CADEN
Soren leaned against the doorframe with his arms crossed and that particular expression he reserved for conversations Caden didn't want to have.
"You're really not going."
"I have reports to review."
"You reviewed them this afternoon."
"I'm reviewing them again."
Soren looked at the desk. At the stack of files Caden had not opened in forty minutes. He said nothing about that, which meant he was saying everything about it.
"I heard Ash will be there," Soren said.
Caden's jaw tightened. He felt it happen and kept his eyes on the page in front of him. "I told you. Keep him away from me."
"I'm your beta, not his keeper." Soren pushed off the doorframe and came further into the room, dropping into the chair across the desk with the ease of someone who had been doing this for year
