“Matilda, you know you can’t tease him like that. He takes you too seriously to see the joke,” she told my aunt and patted me on the shoulder. My aunt laughed, as did Sam and Medow. It looked like I had been the only one who hadn’t caught onto her joke.
“Oh, right. Funny,” I said. It made everyone laugh even harder.
“Why do you want me to come?” my aunt asked.
“We could use you both in your role as an elder and with you there we know we will have amazing food to keep us going,” Amie answered.
“That is sweet of you. What about the pack, who will be looking after them?” my aunt asked.
“I will. I don’t want to bring Martina to the games. And Shelly can help me as well,” Medow said.
“I could use you,” I told my aunt. She looked at me and her face turned serious. We both knew my brother was likely to try something. She nodded.
“Okay, you need someone to take care of you, I guess,” she said. “Let me know when we are leaving and I will be ready.”
“Thank you, aunt.”
“Dinner will be ready in twenty minutes, I expect to see you all there. That includes you, Alpha,” she said and walked out. We all chuckled.
“I think we have a stinker that needs to be changed,” Medow said, scrunching her nose. She picked up Martina and headed for the bathroom, Sam trailing after her to make sure they were safe on the twenty feet walk. Amy stood up and walked to stand behind me. At first I was confused by what she was doing. Then her hands started kneading my shoulders and I let out a huff as I felt the muscles relaxing.
“Do you want to talk about it?” she asked. My brain was too focused on her hands for me to make sense of what she was asking.
“Huh?” I asked.
“Your brother,” she said, and I heard the smile she had in her voice.
“Not really. I don’t enjoy talking about him in general and I definitely don’t want to ruin a nice moment like this by thinking about him.” She hummed in the way I knew ment she wouldn’t press me, but she was filing it away to bring it up later. She continued to massage my shoulders and I tilted my head back to lean against her stomach. My eyes were closed and I enjoyed the moment. After a while she stopped and leaned down to place a kiss on my forehead.
“We need to get to dinner before your aunt comes and drags us to the table,” she told me. I sat up, took one of her hands off my shoulder and placed a kiss on it.Amie
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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.
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