THE ALPHA'S TWIN MATE

Worried

In the quiet house where everyone is already sleeping as it's past midnight, Bella sat on one of the couches in the living room. The house is dark as all the lights are turned off. Her mind has numerous thoughts constantly running in and her heart is beating like crazy. Shee intertwined both his hands which are now sweating badly. She put natty to bed long hours ago and the maids and cooks also went to their respective rooms to sleep. But she alone sat in the dark, her mind busy with thoughts.

She sighs before getting up and walking to the huge window. Looking outside, she sees nothing. With a dejected look, she turns around and makes her way back to the couch. Grabbing her phone from the table, she looks at it but there's no call as she expected and that makes her mind think wild. She reads the time on the screen which shows 12:30. She sighs yet again before throwing the phone on the couch and slumping down. Just then she hears the sound of Xavier's car and hurriedly walks to the window. Her guess turns out right as Xavier's car parks in the place and Xavier hops out before walking to the door. Seeing this, Bella moves to the door and opens it just at the e the t time as Xavier was about to ring the doorbell. Xavier smiles when his eyes land on Bella but his smile disappears when he sees Bella frowning before turning around and walking to the elevator. Xavier doesn't say anything, he hurriedly closes the door and locks it before following Bella to their room. Even after reaching the room, Bella doesn't talk anything to him. She just gets on the bed and goes to sleep. Xavier frowns but before he approaches Bella, he goes to the bathroom and washes up. Dressing in his nightwear, Xavier heads to Aubrey's cradle and watches her sleeping peacefully. Smiling at her, he moves to the bed and gets on it as he lies next to Bella.

Just like any other day, he snuggles closer to Bella and wraps his hand around her before pulling Bella to him. But unlike every day, Bella pushes him away and creates distance between them, almost laying on the edge of the bed. Xavier's frown deepens and moves forward before keeping his hands again on Bella. Like before, Bella pushes him away before she turns around and glares at Xavier. Though she's glaring at him angrily, all Xavier can see in her eyes is fear and sadness.

"Honey, what's wrong?" Xavier asks Bella as he sits up.

However, Bella won't reply anything to him and she steps down from the bed, almost going to leave the room. Before she could, Xavier grabs her hand and stops him from leaving.

"Where are you, Bella? Did something happen?" Xavier queries her worriedly seeing how Bella was going to leave him.

"Nothing," Bella answers, trying to pull her hand away from Xavier's hold.

"Lie! You're lying. If there's nothing, you wouldn't behave like this. You look angry, you're not talking to me rather you're trying to run away from me. So, don't say it's nothing. Tell me what's happening?" Xavier questions, his voice hard, and with no room for argument.

She turned Bella around and stood face to face to each other. As he gazes at Bella, even in the darkroom he finds tears glistening in Bella's eyes. That scares Xavier, he takes a step forward and lets go of Bella's hand before grabbing her face and looking at her worriedly.

"You're worrying me, Bella. Tell me what's wrong." Xavier pleads with Bella by calling her by his name which he does only when things get serious.

"Where were you until now?" Bella asks Xavier in return.

"In the office," Xavier replies as a matter of fact.

"It's past midnight, you never worked until this late." Bella counters as if he's interrogating Xavier.

"Yeah, it's because I was caught up with work. The final reports which we submitted about the new project turned out to be inaccurate so we had to redo everything from the beginning." Xavier explains the situation.

Usually, every day Xavier would be home by four in the evening as it's only been two months since the accident. During this whole month, he would go to the office by ten in the morning and get back home at three, four, or whichever time is convenient to him. But this past week has been hectic for him as they recently agreed with a party for a Xavier project. He and his team have been working on it diligently. Because of this, he has been coming home at six, seven, or sometimes even at eight.

Xavier did inform Bella about the project and the reason why he's coming home late.

And Bella understood, she never questioned Xavier. According to what Xavier said before, today is the last day the project would be submitted and because of that, he would be home early as there won't be anything that they need to do later.

Bella was happy with the news. Though she won't openly admit it, she missed Xavier and spending time with him. As Xavier was coming late, they would just eat dinner together and Xavier would sleep early because of being tired from work. So, when Xavier said he will be early today, Bella was so excited and happy. She had been waiting for Xavier from 6 o'clock. As time passed by, her excitement diminished rather she started feeling nervous thinking if something had happened to Xavier.

After ten, Bella was scared shitless, and anxious about Xavier. She at least expected a call or a message from Xavier because knowing everything is fine would put her at ease. But he didn't get any such message. When she called Xavier, she received no response from her husband and that added more worry to her.

"You could have informed me, a call or a message would do. You know have been waiting for you since evening. You won't call nor answer when I called you. I was so scared thinking if something happened to you. If you were so busy, y-you could have at least sent a message to me." Bella cries out, the tears which she has been holding until now wouldn't stop anymore.

"Honey, don't cry." Xavier urges as he pulls Bella into a hug.

It was his mistake and he accepts it, there's no denying it. He got so busy with work that he completely forgot about the phone. As the project has been sent back, he got worried and when he learned that everything needs to be redone, he was disappointed. Worrying about the project completely took over his mind. He didn't want to get disturbed while working on the corrections so he put his phone on silent. He didn't bother to charge it even when the battery was dead. He thought he would be home anyway but he didn't think he made his Wife worried so much.

"I'm sorry, Honey. I didn't mean to do this.

I was so caught up with work that I didn't think about calling you. I'm sorry for worrying you so much." Xavier apologizes as he softly rubs Bella's back.

Hearing Xavier's words, Bella relaxes she felt relieved when she saw Xavier coming home but knowing what had happened made her feel better. Blame it on the trauma because of the accident or say she was overreacting, she wouldn't bother. To her, it was almost unbearable to wait for Xavier not knowing what happened to him and whether he would come back home or not. Her mind had thoughts of its own.

Slowly, her crying calms down and she gently pulls away from Xavier before looking at him.

"You're not forgiven, I'm still angry," Bella says, trying to sound stern but she only ends up being cute.

"Aww, Honey, said I didn't mean to." Xavier pouts and brings Bella back to bed.

"It doesn't matter. You scared me to death. A simple call or message from you would put me at ease. You don't know what was I going through while waiting for you." Bella responds sadly."Honey, I'm sorry. From now on, wherever I go and however busy I get, I'll never forget to inform you of my whereabouts. No repeating of this." Xavier says genuinely as he feels guilty for his behavior.

"Do remember this promise. You're not allowed to leave me, ever." Bella tells while pointing a finger, like a mother scolding her child.

Bella was so scared that at one point she thought something bad would happen to Xavier and he would leave her. It was heartbreaking, even just the thought.

"Of course, Honey. I'm going to stick to you like your soul. Not going to leave you, never." Xavier promises a forever promise.