Free Billionaire Dragons' Fated: BBW Paranormal Dragon Shifter Menage Romance by Anya Nowlan Page A

childhood in North Dakota.
    “Depends. Most don’t. Dragon families have pretty rigid hierarchies. Usually, it’s the elder’s task to guard the main treasure. But, as I am the official elder, at least until the triad is complete, and I can’t really stay here much, we alternate with our younger brothers. They’ve been surprisingly okay about it, though, as you can see, they take every opportunity to take a break from it.”
    Alexander pointed at the tiny golden speck in the sky that was Ares flying away. Something else caught Jade’s attention, though.
    “Triad?”
    “Don’t worry about it. We’ll explain everything in due time,” Apollo rushed to add, and then he distracted her just as swiftly with a tale about how the great Atlas had gone from being a gold hoarder to a wheat hoarder.
    What’s with all the secrecy…
    Jade had plenty of time to ponder that as the brothers drove her through Gold Way, telling her tales and joking the whole way through. They just nicked past Centerville, the town in the heart of the fields, before speeding on towards the looming castle of a mansion they called home. It was tucked away close to the pocket of mountains that closed the north side of the valley, and once again, Jade’s breath was knocked right out of her chest.
    There was no other way to put it, the house was huge.
    “Don’t you guys do anything small?” Jade asked with some exasperation in her voice.
    “Nope,” Apollo confirmed quickly.
    The car rolled to a stop in front of the pristine whitewashed mansion, a circular driveway lined by well-kept hedges leading up to it. The mansion had three floors and, for the most part, a slanted roof, except for about a third of it that Ares had used as a takeoff site. The windowsills and covers were painted gold and the door was a heavy, golden behemoth. Jade wasn’t entirely convinced that it wasn’t pure gold – wouldn’t have surprised her, though.
    Alexander and Apollo jumped out, and Apollo opened the door for her as well, helping her out of the car. Touching his hand as she climbed down made her skin heat up, and without noticing, she was biting her lip again.
    Apollo leant in to her, just a tad too close to be considered friendly, and whispered in her ear, “Welcome home.”
    If she was going to be there with the Goldplains, hell yeah she could call it home. Jade smiled a little as Apollo pulled away, moving to help Alexander take out the suitcases and their gear from the back of the full-sized SUV.
    The heavy door was flung open, and Jade spun around quickly to make out the excitable figure of a woman running to hug both the brothers. A twinge of jealousy went through Jade, an emotion that hit her completely out of the blue and made her feel off kilter for a moment. The woman was tall and elegant, her hair in a short, wheaten blond pixie cut and her hazel eyes dazzling with happiness as she embraced both of the men individually.
    “You should have called that you were coming! I almost fell off my seat when Ares said he sensed you two nearing!”
    “Sorry, Ria, things are a bit hectic right now. We didn’t want to draw too much attention on us,” Alexander said, smiling broadly.
    Jade wasn’t sure how that was supposed to be possible. Wherever the Goldplains brothers went, excitement followed. The two towering, strapping men were hard enough to miss amongst other rock gods, but in a small town in Colorado, they had to be a spectacle. At least that’s what Jade would have guessed.
    “And who is this?” Ria asked, turning her warm gaze to Jade and making her feel woefully unprepared again.
    What was she supposed to say? ‘Hi, I’m the willing captive of these two gold dragons, pleasure to meet you!’ Actually, that would probably have worked.
    “I’m Jade. I’m the new bassist for the Gold Dragons,” Jade said, extending her hand to Ria and getting a hug instead.
    “Pleasure to meet you, Jade! Any friend of the Goldplains is a friend of mine,” Ria