Page 21 of Delivered to My Shadow Unicorn Alphas

“You said you wanted to come here and tell us something,” I said, not able to contain my interest any longer. “I’m sorry. I don’t mean to be abrupt, but I can’t hold it in. If you have something to say to us, a word that would determine our future, please, Amber. End our worries.”

Amber’s chin quivered. Shaman sucked in a breath. This was it. She came here to reject us, to break our hearts, and somehow I knew it. I should’ve never consented to Shaman getting on that app.

We would not only miss out on the fulfilling life filled with love and companionship and deep friendship that came with a fated mate, but we would be alone until we died. Because if I couldn’t have Amber, I would have no other.

There would be no chosen mate for me. Maybe for Shaman, but never for me. I was the last to believe all of this was possible but, once I did, I was a goner.

“Say it, please.” Shaman wasn’t a beggar, but there was no pride with a mate.

“I came here tonight to tell you both that I’ve decided…about us.”

“And?” I pressed.

“And I want to be your mate.”

I shot to a stand. My heart stammered in my chest. My breath caught. Throbbing between my temples ramped up. Didshe say what I thought she said? Had I heard right? “What did you say?”

She let out a laugh. “I said I want… No, I think I need to be your mate. Both of you. And it has nothing to do with how old you are or a timeline. There’s a rush in my heart, but it has nothing to do with your line of unicorns.”

Gripping the chair, I looked at my best friend. He’d gone pale, but a bright smile lit up his face. “You want us? As your mates? Both of us.”

Amber’s grin faded. “Yes. That is…unless you changed your mind. Juven doesn’t seem happy.”

Shaman nailed me with a deadly stare. “Are you not happy? Our mate is telling us she wants to be ours and you’re not happy?”

I coughed on his lie. He didn’t know what he was talking about. “I’m stunned. Shocked. I can’t feel my fingers.”

Amber snorted and got up from her chair. Walking over with sway in her hips, she took my hands in hers and placed them on her chest, right above her breasts. “How are they now? Can you feel my heart beating, mate?”

“Mate?” I asked, choking on the word. We called her that because there wasn’t a doubt that she was our fated, but the word coming from her? Hearing that ended me.

“Yes. Is it okay if I call you mate as well? You are mine, right? Both of you?”

Her skin burned under my fingers and I burned everywhere else.

“We have belonged to you since the moment we met, Amber.” Shaman spoke for me.

“That’s what I came here tonight to tell you. That I’d decided. I want to be yours. And I presumed some things as well.”

Shaman came over and stood behind Amber. The air around us crackled with passion and anticipation. The love and need so thick in the air, I could taste it. Shaman put his hands on her waist and squeezed. “What did you presume, love?”

Amber tilted her head back to lean on Shaman’s shoulder. “I brought a bag. Not just for one night but for a few. I took some days off.”

“Why would you do that?” I asked, moving my hands up to frame her face.

“Because I don’t plan on leaving the bed or this house for that long.”

Shaman sucked in a breath. “Just because you are our mate doesn’t mean we have to…it doesn’t mean we have to mate tonight.”

She turned to face him and leaned against my front. “But what if I want to. What if I’ve been thinking about it all day and night? What if I dreamed about it, couldn’t imagine myself sleeping tonight unless it was in your arms? What if I’m desperate for your hands all over me?”

Shaman looked up at me. “We can’t have our mate desperate for anything, can we?”

“Absolutely not.”

“Then take me to the bedroom. Doesn’t matter which one.”

“That we can do.”

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