Logan yanked the neck of his t-shirt over so Jackson could see the scar. “We both wear mating scars, so I know our bites took and we are mated. The last thing I remember is falling asleep with Kieran lying next to me until Dylon woke me up this morning.”
“You didn’t hear Theo and Norman’s bears roaring this morning? They were pretty angry.”
“No, nothing.”
“Start at the beginning. How did you know Kieran was your Fated Mate?”
Not comfortable talking about it, he nevertheless haltingly began telling his brother about yesterday and how good it felt to work with Kieran. Logan smiled when he told Jackson about realizing he was in love with Kieran and how happy he was. And even though it had been a long time since he confided in his brother, Logan explained why it meant so much to know Kieran was his and would never leave.
Jackson’s heart lurched when he heard Logan’s voice crack on the last part because he knew the deep need his twin had. “Tell me about the claiming.”
“I’m not telling even you what Kieran and I did in bed, but it was amazing. I went to sleep last night thinking I was the fucking luckiest shifter in the world.”
Sitting back and staring at Logan, Jackson could tell more had happened but knowing his uber-reserved brother, he would have a long wait in hell before Logan would voluntarily offer up the information. So, he decided to approach it a different way. “Did I ever tell you how shocked I was when Steel bit me in the claiming?”
Rolling his eyes, Logan said, “No, and remember TMI.”
Batting Logan’s arm, Jackson smirked. “I’m not talking about that! I’m talking about what happened between our two wolves?”
Shaking his head, Logan said, “I don’t think so…”
Shifting his eyes from his brother to a spot over Logan’s shoulder, Jackson paused, remembering what happened and how he felt. “When Steel bit me, I instantly felt a fiery heat course through my body as my blood grew so hot in my veins, I was sure it was boiling. It was so shocking. I immediately withdrew my fangs and panicked as I tried to handle the sudden pain…”
Curious, Logan asked, “What did you do? Did the pain stop?”
Chuckling, Jackson continued, “My body was frozen while the pain was consuming it but then I felt Steel’s wolf inside me and he was merging with my wolf. Let me tell you, I was freaking out. No one ever told me about this happening in a claiming.”
“I bet. What did you do?”
“Nothing because his wolf left my body and the pain disappeared.”
“Wow! I never heard of something like that happening! Did you ask Steel about it? Did he feel it too?”
“Yeah, I asked, and Steel told me it would happen like that every time he was intoirchighandtrying to impregnate me. Weird, huh!”
“Uh huh…but why are you telling me this? I’m not a Dire Wolf or gettoirchigh.”
“I know that, but Kieran has a wolfanda spirit inside him and I wonder if your wolf rejected Kieran’s spirit?”
Logan thought back to that moment last night when Kieran’s wolf and spirit entered him and joined with his wolf. “No, my wolf didn’t reject them…uhh…nope, I have all three inside me now.”
Jackson smiled, confident now that this could be sorted out soon and Kieran would come home. “Well, have you talked to them this morning? Did you ask them where Kieran is?”
Logan’s face turned red with embarrassment as he wondered what his brother would think of him. “I haven’t spoken with them this morning.”
“Well go ahead…ask them if they know where your mate is.”
“Fuck off. Sometimes you really are stupid. Don’t you fucking think I did that already? It was the first thing I did when Dylon told me Kieran was missing.”
“Oh shit!” said Jackson. “They don’t know where he is!”
“I didn’t say that!”
“You said…”
“No, I said I hadn’tspokenwith them this morning…because…well, because they won’t fucking talk to me…even my damn wolf. Nada…not a word!”
Stunned, Jackson tried to make sense of it. “I don’t understand…our wolves always talk to us…I mean, I know sometimes I don’t listen to mine, like when he was telling me to find Steel…but…are you sure? Maybe because there are three voices, you are getting confused.”
