Alpha's Blind Luna novel Chapter 19

I was leaning against a tree, waiting for Bryan to come down the road. I was exhausted and so was Cato. I felt myself hanging on by a thread. The snapping and pull of the mate bond had only gotten worse. Especially when Cato had finally picked up her scent in the early morning hours. We looped around and followed it. It stopped at a payphone about an hour from where Bryan had dropped me off. But then the scent just disappeared. I figured she had used the payphone to call a ride and the scent disappearing into the vehicle.

I was frustrated enough to destroy the payphone but I had looped back around. I looked at my watch and rubbed my eyebrows. Bryan was taking his sweet ass time. It was already 9am and I had called him an hour ago to pick me up. I could feel the darkness under my eyes imbed itself deeper and I just wanted to sleep.

It wasn’t until another half hour passed before I heard the Jeep come down the road, turning off the road. The front door slammed shut and Bryan came over with my clothing from last night.

“Sorry Alpha, I was across the other side of the city getting clothes.” His voice was chipper and I growled. It grated on my nerves. The headache that had only gotten worse from last night.

“Shut up Bryan. Just go back to the hotel. I’m fucking tired.”

There was silence for a while as he drove.

“Did you pick up her scent?”

“Yeah, but by the time I did, she was long gone. Got picked up at a payphone on the other side of town.”

“Oh. I’m glad I purchased two nights then for the room.” He was quiet as he wove through the morning traffic.

Pulling into the Hilton hotel, he took out three shopping bag. I just hopped out and allowed Bryan lead the way up to the room. He had purchased the suite and I just headed straight into the shower. When I got out, he was ironing the shirts and pants he bought, hanging them up in the closet when he finished.

“I’m gonna try and sleep.” I mumbled as I walked past him.

“Did you want me to order some food for you?”

I shook my head. “I’ll get something when I wake up.”

Childishly flopping down on the bed, I chose the side that Bryan hadn’t already messed up from sleeping the night. The pillow smelled clean and was devoid of anything too overpowering. Closing my eyes, I tried to sleep.

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I jolted awake for the third time and finally sat up. For the last four hours, almost on the hour I would wake up. Fully awake, adrenaline pumping through my veins. I was pissed the first time it happened, considering the level of exhaustion I was, but now I was livid. I wanted to throw something, throw the whole damn bed.

“FUCK!”

Bryan peered over from he couch he was sitting at, chopsticks in his hand and noodles hanging out of his mouth. “Having trouble sleeping Alpha?” He slurped up the noodles and I felt the sounds literally three times as loud in my head.

“Do you have to slurp that shit so damn loud?”

He blinked, shocked. “You okay?”

“No I’m not! I’ve got a splitting headache. I can’t fucking sleeping. I feel as though my insides are being torn apart and I’ve got you here slurping noodles at a decimal that would shake the windows.”

Bryan put his hands up, chop sticks in the air. “Sorry Alpha, I was being as quiet as I could be. You didn’t seem to mind when I was eating the chips. I thought noodles would be the least of my worries.”

I sat on the couch next to him. “I’m sorry.” I rubbed my neck and then my eyes. “I feel like I’m fraying inside. Like I’m unraveling and fraying.”

“The mate bond is a scary thing. I don’t know if I want a mate anymore if this what happened.” Bryan mused as he ate his noodles, quieter than the earlier slurp.

I leaned my head back on the couch. “Let’s hope you don’t do something stupid enough to make your mate run away from you.”

He chuckled and patted my knee. “We’ll get her back Alpha. She was meant to be Luna. Image going through everything she has gone through and still smiling every day, still caring about people. I know I would say to hell with all of them and just live out as a hermit.”

“You saying I’m lucky she didn’t reject me?”

Bryan took another bite of his noodles and just shrugged. “Noodles?”

I shook my head. “I can’t even think of stomaching anything right now.”

We sat in silence for a moment. I tried to reach out through the mate bond again, still nothing. I swallowed hard. What if she didn’t want to come back? What if that was it, her last straw with the pack mentality? Bryan said that we would get her back but even if I was able to talk to her, would that even mean she would come back? I started to panic.

“Alpha, chill.” Bryan was looking over at me, worried. “Maybe I should call Hector…”

“No. I’m fine. Don’t bother Hector. We will go tonight and it will be fine.”