Chapter 444

Both my mom and Toya were silent for far too long before I looked up. Both were looking at me with their mouths dropped open. “Say something,” I nudged them, and they finally blinked.

Toya sat back. “That is a lot.”

My mother tried to smile. “That it is.” She grabbed my hand. “Are you sure about the heat?”

I nodded. “Both of them are going into heat.”

Toya choked on her spit. “What do you mean, both of them are going into heat?”

I chuckled as I looked at her. “Exactly that. Last time it was only Nix and I. Megan took the heat as much as she could, but it wasn’t hers. Now both of them will go into heat. And honestly, that sounds fucking terrifying. I barely survived my first heat without my mate, and that was only one wolf. How am I going to survive both?”

My mom wrapped her arm around me. “We have a few weeks, right?”

I sighed. Do we?

My wolves both looked at each other and then away. Erubus says we have less than two weeks. Possibly a week.

I laughed and then felt tears spring to my eyes. My mom looked at Toya, who threaded her fingers through mine. “What’s wrong?”

I looked at both of them. “I have a week to a week and a half, give or take a day.” I watched the words hit them, but then my mom nodded and stood. “Where are you going?”

“To call your dad.” She looked like she was on a mission.

“Why?” I looked at her, confusion and panic clear on my face.

“Because he has fucking magic, and if anyone can stop this mess from fucking happening, it should be him.” She turned and stomped up the stairs. She was on a mission, and no one was going to stop her.

“Do you think there is a way?” Toya looked at me with hope in her eyes. “To stop your heat?”

“I don’t think so. I don’t remember seeing anything that might stop it. Not even pack doctors have the resources, as far as I know.” I swallowed past the lump in my throat, but Toya slid closer and wrapped her arm around me.

“We got this.” She looked sure.

I laughed. “Do you not remember last time?”

She nodded. “I do. So I know Wendy and I can do this.” She rubbed my shoulder. “We have done this before, and we can do it again.” She pulled me into a hug. “So let’s not stress about the heat. We have that handled. Now,” she paused, “the Rowan thing might be a little more difficult.” She pulled back to look at my face. “You tell me, what do you want? I’ll support you either way.

Thoth, Rowan, some random guy named Todd. You tell me.”

I laughed, really laughed, since Nix and Megan told me about the heat. “Just like that?” I watched her face, but she wasn’t lying.

“Just like that.” She wiped a tear from my face. “I’m your best friend, Amy. Not a judge. You tell me who you love. You tell me who you want to be with, and I will one hundred percent support you.” She shook her head. “Rowan is a good man. We have just decided he is stupid. And that’s okay.” We both burst out in laughter, but then she kept talking. “Thoth is a good friend, and a man. If you want to pursue him to see what could be, then do it. You are not tied to anyone. You have no mate that we know of.” She shrugged. “We just want you to be happy.”

I groaned my frustration. “Rowan might be my mate.” I looked at her and watched her eyes widen.

“Why do you say that?” She was hesitant to say anything.

I looked at her for a minute. “Why did you say it like that?”

She looked back towards the kitchen and then sighed. “Truthfully?” I nodded. “Because Wendy and I have been thinking that it only made sense that you and Rowan are mates.”

“Why?” I pulled away completely to watch her face. “And why didn’t you tell me?”

She winced. “Since meeting Nix, we assumed since you two are the last Lycans, you two had to be mates.”

“But the Lycans are alive,” I cut in, but she held her hand up.

“We didn’t know that at the time. And having the only two Lycans alive mate made sense. And the goddess is nothing but sensible.” I nodded, but then she looked at me. “And the reason why we didn’t tell you was because you two were hitting it off. And we just assumed everything would unfold as it should.” She looked away. “And then he shattered you, and I wanted to kill him.” She turned back to me. “I was going to kill him.”

“Toya.”

But she shook her head. “You didn’t see yourself at the height of your heat, Amy. If he had showed back up, I would have died trying to kill him. And I would’ve done it happily.”