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ROYAL
NO SERVICE
She fellasleep three hours ago. After dinner together and one cheesy movie later, conversation slowed until Leticia drifted off to sleep. Luckily for me, she plugged her phone in before propping it up next to her.
Precious mate.My wolf sighs as he relaxes within me.
I’m in the final couple minutes of running data on a job for Valor, which luckily doesn’t require a lot of paying attention, and I can watch her sleep.
Leticia softly murmurs something.
I run my hand through my hair again and rehash the conversation where I called tonight a date.I can’t believe I did that.
I can.My wolf snarks.We’re going to keep our mate.
The data run dumps important information into the spreadsheet, and I try to focus on it to review the findings, but Leticia snores softly, and I turn to look at her instead.
Sleepy, so sleepy.My wolf huffs out an exhale, and I can feel exhaustion slipping in.
Before climbing into bed, I grab my phone and send Valor a text, letting him know his data report needs to be double-checked but that I’ll do it in the morning.
From watching her bedroom’s security camera footage, I know exactly how Leticia is lying in bed. I pick the oppositeside of my bed, placing my phone where she’d be lying, and watch her from this angle.
It will kill me to watch her marry someone else.
My wolf beds down inside me. He spins in a small circle, content to curl up and watch her.We won’t let her. It doesn’t have to be complicated like you make everything.
I wish it was just as simple as claiming her as our own and that a small declaration would fix the cavernous obstacle between us.
Letting my phone stay connected, I drift off the same way Leticia did.
In the morning,the video call was disconnected, and a text message from Leticia was in its place.
Leticia:
You snore. I’m hanging around the house today, purging my closet, if you want to talk while I do so. Totally understand if you’re busy.
I’ve senther a couple of messages since then, but it’s been over an hour, yet no response.
My pulse is pounding in my head, and a tightness in my chest has me unsettled. I was trying to behave and not spend so much time watching her.
But what if she’s been kidnapped and no one knows she’s gone but me? What if she’s hurt and the guards they left her with don’t know?
The camera feeds to Casa D’Medici are up in just a few keystrokes. The shortcut auto programmed itself with how frequently I go there.
I drop the password into the private camera feed to her bedroom after scouring the rest of the house.
On an exhale, my shoulders drop, the tension fades, and a smile finds its way onto my face.
Leticia is in her bedroom, a mountain of clothes piled on her bed, and I’m pretty sure her phone is buried somewhere underneath it.
What a mess, no wonder she can’t hear us.My wolf shakes his head, preferring neat and tidy spaces. He can’t imagine being in that chaos.
Unfortunately the report for Valor and a mountain of other work need to be done, so I move her room feed off to the other screen and delve into work.
It’s noon before I get a message from Leticia.
