A Dragon's Heart by Jana Leigh, Willow Brooke

is a latent,” he had said quietly.
    “Probably why your dreams led us here,” Gandore had agreed.
    “Does anyone remember how the witches got their full power?” Brak had asked and looked at Jex and Drakk closely. They all knew the answer, because they all knew the history, the asshole was just trying to make them say it out loud so Drakk would pull his head out of his ass soon.
    “ No ,” Drakk had growled.
    “It is the only way.” Xavier laughed.
    The men smiled at their leader. Of course none of them said outright that the only way for a latent witch to gain her full powers was to be fully mated with her true mate. In this case, Aislinn apparently had two, and unless she mated with them both she would never have her powers. They had seen it happen before, only once, but it had made a lasting effect.
    Most dragons were solitary creatures and way too arrogant to share. The problem was in their genes. However, there were cases where the witches were so full of power the witch would need to mate two dragons to contain it. In the one case they knew of it had not been successful. Mostly because one of the dragons refused to admit he had to share his mate. He had taken the witch away from their third and hidden her. After he had mated her, she had slowly begun to gain power, he was arrogant enough to think he could contain it. It had not taken long for the dragon to realize his mistake. By then the damage had been done. The female had gone mad from power and ended up killing both herself and the dragon before they could make it back to their other mate.
    So the elders of the Templar Guard had been notified, and if a triad was to be formed, they would automatically be made a part of the guard, since the power would help them in their protection of the balance. Each of the men belonged to the guard, and as they stared at one another, Drakk had cursed loudly.
    “The seer foretold this.” Gandore smiled.
    “What?” Jex had asked, scratching his head.
    “The seer,” Gandore said and laughed. “More than a hundred years ago, just before we allowed Langston to convince us to move, a seer came to us. She told us she had a vision of a time when the Templar Guard would be made up of only triads. They would need it to face the danger that was looming over the humans. We all just nodded because she seemed a bit crazy with the one eye that seemed to move at weird times. It was creepy, you know. Anyway, we figured it would be long after we were around, I guess we were wrong, huh.”
    “We don’t know anything yet,” Drakk growled.
    “You can feel it, I know it,” Jex had said to his friend and the man had growled at him.
    “You don’t know a damn thing,” Drakk had said.
    “You can’t run from the mating heat, and if she was meant for us, then she was meant for us,” Jex shrugged.
    “I don’t want a mate!” Drakk had yelled.
    “But you have one,” Jex had told him and watched as he struggled with this thought. Jex knew Drakk was attracted to Aislinn, hell, they all did, the tension in the air when they were together was enough to convince them.
    “Yeah, I know,” Drakk had said darkly.
    Jex had tried to talk to him them, but Drakk had stalked off once again. When they got back, they would talk. There was nothing to be done, if the seer was right.
    “Jex!” Aislinn yelled, bringing him out of his thoughts and he smiled.
    “Yeah, babe,” Jex yelled.
    “Down,” she laughed and he looked, sure enough, they were closer than he thought.
    “Sorry, was enjoying the ride,” Jex said smoothly.
    As they landed, Jex remained cloaked and it wasn’t until she stepped off his back that Aislinn was visible to anyone, if a human would have been staring it would have seemed like she appeared out of nowhere, thank goodness there was no one in the alley where he landed.
    “Hurry, babe, don’t want to spend too much time here. Don’t know who could be out there,” Jex growled and waited until she nodded. He saw her