The Rejected Luna Queen

Alpha Bane's POV

I couldn't accept all that she said. There was certainly no way I was going to let her go away. My mind wouldn't let me do that. I needed her around me. She had to understand that.

It wasn't just me who thought that way. My wolf too. I was surprised to hear him continually howl from within me; proof that I was making the right choice.

As strange as it was, I had to come to one singular conclusion; I just might have been stuck with both women. It felt like I was a curse that I had to bear; just like my father. Perhaps, it was something that ran in the family. All I knew was that I couldn't let her leave the Pack for any reason at all.

Aurora was a woman that I couldn't bear to lose, no matter what. I needed her so badly and I had to make her see that.

Reaching out to her with my right hand once more, she drew her hands back, just like she did before, but this time, I wasn't about to let her get away with it.

I forcefully grabbed her hands with mine and kissed her knuckles. Then, I leaned in and kissed her on the cheek. "Please, don't leave yet," I begged her, hoping to convince her to stay.

"I'm so sorry, Alpha Bane, but I can't stay here," she said, with her eyes full of tears. "I have to go away from here; away from you, and I need to do that as quickly as possible."

She freed her hands from mine and continued with her speech. "I can't stay here with you any longer. I can't even spend the night here with you. I'm terrified of being left alone with you by my side as I'm not sure what's going to happen and we have to be careful; both of us. Can we leave now?"

Her words felt like a sharp blade, piercing my heart so deeply, with no intention to be taken out. I felt so hurt by all that she said as it made me feel like I was a very horrible person.

I wanted so badly to say something. I wanted to counter those words of hers. I needed her to see me differently. Yet, I knew it wasn't the best thing to do. She spoke like one whose mind was already made up and I could understand her.

Seeing no need to argue, I stood to my feet and helped her up. It was finally time to leave. The Blue Moon Pack was quite some distance away from where we were but somehow, we had to get back.

Aurora's POV

Alpha Bane grabbed my hand and helped me stand to my feet, never taking his eyes off mine as he did. I bent a bit to avoid eye contact as it was beginning to make me a bit uncomfortable.

"You know the way back from here?" I asked him, as I didn't seem to know where exactly we were to go and I dreaded being lost.

"Yeah... Sure, I do," he replied with a smile. "I've been here quite several times... Well, not exactly here, but I've passed through the roads above us to get to neighbouring Packs, so yeah, I'm quite familiar with this area. We only have to find a way around this area to get to the top without having to climb."

That was fair enough. At least, he did have an idea, even though he wasn't so certain. We walked at a very slow pace for a while until I decided it wasn't going to work that way. I had a feeling that he was stalling on purpose and I wanted us to be out of there.

The journey was a very awkward one as we spent about fifteen minutes without saying a word to each other. Then I felt it was on me to break the awkward silence between us and I did.

"What about your men and the carriage? We could get back faster if we found them on our way, you know."

He turned to me and shrugged. "I don't know. It's either one of two things. They might have gone back to the Pack to call for help as soon as they couldn't find me."

"What's the other option?"

"The assassin may just have killed them all. He and his men were very skilled and they took us unawares. I can't say it's beyond them to achieve that feat, despite the toughness of our men."

I froze on hearing that statement. The mention of the assassin brought a thought into my mind. I still hadn't told him the reason why I went there in the first place and he hadn't asked again since the last time.noveldrama

I was glad he didn't. I wasn't in the mood to share such information and I did not even want to have a deep conversation of any kind with him. I guessed he had forgotten all about it and so, I felt no need to push it any further.

After walking for about twenty more minutes, using our hands to separate the leaves that seemed to prevent us from moving forward as quickly as we wanted, we noticed a narrow passageway by our right and Alpha Bane paused to give it a long stare as though he was contemplating taking that route.

"Does it look familiar to you?" I asked, trying to find out what exactly was going

on.

He didn't say a word to me. Indeed, he might not have even heard me. Instead,

he began to move in that direction and I slowly followed behind. "Come," he said, motioning with his left hand for me to follow, without even looking backwards. If he did, he'd have noticed that I already was.

"I think I've seen this place before," he said to me, increasing his pace. "We should walk faster.".

In a few minutes, I began to notice that we were getting too familiar territory. I saw the redbud trees which I noticed as soon as I got out of the carriage on the day of the attack and I knew we were close.

"Faster," I called out to Alpha Bane. "We're almost there."

"Then we should slow down," he replied, promptly slowing his steps. "We don't know if those men are still here."

We stealthily walked until we got to where the carriages were abandoned and there was no one there; only the dead bodies of the warriors of our Pack and those of the assassin's men.

Alpha Bane took his time to walk to every man that fell whilst protecting him. From the way he looked at them and the tears in his eyes, which he held back from flowing from his cheeks, I knew that he loved them so much. It was an emotional moment and I gave him some time to grieve his men, standing by a corner and watching him.

"Let's go home," he said as soon as he got done and we walked back to the Pack, with him in front of me.

After about thirty minutes, we finally got to the border of our Pack and we stared each other in the eyes. We were finally home.