The Rejected Luna Queen novel Chapter 50

Princess Sophia's POV

I watched as my parents left the Pack and as the carriage drove away, I watched on with a smile on my face which I did my best to maintain as soon as they could still see me.

As they got out of sight, I turned around and my eyes met with that of Aurora. Immediately, I saw her, and the smile on my face disappeared as I stared at her in utter disdain.

Aurora disgusted me so much and if it wasn't a crime to kill someone, I'd have killed her already without thinking twice. The thought came to my mind time and time again and it took a combination of self-control, fear of the consequences and a lack of opportunity to stop me from carrying it out.

As we stared each other down, I was surprised to notice that Aurora didn't back down at all. She kept her gaze on me and never took her eyes off me. It had never happened before and I felt I was in dreamland. It could not have been real.

She kept staring at me without flinching and I wondered where she got such audacity from. Perhaps, she might have forgotten who she was; Aurora, the slave girl who was only good enough for the kitchen. She might have been the real child of my parents, but she was no Princess; just an elevated maid. She needed to be reminded of who it was, that she was talking to and it was my duty to help her with that.

I walked briskly toward her, so I could confront her face-to-face and teach her a lesson that she was never going to forget. My parents were not around and so there was no one to stop me from doing what I intended to do. At least, that was what I thought before proceeding to her but just as I got close to her, I was met with a huge surprise.

Alpha Bane appeared from nowhere and suddenly wrapped his hands around Aurora's back as though he wanted to have a word with her.

I was stunned and my jaw dropped as soon as I saw this. Aurora noticed and gave me a smirk which further infuriated me so badly that I wished I could do something very bad to her that instant. She had the nerve to get on my nerves. She was without any fear whatsoever and it still baffled me.

I watched them as they turned around to leave with Bane not even caring to throw a glance at me. He didn't care about me anymore and it was quite obvious. I wish he did but that was the reality of things and it saddened me greatly.

As they walked away until I could not see them, I remembered the words of my wolf and I held my hands over my ears and screamed aloud. I began to doubt my sanity as it was clear to me that I was out of my mind or very close to that.

Very furiously, I stomped back into my room, stamping my feet on the floor and hitting the walls at intervals as I went.

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Alpha Bane's POV

I noticed that Sophia and Aurora have some sort of a stare down and I knew it was only a matter of time before things would get pretty ugly. I approached them very slowly, doing well to keep my distance so I could see what would unfold.

It was only after I noticed that Sophia had begun to walk toward Aurora that I felt the need to step in. I didn't want things to get ugly. I couldn't let it happen. So I quickly walked to Aurora and placed my hands on her shoulder, forcing Sophia to stop right in her tracks.

As I placed my hands on Aurora's shoulders, I was shocked that she didn't remove my hands. I looked at her face for a moment, just to be sure that it was real. I was even more shocked when we began to walk without any protests from her. I couldn't believe what was going on.

I wondered why she was so hell-bent on making my life a living hell. She was so keen on seeing me suffer and it was unfair in my opinion.

"You deserve it, Bane," my wolf said to me from within me. He growled at me to show the seriousness in his words. " She did all she could to get close to you in the past but instead of accepting her, what did you do instead? You refused to believe her. Instead, choosing to call her all sorts of names and as if that wasn't humiliating enough, you decided to take it up a notch…"

As he spoke, I began to recall all of those events and my heart was so full of regrets. I imagined how bad she must have felt while I treated her with such disrespect.

I recalled the first day she came to my room and how I humiliated her and even threatened to call security to bundle her out of my room. I remembered making her look stupid, just because she was bold enough to tell me the truth. I felt like I was a horrible person. Perhaps, I was.

"You couldn't just leave her back in her Pack but you decided to take her along with you as your slave, just to satisfy your curiosity," my wolf continued. "You deserve everything that you're getting now and even more. What did you expect? That she'd embrace you with open arms now that she can see that she doesn't need to since she's a Princess? You had her, Bane, but you messed up badly. The mate bond you have is the only thing that can salvage the situation, but you must be patient or you'll lose her forever."

When he got done speaking those words, I felt a splitting pain in my skull as a lot of thoughts filled my head. But it wasn't the thoughts that caused the pain as I was familiar with what was going on.

It was the injury that I sustained in my fight with Dylan. Somehow, the pain refused to stop no matter how hard I tried to make it go away.

I placed my hand on my head and walked briskly to my room, as I groaned aloud in severe pain.