The Rejected Luna Queen novel Chapter 52

Alpha Bane's POV

I lay on my bed, feeling so sick. I touched my head from time to time, just to be sure that my wound had indeed healed as I was still shocked at how I could still be in such pain when my wound was healed on the outside.

It was something that I had never experienced in my life. It looked so new to me and I wished I didn't have to experience it. I never imagined at any point that I'd be unable to stand and move around the way I wanted to. I never pictured myself confined to my bed for any reason.

Indeed, I had always thought that it was only old men who had the right to be bedridden. In my mind, I tagged any young man who was bedridden as a weakling who couldn't muster up the strength needed to stand up and go about his business. Never did I imagine that I'd be that man. I'd have used less harsh words if I did.

My instinct told me to keep the news between myself and just a few people. I did just that. It was only my father, my Beta and a few close guards of mine that knew of my condition and I hoped to keep it that way. I didn't want any unnecessary drama or gossip spreading all around the palace about the Alpha who can't stand.

News like that was capable of making my subordinates look down on me and that is what I didn't want. Whenever the fear factor got removed from a leader, a lot of things were bound to go wrong. It was a very dangerous game in any Pack, especially one like mine which had a lot of crises already due to all that was happening. I was wise enough to understand what I was trying to avoid.

On the day that I realised that the pain was too much and wasn't something that could let me move around as I used to, I called in my guard and asked him to call in two other trusted guards…

"I need you to go to my father and Donald and tell them that I need them very quickly," I said to them before giving them an instruction concerning how they should handle the news. "I don't want to hear a word about this in the mouth of anyone in this Pack. If I find out that any one of you decided to tell someone else who isn't here about my condition, you'll be in very big trouble."

They nodded and left the room to do as they were told and they had kept their word to me and weren't looking to break it. They were the men that I could trust and I trusted them wholly because for many years, they had proven themselves to be worthy of that trust.

I heard a knock on my door and I wondered who it was that wanted to see me. It hadn't been so long since I finished speaking with my dad and I wasn't expecting anyone.

The door was opened and I stared at the door intently to see who it was. It was Donald and he walked in with caution, turning to look right and left before shutting the door behind him.

As he walked in, I adjusted a bit so that I would not only hear him clearly but also be able to communicate effectively. "My Alpha," he began to say. "I bring news that the Alpha and Luna of the Silver Moon Pack have arrived from their Pack as they had said. I heard they're in the throne room as we speak."

"I hope they arrived safely, Donald?" I asked, trying to be sure that there was no problem at all. My condition was already a huge burden to me. I didn't want any other burden to be added to that.

"Yes, they did, my Alpha," he replied, much to my relief. "They did. They also said that they'd be leaving tomorrow."

"So soon?"

"Yes… They'll also likely leave with both Sophia and Aurora."

As soon as I heard that, I was greatly pained as I knew I was going to lose Aurora, probably forever. I didn't want her to leave. I'd have given anything to see her stay but I knew it wasn't in my place to get her to stay in my Pack. She had to want it and from every indication, I felt she wouldn't.

"Did Aurora ever ask about me?" I asked Donald, hoping that she must have mentioned my name to him or any of my guards, even though she wasn't happy with me. I knew we weren't cool but I didn't think she hated me. She was probably just acting out of anger due to the way I treated her in the past.