Nearing midnight
Hotei sighed as he faced another sleepless night for who knew how long. He wasn't sleeping, probably because he didn't have his mate curled up beside him. He didn't have his mate because she didn't feel the need to tell him she was going to be gone for a while. The Tainn lifted himself onto all fours, and manuevered his large bulk over his sleeping pack mates and out of the den. Agitation rolling off him in waves, he set out to due what he had been doing for the past two weeks: going off to gaurd the borders. It would help him blow off some much needed steam, not to mention help him work out all his anger until he was so exhausted he had no other option to drag himself into the den and sleep. Hotei held no problem with the role Jessie assumed in the pack. He knew she loved to scout and there was no way he could ever turn her away from her passion. He didn't even want to try. What really ticked him off though was that she didn't tell him she was leaving on a scouting mission for however long. One day she was here, the next she wasn't.
She was a scout, so she was out of the territory often. It came with the job, he got that. So thats why he had waited a couple days, assuming that she went on a scouting trip and would be back. He had waited a week, and nothing. Thats when he started getting angry. But when her scent started fading from the borders and the two week mark had hit, the Tainn became furious. If that wasn't enough, Drestig's scent had also started to fade so Hotei could only assume that his friend had tagged along...with his mate. For what, protection? Hotei could've done that. But he was still working on striving for his own role as guardian, and for that, he needed to be in the territory. Still, Jessie could've asked him to join her and he would've asked Triell. But Drestig? The very idea of his mate asking another man for protection made him see red. Jessie was his, no one else's. No matter how fucked up they were.
Hotei knew he wasn't thinking straight. He wasn't thinking logically. He was letting his anger get the best of him. Again. What he needed to do was calm the fuck down, but that probably wasn't going to help him. He was running on limited sleep and his fury seemed to be rolling off him in waves. So as he prowled the borders, he hoped to god no one crossed his path.