The Young Luna

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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".

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

said softly, voice almost lost

silent for a few minutes, making me feel guilty,

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

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

there was?" he questioned, voice

both know the moment you take over the Pack again that the Council will just intervene

"Maybe".

next words carefully, "I'd rather see you

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

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jeans and a shirt. I still couldn't get used to the look of him in casual clothing, because before he was demoted I had never seen him in anything other than a designer suit. Seth

Pack meeting so I was happy. I took his hand, making sure he didn't change his mind, and made the half mile walk to the centre of the Pack village. People glanced over at us as we joined the crowd, but people quickly looked away before making eye contact – they didn't know how to

Luna. I was especially annoyed at Sofia, considering that they'd kicked us out of our house but hadn't moved into the Alpha house. Sofia didn't want to live in the house, as she loved the house she was already in, but Dale said it went against the rules to let us live in the house designed for the Alpha. So, currently our house was unlived

new order of things. To them, Dale and Sofia had been neighbours and friends and people who were just normal

didn't actually have anything against Sofia, she had always been nice to me and after finding out that he had no idea that Dale had kicked us out of the house,

everyone silently listened. I had hold of Seth's hand, terrified he was going to do something he'd later regret. Then, I dropped his hand the moment that Dale began telling us the real reason

lips pulled back in a snarl but he didn't make a noise. "He still holds this Pack responsible for the placement of his members in Yellowstone back in the nineties. So, we

information. Going to war was one thing, going to war under the leadership of

on talking to the Pack, "we need to be fighting at our full capacity. Previously, the ruling was that no Wolf under twenty one and no Wolf over fifty could fight in this war. However, I am changing this rule. Every Wolf, male or female, who