The Rejected Luna Queen

Alpha Bane's POV

I arrived at the Pack with my men after a fruitless journey to the Rogue Pack. I had slayed a few men there including the Alpha but it was nothing compared to what I went there for.

It taught me that regardless of how sweet revenge seemed at first, it could never be compared in any way to what has been lost.

As I got down from the carriage, I slowly walked toward the Castle, not knowing how to face Aurora or tell her that I failed to get our son back.noveldrama

I had thought in my heart that I was going to find Dylan and Sophia and make them pay for what they had done. Little did I know that it was going to be a fruitless journey which only served to offer false hopes to both Aurora and me.

After killing the Rogue Alpha, we didn't leave immediately. I figured out that Dylan and Sophia might have been still somewhere in the Pack, hiding away. One of my guards suggested that the Rogue Alpha might have even said a few things so that we'd think that Dylan had escaped, while he was still in the Pack.

We waited and waited as the days passed, hoping to see any trace of him. We searched more and more places, just to find him. We listened very keenly to know if we could hear the sound of a crying child which was inevitable if they kept the baby alive.

None of those happened. After a few days, we knew that it was a waste of our precious time because he was nowhere near the Pack. There was no place we didn't check out. He just wasn't there. So we decided that it was finally time to head back home.

I got into the Castle and slowly walked into Aurora's room where she sat on the floor with her mother by her side. My father was there too, standing right next to Aurora's mother.

Immediately I got in, all eyes went on me as they must have hoped that I'd return with our child. I bared my palms in front of them to show that my journey bore no fruit. They just shook their heads and Aurora sobbed even harder.

"They seem to have vanished into thin air," I said to everyone, walking across to Aurora and sitting next to her on the floor. "They weren't in the Pack when we got there."

As I spoke, I kept looking at Aurora, hoping that she was going to say something but she didn't. She just stayed numb and I didn't like that at all. Yet, I could understand why she had to do that.

"Won't you say something, my love?" Asked Aurora's mother, as she did her best to get her to talk to me but Aurora wouldn't still say a word. "Please, my child says something. It'll help you release all the anger and pain that have been stuck in your chest."

Instead of speaking, she broke into tears and wailed profusely. I couldn't stand the sight so I pulled her into my arms to give her some comfort.

"I'll do anything and everything possible to look for our son, my love," I promised her. "I'll get her back to us, where he belongs. I won't stop until I've gotten justice. I promise you this, my love."

She kept sobbing, still saying nothing. She clutched her stomach and shook her head as she cried.

"It's all your fault, Alpha Bane," she finally said. "This is all your doing. You're the reason why we're in this situation right now."

I could understand why she had to blame me. She had to point fingers at someone and I happened to be the scapegoat in that situation. It was something that I fully deserved.

"If only you didn't leave when you should not have, we will not have found ourselves in this position," she lamented. "I begged you to stay but you wouldn't. You preferred to leave us. Now, you didn't even get the chance to see our child before he was taken from us!"

I, too, began to tear up on hearing those words of hers. It made me even worse as everything that went on felt so strange to me; just like a movie happening right in front of me.

"I can't explain the way that I feel about all of these, my love," I confessed, with tears in my eyes. "You're right. This is all my fault. Everything about this is my fault. If I had listened to you, I'd have been here when the assailant came and I'd have dispelled him very easily."

We cried in each other's eyes as the atmosphere around us got all tensed up. As I held her in my arms, I could think of nothing else but how to get back my son. My mind strayed, as I thought of where Sophia and Dylan might have gone to lay low in the meantime but there was no place coming into my mind.

Surely, it couldn't have been the Silver Moon Pack. They'd have been apprehended on setting their feet there. Perhaps, he had gone to another Rogue Pack to deceive them, so they could let both him and Sophia stay there. I wished I could know where but I couldn't.

I was snapped out of my thoughts by the cries of Aurora, but not just hers, my father and her mother too wear in tears. Everyone was in pain and

understandably so. I prayed in my heart that the goddess should intervene so that we could see our son again. I didn't care what the cost was going to be. I didn't care if I was going to die trying. I just wanted to see my son.

The room soon became a den of sobs as everyone sobbed hard, Aurora most especially. It was a tragedy that affected everyone and me, the person they looked up to, to remedy the situation, could do nothing else but cry too.