Chapter 16 - Caleb

So, the other night was a fucking disaster on the level of Hiroshima.

Fati and I…well there is no more Fati and I.

She had apparently had a very similar conversation with Meredith and Hakeem as I had with Dad. But instead of firming up that she wanted to stay with me like Dad’s talk had for me, she decided that she wanted to find her mate and go off to college three hours away.

Her whispered ‘no’ at my door when I asked her to be my chosen mate kicked off a thirty minute discussion that I honestly barely remember anything about. Discussion is probably the wrong word for it. She talked and tried to get me to understand and be ok with the fact that she didn’t want me. And I…I just sat there while my heart shattered.

I don’t remember how I left my apartment or what words that I said to Fati if I said any at all. I just remember my wolf ripping out of me, howling his sorrow across the city. I ran hard and far through the night, my wolf