Morgan's Mates (Siren Publishing Ménage Amour) by Dani April Page A

sharing anything more with them. However, she needed to talk, had needed to for so long now. It felt so good to be able to reveal her hidden worries like this. “Nathan also mentioned he had seen Doctor Hughes in Wolf Creek a few days before he left. I tried calling him up, but of course I got the old doctor-patient confidentiality story from him.”
    “Old Doc Hughes is one of us,” Drake told her. “He’s a shifter, too.”
    “Really?” Morgan asked. “I didn’t know that.” Not only did it feel good to talk to these guys, but she was learning a few new tidbits of information. But why, she asked herself, did it feel so naughty to be seated here in her living room in broad daylight talking to these two strange men? It wasn’t so much that they made her feel wicked, but her thoughts about them sure did.
    After a long and uncomfortable moment of silence she looked up at first Drake and his kind demeanor. Then she looked into Hunter’s deep and sexy eyes, partially hidden in the morning shadows of her living room.
    “I think Nathan is sick. Have either of you ever heard of a shifter getting sick like this and not being able to shift back?”
    Once more the men exchanged looks. Again Morgan knew they were probably manipulating her, altering the truth, and forcing her to feel things she shouldn’t, dangerous things she was not ready to feel.
    “It is possible,” Drake answered for them. “There are diseases unique to shifters. Your boyfriend may have been a very sick man and so therefore became a wolf to survive.”
     
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    Hunter listened to Drake explain what was wrong with McLaughlin. Of course it had been Hunter who had gotten it out of old Doc Hughes in the first place, but they could never tell Morgan that. It would just make them seem too calculating, and in fact, that’s exactly what they were.
    Drake was always accusing him of moving too fast with the women they seduced, but the more he watched Morgan, the less he could control himself. He had to have her in the worst way.
    Hunter was about to make his first move.
    “Looks like you could use some help around this here place.” He did not state this as a question, but simply as the obvious fact it was.
    Morgan blushed. She didn’t seem to like accepting help from others and seemed proud. That was exactly how Hunter liked his women. Everything he was learning about Morgan was just so right for him.
    “No, I’m all right.”
    “Don’t feed me that.” Hunter sat up on the couch and got her attention with a sharp look. He could be firm when he wanted to, when firmness was required with a woman. Morgan would require a little push now and then, and he was going to give it to her. “From the little I’ve seen of this place, it looks like it hasn’t fared very well since the owner’s been away. Working out there in the barnyard with them dirty animals and raising crops isn’t a job for a beautiful young woman to be doing.”
    “I have thought of leaving.”
    Drake gave Hunter a look. He was telling him silently to go easy on her. Hunter wasn’t going to take his friend’s advice this time. Morgan needed to be played, and Hunter knew exactly how to play her.
    “You care about your man.” Hunter knew he was good at this game, and he would have to be in top form now to get what he wanted from this beautiful woman. “If you leave now, you know you won’t ever see him again. Anyway, if you were to do that, you’d feel like a miserable coward for the rest of your life, and you don’t strike me as a coward.”
    “You’re right.” Morgan wasn’t looking at him.
    “Just so happens we’ve been looking for some work.” Hunter looked over at Drake. “Isn’t that right, Drake?”
    “It is true we would both like to help out around here, Morgan.” Drake returned Hunter’s look with a nod of his own. “Until your boyfriend gets back,” he added for good measure.
    “But I couldn’t afford to pay you anything.” Again there was all