Simply His, Simply Bound, Simply Eternal novel Chapter 10

"Feeling the pull"

*Caleb*

I haven't stop pacing around my office as my third in command reported to me about our recovery operation. Craig has been nervous because we left him in charge. However, he understood the seriousness of the situation, and for his first solo, he has done rather well. We both had laid a plan to get our troops recovered and in training, remodeled security shifts and reinforced our compound to make sure no one dares to cross our land barriers again. It was all of a huge importance, and I kept trying to focus. I still felt the tingles on my lips from our kiss. My mate was far from me, and I craved her touch, no matter how innocent that might be.

"Alpha, we can continue this later if you feel the need to rest." He said after clearing his throat. I sighed and put a hand on his shoulder.

"I am sorry Craig, I am just... distracted... but I can see already how things have improved with your assessment and guide. I see the result of our plans. Alexei is going to be back in around a week, and you will have to face his grumpy ass when he sees that you and I have changed all his old does." I chuckled, and he instantly relaxed, laughing and nodding. We both knew Alexei hated things to change without his supervision.

Once he left my office, I opened the first drawer of my desk and looked at my cell phone. A broad smile as I read her message.

*Meadow- Thank you for calling last night, it was so lovely to talk to you and continue on this crazy journey of getting to know each other. Can I be honest?

Her message was sent two hours ago, and she was probably still working. I didn't want to interrupt her and distract her, so I held on tight to my crave and decided to wait. Just one more hour till lunch time and I could text her and call her.

Last night I was impossible to stop my fingers from selecting her name and hit dial. When she answered at the 3rd rang I was already getting nervous. But it was worth it, she had just finished dinner and was preparing for bed. We talked for over an hour, and in that time we finally shared last names, and our job descriptions in more detail; we were both ashamed and amazed we didn't actually ask any of these questions when we first met.

Her building held many companies, but the one she was working for was a real estate agency. She was their connection to the sales agents, and she wanted to increase their earnings percentage as encouragement for the agents to sell more. I, on the other hand, did lie a bit. I told her I was in the import/export business and I was the director, which was why I had times when I had to travel regularly and on short notice. What did I import and export? Well, when she asked me, I felt a bit nervous, but I went with something not too far from reality. I told her I was in Security services and equipment, transportation consulting and technology, data processing equipment and services. I didn't lie that much, I really did all of that. She was impressed but not overly so. We went through what kind of food we enjoyed eating and what things we liked to do when we had free time. Time went by so quickly.