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succumb to the mating bond. Once we touch our mate, they will find us irresistible. It is why you let us claim you within minutes of meeting you.”
    “Wow. I don’t know if I should feel better that I’m not a sex-crazed slut, or worse that I was drugged with pheromones so I would have sex with two hot men.” Karen bit her lip to stop her groan as heat flushed through her at the thought of last night. “Why are you both saying I’m your mate?”
    Brad winked at her. “You didn’t like having more than one man giving you all you need?”
    Karen took a step back. She needed space from them before their smell got to her again, and she jumped them. “I’m sure you could tell how much I did.” She had loved it. They had been the best lovers she’d ever had, well not that there had been many. Three, if she counted the guy she’d lost her virginity to.
    Brad nodded. “Peacekeepers always share a mate. It helps to protect the mate and keep the Peacekeepers balanced.”
    Karen nodded, even though she really had no idea what everything meant. “What do mates need protecting from?”
    Duncan sighed and stalked toward her, pulling her into his embrace. He then walked with her and sat on the sofa, settling her onto his lap. “The supernatural world can be dangerous. We can be targeted when someone who has done wrong knows our wrath will come down on them, or when we have to come between feuds. Sometimes a side thinks if they have leverage over us they can force us to side with them. That is why one of us will always be with you.”
    Karen didn’t like the sound of that. She’d only just met these men. Granted, she’d had mind blowing sex with them, but she didn’t think she could be with them twenty-four seven. That would drive her batshit crazy. She shook her head. What was she even thinking? She couldn’t be with these men. She was on an American holiday. She was not here to shack up and mate or live together forever with a guy doing lovey-dovey stuff. She would go back to Australia, find a job, and live her life.
    “So you two think I’m your mate.”
    “Not think, we know. And we have mated you.” Brad stood looking down at her on Duncan’s lap.
    “You don’t even know my name. How can I be your mate?”
    Brad smirked. “I do. Karen, your name is Karen. Now Karen White.”
    “Did Jacky tell you my name?”
    Brad nodded.
    “It is Karen Striter, not White.”
    “Not anymore. Our last name is White. You are now mated to us, so you are Karen White.” Duncan’s breath caressed her bare skin as he talked.
    Wiggling, she pushed away from Duncan, trying to get out of his embrace, but he held her tighter. All of this was happening so fast. Karen hadn’t even known the men for twenty-four hours. She hadn’t signed any papers to say they had married or any such thing. Her home was in Australia.
    “Neither of you know me. What if you don’t like me, or I don’t like you once you’ve spend some time with me? My God, you said you live longer. I’ll grow old and die.” Karen pushed on Duncan again and this time he let her go. She stood and glared at both men. She needed them to see reason. “How old are you two, anyway?”
    “We are two hundred this year. We’ve waited over a century for you,” Duncan whispered against her ear and tugged her to him.
    She turned and grinned up at him. “You’re like way old. This mate thing has to be wrong. I’m way too young for you two oldies.”
    “The mating bond is never wrong.” Brad gathered her to him and leaned down, taking her lips to his own. She pushed to get away before the overwhelming need to be with them consumed her. She could feel it thrumming through her, but wouldn’t give into it. “We’re not that old. We mated you, so now you’ll age the same as we do.”
    Holy shit this was getting to be too much.
    “Give us a couple of weeks to get to know one another. I promise we will prove to you that you are our mate, the perfect woman for