Yes… his explanations made sense.
Yes… the situation was far more complicated than she imagined.
Yes… the idea that someone had impersonated both the Messenger and his mate at the same time was enough to shake anyone’s understanding of reality.
And yet…
Something inside her held back.
Because words were one thing.
Actions… were everything.
Her gaze dropped for a brief moment, her fingers curling slightly at her sides as she processed it all, weighing everything he told her against everything she had lived through these past days, the pain, the confusion, the loneliness.
Caleb watched her carefully.
He didn’t need her to speak.
He could read it on her face.
The hesitation.
The doubt.
The need for something more… something real.
His jaw tightened slightly, not in anger this tim
