Luna
CHAPTER 16

The Rogue Luna

Chapter 16: He Is Engaged

Chapter sixteen: He Is Engaged

Elena

Well, I wish the same thing for your Pack when he replaces his Luna, she will be as good to you all as your Alpha.” She waved me off.

I forget that you are not actually a member of our Pack so you wouldn’t know. Alpha Bernard had already found his mate. He is engaged to Helen Elison, the daughter of Alpha Ronald from the neighborhood Pack. They are getting married soon.” She paused.

“Obviously, it is an arranged marriage, seeing as Alpha Bernard is mateless but I still think it is romantic.” She added and her words felt like a sucker punch right to my gut. Any frivolous dream or fantasy I had about Bernard and I shattered into a million different pieces at the moment.

“His is engaged?” I felt the bile rise in my throat.

How could he be engaged to someone when I am his mate? My mind went back to the almost kiss and how he pulled away from me at the very last second. He moved away from me like I burned him and he wanted nothing to do with me. It wasn’t that he didn’t kiss me because he didn’t feel anything at that moment because I knew he felt something. He didn’t kiss me because he was committed to another.

“Yes.” Alisha squealed in excitement.

“Isn’t it exciting? Everyone has been saying it is going to be the wedding of the decade. There is a rumor that Alpha Ronald has set an insane budget for the ceremony just so that Helen can have everything she wants for her big day.” I felt like I was struggling to breathe but she didn’t notice that. She continued to talk animatedly about the wedding preparation and how she wished she would have a wedding like that one day.

“Elena, are you okay?” She asked with concern all over her face.

“I am just tired.” I responded as I fought against the emotions lodged in my throat.

“Okay, I think it is time I leave you to get some rest.” She helped me lay down on the bed and then went to carry the empty plates. She stared at me with concern painted all over her face.

“Is there anything I can get you or do for you to make you feel better? She asked, I shook my head. She can’t fix my shattered heart.

“But I did hear some good news, Alpha Bernard has been asking other Alphas about you in hopes of replaceing your Pack. At least, it means that you will be able to go back home and they can help you regain your memory.” She thought that was good news and it would make me feel better but all it did was add to the crippling pain that I was already experiencing.

I could feel the tears stinging behind my eyes as Alisha left my room. I slowed the tears and only let it flow when I heard the door closed. He is engaged? He was promised to another and I had been a fool. This is exactly what I had been trying to avoid. My emotions got in the way and now Bernard is communicating with other Alphas about me. It was only a matter of time before he spoke to Richard.

“I stayed here more than necessary, I should have left his Pack the second I woke up in the hospital. I stayed to appease my wolf and not only were we in danger more than before but our heart had been broken. I need to leave and I am going to do it tonight.

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Bernard Pov.

“How had I allowed something like this to happen?” I scolde

If as walked through the Pack mansion and headed towards my office.

I need to get out of my house. My wolf was too close to the st e and I was barely holding on. He wanted her and he wanted her badly and I would be lying if I said I didn’t want her as well because I did. No matter how hard I tried to fight it, I am always drawn back to her..

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Chapter 16 He is Engaged

i redeged us being mats tonight and it felt grand to try it mit hot and saving it out made it that much more real. Some weeks ago. I had been a citain of my choke and meme ve heat it all over the play I am between a rock and a hard place.

One fait a weeran who made complete sence as a mate the is the daughter of an Alpha and she came with many benefits for my Pack

and I am sure that I wadd have strong children. She is my chessen mat the ons Fate had not designed for me. Then, on the other hand, i had Elena whom I knew nothing start except that I was drawn to her the same way she was drawn to me. Her sapphire eyes were like the rare towels and her red hair was temptation and sin. She is any man’s walking wet dream and she is everything I couldn’t have. I knew I felt strong emotions towards her which is only normal seeing as we were fated to be together. Part of me wanted to explore the possibility of being with her more but that would mean turning my back on my responsibilities and taking back my words.

# there is one thing my lather taught me from an early age, it was that an Alpha never went back on his words. If I was to take back my promise to my arranged bride, what kind of Alpha would that make me? Helen had been preparing for our union for months now, it wouldn’t be fait just to take that all back after she had been preparing for her role. A role that she was not designed for, I thought. The only one who could properly fill the role of being my Luna is Elena.

Damn it, Elena.” I cussed as I entered my office.

The woman crashed into my lips like a bulldozer, she toppled over every single plan I had set out and turned it all to rubble in my head. Now, I am trying to sort things out and all I could see was her face. She is everywhere around me, her scent, her face, the sound of her voice and the only thing that I had not familiarized myself with was her taste. My mind went back to the almost kiss, her sweet vanilla scent had enveloped me in its soft clutches.

“No, you can’t think about her like that, Bernard.” I shook my head as I walked over to the window and looked out to the sky. I saw my house towards the edge of the main compound. She is there, my mate is in my house, in the room just a few doors from my own room.

I wanted to know more about her, I wanted to know where she came from and what she had been running from. I wanted to protect her from whatever troubles she was in, I wanted her to open up to me but she was so closed off that I could barely get anything out of her. I didn’t believe her story about her having memory loss and failing to remember where she was from. She knows exactly where she is from and she is hiding it from me which only made me worry for her more.

So many questions swirled in my mind. Had her old Pack hurt her? Had they forced her into a situation she didn’t want to be in? Had she been an abused gamma? All these questions and the only person who could answer them is not willing to speak. It frustrated me. I could have just called around to see if the other Alphas were missing a Pack member but then, I feared that if she was in trouble, they would take her away from here, from me. So I had to think of other ways to replace the information I needed.

Then, it was like a switch went on in my head as an idea came to mind. I sat at my desk and opened my laptop. I clicked on my browser and typed in the website I was looking for. I opened the wolf database and typed in my credentials. This was a long shot but it is worth a trial. The wolf database was essentially a register that had all the information on each wolf within the country. I scrolled through and typed in Elena’s name and millions of same names popped up. I had too little information to make an accurate enough search.

I scrolled through the first one million girls and none of the pictures looked like her. I had hit a dead end, there is no way I am going to go through all the remaining five millions of those profiles, it is pointless. I needed to stop tiptoeing around her. I needed to come out and ask her, the worst that could happen is that she would be silent but at least then I would know that i have tried.

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