The Possessive Alpha Chapter 131

ANDREW POV 

I don't know how long I have been pacing in the forest where Theo told me to meet him, but it feels like it's been hours. I hear a twig snap to my right as a pissed off Beta comes storming at me, his eyes pitch black as he glares daggers. Despite how angry he is, or the negative energy rolling off his body I cannot help the the relief surging through my veins knowing he is alive and unhurt. 

Memories from my childhood have been coming in drips and drabs, hidden tidbits changing my perception on things I thought I knew. "What the hell, Andrew?!" Theo roars, pulling me from my thoughts I shouldn't be having as I watch him yell at me. I don't respond as he veins pulse in his neck, and his arms fly about as he continues scolding me but I stay silent. "You couldn't call me and tell me my dad's in a wheelchair?"

Grappling with my distractions I find the words to speak, "I am sorry, your dad-" I explain but he cuts me off storming forward, a power in his steps that makes me shut my mouth. Have his eyes always been that honey brown? Or am I seeing things differently because of  the sunlight peaking through the clouds? 

"I don't care what my dad said or told you to do," he continues ranting as he steps closer, his scent filling my nose. I take a cautious step back overwhelmed by his closeness, and presence in my personal space. Afraid of what I might do, of how I might ruin one of the best friendships in my entire life by being a stupid idiot. "YOU should have told me! Out of all the people in my life I was expecting more from you."

I don't think I had ever heard him so disappointed in me before, "I am sorry, I wanted to tell you!" I try making my case but I know him well enough to know that he doesn't believe my words. 

"Wanting and doing are totally different, Drew, you and I both know that!" Theo's words hold a double edged meaning forcing me to blink and look away while he scoffs with a shake of the head. "I thought....you know what it doesn't matter what I thought, we aren't friends right now. Go back to New Moon, Drew!" He orders trying to storm away while I grab for his hand a warmth spreading from my fingertips up the rest of my arm. 

"Theo...please.." but he shoves my hand off, turning around before disappearing into the trees, "go home Andrew, today." I don't move a muscle, staring helplessly after him, defeat starting to creep in. Before I can head back to my car an herbal scent I recognize from human parties wafts into my nose. Whoever is at the other end is practically coughing up a lung forcing me to check it out. 

Walking outside the territory and behind the tree I find Xander and Fletcher passing a joint back and forth, when it dawns on me that they might have heard my entire conversation. "How much did you hear?" I demand. as Fletcher says nothing blowing his smoke above his head. 

"Enough to know you're in love with Theo," Xander comments, leaning against the tree, while he stares at his names looking bored like always. What is it about these two that Elle and Damon keep around? Because they drive the rest of us up the wall. 

"I am not gay!" I growl, glaring between the perpetual nuisances we are supposedly stuck with, my eyes flicking to the joint they keep passing between themselves. 

"Love doesn't really care if you identify as gay or not," Fletcher scoffs, shaking his head like he was sorry he needed to explain the concept further. 

"You shouldn't have that on pack lands," I remind them glancing at the joint they have been blatantly waving in my face. 

"That's why we are on this side of the border," Xander comments, with a noncommittal shrug before sauntering deeper into the woods with Fletcher, leaving me all alone to stare after them before making the journey back to my car.