Chapter 187 Finn

• While I had been brave and had the much needed talk with Cleo, I had been far from brave since, and done all I could to avoid her. Not that there had been much opportunity to see her. She had been busy doing whatever it was she was doing… likely spending time with the man set to be her mate. While, I was busy helping at the family business. Not a role I relished, but one I was a part of, and one right now I appreciated, because it was occupying my mind. Plus, I was one of the only ones not busy with a new mate, so I was needed in the offices a lot.
• After a hectic day in the offices, I was returning to my place, ready to put my feet up, but Cleo was laying heavily upon my mind. She had been all day. I knew that the day of the Alpha ceremony at River Ash was fast approaching. And that meant there was a strong chance Cleo could go and be with her mate. Iknew that what was being discussed. But since then, it had not been confirmed, or at least not to me… not that had I had gone looking for confirmation. I may have less than willingly admitted defeat, but I did not want to hear it for definite that Cleo was choosing Landon over me. Pathetic I know. But knowing it was real would suck. I had believed for so long that girl and I would be together...
• All the way home, my mind was continously returning to the fact that the day of the Alpha ceremony was looming. That day was the one that could mean Cleo left the pack she called home. The pack we shared. It would mean she was no longer as close as she had been. And, it would also mean she would have made that choice. A choice that showed she was picking the path fate had chosen for her. It repeatedly lingered within my mind. If I did nothing about it, then the day would come and go, and Cleo could easily be gone, with nothing further being said between us. And, I don't think I could live with that.