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beside her. He swiped her arm with an antiseptic wipe.
    “I’m going to inject you with something our doctor gave us, Melody. I hope it will help you.” It certainly can’t hurt.
    She heard that last in her mind, but she could swear his lips hadn’t moved. What was going on? Was she feverish, delirious? Whatever this was she had, it wasn’t something she ever wanted to catch again.
    Under normal circumstances, Melody never would have let someone who wasn’t her physician inject her with something, but at the moment, she couldn’t think of anything but stopping the horrible pain that twisted her insides like a limp dishrag.
    The pinch of the needle piercing her skin was nothing compared to the pain searing her insides and burning through her blood. She wasn’t sure how, but somehow, she felt desire for these two men through the pain of her illness. It clawed at her just as surely as the pain that caused her to curl up into a little ball on the bed.
    “It isn’t an illness, Melody. This is something our people get when we meet the person who is right for us. The person we are destined to spend the rest of our lives with.”
    “I don’t know what you’re talking about. I have the flu.” Her teeth began to chatter all over again. “See? I have a fever or something.”
    “You don’t have a fever. You have the heat. El calor.”
    “Of course I’m hot. I have a fever.” Melody glared up at them and wondered what it was she ever saw in these two. Geeze, the two of them were as dumb as a box of rocks!

    Chapter Five
    Mitch watched as the injection moved through her system. He could actually see it working. Her muscles grew less tense, her breathing slowed from short, quick pants to something closer to normal and her heart rate slowed to a more sedate pace.
    “It worked!” He felt himself relax. The last thing he wanted to do was mate her here in front of their niece. Carmen may be a shifter and she knew how things worked, but it didn’t mean that he and Wyatt wanted to be under the same roof with her when they first took their mate.
    “Is she okay?” Carmen moved closer. Tears streaked down her face as she watched her friend gather more and more control over her body.
    “I think so.” Mitch set the syringe aside and scrubbed at his face with his hands. “That was close.” He looked over at Wyatt who wore a strange expression. “What’s the matter with you?”
    “I think I need a dose of that as well.” He met Mitch’s gaze. “Do we have enough of that to hold us together until we can get to Paradise?”
    He didn’t mention that they might not need much more of it if they could convince Melody to mate with them.
    “I have no idea.” He glanced at Carmen. “Will you stay here until your guards arrive?”
    “I have rehearsals and a show tomorrow.” She looked at Melody. “How are we going to explain her disappearance?”
    “She can play tomorrow’s performance. Your guards won’t be here until Sunday as it is.” Mitch sighed. “We can manage to stay here another day. We’ll just have to draw out our doses a bit. Perhaps we can manage to hold out for a few hours more between injections.”
    “What are you three talking about?” Melody sat up, brushed her hair back and stared up at them looking so sexy Mitch wasn’t sure if he could hold out for much longer.
    Wyatt groaned behind him, letting him know that he felt the same. “This is going to be the longest few days of our lives.”
    Carmen knelt on the floor in front of Melody and smiled. “Remember how you’ve felt over the last few years?”
    A little wrinkle formed between Melody’s eyes as she watched her friend. “I have no idea what you’re talking about.”
    “Um…” Carmen wiped her hands on her jean-clad legs. “Well…you know these are my uncles, Wyatt and Mitch.” She waved her hand and smiled. “We…we aren’t quite human and you’re their mate.”
    “Get off it, Carmen. You’ve always tried to get me to