Dragon's Fire [PUP Squad Alpha 3] (Siren Publishing Ménage Everlasting) Read Free

plan, Ronan?” Brody knew the man well. Ronan always had a plan or two or six.
    “We’re setting up new identities for all of the identified targets,” Ronan said, sounding his usual controlled self.
    “We haven’t been able to locate them all, but when we do we need to turn their lives upside down and inside out in an effort to keep them alive.” The human took a deep breath in an obvious attempt to be more optimistic. “But we think we can offer them at least some sort of normal life.”
    Ronan smiled and leaned against the table behind him. “A few years ago I purchased a town called Sugarvale. It’s fairly isolated, and at the moment is little more than a ghost town, but I think it’ll work well as secure home for these women. Alex and I have already set up a home for our wife.” Ronan grinned at the obvious surprise on the faces of the men in the room, but he didn’t explain his sudden change in marital status. “We plan to do the same for anyone else we can locate. If they’re all showing extrasensory skills, then it’s doubly important to get them to a safe location.”
    The human nodded in agreement, but it was Brody’s werewolf squadmate, Thomas, who asked the next question. “So are the human women all the Oracle’s receptacle?”
    “We still don’t know anything for sure. We have no way of knowing exactly what the Oracle did, or why she planned to do it, but we do know it was why she was killed. If she somehow passed her information on to humans, there had to be a reason for it.”
    They spent the next couple of hours discussing the case, pooling their information in the hopes that it might lead them to the missing women. As the meeting broke up, Ronan called Brody over.
    “How’s Ava doing?”
    “Considering what she’s been through, she’s coping pretty well. Spends a lot of time reading.”
    Ronan nodded. “Does she understand what’s going on?”
    “We haven’t explained anything to her.” He hesitated, wondering if the next words to come out of his mouth would make him sound like a fool. “The thing is…sometimes I get the feeling she knows more than she lets on.”
    Ronan’s grin was unexpected. “Kali has the same skill. She describes it as ‘knowing’ stuff she shouldn’t know. She can’t explain where the information comes from, only that she knows it’s true.”
    “So Ava…”
    “Is very likely to understand more about the paranormal world than we do.”
    Brody raised an eyebrow—he was a paranormal after all—but Ronan just gave him a look that suggested he had a lot to learn. Hell, maybe he did when it came to human women with extrasensory skills.
    “I’ve got a couple of trusted friends helping rebuild the town of Sugarvale. There’s a house ready to go if you don’t mind living without a kitchen for a day or two.”
    Brody smiled. “As long as we have somewhere to plug in the coffee machine, we should be okay.”

Chapter Two
     
    They’d moved to a new safe house three weeks ago. This one was also in the middle of nowhere, but at least she had neighbors. She’d only met Kali, Ronan, and Alex a few times, but it had been very obvious that the men weren’t just protecting Kali. They were very much in love with her.
    Of course that had led Ava’s rather fertile imagination into forbidden territory, which had resulted in her downloading even more erotic romance stories in an effort to distract herself. She realized that to an outsider that action might seem self-defeating under the circumstances, but she somehow hoped that by reading about perfect men in a perfect fictional world that it would somehow highlight the failings of the men protecting her. So far it hadn’t worked—Nathan and Brody still seemed flawless—yet she’d blown her entire monthly book budget on erotic romance stories. It was either read the books or talk to the two men currently starring in her nightly dreams and her daytime imaginings. She’d already spent far too much time