RONAN
I spent the rest of the day trying to distract myself after Kael’s news. I went over patrol reports with Darius. Handled some small issues that had accumulated in my absence, a dispute between two pack members about grazing rights and a request from the healer for additional supplies.
Every few minutes, I found myself reaching out through the bond, feeling for Iris. She was still here, still on the pack lands. I could feel that much. But she was... somewhere else and she was with him.
Stop, I told myself. You agreed to this. You offered this. You can't be angry now. But I was angry. And grumpy. And jealous in a way I hadn't been since I was a teenager.
Pathetic, Black muttered. We are Alpha. We don't get jealous.
Apparently, we do. Apparently, we're pathetic.
By late afternoon
