Chase, Zara - Tigers' Temptation [Impulse 2] (Siren Publishing Ménage Everlasting) Read Online Free

Impulse.”
    “Journalists making stuff up?” She opened her eyes very wide and fixed each of them with an amused smile. “The very thought!”
    Philo roared with laughter. Mikael maintained his scowl.
    “We’ll have to do something,” Philo pheromoned. “We can’t wipe her memory in case she’s made notes somewhere.”
    “I know.”
    “Okay, Layla,” Mikael said. “If it’s what it takes for you to leave us in peace, we’re willing for you to stay here at the Institute with us for a couple of days.”
    “Really?” She looked both pleased and wary by Mikael’s sudden about-face.
    “You can have access to absolutely everything we do. My only condition is that you don’t write anything about us without clearing it with me first.”
    “Deal.” She held out her hand and Mikael slowly clasped it in his. “Can I speak to some of the volunteers at the clinic as well?”
    “Don’t push your luck.”
    “I get the impression that you don’t like outsiders coming to Impulse.”
    “On the contrary,” Philo said. “We’ve been waiting for you for decades.”
    She frowned. “Decades?”
    “Philo likes to exaggerate,” Mikael said, sending a warning glance Philo’s way.
    “Evidently.”
    “Before you agree to stay here,” Mikael continued, “I should warn you that the work’s mind-numbingly repetitive. You seem to think we have some sort of alternative agenda, but once you’ve seen for yourself how routine our work is, I very much doubt if you’ll find it interesting enough to write about.”
    “We’ll see.”
    “Way to go, man!” Philo pheromoned. “If we can’t convince her within two days that she’s destined to be our mate, then we deserve to live without a woman for the rest of our days.”
    “That isn’t why I asked her to stay. You know I don’t trust journalists. I’d rather have her where I can keep an eye on her.”
    Philo grinned. “If you say so.”

Chapter Three

    Mikael led the way upstairs to their living quarters. They extended across the entire top floor of the Institute, offering a 360-degree view of Impulse.
    “Wow!” Layla dropped her purse on a chair and stared out the full-length window that looked directly onto the Intracoastal Waterway. “Impulse really is a narrow peninsula, isn’t it? You’re completely surrounded by water.”
    “Yeah,” Philo said. “All good things come in small packages.”
    “You guys live up here?” she asked, swirling around again to take in the roomy loft.
    “Sure, we live over the shop,” Mikael said.
    “Just the two of you? There’s room for dozens.”
    “We enjoy our privacy,” Mikael said curtly.
    He took a good look at Layla as she continued to enthuse over the view and their living arrangements, liking what he saw. Philo was right about her. He did feel a strong connection which he was fighting hard to suppress. Even so, a part of him over which he had no control was drawn toward her, and not just because she was attractive, sexy as hell, and clearly intelligent. Were it not for her occupation, he’d probably agree that she was the mate he and Philo had been waiting all these years to find and start trying to convince her that she was destined to live out her days with two shape-shifting tigers.
    Forget it! Someone with an inquiring mind like hers would never be satisfied with the life on offer in Impulse, even if it did mean that her aging process would be significantly slowed. Besides, she hadn’t told them the complete truth. She wasn’t only here because of the sick kids. She had personal reasons for delving into their affairs, he was sure of that. He could tune into her mind frequency and discover what they were, but that would require a vast amount of psychic energy. Energy that he and Philo no longer had, due to their lack of a mate. Their powers had been on the wane for months now, the sudden decline worryingly rapid. What power Mikael still possessed, he would use to make his patients better, but because