Moore, Gigi - Desiree's Lone Wolves [The Double R, Book 2] (Siren Publishing Ménage Everlasting) (38 page)

“Maybe we can look into getting a little ranch of our own near The Double R once we get Tamara to go over the paperwork with Remy’s lawyers,” Carson suggested.

“Sounds good to me,” Sam said.

Carson looked at Desiree and squeezed her hand. “How’s that sound to you?”

“It sounds like I’m mated to two Coloradan shifter cowboys.”

Mama and Sam both laughed as Carson pulled Desiree close for another deep kiss. He tasted her tears as they rolled down her cheeks and pulled back to thumb them from her eyes as he looked at her. His heart felt like it might burst from all the happiness inside him. “It’s finally over,
cher
,” he whispered.

“No, love. It’s just beginning.”

Epilogue

The Double R, McCoy, Colorado

Three months later

Maia watched the festivities for her sister’s thirtieth birthday party with mixed feelings.

She remained ecstatic that her sister enjoyed herself so much and had a good time. Actually, she’d never seen her sister so exuberant and…tipsy. Of course, she’d never seen her always-in-control, cautious sister so in love before, either.

She smiled at the idea and at the view she had of Desiree dancing between her two wild shifter cowboys out on the hall floor.

Everyone who meant anything to the family was present, including most of The Double R employees and current ranch guests, all enjoying a raucous time of good food and good music.

Desiree caught Maia’s eye and waved, smiling as she wiggled her fanny in front of Carson and unabashedly kissed Sam on the lips.

Maia never would have predicted this turn of events a couple of years ago, which just went to show that fortunes could always change, whether or not one was ready.

She waved back at her sister and turned to head for the exit. She needed some fresh air while she waited for Thayne.

On a whim, she’d taken Desiree’s advice and invited him to the party, operating under the the-worst-thing-he-can-say-is-no rule. So if he didn’t show up, Maia decided, Desiree would definitely be hearing an earful from her.

Once outside, Maia found herself taking a little stroll around the grounds, tracing the same steps she had taken with Jax when she’d first arrived on the ranch with her mother and Desiree almost two years ago.

The afternoon remained hot, if also dry, a typical summer day in Colorado. It certainly wasn’t as hot as some of the dog days she had experienced in New York, so when a sudden feeling of vertigo overcame her, Maia was at a loss as to why.

She found the same outcropping of rocks by the pond she had sat upon when she’d first come to the ranch and gingerly eased down onto it to get her bearings. She closed her eyes and took several deep breaths, expecting the vision when it came but not expecting the subject.

Three people appeared before her mind’s eye—two males and a female. She saw the two males with clarity, recognizing Thayne dressed in Old Western garb, but did not recognize the second man. She noticed that he resembled Thayne and had almost the same exact hair and eye color. Thayne’s brother, maybe? Though she couldn’t see the woman’s face clearly, she knew her identity. The woman was her.

Maia had never ever had a vision about herself before. The subjects of her visions had always been other people and their fates, but never her own.

She didn’t know whether to be excited or scared, and for the first time in a long time since her visions had first started, she wished she could stop them.

Thayne in her vision reached out a hand to her, calling her name, and that’s when Maia realized that someone was touching her arm in real time.

With a slight sense of dread, she opened her eyes, not sure if seeing Thayne now would be a good idea or not. She didn’t, however, have a choice, since there he stood in the tall, dark, and very virile flesh right in front of her.

Clad in a blue Oxford shirt that flattered those stunning Caribbean-blue eyes she remembered so well, a pair of blue jeans, and brown cowboy boots, he remained every bit as attractive as Maia initially thought him at her first visit to the Valley View Hospital emergency room.

She was relieved that he was clad in thoroughly contemporary clothes. She didn’t know what she would have done had she opened her eyes to see him as he appeared in her vision. That would have knocked her world off-kilter.

Maia realized she might not have a choice, though, that it might just be a matter of time for her world to stay intact. Her visions usually proved pretty accurate.

She didn’t even have time to consider all the ramifications of that fact before Thayne said, “I’m sorry about getting here late. I had an emergency at the hospital.”

“An emergency at the emergency room. How novel.”

Thayne chuckled but didn’t follow up.

Maia stood, hooked an arm through his, and led him away from the pond, back to the main house. She liked that he had such a good sense of humor. She had gotten a hint of it the night he’d treated her raccoon bite and had liked it then, too.

Curious still, she wanted to ask him who the other man was in her vision but realized she couldn’t play her hand yet. He didn’t know enough about her to think she wasn’t crazy, and she didn’t want to give him any ammunition to reject her out of hand just yet.

Besides, Maia had a feeling she’d be meeting the other man soon enough.

THE END

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