Chapter 59 - Caleb

The shock on her face is all consuming. I can tell that she’s having trouble processing my words. Like she can hear and understand the words that I said, but her mind isn’t connecting them to their meanings.

Her legs slip down from around my waist, but I keep holding her to me to make sure that she doesn’t fall. She leans her head back into the wall of the building that I had back her into but fists her hands in my shirt and pulls me towards her. It’s like she needs to pull away, but can’t stand to be away from me.

I understand the feeling. The matebond is potent. Much more than I ever thought it would be. And we haven’t even felt the full effects of it yet.

“What do you mean?” she asks.

“We’re mates, my love,” I tell her, one hand coming up to brush some loose hair off of her head.

“How…how can you know that?” she asks, her voice a whisper that I can barely hear over the rustle of the wind in the trees.

“Be