Page 41 of Taken By the Twins

Billie points at one of the houses in the not-too-far distance. “Me and Glaine live closer to this spot than you and Loki. Why don’t we bring Tandy in and chat?” She glances over at her mate. “I’m sure you want to speak to the doppelseers, demon. Unless you invited them?”

Damien clears his throat. “The doppelseers offer invitations. We don’t seek them.”

“But we will accept them anyway,” adds Lucian. “Yes. We’d like to speak to the guard. The mage, too,” he says, referring to Kennedy’s mate. “Loki. Come. You can trust our mate and Glaine’s to watch over your female and spawn. We see a healthy birth, all things considered. Your fears are unfounded.”

Kennedy reaches behind her, fingers disappearing into the shadows. “See? Told you. Go with the other guys. I get to finally meet One!”

Part of me wants to tell Lucian and Damien not to leave me with the superfan. It’s been a long time since I’ve had to deal with one, but Lucian nods. “We won’t be far, dear one.” Ah, hell. How did I not notice he called me that? It’s not dearone, is it? It’s deadOne? He brushes his claw over my cheek. “If you need us, follow your bond.”

“I will, Lucian.” Looking over his shoulder, my gaze finds Damien. “Love you.”

“Your heart is ours,” rumbles Damien.

Sierra had a heart barely used—until she found her demon.

Billie has a heart full of love for her mate.

And me? It belongs to a pair of demon males.

Using our bond, I send him a mental image of the three of us twisted up like fucking pretzel. Lucian’s need is like a warm caress, while Damien’s is a bonfire.

Now they have a reason not to leave me at the mercy of my old friend and a superfan, I think, as my grin widens. “You know it.”

It takes aboutfifteen minutes before Kennedy inevitably mentions Jared Turner.

I knew it was coming. Even if Billie bit her tongue long enough not to mention that prick, Kennedy would’ve been the target audience for the tabloids and the gossip rags when the story broke about me ‘stealing’ Sierra’s boyfriend.

Of course she’d want the story straight from the horse’s mouth.

Instead of talking about the long ago past, though, I talk about my latest run-in with him. Kennedy squeals again as I tell them both about how Damien went after him, Lucian and I followed our initial bond to Manhattan, and how I finally got the tiniest bit of revenge on Justin for letting me take all the credit for screwing up when it takes two to tango.

Kennedy thought it was hysterical, and once I confirmed that no demons came looking for my mates to clap them in chains, Billie seems to enjoy hearing about how we knocked Jared down a peg or two.

By the end of the story, I can’t help but laugh a little myself as I admit, “It was great. Damien had him pissing his pants before he hit him in the head with that stupid award.”

“Too bad it wasn’t a Grammy,” Billie says. “They pack a much bigger punch, according to Sierra.”

Before I ask what she means by that, she gets up from the couch where the three of us have been sitting. Across the front room, there’s a window, and she peers out of it.

“Okay. Now, which one is Damien?”

Joining Billie by the the window, I see the four demons standing together: Glaine and Loki on one side, facing offagainst Lucian and Damien as Lucian say something to the others. I can’t hear them, but I know which of my males is mine, even at this distance.

I point at Damien. “The broody, sexy one right there.”

Billie frowns slightly. “And Lucian?”

“The sweet, sexy one standing next to Damien.”

“So what I’m understanding is you can tell them apart, but they’re both sexy,” my old friend teases.

Of course. “You can’t?”

She blinks at me. “They’re identical twins, Tandy. And they’re shadows. I’m lucky I can pick out Glaine, and that’s only because no one else in Nuit is a soldier with green eyes.”

“My mate has purple eyes, too,” pips up the superfan. “But it’s easy to tell Loki apart from other mages because he has two horns.”

“Glaine does, too,” Billie adds. “It’s supposed to mean they’re powerful demons.” She squints at my mates. “They only have one.”