Part 1: Issue

Calista

I groan inwardly. What is it now? 

He is here to make me watch how he looks at the love of his life, who happens to be mated to a gorgeous hunk. 

I stand and wait for him to speak up. 

The gorgeous man speaks instead: “Why don’t you sit with us instead?” 

I offer him a tight-lipped smile and move to sit on the empty seat. The three of them fall into a comfortable conversation, and I sit like the odd one out. I f*****g hate this. This is torture. Watching your mate look at another woman the way you want him to look at you is torture. The way he looks at her says it all: He would risk everything for this woman, even if she doesn’t belong to him. 

Kali cracks a joke and the men laugh, bellowing out. August laughs the loudest; his large hands settle on his stomach, and my nails dig into my p……