Chapter 33 Landon

• Cleo had told her parents she planned to sit outside for a moment, saying she didn’t know if she was ready just yet to go in to say goodbye to see her grandfather. I didn’t know if that was the truth, or if that was an excuse, because she had just realized exactly what had just hit me like a fucking wrecking ball. But as Aunt Lilah agreed she should take some time, and join them when she was ready, and everyone wandered inside, I lingered outside. Uncertainty filled every part of my body. I did not know how to approach this...
• I had been unsure about returning home as things were, and knew that was going to be hard enough to adjust to, but now I had to face the revelation that Cleo was my fated mate. The sweetest and most adorable girl I think I knew. Somebody who deserved so much more than me as a mate. Why did fate have to be so cruel and play this card for us both? Especially for Cleo? I could not let this happen to her.
• I watched as she perched herself on the wall of the flower bed near the gardens which ran alongside the walls of the hospital. I don’t even think that she knew I was here. Her eyes were staring off into the nearby trees, her mind so clearly on other things. Maybe I had been quick to assume she had chosen to stay out here because of discovering I was her fated mate, and it being too much to face on top of saying goodbye to her grandfather…