“I will learn sir. I want to be hers.”
He said it and I swear my knees almost buckled because what the actual hell does that even mean and why did it sound so good when he said it like that with that voice and that face and those eyes and in front of my father of all people like he wasn’t scared of dying today and suddenly I was sweating and praying and trying not to visibly melt into the f*****g cement.
My dad turned slowly like he’d been waiting for someone to say something stupid and brave all day and of course it had to be Caleb because of course Caleb doesn’t know when to shut up or when to not die or when to keep his soft honest voice to himself and my dad just stared at him like he was picking out where to bury the body and then he said, “She hasn’t found her mate yet.”
And I don
