The Future Alpha's Luna

Chapter 5

It had been a week since the last time I saw Lucas. My wolf was restless from the distance. I couldn't ignore the pang in my chest at his absence. He hadn't even texted me. I know, I know, the phone goes both ways. I just figured if he wanted to talk to me he would have.

I spent that week avoiding all people and conversations. Especially with Blake and my father. I was in a gloomy funk, it was almost like I couldn't control it.

I didn't want people questioning me, though the only ones who seemed to notice were Joey and my mother. Being Luna she just has that extra intuition, plus my mom could always read me like a book.

Joey, being my protector has a sort of two sense when it comes to me. He can always tell when something is wrong with me, not to mention the way he's always watching over me. It would be hard to miss with how serious he takes his roll.

I still hadn't had the fateful conversation with Blake. To be honest I was scared. I had never broken up with anyone, let alone sweet caring Blake.

We had always expected this break up, once the two of us were united with our true soul mates. It's not as if I could come right out and say I found my mate. He would tell my brother who would tell my father and they would all end up wanting to know who this guy was. Imagine me telling dad I'm mated to his enemies son. The laugh we would have.

So no, I was going to have to make some lame excuse up to Blake about not wanting to get attached. That was about the best I could come up with. Or blaming my dad, that one sounded pretty believable.

"Alright enough, what the hell is going on with you?" I was abruptly interrupted from my thoughts by none other than Joey. We were hiding out in my TV room.

The day before Dustin's mate Rachel officially moved to or territory and left her old pack Mystic Moon. The two are living here until they finish building their new home. It has been the most disturbing and nauseating 24 hours of my life, when they aren't locked in their bedroom their giving each other looks that say they want to be locked in the bedroom. I don't think I need I specify what their doing in said bedroom.

So Joey and I are having a One Tree Hill marathon to block out the noises of my brother and Rachel mating for the umpteenth time since she's arrived.

Yes Joey loves watching drama filled tv shows with me. He'll deny it to his grave, claiming he only watches them for me, but he totally cried when Keith died.

"Huh? What do you mean?" Act casual Elena.

"You haven't been looking at the tv for the last hour and Nathan had his shirt off. Nor have you touched your popcorn. It has chocolate chips in it. Lena doesn't ignore popcorn with chocolate chips!"
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"Off day?" I shrugged.

"More like off week, you've been moping around and ignoring Blake. I swear if he did something to you i'll-"

"No! No he didn't do anything." I shook my head rapidly with wide eyes to assure him. His hard posture softened a bit.

"Then what is it?"

I sighed and contemplated telling him. I could trust Joey, I know I could. He would do anything to protect me even if it meant keeping the secret from his Alpha. But did I want to put him in that position? No, I couldn't do that to him.

"I think I need to go for a run, let my wolf stretch a bit."

Joey grinned widely at my suggestion. He always accompanied me on my runs. We didn't necessarily run together but he would always be somewhere in the woods in wolf form. That way he could get to me if anything were to happen. It's tough and annoying being babied all of the time, but it's always been like that.