“You need to spill it,” Medow said as she sat on my bed, feeding Martina as I was packing.

“Spill what?” I asked as I tried to figure out if I needed more than one dress.

“Oh no, you don’t get to be all oblivious about this. As your friend I need to know what’s going on between you and

Finlay,” she said.

“I don’t know what you mean,” I said. It sounded fake even in my own ears.

“Amie,” she said in her best mom voice.

“Fine!” I paused and sat down on the bed as well. “So this thing happened on my birthday,” I started.

“You slept together?!” she exclaimed.

“No! And keep your voice down. We’re in a house full of werewolves with super hearing,” I hissed.

“Sorry, sorry. I got a little excited. So what was this thing?”

“We kissed. Well, that is an understatement, but it’s the word I’m going to use so I don’t give you an aneurysm.”

“Oh my, oh my. This is amazing. Finally!” she said. She almost bounced on the bed in excitement, but remembered Martina was eating and settled down. I gave her a short version of what had happened, carefully edited to keep the more

spicy bits out. “So the two of you just decided to pause everything?” she asked when I was done.

“Kind of. I know it’s not fair to him. But I’m petrified when I think that he might find his mate. I’m already way too deep.

If I let myself think he is mine and he ends up being someone else’s…” I let the rest hang in the air. Medow gave me a

sad smile.

“I get it. We wolves are lucky in the sense that we have mates. It makes it less scary to give our hearts away,” she said.

“Yeah. Until your mate rejects you and the big, sexy Alpha both you and your wolf get hung up on hasn’t found his. Then

it just complicates things,” I told her.

“Yeah, it does. But, I’m still happy for you. The two of you have been hovering around each other since the day you came

here to visit. It’s good for you to finally get it out and talk about it. And if it helps at all, it’s easy to see how much he

cares for you. I know you don’t want him to reject his mate, and I get it. But I think he would in a heartbeat. If I didn’t

know he would have swooped you up and claimed you a long time ago if it was true, I would say you were mates.” I

blushed.

“We aren’t, but it’s sweet of you to say,” I told her. Matilda gave up a satisfied burp and Medow placed her on the bed

with a soft rattle to occupy her with. I tickled her tummy before getting up to get back to packing. “One dress should be

enough, right?” I asked.

“No. You need at least three. One never knows,” Medow told me. I scrunched my nose.

“Then I would need another bag,” I told her. Medow giggled.

weeks. I think it’s okay if you can’t fit it all into

Sam bringing?” I asked as

the amount of ‘may be useful to have’ things he keeps piling up. I would guess

laughed.

two should be okay,”

***

in the dining room. It was the day

conversations about what the next four weeks would bring going on

in the morning?” Finlay asked

helped me pack

“All done.”

made us some amazing food to eat during the drive.

to make sure we have room for the luggage as well as all the people. But

can,” I told

with me and we will take as

go in Sam’s car and they will have the food we

one car with their personal belongings and the healing

and me in your truck? What about

And I’m not letting you drive there on your

let the other packs

good to me for ten

drive her around here at home. But not to go

“Fine.” 

***

next morning we loaded into the cars. Matilda had given each car a snack pack for the first day. We

of two days driving to a remote part of Canada. We had planned out rest stops and food stops, but

Finlay took the first pass at

two of us.

about seeing your brother?” I asked once we had got out

was the best time to have this conversation. He tried to

once a year in the joint pack meetings,” he

it has never gone well. Each year he has tried something new

don’t see that changing,”

figured out

He doesn’t want to look weak in front of the other packs. And I

do everything.” I hummed. If the pack’s warriors were led to believe they were

pack. Which is why that kind of mindset always

hard time recruiting new members that aren’t warriors

thought

guess as

my first question,”

he tries to manipulate me using our

other hand on top of his, sandwiching it

the complete version of this

chapter—visit us now and continue your

alone. We will deal with it,” I told him. He glanced

stopped at a rest stop and stretched our legs, used

asked for the third

figure it out,”

Just ask if you need to

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