Chapter 14: "Yuck."

Caelum’s pov.

I tug on my tie as I pick up my phone and ask,

“What’s she been up to lately?”

Ragnar growls lowly in my mind from the irritation of knowing our mate is the one being spoken of but the annoyance in me makes him calm down soon enough.

The darned wolf has been nagging at me all day.

“There’s still no sign of her Master Maximoff. My sources say she left the Highrise mansion before noon two days ago.”

Right as they arrived from the conference then.

I feel something hot running through my blood at the thought of her, and the need to do something with my hands, anything at all with them, overcomes me.

I imagine digging them into her hair again and a low husk of a sound leaves my lips.

“Mr Maxim?”

I cut the call and groan because what the hell!

What, the actual hell?

~It’s the mate bond dummy.~

I snarl back a response at my wolf, “Of course I know it’s the mate bond.”

~Then go find your mate.~

I can hear the impatience in Ragnar’s tone and in my mind’s eye he gives me a look he