Chasing His Betrayed Luna novel Chapter 10

ALPHA RAIDEN

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She was nowhere to be found.

It's been three months of searching for my destined mate who chose to reject me and somehow escaped the room, my mansion, and my pack without notice. My soul was still hurting and my heart still bled on a daily basis even though it's been three months.

“It’s high time you give up on finding her, Raiden. She is gone.” Andrew, My Beta and closest friend said to me as he walked up to me in his overflowing dark brown robe.

I frowned, glaring at him, “Why would I give up, Drew? You know what’s at stake if I don't find her.”

“No, I don’t. Perhaps you should tell me.” Andrew retorted with a shrug.

Although this will be the umpteenth time I will be telling him this since the search for Aurelia began three months ago, I still voiced, “No one rejects me, escapes my pack, and goes Scott-free. I have to find her to make an example out of her and make it known that I am not to be disrespected.”

Andrew chuckled, stopping dead in his tracks and veering around to look me in the eyes, “So it’s your ego and Alpha pride that’s at stake not your heart, your strength, and your bond with your wolf. Alpha Raiden?”

I had known Andrew since the days of diapers and goofiness and I knew he didn't call me ‘Alpha Raiden’ unless he was making a sarcastic comment.

“Are you trying to be funny?” I scoffed, scanning the same woods my men had been searching for weeks, hoping that I would at least sight Aurelia as I believed that she couldn’t have gone far. Rejecting me would have drained her strength as well as it did mine and she was never the strongest of us. “My heart belongs to Larisa and mate bond or not, I have always been a strong Alpha male. My wolf and I would be just fine.”

“Is that what you tell yourself?” Andrew shook his head while I scowled at him but that didn’t stop him from speaking his mind. It had never stopped him. “If that’s the case why have I not sensed your wolf for the past three months? It’s almost like he has stopped talking to you and existing within you. Also, why haven't you accepted Aurelia’s rejection and made Larisa, the love of your life, the Luna since her party was interrupted three months ago? Why have you–”

“That’s enough, Andrew!” I snapped, cutting my friend off as his words began to unravel me.

I had managed to hide the fact that I was hurting from everyone and only showed the anger I felt towards Aurelia but it was no secret that I was yet to accept Aurelia’s rejection and to be honest, I had no plans to accept it, and break the bond completely.

Before I could get buried in my confusing feelings and right before Andrew could voice his comeback, I announced, raising my voice so all my warriors in the woods could hear me, “We are heading back to the pack. The search continues tomorrow.”

No one dared argue with me even though I could sense their fatigue. They were probably wondering why I was still searching for the Luna I never loved and who was never accepted by the pack. Unfortunately for them, I wasn’t about to give up on finding Aurelia… not now and not ever.

I put a mark on the woods to indicate where the search would kick off from tomorrow before we left the woods and we made it back to my pack territory in time for dinner. My men and Andrew joined the rest of the group in the warriors’ dining hall while I went straight to the mansion not to eat or sleep but to make calls and follow up with other Alphas if any of them had seen my runaway mate.