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“We?” I asked. She looked up at me.
“Have you changed your mind?” she asked.
“No. No! But if the pack is dissolved, I can’t offer you anything,” I said. She huffed and poked me in the chest.
“Do you think I’m that shallow? I’m not going to join your brother’s pack while you go off and sulk in the woods on your own. I have lived in Beula before and I can do it again.” She settled down again. The feelings surging through me made me smile.
“I love you,” I told her and placed a kiss on her hair.
“I love you too. Stop being stupid.”
“I will do my best.” A small part of me feared she would still reconsider and go with her fated mate. I now understood her fear of me meeting my mate at the games. Why she had been so reluctant to commit to me. It was terrifying to know she had that connection to another wolf. I was greedy, I wanted her to myself. I would gladly fight Alpha James for her. I was confident I could win. I also knew Amie well enough to know she would hate it. If he got insistent, I would do it and figure out a way to make her forgive me after.
“Times up,” she said and got ready to move out of my lap. My arms stopped her.
“Or we could just be late,” I said. She kissed my cheek.
“Not going to happen.”
“But I need more social cuddling,” I objected.
“You have had enough social cuddling, now you need some pack socialisation. You know you always feel better after being around the pack,” she insisted. I hated that she was right. It made it hard to argue with her.
“Fine,” I agreed and let her get up.
“We will get through this as well. We always figure things out,” she told me before she opened the door. She was right. We would figure it out. The alternative was not an alternative. We would do well in the games, we would go back to our pack and Amie would come with us and let me claim her. It was the only outcome I would accept.
Chapter 38
Amie
After dinner, when I knew Finlay was feeling better and didn’t look like he would kill the first person who asked him a question, I headed up to my room and called Medow.
“Amie! Would it have killed you to call sooner? I have been forced to rely on information from Sam. The moon goddess knows I love him to pieces, but he focuses on all the wrong things. He covered you meeting your brother, finding out you still have a mate bond and that Finlay’s brother is trying to take over the pack in five minutes and then spent twenty minutes detailing why you have a strategic advantage on all of them. Now tell me the important parts,” she told me. I laughed and started to tell her everything. I missed talking to her. Things felt better after I had talked them out with her. “Wow, Finlay must be going crazy. I’m impressed he hasn’t killed Alpha James,” she told me.
“It’s not like that. Finlay knows the only reason I let the bond stay intact is so I can participate in the games,” I said.
“I heard you. He knows it on a logical level, but emotionally…... Especially if this James keeps giving you looks like the one Sam saw today,” she insisted.
“Yeah, that was strange. I don’t get it,” I admitted.
“Amie, you aren’t stupid, stop acting like you were. The Alpha got slapped in the face when he saw you after all this time and you are this amazing wolf. Strong, confident and drop dead gorgeous. Here he was thinking he did the right thing by rejecting you. Now he sees what a huge, huge mistake that was and he knows that because he was a jerk back then, he won’t have a chance now. Not only that, but you also have this other amazing Alpha hanging around you who worships you and who has treated you like you deserve. No wonder he is looking at you like a lost pup,” Medow told me. I giggled.
“You make it sound like a romance novel,” I said.
“It kind of is. Please just don’t go the reverse harem route.” We both laughed at the idea.
“I will be happy with one Alpha,” I promised.
“And you have to choose the right one,” she pointed out.
“It isn’t a choice. There is only one.”
“That’s right. You are talking about Finlay, right?” she asked.
“Of course I’m talking about him.”
“Good, great. Then I'll be with you all the way.” We talked a while longer about the game and about what was happening at home. “How worried should I be about this thing Finlay’s brother has cooked up? Sam said I shouldn’t worry at all. But he’s my mate so he has to tell me that.”
