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‘Yes?’ Amie answered. She had rested her forehead on her arms.
‘Your brother and his mate are here and he wants to see you. He looks worried,’ Sam told us.
‘I’ll be right down. Ask them to sit on the sundeck,’ she told him.
“All dry,” I told her as I gently ran my fingers over where I had put the salve. The wounds looked less red.
“Back to reality,” Amie said. I got off her bed and watched as she did the same and put on her pants. We walked down together and I headed for the kitchen to let her talk to her brother and his mate. But she reached for my hand. “They are on the sundeck,” she said. I realised she expected me to join her.
“Right,” I said and followed her outside. It was still early in the afternoon and the sundeck had a comfortable mix of sunlight and shadow from the trees around the cabin.
“Amie!” her brother exclaimed and pulled her into a tight hug. “Are you okay? We heard you got hurt.”
“I’m fine, it was just some scratches. I don’t know why everyone is so freaked out by it,” she told him as she hugged his mate. “Becky, this is Alpha Finlay,” she then introduced her brother’s mate to me. We greeted each other and then I saw Becky give her mate a look. He nodded. Amie looked at me. She had seen it as well. “What is going on?” she asked. Beta Elder looked at his mate, she sighed.
“James didn’t take the news of you getting hurt well. He wanted to come over here himself but Elder talked him out of it,” she said, giving me a glance. It was lucky they had managed to talk him out of coming. I wouldn’t have handled it well if he showed up demanding to see Amie. I nodded to them. “I was just reminding Elder he needed to let James know you are fine,” Becky finished her explanation.
“Thank you. James showing up here would have led to a small disaster, neither pack needs that at the moment,” Amie told them. She asked them to sit down. I made sure to grab an extra pillow and put on the stuffed ottoman for her to sit on. I got ice tea for everyone and we sat and talked. It was a new experience for me to be part of a family conversation which wasn't forced and tense. Once Beta Elder relaxed and felt sure his sister was not on death’s door, the squabble between the siblings began. Becky and I were included as well and it felt nice.
As Beta Elder and Becky were getting ready to leave, Amie talked to Becky, apparently they had planned to meet up the next day and were discussing the details. Amie’s brother leaned a little closer to me.
“Amie has a knack for… trying not to worry the people she cares about. Is she really fine?” he asked me in a hushed voice. I had to smile.
“So it’s not a new trait, that’s nice to know. She is mostly fine. Our healer said she will be back to full health in a day or two.”
“Thank you for looking after her and for letting her spend time with me and my mate,” he said.
“No need to thank me. She is part of my pack and a close friend. Amie has been missing you, and she likes your mate. I would never dream of keeping her from her family,” I told him. He nodded. I felt like he had a good idea about what was going on between me and his sister. We left it unspoken. I hadn’t figured out if he was okay with it or not. As they left Amie smiled at me.
“Becky and I will have a girls’ night tomorrow,” she told me.
“Someplace safe, I hope,” I said.
“We are going to have a picnic.” I must have made a face because Amie gave me a look.
“I didn’t say anything,” I told her.
“You don’t need to. We will be fine.” I was about to object when Sam walked up to us.
“Medow ordered me to tell you that if you haven’t called her in ten minutes I won’t be having sex in the next year. Will you take pity on me and please call her?” he asked Amie. He looked desperate. She giggled.
“I will go and call her straight away,” she promised and set off. I sighed and shook my head. I guess I could count that to my win pile. I couldn’t lose a discussion if it hadn’t begun, I thought.
“If it helps, I haven’t won a discussion since I mated,” Sam told me.
“Did I say my thoughts out loud?” I asked. He laughed.
“You didn’t need to. I recognised the face. I usually see it in the mirror. I say it’s okay. It’s more important to me that Medow is happy than me winning our discussions.”
“It’s scary when you sound this wise,” I said. We looked at each other and chuckled.
Chapter 47
Amie
Iknew Finlay was worried about me when I headed off for my girls’ night with Becky. I could only imagine that he feared James would leap from the bushes or something. Me wanting to stay away from James was why the idea of a picnic had seemed the best option. We would meet in a neutral part of the woods and not tell anyone except Elder and Finlay the exact location. It gave us both security and peace of mind to relax. Becky stood waiting for me at our meeting spot, we both had a basket in one hand.
“How are you feeling?” she asked as we walked the final way to the spot we had selected.
