Surprise Mating by Jana Leigh Page B

said.
    “ How do you know?” Thomas said quietly.
    “ One of the wolves in the camp escaped, he is in bad shape, we are taking care of him,” the woman whispered.
    “ Where is he?” Thomas asked standing up.
    “ I will take you to him after he has been fed and cleaned up again.  His wounds are extensive and we have to change the dressing often to avoid infection,” the older man said.
    “ Why not use magic?” Kiki asked, most packs had healers and it made sense these people who were on the run, would want to have a healer as well.
    “ It won’t work, every time our witch tries it makes it worse, we don’t know why,” the woman said and Kiki and Thomas sat down and listened as they explained how they found the man wandering the woods in a terrible state.
    Then others began to tell them of things that hap pened in their home pack or clans that made both of the men horrified.

Chapter Ten
     
     
    Syd was waiting in the hallway while the Drekinn Council was talking about her.  She was trying to figure out how she could get Kiki and Thomas to come back.  It was driving her nuts that she had screwed up that bad.  Talk about a bonehead, Rissa compared her to an oblivious man, and she fully accepted the comparison.  She was very shortsighted.
    When she was growing up, she convinced herself she would never have a mate, how could she?  She was a freak of nature, at least that's what they called her.  Since coming here though, she had been accepted, then threw it away by being an idiot.  Well no more, when the guys came back, she was going to grab them, lock them in a room, and apologize to them.
    She thought about the way they made her feel, and the ways she pushed past her arousal in order to make it easier.  Just thinking about them mating without her broke her heart, but she understood it, plus s he really wished she could have seen it.  Thinking of the two men naked and claiming each other made her pant.  It had to be sexy because they were so freaking hot.
    “ You can worry all you want, but it won’t change anything.  Everything will work out the way it is supposed to,” Vivi said as she walked down the hall.  “So, you are stuck out here instead of being in the Mystery Incorporated meeting.  I am sure Scooby and the others with figure it out.”
    Syd laughed and said, “ Why are you being nice to me?”
    “ Because I can be, and because I see a young woman who needs to have a friend, someone who could use a little advice.”  Vivi shrugged. 
    “ What the hell am I doing?”  Syd groaned and put her hands over her face.
    “ Well, I can tell you what you are not doing.  You are not giving up.  One thing I know about those two wonderful men is their hearts are huge.  They will forgive you.  But you need to remember that you have to suck up, but not appear to be sucking up too much.  You don’t want them to think they can walk all over you,” Vivi explained.
    “ Uh…okay,” Syd said.
    “ Why is it so important to you that you join the Drekinn?” Vivi asked.
    “ I don’t know.  I just know that since I was young my grandmother told me that it was important that I find my place.  When I saw some article on the Drekinn years ago, I knew this is where I belonged.  Where I had to be.  So here I am, screwing things up and waiting to see if they are going to allow me to even be here.  I wouldn’t blame them if they didn’t.  I mean it is so screwed up.  My parents would be so disappointed,” Syd said.
    “ You said they were dead?” Vivi asked curiously.
    “ Yes, plane crash, never found their bodies, but my grandmother identified their belongings.  You know I am from the Black Fairy Line?  I am the last in the line according to my grandmother.  It is important that I make something of my life, I can’t just let the line die without making them proud,” Syd said desperately.
    Vivi s at quietly and looked off into space thinking.  Sydney had no clue what was going