They’re a very secretive group. Drake told us where you found her,
and Bo is searching maps of the area to see where she might have come from.
Did she say anything, except to ask for your protection?”
Logan shook his head. The door to the room opened again,
and Toby walked inside carrying a duffel bag that had been in the bottom of
Logan’s closet. He set it down on a small two-drawer dresser near the bed and joined
them. “When I stopped to get your truck, I packed a bag for you since Ben said
you gave up your shirt for your mate. I brought some things from your bathroom
for you, too. You look like hell, bro.”
He’d never been so relieved to be insulted. “Thanks, T.”
Toby nodded. Jason suggested the boys go get something from
the cafeteria and handed them a few bills from his wallet.
When the four young wolves were gone, Jason and Michael sat
in two chairs against the wall and Toby stood near them.
Logan moved to the bed and pressed his hand lightly to her
shoulder, just to keep contact with her. Until they were alone, he wasn’t
going to climb into bed with her. It was too … intimate.
“A blood bond is a serious thing, Logan.” Jason said. “It’s
like a truemate bond on steroids.”
He didn’t know what a blood bond meant, but he didn’t care.
The only thing that mattered was his precious little fairy waking up and
getting better. He would deal with the mating and bonding stuff later. They would.
Michael hummed. “I don’t think he cares.”
Jason cleared his throat. “Still, I just want you to know
that if you need anything from me, from the pack, that we’re here for you. For
both of you.”
Logan stopped looking down at his fairy and looked at his
friends.
“Thanks.”
The boys returned with trays of vending-machine sandwiches,
chips, sodas, and coffee. Logan set aside two sandwiches and sodas for his
fairy, and ate with his pack. Conversation touched on everything but the
unnamed woman in the hospital bed.
He took his keys from Toby, and thanked his packmates for
their help and support. He’d never really had a support structure in a pack
like he did with the Tressel Pack. Once his grandmother passed away, he hadn’t
really had anyone in his corner.
When he was alone with his fairy, he shucked his boots and
jeans and lifted the sheet, climbing into the bed slowly so he didn’t jar her
too much. She looks better , he thought, as he flipped the button to
turn off the light and settled carefully next to her. Sliding one arm under
her neck and the other across her stomach under the sheet, he pulled her
against himself and closed his eyes, resting his forehead against her temple.
His wolf prowled in his mind, anxious for her to wake up,
and he found himself talking nonsense to her, asking her wake up, telling her
how badly he wanted to get to know her, to see her healthy, that she was safe
forever with him. He had no idea how much time passed before he drifted off to
sleep, clinging to the hope that she’d wake soon.
Chapter
3
*One Day Earlier*
“Oh, Jenna,” her best friend Kari grinned as Jenna twirled
in front of her, “you look fantastic.”
“Thanks. It’s my last bash before I spell for my truemate.
I’m going to have a blast.” Jenna looked in the full-length mirror, lifting
her mass of brown hair up to decide how she wanted to do her hair. The silver
strands in her hair sparkled in the overhead light.
Kari joined her and took her hair in both hands, twisting
the long length this way and that. “Are you sure you want to spell for your
truemate? You’ll have to leave the glen and go live wherever he is.” Kari
shivered as if it were the worst idea in the history of fae-kind.
Jenna was fairly certain that spelling for her truemate was
one of the best ideas she’d ever had. There were no he-fairies that she was
interested in, and even if she had been, as a lockinfae ,