Chapter 15: Cohen

“I ruined dinner,” she cries, her tears running down my chest as I gently begin rocking the swing back and forth.

I press my lips against her forehead.

“It was your first try. You said so yourself. You’ll get better,” I tell her softly.

She shakes her head. “It was supposed to make the pack feel better, comfort food because of everything that has happened. I can feel how sad everyone is and I just wanted to do something nice for them, and I ruined it,” she says and by the end, she’s sobbing again.

I hold her while she cries, rocking her gently as the night breeze blows over us.

“The pack knows why you did this, Malin. They appreciate your efforts. If they didn’t, trust me, they wouldn’t have tried to eat it,” I tell her.

“And you’re so tired," she begins as if I didn't say anything. "You’re taking on so much of the pack’s emotions, taking it all on yourself since I’m not your official Luna yet and now, here you are having to console me too. I bet you wish you were mated to someon