Alpha's Cursed Luna novel Chapter 39

ELEANOR

Three days. Three whole days had passed since the shower incident I had with Alex.

That day, he walked out of the shower room. Smiling all while he was telling me he understood why I kind of rejected him. He had given me the chance to enjoy my own privacy though. But why was it that all of a sudden, the hot shower felt…freezing cold? He left me there to be at peace with myself, but ironically, how I felt while I was alone in there was the exact opposite of peace.

It was horrible. I felt horrible.

Like I was the most unfortunate person to be cursed in this werewolf world. To be the ultimate, complete and total freak of the pack, the wolf-less freak at that. To be discarded like a piece of useless garbage by my own parents. Just so I could fulfill a certain goal I was set to achieve since that fateful night. Right after I turned out to be the cursed blood wolf. And as if that was not bad enough, I was forced to live with a man I can never be with regardless of whether he is my mate or not.

Okay, I won’t lie to you.

Deep inside, I didn’t want him to leave, even if it were in the hot shower.

I wanted him to stay. Kiss me deeper and harder, and maybe… just maybe… give me something more…intense than a loving kiss.

‘He wanted to though, but you made it crystal clear you didn’t.’ Ares spoke, loud and clear inside my mind.

Biting my lip, I dropped my gaze to the tiled floor.

‘I needed to.’ I reply.

Ares sighed, shaking her head at my stubbornness.

Just now, I realized how Ares quickly changed her attitude towards this mate thing.

‘Hey. Weren’t you the one who insisted to stay focused on escaping, so we could live as a normal human being? Hell, we’re lucky enough to even be a lone rogue,’

‘Yeah, I did. I did but look around you now, El. We got a roof on our heads. Food on the table. People who can be our friends. And most of all, a loving mate who promised never to hurt us. What more could we possibly ask for?’ From the tone of her voice, I could tell she was trying not to yell every single word in my ear.

At that moment, I gasped. I just couldn’t believe Ares had lost sense of the real reason we were in this pack right now.

‘Ares, think! Why do you think we are here in the first place?’ I asked.

Ares went quiet for the first few seconds right before saying, ‘Does that really matter anything to you now when you know you badly want to stay with him? Admit it, El. You know you can’t hide anything especially from me. I’m your wolf, remember?’ Ares said. A hint of mischievousness evidently playing in her soft voice.

Her words sent a rising heat to my face the next moment. A different type of intensity surged through my veins as heat snaked throughout my body, burning across my delicate skin.

Goddess Eleanor. Be realistic.

Ares rolled her eyes at my hesitance. Displeased at my proposal to stop crushing on Alexander, and rather distance myself from all the boys.

Sighing, I forced my feet up from the floor, snapping myself back into reality before marching my way towards the bedroom door.

The moment I swung it open, my eyes widened in surprise.

Alex was standing behind my door all this time, muttering something incoherent to himself while looking up at the white ceiling with his hands clasped behind his back.

I let my eyes trail down his god-like body. You could easily tell it was powerfully built, chiseled by the goddess herself. Hard and strong right from the first look. Just like that time when I first met him.

Slowly, I let my gaze travel over his handsome face. We locked eyes at the exact same time I opened the door. For a moment, we held each other’s gaze.

Alex then cleared his throat. Tearing his gaze away from my face unexpectedly.

My brows furrowing slightly, I fixed my eyes on his lips which started to move.

“Good morning,”

“Good morning,”

Our voices synced.

Our eyes meeting each other once again before Alex chuckled, and I giggled a second after. Placing my fingers to my lips coyly.

“I was going to ask if you want to come with me to the movies?” He gave me a confident smile which made my heart beat a million times faster than its normal rate. At one point, I thought my heart was going to explode like a grenade at this very moment.

Is he serious? Apart from being nervous for the fact that Alexander just asked me out for this day, my heart was racing out of pure joy and excitement, knowing it’s been hell of a long time since I went to a movie theatre.

The last time I ever went to the movies was when I was 12 years old. It was a walking distance from my old pack, and I had been with Sabrina every single time.

The reminder of Sabrina suddenly filled my heart with nothing but sadness and pain. We were so close, but now things had gone through drastic changes that kept us far apart from one another.

“You don’t want to?” Alexander’s voice reached my eardrums, pulling me out of my thoughts almost immediately as I forced my eyes to stare into his face, visibly crestfallen at the idea of me turning him down for the second time again.

I shook my head.