The Rejected Luna Queen novel Chapter 31

Dylan's POV

My face was sore and I could feel blood trickling down from my nose as Bane continued to hit me as hard as he could with Sophia screaming for him to stop. He was like a madman unchained. The fury in him was uncontrollable.

It wasn't that he was stronger than I was. I was just taken unawares; coupled with the momentary guilt that I felt on seeing him. But all that didn't matter at the moment. All that mattered was finding a way to leave the room and the Pack altogether.

I grabbed his right hand as he tried to hit me once again, and rolled to my left, evading his attempt to hit me with the other hand. Then I threw two punches in his direction just to distract him a little bit and enable me to find a way to escape.

It worked. He ducked, avoiding my punches but then I pushed him with both hands with the greatest force I could muster.

He didn't fall as I thought he would, but he moved backwards, creating the perfect opportunity for me and I grabbed it with both hands.

I went straight for the door without looking back at all and immediately opened the door. He dived and held onto my leg in a bid to stop me but I stamped my right foot on his arm, breaking the hold, before running out as fast as I could.

I was half-naked but I didn't care. Of what use was a fully dressed man if he had not his life? None! I dashed toward my room, hopeful that Bane wasn't behind me.

As I ran, I could see some guards and maids gawking at me as if I was mad. If I had my way, I'd have turned around to teach them the lesson of their lives; one that a few of them might not live to tell others. But all those meant nothing at the time. I was intent on getting to my room as my life depended on it.

I knew it wasn't going to be long before Bane would send the guards after me. I never accepted him as the Alpha but I wasn't stupid enough to not recognize that he was. It was only going to take one word for all the guards there to gang up against me. Any plan that I had to make needed to be done with some urgency. I wasn't prepared to die just yet.

As I got to my room, I saw my personal guard, standing right in front of the door. "Why wasn't I told about Bane's arrival to the Pack?" I screamed at him with rage in my eyes before walking into the room. "Shut that door!"

He walked in and closed the door behind me and then proceeded toward me. "I'm so sorry, Sir. I didn't…"

"Get out of this place right now!" I barked at him, unwilling to listen to whatever flimsy excuses that he had to give. "Stand outside the door and make sure no one gets in here until I've gone out. Call Johnny right now and tell him that he should be here this instant. I don't need to tell you how urgent it is, do I? Get to it!"

He bowed, turned around and walked away, shutting the door as soon as he left.

As soon as he left, I began to wonder how Bane managed to survive, talk more of getting back to the Pack so quickly. I was told that he was pushed off the cliff, just like I planned. How on Earth did he manage to survive?

It only meant one thing; I had sent a bunch of incompetent fools in the name of assassins who failed woefully in their job and had the guts to lie to me that they had done the job. I wished I could lay my hands on one of them. I was so livid as they had managed to draw my ire.

My door swung wide open and I gasped, thinking it was Bane. Thankfully, it wasn't. It was Johnny, my friend. He responded to my call very swiftly.

"You should knock before entering my room, shouldn't you?" I asked, wondering why he felt the need to just barge into my room.