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calling for an after-hours vet call, please leave a message
and I’ll get back to you as soon as I can.”
    Brandon
moved his finger over the phone to end the call and looked up at Tyler slowly,
his blue eyes sparkling with mischief.
    “She’s
a vet?”
    A
moment of silence passed, then they both burst out
laughing. Tyler collapsed onto one of the kitchen stools, holding his aching
side with one hand. Just what their family of lion shifters
needed—a vet.
    “ Mum’ll be so proud,” Brandon chortled as he walked to the
fridge and grabbed the juice.
    “She’ll
be handy, intelligent, too.” Tyler mused, pleased by this turn of events. He
had always wanted a mate he could talk to, share concepts with. But with
Brandon more impressed by looks than smarts, Tyler was worried that their mate
would be a little on the dumb side.
    “Yeah…”
Brandon said, his enthusiasm lacking.
    “It’ll
be fine.” Tyler jumped to his feet and headed off toward the study. “I’m going
to go search the Internet for a vet called Laura Carver and see what I find.”
    Brandon
made some grunting noise and Tyler continued on his quest for knowledge.
    He
was an architect and Brandon was a builder. They were both successful in their
own rights, and hard-working. But when it came to the brains versus brawn
fight, it was pretty obvious who was the intelligence of the
operation .

 
    Chapter Three
     
    Brandon
cooked some bacon and eggs, shuffling some onto a plate for Tyler in case he
was hungry. They were so used to looking after themselves and each other. How
would it be to bring some chick in to live with them?
    “I
found her!” Tyler cried as he walked back into the kitchen, waving a piece of
paper in his hand triumphantly.
    “Where?” Brandon asked. He served
breakfast for each of them and sat down with a coffee in his hand. He wasn’t
entirely sure he wanted to know.
    “ Trenthy . About twenty minutes away. She
works in a small vet clinic there. Maybe one of us could surprise her at work?”
    Brandon
wasn’t sure he should be the one doing the wooing in this situation.
    “Maybe
you should do the talking, Ty. I mean, she’s obviously pretty clever, and I
picked up her sister last night.”
    Tyler
opened his mouth, then shut it quickly.
    Brandon
continued with his train of thought. “Yep, I know. Pretty stupid but at least I
didn’t fuck her.”
    Tyler
frowned and looked down at the address again. What else could be said, really?
He’d potentially ruined their chance to be with Laura.
    “Maybe
I should get one of mum’s pets and take it in to her?”
    Brandon
nodded at his brother. “Great idea. Then drop into the
conversation something about how we both want to mate her for life.”
    Woah ,
that sounded heavy.
    Tyler
gave him a dirty look and picked up his knife and fork, hoeing into the food in
front of him.
    Brandon
gave the look straight back before putting his now-empty plate in the sink. He
had to get out of here for a bit.
    “I’m gonna ’ head off to the gym.”
    “You’re
kidding?” Tyler sputtered behind him.
    Brandon
let his head drop down as he thought about what he was going to say. He whirled
around when he felt the words come, not sure if being honest was truly the
right thing to do. But that was how he was.
    “Ty,
I know you’ve been waiting for this chick our whole lives, but I haven’t. If
she really is ‘the one’ and I have to be mated to her, then so be it. But I’m
not going to put my whole life on hold in the meantime.”
    Tyler
pushed himself to his feet, his eyes burning lion-brown. Shit, where did this
temper of Ty’s come from?
    “We
need to pursue her together.”
    Brandon
shook his head and headed off toward his bedroom. He didn’t want this, any of
it. How hard was that for his brother to understand?
    “Get
her over for dinner and I promise I’ll be on my best behavior.”
    He
changed into his gym clothes and headed out of the house without a backward
glance.
    He
had his job, his