Chapter 13 - Jackson

Cayden is standing up from the sofa. He looks ready to leave. Like he had lost the fight within him. Which is not like him at all. Though he was saying he didn’t want to talk about all of this. He is feeling the same things toward this new she-wolf as me? The irony is almost painful.

“Cay, you alright?” I ask, standing from my desk.

“Sure.” He shrugs. Yeah, he does not want to talk about it all.

He forgets I know him almost as well as I know myself, I know he is struggling to work all of this out. He is battling emotions here. Guilt being a huge one, the same as me. And no doubt my words earlier will have made that worse.

“We will sort something I am sure.” I tell him.

Cayden frowns at me, “Oh yeah, right.”

I am just about to ask what he is implying when there is a gentle knock at the door. Before it opens, slowly, almost tentatively. “Hi” Evelyn’s head leans around the door, her long blond hair falling over her shoulder as she does. She is sm