so long as you're ok im ok

the beta was content to sit aside and allow the banter between luke and his mate continue, but at blue willow's firm insistence that the pale man remain, tempered with her well-meant scolding, he stepped quietly to her side. "while i wish him to stay also," he rejoined with a fond look directed at luke, "we must trust him to make travel gentle upon his form. i too would like to know that saena fared well."

we cannot lose another, he attempted to convey in his shared gaze with his mate, leaning forward to nudge her cheek before he moved to brush luke's shoulder with his own.