Maia's Magickal Mates [The Double R 3] (Siren Publishing Ménage Everlasting) by Gigi Moore

little hasty, though. He hoped that Thayne wasn’t serious or on his way to being serious with Ms. Don’t-Wait-Up-For-Me.
    What would Cade do if the relationship did prove serious? He couldn’t just sit back and watch an unendorsed romance blossom right under his nose and do nothing about it. He didn’t think his parents or other powers that be would be too happy about that.
    What could he do?
    Never one to sit on his hands when something needed to be done, Cade mulled his dilemma the entire afternoon in Jesse and Maia’s company.
    They went from one end of the ranch to the other, meeting with the other ranch employees and guests, finally sitting in the bleachers for a spell to watch one of the scheduled performances at the Old Western town with the rest of the ranch guest audience.
    Then it came to him.
    “What are you doing tonight?” He didn’t turn his glance from the staged shoot-out unfolding before him—nice stunts and effects—but felt the tension floating off Maia sitting beside him.
    “Um, actually, I have a date.”
    He turned to her then, drawn by the hesitation in her voice.
    Had she made up the date, trying to let him down easy and circumvent him asking her out, or did she actually have a date?
    Cade was a second away from outright asking her with whom—what were the odds, after all, that she and Thayne had a date on the same night the day after his revelatory dream and they weren’t going out with each other? It would have been a nice coincidence but too easy, and nothing in Cade’s life had ever come easy, at least not so far. Not to mention, Maia didn’t really seem like Thayne’s type. In the end, Cade decided to take another tack besides direct interrogation. He didn’t think Maia would take too kindly to it, and he didn’t want to be disappointed if she said her date was with someone else besides Thayne. “How serious are you?”
    “I don’t think that’s any of your business.”
    “Of course it is, if I’m interested.”
    “Are you?”
    He didn’t miss the way her voice cracked on the question and gave her one of his most winning grins. He’d been told he had an arsenal. “Of course I am. What man wouldn’t be?”
    She looked confused for a moment and Cade pounced. “I know you find me attractive.”
    “You certainly are full of yourself.”
    He laughed, enjoying her spirit, just like he’d sensed in his earlier wet dream. She was everything he had envisioned and more.
    Cade knew why his parents, or Fate, or whomever, had deemed a ménage a trois between him, Maia, and Thayne necessary. The little spitfire needed at least two men to keep her in line.
    Like I need Thayne to keep me in line?
    When he thought about it, a threesome was actually the perfect relationship for him.
    Thayne could take care of Maia’s emotional, feminine needs, Cade decided, and he could take care of her physical needs. Not that Thayne wouldn’t be getting into the physical, sexual action, too, but Cade was perfectly happy leaving the sensitive communication parts strictly in his brother’s hands.
    “I’m not full of myself. I just know what I see.” Cade reached out to caress her naturally full, bee-stung lips with his thumb. “And I know what I feel,” he added for good measure.
    “Sex magick?”
    “You’re a Wiccan.” He had noticed her sterling silver jewelry—the ankh she wore around her neck, the Goddess ring on her right index finger, and the dangling moon earrings—mentally adding yet another item to the pro side of why she was perfect for him and Thayne.
    “I…yes. And you?”
    “Me?” Cade raised his eyebrows. “Not so much.”
    “That’s too bad.”
    “Going to use that to eliminate a perfectly good mate?” Oh, shit! Had he really said that? He hadn’t meant to, didn’t want to give her any ideas. He just needed to get close enough to her, to bring her into the fold to let Thayne work his charm on her, not to make her think this was leading anywhere serious , at