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a jerk,” Noah added. “And that redhead doesn’t hold a candle to you. You’re well rid of him.” He found he really meant it. Roy was a fool. If he wanted a woman’s company, he couldn’t do better than Janis. Oddly enough it pleased him that they’d had a falling out.
    Janis’ extraordinary eyes sparkled. “All of a sudden I’m hungry. How about a pizza?”

    * * * *

    Janis collected the dirty plates and put them in the sink. “I’m glad we didn’t go out. I enjoyed this.”
    “Me, too.” Noah stood to give her a hand.
    “You bought the pizza, I’ll clean up. Put some music on, or pick out a movie. The DVDs are in the cabinet under the TV.”
    While Wade went through the movies, Noah walked around the living room, taking in everything at a glance. The furniture was comfortable, mission oak. He didn’t see many personal touches other than a display of photographs on a console table. One, in particular, caught his eye.
    He was looking at it when Janis walked back in the room.
    “Those are my nephews.” Her voice took on a wistful tone that touched Noah.
    “They’re beautiful children,” Noah said. “And the woman?”
    “My sister-in-law. Their mother.”
    “Really? They don’t look anything like her.” This photo didn’t have the red-eye effect. The woman’s distinctive golden eyes seemed to be looking into Noah’s. The hair on the back of his neck stood on end.
    Janis took the picture and handed him another. “The twins take after their dads.”
    “Dads?” He studied the blond men, posed shirtless in the sun. They were tall, good-looking humans with muscular bodies. He and Wade could subdue them easily.
    “My brothers. Fraternal twins just like the babies.” Janis laughed. “Well, not exactly like the babies.”
    Noah planted a puzzled expression on his face. “I don’t understand.”
    “I don’t really understand it all myself.” Janis said. “They each fathered one of the twins. Evidently Sable released multiple eggs and had sex with both of them.”
    “Sable?” Noah rolled it around on his tongue. It was first time he’d heard her referred to by name. He racked his memory. Had he known a Sable in his childhood?
    “Yes. She’s wife to both of them.”
    “Rather unconventional,” Noah murmured. Although he and Noah were forced to mate with the she-wolves, they’d never shared a woman. The idea appealed to him.
    “It works for them.”
    “How do you feel about that?” Noah murmured. “Do you disapprove?”
    “Not at all. They’re happy. That’s the important thing.”
    “Do you think you could do that? Make love to two men, I mean?” Noah looked at her through slitted eyes. The familiar tightening in his groin surprised him. His cock had grown hard.
    Janis flushed red. “I don’t know that she makes love to both at the same time. It’s really none of my business.”
    “I didn’t ask about her. I asked about you.” She might think it none of her business, but the scent of her arousal told him the idea intrigued her. Her reactions intrigued him.
    Janis’s navy eyes opened wide. Her musky scent deepened and tickled his nostrils. Noah’s lips curled in a self-satisfied smile.
    From the corner of his eye, he spied Wade frowning. Did his harmless flirting make Wade jealous? It was only business, he told himself.
    Except he enjoyed it way too much. Her natural scent, unconcealed by flowery cologne, tied him up in knots. It was like nothing else he’d ever experienced. Where Wade and Alex tantalized his senses with their masculine animal scents, hers was rich and succulent. It flowed through his body like thick warm honey, settling in his cock and crystallizing to a diamond hardness.
    Awareness sparked between them. His gaze locked on hers in a smoldering stare that neither could break. He caught Wade’s movement behind her. His lover shocked the hell out of him when he put his hands on Janis’s hips. Had their arousal sparked his?
    The idea of having Janis