heroes.
Also by Abby Blake
Ménage Everlasting: PUP Squad Alpha 1: Vampires’ Witness
Ménage Everlasting: PUP Squad Alpha 2: Demon’s Embrace
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