CHAPTER FIFTEEN

Leaving Caleb is surprisingly difficult. I spend a couple of days with him, and we start to bond even more than before. It feels like we're meant to be. We get along so well. I found my peace here. It seems crazy that I would leave it or him.

As the days go on though, it doesn't seem like he changes his mind at all. It seems like he's still insisting on us not being together. And it's difficult to be around him when he feels that way. It's difficult when I feel like he's my mate but clearly he doesn't agree. I don’t know what I can do or say to make him see the obvious.

So, I have to leave. It’s easier to leave than to stay with him here like this. It gives me something to think about, something to do.

It gives me something to distract myself from the fact that I can’t stay with my mate. He doesn’t want me to stay with him. I just don’t know why.

“I’m going to miss you,” I say, on the morning that I plan to depart.

Secretly, I’m still hoping that he’ll ask me to stay with him. He’