I couldn’t stop the laugh that bubbled up. “Are you serious? She passed out when you touched her?”
Was that really the way to know your mate? I couldn’t imagine such a thing.
“Yeah… I don’t know why, though. The elders never said anything like that would happen. Maybe because she’s human?”
Dexter was holding the doctor as he would a baby, stroking her face and looking at her like she was the most precious thing in the world.
Envy clawed through my heart like a wolf after its prey. I’d been to every major city within two hours’ drive of our town. Slept with dozens of women, all in the fruitlessness search for a mate.
Then Dexter manages to find her at the hospital where his father is being treated. What are the odds?
“Well, what are we going to do with her when we get back to the pack?”
“I have no idea, but I couldn’t just leave her there,” Dexter said.
I agreed with him. If I’d found my mate, the last thing I’d do is drive away from her.
Jay piped up from the seat next to me. “But, she’s human. How is it possible to have a human mate?”
None of us had the answer to that, and the question hung in the air like a prayer.
Jay cleared his throat again, his nervousness making my own skin tingle. “Ah… do you think it’s possible that she could be all of our mates, Dex?”
The Alpha growled in a possessive way. “What do you mean?”
Jay looked at me and I glanced over to him for a moment. The kid had balls saying such a thing to Dexter, but I knew where he was coming from. There was something special about this woman.
And it wasn’t my imagination.
I moved my focus back to the road, taking my cue from the Omega and speaking my mind.
“I think he means that we all felt it when she walked towards us. That call, the chemistry. Do you think it’s possible that our pack may have just one mate?”
It was a hard thing for me to say, much less wrap my head around.
When Dexter didn’t answer, instead looking confused, I continued. “Not that it’s what we really want, Dex. We’ve always expected to have our own mates, but the pack has changed. Maybe the legends have too? I don’t know why exactly… but I do know that I wanted her the moment I saw her as well. The only reason I left to get the truck was because you commanded it.”
Dexter looked from his mate to me, to Jay, then back again.
For a moment he clutched her fiercely to his chest, anger pulsing over his face, but then he seemed to relax a little.
“I… can’t answer that, Taylor,” he admitted gruffly. “I suppose we’ll find out when she wakes up.”
I looked at my Alpha in the mirror again, guilt gnawing at my chest over the conflict I’d caused him.
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p; “Well, when she wakes, I want to shake her hand too,” I said, trying to alleviate some of the tension in the vehicle. “If she passes out again we know that she’s meant for all of us, I suppose.”
Dexter nodded slowly, though he didn’t say anything.
Alphas didn’t share their women.
Never. No one shared their mate.
Or, they certainly hadn’t in the past.
I was experiencing anger, conflict and jealousy myself. It burned in my skin, my heart, my very core.