The Rejected Luna Queen novel Chapter 40

Alpha Bane's POV

"Do you want to mate with Dylan, my brother, instead of me?" I asked Aurora again, with my hand still firmly placed on her neck.

The more I looked at her, the more I felt the rage building up on my inside increase. I hadn't been that mad in a long time and I couldn't explain exactly how I felt.

All I could say for sure was that I had this subtle nudge to squeeze tighter as I let my emotions get over me. I kept squeezing, and although it was still not with excessive force, it was enough to make her struggle to break free in pain.

She said nothing, which seemed to further infuriate me. But then I looked into her eyes and saw that she was tearing up. She was in pain and I was the reason why. Suddenly, my tempers weren't flaring anymore. I calmed down all of a sudden and began to feel empathy instead of anger.

As her tears dropped to the floor, I looked at her hands and saw that they were shaky which convinced me that she was trembling in fright.

"Damn it!" I cursed, wondering what exactly had come over me as it was quite strange. It wasn't like me to get that aggressive, especially when it was a lady in question.

I quickly removed my hand from her neck and thought about what to say next. I was certain that there was no amount of pleading that could salvage the situation but I just had to try.

"Please, Aurora," I begged her, hoping that somehow, it was going to get her to listen to me. It didn't. She just stared at me and said nothing. I thought I should try one more time.

"I don't know what I was thinking Aurora, I should never have done this. I can't explain what just happened to me. You have to listen to me. I'm very sorry…" I kept on saying, over and over again, all to no avail.

She sniffed and before I could finish what I had to say, she stood and ran away without caring a bit about what it was that I had to say to her.

As she hurriedly left, crying all the way, I hit myself very hard with my palms. It was all my fault. I could have prevented all that had happened. What a fool I was!

I couldn't quite explain what went on inside me; why I felt so angry and enraged. I couldn't tell why I asked her that question. I regretted every bit of what I said and I was at a crossroads. Follow her? Let her leave for now?

I had no answers to those questions as indecisiveness became a buddy to me. I walked a few steps in her direction and then thought again following her. I felt it was only going to make things worse than they already were. So I had to let her go so she could have some time to herself. Besides, that was the very reason she went to the garden in the first place. Perhaps, I should have let her have that instead of talking to her that way. I should have given her some space.

As I began to walk away from the garden, I felt something wet touch my face. It wasn't about to rain so it couldn't have been that.

I lifted my right hand and that's when I saw that there was some blood there. I didn't notice it earlier. Then, it occurred to me that I must have gotten injured during my fight with my useless brother, Dylan.

"Damn it!" I cursed out aloud. I never liked it when I bled for any reason. I didn't know why I never noticed that I had such an injury. It was good that I finally saw it

I hit my hand on my head as I tried to stop the bleeding as much as I could, before gently walking away.