Chapter 21 - Ryker’s POV - Setting the Trap

It’s been about a week since Leno and I came back together from Dark Claw after The Mate Ball and the rollercoaster of events that it transpired while there. I miss Dira, but I also understand that she needs to do this on her own terms. 

We talk on the phone and video. I miss her smell, but her laugh makes me soar as high as when heard her or see her. The guys just laugh at me because I am behaving like a lovesick puppy, but you know what? I don’t care. She is everything. 

I heard someone knocking on the door, “Come in”, I call out. Bryant is walking in with a stack of papers, like I already don’t have enough covering my desk. 

Bryant informs me that there are additional permits that need to be sorted out for planning and structural updates.

“You know, with those muscles, I wouldn’t have pictured you as the personal assistant type,” I tell him, laughing. 

“Hilar