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“I think it’s because people associated dragons with snakes and lizards, so they thought we laid eggs.” Corbin handed him a cookie to dunk in his tea.

It really was like having a trio of eager students at lessons.

He’d been a tutor once…

“Which had been fashioned by an ancient dragon during the classical era. There were four of them, and by all accounts, they had been taken to the four corners of the earth.”

“Which is a sphere.” Cosmo took a cookie.

“I think the point of this whole thing is that the alpha was just desperate to make this omega happy,” Corbin pointed out. “It’s all smoke and mirrors. Like she’s asking how much will you do for me?”

“Does that make the omega a bitch?” Cosmo pondered.

Corbin shrugged. “Possibly, but you know he is asking her to get knocked up and carry a baby. He has to prove that he can provide, right? I mean, this is the olden days. Omegas were much less expected to be providers of their own, like for instance—us. We rescued people from being kidnapped and from vampires. We were fierce.”

“What? What is this ‘were’ thing?” Cosmo pointed out. “Just because I’m pregnant doesn’t mean I’m not fierce. I will eat your face. Someone tries to come in here that doesn’t belong? Grr.”

Hawk was not going to laugh because that would mean he wouldn’t be allowed in the bed for at least a week.

And part of him did realize that Cosmo was fierce and had been this great warrior and was a guardian now.

But a huge part of him just saw his sweet, sexy pink, loving omega who was eating a cookie.

With his tomato sandwich.

Which was nasty.

Gooey and wet with white bread and mayonnaise.

Cosmo knew. Hawk could see the laughter in his eyes.

“At any rate, the alpha despaired that he would never find one of these great eggs, though he set off in search of the one told to be closest to his home.”

“No traveling to distant lands for this guy.”

“Oh, I think he did go.” Cullen pointed at one of the cartoons carved into the cradle.

“He did. He traveled for years, chasing tales of the eggs from land to land, all the while sending letters to his omega love in her tower.”

Cosmo frowned deep enough his forehead wrinkled. “I would think that she would want him rather than his letters. If you want letters and gold instead of your mate, that’s not love.”

“Maybe love was different then,” Corbin pondered. “There were a lot more knights and plagues and things.”

“Still, I would rather have Hawk than his letters. That’s awful.”

“Well, it’s a fairy tale,” Cullen said. “That means we’re supposed to be learning something. There’s supposed to be some kind of moral. What’s the moral to the story?”

Corbin rolled his eyes. “We haven’t heard the whole story. How the hell do we know? And why does there have to be a moral?”

“Because that’s what these stories are for,” Cosmo pointed out. “I mean, they’re supposed to teach little dragons things.”

“Like omegas are big dicks who want big eggs?”

Cosmo’s grin went wicked as hell. “I like big dicks. I cannot lie.”

All four of them groaned in unison.

“I believe with this tale, we’re going to find a very different outcome than just that.” The rest of the tale came flooding back to him. “He nearly died retrieving the egg, but when he brought it back to the omega, she knew his love was true. She could trust him to protect their young. So she laid a hand on the golden egg, and a baby dragon unfurled from it, one with rare golden scales and the ability to heal all the wounds and scars the alpha had suffered.”