His Baby to Save by Kiki Burrelli

Author:Kiki Burrelli
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Kindle Unlimited
Published: 2017-06-07T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fifteen

Caleb set his makeshift broom down against the trunk of a tree. Asher had gone as promised, leaving Caleb sometime in the night. Surprisingly, Caleb slept through his departure, but he didn't think he slept for long after. He woke up alone and cold, like Asher had taken all his body heat with him.

If he had only left Caleb alone so he wouldn't get sick, Asher would be disappointed. Caleb felt worse now without him. And he felt disgusted with himself.

He could go a few measly hours without that man. Clingy had never been a word anyone would use to describe him and he wasn't going to start acting that way now.

Since staying inside the cabin felt like torture, he started work outside, brushing off the paths from the cabin to the work area and the cabin to the garden. It looked as though Asher had made the paths some time ago, but had not continued with the upkeep.

Using a shovel first, Caleb had dug the edges, redefining the paths. Then he had cleared them of weeds, sticks and rocks and finally, had swept the dirt down to a smooth shine. Of course, that would all be mud in a few months' time.

A few months. How quickly he had gone from needing to get back to his pack to not imagining ever leaving this place.

He'd grown to love the homestead, a term he had affectionately begun calling the cabin and the small amount of land around it. He wondered if Asher had tried bringing up any livestock, at least a handful of chickens.

Even though he was beginning to plan a farmyard family, he still couldn't quite grasp the concept of forever up here. Surely, they would go down to The Den at least once? Maybe he could convince Asher to make The Den one of the two trips he made down into civilization in a year. At least there, Caleb wouldn't have to worry about any old flames rearing up.

A now familiar pang of jealousy flared up inside of him accompanied by a clenching pain in his stomach. Caleb doubled over and the female wolf in the pack approached him from the shadows, whining softly. Caleb had come to consider her the alpha of the trio, mostly because she was the largest and the best at hunting. Of her brothers, one was nearly the same size as her and the other was smaller. Asher affectionately referred to that one as the runt.

"I'm okay," Caleb said. "Probably just hungry."

After clearing the path, he had plans to go down to the lake and really perfect his fishing technique. He couldn't stop imagining the pride and shock that would be on Asher's face when Caleb showed him a whole bucket of fish that he'd caught. But now, he felt as if he actually was coming down with something. And fast.

Prickles of pain blossomed over his body, like the feeling of stepping on a foot after the blood has been cut off for a while.

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