My little Judith

Forty-five

Alec POV

After my shower I dried off and got dressed. I went downstairs to get food and a drink. All I want to do is sleep, I'm exhausted and I want to lay down next to my mate, hold her close to my chest and sleep. Never in my life have I felt this drained before. I mean I've done all day and all night at work, sometimes days on end without sleep or a break and never have I felt this drained.

But now it feels like I could sleep for years. All because I went a night without Judith. I just want to hold her. After drying my hair, I took my towel down to the kitchen so I could leave it in the basket ready to be washed. Looking in the living room the people were the same, the only difference was that Whitney was awake.

"Are you okay, Alec?" Marco asked. I shook my head and looked at my feet.

"Does it look like I'm okay. If I was okay I'd be upstairs with my mate right now. If I was okay none of you'd be here because Judith would be laying with me not her mother. So no Marco, I'm far from okay." I spat out.

"Harriette has spoken to her. When she wakes up both of you are going to talk things out. And I mean talk, not shout. Things never get resolved when you shout. We're going to go to Marco's house to have breakfast to let you and Judith have that time. You know where we'll be if you need us." Damien stated.

"I don't fucking need you, Damien. None of you. I need my mate to know I fucked up and I know that. I'm tired, I'm so fucking exhausted and all I want to do is go upstairs to lay with my mate. But I can't do that, I can't even lay in my own damn bed because you and Harriette jump in every time she cries for you. We're mates, a partnership and we need to do shit on our own." I told him frustratedly.

"You left my daughter here alone. In a house where anything could've happened." He growled.

"So she wouldn't leave. I'd rather leave instead of her in a place she's never even been to. Where could she have gone? She has no one here, I have places to go. I'd rather leave her here where she is warm and has a bed to sleep in than her walk the pack alone and not have anywhere to go. I gave her time to cool off because we both shouted, we both cried and yelled and wanted to strangle the shit out of each other. But we didn't. I didn't leave her, I'd never leave her. I went for a walk to calm down while she could stay here and calm down too. So don't you dare say I left my mate." I growled back just a lowly.

"Damien." Harriette walked into the living room. "Our daughter is asleep. Shut up. If she wakes up I'll ring your neck. She's had a long night, both of them have." She came over to me. "You need to sleep. Take care of yourself too."

"Is she okay?" I whispered looking down at her.

"Honestly, no. She thought you two broke up. She was adamant on coming home with us today. But she did want to find you so she could talk to you. Judith fell asleep crying because we wouldn't let her come find you in the middle of the night. Where did you go anyway?" Harriette told me.

"I went for a walk." I muttered.

"Did you go to see Mandy?" Marco asked.

"No." I shook my head. "But I did see her. I told her that I only saw her as a sister, like I was speaking to Lola. She was just there so I could talk about things. She got the wrong idea and caused shit, that's why Judith and I argued. I made it very clear to Mandy that I never saw her as anything more than a sister, of course I had thoughts before Judith's eighteenth but I didn't act upon it. Judith even admitted to me that she thought about other people as well instead of waiting, so she can't say shit about it because she also had them thoughts. I understand I didn't help the situation, but neither did Judith. We were both in the wrong, and her telling me to go to Mandy when I don't give two fucks about Mandy didn't help. Nothing about last night was okay and all I want to do is fix it."