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attraction and sexual energy was so overwhelming that he had found himself palming Dara’s breast, and he hadn’t even known he’d done it until she moaned. He hadn’t meant to, but Eden was driving him crazy with his lust. Normally his best friend was the one with more control, but he wasn’t putting enough restraint on his emotions. It wouldn’t be the first time they had shared a woman, but this was different. She was their third, and it was forever. Still he needed to chill the fuck out before he lost his goddamn mind.
    Dix couldn’t lie, touching her was probably the most amazing thing ever, and he was in heaven. Being near her woke his beast. His tiger paced inside his head begging to come out and play, but it wasn’t the time—not yet. His tiger sighed and lay down waiting for his turn.
    ‘ Soon my friend,’ he said hoping to relax his other side.
    He glanced at Eden who was struggling to gain control and sighed. His love for him had grown exponentially over the past few weeks as they followed their third insuring her safety. Their bond had grown, and it was stronger than ever. Now all of the piece of their puzzle could be put together.
    The woman he’d been dreaming of for almost ten years was sitting between them, and even though she seemed to be warming up to them, she still didn’t know what was going on or why. It was the part he dreaded. He worried about telling her that he and Eden weren’t human. There was no way to tell how she would react, and even though it was uncommon for destined mates to refuse a bond, it was possible.
    He didn’t want that to happen to them, and he knew Eden didn’t either. He and Eden had their whole lives to bond. They grew up together knowing they were two out of three parts of a whole. Eden was the technically the oldest, so therefore the leader. He was the care giver since he was gifted with the power to heal, while Dara would be their anchor when the bond was complete. It was complex and for most of their young lives they assumed they were only going to be mated to a female as her partners, not mated themselves, but as they grew older their attraction to each other built. That’s when they started to learn more about the triad bond that all white tigers formed.
    Even knowing him and Eden were just as much mates to one another as they were to their female anchor; they hadn’t completed their bond with each other—yet. They agreed to wait until they met their female mate. He hoped their bonding would be even more special because after 32 years together, they would be able to share their built up passion for one another. Nothing would hold them back.
    He scrubbed his hand on top of his head and then dropped his hands onto his lab. “What I’m going to tell you will be hard to believe, but I need you to understand and stay calm, can you do that?”
    “I don’t know. You stalk me for weeks, and then you tell me I’m yours like you own me or something.”
    “We would never hurt you. You’re everything to us.”
    “But why, you don’t know me, and I certainly don’t know you?”
    Eden put a calming hand on Dara’s knee and her heart automatically slowed. “It’s a long story, and we really don’t have time to explain it all right now, but we will.” He gave Dix a look, and he nodded. They had already agreed that Dix would be the one to tell her what they were. They hoped because he appeared less threatening and was calm by nature that she would be more receptive to his tiger first.
    “The truth is we aren’t human.” —Dara went to speak but he held up his hand— “We are tiger shifters, white ones to be exact, and I know this is going to be hard to believe so I’m going to show you.”
    Dix went and stood in the center of the room and closed his eyes calling to his beast. His feline half yowled in excitement to meet their mate. He’d been waiting too long and was becoming impatient prowling in Dix’s head. His body shimmered and in a matter of