KALEL
The conference room felt too small for this conversation. Too small for the hurricane of emotions that had been brewing inside me since our mate ceremony went sideways last night. I paced the length of our office, my boots wearing an invisible path into the hardwood as Caleb watched me from his perch on the edge of the desk.
"You're going to dig a trench to China if you keep that up," he said, voice level in that infuriating way that was uniquely his. Always the calm to my storm.
I shot him a glare that would have made most pack members cower. "And you're being too damn rational about this."
Caleb sighed, pinching the bridge of his nose. "One of us has to be."
I stopped my pacing long enough to face him fully, my hands balling into fists at my sides. "Our mate—our mate, Caleb—i
