Lorien POV
“You don’t look happy. Did big brother already manage to piss you off?” Rion teased as he jogged up beside me, easily matching my pace.
It had been several days since Auren and I had crossed that line, and I still didn’t know how to navigate the quiet space that had settled between us. We hadn’t talked about it hadn’t even acknowledged it. He’d gone back to sleeping on the floor like nothing had happened, and the only sign of his presence the next morning had been the neatly folded schedule he’d left on my side of the bed while I was in the shower an itinerary of meetings and appearances I was expected to attend as his mate.
We hadn’t shown our faces together around the pack since then. He’d claimed to be “too busy,” and I hadn’t found the courage or maybe the right words to
