The Rejected Luna Queen

Alpha Bane's POVnoveldrama

"Please, don't punish me. I only came bearing the truth. I do not wish to upset you or cause you any harm, Alpha. Please, don't take out your anger on me. Truly, I am sorry."

The maid kept begging and begging and I refused to give in. As much as I thought about it, it was going to make me look weak and that was never a good impression. Besides, I couldn't help but want to find out for myself how possible it was for a man to have two mates. If I was the first, it was something I had to relish.

"Leave here or I'll raise an alarm and let everyone know that a thief had sneaked into my room to rob me, had I not been awake to stop her and you know what that means, don't you?"

I gave a cheeky smile and winked at her as I knew I got her where I wanted. She was surely going to be severely punished if she did that.

She grudgingly stood from the floor and walked slowly out of the room, much to my delight. As soon as she was gone, I walked back to my bed and lay there to think and get some sleep.

As I lay on my bed, a lot of things ran through my little head. I did feel something; something very close to a mate bond between the maid and me and deep down, I had a very strong feeling that she was my mate.

I swore within me to investigate the truth and get to the root of the matter. What better way was there than to take her back to my pack first and then know what else to do from there? None! So I decided to do just that.

I was never going to tell Princess Sophia about this maid. I didn't know how she'd feel if I did. Well, I did. I knew she'd feel mad and upset. I just didn't know to what degree and I didn't want to find out. Things were better the way they were.

I planned to bring her back with me to my palace under the guise that she was just a spare maid from this pack. She was just a maid so no one was going to care about her.

They wouldn't even notice that she had gone with me until long after we had arrived at my Pack. Even then, they might think she ran away. No one would ever think that I took her with me.

It was never going to be easy to do that. I didn't know which room was hers but I knew exactly who to ask for that. It had to be a very clean job without any trace of mistakes whatsoever.

I did not want to have any problems with the royal palace of the Silver Moon Pack, especially because she was a maid in their Castle. Yet, she was mine and I was going to take her back with me at any cost.

The other challenge I faced was the Princess. It wasn't just that I didn't want to let her in on my plans for the maid. I didn't want to tell her anything about what I had found out.

I imagined walking up to her and tapping her on the shoulder before whispering in her ears. "I saw a maid in your Pack and I felt a bond with her. She smelled almost like you and I think she might also be my mate; just like you are."

How ridiculous! She most definitely wouldn't have taken that lightly so I decided against that very thought; at least, until I was certain that my hunch was right.

Besides, I was soon going to mark the Princess, cementing her position as my one true mate.

Oh...I had already marked her on the night that we spent together after I declared her to be my mate in the presence of the entire Blood Moon Pack. So hurting her wasn't going to be the best thing for me to do. It was pure folly.

Yet, there was something that bothered me. I remembered the night when Princess Sophia came to me. She wasn't as confident as she was supposed to be. I had heard from several people that the Princess was one of the boldest people in the Silver Moon Pack. I dare to say she was the boldest. No one dared step a foot in her path. Yet, she seemed anxious that night and not her usual self.

My father always told us that anxiety was a product of fear. With me, she had nothing to fear. She was the daughter of an Alpha and also my mate.

It wasn't that we were having any sort of issues so there was no reason for her to be tense. Except for one...

She was probably lying. Only one, who was telling a lie, could seem that anxious.

Perhaps, I was wrong. Maybe I was just overthinking it. But I wasn't to be blamed. Things seemed to point in that direction. Whether she lied or not wasn't so important at that moment though. I had marked her already and so I was responsible for the relationship no matter what.

I couldn't betray my lover as my father did. I still held it against my father; how he treated my mother. I wasn't about to do the same to Princess Sophia. I was no hypocrite.

The night was even colder. I needed to get some good sleep.