Cameron said. He easily pictured Evan frowning at that statement. “We’ve found our mate.”
There was no laughter now, just dead air. Cameron didn’t know if Evan had exited the room or if the other shifters had all heard him and were too stunned to speak.
“ Evan? ”
“I heard. I’m heading up to the main house now. She’s hurt or you wouldn’t have need of Jason.” Evan sounded angry and Cameron felt bad for not telling him about Morgan sooner.
“Her name is Morgan Trent. She has a head wound and two broken arms. We aren’t certain of anything right now, we’ve barely spoken to her, but I’d bet our ranch that she’s Bethany’s sister. I think she was the one searching for Bethany and that someone else followed the same trail we did, only they got to her first.”
“I’ll be with Jason until you get back here. Call me as soon as you know anything more.” Evan hung up and Cameron shook his head at his brother’s ability to stay calm. They should have called him sooner. They hadn’t given him enough credit. He was a hardened soldier, but so was Samson, and they’d witnessed what he was like around his mate. He adored her unabashedly.
Cameron pushed open the curtain to find Ben sitting on the cot beside Morgan. She had her cheek nestled into his hand, her eyes closed and a small smile on her lips. God, I love the mating musk.
Cameron cleared his throat so as not to startle her and Morgan’s eyes flew open. Her smile widened as she saw him and his heart squeezed in his chest. His mate was happy he was back. It was a small thing, but his cat was purring loudly in its joy. This woman could not be the enemy. It just wasn’ t possible.
“Hey there, honey. What put that smile on your face?” Morgan’s cheeks reddened as a blush crept up from the pale column of her neck.
“Morgan hurt her arms, but she feels better now,” Ben said, his gaze never leaving their mate’s face.
“I’m sorry your arms are hurting,” Cameron said, his body tensing at the thought of his mate in pain. “I’ve spoken to our doctor in Eminence and he thinks we should take you there for treatment as soon as it can be arranged.”
Morgan looked at him and then at Ben as she started to shake her head. “I can be treated here, then go home. My father will look after me.”
“We think that the men who attacked you are going to come after you again,” Ben said. “You need protection.”
Cameron knew Ben was skating close to the edge of a lie. They couldn’t lie to their mate, but they also couldn’t tell her everything right now. There were too many humans in the hospital, and she was also vulnerable to further attack by the men who had already tried once to take her.
“How do you know I’m in danger? The police haven’t even questioned me yet.”
“Morgan, I need to ask you what you were doing in the cyber café today,” Cameron said. “Two men were murdered in the attempt to kidnap you.”
Morgan’s already pale skin lost all color completely.
“Killed? I didn’t know,” Morgan said softly, her eyes growing moist. “I just looked up and the place was empty. Then a big guy came toward me and another blocked the door. He grabbed me as I tried to get past him. That’s all I know. Honestly.”
“We believe you,” Ben said. “There was a witness to the murders. You’re not a suspect. But we need to know what you were doing there. We think it may have some bearing on why those men wanted to take you.”
Morgan shook her head again. “It can’t be. It must be a mistake. I was just searching for my sister. I was adopted as a baby, you see, and I’d recently started looking for my birth mother. I came here, to Lansing, looking for information on my parents. I found out early this morning that I had a sister I’d never even known about.” She closed her eyes and a stray tear ran down her cheek.
“I have discovered that my mother is dead. She died a few days after … after giving me up. I