Free Loving the Tigers by Tianna Xander Page A

They probably did. At least they knew more than she did. She was sure of it.
    The two men carried more flowers in and candy she couldn’t eat. Apparently, Zach and Derek had forgotten she was diabetic or they just didn’t care.
    She swallowed thickly at the stuff that covered every chair and flat surface in her little apartment.
    “If you’ll just sign here, we can get out of your way, ma’am,” the man said as he removed his hat and wiped his forehead on his sleeve. “Your man must love you a lot to go to this much trouble and expense.” He took the clipboard from her when she finished scribbling her name and put his hat back on his head. “Have a wonderful day, ma’am.” He grinned and pulled the door closed.
    Just after he left, her doorbell rang a second time in less than fifteen minutes and she rushed to the door, with the intention of throwing herself into her men’s arms. Instead, their appearance brought her up short.
    Dressed in tuxedos, they’d combed their hair back and shaved the coarse hair from their faces. Each of them held one red rose. She stepped back as they entered her apartment. Derek closed the door and they lowered themselves to their knees.
    “Kelly Williams, will you do us the honor of becoming our wife?”
    They must have rehearsed that for a little while because they said it at the exact same time with the same inflections. They even wore the same serious expression.
    Their moves synchronized, each of them reached into their right coat pocket and pulled out identical, small, square jewelry boxes, which they opened at the same time.
    Kelly gasped at the matching sapphire and diamond rings they each held. Tears streamed down her face as she fell to her knees and wrapped her arms around their necks. “Yes. Oh, God. Yes!” Pulling back, she met each of their gazes in turn. “I love you. I love you two more than I ever thought possible.”
    “And we love you, Kelly, more than life itself.” They took the rings from their boxes and slid them onto the third finger of her left hand. Still speaking in unison, they said, “With these rings we thee wed.”
    The action started a whole new bout of tears. Kelly clasped her hands together and held them to the center of her chest. “I—I don’t know what to say.”
    “You’ve already said it.” Zach smiled as they both stood and pulled her up with them. “You said, yes. ”
    Looking at the gorgeous rings, she twisted them and marveled at the way they sparkled in the light. “I guess I did, didn’t I?” She smiled and turned to the stove and her almost ruined steak. “You’re late. If your steak is cooked too much, there’s—”
    “No one to blame but ourselves,” they both said at the same time.
    “Actually, I was going to say that there’s more in the fridge and you can cook them yourselves this time.”
    “Hey, you’ve just agreed to be our mate and you’re going to make us cook for ourselves?”
    “Begin as you intend to go on, is what I always say. If you don’t like what I cooked, fend for yourselves, boys. Fend for yourselves.”
    Kelly grinned up at the two handsome men that had just become a permanent part of her life. They filled her heart near to bursting and she thanked everything good that some lucky turn of fate had brought them into her life that one, beautiful day in October.
     

Chapter Seventeen
     
     
    Candles sat upon every flat surface. Big, little, short, tall, tapered and fat, they lit the room with soft, flickering light as they entered the room.
    They’d offered to do the dishes when Kelly had voiced the need to do something special for them. Not once did they think that she would take every one of the candles they’d gifted her with, along with the essential bath oils they’d planned to use on her themselves and make a veritable Garden of Eden out of the master suite.
    She’d worked fast, considering she’d done all of it in the half hour, or so, it took them time to figure out her kitchen