Chapter 17

Kyra's POV I stopped when I almost bumped into Nathan as I was about to enter the meeting room. My pulse spiked as his Alpha aura wrapped around me instinctively. His stern expression softened upon seeing me. "Kel—" "Good morning, Alpha Nathan." I deliberately used his title, watching his lips part in shock. In our world, mates never used formal address - this was a public declaration of our severed bond. I brushed past him to my usual seat at my usual chair whenever we had a meeting. Instead of leaving, he went back to the chair beside mine - the place reserved for a Luna beside her Alpha. "We need to talk," he murmured, his wolf's gravelly undertone making the employees pause their preparations. I glanced at the pack’s employees were putting documents on the table. "I have another meeting after this, Alpha Nathan." "Five minutes," he begged. I lazily looked at him and didn’t answer immediately. I waited for the pack’s employees to leave before I faced him completely. "We already spok