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

that pride and dignity wrapped up in her. Hunter found that to be so sexy in a woman.
    “We don’t want you to pay us,” Drake answered, taking over.
    “Do you guys live around here?” Morgan asked them, changing the subject.
    “We own a business and a little land,” Drake explained to her.
    “We each have a trailer we call home,” Hunter threw in. “But Drake’s thirty-five miles away and I’m about fifty.”
    “I appreciate the offer, but I couldn’t accept.” Morgan was still resisting them, but Hunter could see she was starting to break down. “You have your business to run, and you both live so far away…”
    “We have taken some time off from our business. We have a foreman who can run it for us while we’re away.” Drake was trying to sell Morgan on the idea now, too.
    “You took time off so you could come out here and help me?”
    “That’s right.” Hunter gave her a smile. “The two of us could be pretty handy around here.”
    “But you guys don’t even know me.”
    “Listen, don’t you have something else you’d rather be doing than slaving out in those fields all day long?” Drake asked her.
    Morgan laughed. She was beautiful when she laughed. Hunter hoped they could make her laugh a lot more in the days to come.
    “Actually, I’m an artist,” Morgan confided in them. “That was my job in Chicago. I was a graphic artist. When Nathan and I moved out here, I was going to start painting landscapes of the mountains. I have a studio set up down the hall. I had just gotten started last winter and was about to finish a couple. Then this came up with Nathan, and I haven’t even gone inside my studio since.”
    “Wouldn’t it be nice to give up all that work outside this summer and get back to your studio and doing something you love?” Hunter knew they had her now. It was all a matter of reeling her in.
    “Yes. It would be very nice. But I couldn’t impose on you two.”
    “It would be our pleasure to help you while Nathan is away.” Drake gave her a kind and reassuring smile.
    This was the important part. Hunter looked her right in the eye. He had her attention now, and he went in for the kill. “Drake and I could take your man’s place while he’s gone.”
    Morgan gaped at that. Hunter knew she probably didn’t think she heard him right. Or maybe she thought she had misunderstood his meaning. It took her a moment to recover her wits.
    “Thank you both for the offer.” She was making one last valiant attempt to resist them. “But I can’t accept.”
    “We’re both shifters. I think you need a shifter like Nathan in your life now to take away the pain, and you’re going to get two of them.” Hunter let his voice grow quiet, husky, and sexy.
    “But…I mean, you live too far away to come out here and help me…”
    “That won’t be a problem, Morgan,” Hunter assured her. “Because we’re going to come out here and move in with you.”

Chapter Nine
     
    The next morning, Morgan sat at the table in her breakfast room. It was set for three. Drake and Hunter had left yesterday afternoon after spending most of the day with her. Before they had gone, they had driven into town and purchased enough food at the market for the next month and insisted she take it all.
    Morgan had agreed, although reluctantly so, to let them return the following day and help her with some of the things that needed to be done around the place.
    Butterflies were in her tummy this morning. She hadn’t slept all night. Obviously she was getting in over her head with these two. But she couldn’t regret her decision to let them come out to her place and help her for a little while. To have them with her yesterday, talking to her and being so concerned about her life, had been like a breath of fresh air in the spring after a long winter.
    When they were with her, the two of them focused entirely on her and her needs. There didn’t seem to be anything those two couldn’t or wouldn’t do for