Page 60 of Game of Destiny
Amie
"You need to spill it,” Medow said as she sat on my bed, feeding Martina as I was packing.
“Spill what?” I asked as I tried to figure out if I needed more than one dress.
“Oh no, you don’t get to be all oblivious about this. As your friend I need to know what’s going on between you and Finlay,” she said.
“I don’t know what you mean,” I said. It sounded fake even in my own ears.
“Amie,” she said in her best mom voice.
“Fine!” I paused and sat down on the bed as well. “So this thing happened on my birthday,” I started.
“You slept together?!” she exclaimed.
“No! And keep your voice down. We’re in a house full of werewolves with super hearing,” I hissed.
“Sorry, sorry. I got a little excited. So what was this thing?”
“We kissed. Well, that is an understatement, but it’s the word I’m going to use so I don’t give you an aneurysm.”
“Oh my, oh my. This is amazing. Finally!” she said. She almost bounced on the bed in excitement, but remembered Martina was eating and settled down. I gave her a short version of what had happened, carefully edited to keep the more spicy bits out. “So the two of you just decided to pause everything?” she asked when I was done.
“Kind of. I know it’s not fair to him. But I’m petrified when I think that he might find his mate. I’m already way too deep. If I let myself think he is mine and he ends up being someone else’s…” I let the rest hang in the air. Medow gave me a sad smile.
“I get it. We wolves are lucky in the sense that we have mates. It makes it less scary to give our hearts away,” she said.
“Yeah. Until your mate rejects you and the big, sexy Alpha both you and your wolf get hung up on hasn’t found his. Then it just complicates things,” I told her.
“Yeah, it does. But, I’m still happy for you. The two of you have been hovering around each other since the day you came here to visit. It’s good for you to finally get it out and talk about it. And if it helps at all, it’s easy to see how much he cares for you. I know you don’t want him to reject his mate, and I get it. But I think he would in a heartbeat. If I didn’t know he would have swooped you up and claimed you a long time ago if it was true, I would say you were mates.” I blushed.
“We aren’t, but it’s sweet of you to say,” I told her. Martina gave up a satisfied burp and Medow placed her on the bed with a soft rattle to occupy her with. I tickled her tummy before getting up to get back to packing. “One dress should be enough, right?” I asked.
“No. You need at least three. One never knows,” Medow told me. I scrunched my nose.
“Then I would need another bag,” I told her. Medow giggled.
“Amie, you will be gone for four weeks. I think it’s okay if you can’t fit it all into one bag,” she told me.
“How many is Sam bringing?” I asked as I took out another bag.
“I have no clue. By the amount of ‘may be useful to have’ things he keeps piling up. I would guess closer to twenty.” I laughed.
“Okay. So two should be okay,” I agreed.
Later in the afternoon we all gathered in the dining room. It was the day before leaving and everyone who would be going was sitting together. There were conversations about what the next four weeks would bring going on all around me.
“Are you ready to leave in the morning?” Finlay asked me.
“Yes. Medow helped me pack earlier. How about you?”
“All done.”
“Good. I talked to Matilda and she has made us some amazing food to eat during the drive. We still need to decide who rides with who. We need to make sure we have room for the luggage as well as all the people. But we want to use as few cars as we can,” I told him.
“It’s easy. I will take my truck, you will ride with me and we will take as much luggage as possible. Sam, Jake, Ramses and Aunt Matilda will go in Sam’s car and they will have the food we need. Then our two healers, elder Jona and Mandy will go in one car with their personal belongings and the healing equipment. The rest will go in Robert’s SUV,” he told me.
“You and me in your truck? What about Beula?” I asked.
