Two Fates by Kari Gregg

Author:Kari Gregg
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Published: 2019-04-03T18:30:00+00:00

Jamie returned to the den he shared with Ian. To think, but also to pack. His father was right. Once the biological process had triggered, nothing would stop ripening. He would tie with Kenneth by the next full moon. The instincts that drove mating was too compelling and their circumstances too dire to make waiting wise. How Kenneth had managed not touching him and claiming Jamie as his mate for two years was a testament of Kenneth’s strength of will, his patience, the hard core of compassion that would make him an exemplary alpha. “He waited two years for me and you didn’t last three days.” He patted the earth covering Ian’s final remains, the grass crisp and dry in the sun. “He’s so different, Ian.”

“I thought you said you couldn’t talk to him here.”

Shuddering, Jamie threaded his fingers into the green spears. “I talk to him everywhere.” Stomach roiling, he glanced up at his new mate. “I feel him better in the pass to Bitter Creek, though.”

“Lisa told me that you visited your dad again, said it went better this time than the last, but she didn’t think you should be alone.” Kenneth dropped to a loose crouch, fingers dangling between his bent knees. He eyed Jamie warily. “What are you doing here, Jamie?”

Jamie glanced away from Kenneth’s penetrating stare. “Packing.”

Kenneth froze. “What?”

Daring to peek, Jamie checked that the shock in his voice was genuine and judging by Kenneth’s slack-jawed gaping, the man was legitimately floored. His sister and Kenneth both believed Jamie would fall apart after meeting with Da and he couldn’t blame them. Jamie’s recent behavior hadn’t shown much emotional perseverance and fortitude, but Jamie hadn’t withstood shunning and two years of merciless grief because he was fragile. “I don’t have much,” he said, stiffening his spine, “but what I have, I intend to keep.”

“You’re moving in.” His mate blinked at him. “Not for the night. Permanently.”

He jerked his shoulders in an awkward shrug and pushed to his feet. “It’s only a matter of time, isn’t it?” He walked to the door of the den he’d shared with Ian and pushed it wide to march inside. He grabbed an old wood box by the fireplace and dumped kindling out of it and into a neat pile by the hearth. Feeling more confident than he had in unbearably long that this, at least, was the right path, he started grabbing stuff to fling into the box. His few books, the tools he used to carve bone and make beads, his snow boots, all of it went into the box. Kenneth’s dark shape soon filled the door. “Want help?”

Fighting off his discomfort at Kenneth handling his things. Ian’s things, Jamie shook his head. “What’ll happen to this place? Once I’m gone.”

“Devon asked to tend his brother’s grave in your stead.”

“Devon has children.” Jamie stilled, his heart thumping. “Living Between is a challenge for adults, but putting kids through it—"

“Bitter Creek agreed to move our borders. We’ll gain this meadow in exchange for an equal area of forest to the north.

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