CH44 - Cedric's POV

It’s been a week now and I don’t know what I’m going to do about having Dereck so close to Kai. Those two always somehow sneak off together, though they haven’t done anything more than hold hands. At least so far. I’ve managed to interrupt them more times than I can count.

I’ve thought of kicking Dereck out of the inner pack, but I have a feeling he will sneak in regardless of what I do to keep him away from my mate. Even if I did somehow do that, Kai would get irritable with me, and the little progress I’ve made with him will be for nought.

I was going to use their friendship for my own ends, but realising these two are closer than I thought, has made me second guess myself. Why does my mate have to be such an idiot? Can’t he tell already that we’re destined to be together? Is this my fault for not outright telling him the truth?

I wanted to just tease him a little, let him figure out the truth, and then we would become a mated pair and live out our lives as a family… but no. He has