Page 21 of Lost Mate

Eli’s expression softened for a moment. “I’m still concerned about your amnesia, Dylan. The Wild Creek doctor will be here by the weekend.”

“I know him,” Cal added. “He’s a good wolf even if he does work with my brothers. You won’t have to see him alone.”

“He’ll be with me,” Ross growled. He wasn’t leaving his mate alone with any wolf.

“I’ll be happy if he can give me answers,” Dylan said. He tapped his forehead. “This isn’t right.”

Then Ross was done. He and his mate needed to get out of there and start work. They all required answers.

Dylan let out a long breath the second the kitchen door closed behind them. “Is it always like this?”

“You mean like the world is about to implode?”

Dylan nodded.

“Pretty much,” Ross admitted. “Since we arrived here it’s been one crisis after another. It’s been an intense year. This was just a rundown farm before Joe shot a wolf in the yard. I’d never heard of shifters or hunters and the most excitement in my life was a new Marvel movie.”

“And I’d be dead and neither of us would have found our mates.”

Ross turned at the gruff interruption to see Joe Senior and Peter stretched out in the Adirondack chairs, glasses of Cal’s iced tea in their hands.

“You didn’t want to join the party?” He jabbed a thumb toward the door.

Joe Senior snorted. “Not our business, sonny. You youngsters can save the world. Me and Peter just need each other.”

As both men were around fifty, the ‘sonny’ was a bit much. Ross was about to call him out when Dylan spoke.

“Why here?”

“What do you mean?” Joe Senior asked.

“Why does everything center around Sapphire Ranch?”

Peter smiled unexpectedly. Dylan had admitted the previous night that the power radiating off the alpha wolf nearly put him on his knees. Even Ross could feel it and he was human.

“We’ve been talking about that. Wolves live where there is power in the earth. Sapphire Ranch is a center for that power.”

“Then why weren’t shifters living here before?” Dylan asked.

Joe Senior coughed. “They were, according to Peter’s mom. She told him that until we bought the ranch shifters had always lived here. But they died and my family took over.”

Peter leaned over and kissed him with enough passion that it made Dylan and Ross look away, twitchy at the sight of two older men kissing, and the fact it made them horny. “And now wolves are one with the power again.”

“Do you think that’s why Cal and Owen and me came here without knowing why?” Dylan asked.

“I think so. And that’s why your mates arrived here too. It could have been coincidence, but I don’t think so.”

“You think it was fated?” Ross asked.

“I do. Joe said you insisted on coming back after your accident.”

Ross nodded. “I knew I’d find my mate here.”

“How many more wolves will join us?” Dylan asked.

Peter shrugged. “That’s down to the Wolf Gods, not us.”

Ross stared at Peter. “There are Wolf Gods?”

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