Page 2 of Shifters Unifying

He grumbled something similar to an apology under his breath.

“How do you know it’s Acheron?” I asked.

“We’ve discovered a location at the border of our territory,” she said. “It stinks of him and his putrid magic.”

Logan frowned. “New? How did our patrols miss it?”

Olivia put her hands on her hips. “We think it’s newly visible.”

“Newly visible? Was it masked?” I asked.

“Magically,” she said. “Warded like our previous Gathering Place.”

“Then he has that magic, too,” I said. “Absorbed from the shifters he’s killed?”

“Likely,” Olivia said.

“Why expose it now?” Logan interjected.

Her mouth pinched, and a shadow crossed her face.

Jasper sighed but remained uncharacteristically silent.

“Fuck,” Logan snarled. “He wanted us to find it, to send a message.”

“We think so,” Olivia answered, and her eyes turned glassy with unshed tears. She paused to clear her throat. She was a badass, and it had to be bad for her to be bothered

“What’s there?” I demanded.

“Shifters,” she murmured. “All dead.”

Logan’s gaze narrowed. “How many?”

“A dozen.”

Logan slammed his fist into the wall before he threw his head back and howled, an anguished sound that reverberated through my chest.

I wanted to demand she tell me what they’d found, needed to push her to tell it all. Instead, I asked, “Anybody I know?”

“Nobody from town,” she bit out. “And they were probably thankful for death when it finally came.”

A shudder tripped down my spine, and cold chills danced over my skin. Three steps brought me to the threshold of the bedroom. “I have to check on my mom and Riley and Shannon.”

Logan stuck out his arm, blocking me from leaving the room. “You’re in no condition to see them. You’re naked, and you don’t have any idea how you’re going to explain any of this to your mother.”

Chewing my bottom lip, I glanced down at his arm across me, at my naked body, covered in bites, scratches, and a few bruises from our time in the bedroom. “I need to see them.”

Logan’s grasped my shoulders and turned me toward him. “You will. Get dressed, and we’ll go together.”

“Aye,” Jasper said. “You’ll get there, lass. But I’m afraid to tell ye, Acheron’s encampment isn’t the only reason we interrupted ye two. Another meeting of the alphas has been called. For today.”

“By who? Who dared?” Logan roared, and he pulled me hard against him.

Images of him licking and sucking every inch of my body tripped through my mind.Best sex of my life. Fucking good…Heat rushed between my thighs, and my breath caught.No, no, no… Focus, Emma.Now wasn’t the time to get lost in fated mating daydreams.

“Emma, don’t tempt me. So help me, I’ll drag you back to bed,” Logan growled, his gaze dropping to my bare breasts, his arousal clearly growing.

I knocked his hands away, stepped out of his reach, and crossed my arms over my chest.Fuck me.