Chasing His Betrayed Luna novel Chapter 14

ALPHA RAIDEN

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“Pack Games?” I asked nonchalantly.

Andrew, who has been walking back to my home with me, scoffed. I could see him rolling his eyes despite the darkness surrounding us. “Yes, Alpha. The same one that comes up every five years. Please don’t act like you haven’t seen the publications–” Of course he was about to start scolding me.

“I have seen them and I chose to ignore them, Drew. So can we stop talking about it now?” I cut him off before he could even begin.

But still, Andrew retorted, “We can’t drop it because you have to be there.”

“I don’t have to. You’ll travel down to Black Fur pack with anyone that wants to participate in the games and also represent me. I have got better things to do with my time.” I voiced out the plans I had made in my head.

Andrew didn’t seem surprised but he was able to surprise me when he countered me, stopping dead in his tracks, “I won’t be representing you, Alpha Raiden.”

He has got to be kidding me? Representing me was his duty as my Beta.

I looked back at him as I gritted out of disbelief, “Are you defying a direct order from your Alpha?”

Andrew dropped his gaze to the floor but still responded boldly, “Yes.”

“Andrew!” I snapped, barely keeping my anger in check.

If he was anyone else in the pack, he would be dead by now but this was Andrew, my Beta and my friend. He wouldn’t act irrationally. Ever.

“Thank goddess you know that. Perhaps you’ll listen to him for once.” My wolf, Lex, chided into my mind. The hostility in his voice resonated, bouncing off the walls of my mind.

Before I could respond to Lex, Andrew voiced, explaining his utter disrespect, “For the past five years, you have avoided all gatherings of Alphas. People are beginning to talk. You have to show them that regardless of what happened five years ago, you’re still the most powerful. You can’t continue like this–”

“Almost six years.” I corrected Andrew even though that wasn’t the point he was trying to make.

“What?” Andrew queried, his brows furrowed as we both continued walking towards my home.

“It's been almost six years since she rejected me and made a fool out of me.” My fists balled tightly as I snarled.

Even though Aurelia should be dead to me, I still couldn’t get her out of my head. Memories of her were fresh in my mind and as annoying as that was, I couldn’t let go of those memories. I just couldn’t.

“She is dead, Raiden and you have Larisa just like you have always wanted. I honestly don’t understand why you haven’t officially crowned her Luna and mate with her. It’s been almost six years just like you said, man.” Andrew uttered, convinced that Aurelia was really dead.

But I'd be a fool to believe that she was dead.

I could still feel a part of her blooming through the broken bond I still carried around with me.

She rejected me but I didn’t accept her rejection.

“She is alive, Drew and I’ll find her. I don’t care about how long it would take.” I muttered just as we arrived on my front porch.