DON'T LEAVE ME LUNA

He wants some time

Upon reaching the pack house, I was instantly greeted with some pack members. I greeted them trying to come up with the best smile I could.

I entered the office to a mess of files scattered everywhere on the desk, the disarray making me mad until I realised I was the one rummaged through them to find one particular file yesterday in hurry for the meeting.

I did that quite often than not but they would be in order the next morning everytime. Seb made sure to arrange them in an order because he knows how much I struggle with finding the ones I want. Even going as far as arranging them in different sections according to their category.

Maybe going to university does make you have your s**t together.

Thinking about Seb my mind drifts back to the same question again.

Would he be mad at me for getting home really late considering I haven't told him about doing so at all.

Should I text him about it now or is it better to apologise in person.

I decided on doing the latter, just a text would be really rude since he always called if he's going to be late.

After arranging the files in an order, I sat there going through some of them.

Time seemed to be going really slow today, I glanced at the clock again, it showed half past twelve.

Seb should be done with his classes by now. He should be here in an hour.So I decided to do some more stalling while I waited for him.

I can't help but to check my watch every two minutes.

One more hour passed but no sign of him.

Two hours passed.

Three hours passed.

Still no sign of him.

My anxiety raising with every passing minute, thinking about all of the possibilities as to why he isn't here yet.

What if he got home and decided to stay there?

I got up wasting no time, making my way towards the door thinking that might be the case, I went straight to my car fishing for keys in my pocket.

"Leo!"

I heard someone calling me from behind, I turned around already recognising that voice as Fred,the former beta and a close friend of my dad and beside him is alpha Caleb, my dad.

Both walking towards me, Fred with a cheerful expression as always and my dad with his usual indifferent expression.

The universe is really against me seeing my mate.

"Looks like you are going somewhere"

Fred comments looking at keys in my hand.

" Yeah" I nod my head looking at my dad expecting him to tell me what are they here for. My dad turns to his friend signalling something, as if understanding it, Fred nods.

"I'm here to check the new weapons in armoury, I'll be back once I'm done" making up an excuse, he left leaving both of us alone.

Something is definitely up.

I turned to my dad genuinely confused, his usual stoic expression turned into a pitiful one.

I don't have a good feeling about this.

" Come! we'll talk in the office" he started walking expecting me to follow behind, which I did.

Once we both got seated, I raised my eyes meeting his. He's stressed.

" Is everything okay, Dad ?"

"Yeah, yeah! everything's alright" he answers looking everywhere else to avoid looking at me. Definitely something is not right.

" How are you doing these days?" He tries going for a small talk making my fears worse.My dad and I are never one for small talks, we'd rather sit in silence unless there's something that's groundbreaking to talk about that have the potential to change our lives, It's our thing.

So him trying to start one now isn't a good sign because it always followed by a groundbreaking topic like I mentioned earlier.

"I'm good! just.. busy." I tried to go along with him to ease him into whatever he's going to say next.

"Oh! Good" He replies his voice faltering a bit, he looks deep in thought. Before I could comment on it . He starts talking again.

" How are things at home?"

"At home?" I question in return looking at him trying to decipher what could he possibly meant by 'home'.

I'm getting genuinely confused at this point. As if sensing it. " How are things going on with Seb?" he asks again, providing me with more context this time.

Alarms started blaring in my head at the mention of my mate, I've seen this conversation going many directions but Seb isn't one of it.

"He's doing great!" I answered wasting no time as it involved my mate. " Dad!" I called him making him look up at me. I can't let him drag this more. I met his eyes looking pleadingly. He understood it.

He let out a sigh straightening up in his chair as if we preparing me for what's about to come next.

"Seb visited me this morning." He said, his voice going quiet at the end.

"He said he wanted to go home to visit his family and stay there for few days."

There's a mix of feelings I felt at that moment.

There's dissapointment, that I won't be able to see him today.

Sadness, about having to be apart from my mate.

Confusion, as to why I'm hearing this from my dad instead of my mate.

Fear, that if it's something I did, that made him take that decision.

"Leo!" my dad calls me softly, I didn't dare to look up."I didn't knew, He didn't- tell me about it." I reply making it my turn to avoid his eyes now.

"He looked moody, not like his usual self, so I thought something must have happened at home" my dad says with a fond smile on his face like he always did while taking about Seb.

Dad liked him so much, which is rare occurrence, he normally despised most, but as an alpha it's his job to deal with people all the time, so he just tolerated them, he only trusted few people only after knowing them from inside out, but with Seb it's different.

He liked him from the first meet itself and after observing him only for few days, he declared him to be the best mate I could ever get. Honestly that's the truth.

"Did you guys have a fight?" He asks making me freeze for a moment, Did we fight? We haven't even talked in past twenty four hours, how could we possibly fight.

I quickly nodded no.

Seb is not the one to blow things out of proportion, yeah he might be mad at disappearing on him without a warning but he would rather sit and talk to me about it, if worse lecture me. But he wouldn't leave the house just for that.

Meaning it might be something serious than that and probably something I did. It must be serious, serious enough to hurt him.

"Whatever it is, it's totally normal for mates to have misunderstandings, little arguments and fights especially in the first few months. Goddess knows how much your mom and I fought in first few months" Dad spoke in a more amiable way to comfort me, mentioning of mom making both of us smile.

I never thought he would be one for the 'mate' talk. But I was wrong apparently.

"From what it seemed, he needs some time for himself and it's also better for both of you to spend some time apart" He said nodding to himself.

I nodded along with him as if agreeing with him but honestly, I couldn't come up with one reason as to what good that does.

I don't want to be apart from him, even for a day.

"You should think about taking some time for yourself too and maybe talk to him about it in the meanwhile." Dad adviced, getting up from the chair ready to leave. He gently patted my shoulder for encouragement and

left the room leaving me to wonder.

What the hell could I have possibly done to hurt my mate?