How she accomplished it without his awareness remains unclear; did she even realise she had done so?
The thought is improbable. Numerous questions regarding her remained unresolved; it appears that his Daisy was an enigma. He seemingly possessed no knowledge regarding her whatsoever. Aside from the fact that she had previously belonged to him, if he could persuade her to acquiesce, she would soon be his once more.
He exhaled deeply and massaged his temples; he had not yet had the opportunity to contemplate that tattoo, but he was unequivocally aware that it was identical to Mason’s. If the man proved to be her Mate, and Caelan was mistaken about her, he had inadvertently Mated her. “Damn,” he muttered; both he and his wolf had Mated her without protection.
He was exceedingly cautious regarding this matter; even Lydia employed contraception to prevent any accidents, as this could potentially become a nightmare. He recognised the improbability of any outcome, as she was not in oestrus, rendering the chances minimal. Nevertheless.
Dinner arrived, and Mason fixed his gaze upon him. Caelan scowled in response, and the man recognised it; his irritation was evident. He sensed numerous gazes upon him, including those of fellow pack members. They were all aware of the search conducted for him, his subsequent disappearance, and his eventual reappearance.
“If looks could kill, Joe,” Caelan finally addressed the man.
“You would already be deceased.” Mason retorted without hesitation, “Do you comprehend how profoundly concerned I was?””
“I apologise; I genuinely do not understand what transpired.”
“I am indifferent.” Don’t do it again, or I will bloody be the Alpha, according to your wishes and you will be nothing.”
Caelan was staring at his Beta now, that was a very loud statement to make, and though it was his contingency plan, he had not gone anywhere “
“Joe”
“No, Caelan . 5 bloody hours, you could have been dead, for all any of us knew.”
“I understand, but I did not do it on purpose, not even sure why none of you. You, yourself couldn’t find me.”
Mason was glaring at him now, then he just got up and left the table. Yes the man knew where he’d been, but it seemed, not at the time, only afterwards, they had to sit down and talk this through, Got up “Joe.”
“I’m not ready to talk to you Alpha. I got shit of my own going on, to you know.”
Caelan frowned; Mason hardly ever called him Alpha, not with that tone anyway; that was not a good sign. Then that comment about him having shit of his own going on, Mason had not mentioned anything to him about other stuff going on.
Caelan frowned, Mason had missed training, told Caelan he had more pressing needs to attend to the other day. That made Caelan more than curious now.
He was going to have to sit him down and talk to him. Was tempted to haul the man into his office, right this minute but the man was likely to punch him in the face, so sank down at the table again.
Both Alex and Cole were looking right at him.
“Do either of you know, what’s going on with him.”
“No.” they both shook their heads.
He sighed, something else was going on, inside his pack and he needed to know what it was, because obviously he had no clue.
Watched Ella get up, looked right at him, narrowed her eyes on him, he frowned right back her and then she collected a plate of food and head out of the dining room, Daisy’s closest friend.
Felt for Daisy, she was up, it seemed. Had not mind-linked Caelan to talk, but he was willing to bet that was exactly were Ella was going. Those two had always been close, even as kids, her best friend.
He rubbed his temples “Where were you?” Alex suddenly asked.
“Right here in the pack-house.” Caelan answered him honestly “I don’t understand it myself Alex.” and then he got up “Tell Joe when he is ready. I’Il be in my office.”
“Sure thing Caelan .”
He got up and walked out of the dining room, saw Ella stroll on to the first floor and head down towards Daisy’s room. Let it go. She was obviously confused, he couldn’t blame her on that.
They had been Mates once and he’d never told her during their Bond, he wanted her, never touched her like that either, likely she was very confused.
He was not. It had just gotten out of hand was all, sighed he didn’t even know how to try and explain it to her, would she even believe him. He doubted it. How was he going to convince her not to reject him all over again. He didn’t know the answer to that question either.
Hell her rejection of him the first time had been granted by the Goddess herself, before he’d even accepted it, that in itself was unheard of, perhaps even the Goddess thought she had made a mistake.
Had even granted Daisy no pain at the severing of their bond. Something else that was unheard of.
It was clear to him that the Goddess favoured this woman, Why? He didn’t know but seemed to give her, whatever she wanted all the time and without question. Perhaps he should ask for a favour. Rubbed his temples, no, he had no right to ask for anything, especially where Daisy was concerned.
His wolfs hearing picked up Ella laughing and talking to Daisy, glanced up and looked out the office door, well she had come out of her room, not going to hide from him, a dress for the mating ball?
He sighed, he did not want her anywhere near that thing. But mostly because he didn’t want the whole pack to watch her walk away from him or reject him once the moon set, it was bad enough they all knew she had rejected him at 18, but he had made sure the whole pack knew it was her doing.
Humiliating as it had been, Mason had been right there in his car watching her, then there were the 4 guards at the pack gates as well. Normally he would never had allowed something like that to happen in public, but it had to be that way, so it could get back to John and Rose, so they knew she’d been the one to reject him.
