Page 63 of Her Shifter Pack

I frowned. “Yeah, kinda. It was raining, and I had to find shelter. Then it’s fuzzy. I don’t really know what happened after that.”

“That was two days ago,” Ollie said, glaring at me with his arms folded over his chest. “Do you know how worried we were?”

“Two days!” How could that be right?

Lexie shifted a little closer, pressing a hand to my leg. “When you didn’t come home Monday night, Ollie got the pack together for an emergency meeting and we asked for some help finding you.”

Ollie snorted out a laugh. “Yeah... and Lexie tore Mom and Nancy a new one when they told her she didn’t belong and should leave. You should have seen her.”

I glanced over at the beautiful woman sitting next to me. “Really? What did you say to Mom?”

I picked up my second bottle of water and took a sip, waiting for her response.

One side of her lips quirked up in a half smile. “That if she wanted to be a part of her grandbabies’ lives, then she better get on board with me being around, because I have no qualms cutting her out, I can tell you. Damn bitch.”

I couldn’t help it. I spat the water in my mouth out in a spray, but luckily I thought to turn my head in time so it didn’t go all over Lexie. “You said what?”

“Well, why not? What else have I got to hold over her head?” she asked with a shrug. “Plus, you guys said I’m the one. Ollie reassured me he wants a baby as soon as possible, and you’ve come in me twice with no protection, so...”

She shrugged like it was a forgone conclusion and I gaped at her, then at Ollie. “You two have been busy.”

Ollie glared back. “Well, statistically, you’re more likely to be the biological father if she is pregnant, so don’t go pretending I’m doing shit behind your back.”

I couldn’t help but look at Lexie and enjoy the pretty blush that stole over her face. The session we’d had up against the wall had been fucking hot.

“Okay, so, finish the story,” I urged, taking another careful sip of water.

“I borrowed a bike from Toni, Ollie shifted, and we came looking for you. Got up here just as the rain came down hard. We found you and you had a fever. We gave you water and Tylenol, and now you’re awake.”

I glanced from Lexie to Ollie and back again. From the anger-tinged relief I could practically sense radiating off my brother, obviously finding me and helping me through the fever hadn’t been the easiest thing for them.

“Thank you,” I said, the simple phrase inadequate to describe how I felt that they’d come looking for me. They’d both come looking, and had obviously been concerned for my wellbeing. Warmth, unconnected to any fever, lit my body up from within.

But then I realized my body was aching like I’d been training all day and night. “I’m going to stand up. My back—”

“Oh, yeah. Good idea,” Lexie said, jumping to her feet.

I was a lot slower than her, not to mention naked. “Damn, I stink.” My skin was covered in dried sweat.

Lexie smiled with a cute little crinkle of her nose. “You were sweating a lot.”

I stretched out my back, legs and arms, then glanced out the mouth of the cave. “Stopped raining?”

Ollie nodded. “Almost. If we shift and run home, you’ll completely heal, and Lexie can follow.”

“Sounds like a plan.”

Lexie picked up some of the blankets and began to fold them. “Then are we all going to talk?”

Oh, yeah. We needed to clear the air. I hated the tension crackling between the three of us. Anger and hurt on all sides weren’t the sort of things that healthy relationships were built upon.

“Yeah. Definitely.”

We packed up the cave as best we could, made sure Lexie was safe to ride the motorcycle, then I let my wolf take over my body once more.

It was such a relief to feel my wolf rise up inside me and take over my aching body. The shifter part of me had the ability to heal extremely quickly. I started to trot down the mountain, navigating around the large puddles of water and jumping over rocks.

The more I moved, the less pain I felt.

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