Jesse's Redemption (manxman /werewolf || #lgbt)

Chapter Fifteen

Jesse

Tell me, do you notice when your other half just doesn't seem right? That sometimes, moments when they're so lost in thought that you wish you could badge into their brain and pick apart everything just so you could know what's wrong?

I do. I can tell Eric has something that's bugging him. ever since we mated I noticed he'd stare at me and not see me at the same time and no matter how much I ask he just shakes his head and cuts across the topic.

He smiles and it doesn't reach his eyes most times. I don't know what route to take in getting to the bottom of whatever's eating at him.

I bought us a house and all he said was 'wow, its pretty' I know my mate. I know how excited and carefree and beautiful he can be at new things, I bought a house for Pete's sake! I thought he'd go berserk decorating and shopping for furniture and housy stuff. But nooo... I had to go to home depot and sound like an idiot, pretty sure I looked like one too when I couldn't tell a stove from an oven.

Eric is seriously pressing on that part of me, that animal inside me. I just want to love him and protect him. My wolf is not very happy with me holding back. My wolf just wants to pin him down and demand to know what has him so ..un-Eric. And there is nothing I could do to stop him...I didn't want to be stopped because it seems that it's the only way I could get an answer out of him so we're going all dominant male on his ass.

I just need to find those bracelets Mrs. W gave us for Christmas first. I saw the way she looked at my wrist today at the pack meeting as if telling me with her eyes 'I'm gonna gnaw your hand off if you think you ain't gonna wear my present'.

I don't know where Eric put them, the last I saw them was on boxing day when we went to the lake and he shoved the in his pack! Bingo!

I ran to the closet and started digging around for Eric's back pack. "there you are you bugger" I muttered when I found the thing pushed under the last shelf. I sat and opened the pocket I saw him shove them in and pushed my hand inside only to grope a square box.

Extracting my hand I saw it was a black velvet jewelry box.

"what in the world?" I asked myself. Gently I opened the top and my breath caught at the sight of the pair of platinum bands lying side by side.

I brushed my finger over the shiny metal before taking one out and turning it around. They were a matching set and another thing caught my eye. Inscribed on the inside was the date of my and Eric's mating.

I wonder –

"where did you get that?" I heard someone snarl from behind me.

"um.. I .. well" why am I stuttering?

Eric looks pissed.

"what are these baby?" I asked standing holding the rings out to him.

"nothing" he mumbled and tried to snatch them from my hand.

"what do you mean nothing?" I pulled my hand back quickly.

"they're nothing alright" Eric grits out still trying to swipe them from me so now we're struggling around the closet.

"they don't look like nothing. They're inscribed with our mating date"

"give them back! Give them back!" Eric shouts pushing me against the shelves with a force I didn't believe he'd ever use. Shelves broke and clothes and shoes came crashing down around us as we fought for possession of the rings.

"no! not until you tell me what they're for" Eric was crying and screaming at me to give him the rings. I don't know why he's acting this way, sure they're fucking beautiful but he didn't have to flip out on me like this.