The Rejected Luna Queen novel Chapter 65

Alpha Bane's POV

Some Days Later

I walked down the streets of the Pack very late at night with Donald, my Beta, as we tried to find a way to handle the Dylan problem. It was something that had lingered for a long time and due to my illness and everything else that happened in the Pack, it looked like something that had been forgotten. It wasn't. It was just kept by the side.

It had been a long while since I had a very good walk and I was happy to have one that night. That was why I had to ask Donald to have that conversation on the streets and not inside. I'd been inside for far too long and it was time to try something else.

"What's wrong, my Alpha?" Donald asked with a concerned look on his face. "It seems like there's something off about you today. Would you care to share with me?"

"There's no problem, Donald," I answered, unhappy with his attempts to pry into my matters. "Could we just focus on what we have at hand? That's why we're here; to talk about Dylan and not me. Let's confine our talk to that, okay?"

"Yes, my Alpha," he replied with no argument at all, which pleased me. I didn't want him to press on the issue at all. There were things that a man had to handle on his own.

"It's been so many days; weeks even, yet we don't know where Dylan is nor have we found any trace of him. What do we do?"

As I asked the question, it took my mind back to what that bastard did with Sophia and it got me mad. But when I remembered that it was the same thing that made me investigate the birth of Aurora and drew me closer to her in the process, I felt it was worth it.

For what it was worth, it enabled me to realise that I didn't have two mates as I had thought. One was my mate and the other was a fraud. Without that singular act of theirs, I might have never gotten to find out the truth and I'd have still been living a lie.

Aurora too. She'd have remained a servant, confined to the kitchen where she'd have probably prepared dishes until her last breath while someone else was out there, living the life that was made for her; the very life she deserved from birth.

I missed Aurora. I couldn't stop thinking about her at all. Every minute and every second, she was all that I could think of. It was as if my mind was made to store images of her.

The past few days made me realise just how much I loved her. She was so tender and gentle and her loving hands felt so good on my body. Sometimes, when I slept, I dreamed about her caressing my head and my whole body as I smiled in sheer delight.

I wished so much that she'd somehow find her way to me. I wanted to go to her but it didn't look likely since she had only just gone back to her place. It was a miserable situation to be in and I couldn't get my mind off her.

"Alpha Bane," I faintly heard someone call me but I didn't think it was anything until I heard it the second time.