The Rejected Luna Queen

Princess Sophia's POV

I sat on my bed, caressing it with both hands. After spending such a long time in the dungeon, I realised just how much I had missed my room.

I stood and went to the mirror, just beside the bed and had a look at myself to see what had become of me. I looked very pale but at least, I could console myself with the fact that I wasn't dirty any longer. My hair was well packed together and the blue dress I had was sparkling. I had my golden necklace on as my mother; the Luna of the Silver Moon Pack, always told me to never put it off. I looked like the princess that I was.

As soon as I was taken to the room earlier that day, I was given access to my clothes and I quickly ran to the bathroom and had a wonderful cold bath; my first in so many days.

At one point, I felt like not leaving the bathroom as the cold shower made me feel so relaxed. I thought hard about all I'd been through and I began to understand how people felt when they were imprisoned. Before being there, I never knew how bad it was.

Sitting back down on my bed, I heard a knock on my door and I wondered who it was. I hoped it was Alpha Bane trying to come to my room to talk things out with me. Perhaps, it was possible that we could even reconcile and things would get back to normal. I had lofty hopes. I loved him so much.

"Come in," I said, adjusting my position on the bed and putting up a very apologetic face to convince him.

My door was opened and I saw a young lady walk into my room with a silver tray in her hand which contained food. I was highly disappointed and I couldn't even hide it, nor did I want to. All I felt like doing at that moment was to get up and knock the food out of that moron's hands. I was so mad.

"Why did you disturb my sleep?" I asked the maid harshly. I lied because I didn't know what else to pin my anger and annoyance on so it'll still make some sense. "Answer me, you idiot!"

"I'm... I'm so sorry, my Princess," she apologised. "I didn't mean to interrupt your sleep. Please, forgive me."

"Sorry for yourself, you fool!" I barked at her, not caring about whatever she had to say. I couldn't believe I had waited and adjusted myself so well for just a common maid who had nothing to offer. Well, except for the stupid food that she had in her hands which I wanted nothing to do with.

"Drop it on the table and leave this place immediately!" I screamed at her.

The maid walked to my table, which was very close to the window and there, she dropped my food. Then, she turned around and walked away as I had instructed her to do while I just hissed at her as she left.

I stood from my bed and walked to my table, pulling out the blue, plastic chair beside it and sitting down there. I stared at the food that she served me and while it looked appetising. I simply had no desire to eat it.

There were several laps of deep-fried chicken which I loved so much. It was my favourite and it was probably why it was made for me in the first place. But I lacked the appetite to eat it and I even considered calling one of the maids to dispose of the food since they weren't worthy to eat food made for the Princess.

In the end, I thought against it, knowing that I needed to eat something, even if I didn't feel like it, especially after losing a lot of weight due to the lack of food for so many days in the dungeon.

I dug in and began to eat mindlessly as fast as I could. I couldn't wait to be done with it. I couldn't even say how the food tasted as I could barely take note of that. All I wanted was to be done with it and in a few minutes, I was. Such a relief!

I pushed the plate to one side and washed my hands thoroughly and then went back to the bed and lay down. I hoped to get some good sleep so I wouldn't have to think about a lot of things anymore as they were beginning to cause my head to ache.

It was not to be. I sought to sleep with all my heart but I just couldn't find it. I rolled to the left and the right, feeling very disturbed. Indeed, sleep was very far away from me so I just stared blankly at the ceiling.

My mind went back to the moment when I awaited the verdict from my father. Although I was scared, I did know that he loved me so much and would never want any evil to befall me for any reason. It was something that I could always count on with him. I wished I could say the same about my mother, even though I knew she did love me too... just not like my father.

I thought back at the verdict that he made and it gladdened my heart. He loved me so dearly that he made sure that I didn't return to that ugly dungeon and instead found myself in a very comfortable room in the Castle. It was a thing of joy.

Whilst I was very grateful to him for the freedom that I had received and the comfort that I enjoyed, there was still a part of me that remained very unhappy and it was always going to be because of those two.

Alpha Bane and Aurora; they were the reason that I could never enjoy peace of mind and no matter how hard I tried, I could never get over them nor could I take my mind off them.

I wondered what Alpha Bane was currently doing as I began to miss him. I wished he was by my side. I wished he was beside me, right there on that bed, consoling and assuring me that he was always going to be there for me, just like he used to say to me every morning when we woke up and every night before we went to bed.

He was the sweetest man that I had ever seen or known. He made me feel so loved and special and I fell madly in love with him for that reason and because he was the Alpha of course.

"You did this to yourself, Sophia," my wolf berated me, still unhappy because of what I had done with Dylan. "If you weren't so foolish, he would never have left you for any woman; not even Aurora. I warned you severally about that snake. I told you to have nothing to do with him but what did you do? The same thing that you always do, despite all I try to tell you. You chose, like always, to do things your way. Where has that led you to now?"

I covered both my ears with my hands, sick of hearing what my wolf had to say. Although I knew it was true, I didn't want to hear any of that. I couldn't even understand why she had to say all those to me, seeing that it wasn't going to help me in any way at all. It was only going to make things worse than they were and I didn't see a need for all that.

Yet, she wouldn't keep shut. She kept screaming in my ears and no matter how hard I tried to shut them, her voice echoed deep inside of me and I couldn't bear it anymore.

"You alone are to blame for all of this," she continued, keen on being a nightmare to me during the day. "Now you've lost him forever. Besides, he's not your mate. If only you had had some restraint, he'd never have found out. This is your own doing. Now, you have to live with it for the rest of your life, knowing that you could have had a better life; a life with Alpha Bane, but you blew it by sleeping with his brother because of your unending greed and insatiable nature..."

I couldn't let her finish her talk as it bothered me so much, especially because all she said was true. Yet, I didn't believe that I would never have Alpha Bane to myself. It was a lie. I chose to see it as one. I had to find a way to make sure that he was mine in the end. The one who had the last laugh always laughed best.

"Stop!!" I yelled at the voices in my head as I couldn't take those words anymore. "Keep shut, right now. Be quiet! I don't want to hear anything from you anymore. You have to stop!"

I held my head with both hands as the ache got worse. "I have to do something," I said to myself, over and over again, as I thought long and hard about what exactly I was going to do.

My hatred for Aurora kept growing inside me and I knew that I had to deal with her to stand any chance of being with Alpha Bane.noveldrama