𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝙱𝚎𝚝𝚊 & 𝙷𝚒𝚜 𝙼𝚎𝚍𝚒𝚞𝚖 (𝚋𝚡𝚋)

33:He F*cking Bolted.

Kit Brown on top.

                                                          He Fucking Bolted.

Sighing, Caleb looked over at the closed doors of his mate's office. After the meeting was over, Elrid requested that he take him to his home. He closed the door of his office in their face without even saying anything. Even Miles was exiled from there.

For a moment, the beta didn't know what to do. Is giving space the best solution for his mate's mental health, or should he pester Bambi like Ares orders him to do? His pacing must've triggered his future sister-in-law, because Esa had tugged him to sit beside her and Jaemin. Where Jaemin gently informed about his son's practices after some traumatic sights. And considering how exhausting his Bambi was after the nightm- ah, vision, Caleb didn't want to intrude on whatever Elrid was doing inside his sanctuary to refresh his mind and soul. Caleb isn't sure how this emotional and energy sponge thing works. It's kinda confusing. But if his mate needed time from every human and supernatural, then Caleb was going to give him, even if he didn't have to like it. So, the beta didn't try to interrupt him even through their bond. Instead, he spent the day with his future in-laws. Continuing to answer Sylvia's questionnaire about his pack life, because the only werewolf she knew was a loner. Playing and helping Esa with her homework. He liked the little girl; she looked like a mini-Sylvia with her bluish eyes and brown curls, but much more subdued than her mother, and shared the silence with Jaemin.

"When will he come back?" Caleb couldn't help but ask as he glanced at the closed window.

They were sitting at the table near the oak tree in the backyard of the Forest household, drinking some purplish sweet water- courtesy of Jaemin- and munching on some types of Korean sweets and snacks as Jaemin read some files from his work.

"Maybe an hour or some hours. If not a day." His future father-in-law shrugged.

"Sometimes he takes a walk. For hours," Sylvia muttered from where she was lying on a hammock.

"Eli loves walks", Esa exclaimed. "And forest. Eli says even when the forest has ghosts, the forest is always silent. So, it makes him ah.... ground?" She tilted her head in confusion.

"Grounded", flipping through the pages, Jaemin provided.

Giggling, Esa nodded her head. "Yes, grounded."

"Oh, if Eli likes the forest, what do you like, Esa?" leaning to his left, Caleb asked the girl.

"Insects! And oceans! Eli helps me collect insects," grabbing a keychain with a dead butterfly on its end, Esa jumped to her feet. "Look, Dad made me this" he thought Jaemin was working in some IT company. Maybe it's his hobby.

As if hearing his question, the little girl continued, "Dad taught it himself cause Mom is scared of bugs, and Eli kept breaking their wings"

Ah, "that looks good," Esa preened under his smile, proud of her collection.

IT TOOK A Day for Elrid to open his door. And Caleb had to say his mate looked much better than he looked yesterday. And he wanted a walk. Well, who was Caleb to deny his Bambi's wants?

"It's a date", tilting his head at the basket, Caleb announced when he saw the questioning look on Elrid's face.

"Picnic date?"