Chapter Thirteen
“Well, since you just saw that and you aren’t freaking out, I am going to guess that you know something?” Said Lindsey as she walked over to her friend.
Amy smiled at her, “I guess you know then too?”
As Lindsey reached the steps, the two woman embraced.
“I am so happy you are okay. Your lucky Colfax came here, otherwise I was about to call the police,” said Amy as the woman walked into the kitchen and sat down at the table.
“So much is going to change now,” said Lindsey.
“I know,” replied Amy softy, “Colfax said that werewolves can live amongst us or they can take a mate with them to their pack, but it’s rare for a mate to go with them. He is going to stay with me Lindsey, I am so happy.”
“Oh Amy! Now that you know it’s wonderful,” she said to her friend.
She knew that that she was going to have to tell her friend that she was leaving, but she had a little good news for her best friend too.
“What’s going on?” Asked Amy, seeing the change in her friend’s face.
“Well, you know how Colfax made the decision to stay here with you?” She said with a smile.
Amy nodded her head but didn’t say anything, she just looked at her friend suspiciously.
“I made the decision to go with Jayden and live with him and the pack,” said Lindsey softly.
Amy looked at her friend in shock, “wow”, she whispered.
“I know, it’s surprising.” Said Lindsey, not sure what else to say to her friend.
“So you are going to become one of them too then?” She asked.
“Actually,” she said, touching her neck and pulling back the collar to reveal the mark, “I kinda got a jump on the process.”
“Oh my god!” Said Amy as she jumped to her feet, “did he do this intentionally? I’ll kill him, he isn’t allowed to do that until the ceremony!”
“Easy!” Said Lindsey, laughing a little bit at her friend’s reaction, “first of all, I wanted this, I wanted it when I first met him. Second of all, this was kind of an accident. He didn’t mean to shift and bite me but we were, um,” she let her voice trail off.
“Oh,” said Amy blushing.
“Yeah, things got crazy and it just happened,” said Lindsey, quickly moving past it, “but I promise you Amy, I have never wanted anything more. I love him more than anyone in the world and he feels the same for me. We have saved each other; we have a bond that I know will go on forever.”
Amy covered her mouth, tears were prickling her eyes, “oh my gosh, Lindsey I am so happy for you. Especially after everything that has happened. You deserve this, you deserve to be happy.”
Lindsey blushed, “thank you. I have some other news too.”
Amy smiled, “I think I already know, but go ahead.”
Lindsey looked at her in confusion, “well, I know how much you hate your apartment in the city and I won’t have any use for this place anymore, so I was going to see if you wanted to live here instead with Colfax.”
“What?” Said Amy in surprise, “are you serious?”
Lindsey nodded her head; she thought it was the perfect solution. The home would be taken care of and it was paid off. They would have seclusion and better yet, Amy would be getting out of her awful apartment. Lindsey had been trying to get her friend to move in with her ever since she had moved in but Amy refused to give up her nightlife. She told Lindsey she was always ‘looking for love before the country life sucks me in.' Now that she had found love, maybe the country life wouldn’t seem so bad.
“Wow, this is amazing!” Said Amy as she hugged her friend. “I would love to live here with Colfax. He is going to be so happy. You should have seen his face when he saw my apartment. I thought the poor man was going to cry!”
Lindsey smiled and laughed with her friend but something was bothering her, “Amy? What did you think I was going to tell you?”
“Oh, well, it’s nothing. I just assumed from what you said that it had happened,” said her friend nonchalantly as she flipped through her phone.
“What are you talking about?” Asked Lindsey, she was confused and didn’t like it.
Amy looked up at her friend now and rolled her eyes like someone would when they had to tell a story that they already had already told a thousand times before. Lindsey loved her friend but she could be a little impatient at times and it would seem that today was one of them.
“Alright, fine,” said Amy as she put her phone down, “Colfax was giving me the entire run down when he let me know what he was. It was sensory overload but a few things always catch my attention. Sex, paranormal happenings and babies. He said that there was only one way that wolves could become pregnant, and that was during a full moon.”
Lindsey breathed a sigh of relief, “okay well I am not a werewolf yet, so where is this going?”
Amy raised an eyebrow towards her, “that’s not the only way that they can become pregnant. Apparently there is more. Have you ever heard of a shifter?”
Lindsey didn’t wait to answer, “sure, I thought that was just fiction too right? Like people who can shift into cats and dogs and whatnot?”
Amy smiled and continued, “well, all fables have to start somewhere. Shifters are real, but they aren’t like you read about in stories. A shifter is a half-blood werewolf. They can change anytime during the day or night but they don’t have the speed, strength or healing abilities that werewolves have. Basically, they are half human and half werewolf, just like you would expect.”
Lindsey looked at her in shock, she didn’t realize that there was so much information she was missing, “so I could be pregnant?” Asked Lindsey, her breathing barely a whisper.
“Well, no actually,” said Amy, growing bored again. “I mean; I guess that the timing has to be perfect for a shifter to be conceived. You have three things that have to line up perfect. It has to be a full moon, the werewolf has to be in his animal form and then he also has to bite his lover at the exact moment of conception. So unless you two were having sex tonight and he was a wolf while you two did it, and he bit you then, you’re in the clear.”
Lindseys face went ghost white as she played the scene over and over again in her head.
“Oh my god,” said Amy in a whisper when she saw the look on Lindsey’s face.
“Oh my god,” echoed Lindsey.
“okay, let’s not freak out yet. I guess there are ways to tell right away. As soon as you are carrying a werewolf child, things will start to change. Let’s see, pregnancies only last for three months. Right after conception, there are things that happen right away. Werewolves have no aversion to silver. It’s another myth that circulated but shifters, shifters can be burnt by gold. As a precaution, like from nature, a woman carrying a shifter will be burnt also. Do you have any gold?”
Lindsey was blown away by everything Amy was telling her but she rose and went into the bathroom. She had the small wooden box her father had left her. Upon opening it, it revealed two wedding rings, they had belonged to her parents. She set the box on the table and Amy reached in and picked one up. Lindsey held out her hand nervously and nodded to Amy. She set the ring down onto Lindsey’s open palm. Nothing happened and both woman let out a sigh.
“Well, that answers that,” started Lindsey.
Suddenly, she dropped the ring and jerked her hand away from where it fell onto the table. She opened her palm and saw it. A perfectly burned circle in the palm of her hand. Lindsey looked at Amy as she spoke in a whisper, “I’m pregnant.”