The Rejected Luna Queen

Alpha Bane's POV

"Hey, you're way too slow, my love," I taunted Aurora who was doing her best to dress up before me.

I zipped up my trousers and I was done. She was still struggling to wear her shoes and I kept laughing and pointing at her.

She looked up at me, with a very annoyed look on her face. "Stop that," she warned but I just kept laughing. The way she looked made the situation even more hilarious.

"Okay. Okay. I'm sorry. I just wanted to remind you that I'm always a few steps ahead," I subtly mocked her yet again, in an apologetic way.

"Well, I'm done too," she said, standing to her feet. "You only won because I let you win. I heard that Alphas never took losing very well."

I loved it when we played that game. Well, mostly because I was very certain that

I was going to win. Just like a lot of women, dressing up quickly wasn't Aurora's strong suit. It was mine. Sometimes, I had to slow down to make it look a bit competitive. I dared not say that to her.

As she drew near to me, there was a knock on the door, immediately forcing me to face the door, not knowing who it was.

"Come in," I gently said as we both waited to see who it was that almost met us unprepared.

"Greetings, Alpha Bane. Greetings, Princess." A guard opened the door and walked into the room looking a tad puzzled to see us all dressed up.

"What brings you here?" I asked, with a straight look on my face. I didn't appreciate being visited by that time and I needed to make him see that.

"It's the Alpha King. He sent me to you, sir. He said he wants to have a word with you and that it's a matter of urgency."

I bent a bit, wondering why the Alpha King needed to see me that urgently. I knew it must have had something to do with Sophia's kidnap and all of that but I had no idea if he had gotten any new information. I had made other plans with Aurora but unfortunately, they had to wait. I knew she wasn't going to be so thrilled with that but then she knew what had to be done. Besides, she too, had her plans for later that morning.

I turned to her and planted a kiss on her forehead. "You know that I need to go, right?" I asked her, as I noticed she didn't look too pleased.

"Yeah, I do," she answered, faking a smile.

"Thank you. See you later, honey."

I walked out of the room and followed the guard to the throne room, trying to think of what the issue might have been as we walked. I knew there was no need for

that since I was always going to find out about getting there. Yet, I still felt like doing it. I wanted that satisfaction that came from being able to accurately guess things correctly.

"Greetings, Alpha King," I hailed him, as I walked into the throne room.noveldrama

"Greetings, Alpha Bane," he responded with a smile. "I'm pleased to see that you answered my call. Thank you."

I nodded and walked to a seat. "You can sit down," he added.

"Like you might have guessed, I called for you because of the issue that we have at hand concerning the kidnap of Princess Sophia," he began to explain. "I, my wife and the best of guards around in this Pack still haven't been able to place our hands on exactly what happened. It has been a mystery to us for so long and if we can't explain what happened, how do we go about solving it?"

I faced the ground, unsure about what to say to him. I had a different opinion from that of the crowd and I didn't know if he was going to be willing to buy it.

"You want to know what I think about this?" I asked him, looking straight into his eyes.

"Sure. That's why I needed you to be here. We must be able to figure out exactly what we have to do next because a lot depends on it. If indeed, she was kidnapped as we feel, then we need to know where she was taken to so that we can bring my daughter back. The people who took her have learned how to enter this Pack without any form of resistance. We must figure out the mole and fortify our security..."

"All these things can't be determined if we fail to see the whole picture." "And what is the whole picture?"

"This was not an abduction; at least, not in the way that you might see it," I said to him. "I believe that this was a well-orchestrated plan of both Sophia and someone else. It was an escape and not a kidnap and wherever she may be now, I'm very sure that she's doing very well."

He stared at me for a while, probably trying to make sense of all that I was saying. "I think you're quite right, Alpha Bane. Somehow, I've been thinking in this light."

"You are right to think that way, Alpha King. I have a strong intuition that she didn't work alone. I mean, she couldn't have. She was locked away in her cell and so there was no way she could have done it all by herself. There is a spy in this Palace and if we are to stand any chance of solving this problem, then we have to find and deal decisively with this spy before things get out of hand."

"What if the spy left with them?" He asked.

"It's not possible," I laughed. "Anyone who has this kind of plan cannot afford to be in the dark. They'll always want to know how things are going in this Pack. It's important to them if they want to attack us again. They'd need to find out what our plans are, so they could perfectly counter them without stress. So, I'm certain that our spy is here in this Palace."

"If that's the case, then we must find a way to nail that bastard before he does more harm to us. I have to also fortify the Castle even more. I'll be bringing more guards to the Castle to offer maximum protection. We can't have people freely gain access to this Castle. It'll mean the end of us."

"An impending war is coming and the Pack has to be prepared. All the borders have to be well guarded too. It's how we checkmate the people going in and out of the Blue Moon Pack. We station guards from different areas who barely know themselves. That way, it's more difficult for anyone to strike a deal with them since a number of them won't consent to it."

"Thank you so much, Alpha Bane. Your counsel is very much appreciated," he said with a huge smile. It was such a relief for him to hear that there was a way that he could protect himself and his people from those intruders.

"We need to set a trap for these folks," I said in a whisper. There were guards in the room and I didn't want any of them to hear what I had to say since I didn't know who the mole was.

"What trap do you have in mind?" The Alpha King asked, in a low tone too.

I looked around and spotted the guards in the room who seemed to not be paying attention and did their best to look elsewhere but I knew that hearing was done by the ears and not the eyes.

I leaned in to whisper into the ears of the Alpha King.