The plan was for Kaden to return to the pack right after the Elite party, as he was done with his duties as his alpha’s beta, but that was disrupted when he met Natalie, his mate and yet his alpha's date.
He was quick to figure out there was nothing between them, though. After all, Ian was someone who wore his emotions on his sleeves, and the fact that he wasn’t seeing Natalie was obvious.
Natalie, on the other hand… he couldn’t exactly say, since she had a hollow look in her eyes. A look of someone exhausted who didn’t expect anything good from the world, a look of total defeat.
Kaden wished he could tear off that look off her face and fill her eyes with hope and life, but she wouldn’t give him the chance to.
She tried asking for her number, but she didn’t leave any openings, nor did
