Fuck, I was nervous. I am an Alpha, I shouldn’t be nervous. But I could feel the clear signs as I walked next to Amie to

have dinner with her brother and his mate. I had known Amie and her brother were close, she had told me stories, but

after seeing the two of them together. I got it. They had this bond between them. I needed to get along with this wolf, it

was important to Amie. She hadn’t told me as much, but I just knew it. I liked Beta Elder, I had done from when I met him

for the first time at the Alpha summits. If nothing else, we both had an interest in protecting Amie. But his best friend was

her true mate. That had to make him standoffish to me. I didn’t fool myself to think he saw me just as Amies Alpha and

friend. He had to see the truth, if nothing else his mate should have told him. I didn’t think he was okay with us just

because he seemed to keep his Alpha away from Amie. That would be more for Amie”s sake than anything. So, I needed

this evening to go well.

‘Are you okay? You are acting weird,’ Amie mindlinked me.

‘What do you mean? I’m just walking,’ I told her.

‘Yeah. In this weird kind of way. If you feel uncomfortable with having dinner, you can just drop me off,’ she offered.

‘No. No! I can do this,’ I insisted. Amie stopped and looked at me.

‘You sound like you are heading into battle. It’s just my brother and Becky. You have met them before.’

‘I know. I’m blowing this out of proportion. I just really want them to like me.’ She smiled at me.

‘Of course they will like you. And if my brother gives you any trouble, you tell me and I will tell mom,’ Amie told me and

took the hand I didn’t have the food basket in and gave it a light squeeze.

‘Deal,’ I told her. I relaxed a little and looked up to head towards the communal building where we would have dinner in

one of the rooms. I froze and my hand went to Amie’s shoulder to keep her from turning. ‘Don’t look,’ I said. Of course

she turned her head and looked at what I was looking at. I should have known she was too stubborn to do what I told

her. James stood at the entrance to the communal building . He was in the middle of a make out session with a woman.

They were as close to having sex in public as was possible without actually having it. I looked down at Amie, worried what

the mate bond would do to her. She scrunched her nose at the scene.

‘I would have thought he would go for someone better than Cindy. But to each their own, I guess,’ she said.

‘Are you okay?’ I asked. She looked back at me and I searched her face for hidden pain, I didn’t find any. She smiled.

‘Don’t worry. The mate bond is too frail to cause any issues. If anything, it just got weaker.’ She took my arm and made

us move forward. ‘When he first rejected me, I would lie in bed and torture myself with images like that one. I always

knew Cindy had her eyes on James, and on my brother, too. She likes power. Back then I spent countless nights crying

him accepting her into his bed. That was until I figured out I

him and I stopped torturing myself,’ Amie told me. I

of it, he refused to accept she would reject him. He even tried

dirty and get her jealous. There wasn’t a doubt in my mind that was what he

stop kissing the woman and

he wanted. We got to the room her brother

smiled at us and

mini pizzas, fried rice and blueberry pie,” Amie said, reaching for the basket I was holding. I placed it on

side table.

with red sauce and

you,”

gave me a look, saying I needed to talk as

the same one.

making sure Amie got here

Elder. She’s been looking forward to

“Honestly,” Amie said.

and they both rolled their eyes. I concluded I

made

not here on

family and titles are

looked at both me and her

sweetums,”

us helped to set the table and it helped to ease some of

sat down to eat, it actually felt

you have another story about

enough. I need to keep some of my dignity,” Elder objected. I saw

chance.

always been such a fan of snow? As soon as the

a pup,” I asked. Elder laughed as Amie elbowed

our mom always insisted our dad took a

into the woods and we would sled and play in the snow,

time as a family. You know that it can be difficult to get those family moments as a top

and nodded. It all made sense now. Amie had adapted her family’s

new life.

in the pack out to sled in

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us now

her brother

insisted on taking the day off when it snowed for the first time last year. Mino was just

good tradition,” Amie said. Her

still as stubborn

to sigh deeply and

Beta like her tests my patients on a daily basis,” I

smiled. “Have she told you what she made me go through before she would even

time we

to hear

you,”

what actually

herself. I hid my smile and started to

strange wolf I had found in the small diner and Amie’s stubborn attempts

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