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“Mating pull. Yep.”
“Need any help?”
Elliot’s brow scrunched. “How are you going to help?”
Mercer’s shoulders lifted. “I don’t know. Open to suggestions.” His leg continued to tap. “Are you signing up for the Curusm?”
“Fuck no.”
Duncan and Mercer laughed.
“Callum has a lot of issues with our pack’s ways.”
“Who doesn’t?” Duncan grunted before leaning his head back against the sofa and closing his eyes.
“How are you going to find her?” The chair Mercer sat on started rocking. Callum studied the shifter, noting how he couldn’t seem to sit still.
“I caught her scent today, so it’s just a matter of time.”
“Let’s hope she’s not signed up for the run.”
Callum didn’t bother to debate it. If she’d signed up for the run, he’d have to talk her out of it.
“Sydney signed up,” Elliot said, staring absently at his beer bottle.
“She did what?” Mercer’s chair scraped along the ground, as it finally stopped moving.
Duncan opened his eyes. “Shit. Seriously?”
Elliot shrugged one massive shoulder. “She’s sick of waiting.”
“She’s not even thirty!” Callum objected.
“She turns thirty this year,” Mercer supplied. “Doesn’t she?”
“Thirty is pretty old for a female not to be mated,” Elliot replied. “In mating terms. A lot of them are mated by twenty. Maybe twenty-two.”
“Maybe around here.” Callum ran a hand through his hair, trying to wrap his head around his cousin Sydney running in that archaic event. Though he’d seen her today, it was hard not to remember her as the preteen, who collected stickers and liked sparkly nail polish.
Though his own sister was older now, and mated. Maybe he needed to lighten up.
No. Running naked down a hill waiting for whatever wolf shifter caught you first to claim you–just no.
“What if she doesn’t like the guy?”
“That’s the way it goes, I guess.” Duncan took a sip from his bottle.
“It’s fucking with Fate.”
“Fated mating is an outdated concept,” Duncan replied. “Or at least some people think so.”
“Not most people.” Not where he was from.
“Lots of shifters, male and female, travel here for it,” Elliot reminded Callum. “That speaks for itself.”
“Jonah is going to be disappointed,” Mercer piped up, a grin on his face.
Duncan laughed, but Elliot groaned.
