Chapter 70: "Alaina Tatia."

Caleum’s pov.

It’s dawn before Alora returns and she doesn’t come back with the car, or my mate.

Sebastien restrains me with an arm on my shoulder, his words echoing through the mind-link I have with him as he tries to speak some reason into my head. He says,

~She could just be chasing something of her own.

She’s a grown woman, Caleum. She can keep herself safe.

She’s probably catching some rest.~

I shrug his arm off as my mind says the things he can’t.

~Or Maybe she’s with Ulric, and she’s not meant to be with Ulric.~

She’s not meant to be chasing something of her own.

She’s not meant to be keeping herself safe.

She’s not meant to be in a hotel.

She’s meant to be my mate!

She’s meant to be with me. She’s meant to be by my side. She’s meant to leave me to chase whatever it is she wants to chase.

She’s meant to have me keeping her safe. I don’t believe she can’t do it herself, but what am I for?

What am I here for?

My heart attempts to mock me for those thoughts, but it can’t because