The Young Luna novel Chapter 40

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Chapter 40

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"Stop pacing" I sighed in annoyance.

"I'm thinking" my mate snapped back.

"You don't have to pace in order to think" I shot back. There was a moment of pause, as Seth froze, before he began to pace again. I closed my eyes, trying to control my anger, before turning over in the bed so that I couldn't see Seth pacing. I could still hear it and it was setting me on edge – if he carried on we'd be having a blazing argument. But, that was typical these days.

Seth and I had been living in the small, isolated, cabin for almost a month. It had been the worst month of my life. If Seth wasn't angry, he was depressed and if he was depressed then he was picking fights with me. We spent more time arguing that we did anything else anymore.

Seth was not taking being a lower rank easy. He refused to be involved in Pack events, and if he was then he was moody and stood at the pack unapproachable. I actually think the Pack were slightly glad that he wasn't getting too involved, they had no idea how to act around him. People kept slipping up and calling him 'Alpha' as they just weren't used to calling him anything else, and that was just like salt to a wound for Seth.

But later that day, Dale was calling a Pack meeting, so Seth couldn't avoid that. And he was nervous – hence the pacing back and forward. He hadn't slept last night, which meant that with him restless so was I. So, I was trying to get a few hours or sleep before the lunchtime Pack meeting. But, with Seth's pacing it wasn't going to happen for me.

Ten minutes later, Seth sighed and sat down on the side of the bed. "I don't know if I can go today" he muttered to me.

"You don't have a choice" I grumbled.

"How can I just stand there and watch him lead my Pack? Hearing people call him Alpha, people bowing down to him?" Seth ran a hand through his hair, "I don't know if can do it, May. It's going to drive me insane".

"You have to do it. You made the choice to stand down and now you have to live with it". I pulled the covers closer around my body, trying to keep my eyes closed.

"I'm so unhappy Mabel" he said softly, voice almost lost in the air.

"I will be too if you don't let me sleep, dammit" I snapped at him, turning over in the bed. Seth was silent for a few minutes, making me feel guilty, before he slipped into the bed behind me. His arms slipped around me as he cuddled into me. "I'm sorry" I whispered to him, "I didn't mean that".

"I know". He kissed my neck delicately as he breath tickled my skin. "I know you think I'm overreacting, May, but I'm not. I really don't think I can go to this Pack meeting".

"I don't think you're overreacting, Seth, but you don't have a choice. He's your Alpha now and you have to follow his rules". There was a few moments of silence before I spoke again, "you're not an Alpha anymore and there is nothing you can do about it".

"What if there was?" he questioned, voice soft as he tested the waters.

"There isn't, don't be wishful. You and I both know the moment you take over the Pack again that the Council will just intervene and we'll be right back to square one, with you an Alpha who has to answer for the pregnant woman in Yellowstone".

"Maybe".

I chose my next words carefully, "I'd rather see you miserable and alive than dead, Seth. Remember that".

Seth let me sleep for a few hours, before waking me up for the Pack meeting. I could see from the bags under his eyes that he hadn't slept any. I was worried that Seth was plotting something, something that was going to put him on the Council's kill list all over again. But I knew that he was going to do something, Seth was born to be an Alpha and he wasn't going to last doing much else in his life.

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